The Singapore Free Press, 15 June 1950

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTER WO** SALE IM MALAYA I SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUf« 15, 19§0. i'KirF TEN 11M\
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  • 367 1 DETAINEES MAY BE EXILED Disclosure by Griffiths LONDON, Thursday. pHE British and Malayan Governments are considering repatriating to China the Chinese among the 10,957 persons now detained m concentration camps m Singapore and the Federation, the Secretary for Colonies, Mr.l James Griffiths, told Parliament last night. Mr. Griffiths was replying
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  • 21 1 Keadah UMNO 'mourns' 1 bin \!NO emthe [NO on ♦he 10. Che members '<. Of w will .hen i us i meet-
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  • 15 1 :nc*nt ■n tracts which the ep up to tl UK. by A.P.
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  • 275 1 Why was judge ousted in 1942? MALAYAN QUESTION BY M.P. LONDON, Thursday. 4 MEMBER of Parliament will rise m the House of Commons on June 21 to ask questions about the removal from oftice m 19V,' of a jutl^o m Mala. a. The questions will be asked of tho Colonial
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  • 86 1 CAIRO, Thurs. 'THE Cairo weekly Akher Baa said yesterday that Field thai Sir William S.im. Chief of the Imperial General Staff, m his recent defence talks here threatened Egypt I the evacuation of Bii Kak troops. I: quoted him a.> -avinj?: 'I fear tha: m the
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  • 19 1 Nine people are being tried m a Yugoslav court on charges of serving the Albanian intelligence service.
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  • 77 1 LONDON. Wed. BRITAIN may ask the International Court of Justice for a ruling on the continued seizure by Egypt of British oil tankers passing through the Suez Canal en route to Haifa refineries. The Minister of State Mr. Kenntth Younger. :old Parliament yesterday that the submission
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  • 34 1 The political committee of the Arab League yesterday laid down a new ime cf policy which it hoped would solve the dispute with Jordan over the incorporation cf Arab Palestine. Reuter
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    40 1 The cyverkig her face t* th*» ftlaa star. Je»n Simmons. Next to her sit Stewart Gran?** Micharl HrntUe. Tfcc reason fur Jean's dwtr«>s is shown m the mcMtrt l>elow— Hru. Wood«^t' s mjmry dttrin* his fi^»t wHb t^e Savo^d m
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  • 187 1 o BALI Thursday. PHOI SANDS of girls of Bali, c lad m bright sarongs and multi-coloured blouses, and men and children enthusiastically gave three 'Jai Hind' cheers for Pandit Nehru, when he stopped at Singaraja for an hour durin-g his drive *o bf»a»?tv snots m the
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  • 22 1 German hanu-srenadcs m the rubble of the war that ended five years ago has killed five children In Vienna
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  • 81 1 SOCIALIST leader Paul Henri Spaak warned >S Catholic Belgian Government yesterday that Belsil would be threatened with civil war if the Catholics r turned the exiled Kins Leopold to the throne. Writing m the Socialist newspaper Le Peuple, Spa: *aid "To attempt to bring the King
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  • 24 1 the acN Sruus, t iead- tor ireer Af- m >or of ;e Of General near out the der
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  • 14 1 The number of thefts m Sumatra"* capital of \n is strongly increasing.
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    26 1 The Secretary for Common Wealth Relations. Mr P <>ordon-Walker. who said \<-Ntrrday that he would leave London by air on July 7 on a Commonwealth tour.
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  • 46 1 I*HE U.S.I. House of Representatives met m closed s>>sai>»n yesterday to hew a statement by the Justice Minister on persons imprisoned by the Government The prisoners mainjy include persons arrested oy the ixrrh '.Mid transferred u> th.* U.S. I. last year.- Reuter
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  • 26 1 Nine United States Air Force men were killed when their B-25 bomber became lost and crashed into a mountain m West Virginia yesterday.- U.P.
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    41 1 During the thunderstorm which sicept the island early this morning, this large tree, near the first tee of the Garrison Golf Clv J fell across the road opposite the Botanic Gardens The police reported no serious damage to house or property.
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  • 156 1 ADDIS ABABA, ThaTlday. rrALIAN armoured vehicles fought through thick jungle yesterday to rescue >ix American survivors of a |>lane crash. The single-ensjined Norseman plane crashed near the Ethiopia. -Italian Somaliland border, leaving six Americans, including one woman and child, stranded m wild ?.nd leopard-infested country. An
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  • 88 1 MUNBCH, Thurs. 4 MERICAN and German A police yesterday threw all available forces into a huge search for a former American Army private who smashed his way out of jail with his bare hands for the third time In two months. Bloodhounds were set on the
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  • 29 1 Sir Brian Robertson, retiring Bnrish High Commissioner, served notice on the Russians y?s*ru.iy that "under the present cirou.ustances" Allied Occupation trows would p»moin m German?. U.P.
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  • 21 1 Soviet-occupied East Germany and Red China have inaugurated radio telegraph service between their capita X Berlin and Peking. AP
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  • 226 1 US buyers are blamed for present chaos RUBBER SHORTAGE IN US. LONDON, Thw q^HE TIMES said yesterday that the 'iund •>,! Nt il x reason for the recent violent fluctuations »!i rubber lies m the capricious and sj> -cula ivebuying policy of American manufacturers', wh has resulted m a present
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  • 84 1 A BLIND St Duastait'S army j\ pi !<Moner. Mr. Isaac Corns, aged 70. enrouU* by QEA-BOAC ConMeliuUoii Britain to Australia, a tour of Singapore frith another passenger Last night. His fellow passenger, Mr. J. E. Stevens, who is a director of schools for the deaf at
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  • 15 1 The M. X rth Toon i m the Burmah Oil un^atLsl a U.P.
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  • 34 1 One Brili ->i w. injured last ninhi v\ torists lir.'d vii the mail Criin lr<«ui Sfttfap*! It. Ku.tii I ;ii;p. of I aln>, m Joh'i» I >oldit*r was take-i t-i h ;«»ii<
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    • 89 1 *£7t PLATING I'm going shopping d&/ m the new 5 Iffi ARCADE ff •c shopped downstairs m Cold come up and stroll through our parking worries or hot streets you here. Salon Margueretta will to your beauty needs; Claire has for you new books and at Joan Tooke's; pharmaceutical needs
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    • 44 1 GMHIMieiPi; D. P OUTDOOR PHOTO GRAPH Y I. RAFFLES PLACE. S-PORE COPP JOHN LITTLES TEL ***** f n u&t MSBIOV y\ -PJ|L STILL The Best Cigarettes m the World $T4TE @PR£ Si 555 It' W'M H«*«r«ctttr^ m 10*00* lH kf AW>ATH TOMCCO CO. LfO.
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  • 494 2  - Revolution In Ruritania PETER QUENNELL reviews new books m U.K. 'TWERE aacr c two kinds ol readable novel. T!.e book that over a longer or shorter peri d more or less completely, becomes a substitute for real life, so that we exist through the characters portrayed and begin to lose
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  • 61 2 The Riviera New Look and Old. by S. P. B. Mais. Christopher Johnson. 12s. 6d Useful holiday guide to the South of France, 2iith some informal sketches of Mediterranean history. Sinners Come Away, by Leon Wilson. Gollancz. 9s. 6d. A grim but honest essay m transatlantic realism, centred
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  • 154 2 i IFTY YEARS WITH DOGS, by Colonel and Mrs. Richardson (Hutt hinson). WHY !s the dog so often "Mans best friend?" The late Colonel Richardson -m co-operation with his wife has given us a v^ry complete answer to the question m this extremely informative book. Himself a;
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  • 432 2  -  D. I. MAC DONALD By DARJEELING: MISS CHRISTABEL bevan. the Englishwoman arrested on the Sikkim border for a breach of frontier regulations, told me that she went over the 18.00 C ft. Donkya Pass into Tibet m riding skirt and overcoat. This handsome woman of
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  • 433 2 ROBERT OTTAWAY ON BOOKS yyiTH Winter Song Tf James Hanley has completed a magnificent achievement. It is the last of four novels recording the fortunes of the Fury family, and it is as waimly conceived, as powerfully wrought as Its predecessors. Hanley. an independent Irishman, is one
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    21 2 The King and Queen m th c rock gardens when Uiey toured Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London.
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  • 272 2 The Spider, oy John Crompton (Collins*. An absorbing examination of the temperament habits and love affairs of a \<ry mis-* urciersiood creature. His Human Majesty, by Kav Boyle (Faben A tale of mtn without women'— until a particularly high-powered charmer walks m Sensitive. :\e and worthwhile. lady Louisa
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  • 227 2  - From Cabin Boy To Viceroy LESLIE HAYNES reviews a biography of the late MARQUESS OF READING 'PHE life story of the first Marquess of Reading, whose first visit, to India was as a cabin boy. at everybody's beck and call, and whose next was as Viceroy, honoured and exalted, may
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  • 149 2 BIRI)> OF THE (OAST' by A. (iihmmi Hill. (H.F. A Witherby Ltd.). the war, Dr. Gibson-Hill has Riven us. British S Bird.: (H.F. G Wjtherby. London) and An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Malaya (Government Printing Office. Spore). Birds of the C I pocket size,
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    • 58 2 SMITHS CLOCKS THE IDRAL (ill T I Ji 1/ M I^ W i or Oak Chiming l« Mm> available with strike, or bimham n From Leading Jewellers Clock Stockist* SMITH'S AGSNTr i'().'n\ OS MULT! VITAMIN TABLEtT CONTAINING THE I SSI NTJ VITAMINS tO SI PPI EMI VOIR MET. DAVITAMON FIVE
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 202 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BOK\ today, you have a tremendous amount of energy which surprises many people who do not know you very well. Rather nervous m temperament you are inclined to start and finish a job m a whirlwind. It might be less tiring to make haste more slowly. But
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    • 161 2 to recognize "the one" at first sight. Once you have found that person, let nothing deter you from marriage, for you are not the kind be you man or woman to live alone and like it! You have the ability to make money and could become quite wealthy during your
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    • 127 2 F«w Crossword No. 73 l HKS A( ROSS 1. They prevent people from being, or Meing. the same 11) 7. And varied m rule m Irish l.i nd tenure <7t. 8. Later ponion of Talmud <3>. 9. Constant degree of density (11). 11 The tale of the road 7. 4
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    45 3 photo. of Me IMIU among the J. 500 people who attended r thp Moral Rearmament Movement at Gelsen--1 Mini... On the extreme right is Captain Parsl >n of the East Indonesian State President. ir.» Surya and Nelun Sena, well-known players of Oriental music A. P.
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  • 113 3 ATHENS. Thursday. TUT. Greek Government ha s banned the sal e of »l without a certificate love-sick girls m and the Piraeus have been using it too m .1 weapon of revenge. linn* lovers are also using quinine. md ground glass to end their sufferings. May
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  • 332 3 ADAM LIVED IN S. AFRICA Scientist** finds missing link PRETORIA Wednesday. A DAM probably lived m South Africa and Eve looked rather like a bushman, according to the man who found the missing link. World famous for his fossil finds, Dr. Robert Broom claimed he has evidence for establish*ing the
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  • 131 3 It's getting hotter in Sydney SYDNEY. Thurs. SYDNEY Is becoming a hotter place to live m and the whole world's weather is taking turn for the better, according to the director of Sydney's Museum of Technology and Applied Science. Mr. A. R. Penfold. He said the change had been going
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  • 90 3 ADELAIDE. Thurs. SIXTY armed police ar.d civilians, using horses, cars and six jeeDs. turned out recently at Euduule, TO miles north of Adelaide, to hunt a wiid sheep dog which killed 30 sheep m three months. The hunters formed a line and tried to drive the
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  • 64 3 HONG KONG. Thwrs A NEW English language r\ daily. Shanghai News is now being published m Shanghai. The four-sheet paper aims fo 'help the English-reading public to acquire an understanding of New Shanghai and New China as a whole". The only other English language daily
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  • 63 3 TOKIO. Wed. I^OTR Japanese fishermen F have landed m hospital as a result of contact with "poison gas,* the Kyodo news agency reportv The fishermen had caught m their net a drum from which oozed a white oily liquid. Nauseated by the fumes they threw the
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  • 32 3 .rmer m West Wyalong, New South Wales, is claiming a record for his Kelpie. The years old, has had ;Uers. two or" 14. i 12 and one of 13.- Reuter
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  • 219 3 COLOMBO, eylon, Thursday. > [EARLY 700,000 Indians resident m Ceylon are expected to apply for Ceylon citizenship as a result of the decision of the Ceylon Indian Congress to change its policy towards th e citizenship law. Until this decision was made recently by
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  • 21 3 The United States has granted political asylum to Vladimir Houdok, resigned Czechoslovak representative at the United Nations. U.P.
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  • 26 3 The Indian Government has decided to spend 'Rs. 750,000.--000 (£56.250.000) on the rehabilitation of India's 8.0Q0.--000 refugees m the next three years. A.P.
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  • 104 3 BRISBANE Thurs. rE Queensland Housing Commission is issuing Instruction booklets on adobe and rammed earth houses which people can build themselves. The method is substantially the same as !n other parts of the world, using adobe bricks made from soil, water and straw, or
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  • 33 3 Twenty U.S. Republican Senators have demanded a:i investigation of tiie Justice Department handling of the ■Amerasia stolen documents case, including tha consideration of "formal charges" against Department officials involved. U.P.
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  • 39 3 Mr. G. Ailana, President of the Karachi Chumu?r of Commerce, said m Genera that Pakistan employers "heartily endorse the Government policy welcoming foreign Investment which cornea into the country with a view to accelerating industrialisation. Reuter
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  • 18 3 Four men were slightly injured recently m an explosion aboard the British submarine Trenchan' A.P.
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    352 3 'T'HE hand above Is not one of our regular bidding problems, for the "correct" bid would undoubtedly cause an indignant roar from many readers. Nevertheless, what would you have done if you v.ere North m this situation? South West North East Pass Pass Pass i* 1 V Pas*
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  • 194 3 Cyprus presses for 'enosis MLUfeIA, Cyprus, lhursday. pOUNTRIES m Europe and America will shortly receive visits from one or both of two Cyprus delegations who have left here to solicit international support for "enosis" the union of the British Colony of Cyprus with Greece. Although the two missions have one
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    34 3 The state landau conveys the King down the Mall past the crowds which lined the whole route from Buckingham Palace to Horse Guards Parade for the Trooping: of the Colour on His Majesty's birthday.
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  • 133 3 COLOMBO, Thursday. IJED ants have made life "terribly hot" for farmers 1V living m Pandaitheruppu and adjoining villages m the Jaffna district, north Ceylon. The President of a Farmers' Union meeting convened to draw official attention to the menace, said that the scourge had attained such
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  • 103 3 Lobsters earn in U.S. WESTERN Australia's first '"lobster Village, now being built 110 miles north of Perth, has a quick-freeze plant designed to handle a daily catch of 25.000 lb. iiveweight of lobsters. The tails are removed from the lobsters. treated and then frozen to ea: m the United States.
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  • 218 3 S.FRANCE INVASION FLAYED LONDON, ftafS. FIELD-MARSHAL Viscount. Alexander has atinbuted the troubles of the Ai.. Ml wartime campaign m Italy to the "disastrous" diversion of troops from Italy for th? 1 invasion of southern Franco m 3944. The opinion was cited m Alexander's dispatch on war In Italy between September
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  • 37 3 A USTRALIA S hi| x\ mm imp! n habi" Colin Clark Hp l'sted D lmT'»« quantiiies of iweetenej i?a and aerated v.-i er. mi iam a stanle I and using su^ar beer Reuter
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    • 96 3 N ON S| hecoh Dc v F -dp ANDY lONA HIS ORCHESTRA HAWAII IN AN OLD HAWAIIAN :r. P.T \UTIFUL KAHANA— FT. MP 61 'All SWEET GARDENIA LEI— FT. VAIL ISLAND SERENADE— FT. MP C 2 :i V.HISPHERINO LULLABY— i :i aw y i mp 63 I 05HTO INfiLEZ HIS
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 235 3 SINGAPORE BF2BS [Singapore) (BUlfc SStWOM) 13DAV 184 and II 7 n^' 445 p m programme summary; Emergency news from K.L. 4.47 "From the London Editorials" i ttk iBBC); 4.55 "Composer of the at 10 a.m. Week."— Wagner,; 5.13 "StockTODAY taking" iBBCr. :>.30 Adven--10 N», from KuaU Lumpur; %J*. 10.50 For
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  • 385 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, June 15, 1950. English for all it NuiHER milestone on rht road to a better Malaya was that part of the Central Advisory Committee on Education's report yesterday vnich stated: "We are convinced that the intimate desirable objective should be free ann finally compulsory primary
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  • 859 4  - It's hotter still -in Kamo JOHN HALL By KANO. Northern Nigeria. ONLY the vultures, wheeling, planing in the cloudless sky, see it ail -the old Kano with its mud-walled city and its niud houses that was and still is the trade centre of ancient Africa, and the new Kano with
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  • 235 4 Graziani is Lucky MARSHAL Rodolio Graziani owes the mildness of his prison sentence m part to one of his bitterest foes. Communist leader Palmiro, Togliatti. The grizzled Lion of Africa" who remained loyal to the end to Benito Mussolini was recently sentenced to 19 years imprisonment for collaborating with the
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  • 538 4 IT WAS NEIIRI "S IDEA By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: J'WO "Rural Repub- lies" where everyone hus a job and no one starves have been set up m India m a new experiment m resettling refugees. It is the idea of Prime Minister Ja.vaharlal Nehru. His
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  • 1010 4  -  POLITICO fgdfddfgdsfdgf,gbdjf IT IS right that our radio should inform the people about the evils of Communism. W e are all engaged m a struggle to preserve our liberties against the Red threat; it is therefore imperative that we should know what we are fighting. But
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    38 4 United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Trygve Lie, (second from right), addressing a nress conference m Moscow. The purpose of the conference icas to enable Lie to report on his conversations with Stalin, held m the Kremlin earlier that week.
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  • Letters to Editor
    • 71 4 I CMING from a Bri eu English huw tppr< ciatc I your edit' (Tuesday). An article i goes a tone heart of th< commur; not on) m value. Your very view o: It have had on this from 2.000 odd b or i end i I f I
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    • 33 4 typical Inrio-r camp I no d camp affairthing but a ing. cai < widt printed vu to b< ous i lUVKI I I K-I\ n\m M It wax not a prii ♦•rror Kd
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  • 507 5 RENT CUTS: THOUSANDS BENEFIT Decision by Trustees Free Press Staff Reporter estimated 10,000 tenants m most of the 2,003 houses built by the Singapore Improvement Trust after the war will benefit by the rent reductions which were approved yesterday by tbe Board of Trustees of the Trust. The rate of
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  • 33 5 Mr. Frank James, Progressive Party Municipal Commissioner, will address the St. Andrews School Civics Club on "Work of the Municipality" m the school hall at Woodsville at 3 p.m today.
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    30 5 picture.. MR. J. C. HITCH, bandmaster m the Singapore Police for the last 15 years, who retires at the end of this month. He is going to Perth. Free Press
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  • 19 5 HOLIDAY CAMP FOR YOUTH ive a S -amp Besar D- :::chen h and to. for use 0 be .tare
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  • 20 5 Pi funning i ne 20. 1 umbers, r progeach and :rom rs of the j v we aat
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  • 193 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 5150.000 modern club and swimming pagar is A being completed at Fairy Point, Changi, for the use of Royal Air Force officer-airmen and airwomen. This club, which will be opened on July 3, has been under construction for the
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  • 19 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. yHE Federal Legislative Council today adopted the report of the Select Committee on Elections.
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  • 14 5 The Police Band will perform at Tiong Bahru at 545 this evening.
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  • 16 5 The Singapore Rural Board will meet at the Land Office at 10 a.m. today.
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  • 235 5 Free PreSf Staff Keporter r PHE Benham Committee's recommendatiuns on A salaries of Singapore Government servants, which have been criticised by various sections of the public service, is expected to be debated and disposed of when the Legislative Council meets next Tuesday. Another staff matter which
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    53 5 Picture by A FUZE-WIN lila> ut the Victoria Theatre during the recent Mi.ipore Youth Drama and Music Festi--1 was acted before the children of the St. Andrew's Orthopaedic Hospital last Friday. This scene taken from Th« Tcymaker and his toy** was acted by th# boys of the Gevlang English School
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  • 407 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE-BORN Chinese who won the rv Distinguished Flying Cross for services m the K.A.F. during World War II: a 4K-year-old Eurasian lawyer, and a family of two brothers and two sisters are among 77 people who have applied to join
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  • 291 5 Singapore pu ts up its elephant tax Free Press Stall' Reporter "OECAUSE of the recent increase m import and export duty on live animals imposed by the Singapore Government, their shipment from tho port is likely to be severely curtailed m the future. A well-known Dutch collector, Mr. Aaron Eleazar,
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    40 5 AFTER lots of 'hard work and some sacrifice" 23-year-o!d Teresa .!<»». n Ortega, a Singaoore shorthand typist. has saved enough to pay her way lo the I niied Kingdom on a holida> cum educational trip. She leaves m tire niton tomorrow
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  • 36 5 TPWO war memorials dvdiX cated to boys who died during the First World War <1914-18» and the last World War a939-45> will be unveiled at a dedication ceremony at the Raffles Institution hall today
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  • 195 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. RECOMMENDATIONS con- tamed m :he Trusted Commission regarding leave passage and travel of Asian officen m Government service have been under consideration by both the Federation and Singapore Governments, it was officially stated In reply to questions at today's meeting of the Legislative
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  • 62 5 Fret* Press Staff Reporter rpHE film "Three OUM banm-d recently by i:.( a Film C I exhibition by the Singapore P The ban was d ny Mr Evans on grounds "excessive brutality bu d n• graphical rersioo prison life m Borneo under the Japai. v- Hi mon
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 79 5 i* ■■m For the Crey I and Showery Days bnoliskfinnty ANTI-RAIN RAINCOATS J i BROOKLANDS AND "WEMBLY"— I Double-Breast with Belt AND MORTLAKE Single— Breast. Men Sizes Only) Dark and Light Brown Shades. rl Heavyweight or Mediumweight. m 1 Call See them today m S. PH.de SUVA HIGH STREET, SINCAPORE.
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    • 62 5 FINE QUALITY pfilfrm Sc jVxmhtster Carpeting CARPET YOUR STAIRS AND ENRICH THE TONE OF YOUR HOME We have a supply of these excellent quality Stair Carpets. Renowned for wear, m shades of Peach, Rust, Green, Beige, Red, Royal Blue and Light Blue IN TWO WIDTHS 27 mfhes 36 inches $IV.*5
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 70 5 MAILS Surface mail is expected In Singapore today from Hong Kong, China. Japan. Western Australia. Christmas Island and the- f\ ation. Latest 'times for posting iuiface mail at the G.P.O. today are: noon for Trengganu '.panvls only). Terempa, Palembang. SUm. (parcels only). Kelantan parcels only). Great Britain. N. Inland, Eire.
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  • 1056 6  - MANY UPSETS AT K.L. RACES TRESPASSER Clever handicapping baffled punters By ITNPREDICTAHLE Class 4 horses, plus reversals of form among the Class 2 performers, brought about a crop of upsets at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, second day of the Selangor Turf Club June meeting. Three horses returned three-figure dividends, while three
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  • 88 6 "DUYERS ■(•111 resU\i on iheir i ronimitment.s yrgfrrdij »nd the N>a- York Stock Exchange rfUnquiahcd further ground uudi limited collective sellluK- Losses of down to a dollar or so became rather liberally distributed. b'lt later In the day only Industrial* continued to sap. most »iher sections fluctuating
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  • 352 6 OOVERS had to fight hard m the second half to IV keep their first-half lead of one goal when they met BODCA m the SAFA Senior League at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Rovers did as they pJeasea In the first half. Every BODCA
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  • 290 6 RESULTS of yesterday s tics In the Singapore Lawn Tennis A.ssociaUon*s Championships were: Men* Doublet: Capt M F Turner-Cooke and Maj. C Gre<?o- wood beat FI.-Lt. H. F Jiuhop and Fl.-Lt. D. A. Deu-har C-4 tJ-1: Wee Bin Wart and H D'Rosario beat Lim Chen*
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  • 28 6 ALVARO Nuvolonl. Italian bantamweight, was disqualified m the fifh <<>und of a ten-round bout with Bobby Boland at Dundee last night because of a low blow A.P.
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    • 148 6 mSnOr^kC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya ASTHE HELICOPTER RuSJURAiMI KL^HL l\ Vt\ I JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya HILARY'sA /^HE^Vr/^TKIS PARC6I\ 4 U (OL T T lU^-J /wHAT \/^TnE— TME CUT MIS BEARD V DIDh?T W CAME FOR YOU, \J|: I7L r" 1
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  • 36 7 A .ateur ..'ion to >rintBailey, to has t Bdj that vicve alibout Hi etta fror. can of B .'ll bisons reason* tod i the? 2-i- s \a as reI Reuter
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  • 308 7 LIBERTY FLAG BEST WORKER This morning's K.L. gallops tr^e Press Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. LIBERTY FLAG and Tollana (three furlongs m 38 2/5 seconds) and Twelfth Of August and Jazz Princess (three m 38 3/5) worked attractively on a rain-soaked track at Kuala Lumpur this morning. A steady drizzle
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    6 7 im> round and floor Jack Solomons!
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  • 178 7 OELANGOR und Pahang branch of the Au:omobile Associa of Malaya Wiß sponsor a speed trial on Sunday. July 16. over a mile course at Lornie Road, a Lumpur. Entries will be clarified as follows: Motor-cycle*: Cia.«* 1 150 re aud under; 151 cc. to 250 re; 251
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  • 99 7 JOHORE BAHKU. Thurs PRISONS Sports Club defeated 221 Vehicle Battalion "A" in a League soccer match yesterday by six goals to four on the Istana padang Af r er 15 minutes of even Said Savon opened the scoring for Prisons Wilson equalised, but Said Savon
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  • 73 7 FLT-LT. Deueh.r iChangi* won the RAF Malaya s singles tennis title terday when he beat Sqn Ldr. Shaw «Changi> 7-5 2-6. 6-2 The match had been left unfinished on Saturday, when the sc«ce was flve-a.. In the set. Deuchar was more •-.rate m hia placiiigs and won
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  • 80 7 Pitsmen s Derby' Cum final acceptors u*re paJMtahed yttnlij fnr the N'ortr.umberland Plate «poo:i. knc-A Pitsmvn Dei L to be run over tva rules at Newcastle on June 11. Tliey are »vtith wtißllts): Dcnino 9.4. Strathspey 88. Light of ceo 84. Father Thames 82. Colt bridge 7 13. Prionium 7.11.
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  • 87 7 MUSLIMS' fasting month. "Puasa." starting totumorrow. will hold up sports activities m Singapore and the Federation to some extent. Singapore Amateur Footh.ill Association will confine League ana Cup engagements to non -Muslim teams. Mr. W. McGregor Watt, the S.A.F.A. president, told the Free Press this morning
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  • 91 7 r p\VO RafllM Insitutun R. Sandosham and Rtbinder Singh wreaked havoc among St. Andrew's School batsmen on the R.I. ground taking five wickets for six runs and four wickers for 10 runs respectively when the |WO teams met yesterday. St. Andrew's were skittled cut for
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  • 50 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. (JOON Kok Ying. Selangur singles tennis title winner on Monday, par r.^rcd San K.\ok Keons t v win the doubles title yesterday by defeating H. J." Sinclair and E. C. Cherrington m straight sets 6—2. 6—2 at 'he Se ungor Club.
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  • 65 7 9 l trouncing TDLAYING with only nine men C.V.M .A. (Portugese* were trounced by nine goals to one by Star Soccerites m a Jnr. B 2 league soccer match played on C.V.M. A ground yesterday. Scorers for Star Soccerites were: T;>n Cheng Klat (J) Wing San (2), Wong Ah Teck
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  • 33 7 In a soccer friendly played the Railway ground the i^'-^ Funnel ship s s. Manasiheus beat' the crew of the Norwegian ship j Tai Yantj by five goals to two
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  • 335 7 WEIGHTS for all eifcht race* at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday are: CLASS 2. DIV. I— OF. Gold Meridian UW Piraeus x 1* Young Lucius 8.10 Brilliant Marc «.«9 Tricolour BU7 Movie 806 Full Stop 805 Loid Ohoti H-t'4 Pan Creen Mi P.add> M«
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  • 400 7  -  VERNON MORGAN From /''KEY skies and rain rather spoilt the pageantry of Royal Ascot yesterday, but the rain was welcomed by British owner James Rank, whose horv**. Hyberhole, won the Royal Huni Cup, the big race of the day. Hyperbole, five-year-uld son of
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  • 130 7 rnHE tree shaded fourth green at the R.A.F. Chano A golf course where Wing Commander T. R. Vickers [Air Staff Headquarters, Far East Air Force) holed out m one— for the second consecutive hole —on Tuesday evening. Teeing off at the 95-yard third green, he
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  • 427 7 A FTEK a month of practically uninterrupted fine weather, rra n came yesterday to settle th c dust on county cricket mounds and to interfere with play m each of the six championship games and the Oxford University v. Marylebone Cricket Club fixture. Although
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  • 104 7 POLO liiendly matches between Tiger Swimming; Club and RA F Seletar will be played at HawPar pool on Sunday at 11 a.m. Tiger S C. teams v ill bt "A" team: Tan Wee En;;, Luh Yew Kee. Ching Heng Fong. Yap Chuan Seng. Kong Siong Leong. Tan
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  • 22 7 Raffles Girls' School will hold their annual athletic sports on the R.I. ground on Wednesday. July 12. a: 4 p.m.
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  • 64 7 Colony cricket XI v. Malacca 'T'HE Singap;ip i ukt t XI to ir.eet Malacca ;it l.icca this weekend is: t.all J inch <capt. >. B Barker. F. Ch. paid. Lt. T. Grant R.N.. Yusof M.'dari, S. Na«aiah. W. Ram.nvike. J. C. Smith. L. S. Thivy, X C. Thuraisingam and A
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  • 38 7 The Singapore Rutb-. Union will hold its annual general meeting at the Singapore Cridtet Club on Thursday. June 22 at 5.30 p.m. All affiliated clubs are reminded that thfy are entitled to repsesentatlve to the meerinc.
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  • 269 7 losing half I for 112. a solid six:. 1 ket partnership beti Goddard and Frani: \Y Rave the West Indies t. advantage over Northui land at the close of Utc day's play m their two-day match at Newcastl? y. day. The pair put on 8') b
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    • 75 7 RAFFLES HOTEL NOTICE the grill will be closed the ballroom exclusively reserved for the official d:\nerin honour of the hon. pandit nehru on saturday 1 7th june. Sunday 18th june. CASTILLO'S AUGMENTED CONCERT ORCHESTRA and STANLEY KING ON THK NEW HAMMOND ORGAN M.APORKs NEWEST MUSICAL ATTRACTION toVouWW A1 CAN. WITHOUT
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    • 56 7 t i "Production Excellent Play V V More Than Entertaining b) x j R.|., F. PRESS )une 12th. V TONIGHT &fortheweekincluding SAT. AT NINE P.M. SINGAPORE REPERTORY 2> PRESENTS Frederick Lonsdale's sophisticated comedy 6 I ON APPROVAL I I I :A:-: -J I Bookings at ROBINSONS or THEATRE BOX OFFICE
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    • 36 7 Today's spott mkOK: iUi^iness Houses I inal. Siroe Derby v Fraser Ac Nra\e at Jalan Besar stadium. FENNIS: Singapore championships at S.( C. <eont.i. B IIIITI4LL: Mapu» (Manila) Ho Ho at Happy World. 8 .<0 p.m.
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  • 30 8 TO NOREEN. wife of O. K. <«. a son. "Brian, at Surlingon June 14th. SEEVARATNAM: On June 4. 1950. to Vishaya. wife of Dr. S. iratn.im of Seremban, a son
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  • 195 8 NEW YORK. Thurs a SIA is m the "throes of a ,A political social and economic revolution" and has become "one of the principal barh'grounds cf the c )ld war," according to Brig. G,«n Carlos P. Romulo, P.I. Foreign Minister. He said yesterday. "There is
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  • 91 8 WASHINGTON. Than. MR Robert Beresford lawyer from California, day personally told the Republican Senator, Mr. Joseph McCarthy, that his Communist charges show him to be a "corrupt man without any morals." Mr. Beresford. a wartime naval officer, confronted Mr. McCarthy as -he Senator stepped from a
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  • 42 8 Swiss mountaineers are planning an expedition to scale for the first time a Himalayan peak over 26.100 feet high. The name of the giant peak cannot be given until the expedition is autho rised by the Government o Tibet. Reuter
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  • 235 8 Atomic bomb speculation WASHINGTON, Thursday. THE White House said yesterday that it knows of no atomic explosion m the world, nor does it know the reason for the appearance of a mysterious cloud covering 1,200,000 square miles of the Pacific. The White House spokesman told questioners,
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    41 8 Prince Charles beats time to the military music as. from the wall of Clarence House, London, he watches the return of the Royal procession and the Guards to Buckingham Palace after the Trooping the Colour ceremony on the Horse Guards Parade.
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  • 91 8 HONG KONG. Thurs THE Nationalist! warned neutral shipping that the China cuast w.i> blockaded and that any ship, trying to serve Shanghai and other Red ports would be sunk as enemy shipping. A laipeh communique made it clear that ships, yuch as X: Lsh-owned blockade runners
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  • 111 8 HOME, Thursday. ITALIAN resentment over Field Marshal Viscount 1 Alexander's opinion of Italians as fighting people and of Italy's contribution m the war against Germany went to the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. The British Field Marshal I recently said that the Italians' contributed little to the
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  • 304 8 HK r.OVFRNOR SAYS: HONG KONG, Thursday. Communist Chinese invasion of Formosa may 1 take place this month or m July, the Governor of Hons Kong:, Sir Alexander Grantham, said m Karachi yesterday. He added that he did not think Hoiik Kong was m danger of
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  • 183 8 U.K. lead would aid world PARIS, Thurs. AMERICAN commercial leaders told businessmen of 24 nations here that it would greatly benefit the world if London could once again play its part as a leading world financial and trading centre. Mr. William MUchell. president of the Central Trust Company of Cincinnati
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  • 83 8 CALIFORNIA, HPHE crew of the US air-craft-carrier Boxer rejoined their families and friends yesterday with endless tales of their 33.U00 mile tuur of the Far East. The airmen described Ughta 0-. er J.-.; Phihppine> Pteocta Indo-Chma, S.. pore and Korea Tiv f the Boxer brought ba'
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  • 93 8 Democracy is not for Bantu LONDON. Thurs. DR. A. W. Geyer. newiy-ap-poinu-d South Alriean High Commissioner m Lo;: said yesterdaj that there could be 'no greater fallacy" than to Imagine that the Bri;ish democratic system could be extended to all peoples, irrespective ol thdr stages of development. "At least for
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  • 46 8 IMAM AHMED, the King of Yemen, and his son. Crown Prince Saif ul Islam el Badr. have married two sisters, the daughters of an Immigrant newspaper editor. The brides were nurses m the only hospital In Taez. capital of Yemen.- U.P.
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  • 25 8 Film sfar. Deanna Durbin will be married at the end of this year to her third husband, the Hollywood director. Charles David. A.P.
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  • 65 8 THE 64-year-old Nizam of Hyderabad, reputedly the w< i rld s riches t man, estimates his own wealth at R55.000.000.000 USS1 .000.000.000 The New Delhi News Chronicle says that the figure was based on an inventory submitted by the Nizam to the Indian Government. It ran
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  • 48 8 ATIIKNS. Thurv 4 C7-YEAB-OLD milk wholesaler. I). Golfis. was yesterday charged with poisoning milk as an act of reveii-c .it;.iin>t a distributor uho opposed drilling for water on land they mutuilly owned. Police say ■MTC than !00 persons were afYrrted hv the milk. A.P.
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  • 11 8 I Zealand r.. v .> only 21 unemployed.— U.P.
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  • 152 8 JAKARTA, Thursday. V T KRY strong tensions existed m Kast Java and a revolution could be expected to break out there at any moment, an Indonesian member of parliament told the t .S.I. House of Representatives here yesterday. Mr. Sakirman, head of a
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