The Singapore Free Press, 5 December 1949

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    14 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1949
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    VILLAGERS DEFY S'PORE ROBBERS
    312 1 Man beaten, m hospital Free Press Staff Reporter CROWD of 30 armed and angry Singapore platen living at the tfth mile, Yeo Chu Kanj* Road, near the Mental Hospital early today captured and heat up an Indian after a three-man sans had robbed one house and
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    Recognise Red China' say U.K. M.P.s
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    Big drive against Filipino outlaws
    76 1 MANILA. Sunday. 4 LAHGE-SCALE comoined operation against fanatical Moro dissidents is expected to be launched almost immediately by the Philippine unxtabulary. Naval and Air Force m Sulu's trouble areas, Imami and Hatta. Christian dissi- d tj be strongly j m "cottas"- M n \de of
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    HOTTEST DAY
    13 1 tj hottest day years yesterday the temperature reaeh--3 decrees. A. P.
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    To restore Old Vic
    74 1 LONDON. Mon. IMIK Old flc Company ol players is going h.n k to the OIJ Vii- neatre m \t Nrir after completion of repair> tv tlif historic pl.t^h«»u>«' m London, which m*M damaged by i hinnh m 1541. K^p.htn will befin iiMin. The Company, including I.aurrncf
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    Ausstes plug spy hole
    91 1 Ausstes plug spy hole MELBOURNE Man. AUSTRALIA'S Common- A wealth Sec iritj ServU has ted special Investigators Darwin airwuv> gto£ m Northern Australia. t<> uneovei p<oiible espionage attempts m the country. Danvin is staTd to be open" for espionage a* pr. I Airline arrivals then- do not receive a detailed
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    U.S. TO SEND SHIP FOR WARD
    65 1 THE Pacific Far East Lines said m San Francisco yesterday it was preparing a ship to bring U.S. Consul-General Ansus Ward and his party out of Communist China within a week. The US. State Department had asked the company if it was willing to
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    PEANUT MONEY 'IS NOT LOST'
    48 1 PEANUT MONEY 'IS NOT LOST' THE British v. 'ol Wooa, Mr John Strachcy, yes--day stoutly defended the Government's C 29 000,000 experiment m peanut culture. The money is not lost, Mr. Strachey said, it is invested m an absoluU-h indispensable task of developing the colonial empire." A. P.
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    Kashmir dispute
    32 1 Mr A. Gurmani. the Pakistan Minister for Kashmir Affairs, said yesterday that he expected the United Nations Security Council to take ud the Pakistan-India disnate o?er Kashmir befoi Christmas.—U.P. U.P.
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    U N. SEMINAR ENDS
    25 1 The U.N. Educational. Soclal and Cultural Organisation's international seminar rural adult education for j community action has ended In Mysore.— Reuter
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    HE DID NOT WANT TO GO BACK
    117 1 HE DID NOT WANT TO GO BACK PARIS, Moil. GUY Auffrel, 27-year-old French national expelled from Poland, was found alive yesterday near the Swiss border of Germany. Mr. AufTret disappeared Saturday from a train transport i:ik him and six other French citizens from Warsaw to Paris. It had been feared
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    ABDUCTED MAN FOUND DEAD
    42 1 The body of a win less operator. Mohd. bin Abdullah, who was murdered by bandits at Qua Musang. Kelantan. on Saturday, has been found. His hands and feet were i found tr> have been tied be- hind him
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    S.C. KILLED
    25 1 Free Press ta(T ReoortT A special constable was 1 killed yesterday during an engagement between armed bandits and guards at Craigielea Estate. Muar.
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    'STOP ATTACKS' U.S. TELLS CHINA
    205 1 WASHINGTON, Monday. 'PHE United States has asked the Chinese National- ist Government to stop any further attacks on American vessels passing through the blockaded area of the China coast. The State Departnvr.J says this m the text of a strong American protest against the shelling
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    A-bomb changes flowers
    56 1 A- bomb changes flowers TOKIO. Mon. A JAPANESE horticiilturalist declares that the Iliroshnina atom bomb has originated a w species of cosmos. Professor Hitoshi Kihara of Kyoto University, after j one year's study with some cosmos which he found at Hiroshima after the bomb, found the flowers are smaller, with
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    C.I.D. ARRESTS
    35 1 lire Press Stall Reporter The Singapore C.I.D. yesterday arrested a man for possession of handkerchiefs with counterfeit trade marks. Another Chinese was airested on a banishment war:ant for being a gambling house promoter.
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    DEATH TOLL UP
    24 1 The toll ni known u'-ad 'the coal mine cave -in at Tadakuma colliery In Japan last Friday has risen to nine.
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    MORE JEWS ARRIVE
    20 1 More than 1,000 Jew&b immigrants arrived In iiaira yesterday from £.istern 1 Euro Dean countries A. P.
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    Indies speed up work for new Govt.
    137 1 Indies speed up work for new Govt. hAT AVI A. Mon. PREPARATIONS for the :<<rpial inauguration of the new United States of lndoaesia After 541 years 4 Dutch rule has moved full speed ahead with the naming by Indonesian federalist and republican leader^ of a seii'-s of committees to pave
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    DUCE SLAYER CALLED THIEF
    65 1 THE [talian Government said yesterday that the Communist member of Parliament. Mr. Walter Audisio. confessed executioner of Benito Mussolini, had been charged formally with theft m connection with the disappearance of the former Duce's $10,000,000 gold hoard. The Justice Minister Mr. Giuseppe Gr.is.si made the announcement
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    India. Pak. to pay more
    74 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. substantial Increase m O the assessments against non-dollar countries, including India, will result from a new scale of membership contributions provisionally adopted by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation. India's assessment would be raised Irom 3.79 to 4.42 and Pakistan's from .82
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    Irish sterling move faiis
    52 1 AN I rt Britain i hty of sterling was defeated by !^>n vote four by a com a I lh* U.N Food and Asricul Organisation conf< m Washington. The v Mr James Dillon. I Minister ol A declined to wit] solution at tho les chairman. Lord
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    Rubber prices
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    Aid for refugees
    32 1 The United Nations special political committee has Adopted <i U5534.900.001i direct relief Hid public M:rks plan to aid the rehabilitation of nearly 1.000.000 refugees from the Palestine war.— A.P.
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    300 ARRESTED
    31 1 The Hong Kong Police have i r rested 300 people. Including a number of well-dressed Chinese women, participating m a game of tombola at a private Chinese club Rcuter.
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    Boycott continued
    29 1 Marseilles dockers belonging to the Communist -led Trade Union Confederation yesterday voted to continue their bo>cott of ships loading war material for Indo-China "until such shipments cease.
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    The real rabbit won
    61 1 £>ACING .ireyhounds know a real rabbit from a X mechanical one Ai ;< racy* started at a Torquay ir.ick, a real rabbit dashed on the course. The greyhounds, forgetting the dummy, at once, srl off m a pack after the real thing, which got away through
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    U.N. WELCOMES INDIES PACT
    167 1 i NEW YORK, Sunday. I^HE I.N. Special Political Committee yesterday disregarded Ukrainian charges that th e Dutch were conducting ferocious" war m Indonesia and overwhelmingly approved a resolution welcoming the Dutch-Indonesian agreement on a I'nited States of Indonesia. The vote was 43 to 5 with four
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    'FAIR NIGHT' FOR STABBED GOVERNOR
    266 1 Free Press Staff Reporter I ATF this morning, the Singapore General Hospital said that the Governor of Sarawak, Mr. Duncan George Stewart, "passed a fair night" last night. "He appears to have got over the immediate danger of the initial phase. He is still, howw
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    Skipper Ruled 'No Gramophones'
    362 2 /WPTAIN JOHN GIAVEH. fair-haired, 49-year-old veteran of H official Norwegian explorations to the Arctic watched preparb ia aboard the little 700- motor- vess< I Norsel m Shadwell m, S E., recently, for St adventure. The V ':> ?1 sets out on a 7,000-miles voyage to c.
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    Eel -aged 56
    25 2 rm LONGEST-LIVED I i g h t m 1 tntic Sea t of 1 been beI the Sai ere ar.ci II con-
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    SPELLING BEE
    30 2 ll'Hl Ki;— ii anywhere— IT are the follow m? words sprit wrongly? A^k your pirt> guests: Oppossum, cuirass, evanescent, errisippelusi irresistable. terrestial, supercede, icycle, cmbar.lnmil s»T\i» .title. ceni
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    132 2 |>'.n;\ today, you must always nuard against i" > miii^ a fictim <>f your emotional impulses. You have a tnuner temper and MUM be careful to Keep it »ll under control at all ti #'.s Avoid making derisions at such times, your ;u«li mi m v distorted
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    Drama of a Sleep-walker
    115 2 TWO taxi-drivers re- cently balanced for t< ii minutes on an 18 m. ledge 'M) n. up m Black- pool to support Mrs. Esther Annie Frith. Hei husband leaned from the window above and clung to her nightdi Mrs Plith I Her husl their tx taxi
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    A CRIME TEC CLOSES HIS CASE BOOK
    142 2  -  HAROLD By PENDLEBURY Big Bill Page, of Manchesfc perhaps Britain's best-known tective outside London, has closed hia CB» book and retired Three thousand criminals, 44 of them murderers, have cai regret thai Bill (ai stick to hia boyhood ambition to be a shepherd
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    SHE KEPT ON GLIDING...
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    Womentake to pipes
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      140 2 si PKRB VOCAL RECORDINGS KIRSTKN FLAGSTAD (Soprano) ELISABETH'S GEBET i Elizabeth's Prayer) a m I Wagner)— DB CHE FAKO SENZA EUBIDICE 'I i.aye lost my Euridice i Gluck RECIT: THY HAND: AIR: WHEN I AM LAID .Purcrlh DB 6913 MARGHERITA (AROSIO (Soprano) UNA VOCE POCO FA <A voice I heard
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    INDIA, PAK. CUT ECONOMIC TIES
    273 3 Statistics show final parting •M hey may succeed within a few years The cleavage has i, C fn hastened by a virtual trade enihMio m effect between U* neighbours since Pakistan's refusal las! September to devalue her rupee along With the Indian Rupee and her
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    Synthetic production grows fast
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    WHAT'S ON IN K.L.
    8 3 WHAT 'S ON IN K.L. HIN MS IPOH
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    Redsaccuse Eurasians of coup plot
    84 3 Reds accuse Eurasians of coup plot HONG KONG M >::. THE nunlst Peki baa to r a coup tta v.i.h the aid i I m a rial of paid spies which U S Vice-Consul In Muk- William Si k< s, I bt fore be. out of Rod China. o:\adcast said
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    TRYGVE LIE AS ATHLETE
    34 3 TRYGVE LIE AS ATHLETE Toi-;. ..ar-uld Unil General.' Lie. is still a :ds. slan Athletic club. tblished tuo itand He 200 metres \w 23 6 seconds, •:i 13 28 metres hi p and jump
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    BOUGHT BACK OWN MONEY
    62 3 BOUGHT BACK OWN MONEY Indian O* Bank has i that it bought buck from exchange some Ita from a pai ol U5514,300 consigned fr< S o a bank m Nf-\ Yak The theft vut.s discovered N ".v York bank cabled that the parcel sup- to contain euro contain' (i only
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    Bridge Hands
    188 3 Bri< »lation of the u-ump abU-s was the deck ika the I übled. and at two lt ,le although [heart Iron South rarely defeat It. Hwever, South opened ttw sp^e W»Jta.M allowed tbte hold alltl South then »hlft«d to the dte- thu, sh«t. anEast von with tht ace
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    Cotton deal protest
    35 3 A prote dnst l i.- bulk side ol the whole ol 'hv 1950 da cotton rrop to India and the Haw Cotton Commission, was made by the LiverChamber ol Commerce prdav A.P.
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    30 3 The Bristol Brahazon m flight. The Riant 130-ton aircraft is the Invest airliner m the world. It took five years to design and construct at an estimated u»>t of <: 8.000.000.
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    HE LENT £2,000 TO STRANGER
    170 3 A LONDON grocer, Mr Henry Harry Moss, des cribes himself as a "gullible sort of person." He has reported to Scotland Yard that a man who churned to be .t friend of the family went back to Tel-Aviv with £2.000 of his. Mr MSI advanced
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    REDS WOULD MARCH
    36 3 High diplomatic quarters In Washington said yesterday that Russian troops would march into Yugoslavia this winter if the Kremlin leaders were convinced the United States and Wrstrrn Europe would stand idly by.- U.P.
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    Americans like it 'down under'
    190 3 MELBOURNE, Monday. AMERICAN ex-Servicemen, now liberally sprinkled A through the Australian social structure, have put down m black and white, m plain, blunt terms, their reasons for coming back to settle "down under.' We like the place: we like the people." they say. Their views
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    Tory convert hits Labour
    280 3 LONDON, Monday. 'rHK thesis thai a Socialist age would not end A oppression of man by man or nation by nation, but would substitute new oppressors for old, is advanced by Mr. Ivor Thomas, "disillusioned" former Labour junior minister, now turned Conservative. Mr. Thomas, for a
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    AUTOMATIC TEA-MAKER
    61 3 automatic electric tcamaking machine baa hern invented by tw«» students of thf Knsineerinj; College »>f Banaris lUivcr>it> On inserting a two-anna piece into a slot. the Machine automatically boils Water md prepares tea. The tea then automatically fills the cup placed under a tap of the machine. The
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    U.S.S.R. GETS CHINESE SILk
    58 3 Til E China Silk Co. In Shanghai has shipped the :irst batch of «00 bale.; of raw silk to the u.o.SR. under ihe Northeast (Manchuria < Soviet barter agreement concluded on August 1. The firm is also pit paring •o export 500 to COO <j.-v< ol
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    3-POWERS A-TALK
    40 3 The Prime Minister. Mr. Clement Attlee. ha s now toid the House of Commons that good progress was made m the exploratory talks on atomic energy" between the United States. Britain, and Canada In Washington last month. A.P.
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    Indian envoy on Red China
    88 3 MADRAS, M< CIARDAR X M PANIKKAR lO India's Ambassador to China, who arrived recently from Nankins for consultations with the Indian Oov ernm<*nt. ha- ma said thai his return to Nanking would flcocnd on India's decision about recognition of c<-,m munisi China Whilr the Cumui
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    Kashmir report reach for U.N.
    58 3 Kashmir report reach for U.N. liHE report of the Kashmir Commission will be forwarded to the SecretaryGeneral ol the United Nations about the second week of thU month. Th* 1 report will then be circulated to members of the Security Council and a date fixed for the discussions. These are
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    Decided after 46 years
    67 3 FLORA FINLAY, 61-jear-«M grrat-grandniothpr. was granted a divorce m the Queensland Supreme nmri recently on the ground of her husband's desertion 4<; years ajjo. She told the court >he wu* married when she was 15 :ind that her hushand left alter five months of married life.
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    BERLIN SIDELIGHT Strindberg's 'black pig'
    257 3 BERLIN SIDELIGHT Strindberg 's 'black pig BERLIN. Monday. yllE famous 'Black Pig" of Papa Brahms and Strindberg has opened its doors again m Berlin. Meeting place of poets and musicians, the "Schwarze Ferkel's" century of tradition Wlf blasted by incendiaries m December, 1943. Proprietor Loe Pauquet, Belgian-border German, never survived
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    800 JAPS SETTLED lIS SIAM
    98 3 800 JAPS SETTLED lIS SIAM EIGHT hundred Japu:. come out of their hiding places m the mountai:. Siam since the end i war and have settled down to married lite with Siimesf accord to ara Dp Thai Institute m Tokto. He added that 200 Japanese nationals art- i in^ m
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    NO TROOPS WANTED
    22 3 Japan's Socialists place themselves on record sitton to thf American tro »ps there aftt'f any peace tn A. P.
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      126 3 ENGLISH FINE BONE CHINA I Tea Sets for 6 persons. 22 pieces: $55- to $67/50 Coffee Sets for 6 persons. 15 pieces: $23 to $45/Morning Sets for 2 persons. 8 pieces: $23 50 to $27/50 M^^ J I /ft J r il i/ heady fa iwf lactocei/ m^m^o BETTER MILK
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      WHAT HELD THEM BACK?
      211 4 WHAT HELD THEM BACK? T\ '111 the M Lat < j. t ne to e< Singap i 1> citizens Onlj 7.923 pe< out of Si < S y has decidi < sufficient and i I It Lai Pai f. ol P. I 13 143 only 7,92 l us< .by oui
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    Too Many Lawyers For Malaya?
    991 4  -  HALL ROMNEY LONDON LETTER by WHEN, next Manday, the Duchess of Kent formally opens Malawi Hall in Bryanston Square slic wiil be inaugurating a London headquarters For a large community of young Malayan men and women. For of the 230 Malayan students who, according to
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    BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN—1
    60 4 BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN —1 A view of the Serpentine in Hyde Park in summer. O/Jic- workers bask in we shine before returning to desk ana typewriter. There are 6- n Royal parks, M. James Park. Hyde Park Kensington Gardens, Richmond Park, Greenwich Park Hampton Court Gardens All are open to the
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    69 4 ttmJ^Z¥fT?&St*J£JX£?*JP cr l v^ ed m F disiJla y of Combined Operations given to officers of the Staff College, Camberley, at Eastney near Portsmouth it was the biggest Combined Operation tince the War. Beach charges were detonated to simvlatc heavy narcn yuv-fire, The troop, wore helmet* painted m a variety
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    The New Hitlerism in S. Africa
    413 4  - The New Hitlerism in S. Africa G.D.K. M'Cormick -By- piHLD MARSHAL Simils with his statesmanlike knack o!" saying the right thing M t lv* right moment, lias brought Ihe complicated delicate problem of N< »ulh African nationalism into llu- open. lie says that Ihe aim of his party will be
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    NO AUSTERITY IN 'GOD's OWN COUNTRY'
    83 4  - NO AUSTERITY IN 'GOD's OWN COUNTRY' C.V .R.THOMPSON uy NEW YORK AUSTERITY over h If just a word about mothers-in-. Far from lipping the price of childrlunches. New York is giving them an extra apple free bccmui bountiful a harvest. Here, where ihe i lars come from, the 1 1
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    $10 MILLION IN COFFEE IMPORTS
    307 5 Malaya to buy from Brazil Free Press Staff Reporter gINGAPORE and Federation merchants have Rot l.overnment permission to import more than $10,000,004 worth of Brazilian coffee to meet the demand m Malaya and for re-export to other sterling area territories. Malaya was never a big
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    CITY TURNS DOWN JAP CEMENT
    37 5 CITY TURNS DOWN JAP CEMENT Pres N Staff Keportrr i:f Municipal Commissioners have turn el the lowest lenders for cement the third lowest lender, because the bi the loutst and second lowest lananese and Swedish manufacture Iturjytktykjtyj
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    NEW PHONE LINK
    30 5 Free PrrxN Nt.itY Reporter KUALA LUMPUR THE I I peratl radio telephone h for 'lie 1. I A system of high f:er pech ovt S Of Jli-
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    S.M.C. MEETING
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    Help to form girls' clubs promised
    237 5 Free Press Stall Reporter SINGAPORE women \vh o wish to form girls' clubs m the Colony are promised every assistance m the way of equipment and premises by the Social Welfare Department. Tlie acting Secretary for Social Welfare, Mr. T. Eames Hughes, who told
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    CYCLE CRASH
    27 5 Ed m r cycle accident on S m front of S hool Tan ng X I Sii lan and th< v- i da; naaf: r
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    28 5 noi x tj primary ol St Patricks InslUulim, Singapore, doing flag drj;! sh Hi*' li Schools annuai C— ttli hi the school kail on >aiuri.av.— ilaviii suuiio pitlute.
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    Move to aid Hong Kong travellers
    273 5 Free pn>x Stall Reporter THE Singapore Chinese Advisory Board will consider this v rt'k what recom- may be made to Kong Gov< m■- to help Chine •< who Lng to Chi cult because of an immigra- ruling In Hong Kong. Chinese travellers have to
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    COLONY TO SEE 'SNOWSTORM'
    181 5 Free l'res s staff Reporter 4 HKi Singapore department store is staging a snowstorm m one of its show windows for those who want to see a white Christmas. The artificial snow has been brought to Singafrom film studios m England. It was shipped m two
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    J.B. FUN FAIR
    55 5 A p tpular 'i the two-day Johore Bahru Fun Fair In aid ol th<- Univ< i>l M ilaya Fund was the shooting gallery run by newly-formed Johore X R:Hr Association. Takings I the first n ted (200. The J B.R A rai g< is to b« formally
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    ARTISTS' CLASS
    21 5 ARTISTS' C LASS There will be a the Int< rnation .1 a Assn. at the Bn'isii Council Hall Loiiighl at 8.30
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    $45,000 BUT NO STUDENTS
    107 5 SEHEMBAN Sun. N T o student has been pata i out dI Negrl Scmbilan scholarship tund $45,000 alloted to the stati idr studies abroad this yea; 1 This was the reply at yesterday's meeting ol the Council <tt State to a question bj Raja Haji Mohamed
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    FLPER MARRIED
    43 5 KUALA I.UMPUR Sun. The wedding of Mr. Robert Yee Kin? Loke to Miss Grace Wong Sook Yen took place at the Capital Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur, today. Mr. Yee is one ol the youngest members ol the Kuala Cum pur Plying Club.
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    Film studios to make way for soap factory
    306 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA MMPIK. Monday. THE Malayan Film I'nit now recommended to be a permanent department of the Federation Go\ernment has to quit its present studios early nt\t year. Arrangements are being made for a gnu change-over to new premises
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    Malaya's millions
    68 5 Malaya' s millions Free preus stafl Hep rt»r Cv kki;n( s? uot.s «M< j latin:; m Malaya on Not. 1 totalled s»u? 7H :v*. according to m n° itff This Jiyuic In v j mv tsimi not- i^ j uinounlini; \m >.';S.Sn; \\hi( h ceased \m be le« il lender
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    Proposal by Chambers on bank interest
    62 5 Proposal by Chambers on bank interest Ire- press S< iJf f{ p•> r KUALA LI E4PUR MEMBLI B C elated Clii Chan aero Malaya T: r> d rt-p: Individual c\ •hat Dt'bt .-hip An >. m individual «rh<i w. I :1 a house to pai during th» occupatl< n vho
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    GURKHAS TAKE OVER PAHANG
    34 5 GURKHAS TAKE OVER PAHANG KUALA LUMPI'R E TiHE 48th Q irl 1 Ken nv-r n&nd ol all tr p« nst band/- n mmand< r R C. O I Until md f _nd Guards Brigade
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    827 6  - I SAT ON A KING'S KNEE TO SEE HARVEY'S BIG FIGHT TED BROADRIBB FIGHTING ISWf LIFE —by QITSIDE theheavy- vveighl division h(»\ini; historians rerord thai \\\c middle- eights in\ ariably measure ni> as Ihe mosl coloii r I v I lighting personalities. M;m\ have fought, i \rii m non-title (>nlests,
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    MEETING FOR AMATEURS
    116 6 TURF TOPICS 1 ruin ALLAN LMWS ipoh. lion. 'APT Un Itfftj V. urs brings ford from Pt-nang of an imateur race meeting to be uld during tbe Chrisi v at that a ib <for the Clul Tin W r> 28. 'i pi unn v.iii con- pole urill
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    Nine leading U.K. soccer XI's held to draws
    136 6 Nine leading U.K. soccer XI's held to draws FIERCENESS of the mm premier softer Leagve when nine of tfce leading < Liver|M>ol. who head the game without iefeal hut < point to Portsmouth, last I They had the '<■• I defensive blunder i. mouth right-wini Portsmouth pull re))!.*l way. Burnley,
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    EACY WIN TO EMPIRE XI
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    ALLAN LEWIS REVIEWS IPOH RACES
    328 7 ALLAN LEWIS REVIEWS IPOH RACES Singing Bird II was unlucky From ALLAN LEWIS in> irrrpu II'OH, Monday. S }u v J lor wiil and W '<> r Pl«ce) and Double Nine ($127 lor a win and $23 tor I place) created the biggest upsets on Saturday the opening day of
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    Pakistan tennis tourney opens
    16 7 Pakistan tennis tourney opens J reyrtgergergh gerg i It- hln j imirr t»I I poh oil
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    38 7 !!<»( Xl I Mil V: S X.( II O I MM.I I M iiailii Dutch lp!» v li. <J D. i r O. l> i;r— ui: S:t C ««mei M XI v K. i mmmtn Zui 2
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    29 7 Belgium (Harper) heals Singing Bird II (FUnnery) 1 1 lengths to win the j righth rare at Ipoh on Saturday. So Black (Tulloh) v third mid l\ithtitt<i<i (Woods) fourth.
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    Pakistan XI beat Colombo
    108 7 IMiE Pakistan soccer ream. Jinn.ih Gymkhana won the Anal match ol their tour m Colombo yesterday by beating Hit- Colombo City League a n turn ftxturi by five to one. The earlier fixture had resulted m a draw The Pakistan attack moved 1 like a well-oiled
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    NEW DATE FOR HOCKEY TRIAL
    22 7 MEETING S n H committee be h< Id ton it 5 SO pj choosing 'he 8 I
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    Fine trial despite bad conditions
    174 7 LONDON, Sunday. (CONDITIONS could hardly have been worse for 1 lie first England Rugby Union trial of the season at Liverpool On Saturday, hut m spite of continued rain and deplorable ground conditions spectators saw a splendid game. The result, a victory to Whites, by
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    Rain halts track work
    69 7 IPOH. Mon. RAIN f< 11 m the early hours ol today and was still falling late m the morning. n< track work, only a few horses >elng exercised m the sand-ring behind the grandstand. There will be k work i 1 afternot n Th«- following are
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    Cycling the rage In France
    611 7 SPORT IN OTHER LANDS 8 rum KENNETH THORBIRN \I ON SIKI R Dupont m France is passionately interested In bicycle racing, has a fair interest m football and rugby, nurses a great love for parades particularly if he can take part m them. The exploits
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    Latest U.K. soccer league placings
    1087 7 LONDON'. S in. Football League standings after yesterday's matches I IKST DIVISION P W D LFA F i .xx>l 19 10 0 0 oJ lb 2\) Manchester U 19 9 8 2 36 11 36 ftrseoal 20 10 5 4i 29 25 Wolvea 19 9
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    Johore's No. 1 pair nearly snatches win
    296 7  - Johore 's No. 1 pair nearly snatches win VETERAN By OINGAPOKE'S doubhs champions. Wong Peng S,»on and Teoh Pen« Hooi, were fully stretched to three-set duel by the Johore title-holders' Tun&ku i A. Jalil and Zainul Abidin bin Ahmad, at the Clerical Union Hall last night, winning by only a
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    England beat France 13-7
    96 7 ifSGLAXD I* Fj 13 points lo Ruyby Lean match at B Jrd< I Hilton scored I I Stg il Ward converted to fiv< land an early advair there was no Chang* In I before half-t. It was not lony b France had taken the lead, I
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    Swedes do well
    30 7 PLAYING Sweden beat rl India soco r champ B» i C ilcutta > Ifalte Marl Karl Franck i The Bwi des, day m boots 1 played ted.— A.P
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    RED VICTORY IN CHINA NOW NEAR
    265 8 RED VICTORY IN CHINA NOW NEAR Chiang tellsof new tactics HON<; KONG, Monday. IS indications grew that the Communist tonquest of the Chinese mainland would be virtually completed m a matter of days, with the rival Nationalists withdrawing to the islands of Hainan and Formosa and distant Sikang Province, (Jen.
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    H.K. WORRIED OVER RABIES
    32 8 •'pilK rabi< s s»ii n m 1 Hong X d»-sp> ■i > I. Shaw De] Health, said Since Jan. 1 this human deaths from rabies totalled 13 an Reuter
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    29 8 MERCANTILE I riON Pha 237€ 1 i <-\t for:— School I Commercial P School c rtifieate of the Univ.:-- irabrid Profe Sfcori land rypewiil ing, ii• i peci Ity.
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    THIN MAN DEFIES SPY COURT
    113 8 THIN MAN DEFIES SPY COURT SARAJEVO, Mon. \ARON BOREMOV1C thin man barely five I tall and weighing only 100 lbs., gave a defiant ri< nial to charges ol ipying and collaboration with th Nazis whon he came before the Sarajevo district tribune terday us the sixth defendant in the r:;rr>
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    Held 4 years in a henhouse
    64 8 IVXKI Mom ITALIAN polite have freed from four yrarV captivity m a leaking hruhoiiM* .t Sl->ear-old. hulf-p.iralvs-I I'd farmer who win Iwlieved i to h.ivr died years ng«> Ic.ivln| his property to his children. Neighbours. hearing moms from the runhoiw. called m the police
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    Delegation -starts
    13 8 A Pakistan trade d< In Pi a kfuri today to Reuter
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    No obstruction for pilgrims
    71 8 ROME, Mon. P< I H Arab and Jews would maintain "a comp l true."' In 80 far as pUgr^tis ■i> holy places of Palestine are cone* rned and would cooperate to facilitate their entry visits nd departure. This was '"Id to Pope Pius xil yesterday by
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    Gen. Chiang hits at President Li
    197 8 HONG KONG, Monday. rili; rift between Acting President l i Tsunf-jen and Gen. Chiang: Kai-shek widened jresterdaj with Gen. Chiang denouncing the runaway President for failing to do his duty m the face of danger. President Li, who is duo t leave for the
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    29 8 Flu cc Americ m rubbei companies announced on Saturday that Ihey would boost tyre and rubbrr prices 3'i; per cent, at midnight, December 7. A. P.
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    278 8 NEW YORK, Monday. pill-: Amerhan fede ration of Labour (A.F.L.) has asked the United Nations to establish the 40-hour vv '»k as an early practicable K oa i for all the workers of the world, and to look into the 30-hour week as an international
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    Reds split China into five parts
    81 8 HONG KONG Mon. Chairman Mio Ifee-lang of ih^ Chm 'sp Communist Government pre m Peking yesterday that three to would bo who ta'.fd while m > ten years "our economy v^ll §cc vast developr.iMV The CommunJ ;i Ooi h i plit China five military
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    CZECHS FACE RELIGIOUS WAR
    66 8 PRAGUE. V CHECHOSLOVAKIA'S R Ca! Flatly l Id they could not obey church i they Linst the law A statement by the b.A.\irnt>(i rnment if a religious war br ti is a result Of attempts to •ntoreo tru* control laws the government alone would be to
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    INDIA AND ISRAEL
    22 8 The Indian Ambassador to Egypt, Afghar All Fyzee, said yesterday that India was considering the recognition of Israel. Reuter
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    Xmas cards 'all wrong'
    79 8 pHh pfetwrei British Christmas < irdrs "appeal \m L have n*thinsj to do with Christmas." the Ri^ht Rev. Vernon Smith Bishop of Leicester, writes the December issue of the Leicester Diocesan Leaflet. There are pictures of the countryside, of public huildinjis. of dOfS, and of flowers,
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    5 killed in fight over rice
    49 8 i'- :.d four re killed m a remote village In Assam on Thui when police fired on a mob Ith swor and i i which attacked Government agents who were -Vil g HO Two other women were reI sly Injured Two bit A.P.
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    20 8 An i family of live led m north Japan yesterday when they plunged kid was a y sui- tyjytj U.P.
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    MADE THE BLIND SEE AGAIN
    84 8 MOSCOW, Monday. rHOl'S.\>i)S >i persons m '< :ssia lave had vheir 1 sight restored by tran»f<»r of the cornea, according to Academician V. P. Filato*. the leading authority on this operation m the [i ss.R. Prof. Filatov laid m- had Forked out. and simplified. the
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