The Singapore Free Press, 16 March 1950

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA i- SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS-
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    ***** TONS OF RUBBER FOR USSR
    16 1 ***** TONS OF RUBBER FOR USSR Rua ned. i She 7.000 <o U Penani on A.P.
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    World used less rubber
    7 1 World used less rubber m^t 2^1 U.P.
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    MINDSZENTY VERY ILL
    12 1 1 v said v that imzenty, ■^ase nrmr.*.. U.P.
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    70 arrests
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    RANGE INCREASED
    33 1 The U.S. Air Force expects Superfortress to increase i's range by 1,000 miles and more as a result of tanker planes being added to nine STroups of thpsp medium hombers A.P
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    GOLD PRICE FALL
    29 1 Tbe Parts price of geld dropped 489.000 francs a kilogramme •riay the lowest sinre fre" 1 Hog m gold was officially barbed over two year* ago
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    17 1 Subaltern Daphne Joyce Old m happy mood after her marriage to Capt. Selwvn Arter at St. Andrews.
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    Trapped Britons radio for help
    138 1 KANGOON, Thurs. TWO thousand British, American and other 1 civilians trapped inside the rebel Karen city of Toungoo yesterday radioed anxiety for their safety as the battle for the city drew closer. The message said that the civilians, who also include Indians and Pakistanis, are
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    SIAM KING ASKS FOR SWING
    103 1 SIAM KING ASKS FOR SWING COLOMBO. Thurs KING Phumiphon of Siam who disembarked In Colombo yesterday. immediately asked his secretary to contact Radio Ceylon so that he could listen to swing records. The King, who is on his way home for his coronation, is an ardent jazz fan and used
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    INDIA BARES RED PLOT
    50 1 INDIA'S Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Sardar Vallabhai Patel, told the Indian Parliament yesterday that a Communist plan for dislocating the Government of the Eastern Indian Province of Assam had been discovered. But he denied that there had been an infiltration of Communists from outside India- Reuter
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    Sakai shot
    41 1 Irec Press Staff Reporter Five armed and uniformed bandits went to Sakai quarters m an estate south of Lanchang m the Mentakab area of Pahang on Tuesday night and shot a Sakai leader after tying his hands behind him.
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    LORRY ATTACKED
    38 1 Free Press StaU Reporter An unknown number of bandits last night, attacked a Forest Department truck a the 17th mile Kluang-Mers-ing Road. The truck drove on unscathed. Gurkhas and police dogs are following up the bandits.
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    Nehru talks on Kashmir
    80 1 JAMMU. KASHMIR. Thurs SHEIKH Mohammad Abdullah, Chief Minister of Kashmir is leaving for Delhi this weekend to confer with the Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, on the United Nations Security Council's decision to appoint a mediator m the Kashmir dispute. A special convention of the All
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    JAP MINERS STRIKE
    14 1 About 140,000 Japanese coal miners commenced a 48-hour strike yesterday.- Reuter
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    JAPS CUT IMPORTS
    25 1 Japan has decided fo tempoiarily suspend imports from West Germany and Argentina because of sluggish buying from Japan by those countries. Reuter
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    SEARCH FOR KAREN RICE
    71 1 RANGOON, Thurs. A GOVERNMENT agriculture party is checking the prospects of recovering stocks of rice from the South Burma territory retaken from the Karens. The Agriculture Minister, Mr. Khin Mating Gale, is leading the party into ricelands south of the rebel city of Toungoo. TXie party
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    END OF LORA LEE'S CAREER
    64 1 HOLLYWOOD, Thurs. FORA Lee Michel, nine-year-old film actress, was made a ward of the Juvenile Court yesterday by Judge A A. Scott, who ruled that her film career was over. The judge announced the ruling after a half-hour conference with the girl's foster parents, Mr.
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    Hush-hush conference
    31 1 OTTAWA, Wed P^ SECRET defence conference, attended by Canadian, United States and British experts m Radar, gas. arctic. psychological and i other forms of warfare, opened m Ottawa yesterday
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    FLYING DISC
    10 1 A flying disc" is renor-t^d from siclly.- Reuter
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    Russians get the best
    49 1 THE Shanghai Communists f- have commandeered 2,000 residence's m the exclusive Hungjao district In the outskirts of the city. The reason for the action is not explained but it may be to nous?- the flocks of Russian advisers now swarming into West China- A. P.
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    Big 3 to meet
    25 1 The Foreign Ministers of France. Britain and the United States probably will meet m London m about six weeks time.- U.P.
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    CANCER RESEARCH
    22 1 The atomic plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, intends to open the first of its cancer research centres about April 1.
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    CHINESE MASS NEAR VIETNAM
    156 1 SAIGON, Thursday. r PHE French Army commander m Indo-China, Gen. Marcel Carpentier, said yesterday that about 700,000 regular Chinese Communist troops were concentrated In the Kwangsi province areas near the "classic** invasion route to Indo-China. There was no sign of the Chinese preparing to move to
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    U.S. TIN CLAIM IS "NONSENSE"
    254 1 PENANG, Thursday. \IR. D. A. Mackay, manager of the Eastern SmeltT1 ing: Co., yesterday descibed as "nonsense" a U.S. Department of Commerce statement that Malaya is declining as the world's foremost tin supplier. The decline, the Commerce Department said yesterday, was chiefly the result of
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    Out-by the old way
    32 1 MELBOt/BNE. Thurs. AI.OKRY. loaded with 400 flre extinguishers. caught fire near Wangaratta. northern Victoria. Fire fighters from two towns were called and saved most of the extinguishers. A.P.
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    INDEPENDENCE BID
    19 1 The Italo-Eritrean Association has asked the United Nations five-power Commission on Eritrea for an independent Eritrea.- Reuter
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    MARKETS REOPEN
    18 1 Italy's principal stock markets reopened yesterday after a one-day shutdown protest against Government securities regulations.- A.P.
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    TUGMEN BACK
    24 1 Trade Union leaders yesterday presuaded London tugmen to end their walkout which had brought nearly all Thames shipping to a standstill.- U.P.
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    Tax talks end
    24 1 India United Kingdom talks fcr avoidance of double taxation have ended, and bo.h sides are reporting to their respective governments. A.P.
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    'Girls being trained to prostitution' story angers Malays
    245 1 'Girls being trained to prostitution story angers Malays Free Press Staff Reporter ]y]ALAY women leaders m Kuala Lumpur are indignant about a statement m the London Sunday Pictorial that Malay women are training young girls to l>e prostitutes. The statement, attributed to Miss Josephine Foss of the Malaya branch of
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    LINCOLNS LEAVE
    54 1 A SQI ADRON of Lin- coin bombers, No. 57, left England yesterday for Malaya to tight the terrorists Flying m slaves of about 2.000 miles i day, the planes are expected to arrive m Singapore by the weekend. Their ground crews are bring flown out separately m York
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    BIRDS KILL TWO MEN
    88 1 NEW YORK Thur.s A U.S. Army betteopur'g collision with a fl<K*k uf birds and an Air Force tighter planes crash into a i> aurant killed two people and injured 17 in differs; parts of America yesterday In KUleen 'Tex** i»o :uea died when the helicoptei and
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    Oil found
    18 1 Large q oil nar« beer, discovered m the Peace River arM nf RntUh r\, bia U.P.
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    POLES QUIT BANK
    20 1 Poiand yesierday with from the World Bank bread** "it is under the thumb United rialist polh A.P.
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    MONTHMEN WILL SPEED VICTORY
    489 1 MONTH MEN WILL SPEED VICTORY Parlt. praises volunteers •thf m LONDON, Thursday. ±ntu Malayan peoples have shown themselves to be more united than ever before in their determination to rid the country of the remaining gangrs of terrorists," the Minister of State for Colonies, Mr. John Dugdale, told the House
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    A Genius—and a Ruffian
    652 2  - A Genius and a Ruffian PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books m U.K. s IX3 sufferers from election hangover let me recommend a book that has absolutely nothing to do with the political period we live yet unlike the average book labelled "escapist, «reat deal to do with nature of humanity,
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    WHO ARE THEY LOOKING AT—?
    50 2 WHO ARE THEY LOOKING AT The youngman having his shoes polished before an admiring crowd m London's Leicester-Square is a film s/ar whose latest film has been shown this week m Singapore. His name is -i an Johnson, star of the film "Battleground 1 I recently had tts Lc premiere.
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    UNDER REVIEW
    23 2 The Life of Benvrnuto Ollini Written by Himself. Translated by John Addington Symonds with an introduction by John Pope-Hcn-iir\s\ (Phaidon Press).
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    IN BRIEF
    517 2 1 he Gnm I* Singing. Bwti I'N-ins. MiehaH Jonrph A storv of South Africa .tnd itf xht relations between the while coloured people A Book rtj recommendation I Married A Dead Man. William Ir >h. Hutclunson nt:\el of a penmles* girl wbe the identity posrion and famlta <-f
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    QUICK LOOKS
    106 2 Fir>t View. Stories of Children. Selected, with a foreword by G F. Green FabtT' .4 chUd't-egt i itm o/ th€ iK.rld. illustrated by 13 ries. many of them excellent Story- ide Lmwrence Joyce, Foster, de la Mint. Graham Gre< and Dylan Thomas. F i»t Wind Over Prague. t>y
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    When Beer Bought Votes
    417 2  -  J.W. TAYLOR B> f pHE Election result was by no means the closest m history. Lord John Russel's victorious Liberal Government of 1847 ten years after Dickens wrote of the Eatanswill election m Pickwick Papers, when votes were still bought with beer and bribes— won against
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    A LAWRENCE REVIVAL
    263 2 A LAWRENCE REVIVAL FGHGF JUST twenty years ago. D. H. Lawrence died of tuberculosis m the South of France. Now we are threatened with a determined Lawrence revival. to be launched by an important biography by Richard Aldington, his friend For my N&dfttftftl I have not ?ba§CO one of those
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    WHAT'S ON IN S'PORE
    75 2 THF British Council publish a brochure < i Uining nlng cultural ev< Siiv Organise! hibitions, lectures di lu-s or the like should form ih<> British Coi their future ph. The first issue ol Mils brochure will contain n< ol eventg m April. Details Inclusion m it
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    A Rival is 'Removed'
    171 2  -  JOHN FISHER MURDER— BY ICE AXE AIURDER ofl the De**vsert of the Lions road the chief victim protected b y 10 day and ni£h.t guards the murder done with ice-axe sewn into the lining of a rain roat and it all happened m Mexico. How's that
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      28 2 £f Mis i Lilian Ang Kirn Lee will sing f Scottish songs and Mrs. Lee Choon V^ IT Guan M.B.E. will present the prizes. Qwr^&M&y SIM^.uARBY c C%.Ltbl
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      358 2 F.P. Crossword No. 945 Twitriiffl^ii p^-^b I CLUBi \< Ross 2 The up and downs of fairground business? FlO); 7 Colour and cryl (3t; 8 Orchestral Office? fg); m Dp to the time iS 11 The liiLdels hen- ttrst (7); 12 Evil woman with utgelic attributes? ii\\ 15 He might
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    WITH JUNGLE TROOPS IN F.I.C.
    363 3 WITH JUNGLE TROOPS IN F.I.C. Swamp, heat m green hell WITH THE FRENCH FORCES IN THE MEKONG RIVER DELTA, Indo-China THIS battle m the Mekong River delta is the South Pacific War all over again with the same equipment, same heat and the same green hell. The writer accompanied French
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    Women draw a waist line
    48 3 NEW YORK. Thursday N m Pans have received notice that i women have drawn the line on fashion kI hd\e drawn it at the waistline. md his colleagues, who started been told m effei res in a da f!apIien e bei klace U.P.
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    NEW DEPARTMENT
    27 3 The H: n Office has s-'t up .1 new "Western Orgai Dej rtn nt to handle the various alliances and groupings of Western pow» Reuter
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    'Independence, then peace'
    34 3 'Independence, then peace' iON Wed. I Qf. said m > become a Ltae rebels. i 1 stop v.ade this r slven 1 Mr Robert I -rlcan nam. *urn to nited Swes for ;ion effort, he
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    NO AGREEMENT ON RED CHINA
    43 3 by the Brlv'.rh na>gi:ition of -i was not jf '"raryng Brr.ish Goveinsaid on I Sate. Mr. d m a writ- '> a question from Member of the Comid other friendly kept fully m"- every stage of the A. P.
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    BURMA LOAN THIS WEEK
    38 3 BURMA LOAN THIS WEEK Commonwealth I a loan of Burma this urces ..Aid The loan will be 3 and will help balance their the pro- xport of rice. kfl said, will con-I-idla he H'li .--ipi. nv Yd,:: U.P.
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    32 3 fdfdfdgf Prince Kirhard, 5-year-old son of the Duke and Duchess of (.loucester, straddles his pony, Sambo, during a riding IcSMfl in Rotten Row. the famous sandy stretch in London's Hyde Park R.P.
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    Jessup says Bao Dai is best bet
    106 3 Jessup says Bao Dai is best bet PARIS, Wed. THE U.S. Roving Ambassador. Dr. Philip Jessup. said yesterday that the Frenchbacked Bao Dal regime m i Vietnam is the "surest means lof enabling the people of i Indo-China to make the be^t of the opportunity the French i have given
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    RED BILL FAILS
    29 3 The French Parliament has turned down, 419 to 179. a Communist-bucked proposal to hold up approval of f he aid part with th<» United States, A.P.
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    GUSSIE PLANS NEW SENSATION
    167 3 LONDON, Thursday. pERTRI'DE -Gorgeous Gussie" Moran, whose lace panties caused a sensation at Wimbledon last year will wear something "even more shattering" at this year's tournament, the British designer, Mr. Teddy Tinling has promised. •Wimbledon has seen nothing until Gorgeous Gussie steps on to the centre
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    SERVICE EXPANDED
    29 3 The Japan- Formosa International Telephone Service, which presently operates oetween Tofcio ard Taipei was extended I llls betwft*n Talpeh -n-J lKo hwa Kvnin. Osaka and Kobe. Reuter
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    Bridge Hands
    300 3 r pHIS is the *ctuaJ. ai'hou^h r from the recommended bidding of this deal as it u«s played m a sectional bridge championship m England North's tveo diamond overcall on so weak a hand courted disas'er. but what happened was merely that South failed by one trick to
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    S'hai Reds blamed for Nat. air raids
    173 3 TAIPEI. Thursday. INDEPENDENT foreign reports from Shanghai say Nationalist air raids there have had somewhat a curious effect of stirring up resentment against the Chinese Reds instead of against Chiang Kai-shek. These reports, which were received by foreign business concerns from their Shanghai
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    WARNERS' PROFIT
    30 3 Warner Brothers Pictures Inc.. and subsidiaries havr reported a net proHt of U553,189,000 equal to 43 cents a share, for the three months ended November 1949- A. P.
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    CHINESE LEARNING FAST
    95 3 CHINESE LEARNING FAST MOSCOW, Thuis. VfISS Z. Troltskaya, DirecJll tor-General of Freight Transport, has reported how the Chinese people are learning Russian Miss Troitskaya has returned to Moscow after a visit to China and has written some of her impressions for Trud.' "At all trre stations 01 way to Nanking,'
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    N. Aust. to be photographed
    43 3 N. Aust. to be photographed 'J'HE RAAF will begin photographing from In more than 1.000,000 squa: miles of northern Australia. The survey will take thre^ months It will bo part defence purposes, but wi! I also assis* the d^vrlot/ lof the Northern T»
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    55 3 photo. British troops occupied the former Hermann doerm* steel works at WatenstedtSaiigittcr. near Burnswick. Germany, after violent demonstrations by German workers who opposed the dismantling: programme. Top picture shows a British light armoured car moving into the works. At left, a British machine-gunner covers his comrades as they begin comb-oat
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    Subs under Arctic ice
    209 3 WASHINGTON. Thursday THE British explorer. Sir Hubert Wiikins. prcdicU that huge submarines would nose their way under the Arctic Ocean ice cap to attack Russia m case of war. Sir Hubert, now a United States army advise: Alaska, said submarines of the size of aircraft-car-riers "could
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    TIN-PLATE FOR NORTH CHINA
    18 3 TIN-PLATE FOR NORTH CHINA YOB Japan ha» tft by the Ch pany ariri Tienl na. Jmpai 0 Reuter
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    Refloated ships for Red Fleet
    64 3 BKKI.IN \\,d THE Russian., are huildirif up their na\al str.-n^th "hv attempting to refloat evrrv ship that wis r\rr *unk.' according t<» tuthon!.iti\. K.txtrrn fump^an sour< Ihf Rtivsiiiiv Air said la carry naval salvage <ampaifin m Mrta m jh» n,, x i zom «it rman>
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    'No social need'
    62 3 I\I.< I.ARING that jockey dubs in Argentina fulfil mo social need." Deputy Jose Lmilio Vise* has asked for legislation to turn such clubi into rr*i homes for transients. Mr. Visca said that jockey ilut.. j e two-thinl* of the money they take in from racetrack* to maintain
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      346 3 Br (BBC*- 4.55 "Composer of the Variety Billboard: 11.30 News SINGAPORE Week;;-Denus 5.15 -Sterling BuletiQ 4 Q |W| Mimi/j»»Ki Value' (BBC); 5.30 Having a (BLI t NfcIWURJVJ Wooderful Crime'— 3 'Fishy Busi- Orchestra; 4.30 News Bulletin. 454 and 41.7 metres. ness'; 6.00 Indonesian: News and 4.40 Services Concert Hall: 5
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Mar. 16, 1950. ACHESON CLEARS THE AIR
    563 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Mar. 16, 1950. ACHESON CLEARS THE AIR CHOUGH the speech Mr. Dr. til Acheson. the United ary of State. In San I 160 last on United Sta" poUc3 utli Alia *.< Lned intle he has aid t• It was import, btr two things He j
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    Road Of Death In Indo-China
    1009 4 G. WARD PRICE visits another "Frontier of Fear" DONG DANG: WHERE the mountains prolonging the Himalayas vun down to the Gulf of Tonkin there is a place marked on bfc-SCale maps as the ''Gate of China." It has added another to that series of "Frontiers
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    SA-rong -or Sar-ONG?
    110 4 Letter to the Editor ourei.y Hall Romneyl O (London Letter, March 13) is m error when he w^ the BBC I pronunciation of 'sarong." Saroria is n o doubt a Malay word and no doubt should be accented on the first syllable; sarong without; the italics. however,
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    BERLIN'S FIGHTING MAYOR
    425 4  - BERLIN'S FIGHTING MA YOR John Pleacos By DEMOCRATIC Germans of W c s t Hcrl i ii do not propose waiting for the West to light for them. They will coun-ter-attack their Communist neighbours of Knsl Berlin, demanding nothing less than a completely independenl city, if need be, under United
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    It Seems To Me....
    780 4  -  POLITICO By a JOHORE planter was speaking his mind. "We people are sick and tired of this banditry", he said. "If it does not end soon, the whole economy of the country may go to pot. And the b— s are Just as active now as
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    Britain Leads In Whale War
    174 4 Britain Leads In Whale War Beeta Of mx nations are Oghtinf a silent -cold war" m the Antarctic, and for five of them Ith Africa. Norway Rus>i.i. Holland and Japan the watchword is follow ;)v R«'d Ensign." British whalers havr pained such a reputation for success m capturing the most
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    HIS JOB TO MAKE RAIN
    58 4 HIS JOB TO MAKE RAIN Ed by c. m thdropped lexposed pla And wl > cate<j to do? Th» mak<*r i imol Of ed Indiai t wii chen ns Bu: hurg' Dalntd wini Labo: n Dr i for n into iOOO' chen.. brouu phenorr.' prov. U in r. reac I
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    U.K. TRAINING FOR ASIAN POLICE
    374 5 U.K. TRAINING FOR ASIAN POLICE FourASP 's may go this year Free Press Staff Reporter pOUR Asian officers of the Singapore Police Force will be sent to the United Kingdom m July this year if a scheme to train Colonial Police officers m British police work materialises. The training plan,
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    Geylang will get play field
    37 5 Geylang will get play field 1 Pr Stafl Reporter Geylang, en m need Id will get tor them I fMr Progressive s for iudes il comLbc Imas a the I ronga lioners urged the round given uip-
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    NEW CLINIC FOR SATA
    11 5 NEW CLINIC FOR SATA in St. ■.vould ed enti vf pn.eni
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    NEW MOON DAY
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    RESCUED, GAOLED
    172 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ASAMPANMAN who was rescued from ihe sea after his boat capsized was yesterday sentenced m the Court to two months" rigorous imprisonment. H^ was 32-year-old Ngor Ah Tow. who was found guilty of attempted theu of two bags of scrap rubber from a ship
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    TIN IMPORTS
    63 5 IMPORTS of tin-ore into I 1 Malaya last month dropped to 698 tons from 1.048 tons n j January, according to official statist:* In January last year Ni iym*i tin me imports amounted to 407 tons and m F^b- 353 tons. I is) month's tin ore UnI iiifiuded
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    TAXIMETERS WILL BE COMPULSORY
    172 5 T M)EK by-laws which will come up fo r confirmation by the full body of Singapore Municipal Commissioners at the end of this month, taxis will not be licensed after June 30 next unless the y are fitted with taximeters which must he sealed and maintained
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    CARRIER FOR FAR EAST
    76 5 THE light lleet aircraft carrier Ocean will leave her nome port of Devonport about Apr. 16 for her third trooping trip to the Far East m less than a year. She will make a round trip to Mediterranean ports. Singapore. Hong Kong and Japan with stores
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    ST. PATRICK'S DAY
    42 5 Members of the Singapore St. Patrick's Society are informed that owinjr to unforeseen circumstances, tomorrow's celebrations will take the form of a buffetcimnrr dnnr-p at the V'^or j n M< irlnl W«l| fiuiu 8.30 p.m. to 1 30 a.ai.
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    20 5 AIRMEN of R.A.F. Chang! photographed yesterday after thrv had visited the Free Press to see how a newspaper is produced.
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    Robot arithmetic for S.M.C.
    133 5 Robot arithmetic for S.M.C. Free Press Staff Reporter ■PHE Finance Committee of Singapore Municipal Commissioners has approved further mechanisation of the Municipal Treasurer's Department at a cost of 52d,000. This decision, due for confirmation at the meetmo of the full Board of Municipal Commissioners on Mar 31. will enable the
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    STATUS REDUCED: OFFICER QUITS
    431 5 Free Press Staff Reporter PHE Singapore Municipal Welfare Officer, Mr. A. V 1 Benjafield, has resigned his post. He says that his status as an independent officer m the Municipality has been reduced, contrary to the understanding on which he joined the service. His resignation, which
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    CAMPAIGN TO HELP CHINESE MOTHERS
    159 5 THE Singapore Family Planning Association is to launch a campaign among the Chinese community. A cinema slide has been prepared and arrangements are beine made to have it screened at all Chinese theatres m the Colony. The purpose of this slide is to popularise family
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    SCHOLARSHIP WINNER
    36 5 picture II7INNER of a Singapore Co-operators' Scholarship y» worth $100, Miss Pearl Williams, of Raffles Girls' School, photographed receiving a cheque from Mr. Andrew B. Pinto, secretary of the Co-onerators' Srhool.trship Fund.- Free Press
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    Houses for S.M.C. staff
    72 5 SINKAPORE Municipal ommissioners propose to build six two- bed roomed type bungalows at Braddell Road for the accommodation of senior officers. A committee of Commissioners has recommended the acceptance of the lowest tender for this job at $158,250. Connected expenditure for sanitary and electrical installations, and
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    Rice traders may ask for de-rationing
    442 5 Rice traders may ask for de-rationing Free Press Staff Reporter MALAYAN rice traders, says an informed Singapore source, are convinced that now is the time for the Governments of Singapore and the Federate n to de-ration rice and to restore the rice trade N private channels. They are expected to
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    Johore Malays build school
    96 5 I. P. M;ila\ «»rre-vponde,,t MALAYS m Kh:; Johore. havi own Malay school. At the 'opening ceretu Tuan Haji Ismail bin H chairman of 'he sch< advisory board, that tne building ol the school planned three years ago but was only completed recei y through the sup)
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    MAILS
    30 5 MA ILS 6url N Ireland y and Wei a: ii a Wi Egypt. Ceylon, tra „n d ttv noon for Terempa and Por I 4r> p rr. lor ;h I
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    UNIVERSITY GETS RECORD GIFT
    338 6 UNIVERSITY GETS RECORD GIFT Single donation of $300,000 Free Press Staff Reporter riFTS totalling $500,000 have been promised to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund by four leading Singapore Chinese businessmen. The new president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Tan Lark Sye, heads the list with $300,000, to
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    SIAM'S KING IN SINGAPORE NEXT WEEK
    113 6 THE Officer Administering the Government. Sir Patrick McKerron. will drive to locks on Monday morning to greet the 22-year-old King of Siam. Phumiphon Adultlet. when he arrives at Singapore m transit for Bangkok for ung and coronation. With the King will be his Dancee,
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    BUSMEN WIN APPEAL
    224 6 BUSMEN WIN APPEAL Free Press Staff Reporter •TiEN Singapore Traction Company bus conductors who had been sentenced to six weeks' rigorous imprisonment each on charges of criminal breach of trust of bus fares successfully appealed against the convictions m the Singapore Supreme Court ♦orday. The Chief Justice: Mt. Justice C
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    New faces in A.A. Command finals
    448 6  -  ARCHIE QUICK By 4 LONG road ended for National Servicemen ana A regular soldiers when the A.A. Command boxing championship finals were held at Shepherds Bush, London, on March 6. They had to fight their way through unit, regimental and group championships, ind the
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    Orliz signs for boul in S. Africa
    205 6 \I.\M LL Ortiz lias signed to defend hi?> world ban- tamvveight championship against Vie ToueH. South African and British Empire champion Johannesburg on .May 13. m a. telephone call from Hollywood yei Max Kaiitt-r, representative of the Jo; burg promoting body, said that
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    NET PRACTICE
    20 6 A cricket net has been reserved by the Singapore Cricket Club for the Non-Bend-ers Cricket Club every Thursriay
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    Brokers barely earn expenses
    326 6 Brokers barely earn expenses [London Stock Extha^j LOMlfiN Ih,,^ OTART of the new account brought no interest In the London stock Kehan** 1 1 day, says Reuters financial correspon changes m all sections were stead mi n market that was without definite trend The volume of business ren, roiln t
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    90-DAY TIN UP FURTHER
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    Spring Cup acceptors
    58 6 Spring Cup acceptors r be run o\ < mile. tvu> furlongs anu 170 yarri.^ Friday March 24. total 24 They arr Sterope »*t Rush Royal 95. Jtx k S Tsaokn 89. Yellow Irio! f S Gate 8 3 KilbWin 7 h ■pd T Parbleu 7 4 n II 7 1
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    Y.M.C.A. TENNIS
    30 6 I'he opening of the YM tennis championships was not i lie yesteraay owing to r*in Tlio vle.o are carried to today and all drawn up lies d forward.
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    BEST GALLOPS BY GRAND DAY & COURAGE
    642 7  - BEST GALLOPS BY GRAND DAY COURAGE ALLAN LEWIS This morning's track work By the tracks heavy after yesterday's rain, Grand Day did well to record the best time of the morning when he reeled off three furlongs m 39 4 5 seconds at Bukit Timah today. This horse is retaining
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    32 7 photo. MKDHI'RST the Chelsea goalkeeper, punches clear while harassed by' Downie (left) and Pearson (centre* of Manchester I'UL. during their sixth round F.A. cup tie on March S. Chelsea won 2 o.
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    C.A. win, but must improve
    432 7  -  CRUSADER By rtPNESE Ithtetk showed improved form m beating Indian Recreation Club two-nil yesterday, but thrv must pla\ much better if they s*re to retain the v \y Nfinor League championship. vcmkneai yesterday was m the halfre Tian Chye alone played up to William Tan.
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    Ban appeals says umpire
    59 7 F English impire. who t he had natch m lr of 1948, he would o banned exr a >eason. t to Central Ur a gu< > t f aid: I would -xprnmpntal U cricket adges of •*:ng *id« umpirw a te duct book s all I
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    Choong to defend French title
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    OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE HOLD TRIALS
    203 7 OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE HOLD TRIALS y HE Oxford and Cambridge University crews yesterday held full-course trials in preparation for the boat race on April 1, but there was little scope for comparison as they were held in reverse directions and in varying conditions. Cambridge, rowing ihe orthodox course from Putney
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    U.K. RUGBY RESULTS
    67 7 VKSTERDAYS U.K. Rugby union results were: North Midlands 8. Army 8; N«TJ Engineering College 3. Plymouth Albion 6: Edinburgh Academical! S. Oxford Univ. 0; raf. ii civil Deivtoc S; Ab*rtillery 3. Neath 3. Bradford Northern beal St. Helens by 11 points to nil m their third-round replay
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    SINGLE GOAL DECIDES
    87 7 THE Chaiest Sports fc»oclaUon rd a 1-0 victory over the Customs' Sports Club m a Junior A Group league soccer match a» ing Radium yesterday. Tan Eiit H<-n^ Bcortd »h< oni> m I" ;i e final of the rrst liiK m a Junior OTOUO B! game ..t
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    Brown Brocade impressive
    363 7 BROWN hrocade (Jones), a recent importation, created a good impression by the manner m which he spurted two furlongs In 27 seconds on the training track this morning. Your Lordship finished m front of Noble Light and Rio Grande at the end of 3 f. m 41
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    Army-Navy & S'pore teams
    88 7 Army-Navy S'pore teams TEAMS fOf Sunday.- Chappy memorial soccer •mutch between Singapore and 'Army-Navy, to be played at Jalan Besa; Stadium, are: Singapore: Chu Chee Seng: Kai Sow Salleh: Morton. Haritli <capt.». Hee Jong; Sharif Madon, Awanu Bakar, Inglifl Boon Leong. Soon Tood Reserves: Khamis Bedoi Vas.s and Boon Seong.
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    LATEST BETTING FOR SPRING DOUBLE
    199 7 BACKING lor Charlie •tts mount. Ba. Park featured the callover on the Uncolnshire Handicap a! the Victoria Club. London Park, who drifted to 40-1 before Eiiiott was engaged shortened six points from his last quotation and Is now fifth favourite 61 100-7. prices for DiHiiuaic,
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    Boy Brooks is in terrific form
    346 7 ***** EN Boy Brooks said alter liis arrival from Manila yesterday that he was "m wonderful condition," he really meant what he said, for he proved his statement beyond doubt during his workouts at the Happy World stadium last evening. Judging Brooks' form at
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    MANCHESTER UNITED DROP VITAL POINT
    160 7 VfANCIIESTER UNITED, the English Football League Div. 1 leaders, were yesterday held to a scoreless draw at home by Liverpool m a match for vital championship points. The point they gained brought Liverpool into clear second position with 41 points, four behind Manchester United and
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    5 more wickets for Iverson
    89 7 JACK Iverson. Victoria* star leg-break bowler, brought his tally of wickets for the Australian team m New Zealand to 50 yesterday when the touring team beat Southland by an inningr and 37 runs at Invercargill. He claimed five Southland second-innings wickKs for 14 runs to
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    Promoter's licence for Mills
    51 7 CREDDIE MILLS. former w«rld. British. E-iropean and Empire lighthehw champion, has been granted .t managers licence by the British Boxing Board of Control Mills quit fighting after the American Joey Maxim took his world title from hi:i. at Earl's Court. London, on Jar». 24 Reuter A
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    UK flat-racing season opens
    137 7 I^HE t-ight-month flat -racing .^asnn "p^i Lincoln today Ti Dig race, the Lincolnshire Hii: cap will be run on Satur Forty-thre** riorses ire 4 tered for the one-mile 1 1 which carries on pu^e I about £2.500. Gordon Richards starting h» 2»th year as a jockey.
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    INTER-SCHOOL SOCCER
    62 7 INTER-SCHOOL SOCCER JOHORE English College ML XI beat St Andrews School's first team by two goals to nil m a thrilling soccer match at Woodsville yesterday. The two schools" second teams played a «coreles* dratß St Anthony's Boys" School 'A" team beat Choon Ouan English School by two goals to
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    CEYLON TEAM IN KARACHI
    25 7 THE Cf-yion eriCfcH team of 16 men arrived m Karachi by plane last ninh: t<»r their month's tour of W« Pakistan
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    SOLD TO INDIA
    22 7 >TAN DUSKIN a id flllv by Winter out of Norma. has left 1 riourn. Wiltshire, for shipment to India
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    BIRTHS
    31 8 G \SCOIGNE on 14th March to J wife of C E. Gascotgne. a .ter. PAPE To Dorothy, wife of G R P*pe. on March 15. at Penang. 'uighter. Julia Frances.
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    ENGAGEMENTS
    99 8 THE ENGAGEMENT was ann i-inced on the 25rh Feb. "50. ben Miss Barbara Tan Kirn Cbwae, the youngest daughter of Mida:n Chew Gek Neo and the 1 Mr. Tan Ang Hock and Mr •JV'ddy Chan Tian Hock, the second «on of Madam yYoon Ngan Fong ani the late Mr.
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    MARRIAGE
    19 8 HAMILTON De BOISSEZON. A rrinity College Chapel, Singapore. 14fh March. 1950, Frank Himikon to Nancy Rosalie De ■zor.
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    2 U.S. soldiers acted for Reds
    72 8 2 U .S. soldiers acted for Reds TWO American soldi-rs. acrused of acting as agents for a Soviet kidnapping ring i m Austria, pleaded innocent yesterday before a U.S. court i martial m Salzburg. They were allegedly hired for US$25O to abduct Oswald Eder from his home m the British
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    Talks with King
    27 8 The Belgian Premier, M. Gaston Eyskens, m Geneva said yesterday that more Belgian statesmen would Join the secret negotiations with King Leopold today. A.P.
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    TOWARDS A BETTER LIFE ACHESON
    364 8 'Asian goals are ours, too SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday. Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary for State, said yesterday that the Asian peoples have t or several decades "been striving for independence, better education, more widespread ownership of the land and control over their own destiny/ And, he
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    46 8 photo Harry A. Burdette, 26. sentenced to die on April 14 for murder, is here seen being baptised at an open-air service He was immersed m the frigid waters of Sugar Creek, near Charleston, West Virginia, by padres of the Free Salvationist Baplist Church A. P.
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    RADIO 'WAR' GROWS
    126 8 RADIO 'WAR' GROWS TEHERAN. Thursday ANEW nation-wide network of 23 Persian radio transmitters inducting seven near \hr Soviet border -came into operation today, it is slated here, to enable Persia to counter Russian attempts to iam her broadcasts. The secret Azerbaijan radio, iiler.r rinci Mat I, has opened up again
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    INDIA PRESSES GOA RETURE
    58 8 I^HE Indian Government hfti handed a note to the Portuguese Government m renrd to the future of the P<>r- tuguese colony of Gua on I west coast of India. The contents of the n not revealed but Fund.' Nehru and other Indian otti rial.^ havp repeatedly
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    U.S. FLEET IN I.C.
    19 8 Warships and carrier planes of the U.S. Seventh Fleet are to visit Indo-China today A.P.
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    BURMESE EDITORS HIT PRESS LAW
    51 8 BURMESE EDITORS HIT PRESS LAW Burmese editors have expressed frank disapproval of the government's emergency laws providing for the closing down of newspapers and the arrest of editors. They told the Prime Minster, xMr. Thakln Nu, to his face that this kind of thing is not done In democratic countries.
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    13 8 A treaty of friendship has been signed between Iran and India. A. P.
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    China Reds to get H.K. equipment
    235 8 HONG K()N(;, Thursday. DKPOBTS that the Canadian freighter Argoyan is leaving San Padro (Cal.) today with 75 former U.S. Army tanks for Formosa coincided with disclosure here that a British freighter had left Hong Kong yesterday with nearly 6,000 cases of vital aircraft equipment
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    'TRUCULENT' IS BEACHED
    49 8 pUMPING operations to clear the hull of the submarine Truculent were postponed yesterday until the ship can be lifted higher on the sandbank on which she has been beached. The postponement was caused by damage to the gear of ont of the two lifting vessels- A.P.
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    FORMOSA ROUND-UP
    19 8 The Nationalists have arrested 300 Red suspects m Formosa, Including several Government and Defence Ministry employees. A.P.
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    No U.K. probe into H.K. plane decision
    147 8 LONDON, Thursday. I'HE British Government yesterday rejected a proposal m the House of Commons to send a commission to Hong Kong to probe the handing over of 71 former Chinese Nationalist aircraft to the Chinese Communists Ail Commodore Arthur Harvey, Conservative, iiit^-d tnis
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    Jap postcard offensive
    63 8 TOKIO. I Jims rut Japanese Prime I Minister, Mr. Shigeru now staying at his rountry villa 50 miles from Tokio. is receiving mail sacks full of postcards, but it is not fan mail. Teachers, railway workers, and Government employees daily shower the Premier with about I.bOO postcards
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    WOMAN SPY HELD BY SIAMESE
    33 8 WOMAN SPY HELD BY SIAMESE Siam'.s Security Police chief said yesterday that the woman arrested m November m Northern Siam was an agent for Indo-China authorities seeking Siamese military and police information. A.P.
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    Quit U.S. call to Chinese
    65 8 THE Communist IVkin* Radio said yesterday that a Chinese professor, Hua Lo-keng. just returned after three-year lecture tour of America, has urged ail Chinese students there to return and "help build the new China." Hua reiterated th« thesis of the Red leader. Mao Tse-tung, that
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    CHINA MAIL
    27 8 Britain announced yesterday the resumption of maii service for printed papers, i commercial papers, and' samples sent to all provinces of China, including Manchuria. A.P.
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    U.K. SEEKS NO U.S. $ GUARANTEE
    125 8 U.K. SEEKS NO U.S. GUARANTEE LONDON, Tnuis A BRITISH Treasury offlca y.-st'-rday described a: nonsense' reports from Washington that Britain ha: asked the United States U guararUee her against goic and dollar losses resultinf from British participation ir the projected European Pay ments Union. It is well known that Bri
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    N.Y. STOCKS AT NEW HIGH
    59 8 NEW York Sux-k Exchangi operators yesterday extended tt and by midday gains 'if to US»I were general. Durliif the afternoon numerous Issues rerrrded new hlchs for the with gains of up to ntariv 12 The market closed firm with industrial utility aveiaces the hinhe>: thi*
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    SIAM DRIVES OFF CHINA TROOPS
    153 8 SI AM DRIVES OFF CHINA TROOPS SAIGON. Thursday. ANE THOUSAND Chinese Nationalist armed otra^glers who crossed into Burma tried to enter Siam and then crossed into Indo-China are now looking for somebody to surrender to, it is reported here. The stragglers belonging to the Nationalist 93rd Division crossed into Burma
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    'No reason to recognise Mao'
    31 8 The Australian Minister ol External Affairs. Mr. Pen-y Spender, told the House of Representatives yesterday that the Government saw pa reason to recoenize Communist China. U.P.
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    ZINC PRICE UP
    27 8 The British Ministry of SuDply has announced an Increase from £85 10s. to £87 10s. m the price of good zinc delivered. A. P.
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