The Singapore Free Press, 28 March 1950

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA i, II.MI SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 354 1 Bengal Govt. on 'panic' CALCUTTA, Tuesday. JMJIAN troops with fixed bayonets moved last night into Howrah, a densely populated area outside Calcutta, after the deaths of 16 people m 48 hours. Martial law was proclaimed earlier as the "situation continued to deteriorate and went out
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    31 1 Mrs. Robert Ho. class teacher of the Post School Certificate Class. A.C.S.. Singapore, with two of her pupils, Sarah Lee and P^gfy Goh. at the Book Exhibition, British Council Hall, yesterday.
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  • 253 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. EMBERS of the Selangor State and Executive ITI Councils should b e paid entertainment allowances of $50 and $100 a month respectively. This is recommended by the standing committee appointed to report on the privileges which should be
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  • 33 1 Free Press Staff Kr porter Two ormed Chinese raided Yap Yik San estate, Johore Bahru district, at 8 p m. jresterday and robbed th« 3 labour- rs of identity cards.
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  • 162 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE police this morning said that the Chinese woman, who was found dead m a drain at the 6th mile Ayer Rajah Road yesterday, was Leong Wai Fong. aged 41, wife of a mee-hawker m New Bridge Road. Mr. D. K. Broadhurst
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  • 35 1 YOUTH IS NOTLAZIEB -PRINCESS P::. who is that it inger genertti prede;ess defended modern presenting a ■<Uis aad London prize wln:.:ig U) it our yourg today art r-proach 9 are not and stud? a» U.P.
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  • 20 1 8.-.:t o:ing to 5 iviet Jrop exchange missions lc race i other more rency exchrmge Reuter
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  • 8 1 FOR COTTON Co-operation yesterday 00 Martc buy A.P.
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  • 16 1 from t Buhau. uid five h i> d.i- wrecked derailment M the train, i>ual-
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  • 35 1 Snipping circles m T were quoted as stating that the Osaka Shosen X Shipping Company is wo. on a plan to revive its pr« ular passenger and c .ice between Japnn and Bangkok- Reuter
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  • 113 1 LONDON. Tues. THE British Labour Party's overall majority m Parliament was reduced to three yesterday with the death of Mr. F. A. Cobb. member for Brighouse and Spenborough. In the general election Mr. Cobb had a majority of 2,132 over his National Liberal candidate m
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  • 106 1 LONDON. Tues. THE Foreign Under-Secre-tary. Mr. Ernest Davies, denied assertions m the House of Commons yesterday that British views were not given sufficient consideration on the Fir Eastern Commission. Mr. Sydney Silverman, Laboui said the Lancashire cotton Industry was already beginning to show adverse effects
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  • 51 1 Blinding dust storms, whipped by gale-like winds, swirled over wide areas of the U.S Middle West yesterday. So thick was the dust pal that eight road fatalities were blamed on the choking cloud? About 50 persons were injured m car accidents m Kansas and Texas alone.-
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  • 26 1 A delegation fiom the Indonesian Labour Ministry left for East Sumatra yesterday to try to find a settlement of the various strikes there.— Reuter
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  • 54 1 The scarlet women VTATIONALIST officers 11 and soldiers on Hainan Island have been ordered to be careful of Red Mata Haris." Intelligence reports claim that the Reds have been training large numbers of young women to work behind the Nationalist lines m espionage. Nationalist officers are advised "to stay away
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  • 19 1 Voting continued yesterday m Salvador (Central American republic) m its first contested national election since 1931.- A.P.
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  • 17 1 The late British comedian, Mr. Sid Field, has left a gross estate of £31.735.- A.P.
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  • 14 1 Mr. Shamsuddin, first Indonesian Ambassador to Pakistan, has arrived m Karachi Reuter
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  • 82 1 3 MEN WERE ROBBED AND FROZEN SAN FRANCISCO, Tues. A bandit telephoned police headquarters at El Cerrito. California, and told officers he had just held up a night club and left the owner and two employees locked up m a meat refrigerator. "You had better hurry or they'll smother m
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  • 65 1 Tito urges one world PARIS, Tues. EAST and West must come to an understanding or "prepare for a merciless fight." Marshal Tito said yesterday. "There are different political and economic systems." Marshal Tito said, "but there are not different worlds. If there were, there would be i ditch between them.
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  • 27 1 A patrol of th^ RAF rent contacted flve armed bandits in the Kota Tinggi area yesterday. After a short exchange of lire, Che bandits fled.
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  • 119 1 Free Press Staff Reporter BREAD supplied by the Singapore Royal Bakery will be sold at 20 cents as from April 1, the Cold Storage announced this morning. The new price for bread represents a reduction of five cents m each poundloaf, which has been made
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  • 148 1 HONG KONG. Tues. AS the Communist Peking Government moved to comply with Hong Kong conditions for removal of the 71 defected Nationalist civil planes from the colony, a new step was taken m the U.S. Senate to prevent the handing over
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  • 43 1 rpHE Dutch Aviation Council yesterday held a public inquiry at the Hague into the crash of the KLM Constellation near Bombay last July m which 45 people lost their lives. Among the victims were 13 of America's leading newspaper correspondents.—Reuter.
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  • 55 1 THE War Minister Mr. John Strachey, denied last night that Britain had any thoughts of an attack on Russia.. "I should have thought the size of tlv fortes which we can raise at this time made any such .-.uggestion extremely unrealistic" he told the House of Commons m
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  • 176 1 SEROWE, Tuesday. AS defiant tribesmen gather at Caberones, m southern Beehuanaland, to welcome Seretse Khama, due there today, British officials are standing by to serve the young Oxford-educated chief designate with an order banishing him from the Bamangwato reserve for five years. Pregnant white Ruth Khama,
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  • 219 1 Election was 'eye opener' Free Press Staff Reporter THE three Malayans who went to Britain to observe last months general election described it as "simply tremendous" when they arrived back at Kalians Airport this morning. "The Interest shown by the British people In the election Is an eye-opener to all
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  • 77 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALa LUMPUF Tv IfUALA ISIXnm police a terday arrested i men In connection w:.h a *14 500 daylight robbery at a M house m Sungei B?si > < n Sunday Th«? eodouTi was being used iy the Ans;lo-Tha; Company The goods were
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  • 30 1 A police jungle squad, operating m the Kota Tinggi area yesterday, located three bandit camps which were recently vacated. Only water bottles were found m the camps.
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  • 35 1 SINGAPORE police yesterday arrested two Chinese under the Emergency Regu ations, one for being a member of the Malayan Comrr Party and the other for being a member of an unlawful secret society.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 315 2 *THE importance of shoes as a costume hunlight la being realisbv more and more istralian worn c n. Loyally-made shoes are beiny; turned out m more modern styles and man? manufacturers are producing shoes under nee on imported English and American lasts. To meet the growing
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  • 484 2 The RIGHT Way And The WRONG IRIS ASHLEY Takes A Look At— IS it possible to analyse just what constitutes a well-dress-ed woman. The two sketches on this page should help to make it clear. On the right is a lady Francis Marshall and I saw recently m Paris. Even
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  • 201 2 ONE of Australia's bestloved auihurs of children's book*. Mary Grant Bruce, has just left OB a visit to the United Kingdom. Mrs. Bruce's Billabong series have been best sellers for almost 40 years, and most Australians have read at least °ne of her delightful stories. Born
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  • 46 2 At Lake C'uJac. Victoria. Australia Syrt. Pollard was competi ig m the week-erd yachi racfc While acting as a mainsail hand, he fell overboard as the skipper "tf yd" i iii >ucldrnly. When Pollard was hauled ab«.ari ho had a fish ii> his pocket
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  • 163 2 AMERICAN men. fired by the current spate of fashion shows, decided to put on their own. Forty-eight men's wear experts, including radio stars and men's magazine editors, took themselves off to Bermuda and between them decided the male fashion picture for Americans of 1950. Just so that
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  • 541 2 By FLORENCE MILLS fiRENCH fashion makers are split on the question of whether women should conceal their curves this spring. Half of them have designed short-skirted models that flatten the bust and hips and often abolish the waistline. The other half have designed creations that
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 52 2 PURE CASHMERE I BRAE MAR TWINSETS $72.50 set GOLFER GARDIGANS FOR LADIES $42.50 EACH Colours include:Pale Blue, Pale Pink, Aqua, Canary, Mustard, Wine, Natural, Grey and Light Cherry. Sizes Bust. 34, 36 and 38 ROBINSONS RAFFLES PLACE SPORE 100t Off ALE AT LI I THE FEDERAL DISPENSARY tID« fiWUPMH ki\i\
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 269 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, >ou have a to know you better they good mind and are realize that beneath the apt to be one of those who exterior of a harsh taskis -always rights." This master, beats a warm heart can be extremely irritat- for all those less fortuning
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    • 181 2 New Crossword No. 7 wp^^^Js^ '^*^^5t t^~ (M Ks A< KOSS 1 Happen to De mixed diet <6>. 4. They do the opposite ot snip (A). 8. Al as an altering* e ro M s♦.5 9. The adder is ih» mmamm one (5). 10. Undress rohime? It. 4). 12. Emphatically
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  • 309 3 SIAM TO CREMATE A KING Colourful rites tomorrow BANGKOK, Tuesday. A GULDEN palanquin borne by court officials wearing the colourful uniform of ancient Siamese warriors will carry the remains of the late King Ananda Mahidol to the cremation grounds tomorrow morning. Throughout Siam flags will fly at half mast. All
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    32 3 M 5 i laudia H-irtman from Cape Province. South Africa, her husband's highly expressive piece. "Good to the R«»>jil Academy. Burlington House. London. ims-in day for sculptures for the Academy's summer Exhibition.
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  • 83 3 Not wanted a ghost BUYERS refused to bid for the haunted chest of Stanbury Manor at an auction m Devon England. A year ago. the chest was bought from a Cornish antique dealer. Strange things immediately began to happen m the Manor. Guns fell to the floor although the supporting
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  • 95 3 WASHINGTON. Tuesday. THE con?re»ional Atomic Energy Committee has reported that Russia is preparing her home front for possible vvar by training 5 million persons per ivil defence. IS issued m connection with the estimation into what the U.S. is civilian population against atomic :.-..icie clear j
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  • 26 3 'BAD FAITH' BY ITALY near- had alu?h the mute for proves to the United p Council .^ry when 1 to send to equiva*iT>ops Bri- there.— A.P.
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  • 25 3 The U.S. Navy announced that the small airciaft carrier Battan and four more destroyers will be added to the Pacific Fleet this summer.
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    67 3 photo. A tear eas bomb explodes outside the offices of the MSI a neo-Fascist-Italian Social Movement, m Turin, north Italy, as steel-helmeted police move m. Thousands of workers, many of them Communists, had earlier attached th e M.S.I, offices, storming the building and wrecking the furniture. Police smothered an attempted
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  • 335 3 Tuesday. .aye benitoi does not ialian diclt ought to, for use it become every day. -he trouble the voca::nd its syn"mus- fascistophianother rather I about these must not on ~e u*ed In what M 'the best -ith an inquir--o look round signs of "beenable maga;>ho:ographs of ussolinl
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  • 37 3 Formal invitations to Bagnio conference <>t Western Pacific and South-east Asian countries are '"most likely" to be dispatched this week ami conference will begin m late May or early June at the latest.- U.P.
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  • 92 3 TOKIO, Mon. SURVEILLANCE of the conO duct of paroled war criminals will be carried out by the Special Investigation Bureau, while the Committee for Regeneration of Ex-Convicts will be assigned as their guardian. The Attorney Generals Office has informally decided on this measure to
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  • 208 3 SAIGON. Tuesday. WAR-TORN French lndo-Chtna. where truth is like f? a small grain of sand m a pot of bubbling rumours, is a place where a reporter believes only what he sees and then takes another look to make sure. Finding and publishing
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  • 30 3 South A r r i c a needs Japanese crockery because she cannot get supplies from Britain. Mr. Eric Louw. Economic Development Minister, said m Capetown.- Reuter
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    33 3 photo Ace British test pilot John Cunningham waves to a welcoming crowd at Hatfield airfield, England, after flying the four-jet De Havilland airliner from Rome's Ciampino airport m two hours two minutes. A.P.
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    312 3 f\N the bidding, wrwcn was anahzed yesterday. West should have opened a spade which would have held declarer to just nine tricks. But West opened a diamond; the jack, queen and ace comoleting the trick. Entering dummy with a club, declarer led a heart through, winning with the
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  • 237 3 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. MORE than 7,000 Americans have written to the chairman of the Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, Senator Brion McMahon, since he proposed to the Senate m February a peace plan to end the present atomic armaments race between the United States and Russia. Fear
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  • 66 3 rpHE Chinese Nationalist L Control Yuan has formally accused Mr. Liv Hangshen, former Minister of Economic Affairs, with misappropriating large but unspecified sums The Control Yuan, a sort of administrative and investiga- tive body, also called for an i enquiry into payments Mr. Liv is reported to
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  • 38 3 The Cairo newspaper Al Ahaam reports thjit Cc^|M would take strong actiun I before t^e Unit <-< v^tions if Britain failed to satisfy her demand for evacuation of troops and the unity of the Nile Valley. Reuter
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  • 186 3 MANCHESTER, Mon. BRITAIN'S Operative Cotton Spinners Amalgamation called m its annual report yesterday for British and American Government action on the problem of Japanese competition m the textile industry. Failure to reach a satislactory conclusion on the question, the Amalgamation said, might renew the troubles of
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 233 3 WHAT'S ON IN K. L. PAVILION: Tsing Tze Wm-r (mandarin*. REX: Father V. A Fullback. ODEON: Moonr^se. COLISEUM: A Date With Juov. CATHAY: Sky Raiders HAMtAI: Mlrac> Rider. CENTRAL: Chandralekha (Hindustani). HINDISTAN: Joker. VKNITg Pavalakodi iTamii PENAHC REX Professor Den CAHIAI The Fabulous Suzanne. <>Di:«'\ They Live By Night Lll><>
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 409 3 OTXir-HDnOP "Twenty Years After"— s 'The lian Light Music; 11.30 News QlJM\3t\r<JßE* King's Fate 1 6.00 Indonesian: Bulletin; 4 p.m. London Palladium (BLUE NETWORK) News and Programmes (BBC). 630 Orchestra; 4.30 News Bulletin; 440 IK4 and 417 metres News m Cantonese (BBC); 6.45 Spotlight Bands— Les Brown: 5 Fm n
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  • 524 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Mar. 28, 1950. INNOCENTS ABROAD "INTENT on carrying out the| Lj of Cominform and i >rruniern the two Russi- j ;a agencies which control; UMWghll and pets of I rty memb .sympathisers outk Russia Communist I .1 bf, 'ay themthrough a curious Thk- yesteri manifesto
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  • 1042 4 Bandits Fear The Mad Major' RONALD BAXTER meets some of the front-line heroes of Malaya's war against terrorism. CbvhrN miles down i the river from Bukit Kepong is the little village of Lenga. Perched on the end of had road from Muar, a ioad which has often echoed to the
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  • 761 4  - Foam Rubber Starts An Industry Rader Winget By r>OAM Rubber— latex whipped into a froth and baked into shapeis m tremendous demand for car seats, furniture cushions, mattresses, powder puffs and falsies. Two years ago latex foam, which can be made from synthetic latex, was almost unheard of. Mr. Thomas
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  • 142 4 PRESIDENT Truman is a 1 great deal safer from bodily harm today than he was m the war years. Secret service agents say that m the past year they have had to investigate only 1,925 threats on the life of the President. That's the
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  • 310 4  -  FRED ZVSY "y CAIRO: MUSLIM leaders are making a careful study of Communism to determine whether a man can be a Muslim and a Communist. There Is little likelihood there will be any ruling on the question m the near future on the order of the
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    • 14 4 Best Values m SPORTS I TROPHIES I U.S.deSILVA- .leicellers 106, ORCHARD ROAOJ Tel. 2466
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    • 153 4 PORK LOIN FOR GOOD ROAS; G It is easy to get iMc ordering leg of pork wf roasting |omt Try P: change The )O»nts are cubetween 2 and 4 lbs anc the flavour just as tine I For good crisp cracklint: se i •s well scored m Ime v\ bones
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  • 249 5 ACTION ON UNQUALIFIED DOCTORS' Johore reports for C.ID. Free Press Staff Reporter jJEPORTS that dressers in Johore were being given Poisons Licences and allowed to set up lVftctice besides doctors have been referred to the Principal Medical Officer, Johore, says the annual review of the Malaya Branch of the British
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    3 5 MRS. VERONICA BROWN
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    30 5 picture. N \-;iv ir mowed car. irge number > u a pore durfortni«ht from t i Military Some of the in xdy been in 33JS,, uamst the bani r. Free Press
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  • 302 5 1 00 lifters in display on Padang Free Press Staff Reporter ONE hundred Singapore weightllfters will give a mass barbell display on the Padang at the conclusion of the Colony's Education Week on May 13. The weightlif ting show will be part of a mass display of drill and gymnastics
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  • 42 5 Mill Keporter three years > i tall yrars LUn Kirn Koon Ghet- m the Singa■^lirn they tssisting In m unlaw--16. \S.P. said Mr. 18, J a house m I \nd m a m a md a irdi. aracters Both the ?d.
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  • 280 5 Free Press Staff Reporter IPHE system whereby customers at a store serve A themselves which has proved a success m both the United States and Britain— will be introduced for the first time m Singapore by the Co-operative Stores Society Ltd. on April 1 This
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  • 39 5 Free Pre^ Staff Keporter JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— inche Taib bin Hali An dak has been appointed Circuit Magistrate. Johore Bahru, to replace Ungku Ismail bin Abdul Rahman who has become President of the Religious Affairs Department, Johore.
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    72 5 jieture. rll, Hr*- mt «»i Joiiore. iun-ku Mahkota (wearing sunglasses) who has a large kennel of Alsatians and porting dogs at his palace, keenly followed the demonstrtion m guard and combat training given by Sergt. Layrock's unit of dog handlers and alsatians at the Police Depot at Thomson Road on
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  • 194 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. MRS. Lucy Hedley, wife uf the newly-appointed 0 O.C Malaya, gave evidence j m the Police Court yeterday when Ali Hassan, a seniortechnical assistant of the P.W.D. Johore Bahru. was charged with driving Oil car without reasonable consldera-
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  • 247 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. Justice Thorogood yesterday m the Singapore Supreme Court reserved judgment m a claim for possession of premises m the Capitol Building brought by Mr. Runme Shaw against one of his tenants, Mr. Habi Bui la h Mr. M. B. Brash lor
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  • 31 5 The Bure and Steadfast Club Study Circle s talk on "Is Christianity the only religion that matters" has been postponed to Thursday, at 8 p.m at 77. Prinsep Street.
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  • 52 5 Twenty -four-year-old Teo Eng Huat, of Telok Ayer Street, was charged m the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday with criminal breach of trust of $500 belonging to Mr B. H. Chia. of Malacca Street. Teo was granted bail of $1,000 when the case was postponed to
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  • 35 5 The April number of "What's On In Singapore/ a British Council publication showing the diary of cultural events m Singapore is now available at the British Council Centre at Stamford Road.
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  • 28 5 The Johore Bahru Rifle Assn. will hold an Easter rifle meeting for members at the miniature rifle range, Jalan Kolam Ayer. April 8 and 9
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  • 146 5 Free Prev.s Stall Reporter /GUARDS rails Will be built If around the Oat roofs of the two new blocks of flats being constructed at Monk's Hill tor Singapore Municipal employees. This new item, which has not previously been included m the plan, will add another
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  • 79 5 Officials of the Singapore AngioChinece School Old Boys' Association for the year are* President, Mr. Lee Chin Oee; Vlot-Prealdeni*. Dr. H. H. Peterson, Dr. Anf Swee Hian, Mr. Thio Chan Bee; Secretary, Mr. Yap Ah Chuan: Assistant Secretary, Mr. Poo Kee Seng: Treasurer, Mr. Yong Njlm DJln; Aariatant
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  • 317 5 Free Press Staff Reporter DRETTY 21-year-old Veronica Brown is a "tennis wife" who doesn't worry. Married to the Australian star, Geoff Brown, she doesn't get a bit nervous when she watches him m championship tournaments. She never minds when Geoff loses; she almost enjoys it. "If
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  • 262 5 16 BAKERIES STICK TO 25-CT. BREAD Free Press Staff Reporter 'f>HE Singapore Bakery Trade Association, repre J- sentative body of IS Chinese -owned bakeries m the Colony, has not yet decided to reduce the pi -cr of bread because its members feel that flour is still not cheap enough, the
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  • 37 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU Mon. TAN KENG Chin, of the South Johore Bus Co. was convicted m the Johore Bahru Police Court on a charge of m considerate driving and was fined $15.
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  • 34 5 A fine of $300 was 'mposed on 55-year-old Tan* Choo of LaTender Street m the Singapore Second Police Couit yesterday for allowing hi* house to be used as a common gaming house
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  • 33 5 JOHORE BAHRV Mon. Yap Chong Heln, of M was fined $5 In the J Bahru Police Court today for driving a motor vehicle out t road tax licence for 1950 FGJGFJGKTITG
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 38 5 MAILS Surface mail i» expet ed m Singapore today from Suun acid the Federation. Latest time* for posting surface m«U today at the 0.P.0. f»re: noon for Eastern Australia and Pontianak: 3.45 p.m. for Siam and the Federation
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  • 633 6 Shipments have improved Free Press Staff Reporter CINCE the rubber packing and shipping legislation was first mooted, there has been a marked decrease m the number of claims and far fewer non-bona fide shipments. This was stated yesterday by Mr. F. J Kemlo, the chairman, addressing
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  • 73 6 INCREASED selling pressure on the New York Stock llirhtlUt yesterday morning was well absorbed and the market at mlddnv showed fractional movements about equally divided either way. The market turned somewhat easier during the afternoon aue to moderate but persistent offerings In the final hour losses, mostly
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  • 210 6 BIG Y.W.C.A. CARNIVAL IN SINGAPORE MISS Beatrix Lynch, the National Secretary of the Y.W.C.A. said yesterday, that girls from Penang. Jpoh. Kuala Lumpur and Malacca will be participating In their Easter Sports Carnival m Singapore. Twelve girls will be arr ing on the evening of Good Friday by train from
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  • 427 6 THE Singapore Recreation Club stole the little colour that there was m their Senior League soccer match against the R.A.F. (Changi) at the stadium yesterday to gain their first victory this season by three goals to nil. The game lacked everything. Two weak teams were
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  • 29 6 picture. MOSBEIUiKN, SJLC right fullback, clears the hall before an X VI-. tliangi forward could tackle, during yesterday's Senior league game at the Stadium.- Free Press
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  • 341 6 [London Stock Exchange! LONDON T UfMii i o WITH the spotlight on the general labour!"! Tf and m view of th e forthcoming talks hetu M>n Trade Union Council an d the G^verSL?^ 1 London Stock Exchange showed hexiumv Z, thf dullness yesterday. and The approach
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  • 18 6 LONDON TIN PRICES FALL i N ly fc: dowi. ov*>r U sessioi and t I £600 I U.P.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 184 6 Ifl3ndrdk6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya 1 \'No* WITH A RADIO fIASH I <iUAT\ I ARiNG iHi lAtl TD^YOARAjE |Wt <>END IKE CABOUT~ £kWk\ \IHE SLEEPING GAS." CONTINUES TODO GOES DOWNSTAIRS ANO DUMP UIM-AND WHEN MEAR OUR CUSTOMER ORIVER-- \MR.F. TO MANDRAKE... EMPTIES HIS POCKETS HEMKIS HE
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  • 39 7 iui V. The start of the seventh race at Bukit Timah on Saturday. Soltara, the winner, is hidden m the picture, between Al-Alamein and Courage. Charlemagne finished secon* 1 t%nA I<ilin Ham third. Free Press
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  • 231 7 sending a strong team to the Easter between the Penang, Singapore and swimming clubs which will take place \pril 8 and 9. Chinese Swimming Club water--1 be the same as that which beat ming Club m last year's inter- held m Singapore. The team
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  • 59 7 DANGERS beat Haiti] Rovers by two goals to nil m ihelr second fourth-round replay m the Scottish Cup loccer competition yesterday at Ibrox Park. Glasgow. Rangers now meet Queen of the c outh In the semi-finals on Saturday. Port Vale beat Torquey United two-nil m the Third
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  • 47 7 S.S.C. report increase in membership T i sound id that >ed scnted held at irue I prere- c 10 and maa siliiatc the bo had •ell has c!ub I Till •VUlie o the m par- ASA. v;cei m j h T. li. P G Hill. R. H
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  • 15 7 S.C.F.A. v. B.O.D. ON FRIDAY BOD. id on Chee H-e Jong A] Pal Ipoh at
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  • 446 7 NO REGRETS DOES BEST GALLOP Gold Meridian also shows up From ALLAN LEWIS IPOH, Tuesday. IJEST workout on the Ipoh training track this morning was done by No Regrets (E. Donnelly), who was ridden all out to beat Grey Bloom (J. Donnelly) by four lengths, running three furlongs m the
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    27 7 Geoff Brown, the Australian tennis international player, seen m action at Singapore yesterday. He will appear m exhibition games against local stars at the S.C.C. courts tomorrow.
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  • 137 7 A SOCCER team from the Hong Kong Land Forces is due to arrive m Singapore about April 18 by the troopship Orbita to take part m matches against Singapore and Malaya districts for the FARELF Cup. Similar competitions m rugby, hockey and boxing have already been
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  • 134 7 AN extension of the Football League b/ Increasing the number of clubs m each of the two Third divisions from 22 to 24 appears almost certain to be adopted at the annual meeting of the League next Summer. A recommendation to this effect was made at yesterday
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  • 30 7 IN a Senior League soccer match played at Seletar yesterday, RAF. Seletar beac Royal Navy by two goals to nil. Sgt. Lee and Scullv scored for Seletar.
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  • 79 7 THE Eziard Charles-Freddie Be&iiore NBA heavyweigni •■pionship flfht. scheduled for tomorrow night, was cancelled yesterday. X source close to the New York State Atheletic Commission said that observations at the New York Hospital showed that when training a month ago Charles received injuries to the eighth
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  • 29 7 YESTERDAYS UK rugby results were: Rugby Inion: Birmingham 3 Swansea Newbridge 11. Cn.ss Keys 5; Pontypool 9. Llanelly 0 Rujjby League: Castleford 27. Bradford Northern 9. Reuter
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  • 570 7 Wi KsITI for April 1. flr*t dar of the Perak Turf Club |Ml« M**t» n are: i \ss l niv l— 54 Furs. Str. Regret* 9.0" Fortune Favearite 9 00 Prrostan 8.12 I.ongchamps II 8-12 Silver Spear 8.11 Kinder Gold K.ll Indian Heather 10 '".rrv Bloom
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  • 473 7 SINGAPORE is not likely to send a soccer team to the Asian games, to be held at New Delhi from Nov. 4 to 12 this year. A letter from th e Singapore Olympic and Sports Council conveying the invitation to take part
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  • 32 7 AN estimated 12,000 soccei enthusiasts queued up m Vienna yesterday for tickets for the match between Austria and Italy next Sunday. Many began their long vigil on Sunday night.
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  • 287 7 Hard-fought games in YMCA tennis SEVEN men's doubles ties of the V MCA. Open Invitation Tennis Tournament were played off on the Association's courts yesterday. Ti.e biggest surprise of the evening came from the youthful pair, Arthur Lim and Gordon Lim. who, after losing the first set, at 4-6. rallied
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  • 121 7 'T'HE Arellano University basketball 'earn were beaten 51-50 by Singagpore Combined m a return basketball match played at the Happy World before a big crowd last night The match was played at a terifflc pace, both sides fighting hard for points from start to finish. Just
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  • 365 7 AN allegation that Singapore Amateur Football Association free passes for admission to soccer matches at Jalan Besar Stadium are being misused was made at the meeting of the S.A.F.A. Council last night. Mr. M. Ponnusamy said that these passes were being transferred and he had
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  • 152 7 CINGAPORE Amateur Football Association Council, at its meeting last night, approved an application by Tiger Sporting Association to include a Johorc Bahru player, Lee Sze Tat. m their team. Lee wa? a member of the Malayan Chinese sid^ which took pan m lv? China National
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  • 246 7 pEYLON had scored 126 for six wickets at the end of the third day's play m the unofficial Test at Lahore against Pakistan and needed 89 runs to avoid the follow-on. Only 105 minutes play was possible yesterday and wickets fell fast on the
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  • 103 7 PAKISTAN—Ist Inns. 161 CEYLON—Ist Inns. NaT&r&lne c Saeed b Khan Mohammad 15 Makim Salih c lratiaz b Fazal Ma-hmoad H Rodrigo c Dtnshaw b Chippa SalhAsivain c Naiax Mohutunad b Chippa 6 Jayawickreme c Masqwd b Fazal Mahmoud WUevshLnrhe c Dinsbaw b C bippa 5 Coomaraswamy not out 37
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  • 40 8 THE ENGAGEMENT is announce d and the marriage will takt r.lace shortly of Angela, only tor of Mr. Mrs. S. Ju-r- rt of Ipoh and Anton, only sen of the late Mr N. A. Mar.«nd Mrs. Marshall of Spore.
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  • 165 8 PARIS, Tuesday. thousand French dockers, respond--1 ing to a 24-hour strike ordered by the Commu-nist-led General Confederation of Labour, yesterday paralysed shipping m all the main ports. The strike was called as a protest against the arrest of three union leaders m Marseilles last week. Only
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  • 98 8 LONDON. Tues. THE Prime Minister. Mr. Attlee. last night rejected the Idea or a Royal Commission to probe Communist spying ir. Britain m 101 G. Sir Waldron Smithers, Conservative, urged this m the House of Commons because of facts that emerged from the trial
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  • 76 8 THE U.S. Secretary of Defence. Mr. Louis Johnson, said yesterday that United States defences were adequate for the time being. He was replying at a press conference to questions on the recent statement by Grn Dwight D. Eisenhower thit he feared United States defences had fallen
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  • 53 8 WIDESPREAD piracy along the Pearl River Delta. j more than the Nationalist j blockade, is impeding the rei sumption of river communi i cations between Canton Hong Kong, and Macao, according to Chinese sources. At least five Chinese ?< i ng between Kongkoon and Macao were
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  • 32 8 A Russian Embassy official v ill board the Polish liver, Batory, at Southampton today to see Valentine Gubitchev, deported by the United States after beine convicted of spying.- A.P.
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  • 93 8 Strike 'pact' in Australia MELBOURNE. Tues. A USTRALIAS Conservative A Government, armed with new powers of Immediate arrest against disorder and Communism, yesterday forced a two months armistice m the national strike wave. Trade union leaders, at Interstate emergency talks In Melbourne on the critical opening day of the Governments
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  • Article, Illustration
    73 8 The jury passing their verdict is the Royal Academy Selection Committee, meeting at the Academy at Burlington House m Piccadilly. London, to make selections for the Academy's Summer Exhibition. They are 'from left) Sir Walter Lamb. Robert Austin. R.A.. Gilbert Ledward. R.A., R. Moynihan, X.A.. John Nash. A.R.A., John Weatley.
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  • 112 8 HOLLYWOOD, Tues. ACTOR SteveCochran 6avs that "most women lack style sense" and that men, having far greater selectivity, should always be taken along when women shop. Women seem to go mild on their own." he says: They don't know what looks good for
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  • 51 8 TWO Czech airline pilous who fought with the R.A.F. m the war. disclosed that they organised last Friday's aerial escape of 26 anti-Communists from Czechoslovakia with only 24 hour s advance planning. \\\> wanted to get out because we had had a bellyful! of Communist," one
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  • 20 8 A Japanese war criminal Luut.-Gcn. Nishimura Takamuna, arrived m Hong Kong yesterday aboard the trooDshlp Empire Orwell.- Reuter
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  • 20 8 Fijian sugar cane growers threaten to "strike" unless the industry is nationalised by the end of June.- Reuter
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  • 146 8 BALTIMORE, Tuesday. THE man with a sense of humour invariably has J a sense of superiority, m the opinion of Dr. G. Wilson Shaffer, Dean of Johns Hopkins University Addressing a club here, Dr. Shaffer related. Three drunkards staggered into police court and faced the magistrate.
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  • 15 8 The population of Bangkok and Dhonburi. is now estimated at 937,300.- A.P.
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  • 42 8 Hunger-mad peasants m China's great famine area are resorting to cannibalism, recent arrivals m Hong Kong assert. Starving peasant bands m North Central China are reported luring children from the village into the hills to be eaten.- A.P.
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  • 43 8 A WEST German newspaper a\ said m an unconfirmed report yesterday that Soviet troops killed 102 German uranium mine workers, including four women, and injured 173 m quelling a riot near the Soviet zone town of Frohnau. A.P.
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  • 158 8 HONG KONG, Tuesday. rMJGHT of capital from the China mainland to Hong Kong is gaining momentum, according to Chinese business circles Unstable economic conditions and the slack trade were said to be the principal causes Tor the outflow of Chinese capital, belonging mainly to
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  • 71 8 MR Owen Lattimore, U.S. ite Department expert on Far Eastern affairs, yesterday cabled from Afuhanl>'.ui dismissing as "pure moonshine" charges thai he was Russia's No. 1 spy m the United States. Mr. Lattimore is now on a United Nations mission m Afghani.- tan. Republican Senator Joseph
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  • 21 8 A. bomb exploded outside a bar m Kerwi, 57 miles from Asmara where seven Italians A.P. were talking.
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  • 71 8 JAPANESE who ran away from their homes between J Mar. 1 and Mar. 27 totalled 665. an increase of 100 over the figures for February. Tokio police report. Reasons for running away from home were listed as delinquency, family discord. lvr P of the city, and
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  • 42 8 H.K. UNCOVERS RED OPIUM MORE than 4.000 tahlls of than HK$lOO.OOO were snzed by Hong X C Depart;: freighter Choi.- tlvfii from and Tientsin. The drug was I m 15 b trs and three- kerosene tins hidden m the ship's hold. A.P.
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  • 38 8 Britain will adhere to a United Nations resolution asking members not to send ambassadors to Spain "as long as it remains m force,' Mr. Ernest Davies, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, told the House of Commons.— A.P.
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  • 303 8 Second raid near S'hai HONG KONG, Tuesday. fHINESE Nationalist troops have made a second landing on the mainland coast north of Sungmen, 200 miKs south of Shanghai, according to usually reliable sources m Taipeh (Formosa). No further details are yet available. Reports also current here that
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    46 8 photo As 4.000 students rioted m Saigon against the visit of the two American warships. ex-Emperor Bao Dai (seen m centre mopping his brow). Chief of State of Vietnam. conferred on board the U.S. destroyer Stickwell m Saigon harbour with Adm. Russell Berkey. the commander A.P.
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  • 178 8 LAO KAY (Indo-China), Tuesday. pRENCH military authorities yesterday accused 1 Chinese Communists of training and arming Viet Minh rebels for an attack on the French border forts near here. The French said that "several" Chinese troops had been killed and captured recently m fighting with
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  • 77 8 TORONTO. Tues. CANADA'S French-Cana-J dian Prime Minister. Mr. Louis St. Laurent, said yesterday that the free world might find m Canada's dual English French nationality the key for ultimate victory m the cold war. "Lasting peace and harmony between nations can only come about through the
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  • 28 8 Bao Dai to 'get tough' DRast: I China I tic: I me: matic a* I in Saie I have >| I 'I Six afl terc.- J Ind x Reuter
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  • 17 8 PR!' for 'The gre icountr much t< J dustr: i those commer ties ther prosperity A.P.
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