The Singapore Free Press, 9 March 1950

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA l SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    TENSION GROWS OVER KHAMABAN
    659 1 TENSION GROWS OVER KHAMABAN 'Queen 9 talks to headmen LONDON, Thursday. the Conservative opposition attacked the Government m Parliament yesterday on its "discreditable" decision to exile Seretse Khama, chief of the Bamangwato tribe m Bechuanaland, news was received of growing tension Mnonu Khama's people. Mrs. Huth Khama, pregnant English wife
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    54 1 picture. Twenty Malayan baby crocodiles took an air ride > terdav on a Quantas-BOAC plane to the London Zoo. They were sent by Mr. A. hliazar of Oxlef Kise to Mr. J. Ford of London. Crammed tistht m a small crate, the Ml) instructions were "Feed with water only. Keep
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    Mme. Chiang's call to women
    110 1 TAIPEH, Thurs. 'WADAME Chiang Kai-shek 1 yesterday led Formosa's observance of the International Women's Day by calling on woman and girls for all-out support of the Government and the military m their right against Soviet and Chinese Communism. I have pariicipated In many International Women's
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    U.K. wants harsh terms for Japan
    220 1 LONDON, Thursday. BRITAIN wants a harsh treaty for Japan one that would keep the defeated "country under rigid allied control for years. She also wants the defeated country to pay an unspecified amount of war reparations to nations which suffered through her aggression. Qualified
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    2 kisses for Lord Mayor
    25 1 2 kisses for Lord Mayor I itaf I. r o the If. In Lon- n :ned Londly F -:IC<C he sp-. on I A .P.
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    15 1 Ruth Khama. white "Queen** of the B:unangw.ito. She Vmi formerly Ruth Williams, a London typist
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    Sent double to exams
    9 1 Sent double to exams J :he 0 tain Reuter
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    Six Conservatives are indignant
    10 1 Six Conservatives are indignant A1 Emanu^l I on r. Reuter
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    Jaroslav korian dies
    11 1 I m, the linlst, died an Wpdn^sfiav A.P.
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    Question on U.K. accused
    73 1 LONDON. Thurs. ARRESTS or Brtfttohsubja behind the iron curtain will be brought up m the House >f Commons next week. A Conservative member will a>K. what official explanation Foreign Secretary had why no British diplomatic or Consular official was allowed to see British subjects awaiting trial
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    Varsity entertains Filipino visitors
    47 1 Varsity entertains Filipino visitors Members of the visi Filipino basketball team, who an students of the Arellano versity of Manila, were lied by the University I of Malaya's Student Counri: ?nd Athletic Union yesterday.! The visitors were shov. n every aspect of Malayan University life and work.
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    MARSHALL AID FOR VIETNAM
    178 1 SAIGON, Thursday. 4 N American mission now having talks with Indo- Chinese leaders is expected to make concrete 1 recommendations for Marshall aid to Vietnam, observers here said yesterday. The mission, headed by Mr. Robert Allen Griffin, 3 also expected to propose an immediate grant of
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    S'pore students reach Sydney
    76 1 SYDNEY. Thurs. FIFTY young Orientals have arrived here to study m Australian universities. Among them were: Ong Tiang Hing, 19-year-old Chinese from Singapore, who will study architecture at Melbourne University. Gerald de* Silva. 19. from Penang. who Is going to do surgery. His father a doctor,
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    OCCUPATION COST
    28 1 Dr. Karl Grubcr, Austrian Foreign Minister, demanded yesterday that Britain. France and the Soviet Union should pay for the cost of their occimation of Austria. Reuter
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    KASHMIR DISPUTE
    26 1 The Security Council yes-♦t-rday resumed the debate on trn> Kashmir ouestlon under X c 'residency of Dr. Homero VU>ri T .^fronte, of Ecuador.— Reuter
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    Dr. Fuchs disowned
    69 1 MOSCOW. Thurs. RUSSIA has denied that l)r Klaus Emil Fuchs. convicted atom spy. passed Anglo-American science secrets to the Soviet Union. A Tass report said the brilliant 28-year old Dr. Fuchs. a naturalised Briton, was unknown to the Soviet government. Dr. Fuchs admitted spy ins activities m
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    CHILDREN DIE IN PLANE CRASH
    102 1 MINNEAPOLIS, Thursday. 4 NORTHWEST Airlines passenger plane crashed x into a residential area of south Minneapolis during a blinding snowstorm on Tuesday night, killing at least 15 persons. An elderly man died of a heart attack as he approached the scene of the crash. There
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    15 1 picture. Countess Mountbatten talks to a. tiny patient m a Singapore hospital yesterday. Free Press
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    U.S. FLAGS TO BE MADE OF MLON
    47 1 The cotton-and-wool American flags atop government buildings m the United States are to be replaced by nylon flags. The Federal Buildings Management Division said tests have shown that nylon flags, although twice as expensive, last three tlm*s as long.— A.P.
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    Jakarta lifts night curfew
    62 1 JAKARTA. Thurs. THE Jakarta curlew has been lifted from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. The curfew was clamped on Jakarta following Captain "Turko" Westerlings Bandoeng attack on Jan. 22 and his threats to attack Jakarta proper. Military authorities believe that Westerling's renegade army has been broken
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    No more 'quickies'
    23 1 Mexican "quickie" divorces to foreigners not legally residing m Mexico were abolished yesterday by a 9-to-7 Supreme Court ruling. U.P.
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    All the right curves
    62 1 ASKCOND handsome elephant is on its way to Bangkok from the north to take part m the royal coronation and other ceremonies as a sift to Kin:; i'humiphon. This elephant is 18 years of age and perfectly proportioned. He is described as very handsome, standin; MO
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    Indian, Pak. leaders urged to talk peace
    278 1 CALCUTTA, Thursday. Al4-POINT proposal for the solution of the IndoPakistan deadlock put forward m Lahore by Mr. H. S. Suhrawardy, former premier of undivided Bengal, has aroused considerable interest throughout India. He suggested an immediate meeting of the Indian and Pakistan Prime Ministers
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    American freed
    32 1 Imrich Solar, 56. a naturalised American, has been re- ma Slovak labour camp wheie he had been held for nearly two months on charges of making insulting remarks about Czechoslovakia.
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    FREE FOR MOTHER
    19 1 Bangkok municipal bu.s^s Ul pran- free rides to all lew on April 15. Mothers Day- A.P.
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    KONGSI MAN KILLS A HUNGRY RED
    117 1 KONGSI MAN KILLS A HUNGRY RED Free Pres> NUff R<- porter A Chinese, dressed m bla<k. went to a kongsi on estate on the Yong Peng R yesterday and demanded 1 which he immediately j outside the building. While he was eating, the Chinese occupant of the kc>. si killed
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    U.S. ESTIMATES ASIA AID COST
    67 1 'PHE U. 6. 1 Statt^. M T o!d the House of Repr D Affairs C lee yesterday U American administration would \o estimate for D cost of a South-Eas* kt\ economic aid programme. He said ii was no! popredict now how mil would be required
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    Adventures Of 'Popski's Army'
    481 2  -  Sir James Grigg By Private Army. By Vladiiis.r PenLikoff (Cape) \IAJOR Peniakoff is a Belgian of Russian descent. He was at Cambridge when the world war broke and from there he d m the French •me years before -econd world war he h 'd been m
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    A Message-And A Story too
    554 2  - A Message- And A Story too PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books m U.K. TO say that The Feast, Margaret Kennedys new novel is a fable or modern morality play introducing 20th-century counterparts of the mediaeval Seven Deadly Sins who have taken up their abode beneath the roof of a small
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    S'PORE BOOKS ON VIEW
    203 2 S'PORE BOOKS ON VIEW HPHE British Council A is organising a Books Exhibition to be open from Sunday, Mar. 26, to Sunday, April 2, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The books will be divided into sections as follows: Prose Literature, Arts k Craft. Technical Instruction (Carpentry, Engineering, He.), Medicine,
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    DANGERS IN CARRARA
    131 2 A Star Called Wormwood. Martha Bacon. (Hoddrr S.) pHARLfcS Anders went \j to r.aly as tutor to Lo'iis Meredith but from the moment of his arrival at the Villa, it was obvious he was going to sec a great deal of all the family except perhaps the
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    54 2 President Truman (centre, at rostrum speaks at < monies marking the unveiliing of a 17 feet high statue of George Washington m the George Washington National Masonic Memorial, Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A., on t h c 218 th anniversary of the first President's birth. Masonic -rs of Virginia and other states
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    ENGLAND'S GREATEST ADMIRAL
    318 2  - ENGLAND'S GREATEST ADMIRAL DAVID DIVINE By Nelson the Sailor. By Captain Bllf l| (irrnf.-l!. R.N. (Faber). THE romantic ap- proach and the theory of "consistent perfection" have, m Captain Russell Grenfell's belief, conspired m the past to make difficult a just appreciation of England's greatest admiral. In M Nelson the
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    Love story's tragic end
    137 2 A FEW veeki aiter John Harrison was married his wife, Hyra feU UL Fbj three years she foughi Against tuberculosis, bu* recently she died. The following ni^in 2a-year-ckl John sat alone by the fire at his home m Clayton. Manchester, looking at photographs— some taken at
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    Charles Dickens—A New Portrait
    487 2  - Charles Dickens—A New Portrait DESMOND MacCARTHY ftrkag aga Charles Dickens: A Biofraphical and Critical tudy. By Jack Lindsay. THIS is a most interesting book although m literary judgment it is often defective. "David Copperfield," for example, which not only m the opinion of novelists like Tolstoy, but also m general
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    No 'Ghost' For Duke
    6 2 I NANA
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      114 2 YOUR LUCKY STARJ KORN today, you are one of tho«e energetic, ambitions souls who can promote anything, it seems, into a real and lasting success. You have a magnetic personality and are almost dramatic m your approach to life. Everything around you takes on a special glow which you impart.
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      336 2 F.P. Crossword No. 939 Smp^Bb t^Djfi by Be^^Hqi t ill i *«<&'>■ CLL ES KOSS 2 Not where father lives? u(Jt; 7 What a «ardtiu r might buy In a shoe shop <3>; 8 The sort O f tetter to make a snake angry iBt; 10 Paper boys? (5); II
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      19 2 Solution To Crossword No. 938 ML^JiO S^Pifc A X EDI S^a^tltSn*! lAROuseßmWijmt" M 9 n BEM Ajßf IHnS 3lC\T|Tir^pjA]BlT}vjf
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    H.K. IS FACING INFLATION THREAT
    370 3 Nose-dive m real estate values HONG KONG, Thursday. T*HE first major economic effect of the Chinese A Communist success m China on the British Colony of Hong Kong has become evident m the nose-diving: of real estate values by about 40 per cent, accompanied by
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    20 3 The Queen, wearin? crinoline fcown fisttiftf the Allied Circle at 4« Green Street. London. Beside her is Lord Dudley Cordon.
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    Judge rejects guilty plea
    33 3 Judge rejects guilty plea RK, Thu: p Harold R. ised to acy from former -ergeant ollathe J pancM the peared m court c of his Proh plea dge Ifl not a I A.P.
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    New dock for Melbourne
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    WOMEN ACTIVE
    4 3 or U.P.
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    EQUALITY IN JAPAN
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    Two Russians can keep corpses fresh
    33 3 SOFIA, Thursday. lins of only tuo ni *'n have been eshnesa Lenin*a m Moscow and and ..lai 3 UUIUI,. IHt tsed tne I inI i* and U.P.
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    U.K. DILEMMA SOVIET VIEW
    14 3 U.K. DILEMMA SOVIET VIEW papei Isres- eitbei i>* i or to :if Bii- U.P.
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    DANCE-FOR-PAY BOYS QUIT
    180 3 OSAKA, Thursday. f O\V wages and protests from relatives are thinning lJ the ranks of Japan's only dance-for-pay boys. Japan's only male taxi dance hall, the Kabuki, ned here hist autumn with a rush of male applies for the psuedo gigolo jobs— and a rush of women
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    Airline plans Formosa halt
    50 3 M PAIL Missouri. Than. THE Northwest Airttnei is considering a stop at Taipei. Formosa, on Its Tokio-.Munila route. A survey flight will be made some time next week. Northwr^t Airlines made stop s at shinghai before the hine>e ommuiiht.s stained control of that city. i> A.P.
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    37 3 photo. The Duchess of Kent was among the spectators m London's Old Bailey who saw the 38-year-old atom scientist. Dr. Klaus Fuihs, sentenced to a 14-year jail term for betraying atom secrets to foreign powers.— A. P.
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    Truman rubber plan rejected
    76 3 WASHINGTON, Thwrx. I^HE House of Representatives Armed Sf-rvices sub.mittee has rejected President Truman's plan for disposing of the Government's war-time rubber plants and Instead recommended a threeyear extension of the present law. If Congress accepis the subcommittee's recommendation the Government will retain about 90 per cent
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    -and now UNWAR
    26 3 1 m Init^d Nations relief agency, -IN WAR." ,£-5 Walton "I "tab s «vernme,.(> aftet the rel.ef pron:ye end* on June U3l.- A.P.
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    30 3 A.P. photo Mul»' mounted soldiers and (ireek women welfare workers battle over trea« h«*rmi» mountain roads to rush -upplirs to the inhabitant* of a hlizrard bound villaee m northern (iroere.—
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    P.I. annoyed at Consul in H.K.
    125 3 P.I. annoyed at Consul in H.K. MANILA. ThUTS. k DEMAND for an explana- Uon of the continued arrival m Manila of Chinese. Philippines transi: visas Bangkok, has been called to Philippines Consul Jose V. ft Igua m Hong Kons;. UnSerretary for Pore! Salino Neri announced. Mr. Ne;i lias denounced the
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    Bridge Hands
    289 3 IT MAY been true that the streets ol Lo: v < e crowded wi'h people who v trumps. But I I 'Ik- who crumps too soon I ikla today*! d. al. n< d the d continued the suit. I ie king and exited with a trump. south continued
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    Human ears take beating
    210 3 LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, Thursday. "rilE human ear," says an American noise research specialist, 'is taking its worst beating since the dawn of civilisation. And except m some bmttmtm oilices, little is being done about it." As the result of research at the US Navy's shipyard here,
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    Japan-Siam trade up
    61 3 TOKIO JAP A Siam ed a 1950 trade a covering an increasso,ooo,ooo over last year. trade mc machlo ruboer. <■>.• and c: s*" Btllioa v i. w r ice. I raw nir. Prospects for continued cxpan- n th* 1 I I spokesman said Hp dcacrited the !9.i<)
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    NOW THEY TEND TO NOSTALGIA
    45 3 NOW THEY TEND TO NOSTALGIA HOLLYWOOD I J^EO ROBIN nyi Amencam urn lv. wa\ -if He deduces this iron current pu: jT one oi 1 .soia 1 I mv that In support ol ot \he pub Rota Oenti« I Can Dn I "A Dream A.P.
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    Truman a 'prisoner'
    73 3 RELATIVE TROI BU ■> bother. nu NmMhM \t Lon- icach, C .ilif <«rnia. a Ifaird rousin ol I !ind Truman, hid this to say: "I fed that cousin H.irrx i mv h«ld prisoner by advisers "h<» lean to the Socialistic philosonhirs of the rt<»vernni«'nt His s<,iuiion is.
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      49 3 SA L E LAST I DAYS I HALF PRICE BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS jii' Be it the is sweet and fair JeS,^ Yet more lovtiy the evening sir, ]j Come to the Aquarium Bar n And drink to her beneath a star. rH 6 7 Oxley Ris.-. Phone 3SIS
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      121 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. I'Wii ION: Man In H D UK: A ridoned. ODKON: Elome iOf The Brave COUSEUM: Romantic. MM)K\ S R v CATII B marl .Tarn?!'. < ENTI \l itana Bhakhti Tamil*. HINDUSTAN: 8..r; Betaea Hlu PENANG UlltON: Red Hot And ITHAY: Whi>ky Galore L1OO: Rachun Dunla (Malay)
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      446 3 CTMPRDADr ■i«M*« kM ro- i Coffee Hour Favourites: 11 M.i.Mel SINGAPORE BFEBS [Singapore] Pialllsl _oi e seking; u.w variety (BLI'E NETWORK) TODAY Billboard; 11.30 News Bulk-In. ,vi j At -9 mo i P( .v 44j Programme summary; 44< 184 and 41.7 metres. From the London Editorial* 4 p.m. Music for
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Mar 9. 1950. COME AND SEE MALAYA
    422 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Mar 9. 1950. COME AND SEE MALAYA 'Pa', says Elmer, "'where shall we go for our vacation this year?" Mis father ponders. How about Kota Bahru?", he asks. "Tour ma would kinda go tor that beach of passionate love." "But Pa," protests Elmer. "we went
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    CN GUARD, SINGAPORE
    131 4 CN GUARD, SINGAPORE COME fool throws a grenade into a Singapore building. It fails to explode, so the Colony's emergency 1 m \s still stand at nil U the bomb had gone off m :he newspaper office, or m the street, there might have been serious casualties. One grenade can
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    Election Proved That... ...LABOUR MUST NOW 'GO SLOW'
    733 4 Election Proved That... ...LABOUR MUST NOW 'GO SLOW' TWO POINTS OF VIEW says MR. RAYMOND BLACKBURN SOCIALIST M.P. FOR NORTHFIELD, BIRMINGHAM. THE Prime Minister will have the support of men of good will m all parties m his decision to carry on the King's Government But Socialist supporters are bound
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    Red Blood-, or Red Tape?
    251 4 Letter to the Editor T^HE rebuff received by the Free Press reporter at the Blood Transfusion Clinic would be unfortunate if it were merely one of those lapses which happen occasionally m the best organised insti tutions. However, the clinic appears unable to cooperate with
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    STALIN STOOGES
    116 4 PREMIER Stalin has succeeded m planting- two top stooges m the inner ruling clique of the Chinese Communist government hierarchy. That is why diplomats familiar with conditions inside China discount the chances ot Communist leader. Mao Tze-tung. ever turning "Titoist" on Stalin. The two Stalin henchmen are Li
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    ....SOCIALISM IS NOT WANTED
    688 4  - ....SOCIALISM IS NOT WANTED claims CANDIDUS WELL KNOWN TORY JOURNALIST. fllE voice of the people has declared much more decisively what Britain docs not \v;mt than what it docs want. The electorate have said "no" to Socialism. That is the one statement that can be made, with absolute conlldonce and
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    Thorez Has His Orders
    455 4  -  JONATHAN BLOW J^jAURICE THOREZ— the many -chinned, small-eyed leader of the French Communists has his orders. Stop by strikes and sabotage: (a) the flow of American arms for the French Army that starts next month; (b) supplies to the French forces fighting m IndoChina— now the
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    27 4 The Australian Premier. Mr. R. G Menzies, with his wife (richHeather, mount the steps of Parliament House, Can berra at the ovAimm 55* Australian Federal Parliament. g
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    It Seems To Me....
    625 4  -  POLITICO By ]Lf R- Churchill has got iTI off on the wrong foot. He has annoyed the Liberals, much to the undoubted delight of Mr. Attlee. With Liberal support, and a stroke of luck In by-elections, the Labour Government .may be able to hang on longer
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      79 4 Memories of a Great Tenor RICHARD >v on PARLOPHONE Record* ONE DAY WHEN WK WERE YOUNO I'M IN LOVE WITH VIENNA RO LOVES OLD SWEET SONQ ONE NIGHT OF LOVE RO ***** THE BLUE DANUBE WHISPERINGS OF THE VIENNA WOODS h LOVE S SERENADE I DON'T BE CROSS RO I
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    GIRL REFUSES LOVELESS MARRIAGE
    367 5 GIRL REFUSES LOVELESS MARRIAGE Sold as bride when young Free Press Staff Reporter 19-YEAR-OLD Singapore Chinese girl who had been gold when very young as a prospective daughter-in-law to a woman whose son she did not love, has been helped by the Social Welfare Department to marry the man she
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    7 5 puiuxe. Member of ihe Mng*- Free Press
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    34 5 picture. /HH NTfcSS MoanibaUen Vy receive, a pink staffed animal from an 11-year-old tubercular patient at Tan Tock Sen*. The patient. called "Mickey Mouse" by the Sisters, had made the animal herself. Free Press
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    CONCERT IN AID OF BOYS' CLUB
    45 5 CONCERT IN AID OF BOYS' CLUB .ers at the ne BuildBoys' h Irew'a I the pro- la X 364' executn Tioe. ably Si( > Mimi n on ihe of the -xo acts ved. Nt ef- :he mend- I •JW Thoon Lip -aval of hello Mrs able
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    S'PORE C.Y.M.A. OFFICIALS
    29 5 S'PORE C.Y.M.A. OFFICIALS our.g I of i a pore. airecpresident vice-presi- general _^sist- E B Dorett; mt; sports ■ran ■raarr f G^valam: music -:i.:.t -*-;ary. Mr member. Mr. A.
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    ACTRESS BEGAN AS DANCER
    342 5 Free Press Staff Reporter \f ISS Dorina Brown, Singapore Repertory's newest member, has wasted no time m the two days that she has been here. When I met her at the Victoria Theatre yesterday, she was busily rehearsing for her part as Bess m the Rep's
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    DISCUSSION
    24 5 A discujtfion on Vernacular and English Education" will be held by the East-West Society In the British Council Hall at 8 30 tonight.
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    34 5 Sir Pi McKerron talking to John Forbes-Sempill, actor-manager of the Singaoore Repertory Company, on the stage of the Victoria Theatre af seeing a ptrlormance Qi Present Laughter." On the right is Peter M ..m.
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    FEWER TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
    53 5 SINCE the enforcement of the 30 m.p.h. speed limit, traffic accidents m Singapore have been greatly reduced, particularly m Orchard Road and Bukit Timah Road, where accident figures have run at a high level. Last month there were 605 cases of traffic accidents m Singapore. 53 cases
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    LOUDSPEAKERS IN VICTORIA HALL
    84 5 Free Press Staff Reporter HPHE system of loudspeakers at Victoria Theatre and Memorial Hall, which has been used principally for the Legislative Council meetings, will be made permanent. The cost of installing this permanent equipment will be shared between the Government and Municipality, the Municipal Commission-
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    Airgirl scores a hit
    141 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A 22-year-old airwoman. Alrcraftwoman Margo Browiiless, scored a musical try before dance-diners at Prince's Restaurant, Singapore, last Saturday night. She converted her try this week when Prince signed her up as a feature vocalist. A.C.W. Brownless, who works m what she described
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    NOT ENOUGH FISH IN OUR WATERS
    194 5 NOT ENOUGH FISH IN OUR WATERS Free Fress Staff Reporter SINGAPORE is consuming more flsh every year, but catches In the Colony waters have never exceeded 23.5 per cent, of the requirement* In the last three years. A Fisheries Department official told the Free Press yesterday that no matter how
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    Homes may be copied
    107 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Municipal housing scheme at Monk's Hill may be used as a model by house owners or any public body wishing to erect similar buildings In the Colony. The Municipal Commissioners are prepared to supply on request free copies of plans,
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    SHORT CIRCUIT
    37 5 A short circuit m the switchboard at a lawyer's office at Malacca Street. Singapore, yesterday brought a flre engine from the Central Fire Station to the scene. No serious damage was caused by the fire.
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    Big day for Tan Tock Seng patients
    327 5 Big day for Tan Tock Seng patients Countess pays a visit Free Press Staff Reporter EVERYTHING was m readiness yesterday at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, for the arrival of its distinguished visitor. Countess Monnibatten. The Diversional Therapy Unit, where convalescing patients learn a handicraft, was a hive of activity.
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    FELL FROM BUS
    31 5 Twenty-two-year old Yang Chuan Choon of Singapore who fell from a 8 T.C. Bus at South Canal Road yesterday, died In the ambulance on the way to hospital
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    SEES AGAIN AFTER TEN YEARS
    211 5 Freee Press Staff Reporter A 40-YEAR-OLD Malay who became blind 10 years ago while fishing for his living m the sea off Pas'r Panjang, is today back at his old livelihood— his eyesight completely restored. He is Kidin bin Haji Hussein, who lives on Pulau
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    MAILS
    44 5 Surface mail is expected m Singapore today from South India, Hong Kong. North Borneo, Labuan, Miri and the Federation. Latest times for porting surface mail today at the G.P O. are: noon for Pontianak, Java. Australia, and Siam; 545 p.m. for the Federation.
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    MORE MEN FOR S.M.C.
    165 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Municipal locally fur more stall to Commissioners are advertising fill posts ranging from $160 a month to $1,000 a monih. They are inviting applicaations to fill the vacant post of Engineer (Pipeline! water Department Extension Works (temporary staff) at $1,000
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    CLINICS HELP MOTHERS
    99 5 Free Press Staff Keporlei MORE than 7.00 0 i and 13.000 children a:tendtd m 1949 eleven rr.atcrnity and child welfare clinic* which are run by the Government m North Borneo. There are centres m Jesselton Sandakan and Keningau. and sub-ceotres m eight other of the smaller towns
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    PUNTERS HAVE GOOD DAY IN PENANG
    610 6 PUNTERS HAVE GOOD DAY IN PENANG O^/y fry Gracious Lady From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Thursday. DUNTERS were well on the mark yesterday, second day of the Penang Turf Club Spring meeting, when one favourite and four second favourites scored m a programme of six races. Arthur Ayres. with a winning
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    54 horses left in Grand National
    194 6 FIFTY-FOCli horses were left yesterday m the Grand National steeplechase, 32 less than the original entry list for the 4£ mile race at Aintree, near Liverpool, on March 25. The final acceptors included all the horses that have figured m the official callover of
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    48 6 ture. Goldpn Poem (left), with U.-Col. V. W. Street (Rifle Brigade) up. taking the last fence to win the annual Tnited Services point-to-point steeplechase for the Prince of Wales Cup. The race was run on a course laid out near the School of Artillery. Larkhill. Army News Service
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    RAIN FOILED AUSTRALIANS
    106 6 RAIN spoilt the chant victory by the Australian cricket tourists over a combined South Canterbury and Ashburton team yester- day the second and last day ■of their match at Timaru, New Zealand. w A. Brown, the Australian captain, who tCOred 88, dedared the tourists' first innings cloned
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    KHALSA v. S.C.C. ON SUNDAY
    58 6 'the folio* am will repnwml Blngaparc X: v«^ociH:ion at enrket again.st Singapore Crlcl ba Khalsa ground on Sunda> at II am. S Bal Choor Singh. Wasir h I .all siiiL-h. Ourdlal Singh, ■an Bingh. M. N. Ra;. II 1 B Ettngh, Awhaa S nnd Bal
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    Rugby results
    34 6 EDINBURGH U v beat Roj N v by 28 p to three In Rugby 1 match yesterday In 1 d-round n In lie Rugby League Wakefleld be 1 Dewsbury 15--10 Renter, A.P.
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    Big Sweep results
    67 6 '■Mil! Bis VRfcp. drawn on 1 the sixth rare at Pwnang y«'st<-rd.i>. resulted as follows: Total Pool >!M>. li»o. First: No. *****4 s.toiul: No. .{MM7BB S3l. Third: No. 1 18f 25 ($l7 2Nh St;irter> >;>tt ruth): Nos: 3'i9806. *****5, MIS4S, ■!08.M»x. *****9, BtSflt, M M.:n. *****»i. 3»><>j!.
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    SURE & STEDFAST CLUB PRACTICES
    43 6 SURE STEDFAST CLUB PRACTICES i > l table .v. at I 1': at will I trie: b^r Co XI YJiC-A ground B or club to ire to contact the bon. I, Tronob Ro.id. and tennlf are to i:.: imi d i Tel. 8"-i I
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    Original date to stay
    35 6 Original date to stay AMI; F between U ana <K.e pUo h.id hams Ltd., X ;d ma;. i.d i>e played on I. d v. hen thi dates and F A clashing but m this Reuter
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    SINHALESE JOIN S.C.A. TOURNEY
    53 6 npH£ Sinhalese Ass n of 1 Singapore has reoi jits cricket section ami en led the "B Division of ihe Singapore Cricket Associa tournament. dubs and Wishing *o have lrienuiy lures are to contact the non. spoils secretary, the Sinhalt\st> Association. 176. Anson Road. Singapore >Tel.
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    I.A. 'A' v. Y's
    62 6 THK foUovteg will rt-present Indian A i) A"' XI cricket the V.M.C.A. on the V.MCA i on Saturci.. Y. Madari leapt >. L. S. Gill N. Narayanan, P Bhatri. R. S. Sithambaram R. S, Nadarajah. Cboor Singh, L. S. Thivy. V. A. M. Ally and J.
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    Game abandoned
    50 6 I tee Pnm Maff K.-pmi.i JUHORE BAHRU. Chun. I>AIN caused yesterday's soccer match between the s« English School and Johore English College to be abandoned at h time, when the College v\>ie leading by I\vo goals to nil. The go. scored thigku \d:un und Uavrku Ibrahim. The lilU.
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    Small decline in gilt-edgeds
    216 6 l b Ife^^ LONDON 11,-^, ESTIMATES of increased Bn»^ n \T^» M m the coming year yesterday checked r r ing of gilt-edged stocks were the i a i entering the market as r. Tj, was small and produced losses of 1V lh Most market operate
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      192 6 Sid3nilrj!kG Exclusive to //**> Singapore Free Press m Malaya i. *SU7 WHATOPfHATiD THAT I"/ WENT MY SAvtKOS, MAK.'Wj 4 I OH'lT'lS On 1 No? CARf FuT" M» f ■.*./>VM/A:.//? AV<W. i: *.C* POTENTATE' OUT^^_^ >>A*d NOW- JF MANORAKE ;HJRI. JUST RfiT FOR A r WE nAJ OF LQIhAR 70 WE'LL
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    CUP SEMI-FINAIISTS IN ACTION
    193 7 CUP SEMI-FINAIISTS IN ACTION Liverpool and Chelsea beaten four Cup semi-finalists were m action m yesterday's English Football League programme, but only Everton won. Chelsea and Liverpool lost at home, and Arsenal were held to a draw on their own ground. Liverpool, who last Saturday knocked Blackpool out of the
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    15 7 Vickers, the Royal Engineers' goalkeeper, allows a wide shot by Boon Seong to go by.
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    Tiprs beat weak Sappers' XI 5-0
    343 7 y\ L\ if Todd, who is on the injured list, had played I for the Royal Engineers m their Senior League soccer game against the Tigers yesterday, the Sappers could not have hoped for victory, so poor were their performances m every department of
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    St. Andrew's win
    48 7 gT. Anthony's Boys' School's first team beat St. Andrew's Schools Ist. XI by two goals to one m a thrilling soccer match on the S.J.I. ground yesterday. In another match, St. Andrew's second team defeated St. Anthonys Schools 2nd. XI by one coal to nil.
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    HARDSTAFF MAY GIVE UP GAME
    96 7 JOE Hardstaff, England and Nottinghamshire cricketer, said m Auckland yesterday that if he was forced to give up his cricketing career because of an injury he would go into the hotel business. Hardstaff, who leaves for England today after an engagement as coach to the
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    R.I. BEAT V.S. AT SOCCER
    88 7 R.I. BEAT V.S. AT SOCCER nAFFLES Institution beat Victoria School by two goals to nil m a soccer match played on the R.I. ground yesterday. At half-time, the Rafflesians were leading onenil, the goal coming from a V.S. defender, who maskicked the ball into his own goal Kok Peow, R.l.'s
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    GEYLANG GAME ENDS IN DRAW
    62 7 THE 4th Supply Reserve Depot (R.A.S.O held Singapore Medical W.U. to a one-all draw m a Junior "B" Group 2 League soccer match at Geylang stadium yesterday. R.A.S.C. got their goal vvh: n ar Medical defender deflected the ball into his own goal. Medicals equalised
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    BOXING PROMOTER LEAVES FOR P.I.
    65 7 IE xing promoter. Mr. A Razak. left Singapore oy air for Manila this morning to finalise arrangements with Boy Brooks for his Orient welterweight title fight against Alfie Sands, scheduled to take place at the Happy World arena on March 17. Mr Razak will also
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    HIS MATCHES WERE BOWLED
    69 7 AUSTRALIAN cricketer, R. Bate, of Geelong, Australia, got hot and bothered m a week-end cricket match. When he was struck on the left leg by a rising ball, fieldsmen were amazed to see him dance around the wicket, drop his bat, throw away his gloves and
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    ARELLANO WIN
    25 7 Arellano University backetball team bea: Ya Yu by 53 points to 36 m a basketball match at the Happy World stadium last night.
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    GOALLESS DRAW
    29 7 Royal Army Ordnance Corps held Royal Navy Air Service to a goalless draw m a Junior "B" Group 2 League soccer match on trie C.V.M.A. ground yesterday.
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    Rain mars track work at B.Timah
    939 7 Rain mars track work at B. Timah /iFFICIAL training for the Singapore Turf Club March meeting began at Bukit Timah this morning. Owing to rain m the early hours, the going was soft and, m the later stages, heavy. Spowart worked Spencer's horses, Dunwoodie, a new arrival from Perth, took
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    Ireland hold Wales to draw
    177 7 IN spite of their enforced late changes, Ireland, with 1 a team strengthened by Eire players, displayed better form than m their heavy defeats by Scotland and England and they merited a goalless draw at soccer against Wales at Wrexham yesterday. The game seldom reached
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    41 7 (apt. W. D. Mitchell (Hong Kong), who beat Pte. Kemp (Hong Kong) m their heavy-weight semi-final m the FAR ELF boxing championships. Mitchell will meet Sgt. lluggiii s (Malaya District) m the final at the Happy World stadium to morrow night.
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    Huggins tko's Cpl. Freeman
    158 7 OF the eight semi-final bouts of the F.A.R.E L.F. boxing championships held yesterday at the Tanglin Gymnasium, all but one ended m a point's decision. The exception was the fight between Sgt. Huggins (Coldstream Guards), heavyweight champion of Malaya District who technically knocked out Cpl. Freeman
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    SINHALESE XI
    64 7 rpHE Sinhalese Association cricket team against Catholic Young Men's Association on the St. George's Road on Sunday at 10 a.m. will be: C. Senaviratne (capt); N. L. G. Wijeweera J. N. Fernando, P. R. B. Perera, V. R. Fernnndo, M. Perera, C. Fernando, S. Piyidpsa, S. Punchihewa, A.
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    BODCA TO PLAY REX B.P.
    71 7 D O.D. Civilian Association WiU play a badminton friendly consisting of four men's singles, three men's doubles and one women's singles against Rex B.P. at 21. Duku Road, tomorrow at 7.30 p.m. The following will represent 80. DC. A.: Andrew Tan, Teo Boon Eng. Ali
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    Ortiz beats Dade
    58 7 MANUEL ORTIZ, world's m bantamweight champion, won a split decision 0%-er Harold Dade (Chicago m a ten-round non-title bout at the Olympic Auditorium Los Angeles, on Tuesday night. Oritz weighed 132 lbs. and Dade 128 12. Dade won the title from Oritz m 1947. but Oritz won
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    36 7 picture. Won* Peng Soon, the Malayan champion, gets over an overhead shot m the All-England badminton final against Paul Holm (Denmark) at Earl's Court, London. last Saturday. Peng Soon won 15 7, 15_10- Sport and General
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    Ramillies may score again on Saturday
    173 7 From ALLAN LEWIS PYNANG, Thursday. OAMILLIES (Harper) is likely to complete a double L%> on Saturday, third and last day of the Penang Turf Club Spring meeting. He did the best gallop on the training track this morning, clocking 41 1 5 sees, for
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    UK SOCCER FIXTURES
    257 7 THE following are U.K. football fixtures to be played on March 11: SCOTTISH CLP Partick 1 v Stlrlint Albloa Ranrrri iUitb R. Mmhru^niki, T East Fife Vfuren of the S. v Akeniem tNOLISH LEAGI E— Mr. 1 A&ton Villa T Livrrpool Blackpool w We*t Krom Ch»rltoa v
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    TABLE TENNIS VENUE FOR NEXT YEAR
    35 7 The 1951 world table-tennis tournament will be held m Vienna. The event will probably be staged early m March. The 1950 tournament was held m Bud a pest. A.P.
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    Dai Rees plays in Singapore
    136 7 TJAI REES. 1949 British professional golf champion, doing an iron shot at the Island 1 lub course yesterday when h« passed t hrough Singapore el his way U> Australia. With borrowed k't. he wrnt round 18 hole- with .lark llodckinvon. Douglas McFwan W. McMullen and
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    S'pore chess tourney
    137 7 OESULTS of the seventh round of the Singapore chess championship were: P. Aherne beat N. Singh; A. Campbell beat Tay Cheong Ann; Dr. Lim Kok Ann beat L. Lasut; Mali Beng Cuan beat M. Vassin; M Candaswamy drew with Lim Cheng Bak; Seah Keok Seng beat Tay
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    HAINAN INVASION BIDS SMASHED
    305 8 Forces routed, junks sunk HONG KONG, Thursday. FLECTION of the new Nationalist Prime Minister, Gen. Chen Chener, implacable foe of Communism, coincided with news of Nationalist destruction of a second invasion bid on Hainan m two days and the recapture by Nationalists of a provincial capital
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    58 8 Two year-old Peter Palmer, son of a (iimdni Town (London) pet stores proprietor, need* ready fingers and all his concentration to count these tortoises, part of a shipment of ?.000 from South Africa to hi> father. The creatures, valued at Cl a pound (weight), are popular a* pets, particularly with
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    Berlin Reds train for May coup
    110 8 BERLIN. Thurs. /GERMAN Communist youth VJ groups are undergoing training m street fighting m East Berlin for their march on West Berlin In May, the West Berlin newspaper Tagespiegei, charged yesterday. The Communist controlled Free German Youth' claims it will mobilise 500 nno flßh-ers
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    A.-ENERGY WITHIN Jo YEARS
    100 8 A.-ENERGY WITHIN Jo YEARS LONDON, Thurs pKOF. Marcus Oliphant, a pioneer British atomic ■dentist, said yesterday that atomic energy would be used widely for industrial purposes m about 15 years if the "problems ol war an- solved." Taking ISMM with Sclo: believed that atomic ener. I military usey Prof. Ohph.tii:
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    Ex-Red to meet Soekarno
    91 8 JAKARTA ThUIB. T'HE one-time Indonesian Communist leader, Darsono, who is to meet President Soekarno and Premier Hatta m Jogjakarta m a few days, said hove yesterday that he was a Socialist and a convinced follower of democratic principles. He added that he might become a member
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    LONDON TIN
    58 8 I ON DON tin yesterday *as quid with spot firmer at £599 12s. 6d. and three months up 15s. Closing prices were: Spot CSti.10s buyers and 599.155. >e!leis with no business passing; three months. £589 15s. buyers ;uirt 590.55. sellers with business <!on* Jl 589.105. Settlement was 599.105.
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    Rat adopts kittens
    63 8 fj^ROM the < nminunist stronghold of Pyinmana. Central Burma, comes a report of a white rat adopting two kittens and sharing mealtime duties with the mother cat. This strange family lives h:\rmonioiislv m the shell-damaged railway station. In Myitkyina. the Kachin capital, a rat has become tile
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    Plan to evacuate S'hai Americans
    76 8 Plan to evacuate S 'hai Americans TOKIO, Thursday. 4 X American official here yesterday confirmed that the U.S. State Department has been discussing plans to evacuate Americans from Shanghai. Om* plan is to use VCMfli to ferry Americans from Shanghai to an American President Lim-s vessel, which would stand by
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    AUSTRALIAN THREE NEEDS
    40 8 INRKKKA. Thurs. MR. P. TRKI.OAR a new M P. told the House of Representatives. "A little more good temper. a little more goodwill and a lot more good manners could cure most of Australia s ills."— A.P.
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    45 YOUTHS HURT IN LOVE FIGHT
    116 8 CAIRO. Thursday. ()NE of the biggest love Qghtfl Egypt has suffered w since Cleopatra lured Caesar into a barge on the Nile, yesterday left 45 students nursing: severe bruises and broken bones. Scores of students of two neighbouring schools at Mansoura, m Lower Egypt,
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    MOLOTOV GETS LENIN ORDER
    39 8 RUSSIA'S former Foreign Minister, Mr. V. M. Ifolotov. was given the Order of Lenin on his sixtieth birthday on Wednesday. Mr. Molotov also received I congratulations from the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Parly.
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    Greece to have coalition
    86 8 ATHENS. Thurt. LEADERS of three On parttel announced I night that they had agreed In principle on formation of lition cabinet. The party leaders weie former Premier Ni< ola* PlaMtras. head of disMdent liberal group. If. Soph**!^ Vcntoeta <hiet of anoher Liberal section, and M George?
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    But U.S. open to serious blows
    220 8 WE WOULD WIN— BRADLEY WASHINGTON, Thursday fEN. Omar Bradley. Chairman of the I.S. Chiefs- of-Staff, said yesterday that present forces could not give America an absolute guarantee against "disastrous blows" but she would achieve the necessary forces to prevent such an attack from crippling
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    P.I. BAN ON CHINESE
    66 8 HONG KONG. Thurs THE Phllippil '-ndt-d all National the P ng allegations that th» late had b> ::n una -d permi This action was taken tapttt rhe rrceip of two telegrams from Manila authorising the ConsulGeneral to issue .several tins lo local I:. Manila the Imu
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    Colour bar charge
    100 8 GEN* Jar. Bnvtf, iea> he on Parliament here yesterday Hurt rhe "clear objer;' of the Population Registration Bili was •o provide for elimination of the coloured iKipu i k»ii from the common voters. t oppos::ion would con>«< Rill from s'a<e bfl 3 would give it a hard
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