The Singapore Free Press, 8 August 1950

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA L* 17.85.V SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1950. vHivt vt:\ rrvrH
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    5 MILES ON-REDS ARE CRACKING
    150 1 Biggest casualties of the war i\ Marines and infantry have blasted forward about five the southernmost front m Korea m their first offensive >ks-«)ld war. The three-pronged American attack which •rday continued throughout the day m a slow and difficult isl a withering barrage of
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    SHOPS TOLD TO CLOSE
    20 1 SHOPS TOLD TO CLOSE PUI Tom Serendah main trunk north havp b*en -v-pt ben and been made rs have the
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    MOSCOW CALL
    13 1 •:v Foreign Doay received M. at the ami Reuter i I
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    'Pour on coal,' said pilot
    343 1  -  CHARLES CORDDRY i We're on our way I By ABOARD A L.S.N. PATROL BOMBER OVER KOREA, Tuesday. pRLISING at 8,000 feet m the dark along the west coast of Korea toward the city of Chinnam-po, 4"> miles north of the 38th Parallel, our mission is
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    UNCOMMISSION MEETS AGAIN
    174 1 UN COMMISSION MEETS AGAIN TOKYO, Tuesday. jI.TOKE than* 1.000 people crowded into Fusan's National Theatre yesterday to attend the second public meeting- to be held by the United Nations Korean Commission since the Communist invasion was launched. Reports from Korea said that thousands of others lined the streets to listen
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    MANAB BIN BUYONG DIES
    41 1 INCHE Manab bin Buyong. ol the Special Squad. Johore Bahru. has died. The funeral will take place this afternoon. The late Inche Manab served as a Police inspector m Selangor. On retirement, he Joined the Johore service.
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    KOREA 'WORSE THAN PACIFIC'
    203 1 KOREA 'WORSE THAN PACIFIC' AMERICAN Marines who got their baptism of fire m a 3,000-yard advance on the South Korean front were yesterday reported to have been slowed down more by heat exhaustion and their own too-heavy equipment than by Communist gunfire. The Marines, pushing westward on Communist -held Chinju,
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    Malay Union not 'shunning' UMNO meeting
    130 1 Fee Press Staff Reporter PE Singapore Malay Union is not "shunning" the forthcoming UMNO gemrai assembly to be held at Kuala Kangsar from Aug. 27 to 29. although it is not sending any representative, the Union's President, Inche Sardon bin Hajl Jubir said this
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    MARINE CALL-UP
    35 1 The U.S. Marine Corpi announced yesterday that it \S mobilising its entire volunteer reserve of 80.000 officers and men. with 50.000 of them to be called between August 15 and October 31. U.P.
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    U.K. REARMING REDS' FAULT -SHINWELL
    159 1 U.K. REARMING REDS' FAULT -SHINWELL LONDON. Tuos. THE Defence Minister, Mr. Emariwi Shinwell, said yesterday that Russia's unfriendly attitude m world v flairs has forced Britain to tocsin arming to the teeth. ■Nobody m the Labour Government likes rearmament and the cost it means m men and equipment,' he said
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    LEAGUE MEET
    15 1 The Arab League's political committee will meet m Alexandria on Aug. 15. A.P.
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    REDS THROW IN 'GREEN' TROOPS
    131 1 ILS. ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN KOREA, Tuesday. IM Kwang Won, a war prisoner, said yesterday the North Korean First Division crossed the Naktong River near Hamchang and went into action with 6.000 green troops and 3,000 veterans. He said most of the 6,000 new soldiers were
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    50 1 picture Twenty one year-old Lim Leong Sing, following his father's footsteps and his grandfather's by studying mining engineering i?i London, arrived at Kallang Airport yesterday on Qantas/BOAC Constellation on two months' vacation. Leong was met at the aira a Mar W port by his father, Mr. Lim Cylon Free Press
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    'Let aliens join army'
    39 1 REPRESENTATIVE Walter Page, a Democrat from Texas, l! yesterday introduced legislation which would allow President Truman to accept the enlistment of nationals of other countries, including Germany and Japan, into the U.S. armed forces. A.P.
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    'Draft Reds'
    41 1 'D raft Reds' A proposal that Communists be dratted into labour battalions "where they cannot commit acts of espionage or sabotage and could not Influence loyal troops by their propaganda" was made m Washington yesterday by Representative Harold C. Love. A.P.
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    Big oil fires in Taejon
    70 1 ABOARD A U.S. CARRIER OFF KOREA. Tues. ENSIGN Richard C. Adams, a U.S. navy jet pilot, said he saw big oil fires flaming m Communist-captured Taejon. He said the fires apparently had be^n started by U.S. Air Force Mustang fighter pilots. The fires were burning
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    Lie is ready to call the U.N.
    188 1 Lie is ready to call the U.N. LAKE SUCCESS Turs. T*HE Secretary-General x of the United Nations, Mr. Trygve Lie. said yesterday that the Korean war does not have to be fought to a decisive military end but its setr--ment still hinges on ih» withdrawal of \he No.th Koreans to
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    U.S. jet fighters missing
    39 1 U.S. jet fighters missing The U.S Thirteenth A:r Force announced last that two ot Its F-80 ers were missing. They took off from Clark Field at noon yesterday ar. 1 were believed down eonu where m Northern Lir A.P.
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    Reds surrender
    34 1 An oifici&l Chli alist dispatch Urn night 22 soldiers and crewmen ol < Ci .limunist motorized surrendered fetterdlf Qu* moy. alter their captain was killed m a right with a Nationalist gunboat.— A.P.
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    Women 'Tecs Of New York
    623 2  - Women 'Tecs Of New York Adelaide Kerr By NEW YORK: ANY time a certain drug seller feels like boasting, it won't be about the time he met detective Kathrvn Barry. Detective Barry and three male colleagues <• )sed m on him one ni«ht when he stepped m a car to
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    Face up to it!
    351 2  - Face up to it INGRID ETTER ''IF", he said, "women 1 sat down and really looked objectively at their own faces they would smile in half an hour and laugh outright within an hour". The man who credits us with this super sense of humour is Mr. Richard Blore. the
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    56 2 Like Mother— Like Dcv Similar to the grown-ups wtt the fm four-year-old twins Svsan [left) ana London, With the tutns is* Ninette parade of'neuTalllumnrsTplei r^vrT^—. by 16 of London's leading fur mam. Fair Hotel. Object of the shy., wai it is possible for women to Iwy occasion at a modest
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  • EDNA McKENNA'S PARIS FASHION NEWS
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      Trousers in
      216 2 AM ADAME, you may wear the trousers after all. Trousers were a main feature of the Pierre Balmain collection. In jersey, m satin and m fur they were designed for town wear, for home lounging and even for sport Most striking pair m leopard was worn under a
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      Austerity out
      254 2 AUSTERITY is definitely A. OUT. Coats and suits are lavishly fur trimmed. "Little bits of mink" appear as a normal trimming on jlre^s^s^JWliit^^rminemakes snowy; falry^sTory toques, and great bunches of parma violets nestle sentimentally on long-haired muffs. Fath showed coats, straight and seldom full length, but with pleated
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      The 'Fan Line'
      260 2 presentation of the Alwynn show could not have afforded greater contrast. This 25-y oar-old partScot, part-Frenchman, held his collection In a narrow little house m the not-so-smart part of the Faubourg de Balnte HSooore. They found his is the it, wittiest, prettiest and most flirtatious collection m
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    U.S. Woman's Diary
    218 2  - U.S. Woman 's Diary KAY MURRAY By I\OCTORS m Georgia are using some painless psychology to find out more about the way vmng children think. Speaklne to the American Home Economics Association In Boston Dr. Irwin V. Spcrry of the University of Georgia, described a new and successful technique they
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      125 2 WSmr RADLi\CE for yon Elizabeth Uja Arden s Or.iy a perfectionist m complex c^ care. Miss A.rde r herself, co- d c-eate nt* Pat-a-Crene the fas" W Mfei that't good for your skirt. Just fingc pat fee! its sr. s-e tee e.e-y tiny 1 a virish i MffpOTMtl I I
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      292 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR gOßN floday you have a early m life. If you can find keen mind which is a someone, who is attuned to rare combination of intui- your ideals and ein cone tion and logic. You have a with your caprices of teni persuasive way about you perament,
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      286 2 New Crossword No. 119 j I I I I I j (LL'ES ACROSS 5. 6. Unable to say a word (10 1. 7. Because one's are B'> or because one is 13. 16? (4). 8. See 7 (6). 10. 11. Mona's notes for a rocky cutter (5-5). 13, 16. See
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    KOREAN FUTURE LOOMS HAZY
    426 3 Careful Red preparations LONDON, Monday. THE reduction of the American position m Korea to an enlarged bridgehead, from which the mounting of a counter-offensive is certain to be a lengthy operation, brings into even sharper relief than before the importance of the internal Korean picture m
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    Claims skull by 'right of inheritance'
    62 3 I 80, Moil. MUUSi n jawella, Magistrate's > of having ained a an rebel ela Kepp.tiL'va. p Mr. U. M. that the r his great- claimed it 9f\3STr' inheritance." a ken, he ■:on by the request Duchesa oi irned it to the r, when
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    New aerial weapon will have a brain
    95 3 I r FIELD, California. Monday. i ITES aeronautical scientists are I suptr-sonic rocket with a robot In aerial combat. .1 ready m the test model stage lutical Laboratory of the National nitee for Aeronautics (N.A.C.A.) at California. Provision is being made arhead of
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    NEW CHAMBER
    20 3 A Ceylonese Chamber of Commerce has been formed at Colombo at a representative meeting of Ceylonese businessmen.— Reuter
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    24 3 pirture. |\rlhur lalki with the IS. Ambassador i Mr. John J. Muni.t. at the General's it ins on Ihe South Korean war front. A.P.
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    Told to go
    26 3 Seretse Khama. banned Bamangwato chief, his Lon-don-born wife. Ruth, and their baby daughter have been ordered to leave Bechuanaland within a fortnight. Reuter
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    SMALL DEMAND FOR CABBAGES
    40 3 SMALL DEMAND FOR CABBAGE S ea have been c per pound he housewife m London, whole:ng it difficult ren as pig food. balers are offerc&b^ages at one nu> even then sh». "This Is a It often r '-mmented one Reuter
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    32 countries recognise Chiang
    95 3 32 countries recognise Chiang TAIPEH, Moil. SOME 32 countries still recognise the Nationalist Government of China compared with a peak of 39 test October, when Soviet Russia switched her diploma 1 ie relationship to the Communist regime at Peking. A list of these countries obtained from official sources showed them
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    Fire sweeps Riviera
    65 3 TOULON. Man. \IORE than 5.000 troops, villagers and firemen battled desperately last week to isolate Riviera resorts from a forest blaze which had already sent British and other holiday makers treking to safety. Ditches nnqed thousand! of flame blackened acres a> fire finhters. red-eyed with urn Ice
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    Queen's nephew to be clergyman
    75 3 A nephew of Queen Elizabeth who weu> a Canwron Highlander m World War II has decided to become a clergyman. He is the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, second son of Lord Elphinstone. Mr. Elphinstone ha 3 completed the general ordination for the Church of England, and
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    18 3 picture. The King and the Queen arrive at London's White City Stadium for the International Horse Show. A.P.
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    Bridge Hands
    267 3 Both Bides vul»*rabl«. Soatb dealer HERE'S another hand whert an expert bridge analyst made a positive statement. It s up to you to figure whether nes right or wrong. Wes* casned two top diamonds and East ruffed the third round Then, with Ed Marcus of Boston as declarer.
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    Panelled room goes to U.S.
    76 3 Panelled room goes to U.S. A London antique dealer learned that a panelled room from a, demolished Georgian mansion which once stood near London is to become part of a Hollywood millionaire's home. The dealer bought the room —casement window. Norwegian pine panels, massive pine doors and beautifully carved fittings
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    BIG SHARKS 'ARE SAFE'
    379 3 VIENNA, Monday. OIG sharks let you ride them but little ones bite. **This is the discovery made by Dr. Hans Hass, well-known Austrian deep sea explorer, uhtyologist and shark fighter, during investigations he made into life m the Red Sea. 4 '£v., day" he said m
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    Garbo offered big part in 'Odyssey' film
    271 3 Garbo offered big part in 'Odyssey' film NAPLES, Monday. A USTRALIAN film director, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, is sunbathing on the island of Ischia, off the Bay of Naples, while awaiting the reply of a fabulous film star to his request to star m a fabulous film. The star is Greta
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    500,000 JOBLESS IN SHANGHAI
    102 3 500,000 JOBLESS IN SHANGHAI HONG KONG. Mon. FE Communist Mayor of Shanghai, General Chen Yi. recently gave a revealing account of the acute unemployment situation m the city. He estimated that between now and next summer perhaps 500,000 persons would be m "dire need of relief." Mayor Chen who is
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    PERMIT FOR JAPS
    27 3 General Mac Arthurs Headquarters has informed the Japanese Transportation Minis:ry that permission has been granttd for Japanese vessels to use the Panama Cana:.- Reuter
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    Braille for Africans
    33 3 A system of braille suitable for am of the 800 thb;»l languages of Africa has been evolved. It was finally approved by a committee of experts meeting m London. A.P.
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    ANTI-ATOMIC TRAINING
    43 3 A Dew Home C i specialism;; m anti-^ warfare Ls expected to form part of Britair .irral defence reorganisation. It would be trained In aircraft p,un warfare if necessary. Home Gnu rould ran* this artllk they did m the lusi Reuter
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      232 3 t*s-^t\ t-> 4 7 "From the London Editorials'' SINGAPORE (BBC); 4.55 "Composer of the (BLUE NETWORK) Week" Liszt; 5.15 "Colonial 484 and 41 7 metres. Commentary" (BBC); 5.30 "Ad--10 ajn. News from Singapore; ventures of Captain Kettle"-* 10 10 Close down; 12 Programmes 'Mr. Oedge Settles His Account; In' Malay
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  • The Singapore Free Press
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      The real danger
      268 4 pUNERAL Douglas Mac- Arthur is a fine soldier, but his capabilities as statesman are not mniversally held m the tame high esteem as is bis military record. It \m for that reason that president Truman has tent Mr. Averell Harriaaan to Tokyo. Mr. Harriman. who is the
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      Misgivings
      238 4 J]VEN the "hands off" order was received with some misgivings by many rutions, including Britain. ?i>r one thing, President truman's action had no Tfhited Nations' authorityIt was an unilateral military action taken with the sole purpose of localising the Korean conflict —and thus did not command the same backing
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    1152 4 NEW YORK: II ERE and now I want to emphasise what an unfortunate impression is being made on the American Congress, public, and Press by the lack of a bold British policy over Korea Criticism of Britain increases every day. We are being maligned m print and
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    The New 'Super' House of Commons
    972 4  - The New 'Super House of Commons JOHN HALL By IF it is true that man Ms a creature of environment, there are dear times ahead for the taxpayer. For when his M.P. returns to Westminster after the summer recess he will go back to the rebuilt House of Commons, to
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    A Golden 'Dream Plan'
    191 4  - A Golden 'Dream Plan GEOFFREY JENKINS ly COUTH Africa has undertaken tih* world's biggest industrial task. It will cost £25,0d0,000 and m 15 years will keep 40.000 workers busy. And it is a paying proposition, for it will give a return of £2,000,000,000, and pay £240,000.000 m taxes to the
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    POLICE BOYS' SCHOOL TO OPEN SOON
    277 5 POLICE BOYS' SCHOOL TO OPEN SOON 30 to train from September 1 Free Press Staff Reporter MALAYA'S first Police Boys' Cadet School will be opened in Singapore on Sept. 1, when 30 boys between the ages of 12 and 14 will start training to fit themselves for police work. Twenty-seven
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    71 5 picture. Major-General G. B. Erskine (left). Defence Department representative on the United States military mission visiting Malaya, Is greeted at Kalian? airport. Singapore, yesterday afternoon by the U.S. Consul-General, Mr. William R. Langdon. In the centre is the leader of the mission. Mr. John F. Me Iby of the U.S.
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    'WHY CAN'T WE LIVE IN PEACE?'
    382 5 Maria (and husband) to parents Free Press Staff Reporter rllE people of Holland and Europe must not forget this time of democracy and must show that idt is now no difference m colour or creed... l am i>appointed to read m the papers about
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    PENANG GIRL CHARGED
    126 5 Fw Press Staff Reporter PENANG. Tues. 16-YEAR-OLD girl, Low Poh Khum, was charged yesterday m the First Magistrate's Court on two counts of possessing seditious documents. Low is alleged to have a "propaganda form" and five copies of the banned "True News' m a house m Malacca
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    S'pore teacher for U.K.
    100 5 Fee Press Staff Reporter TWENT Y- three year old 1 Laurence Koh Boon Piang. a teacher attached to St. Anthony's Boys' School, is leaving Singapore this week to take a four-year course m art m the United Kingdom on an Education Department scholarship. Mr. Koh was
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    Co-Ops to open another branch
    115 5 Fet Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Co-operative Stores Society, Ltd., plan to open another branch as soon as the suitable premises has been acquired, Mr. Lim Kean Chye, Secretary of the Society, told the Free Press yesterday. The location of the new branch is not yet
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    TOOK 80cts., GAOLED
    120 5 KUALA LUMI ck. I on.— For attempting to cheat a Chinese of 80 cents, Musa bin Haji Talib was sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment by Mr.D.M.X. Grant, president of the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court. Musa, m the uniform of a hospital attendant, went to a shop
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    46 5 picture. Air. G. W. Kerr, the new Assistant Public Relations Officer for HQ, Far East Air Force, Changi, arrived here yesterday on a QantasßOAC Constellation from London. Mr. Kerr was met at the Airport by the R.A.F. Public Relations Officer, Mr. W. S. Ashford. Free Press
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    TRESPASS CHARGE
    52 5 KUALA 11, Mon.— Balakrishman, an Indian aged 20, claimed trial when charged m the first magistrate's court. Kuala Lumpur, this morning with house trespass wilh intention to annoy the householder at Loke Yew road Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. Bail of $100 m one surety was allowed and the
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    COCKTAIL PARTY
    24 5 Singapore Chinese Mechanics' Association are celebrating their 22nd anniversary with a cocktail party at the Air View Restaurant at 2 p.m. today.
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    Student research in N. Borneo
    156 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FERE is no immediate possibility of students being sent by the University of Malaya to do anthropological research work m North Borneo, Prof. T. H. Silcock, Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, told the Free Press yesterday. Prof. Silcock was
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    3 ISLANDS OFF STORE PRIVATELY OWNED
    228 5 3 ISLANDS OFF STORE PRIVATELY OWNED Free Press Staff Reporter f SLAND-buying li not a po--1 pular pastime m Singapore, the Free Press learnt yesterday; only three out of more than 50 islands surroundine this Colony are pri-vately-owned. They are Pulaus Serangoon. Tekona Ketchil and Damar Laut purchased respectively by
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    Cripple, 77, to start 'new life'
    46 5 picture. Mrs. R. Ruff, a 77-year-old crippled German woman, is one of four passengers on the Qantas lU).\(' Constellation which arrived m Singapore yesterday. They are on their way to Melbourne from Jerusalem to "start a new life" Free Press
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    Biggest haul of illicit tobacco
    123 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Tuesday. AN attempt to smuggle 44,542 lbs. of Siamese tobacco at Pontian Kechil, Johore, was frustrated by Inche Elias bin Haji Ali, Junior Customs Officer, and a party of men from the Preventive Branch of the Customs Department. This
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    RAF recruiting
    48 5 recruiting KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Recruiting for the R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) wJu take place m the Feder.uion during August and September. About 90 recruits are requiredFlight Lieutenant A. J W Enstone will be In charge of the recruiting party, which will visit various towns m the Federation.
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    Coffee-shopowners' plea to S.M.C.
    152 5 Coffee-shop owners' plea to S.M.C. Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Foochow Coffee Shop Association has asked the Municipal Commissioners to make landlords of coffee-shop premises responsible for connecting their premises to the sewerage system wherever possible. Under a recent ruling, eof- fee-shops and eating houses m areas where sewers are
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    Changed from Health course to midwifery
    347 5 Changed from Health course to midwifery Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners "strongly deprecated the action of a staff nurse, Mrs. Piong Eu Moi. who went on a scholarship to the United Kingdom to take a health visitor's course but abandoned the idea shortly after arrival m favour of
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    Rediffusion strike continues
    163 5 Rediffusion strike continues "'THE strike at Rediffuaion. Singapore* Ltd., appears to be essentially a Malay wiremen's strike," Mr. G H Oldridge, General Manager of the Company, told the Free Press this morning. Today's count showed that 87 employees had downed tools over a 10 -point demand for better working conditions
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    CLOSE FINISHES AT YESTERDAY'S RACES
    372 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS Miss Na than just able to win By YESTERDAY'S holiday rating at Penang, second day of the August Hank Holiday Meeting, saw a number of mild upsets. Only two favourites scored during the afternoon. Close finishes m most of the races more than
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    61 6 picture. The 120 yards hurdles m progress at the Malayan athletic championships on the University of Malaya ground last Saturday. From left to right: Tan Chin Kit (Pahang), Ng Liang Chiang (Spore), Michael Parry (Selangor), Lloyd Valberg (Spore), Tan Soo Liat (Spore) and A. A. de Souza (Spore). Valberg won
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    Denis Compton will never play again
    430 6  -  ARCHIE QUICK ENCLISH SOCCER PROSPECTS By SOCCER is already stirring, so I am starting to sound the prospects of the various clubs. August 19 marks a new record for an early start to a season. It is a bare week or so ago since
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    1st- FIXTURES FOR SEASON
    188 6 1st- FIXTURES FOR SEASON pOLLOWINQ are football fixtures for the opening ■of the 1950-51 season m the I United Kingdom on Baturj day. Aii«». 12. Scottish LtAf.it tip— div -a i I Abrrdrra v Llrde Celtic v East tlfr ilkirk v St. Mirrra Hibrrni iq v Dundrr i Morton Ran(rr»
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    ODSAL BEAT BELLE VUE
    68 6 Belle Vue, Manchester, at home yesterday lost to Odsal. i Bradford. m a National League speedway match, the visitors scoring 44 points to the 40 of Belle Vue, I rail Lawton <11 and Dent Oliver '9> were chief reri for the homo side while Oliver Hart
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    Big Sweep results
    61 6 RESULTS of the Rig Sweep drawn on race eight at Peiiaiig yesterday Htrc: Total pool: S3!?.:{»;0. Ist No. 42*863 (sx:<.Bl3) ?nd No. *****1 <s4l.ww;> 3rd No. 37."»M»K < S-JU.M.VJ) Starters ($5,238 earh): Not. 39*153, *****3, 41K:.U. *****9. Ml 404. 3041 til. 18i;«4M. 3€733t. Consolation: S ».05»5 euh)
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    Boxing veteran dead
    69 6 Boxing veteran dead Jack Meekings, English heavyweight, who claimed to have had 1.700 nghus. starting m the burt'-knucklf days, died at Kingston Hill. England, yesterday. He was 69. He was said to be the first man to knock out the French boxing-kicking champion. Charles Chabner. and afterwards stayed m France
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    YMCA TENNIS
    41 6 YM c A nanaicap tourn*mr:Jt tl?t for today nre as foi'.ows: < Uin A Heap Double*: Dr ..n Ah X I KM) Tin H Ck Seng < X Tan and C No»Ue s Opfii >ing|e<, »»rnn linal'.):— H Lim Ni' i^mn
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    HOW THE HORSES RAN
    650 6 r pilS was how the ho ran yesterday. RACK ONE Royal Eai,'!e scored an u\frdue \un. This bom had ra< ed I 1 consistently re< i was always well placed. He fought the Issue o with Catherine over th° la't two furlongs. Demaratus, i the ier.
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    11 6 "Unfortunately, at this stage. Grey Lodv wos withdrawn from the re
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    'We must stand firm against aggression' —MR. PERCY SPENDER
    374 6 'We must stand firm against aggression' MR. PERCY SPENDER Free I're^ Staff Reporter pOINTING to the significant of the K,,. flict. Mr. Percy Spender. Australia s Minister i External Affairs said in Singapore v, "Anyone can see very plainly that m in past of the world can mean ag?rev*ion i
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    LANCS LEAD YORKSON 1st INNINGS
    673 7 LANCS LEAD YORKSON 1st INNINGS Vital match m championship fHERE was a puisating struggle yesterday for first-innings points m the Yorkshire v. Lancashire battle, which means so much m the county cricket championship to both teams. Lancashire, with one wicket standing, were a run short of Yorkshire's total and then
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    Johore Grand Prix winner
    30 7 picture. J. M "Pat" Pattinson. of Singapore passing the winning post first m the Johore (.rind Prix on Sunday. Pattinson drove a superM.G. 4T.C Free Press
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    Glamorgan do well v. West Indies
    153 7 Glamorgan do well v. West Indies Vlndies.witn seven L-inningl wickets m I a ding by only 18 ciose on th- 1 second match against Swansea yes;.;n. with 32: a Wsd or 111 and West Indies tickets for utacnMp by md w Jones I two -;ia-e was 105 and i fours
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    South run out easy winners
    208 7 J ii.l m out easy winners m their annual t match played at Ipoh yesterday when ih-v derated North by 13 runs. nines, declared at 225 at tne lunch interval, and were able to do this uf'er a fine eighth v icket partnership between ot
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    Malaya Cup rugger
    141 7 Malaya Cup rugger Rugtr 111 ana--9 ;;n UN riON 14 p Ipoh: I umpur. :i»or. Ipoli. Kcdah. 11 Kedah v P»Tak. Ked -ag- v Perak. Kiuhi i Penal* Kedah. Penan*. Peralc. Peoang: Kedah. P- rak v Kedah. Ipoh: Kuala Lumpu: ■sol THERN SECTION i H Sembilri v Ser- <>^ Ground.
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    Boon Leong in fine form
    204 7 SINGAPORE Chinese yesterday defeated Johore Chinese 4—l to enter the Malayan Chinese F.A. Cup final against Penang. Singapore were by far the superior side and much credit for their victory is owed to the fine work by Boon Leong who was the brains behind the
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    16 7 phrtnre. Four members of the Penan, Tethers' Tennis .•ar l;; w 1 g. %?*Z%2%S*' Straits Times
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    Flashy v. Tawan
    42 7 THE Singapore Boxing Board of Control has approved of the forthcoming fight at the Happy World this Friday between Flashy Sebastian and Vai Tawan of Siam. Tawan will arrive tometime this week, fresh from his training camp m Br.ngKoK.
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    Student begins Channel swim
    167 7 Turkish student Guler slipped into the English Channel at Cap Gris Nez at 2 35 p.m. yesterday m his attempt to swim across to England. ttj Guler was so confident or his chances that he piled all his baggjage m an accompanying boat "to use on
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    Penang Cup Team Win 3-1
    119 7 PEN'ANG'S Malaya Cup tear/, beat Selangor Chinese by three-nil m a friendly match t.day on the Westlands School ground. All the Roals were scored m trie second half after Penang failed to get going IB the first thirv minutes. In the second half. Penang asserted
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    Tanglin tennis
    98 7 rE fo. lowing fixtures nf the T antiun C'.ub Lavm Tennis ch;im i, msiiiDS Will bf held tins eun Womrns Handirap Doubles final: Mrs iv Greenwood :»!»l Mrs Peartv v M.xs Nathan ami Mrs. Daw* Handicap Mixed Doubles: Mr and j Mrs Tan Hr m-:i I W Wratttn
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    Bankers win
    44 7 OLAYING vuth or.lv ten men, Chartered Bank Sports Club defeated Breweries Sports Club by two goals to one when they met m a Business Houses B socctr tie played at BO. DC. A. ground yesterday. Bankers scored through McCulloch and Bohd. Sullen.
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    SWISS WINS TOUR de FRANCE
    201 7 T^ERDINAND Kubler. 33, yester- day gave Switzerland thenfirst victory m Frances famous cycle road race-the Tour de France- being held for the 37th time and which finished m Paris. It is estimated that the vidfcry will be worth 2.000,000 francs to Kubler. who took over
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    Wong retains singles title
    304 7 WONG Peng Soon, Malayan and All-England badminton champion took 31 minutes to retain his Malayan singles title when he defeated Ooi Teik Hock the Penang and former Malayan champion m straight sets at 15—13, 15—3. It was the fifth time that Peng Soon had won the
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    CUP-FINAL PLANS
    120 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE 24th final of the Malaya Cup Competition will be played on Saturday on the Malaya District ground between Penang and Singapore. Special traffic arrangements have been worked out these will be similar to the arrangements which were made m all the past big matches.
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    Heng Kwang beaten in three sets
    297 7  -  VETERAN By t\¥ the four fourth-round ties m the men's junior singles championship decided at the Clerical Union Hall last night, o ne big upset was registered. Ne: Heng Kwang (Swift), a semi-finalist last year, was beaten after three hard sets by Liew Khoon
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    Airways beaten
    137 7 OHELL Company played vigorous soccer at Geylang Stadium yesterday to beat the Malayan Airways by a solitary goal m a Business Houses' soccer fixture. The Airways averted a heavier defeat due to good defence, particulary by Hamid. Lloyd m goal distinguished himself with his good clearances. Though Shell
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    Perostan to miss Gold Cup race
    297 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS From PENANO. Tuesday. PEROSTAN, one of the fancied horses to win the Penan* Gold Cup to be run here this Saturda> will not start, according to his trainer Jtmflg Martin. Some of the horses entering for the Gold C race were given
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    M.LT.A. tourney results
    156 7 RESULTS of all finiK the Malayan |MH championship which concluded at Kuala Lumpur yesterday are: MEflf SINGLI Ong Chen Bee (Sport) beat Chin Kee Onn IFk.l 6—4, 6—o. MEN'S DOLBLtS Ong Chew Bee an 1 Lim Hee Chin (Singapore) beat Goon Kok Lem (Pf.) and Timothy Lee
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    Prisons S.C. beaten
    37 7 Free Pr^ss < orresoondent JOHORE BAHRU. Tue« rPHE Prisous Sport* Club who are leading m League competition were unexpeci«>c.\ beaten by the second string of MM 221 Vehicle Battalion b^ litary goal of Hrn match.
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      48 7 Today's sport SOCCEB: Snr. (op tie R.A> Ckangi t K«ta Raja at Jalan Bcsar stadium Jnr. Cap tie: Tuiti M«n(r O.B.A t CJUL »t Cfvlane Business Hse. A: Fra*er A \>ax< v Malayan Publishinc Hac *l Police Depot ground. TENNh r M( A. and Tan-lin Club tournaments (cont.).
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    BIRTH
    28 8 DkNAfiO At Hannover, on 1950. to Pe??y <nee| I of Lt.-Col G. T. D.5.0.. Tlie York and t Regiment (ex Malay R«- -;pot^ 8.A.0.R. n a daughter
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    MARRIAGE
    31 8 I -.-C T '-J* A1 f h e S*s' Peter p,l> rh rt*. Spore. en the sth Richard T. H Lee, j Boon Beck, to m^-\ fhngblci of Mrs J
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    17 8 NTPS RONALD MINI all thcwe, who at- vaIMDK and lewloo ol th-te '■:i S 8. 50.
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    P.M.'s 'LOOK-SEE'
    34 8 The Australian Premier. Mr. Robert G. Menzies. said !in New York yesterday beifore leaving by air for Ottawa I that he would probably ro Ito Japan foi a M look-*ee.**- A .P.
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    WAR CONFERENCE
    27 8 President Truman jesterday held a war confermee with the joint Chiefs of Staff and received a detailed bri» fing on the country's military position. U.P.
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    BABIES WHO IGNORE MOTHERS
    300 8 BABIES WHO IGNORE MOTHERS Many 'wickedly arrogant' LIVERPOOL, Tuesday. MOST men fall heavily for a glossy s n h <"<* proud mother and beaming baby. But when psychologists look at the same picture they see Something entirely different. This is what they said in Liverpool, England, at a meeting of
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    PRUNELLA STACK REMARRIES
    35 8 Lady David DouglasHamilton, formerly Prunella Stack, director of the Women's U||M of Health and Beauty, leaves uith her bridegroom. Mr. Alfred Abei-s, of Capetown, after their wedding m St. George's Cathedral, Capetown.
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    G.I. disarms would-be executor
    149 8 With the U.S. 25th Division. Tues. A 19-YEAR-OLD GI heard A the bolt of a North Korean's rifle click behind him, but returned to American lines to tell the tale. He is Private Robert L. Young from Pullman, Michigan. Young til captured when he walked into
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    NEW ARMS PLAN FOR FRANCE
    41 8 NEW ARMS PLAN FOR FRANCE France yesterday announc ed a 2 000.000.000.000 frarc (about £2,000.000.000 thrervear arms programme calling for 15 new divisions. buT said Atlantic Pact defence required that Britain and America should send new fiivi- sions to Western Europe.
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    HUGE METEOR CRATER FOUND
    57 8 HUGE METEOR CRA TER FOUND A METEORITE crater, three miles wide and far larger than any other found yetr has been discovered near the Hudson Strait m the province of Quebec. The newspaper said the crater was sighted by a Royal Ontario Museum of Geology and Mineralogy expedliion led by
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    KREMLIN QUIET ON KOREA
    189 8 BERLIN Tuesday. THE men m the Kremlin are going easy on news about the war In Korea. They are not telling the people of Kussia very much about it. The front pages of Moscow's newspapers are dominated by the world 'mir*— 'peace' There is no evidence
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    P.I.'s gesture 'splendid'
    55 8 WASHINGTON, Tues. T S. Government leaders m Washington yesterday hailed the Philippines' •splendid action" In offering to sond »round troops to fight m Korea. A State Department spokesman said that Congressmen and United States officials Joined m calling iho gpsrure a "sacrifice thai would command the respecifui
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    Arrested, resigned
    36 8 The U.S Stat. Department said yesterday that one ot its F.tr Eastern experts had been permitted to resign aftt-r being arrested on a sex perversion chart?*-. The Department did not name th^ man. U.P.
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    NAKED MAN ATTACKS TWO SCHOOLGIRLS
    203 8 LONDON. Tuesday. SCHOOL children on the first days of their summer holidays ran terrified through park woods near Kuislip Middlesex, when they found two fourteen-vear-old girl staggering through a quiet *lade. In the distance they caught a glimpse of a naked man. well over 6ft.,
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    Parachutists on Vietminh
    83 8 SAIGON, Tue PARACHUTISTS dropped by 1 French Air Force; planes on Saturday repulsed two strong attacks by guerilla forces of the Russian-re-cognised Victminh insurrectionary government m IndoChina, it is stated. The forces have been besieging the French outpost of Samitsu m the rich Song Ma valley of
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    Mistaken identity
    37 8 A BABY llama sold as a female was returned to Wellington New Zealand, zoo by the purchaser. He said it was a male That was eight years ago. Now the llama has had a baby.
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    PRINCESS-AND FUTURE QUEEN
    58 8 PRINCESS-AND FUTURE QUEEN Two yonng women who have 6et the world speculating. But Princess Margaret, presenting the 'Princess Margaret' Cup at the National Pony Show m Middlesex, quietly carries on with her royal duties, while Narriman Sadek, whom King Farouk is expected to marry, adopts an air of resignation as
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    Indian Red to stay at home
    67 8 MR S. A. Dange. Indian vice-president (-f the World Federation of Trade Unions. >>rday refused a passport Pans to attend a meeting of the WFTU. It was learned m Bon:b.-\ that the government rejected '«he application on the ground thai an-t:-govi-rnment propaganda abroad is
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    Husband struck wife's escort: to pay £100
    121 8 Husband struck wife's escort: to pay £100 LONDON, Tuesday. 4 HUSBAND who agreed that he knocked a man A down when he saw him walking; with his wife was ordered by a London County Court Judge to pay The man £100 damages for three months loss of wices while under
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    SPAAK AGAIN ELECTED
    64 8 MPAUL H>nri Spaak of Belgium was r^-elected President of the European Consultative Assembly yesterday despite strong criticism oi his role m the campaign of violence which has forced King Leopold to agree to relinquish the Belgian throne. M Spaak was re-elected b> a vote of 90 to
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    PALESTINE TALKS ARABS KILLED
    32 8 PALESTINE TALKS ARABS KILLED THE second series of Ihe United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine meetings was opened at Jerusalem yesterday. A.P. On seV p od m a east ol I Reuter
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    Girl, 4, rope to her bed
    199 8 LONDON I lay. OUTSIDE the children were pUm Little Susan White, azed four, could bft th and longed to join them— but often sh, scarcely move, and her world was often onh ratai 12ft. by 9ft.. a bare floor, and three truckle i At*
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