The Singapore Free Press, 17 August 1950

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press 9sm===ss LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA v> SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17. 1950. PKICE TEN CENTS.
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    BIG BLOW AT 'STUNNED' REDS
    382 1 BIG BLOW AT 'STUNNED' REDS Marines strike at Naktong bulge IT S. MARINES and the 2 1th. Division launched a heavy combined offensive at 8 a.m. today against an estimated division of North Korean troops in the Changnyong bulge of the Naktong River line. This new U.S. attack comes as
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    JITTERS COST 2 TANKS
    192 1 JITTERS COST 2 TANKS A JITTERY North Korean tank commander yesterday cost his army two tanks and the lives of their crews. Lieut. Bill Turner of Dallas, Texas, and Capt. Irving Coryell of Atlanta, Georgia, were out m the afternoon hunting severi enemy tanks that had crossed the Allied side
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    Russian with North Koreans
    356 1 Russian with North Koreans I r > n SYDNKY SMITH Fl SAN. Thursday. j ml exhausted, a South Korean nt. wounded in both legs and dressed as .il into the cut-off headquarters of t.i>k force in the east front beachth Americans they were facing one 10.000 Koreans. too. that their
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    Prince Charles told he has a baby sister
    145 1 Prince Charles told he has a baby sister LONDON. Thurs. PRINCESS Elizabeth sat up m her bed yesterday propped by pillows, and broke Lhe news to Prince Charles •hat he has a baby sister. Prtoceti Elizabeth feared he 21-month-oid boy might be a little jealous of the newcomer, but Court
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    JAP COTTON GOODS
    20 1 Japanese production of cotton goods is still increasing, the Japanese Spinners Assopn announced m Tokyo yesterday.- Reuter
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    Red planes come out again
    44 1 Red planes come out again that a Mm-'.-lit-r ptM" bomber on kta| the »\rst .1 tint M North Korea ...position, r Kussian-buili •bserved durrtfe ot the 38th I ther did not II .itt uk. in.id;' "two or it tru- Super ifflcf th«'A »1 it.
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    Kashmir talks prolonged
    87 1 KARACHI, Thurs. THE stage m the Kashmir demilitarisation talks which last week-end appeared likely to lead to the return to Lake Success of the Sir Owen Dixon. the United Nations mediator m the Kashmir dispute, has apparently been passed. While Sir Owen's stay m Karachi is still
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    Pilgrims force ship back
    88 1 BOMBAY. Thurs. ABOUT 500 Muslims aboard the 7.000- ton pilgrim ship, Jalaciurgs have forced the captain to bring the ship back to port an hour after the vessel left for Jeddah. The Muslims, who are en route to Mettu. iff used to continue the voyage leaving
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    CIVILIAN GOODS FOR S. KOREA
    41 1 The U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration said yesterday that it had approved more than $10,000,000 worth of non-military supplies tor South Korea since the outbreak of war. Much of the supplies already has reached the Republic. U.P
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    CIVIL DEFENCE
    20 1 Britain is to increase h*r expenditure on civil defence t>y over a half during the coming year. Reuter
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    NEW PARLIAMENT
    17 1 President Soekarno presided yesterday over the formal installation of the new Indonesian republic's parliament..- A.P.
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    EARTHQUAKE WRECKS SIX VILLAGES
    148 1 EARTHQUAKE WRECKS SIX VILLAGES NEW DELHI. Thurs. m vT IVfiiST six north -eastern J\ Indian vitfag^s wer»' parnally destroyed and thousands of persons maov homeless by one of history's greatest earthquakes which shook the "roof of the world on Tuesday night. Official reports said damage was "considerable" throughout the north-east
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    Tin returned
    35 1 Soveral lots of tin totalling 18.962 kilograms valued at US $31,225.30, looted by the Japanese during the war. have been restored to the United Kingdom, Gen. Mac Arthur's headquarters In Tokyo announced yesterday.
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    ANGRY MUSLIMS STORM CITY HALL
    114 1 KARACHI, Thursday. YIKFTINGS of more than five persons and the carrying of weapons were banned yesterday after a mob of 1,000 infuriated Muslims stormed the City Hall and attempted to set it on fire. The mob burned office records and furniture to protest against a
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    Carry arms, French told
    67 1 Saigon, Thurs. FRENCH civilians m IndoChina were urged by authorities yesterday to carry arms constantly, especially m rural areas. The French Commissioner m Cambodia made the suggestion as a result of a raid by Vietminh partisans la,st Saturday on a movie theatre on a rubber plantation,
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    WARSHIP LEAVING
    31 1 The Dutch destroyer Kortenaer leaves Sourabaya on August 25 for Holland via Colombo and Malta. This will leave only one Dutch warship, the destroyer Banker' m Indonesian waters. A.P.
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    NEW GOVT. IS SWORN IN
    35 1 Princo Baudmiin 19-yoar-nld Regent of Belgium, swoiv m his first government yesterday. The 16-Tiember all Catholic administration held their flfcrst cabinet meeting immediately after the short swearing m i"TPmnnv. Reuter
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    Mac & Jane —together
    33 1 Mac Jane —together HOLLWYOOD, Thurs. MAE WEST and Jane Russell will team together m "Mother Knows Best," RKO Studio announced today. Mac West will portray "Mother." THIS IS MAE -AND THIS IS JANE
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    IRO AID FOR KOREA
    27 1 The International Refugee Organisation said yesterday that negotiations are underway which may result m IRO aid to refugees m the Korean war.- A.P.
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    Hot one word...
    15 1 The Soviet prr«s yesterday ignored the ntrth or rrino«mm Elizabeth's daughter. A.P.
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    'BE HUMANE' PLEA TO REDS
    171 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday. MR. TRV(;VE Lie, United Nations Secretarv(leneral yesterday cabled an urgent appeal to the North Korean authorities to admit an international Red Cross representative into the areas controlled by them "in the interests of humanity." Mr. Lie* in a cable to Pak Hen
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    Formosa 'muddle': British anger
    311 1 Formosa 'muddle': British anger LONDON. Thins. THE Prime Minister Mr. Clement Attlee met with his cabinet yestrrday to hasten British rearmament but the threat of a British-^meric::n rift over Formosa 0*A shadowed the talks I.:- hour end C alike have aesiiled Mr A"lee for the T muddlr" and thr> Government
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    Writers Whose Pens Are Free
    735 2  -  PETER QUENNELL reviews new books < m U.K. "TALK of the "heritage of Western civilisation," which we are tiled upon to defend gainst its Eastern adi r snries, does not 'ways 2:0 with a very understanding of what that hiritage ids for. 11, m the
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    QUICK LOOKS
    122 2 I >\ > orv. hy R Xi .icy. 'X Hart- A utubioc ph tea I at dly exclamatory, terntotg loquacious, at time tre barrassinc;. iuf at other times umusinq. of a viofcru r riaQ€. i-i spite of vertiginous lusted for more that> ten years Last Easajs, n G.
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    A Popular Author
    243 2 ("ELEBRITY No. 1 down Falmouth way is Gl-year-old Howard Spring He is stopped m the stieeU for his autograph; people point out his Georgian house to visitors. Spring rMy books get longer and longer" > is now halt -way through his new novel. Crystal Palace. Each day
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    'England' in Central Asia
    356 2 rpHE house m which A for three years Mrs. Diana Shipton lived was solid, substantial and Edwardian. There were antlers on the wall; and from the baize of the billiards table to the pay chintz of the drawing-room, the place had the respectable solidity of an
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    21 2 Molesey Regatta— framed m the trees Blackfriars Rowing Club is seen beating Quintin Rowing Club by a Quarter of a length.
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    These People Are Too 'Messy'
    685 2  - These People Are Too 'Messy' Margaret Lane sdfdfdfsd By STAMP ME MORTAL. John Lodwick. (Heinemann) oOMETIMES it seems there is no pleasing a person. The first novel I read this week left me feeling sour because there was nobody in it one could possibly faintly like. Is it a mistake
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      351 2 mSOLUTION TO Crossword No. 116 SOLUTION.— Across: 1, Cabbage leaf. 7. Araby. 8. Wiser. 9, Nods. 10. Mappin. 12. Tr>ss-up. 13. Lung. 15. Tiara. 16. Beset. 17. Hush -a -by baby. Down: 1, Chain stitch. 2, Brandy-snaps. 3. Amyl. 4. Enwrap. 5. East Prussia. 6. Fortnightly. 11. Purana. 14. Obey.
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      132 2 New Crossword No. 127 CLUES ACROSS 1. Where Childe Roland arrived (4. 5». 7. Lily of France (3). 8. Fillet for female (7). 9. Bitten by the acting bug (5-6). 11. Wormwood pudding? (6-5). 13. Sound fall for Speaker (7). 15. L*-ok, it turns up at the foot of 12
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    INDONESIANS TRY A NEW WAY
    339 3 INDONESIANS TRY A NEW WAY U.S. I. left them confused JAKARTA, Wednesday. QROUPING for peace and unity m shattered Asia, the Indonesians have scrapped their eight-month-old constitution and are t 0 try a new state system. They have replaced the loosely federated U.S.I, with a strongly centralised government, wiping out
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    28 3 picture. irnm.ivanjivi. of- Oylon. chats with Mr. They were among l.! 0."> dele^.itt> from intrtra who receatb attended th#- Sahration r:i.itii»nal >outh o>m;re» at London's Albert Hall. A.P.
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    MORE PEOPLE DIE OF CANCER
    62 3 MORE PEOPLE DIE OF CANCER LONDON, Wednesday. ah r.nv m F.nulund and Wales m 1948 was v r rtn -irtitil, but the cancer toll is trar General's statistical review of the ed shows deaths at 468.645. a rate is ::d of the civilian population and a on the previous year.
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    Ship explosion inquiry
    32 3 I >NDON\ 'THE B d a tion Into the 7.319-ton f: Lse which Rtci Sea on J 19. leavinu only one < wai ex- I I -it winching the Reuter
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    JORDAN GETS A RESPITE
    15 3 JORDAN GETS A RESPITE Arab I with has i'USI sed Ibdullah League's n th»' Reuter
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    RUSSIANS ATTEND
    18 3 lav wen rom bo atagea Leadlegation -tantin M. ol the Soviet md one iorertios* nhvskv- Reuter
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    More Japs getting sleeping sickness
    161 3 TOKYO, Wednesday. JITANESE encephalitis (sleeping sickness) has taken a toll of 25 lives this year, and is spreading •it more than seven times the speed of last year, according to the Metropolitan Disease Prevention "^Aside from the dead. 80 definitely established cases are hospitalised while
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    JEWS HAMPERED
    23 3 Moscow s East European satellites have put new Nazitype difficulties m the way of Jews wishing to emigrate to Israel. A.P.
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    Buddhists on Reds
    53 3 1 .nd Buddhist monks have ondemned UM rt-ed of Communism" during a conference kj inimer capital of Burma. the Buddhist clergy "must do =>f m^™* i. -att of Communist ideo!o?ies m Burma -tiryival of Bjddhisrr." elasi uhoiition «s ronsense Dvl r 'trail v ucwrmined b> Uit Uw
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    Plane crashes in display
    86 3 KARACHI. Wed. A PAKISTAN Air Force plane crashed and exploded at Karachi yesterday while 300.000 spectators, including the Governor-General and foreign dignitaries, looked on. The plane was one of a squadron Of Fury fighter-bombers which were strafing and bombint? targets with live ammunition at the B:
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    LIGHTNING KILLS SEVEN
    48 3 LIGHTNING KILLS SEVEN Lightning killed seven people when II itruck a fire-, works factory m a thunder- storm at Cessanitl, In South •Italy. Three hundred paper I "bombs" exploded. The owner was killed immediately with his three sons and three [employees. Two other workers were seriously injured. Reuter
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    32 nations attend
    32 3 Some 120 del( from 32 nan. r.ded the second Council meeting of the World j mbly ot Youth m I>tan- bul. The rr. ill end on Aug. 20 U.P.
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    11 3 I vc lust delivered uft««l "P pjpen to the No. 16.
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    Bridge Hands
    361 3 Both sides vulnerable South dealer South Weal North Eait 1 N T lass I N T Put 3N T All l>&«9 \NY similarity between todays hand and yesterday > Ls purely intentional. The South and West hands have been al- tert-d somewhat, but the North and East hands
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    U.N. HAS A NEW PLAN
    90 3 GENEVA, Wed. rpHF. United Nations Economic and Social Council took a step forward yesterday toward setting up a workable United Nations mechanism for promoting full employment and improved social and economic condition, m the world. After months of research and debav the council unanimously ;>;
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    Business goes on as usual
    68 3 TOKYO. Tues. Japanese businessmen obviously expect to be doing business with South Koroa for many months to come. Trade circles yesterday reported tix major Japanese firms were awarded contract! to ship a total of 6.700 electric transformers to South Koreu at a OOSt o: about
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    Resigned on demand
    31 3 Chaudri Khali Quizzaman has resigned as president of the Muslim Le3gue Party after a crowd of refugees hered outside his home at Karachi and demanded his rr-signation. U.P.
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    $1,000.000 flood
    41 3 Damage m the recent floor 1 the Kokai River, caused b\ a breach m the embankment iof the river, swollen by torrential ruins, is officially estited at more than 1.000.000.--000 yen 1 .000.000 It was tati In Tokyo.- Reuter
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    45 3 picture. The iir.it ot the Koyal Fleet Reserve ratings recalled to duty by the Admiralty report at the Royal Naval Barracks at Portsmouth. The men have been recalled as part of the Admiralty's decision to put the Far tast«.'m Fleet on a war footing. Reuter
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    Inge blast at 'violent' hymn
    204 3 CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday. yHE Magnificat one of Christianity's greatest hymns, is more violent than the Left-wing anthem, "The Red Flag," said Dr. W. R. Inge, former Dean of St. Paul's m London, when he opened the Modern Churchmen's Conference with an attack on "hell-fire theology," several
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    U.K. argues pool plan
    63 3 STRASBOURG. Wed. BRITISH and Continental delegates dashed a m the European Assembly yesterday over methods oi controlling the coal and ited pool to mobilise the industrial resources ot Europe against Communist aggression "We have not overthrown the divine right of ktn urci'T to fall down before
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    More tender meat
    49 3 TO MAKK n-eat more tender and put the flavour m a Chicago company ha*- develop d what it ca 'savourizer." The device looks like a hi^ hypodern-'c needlt l| flavourings and similar ingredients are injected dir. into the roast, steaks, fish or fowl hrinj; trca A.P.
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    END OF THE COAL HEAVER
    122 3 END OF THE COAL HEAVER LONDON. Wed rE perspiring, be-muscled coal heaver that used to be a fixture before the boilers of most steamships m the world is about to follow the dodo into extinction. The reason is that coal is being shoved aside as ship fuel. Almost all vessels
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    'CHINA SECRET ARMY' RAID
    54 3 Two "underground of isations have been mashed m Tientsin, the Soviet n agency Tas.s reports. Tv. :iw persons were rested m a raid on the *i Communist national salvation army." Tass did not say i person* were arrested when the "'national salv. teer corps ol North
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    GROWING TRADE
    25 3 Russell Andruw. I creiary and Consul i American Eml chi, bal ring major v ac between Pai;;- «^.i America shun t grow." U.P.
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    FAROUK IN FRANCE
    29 3 Military police, some ll them carrying sub I guns, barred all bu: ofl visitors from tfa I por; area j 1 arrival of L Xi I
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      279 3 ,4.47 'From the London Editorials .--.n,^ w t t n SINGAPORE BBC): 455 Composer of the AUSTRALIA Week"— Mendelssohn; 5.15 "flier- VI B(J iq 4 m< >tres 15 0 me s. (BLUE NETWORK) ling Value" (BBC); 5.30 "Crime ;j£j: JJ-jJ {gj cs 484 and 41.7 metres. gentlemen. Pl-sej-4: 'T^ Many
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 1950.
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      Kim's sad story
      235 4 IT was a sad tale that Kirn Dv Bon had to tell. Writing m Pravda, the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea wailed that American bombing had wiped the once-prosperous city of Khynnam ••from the face of the earth". Wosan and
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      Best friend
      188 4 tt Kirn Dv B <* m] ;outd be addn ssed not to the Any < who are merely earryinf out the desire of the free world m sma.shin«! North Korea's wanton a^n It should be sent to Moscow, where the infasioi was planned by the Kremlin experts un-—cioLi.b:r-iH\
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    A C'wealth Life-line Is In Danger
    1062 4  - A C 'wealth Life-line Is In Danger J. L. HAYS By Egypt's attitude to the Korean "incident" has again called attention to the importance, and complexity, of the relations between Egypt and Great Britain. The causes of friction are many, but one of the most important is the question of
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    WHY FUSAN IS SO VITAL
    391 4 A port m the news By A Special Correspondent T»HE battle of Korea has become the battle to hold Fusan, only real port available to the Americans. Troops have been pouring m and moving up-country to hold off the Red hordes aiming at the vital
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    It Seems To Me...
    736 4  -  POLITICO By FOUR men, wellknown In Malaya, are playing a major part m telling the world the story of the Korean war. They are correspondents Lionel ("Bill) Hudson, of Reuters; Sydney Smith, of the Daily Express and Free Press; Lachie Mac Donald of the Daily Mail,
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    18 4 Members of the Korean Women's Association hate estabhshea '< table stand at a South Korea station for United Nation*
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    WOMEN POLICE WILL BE DOUBLED
    304 5 WOMEN POLICE WILL BE DOUBLED 'Proved their worth 100%' See Press Staff Reporter Singapore's women police "have absolutely proved their worth 100 per cent," the Commissioner of Police, Mr. R. E. Foulger, hopes to double the strength of the regular women police by next year. Mr. Foulger told the Free
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    New timber research laboratory
    42 5 m the have for the fur the De- Fede--1 Radio this mid I o that East d /lire hour for N and H may possibly art for ten Mr each Mr. 1 ie- pr,>--3 and ting of rrade
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    They changed their minds about Rover
    399 5 Free Press Staff Keporter PHIS is a story of the Thivys and Rover, their faithful dog. As is known, Mr. John A. Thivy. retiring Representative of the Government of India, will be leaving on Sunday with his family for Mauritius to take up his
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    GOING ON LEAVE
    43 5 KOTA BAHRU Wed -Mr •v F N Churchill. British AavLser. Kelantan. will leave Kora Bahru on Sept. 1 on five months leave m Europe. Dun is his absence, Mr. M C Shepharci. formerly DisX ig, will act is British Adviser^
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    56 5 picture. Mr Geecge Bearden (seated), Far East Supervisor for Facie Lion and J. Arthur Rank productions, and his wife (left) arrived ill Singapore from Calcutta by the San-ola yesterday morning. Standing is Mr. Tony Whitehouse, Singapore manner for Eagle Lion and J. Arthur Rank films who met Mr. and Mr
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    P.E.A. DECIDES ON POLICY
    571 5 Tree Press Stall Reporter THAT the People's Education Association should not m any way endanger its autonomy by being identified with either the Education Department or the Public Relations Office, Singapore, was one of the recommendations m a report to be submitted for the consideration of
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    Oxford expert impressed
    155 5 BJIR. Leornard Barnes, Direc- tor of Social Welfare Training at Oxford University, said after his visit to the adult English class for women at 167. Arab Street, yesterday that the People's Education Association was doing "very good work." He was impressed, he said, with the fact that
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    Night guardians of Colony's coastline
    242 5 Night guardians of Colony's coastline 1 r« Prt !>. HIND day's meetlni >i T V l one boraiio: offices, work and coastline, h smugglers uicl-t> \c<i'.i\ Lmmigran i of the MRNYR. F. E. W. Lami since nightly pair m conjunction rtne Police, the Volun" serve had not lot night's duty
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    Tenants' Welfare Assn. formed
    253 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ANOTHER new association which will look after the interests of tenants, sub-tenants, paying guests and squatters is being formed m Singapore. It will be known as the Tenants' Welfare Association. Mr. A. H. L:m. the protem secretary, told the Free Press yesterday:
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    54 YEARS IN MALAYA
    197 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ATR. Louis Thivy, who has spent 54 out of 84 years m Malaya, told the Free Press yesterday that he had decided to go to Mauritius because most of his friends and contemporaries m this country are no longer alive. He said
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    DRYING PITCH CAUSES DEFEAT
    620 6 DRYING PITCH CAUSES DEFEAT England fail m plucky fight UKST Indies took full advantage of a drying pitch to beat England by an innings and 56 runs m the fourth and final Test at the Oval yesterday and so gained the "rubber" with three matches to one. Heavy vernight rain,
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    Rangers and Arsenal may tour Canada
    73 6 Rangers and Arsenal may tour Canada IQLASOOW Ringers an I Arsenal ijr exhibition soc t I-■ ol Caiiada and liv Uniiec States nex year. Dominion Fo i ball A- i tion ol Ca ida v d iiran gotiating (for the to i :.■■>. Tb« U B. hr«p»'.>> Hi Ccl Ie
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    Ebor Handicap acceptors
    52 6 t/inai Receptors were anFbor Hand;. run ov— next Wedi Aug. i' 3. Boron Bridge, Lain Placid Flush Royal. Dontao Chancellor, Oulrain, Pink I ipur H iii. Pet, Cl H pel I Stai B Shal Cn i Le Tell I n, John M X 0 I The .T"
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    DEATH OF MR. NG YOOK FONG
    81 6 DEATH OF MR. NG YOOK FONG 1 T'nr. death took > a the Kwong Wai Siu 1 iK. night ol Mr N". Ytiok t v <>i Treasi Johore Bahi Mr N. wh on the editorial Singapore English lie Later h»« wraa Bin Chew Jit Poh as English secretary. H<^ left
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    Helping hand
    31 6 photo. Iliyh juniper Sheila Alexander (Spartan Ladies A.C.) sets helping hand from her coach. Miss Alexander is already credited with the highest women's jump in Britain this w;ir. Fox
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    W. Indies supporters rush for souvenirs
    292 6 W. Indies supporters rush for souvenirs 'PIIEKK were wild scenes of enthusiasm from some of the West Indies supporters alter West Indies had beaten England m the fourth and last Test to win the series. Waving cushions, hurling their hats into the i air. whooping and cheering, the West fo
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    Govt. Funds become stronger
    331 6 ghgfhghgfh LONDON, Thursday. RENEWED strength of British Government funds provided a feature of the London Stock Exchange yesterday, writes Reuter's financial correspondent. Business broadened to include most issues and gains up to half percent were recorded. Institujtonal buying m a market short of slock was reported.
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    U.S. PAIR WIN
    45 6 U.S. PAIR W IN F. Ampon of the Philippines and Ricardo Balbar of Chine lost 6—l. 6—4, 12—10 to Gardnar Mulloy and Bill Talbert. No. 1 American pair. m the third round ol the U.S. national doubles tennis tourni nament at Brookline, Massachusetts, yesterday.— A.P.
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    TIN PRICES TUMBLE
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    CHINESE OUTPLAYED BY NAVY
    426 7 CHINESE OUTPLAYED BY NAVY 3rd big upset m one week Hoy al Navy 3; Chinese 1 UNPREDICTABLE Royal Navy created the third major upset m the week-old Intercommunity League by routing the formidable Combined Chinese by three goals to one at Jalan Besar yesterday. R yal Navy went down surprisingly
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    63 7 i\(. M(»S, 20-year old British motor racing ace urn»w escape m the second heat of the 500 c.c. car Brands Hatch, near Swanley, when he just miss colliding with another car which went into a spin Mms swerve* sharply on the grass verge and went on to He is s«en
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    Boys' clubs soccer final
    80 7 DRINCE Edward Road Boys' 1 Club and Katong Boys' Club will meet m the final of the Singapore Boys' Club soccer competition on the S.K.C. padang at 5.15 p.m. today The Singapore Recreation Club will entertain to tea the teams and officials who organised the competition
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    CIVIC WELCOME FOR JAMAICANS
    58 7 Jamaican players m the West Indies team which debated England m the fourth and final Test match at the Oval yesterday will be given a civic welcome on their return. The West Indies team has three Jamaicans, Alan Rae. Alfred Valentine and Hines Johnson, but Johnson
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    NEW CROSS BEAT WEST HAM 50-34
    72 7 Cross beat West Ham by 50 points to 34 m a National Speedway League match at New Ctoss here tonight. The Roger brothers paced >< c Cross to victory. Bert Rogrt: scored a maximum of 12 points while Cyril, returning to the tract after
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    WORLD TITLE ELIMINATOR
    61 7 THE British welterweight championship fight between the holder Eddie Thomas and can cSvta at Swansea on Sept 14 may be a final eliminator for the *vorld promoter Jack Solomons stated last night that he prosed seeking such recognition for the af a result of Ray Robinsoji, American
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    Charles wins in round 14
    188 7 National Boxing Association heavyweight npion, Ezzard Charles, defeated Freddie of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, by a technical tt m their 15 round-title bout m New York :Vree. Barney Felix, stopped the bout m .;nd after two minutes 53 seconds. I went down, r halted the Harrisburg blonde
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    Sitphol may fight Allen
    55 7 Sitphol may fight Allen (iHAI SITPHOL, the Siam- ese fly-batam boxer arrived m Singapore this morning with manager Kow Kirn Lin. from AusF Chai might tight exworld flyweight champion Terry Allen, m Manila 11 negotiations materialise. Chai will be seen ra action against Larry Bataan. bantamweight champion of the Orient.
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    Prince Simon goes lame
    125 7 Prince Simon goes lame pRINCE Simon, the St. Leger favourite, did no training work on Newmarket Heath yesterday and a representative of the Free Mason Lodge Stable, where he is trained, said that <I the colt If slightly lame." The big American -bred horse accompanied his stable companions to the
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    Negro girl enters U.S. tennis tourney
    168 7 THE entry of Miss Althea Gibson, the New York Negro girl, has been received for the United States lawn tennis championships starting on Aug. 28 at Forest Hills, but it will not be known until next week whether she will be permitted to play.
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    Scottish Lge. Cup results
    87 7 FOLLOWING are Scottish League Cup football results: "A" Division Airdrieonians 2. Partick 3; Clyde 3 Morton 3. Dundee I, Fallcirk 2: East Fife 3. Rnith Rvrs. 3: Hearts 4. Motherwell 1; Rangers 1. Aberdeen 2; Third Lanark 1, Celtic 2: "B" Division Arbroath 1. Alloa 1;
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    Shot-put record
    53 7 JIM Fuchs of Yale again bettered the listed world record m the shot put yesterday with the greatest throw of his career. 58 ft. 5.19/32 ins. The heave exceeds by a fraction of an inch his put of 58 ft. five 5.1 2 ins. earlier this year at
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    B. Close joins Arsenal
    69 7 BRIAN Close, 19-year-old England Test cricketer and Leeds United footballer, was yesterday transferred from Leeds to the Arsenal. Close, who has been invited to tour Australia with the M.C.C.. had made a number of appearances at inside-left with the Leeds United reserve team, but was was
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    Fine innings by Winston Place
    467 7 T^WO fine stands for the first and second wickets x enabled Lancashire, the County championship leaders, to put on 281 after being sent m on a drying pitch by Hampshire. Cyril Washbrook and Winston Place put on 55 for the first wicket before Washbrook was
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    22 7 YEW C ILiM.. the Chiaest goalkeeper, dives to save from the feet of a Nary forward during yesterday's Couimnnity League soccer match.
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    U.K. SOCCER LEAGUE FIXTURES
    218 7 TfOLLOWTNO are English Lea- gue football fixtures for next week ending Thursday August 34: Monday, Aur- 21: First Division Aston Villa v. Sunderland; Blackpool v. Burnley, Sheffield Wednesday v. Portsmouth. Second Division Blackburn v. Brentford; Chesterfield v. Grimsby; Coventry v. Leeds. Third Division (South) Mlllwall v
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    TBA score 3-1 win
    49 7 TAMIL Brotherhood Association beat the Town Rangers by three goals to one at soccer played on the Fairer Park ground yesterday. Scorers for T.B.A. were: M. Davies. Oorlndasamy, and S. R. S. Naidu, who scored a penalty. Town Rangers' lone goal was netted by Fyed.
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    SCFA side for M.C.F.A. Cup final
    128 7 SCFA side for M.C.F.A. Cup final OINGAPORE Chines? Football Association have picked 13 players for the trip to Penang to meet Penang Chinese m the final of the M.C.F.A. Cup competition Saturday. The players are: Cn Yew Chang, Patrick T« Tong, Teow Ken£, Yew I Hoon Leong. Hee Jong, Wcng,
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    US convict studied the atom
    108 8 US convict studied the atom THE HAGUE. Thurs. AN American convict worked out how to split the atom while studying higher mathematics m a United States gaol. Director J. V. Bennett, of the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons, cited the case at a conference at the Hague, yesterday as
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    BIRTHS
    49 8 VENCKEN. To Diana and Paul •t K K Hofpi-sl on 15th August 1950 a son. Flip. BULPORD. To Beryl and Alec Kuching on 12.8.50. a *on Alexander. TO HAZEL Wtt* cf Allan Munro of llawaiig on 15th Aug. 1950 at Bur.ir.^ir Hospital. Kuala Lumpur. A aster for Susan.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    32 8 ENGAGEMENT announced on 12 8 50 b.tw vr» Pe eMflfl MB o* Mr. L. B. Ftvnaiidfz ;-nd late v Angelina eldest daughter of Mr. .t Mrs. M Fernandez of Alor (MJab.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    35 8 MRS INDER wishes to express h:r sincere thanks to all friends who so kindly sent letters, mess•ges of sympathy and flowers following the death, as a result of terrorist action, of her husband Ralph.
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    IN MEMORIAM
    45 8 MARTIN:— In e^er-aflecuonate memory, of our dear MotfttT. Mrs. MVf Anna Martin, of 100, Tanglin Road, who departed this life on ♦he lT:h August 194j. in Sime Road Internment Camp. Ever remembered, but s.v'lv mi-.ed by all her loving children and their families.
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    33 JAPS DROWNED
    30 8 Thirty-!hree Japanese were believed to have been drownfd recently when a ferry boat *plit m two during a squall off the coast of Oile In Kyushu. U.P.
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    U.S. GIRLS WERE LAST ON 38th
    255 8 HONG KONG, Thursday. T wo American girls who visited the 38th Parallel x a day before the North Koreans drove across the border said yesterday that they saw no sig;ns of any guns or armament. Two USIS librarians, Beatrice Holt and Ruth Krueser, said
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    U.S. URGED TO ADMIT RED CHINA
    220 8 U.S. URGED TO ADMIT RED CHINA "Follow India" Lattimore PETERBOROUGH, Thursday. 'pHE American expert on Far Eastern affairs, Mr. Owen Lattimore, says a Communist China delegation should be seated m the United Nations. This should be the first step taken by the United States m making Asian countries "our willing
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    25 8 ghgfhgf T S CAB 0 A I T V The wreckage of a l\S. 'plane shot down by the North Korean Air Foree News Service
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    I.P. 'not an epidemic'
    115 8 LONDON. Thurs. BRITISH doc itrday used war-tes;»d insecti- eide togs m their ft^ht against an infantile paralysis outbn which so far has affected nearly 1.400 people In the United Kingdom. Machines developed m World War II were employed to nil infected homes with a log of
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    Britain speeds up arms plan
    177 8 LONDON, Thursday. JHvITAIN is n<»w preparing to speed up her re- armament programme to equip additional troops. Parliament will be asked for authorisation when it meets m an emergency session next month. Reliable sources said that the Government isconsidering plans to spend its proposed defence
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    10 8 "C»m« quickly, comrade. I think wt'rt i« American waters *owf"
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    Too much, too late
    76 8 A "4-year-old man. bedridden m a Melbourne hospital for the aged, died before he could spend the £A12,000 he won m a lottery two months before. From a special account he had drawn only £A5OO as a gift to his brother, money for a few small
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    Seretse and uncle agree to govern
    192 8 BK( HI AN ALAND. Thursday. OERETSE Khuma, exUed Chief Designate of the Bamangwato tribe, and his uncle, Regent Tshekedi whose objections to Seretses marriage split their tribe, reached final agreement M Lobatsi after a five-hour conference. A plan for joint rule of the tribe
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    British ship hits mine
    75 8 HONG KONG, Thurs T'HE British steamer Ifetnan 2,994 tons) struck a mine m the Yan^tse Rivei estuary while Hearing Shanghai from Hong Ko-;g yesterday. Tlutc wew no casuallies. The ship is still afloat, l; is hoped to tow her to nearby Woomig or Shanghai today. The
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    SEARCH FOR RUSSIAN OFFICER
    146 8 VIENNA. Thurs. AUSTRIAN police and Russian military authorities have thrown out a dragnet for a Soviet officer who Is believed to have killed three people and injured another since Monday night. The officer shot and killed two Russian soldiers who tried to arrest him for desertion
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    NO ARMS GIVEN
    23 8 The Indian Governmen. said that arms were not being outed generally to persons living on the Indo- Tibetan bordei U.P.
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    'PEACE' ROUTE
    15 8 A streetcar line named •Peare" is being built at Ostrava m Czechoslovakia A.P.
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    H.K. MONEY
    27 8 The following were yesterday*! quotations on the Huns Kong Money Exchange: HK56.32 per U.S. dollar. HK515.50 per pound sterling. HK $308 nor tael of gold
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