The Singapore Free Press, 23 March 1950

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA j( SINGAPORE, THURSDAY. MARCH 23, 1950. PRICE ITN (>NIS.
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  • 259 1 Preparation for Canberra LONDON, Thursday. pLANS for the economic defence of SouthEast Asia will be discussed at a special full meeting of the British Cabinet before Easter, say official quarters in London. Departmental briefs have Ikc-m prepared by the Foreign Office and the Treasury
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  • 27 1 I Labour.. yes- done g T.^nbr'as. M I 8 Mr. i e pira- j i ith known except K i ?viI ac- Reuter
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  • 14 1 b»'tw^en China and »">i\.shment of us have was irn»»d tn
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  • 49 1 Dr. Peter Llndstrom was expected to file a suit for divorce from Miss Ingrld Bergman In Holiyrvood yesterday or today. Dr. Lindstrom will seek to retain custody of their daughter, Pia, 12. and will ask for an equitable distribution" of property valued at U*****,000.— A.P.
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    59 1 .Men of the Suffolk Regiment standing by yesterday for a call to go into action against the bandits in a .squatter area four miles from Kuala Lumpur The smoke is rising from the blukar set afire by a flamethrower One Chinese bandit, a Chinese women communist, and a 10-year-old boy
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  • 56 1 'GRABBING MY LAND KHAMA LONDON, Thursday. /AXFORD-EDUCATED Seretse Khama, exiled chief tain of the Bamanjjwato tribe, last night accused the British Government of wanting to get rid of him and his uncle Tshekedi, the former Regent, so that it could resort to direct rule of his territory in Bechuanaland. gksgaswg
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  • 83 1 JAKARTA. Thurs. THE Government of the United States of Indonesia will aid Indonesian importers with loans and will reserve part of the trade for them exclusively, an oilicial announcement of a new twopoint programme said yesterday. The measure will enable Indonesians to hold their own
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  • 21 1 A 55-year-CKd Russian -bom pianist of Greek nationality 1 has -disaDpear^d" in Prague after a visit to the police
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  • 247 1 LONDON, Thursday. rHE Secretary for Colonies. Mr. James Griffiths, x yesterday told the House of Commons that the bandit forces in Malaya were composed of three groups— \he regulars, the part-timers and the week-enders. He said. 'It appears that there are a certain number of
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  • 144 1 CAN'BERRA. Thurs. THE Australian Prime Minister. Mr. R. G Men- zies. vesterday denied that the Australian Government would refuse military aid to Malaya if oiticially reijupsted Mr. Menzies made thu denial in the Houac of Itipmn itmi yesterday when Mr. W. S. Kent Hughes (Liberal),
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  • 66 1 Free Prsvis Staff Reporter AN arson gang of eight to ten well-dressed armed Chinese raided Mawai Estate in the Kota Tinggi district last night and burnt down the Indian mandores house and two sets of coolie lines. Damage is estimated at $7,500. After forcing the labourers
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  • 52 1 jj)j«>d.»H JJ«JS ss^JJ wij POLICE found two telephone wires cut at thp Second Mile. Yong Peng-Paloh Road, at 11 o'clock last night. An unknown number of bandits burned down two empty shop houses on the Chinese-owned Yew reek Nam Estate in the same area. Damage is estimated
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  • 69 1 A BRITISH EMBASSY official sent to a Warsaw firm of printers a draft for invitation cards to a sendoff party for Ambassador Sir Donald Gainer. The draft wa s returned with the printers rejjrets He said it did not bear the official censorship stamp. The State
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  • 20 1 Free Pres* Staff R*»p«rter A jungle squad yesterday arrested a bandit suspect in the Bukit Kepong area, Muar.
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  • 24 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Arrests under the Emergency Regulations in Johore tor the week-ending Mar. 22, totalled 51 Chinese and one Indian.
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  • 111 1 WHEN PETROL RATIONING MAY RETURN LONDON. Thurs. THE Secretary for Colonies. Mr. James Griffiths, when questioned in the House of Commons yesterday about the abolition of petrol rationing in Malaya, was asked what additional dollar expenditure or loss of dollars was involved. M- Griffiths replied that the Malayan Governments opinion
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  • 53 1 U.S. urged to aid children WASHINGTON. Thurs. I^HE House of Representa- tives yesterday urged President Truman to use U.S. influence to effect a return, to their homeland of thousands of Greek children, reported to have been kidnapped by Communist guerillas. The children are believed to be held In Russian satel-
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  • 340 1 'Firing saved my life'— Dato Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRI Wednesday. ryVTO Wong Shee Fun, who was assaulted when he visited the Majedee Detention Camp o n Jan. 14, told a Police Court today that he would have been killed had the guards not used their arms. The court
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  • 98 1 BRITAIN doe s not favour a direct approach to Stalin on atomic energy because she dors not think it would be a success, the Foreign Secretary, r Ernest Bevin. told Parliament in London yesterday "We think it would land us in difficulties and we prefer to adhere
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  • 92 1 CANBERRA. Thurs AUSTRKLIA'S Minister lor A External Affairs. Mr. P. C Spender, should tell Dr. Soekarno. the Indonesian President, and others that no nation except the Dutch had any claim to Dutch New Guinea. Mr. Arthur Calwell (Labour) declared in Parliament last night.
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  • 66 1 LONDON, Thurs. MR. Arthur Homer, the miners' leader and one of Britain's most prominent Communists, was turned down yesterday for a seat on the General Council of the powerful Trades Union Congress. The National Union of Mine Workers, of which he is General Secretary, put him forward
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  • 38 1 Free Pres Staff Reporter The Police and Singapore Royal Artillery screened 100 people in the Rengam area yesterday and detained three men for identity card offences. A man who had no identity card was also detained.
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  • 31 1 Free Pr^Ss Staff Reporter Ten bandits in various uniforms robbed a number of people in a kongsi of their identity cards in the Segamat area last night. y
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  • 142 1 LONDON. Thurs. BRITAIN is experimentn? with new types of torpedoes which will "nose out" enemy submarines, set their own course and finally Ktri 's m mentary debate on th< tlmates last n'eht Mr. James CalU^han. Parliarrw-v--tary Secretary to the miralty. said th^s-* n v pedoes."
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  • 53 1 DETROIT iterday clo6-d a bovine v here abou*. 50 peiso. made unconscious by ca: noxide ftuneg on Ta« night. Thirty-three of the I most of them fOUOf re taken to hospil Die remained for fu r treatment. Fumes came a damaged air vent pi] 1 the
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  • 27 1 The So:ia district court has ■entenced members 'an illegal espionaee T: group" to terms of impn> mcnt ranging from eight years to life.- A. P.
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  • 21 1 The U.S. Secretary of v Mr. Dean Acheron, may London in May to dl strengthening Atlantic defences Reuter
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  • 662 2  - Testament of a Brave Man PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books in l/.K. THAT pain strengtn- ens and suffering inoblefl were two in.ich -beloved theories i ur Victorian ancest >ra who. having systematic and neatly aimecl minds, believed That every common h i man experience must I tssesa somt definite use
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  • 129 2 Maria Kdjjeworth. by I>abel C. Clarke (Hutchinson. 18s. Richly informative bi< phy of the gifted, sympathetic, and enterprising woman who. besides taking a prominent place among wen novtHsti of the eurly I9'h century "Cattle Rack-rent" still cues a vivid impression of Insh feudal landlordism became, uith her father's
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  • 518 2 I \Kr U I I I INM»(|\('E. William Cilynne-.lt»nr*. Wrrner Laurie. The BtOTJ o! a young and |tn :.er •s him leave S4-hool to en'rr a steel foundrv. and of his r ve ;c tsc.tpe from :his cmdo I.OYU.\ I.AD\. Mark Cor-|--•in Werner Laurie. The trot: when •e
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  • 379 2 'pHE tint part of the I Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 19jO will be pub- d on Monday It is a mlsceUaneoui number containing six papers bv five authors. These include a further section of Data Sir Roland Braddell's Notes
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  • 507 2  - EVEN A CRITIC CAN ENJOY THESE ROBERT OTTAWAY [indium THIS has been a salutorv week for the critical jaundice that has been creeping up on me. There have been four fine books. Pride of place goes to T. S. Eliot, our finest poet, who has been |rj U.K. so lone
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  • 317 2  -  HALLROMNEY REVIEW H 4 i 00 K I THE PIDDINGTONS The Piddingtnny bj Russell Braddon 'UVrnrr Laurie. Ss. (id). IN a manner ul speak ins, Malaya proci the Piddiimtons. Had it. not been lor the war in Malay* and tht h that a young Australian
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  • 19 2 Tj J i .1 MMtB l "Uipanuu. Newl j Br 1% 1 M> Turn M
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    • 30 2 ,--y "Ai WBr T. i iU.<t dinner-date-, an AaseHcaa three-quarter lrock In fine Mack lac« shot Mr- k»-r t.tlru .»r tailored >lipp« i BWSSB. hvfc MAYNAftD UuiLDIWC? 11, •ATTCRV ROAD.
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    • 39 2 Solution To Crossword No. 2 Across "i Hammered. 7. Urals. 8. Cover 8 Cake candies 10. Muslard ieed. 13. Octet. 14 Moths. 15. Parental Down: 2. Alack. 3. Music m^Ater 4 Racm« dem^n. S. Devil (i. Pic!4Cei-a. Uncommon. 11.
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    • 231 2 New Crossword No. 3 H LwiwW LswswJ i A( ROSS 1. Prints made with an axe? 181. 6. Definition of bread r 2. 4). 8. Moral element in a discreet hiccup (5). 9. Finish perpen- dicultir t3. 2». 10. Games reverse of famous violin (5). 12. O raau invader (ft).
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    • 227 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR gORN today, you are but you must cultivate highly intuitive but (h m v are inclined to scoff at Mn lou P r ha *>'> are this power and try to work more of the executive out everything by analy- than the worker. Phonal sis. This often
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  • 384 3 Business, daily life hard hit THF pntir HONG KONG. Thursday. I 5 000 ooi L f ln n(1 livin routine of 0.000.000 people of Shanghai is undergoing a transformation which has no previous parallel—not even during the most hectic days of the Japanese occupation during the
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  • 63 3 i d. 300 000 re than I the be I 000,000 d i m en by the t -r ol the ion*, hey 1349 mritlitd v unable vorid. th." 1 i i thits oe kepi K port- I ai e ..'raid heir addfd
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    57 3 llaggCfeti bleeding from the wreckage of I ftirliaer, which crashed near Cardiff with the \\A\ enough to be photographed the SI \than RAF Hospitil The two sunri-thtr^in-liu Handel Rogers. 35, and Gwyn I n ll v. Carmarthenshire Mr Rogers is r and grocer: Mr Anthony is a school- Hands, near
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  • 135 3 Sex of unborn is no mystery to her TOKIO, Thursday. >i< IIN(. the sex of an unborn infant by the >l xul-vhot look in its mother's right or left eye m claimed method of scientific baby prog- -is nmicimr to Anako-san. a plump, ful Inkio midwife. the child is determined
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  • 96 3 LONDON. Wed. fPHL Chancellor of the Ex--1 chequer. Sir Stafford Cripps, was reported today to be preparing another ausicrity budget with a few concessions to labour unions and possible increases In already record hteh taxes. At the same time, Government sources said April 20 would probably be
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    40 3 Dainty Girl of Alhafstan, a Shetland sheep do£, refusing to let the cit out of the bag, maintains a dignified guard that keeps this unexpected visitor safely out of the proceedings at a dog show in St. Agnes Hall, Bristol.
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  • 29 3 30,000 TONS? -ONE DRUM se paper in ported that Chi•ad confiscated >f petrol from .ai. Asia Man'o confirm, said: rd we hid on' fft in Shanghai took that.- A.P.
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  • 109 3 SANTA MONICA. Calif Thurs. CNOOKY, an 18-year old tomcat, belonging to Mi T.eo Foldworth, was getting •jid Frequent colds marred his enjoyment of life. Mr. Feldworth built a special bed atop Snooky's favourite sleeping place, "the refrigerator. Whenever Snooky wants to nap which is most
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  • 73 3 LONDON Wed. THE average Londoner takes 42 minutes to to work. Of every 100 work'/is: Fllty-elght travel by bus. rail or underground rail.vay. 17 walk. 14 bicycle, four u^e cars and two go by "other means" Including motorbikes. Five work at home. London transport
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  • 71 3 SILK plant managers and, workers In Shanghai nave reached an agreement under which 50 per cent of the silk j workers there will be tetni.ched "but will be taken. bzck when improved supplies, of electric powr»i* permit expands production." The bdmbtns ot Shanghai j power
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  • 130 3 Last wrecks to be moved this year LONDON, Wed. UNITS of the Royal Navy wreck disposal fleet start this summer on the last stage of clearning Britain's coasts of sunken shipping. Twelve vessels will destroy what are left of wartime wrecks on or near the main shipping routes. Since wreck
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  • 33 3 Scores of Hying s.-iucers were reported by coastguards off the north Portugal coast. flying In nine and other formativins. The coastguards said they were moving west I "faster than tracer bullets."
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    352 3 rpHIS was one case where a ■boil suit le«d tA trip spide ei«ht would has> tmen dec^im-r his ninth trick, -o it was lost as well Wet opened nis fourth best diamond. North') ien h»-ld the luck, and declarer fine se 1 the club que-n whicn V. iwed
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  • 280 3 LONDON, Thursday. T<HE over-all outlook for natural rubber is now better than at any time since the end of the war, Mr. Edward Jago, deputy chairman of the British Rubber Development Board of London, said here. Steps for the development of new uses, increased production and
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  • 31 3 When Princess Elizabeth recently visited a Bristol cigarette factory she was presented with a cigarette album containing three sets of cards the Coronation. Warships and Royal Navy Lifr series.
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  • 265 3 LONDON, Thursday. EMPEROR William II of Germany— the Kaiser who launched, and lost, the first World War against Britain and her allies was. like Hitler, blind to outside world opinion until it was too late. Daisy, Princess of Pless, an English aristocrat who married
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  • 223 3 Hyderabad is being moulded to new role HYDERABAD, Thursday. yHE former princely state ot Hyderabad. vfcOM incorporation into the Indian I 'nion provided one of the most eventful chapters in the storv of India's absorption of the Native States, is today settling down to its new existence as federal state
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  • 86 3 LONDON. Wtd A RETIRED army officer Mr. J. H. Mint*, ot Lyr, wood Grove. Orpingron. h\F invented an electric gad^^t U, show whether all the ou the top of a double-d'<*ke.-bus are occupied or not Weary of climbtng th»stairs of a double decker ar. ri finding no
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  • 88 3 LONDON 1 BRITAIN is consider nj vhether b tory action again and other com place restrictions on movements ot British bassadors and their *'.afii> The Fu 1 Inder-Ser Mr. En a. suri >n »m a Parliamentary question' Br.': h OowtnUßfea I rioiu. view of tion in mat
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  • 66 3 RUSSIANS FIRE ON JAP BOATS patrol vessels hav» iO fired <>n lipMMir crab fishing botU off Ne<zi; <> Peninsula. Northern Hokh. Japanese pr* ss rrp<>: Official sources in Tokid they have not yet received tuch vev Two teadine n»>*sp.i^ police on Hakkaido reported fleet of five crab fishmi; t> the
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  • 71 3 OTIS McNelly has asked the Wenatchet Wash it»s to.i City Council to pass an ordinance reguirme th :t dogs be tied up during the growing season. This is his complaint: He uses bone meal for fertiliser in his flower gardi n. The dogs smell the bone
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  • 112 3 JAP BID FOR YET CHEAPER TEXTILES LONDON Japanese Industry ill J providing it ootnpetition to Bi goods, is trying U> cut by searching tar turn materials from cheaper sources, reports Air Vic --Marshal C. A. Bouchier. who has mst returned from a three-month tour of Japan on beha. the Federation
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  • 53 3 'Disqualify me for life' SYDNEY YOUNG .rack i begged a Central I >trate io cancel his driving The dn\< i J tin B was convicted of dmnkrti driving "It Is only vhM T have the licence tha; into trouble." he said The magistral* him froP" 1 holdinu a licence for
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    • 405 3 PTitoiin^nr (BBC); 4.55 Composer of 'he Lympanyi piano); 11.15 Variety SINGAPORE Week"— Dvorak'; 5.15 "Colonial /illboard; 11.30 News Bulletin. 4 (Commentary" (BBC); s.3o 'Music For Teatime New Li^nt (BLUfc. NKTWOKK) "Having a Wonderful Crime" 4 Symphony Orchestra; 4.30 News 484 and 41.7 metres. I 'Money in the Bank'; 6.00 Indone-
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  • 355 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Mar. 23, 1950. You Must Make It Real >7 that S Lei i C* uncil has voted ng the f elected membi i C >ur.e:l Iron; if t to be a point teri the i .to i hen rein D. suffrag i mbew lifted in
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  • 498 4  - Siam Will Mourn and Rejoice Milton Mar mor By BANGKOK: ALMOST lour years after ;i bullel in the head ended his illfated reign, Ihe l><>y King Ananda will be cremated and his remains placed alongside those of liis Royal Siamese ancestors. The occasion will be one of unusual Oriental ceremony
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    21 4 Tommy Farr. former British heavyweight champion. signs hit autoyravh for an admirer. He was on hU nay lo the Bankruptcy Court
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  • Letter To The Editor
    • 309 4 rHE Universities in all parts of the world have made valuable and notable contributions to the progress and welfare of their countries an f have invariably produced men who. as a result of their training have been able to examine national problems disinterestedly and from the
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  • 429 4  -  POLITICO By 'PHE great British public is in the midst of one of those bursts of interest in Malaya which conn- as quickly as they go. Mr. Jnhn Duggale and Mr. John Stracl ha said their little the newspapers are squeezing in messages from Kuala Lumpur
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  • 76 4  -  Fredric Cook By NEW YORK: r FHE strange case of the Two Women with the Wrong N. ality is baffling Am* Joan Ocile Marie Boiling von (ioet/ I beautiful, her blonde hair upswept. American and does not want to be. She pn Germany, wants to po
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  • 353 5 MYSTERY TENANCIES IN S .I.T. ESTATE No permission, says trustee Free Press Staff THE Singapore Improvement lrust has not granted any Trust land in Seng Poh Road (within the Tiong Bahru housing estate) to anyone for the purpose of a private market; nor has the Trust made any allocations of
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  • 422 5 press, public shut out f Press Stall Reporter .mm carried by 15 votes to eight, with ition, Singapore Municipal P— mills s1 rdai excluded the public and the Press neral committee debate on the apDiputv Water Engineer. the post were Mr. P. C. i er, whom the Establishnded
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  • 73 5 \KTKK i M\-h»Mir d«-l»atr hHd brhiud elowd dot>r> Singapore Munitipil f'ommiNsionerv \tN'»rd.i\ bj a larcf majorits appointed Mr K. S. fflcka Deputy Munuip.il W.iter Engineer in prefpreme to Mr P. I In lh- ommissioners soasht Um rlewa «f the retiring r i nsineei Mr. V
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  • 251 5 tlswg Singapore and Penang. i On her maiden voyage, her I saloon passengers of whom there are 15- are married cou nnected with the of Butterfleld Swire. k for the tion Co i' the ship. The Ankintj is the most bitioush to/dipped vi for
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  • 185 5 Free PKM Staff Reporter IN a campaign to cut bandit food supplies, a food survey of squatter areas in Se- gamat is being carried out. This survey was described by j the Johore Government yes- terdaJ as the n:ost valuable activity in the State's AntiBandit
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  • 136 5 Free Pres s Staff Reporter I^EN thousand booklet* lust rat in a Malaya*! ir.erce and indirstry will be shipped to the British bid tries Fair by the Dutch line* Willem Ruys on April 6 distribution In the United Kingdom The booklets which be<- n prepared by the
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  • 28 5 1 Id a m* at R.iffles Institution ba 5 p.m today. Rabbi Jacob SI H. B Moorhead and 6 Vamedanananda rill on "Religion in our lives."
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  • 42 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Federation Hlfh Com missioner Sir Henrv Gurney is fin a visit to Kelantar Unril he returns this weel Mr. M V. D< 1 Tufo, the actini Chief Secretary, will act a DeDUty Hisli c n ssloner.
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  • 188 5 Envoy's wife recalls an Arabian night' Rkxe Press StafT Reporter MRS. Hester Grittin, attractive hlue-»>( i Mr. R. Allen (iriilin. head oi the Initrd Statd Technical Assistance Mission now visiting Ma] has found that her recent trip to Swrtfc-Bftst might have come out of a story-hook. She told the Free
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  • 22 5 JOHORE BAHRI Mr. Jr. Pi d back I v week. Johore J Mr. L V J Lavj i s retiree:
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  • 70 6 pictures. Polish Bride (Dunwoodie) boats Liberty (Ellery) with a fine finishing burst *th Tniflnr fflWg) third and Silver Star (J Donnelly) fourth. Polish Bride created the biggest upset of the meeting so far. pajms Sll< for a win and $23 for a place. Pam Green (McPherson) finishes with
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  • 540 6 CjHAWFORD'S victory In the O ilxtta race was a heavy blow to the majority of punters at Bukit Timah yesterday M he was neglected in the betting and Paid 3 for a win and $16 for a place. Sisteron tried to lead the way and was
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  • 112 6 WEIGHTS lor Um l*<> veicht-for-a racei f«»r j Class 2 three ana four-year-olds for tho Perak Vase 'mile and 110 yards, two ciivis; the Perak Turf Clubs P ister meeting ir.': Race "A" K\ M ISI h.OO 1 ARACALLA 9.M P. VTTIfSHIP 5 00
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  • 105 6 THE following playen have been invited to turn up for 'he Singapore Chinese Football Association trial game on Monday at the Medical College ground. Sepoy Lines. Chu Chee Seng. Tang Tick CUoon. Chan Yew Hen*. B*ee Ltm Swang. Aw Boon Seong, Ho Ah Yik. Patrick Yee,
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  • 417 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS Stylish win by Tudor Pride By A SEVERE rainstorm just as the horses were going to the post for the first race made the going very heavy, with the resultant upsets, at Bukit Timah yesterday, second day of the Singapore Turf Club March meeting.
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  • 196 6 t^IVE course siratchings reduced the field in the fourth race to eight starters. The withdrawal of Cadxow Glen was taken as a pointer to tin* chances in his stable-mate, Persian Lord, who was installed favourite Persian Lord raced to the from burr;": tnd, .ff in
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  • 8 6 Masked Light wins easily M J i i
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  • 201 6 Aintree meet opens in wet weather fgtag;aga :s what tht book- i hoping. Under j conditions, a rank out r Invariably wins bookmakers face a heavy I •he b< backed randid.t"- i I the Lincolns: tier. Dr had b coupled with the h'aci f.iiu'ifs in Saturdathe "Spring DuubiDramatic has already
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  • 66 6 RE SILTS of the Bi« Sweep drawn on the eighth rate at Bukit Timah >t«rday were. Total Pool: QHXtt First: No. *****2 Second: No. 21* Mil Third S« m Marten 0i.72« each): Nos *****2. *****1. 3732f13. *****5. 143*83. H" *****3. *****1. lit *****4. Consolation Prize* each-: No-
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    • 271 6 iVlSndrdkß Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya --ANJTMIRE WAS AUTKr MAritß I I fOR A MAN WITH MY fKPiS'L-vV lAM BOP 'J'oYDU? I RARELY HAvl Cr MINING PUNOS--SOl RETiR&D. TASTFS ANO LAZY HABITS^CAIMt A ChANCE TO BRAG. I WAS A MECHANICAL ENGINEER-A 1 SEEMFO THE SOLUTION. NOT CRUDE
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  • 30 7 Splendid rowing by Dark Blues boat put w In to 19 s CamIt at four for i hey i ind and dealt I >od I for a J „11. Reuter
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  • 223 7 MORTENSEN STRIKES HIS TOP FORM English XI beat Scots 3—l J^NGLAND international Stanley Mortensen laid the foundation of the English Football League's three-one win over the Scottish League at Middlesbrough yesterday. Playing at centre-forward, Mortensen touched his peak of form, scoring both goals which gave the English League a two-nil
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    31 7 pit ture. Polish Bridr returning to stale after winning the ninth rate at Rukit Timah fCStrrfey. It w.i* Yiment Dtmwoodie's fir>t succt-ss .in jockev since arririni in M iluva. Free Press
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  • 90 7 Von Cramm in semi-finals /IERMANY'S Buion Gott\J fried Von Cramm entered the semi-finals of the men's singles in Alexandria's international tennis championships yesterday. defeating Denmark's Kurt Nielson 6 ft, 6— 1. 6—l Jaroslav Drobny, the selfexiled Czech, trounced Belgium's Philippe Washer 6 2. 6-0. 6 —o in a 22-minute quarter-final
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  • 89 7 (iAN ADA won the world Ice hockey title of 1950 in j London yesterday, playing right through the championships without dropping a point. They were given their hardest name by Sweden la.st night. but ran out winners by three goals to one. The United States
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  • 22 7 QAIfMY ANGOTT. former »5 world lightweight champion, lost a ten-round decision at Baltimore on Monday ni^ht to Sonny Boy Wrst of Washington
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  • 199 7 MONAVEEN, the Royal challenger for next Saturday's Grand National at Aintree, became clear 100-9 second favourite at the Victoria Club (London) callover last night. Public support for the horse, owned jointly by the Queen and her daughter. Princess Elizabeth, has been strengthening daily and he
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  • 245 7 4 GOAL by the right winger Freddy Cox. in the fading seconds of the first half of extra time shattered Chelsea's Football Association Cup hopes yesterday and put Arsenal into the fin.il for the fifth time. This goal beat a gallant Chelsea side In the
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  • 92 7 Sinhalese XI for S.C.A match rHE folkiwlni been cted to P la >' 'or tiie Sin: In their Singapore Cricket Asition tournament fixture against C.R.E INI at St. \ndrew'i School ground. Woods--1 ville. o n Sunday at 11 am.: C S»*nav:ratne «capt N !L G Wijeweera V R Fernando. R
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  • 44 7 SINGAPORE Cricket Club, Deat Ceylon SC. two-nil! in a soccer friendly on the Pauang last evening. Both goals were scored in the first half. Wright and Joeta being responsible. The Ceylonese forwards, v.ith the exception of Vijiaretnam, were disappointing.
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  • 45 7 'pHE four-day unofficial Test x match between Ceylon and Pakistan which V have started ihla morning at Lahore, lias been postponed owlni to the unplayable state cf the ground following recent heavy rain. The match Will now begin Aturday.- Reuter
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  • 22 7 The British Combined Services runby football team is to play the French armed forces a: Paris on April 16 A.P.
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  • 349 7 IirEIGHTS for all fT nine rates on Saturday, third and last day of the SnißHlM.n I Ufl| Club March meetMf, are: CL. >. DIV. 1-6 MRS. l^ >'»». -rira«-uv 9«M» j im. u ul9 |.«rd l>hot, IH 11.I 1. M.in I.ord 8.11 Mata Hah 8.11 Tudor
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  • 144 7 JOCKEY Johnny Ljngdtn is on another "goodwill" trip abroad, this time to ride in Australia. He left yesterday. with Mrs Longden. bv Pan-Ame-rican Airways for Honolulu. nd then on to Australia for 'four riding enfas^-nents. Longden whose homr tt Ihere. in Arcadia. California, does not know
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  • 95 7 T.B.A. table tennis rpHE Tamil Brotherhood Asso- nation will hold table tennis tournament towards the end of tins month. The tournament is open to members ol the T.B.A. and schoolboys. Tbere is no entrance fee. The events are: open singles lor men (knock out); doubles; .schoolboys ,pen singles (knock out).
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  • 80 7 \Y- A BROWN'S Australian XI dismissed Manawath for 101 on the opening day of their two-day match at Willington and at the close of play had scored 185 for six. Len Johnson. Queensland fast-medium bowler, took five for 18 and Jack Iverson. Victoria slow bowler,
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  • 46 7 Jockey Wahah won this photo-finish, setting; Shawford up on the outside to beat Sisteron (Lansdown) by a short-head. B-uii h.tmp* <K. Donnelly) on (he rails. Rets a neck decision over Bright House (Wahab) in the fifth race at Bukit Tima h yesterday.
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  • 18 7 The Army won the UK inter-Services Miccer championship yesterday. They beat RAF three-nil j U.P.
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    20 7 Picture. Mr. A. C. Smith leads in Pam Green, winner of the eitrhth race at Bukit Tiniah yesterday.- Free Press
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  • 148 7 Green House Badminton Party beat Sunbeam B.P. of Pulau Bukom by seven games 10 ivu> ;n friendly badminton match 'played ion Sunday at 714. Upper Beran- goon Road. Results (Green House B.P. piavers mentioned first Singles: Heng Boon Gudi. oeat Chia Buck Phu&ng 16-7, 1&-1: Tan
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  • 384 7  - Young Lucius best worker this morning ALLAN LEWIS By 'riIEKE was no attempt at time making this m;»rn--1 ing at Bukit Timah. when horses worked on th No. 2 grass track, which was very beary. Voi Lucius was again the best worker. This h<>r<«- i retaining |,is form and will
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  • 34 7 YESTERDAYS Rugby Union' results were: Falmouth j 6: Devonport Services 11: i Her'fordshire 11. Bub Counties War.dert-rs IX Rugby League result* were: W'ip..n 16. Swinton 5; Leeds 19. Hu.l Reuter A. P.
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  • 129 7 ST. Andrew •fit School ;ii k soccer ■atrtl p W<KxJsvillf yesterday. The half-time score Km all. Ramaltrishna ona School i,nd Sou i St. Audit On the resumption. Schools teiuie-lorw., slammed in a stiff sJkj! i: minute to gi\e hi? tUt lead. Five minutes b« Rex
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  • 84 7 RESULT.- nlfhi i in the Btng&pore Boxing Associations (.iate championshipf the Happy World FtsrwcifM: lcii^ b V York BBC beat Jaffa Ismail tK*tOO|| E( Yasin <Katonu BC bt\> K bali bin Sanusi 'una;t«rh.- I m Kee Chan (Katonp BC best A J. Morreira <Po!ire'. A/ut; Yusoff
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  • 24 7 /\WING to lilt sodde: of tL' a. the boys' ties ot ihe ICjC^ invitation Iconk U i have kx'en poMpoiifd t< Sal
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 89 7 TOKYO JOE" .cture :ed. has M that which ..:len: ence ar.d oackTolc- <reat- -:urns -ame b oe- U too. B ••he I r sen- B her pre-war becomes cr;mI .r.he is dochad o Ame- Tokvo under-:.*-d to d willing to o her love fo r FboUsb be re I U
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    • 100 7 wSESSmSk Elsie A I OLD 1 i NT wall pu Me MK fOCIITV FOR PSCMC'iNG CMHitTiAN KNOA L8 DG f ?2 ORCHARD ROAD SiNGX. I nder a new arrangement the hh k!> Iwrri «if ih»Straits Budget can be sent by \ir Mail to Mf ad dress in the Inited Kingdom
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  • 331 8 Admission by Canton HONG KONG, Thursday. 'rOMMUNIST authorities in Canton have admitted that anti-Red resistance on the mainland is being: intensified, say reporters of local Chinese newspapers just returned from I Canton. The pressmen add that open rebellion has broken out in various areas of
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  • 108 8 DELHI, Ti A T the request ot India and A Pakistan, the Interna--1 Uonal Rt-ti I Dr. R Marti, now in Delhi make a survey In East al to organise quick i f Th m«nt, an- nounred this yesterday ?aid Dr Marti s recommendations to the
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  • 9 8 tfka'gag 'ions with "someone. U. P.
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  • 42 8 rXJYPr has told Britain she *J is ready to settle outstanding questions between j the two countries. This readiness was conveyby the Egyptian Ambuss: 3or > in London, Amir Pasha, to Mr. Ernest Bevln. the British Foreign Secretary. Reuter
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  • 72 8 J^ORD Burghiey leader of the British Board of Trade Mission to Pakistan, who returned to London yesterday, declared that Pakistan industry had "dont> wonders in the last two and a half years He said he found a tremendous amount of goodwill towards Britain in Pakistan.' The
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  • 44 8 THE Governments of Burma and the United States of Indonesia have agreed to exchange diplomatic missions at Embassy level. Pending the appointment of an ambassador, the Indonesian Embassy In Rangoon will be in the charge of Mr. Marioenani. Charpp ri'AfTiirPs Reuter
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  • 16 8 Sir Gladwyn Jebb is Britain's new permanent reprei sentative to the United Na- tions.
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  • 68 8 'THE London tin market 1 steady yesterday w:ti. ipot marked 5s higher 604 10s. and liiree moiUh* at 1:605 Settlement m at, i!604 and the turnover I 140 tons for the day stng prices mere Sp £604 buyers and £605 se'.Ws mith no business passing, and
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  • 116 8 SURGEONS of thr Prrsbytcrian Hospital in Chicago have succeeded in transplanting the upper lob? of a lun* and a whole kidnry from on r do e to another. Thi.s demonstrates that it is possible to transplant vital organs from one human lo another and thu s make
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  • 81 8 'UNFAIR' CRY BY CALWELL CANBERRA, Thurs FORMER Minister of Immigration, A. A. Calwell yesterday attacked the decision of the External Affairs Minister. Mr. Percy Spender, to appoint ambassadors to Manila an<i Jakarta. Mr. Calwell told the House of Representatives that Mr. Spender's decision "does not give added security to this
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  • 90 8 i,i >:mju.v inursaay. support from the provinces created a harder tone in domestic issues on the London Stock Kxchange yesterday. Textiles, breweries and tobaccos were better, where changed, and there were small improvements in leaders of miscel- lane<»us issues. The trading volume, however, was Insufficient
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  • 45 8 BENDIGO, < Australia*. Thurs. OSCAR J. PUS. 4<*. srt a booby trap to frightrn people Mealing his ducks. 11.- tripprd ovrr thr wirp att.ii hrd to the loadrd Nhotcun and the blast raught him in the hod?, killing him. A. P.
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  • 65 8 INVESTMENT demand ?ena- d to expand on the Ni-w York 6t<xk Exchange yesterday and 1 this pushed prices to further gains. The Improvement gathered strength during the afternoon and some lagging groups allowed ne* signs of life Although late profit -taking brought prices bark from their
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  • 27 8 The U.S. State Department has refused a PMSport to Dr. Bernard Peters. 39, Polishborn physicist, for a trip to India to study cosmic rays.— Reuter
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  • 84 8 SYRACUSE (N< a York*. Tburad •TOMMY," the talking signal li^ht. stopped traffic here if and gave pedess and motorists a lesson in E; M "Don't be one. Avoid that run-f.u'A:. Beet* And when the light change- riie light of your Me is mav b,' me." Tommy
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  • 70 8 HOPKINSVUXE (.Kentucky) T. TWO baby girls txrr: at the K- icky Ba, Hospital cried audibly before their birth, startling the attending doctors and nurses The babies air doing m b< rl pre -birth audibility report d in .il literature. are tuti hi ih* ih baby t.. b? n
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  • 110 8 LONDON. Thursday. JUDY, the only dog officially registered by Britain as a Japanese prisoner of war. is dead. The 14-year-old pedigreed pointer held the Dickin I Medal— the greatest honour Britain can give her animal heroes. Born in Shanghai. Judy was a mascot on the
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  • 138 8 Talks on Jap peace in U.K. LONDON. Thursday 4 BRITISH Commonwealth Commission is being established in London to study the possible terms for a Japanese peace treaty some time next month. Far Eastern experts of the British For< Office have almost completed their study of the problem which was considered
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    57 8 Workmen cycling hflfhie in the twilight near HalfiHd airfield. England, duck hurriedly, surprised by the sudden .scream of four jet engines as the !>«• Havilland Comet airliner lands after a test flight to Koine and hack. Ihe airliner flew the outward trip in two hours two minutes, and the return
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  • 25 8 Wlip n the Burrrifs^ I Thakin Nu appealr fundl ?>»r the Antil>ami#» his tar«er o: r. s 300 OW was :n on- day A.P.
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  • 9 8 Talks on aid to Red China tgamkg'ag U.P. A.P.
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  • 6 8 U.S. AUGMENTS AIR DEFENCE I Reuter
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    • 447 8 BIRTHS \XWEIL- To Edith Phrena I nee Ramplen Jone-.t-r. Pamela, at Hong Kong MACLEAN- A: Bungsar Hospl- 22nd March 1950 to MarI vnfe of I. R. Maclean. £>ungei Gapi Estate. Serendah a her for Carolyn. m \ih EE MAH CHEE. aged 72. pass- po'cefully, 161 Joo Chlat on 21 3
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    • 71 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris 9 I 3JRN i T BUT B05 r 'IVL BJV >OU Tvio \9OS6-\T FELT J fnOW STUPiD DO I IOO< hOO^i 1 [O€T YCXiR COAT AIcTyBUT WHA9OAYA L^ Js\ t '£?J > f UK£ >J BUT /O^ 1 901 J I YOU KITH MV FiNG«¥A:i---5^.3T
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    • 12 8 hk;h tides T*4ay: 1.05 a.m., 14* p.m. Tomorrow I.SO a.m., 2.U p.m.
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