The Singapore Free Press, 23 November 1950

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    23 1 The Singapore Free Press i ■■■■■y "imwwmmmKKWKwxtw^ttiw::-'^^ b===== LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA >■ I SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1950. PKKI TMh &B* IS.
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    BIG RED DRIVE ON HANOI
    131 1 Bloody battle for outer defences SAIGON, Thursday. -.jjj. MIS 11 Communists have launched a large-scale offensive the French defences surrounding the northern capital of ench military spokesman said last night. (Sea were under attack but the French were winning ihe spokesman said. The Communists 1
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    FED. POLICE CASUALTIES
    4 1 FED. POLICE CASUALTIES ipaaieafl
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    France might seek U.N. aid
    147 1 FRANCE yesterday appealed for "active and powerful support" of the United l States and Britain m its Indo-China war and indicated that it mmT appeal to the United Nations if Communist China intervened openly m the conflict. The announcement >urneau, r for the Associate I
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    U.K. 'supplied Soviet jets'
    82 1 LONDON. Thurs. A MEMBER of Parliament asserted yesterday that Russian jet planes reported to be superior to American tighter craft m Korea, are powered with engines sold to the Soviet Union by Britain The government baa acknowledged selling Russia almost 20^ Rolls-Royce Nene j€ w In
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    BUDGET PASSED
    21 1 A record French budget, onefourth of it ear-marked for military expenditure, wa.s approved yesterday fey n» French Cabinet. U.P.
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    U.K. GOYT. ON THE RUBBER DUTY
    605 1 LONDON, Thurs. 2TEPS taken by the British Government before the new rubber tax was announced on November 4 were outlined yesterday by Mr. James Griffiths, Secretary for the Colonies,, m the House of Commons. The tax is due to come into operation on January
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    ROCKIES TRAGEDY
    26 1 Twenty persons are dead or missing and 58 injured after lead-on collision between two Canadian National Railtrains m the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday. A.P.
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    LABOUR 'PEACE' MOVE ALARM
    181 1 LONDON, Thursday. AMERICA'S acting ambassador is said to have A told the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest BevinJ yesterday that the rnited States was concerned over reports that a section of the Labour Government wants to weaken Britain's contribution to the YVes*ern World. The U S Charge
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    For whom the bell tolls
    64 1 IN accordance with century-old custom, the bell of the I local church is tolled every time a resident of Stadtoldendorf m West Germany dies. ■The housing office now wants this custom discontinued Officials say the town is so crowded that a few nQJfc'Ui after the
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    Terrorists burn 6 Chinese
    115 1 Terrorists burn 6 Chinese PENANG. Thurs. gIX Chinese were burned to death yesterday when terrorists flred ten squatter houses Beat the village of Bukit Selimban. 60 miles i from Bungel Patani. In the village, 30 attap shophouses were gutted. In one squatter hut, a family o f five— a 40-year-old
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    NEW PARTY CHIEF
    29 1 The National Congress of the South African United Party yesterday elected Mr. Jacobus Strauss as national leader to succeed the late Field Marshal Christian Smuts. U.P.
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    Murder: big reward
    69 1 |>OLICE are offering a subk stahtlal reward i'or information leading to the arrest of the murderer of the 11 -year-old girl. Tan Soo Kirn. who was found strangled m a bush yesterday near her home at the 18th mile, Jtirong Road. Singapore. A police spokesman said this
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    EFFORT FOR MAO DEFEATED
    46 1 EFFORT FOR MA O DEFEATED A now Soviet attempt to bring the Chinese Communists into the United Nations was defeated yesterday. The Trusteeship Council reject od a Russian demand to unseat the Chinese Nationalist delegate and invite a Peking representative to replace him m the Council
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    19 TRIBESMEN TO DIE
    54 1 Nineteen Suk tribesmen were sentenced to death a: Kitale yesterday for the murder of three Britons. an African policeman and 20 African civilians on April 24 m the Lake Baring. i distric, northwest of Kenya. Two others, under 18. were detained "during the Governor's pleasure" and
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    Wants talk on Korea
    51 1 LONDON. Thurs MR. J. C. Hutchinson, British Charge D'Affaire* in Peking, will shortly make a direct approach to the Chinese Communist Government in an attempt to sound the official Chinese attitude to a settlement of the Korean problem, it is believed in usually well-informed quarters in
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    SOVIETS PICK TIBET BASES
    246 1 Air threat to India WASHINGTON, Thursday. rrHE IS. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, told a news conference yesterday that the I nited states had no information from India that the Russians have already chosen sites m Tibet for air bases to threaten India and other
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    NEW OIL LINE
    30 1 The world's biggest on pipeline from the Saudi 'Arabian oilfields to the Mcdl- terranean coast— will be used for the first time m early De cember. A.P.
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    'Settlement in Korea'
    223 1 'Settlement in Korea LATE NEWS SPECIAL TOKYO, Thuisday. ■THANKSGIVING Day calm prevailed this morning on the Korean battlefronts as an increased flow of unconfirmed rumours Indicated that there was some kind of a deal m tfce ■lilng with the enemy. OiTicials were silent on the matter, hut some quarters believed
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    G.Is jailed for assault
    48 1 BERLIN. Thurs. A I" S. army court-martial m Berlin yesterday sentenced three American soldiers to n terms totallir. months for assaulting a group of Swedish tourists near Gar-misch-Pntenkirchen. The soldiers were found guilty of beating up and hitting the Swedes m a bus. A.P.
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    Study tour
    25 1 Mr. H. dent of the V P of Asia and South A. month for a private the economic and D< I conditions.- U.P.
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    90,000 idle
    29 1 Ninety thousand car ers at the Chi tion and the Ford Company a' D m the nei cause oi steel and parts i>: and inventory s. U.P.
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    COME HOME BATES (H.E)
    631 2  -  PETER QUENNELL ftreviews new books^/ I m U.K. f (AND YOU, BATES (R), KEEP GOING) A CRITICS attempts to advise a novelist about the choice of sub-jert-m att c r have always a sliglitlv ungracious air, and sometimes end with a personal letter from ihe novelist
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    Albert Einstein, Socialist
    301 2  - Albert Einstein, Socialist GEORCE MURRAY reviews "Out of My Later Years" by Einstein. jjNL would think that nything Einstein had to say on the life-and-death matters troubling the world especially politico-scien-tific problems, would be 1 worth lis'eninp to Ctuaflj he is one of the of the human Throrv of Relatihas
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    Pablo Picasso, Communist
    491 2 Pablo Picasso, Communist /\NK France's wealthiest Com•t ::tly ShOWis passport at the Brit: Customs at Dover on his way to the abortive World Peace ;eld. papers, issued In nee, Rave his name aa Pablo Picasso and as artist. His birth certificate, issued In Malaga Spain, whore he was born 6H
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    When Hibberd Said: 'What the Hell....'
    270 2  - When Hibberd Said: 'What the Hell J. W. TAYLOR re vie v > v rim B I famous a- aTUART Hibberd, chief ?nnoun> of the B.H.C, written a fascinating book on his tt years of broadcasting Apt 1 y titled: "T n 1 s London," one pat);' from it that
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      48 2 Solution To Crossword No. XO9 Solution.- *xr*m: i. t. K'.m'v. 7. r s )i ordei 1 8. PersSsteni JO, Lofag-whi^wl. 13. Proportinn.s. 15. Mo'ei. ]6. Nobby. Down: I, Tip-up. I!«. S. Skating boot. 4, Frost-bitten. 5. Widened. 6. Yard. 9. Root out 11, Dus'v. 12. Rpi.m. H, Orb.
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      253 2 QUICK LOOKS Old llerh.iicniiv ny R>--ild Adken. Michael dingiy affection- p l l fsl iilld *j" lT^ li] a dear aid dener. Good tor an afternoon's comtori>t!>le s\ reading. But to the rri' I tical urban nose pcrhavs I ,Ha*e too nceeSr, fr«- nt fit imberU's Cirms. hv 7/ o
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    'LOST' ISLE AS AIR STATION
    263 3 May save planes three days PARIS, Wednesday. rliE obscure, glacier-covered French island of A Kerguelen m mid-Pacific, neglected for 178 years except by explorers, fishing vessels and German and Japanese warships m World War 11, may become an important air station between South Africa and
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    Hot water bottles for pigeons
    14 3 Hot water bottles for pigeons :h v w i ay to Fort i U.P.
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    39 3 R !np raises hto rui h h the m- .i> be m svtrn into <> fork Supreme Court Jastiee from Kii: ht > administers t li«* Imprllitteri b v left Second from P rsident >Ir John (.i>hnntre of Br«»ok!>!i. VP. photo
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    NARRIMAN IN ITALY
    31 3 Sadek. the teena^ed promised bride of Kincj Farouk. is reported to be back m Italy after visiting serland and France while her royal marriage, jrobablv next year. A.P.
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    FRUIT GROWERS EXPECT BOOM
    47 3 MELBOURNE, Wednesday. a!>i::\ll\\ fruit irowers and all firms m 1 Melbourne which dea! with fruit, whether fresh. l tinned, art* planning for a seri°s of hoom lem at the moment is I] their produce but how they tor it. b n if Reuter
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    STEAMER DETAINED
    14 3 1.500-ton Chinese Sun radioed red nn ihortly had by a National- Reuter
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    Bridge Hands
    261 3 raiwe I tier. rpHE Preddl A had hi uon-clad system (or NOW and MM rul« w •Don't raise me unless you have four trumps." Once, m a mixed urnament, his fair p bid and. v i.en the made pi put down the ace, the km the Q". Tom
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    'Islam van bring peace'
    57 3 KARACHI. Wed. THE Pakistan Premier. Mr Llaquat All Khan. .'4 Parliame;:: In Karaterday said *I: is m\ lef that m this world ol lilaniic principles me ran bring peace and peri humanity Thcv :able a: all tim< I ill lands. These pnn j they will enable
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    PAPER'S CRITICISM
    19 3 The is criticised ing" ol the In Monetary Fund and ot the i I Ol ntries.— Reuter
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    Robbery by tote ticket
    94 3 WELLINGTON. Wed. IF you find a prize-winning race ticket m Australia j and cash it you may be convicted of robbery. Jockey Reginald Bennett cashed a winning double tote ticket round by his 13-year-old son at the Foxton R.; Club's August meeting, collected £592 17s Gd
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    BRITISH SHIPS IN DEMAND
    46 3 BRITISH SHIPS IN DEMAND The Korean war United N lons rearmanu nt and Britain's export i have created such a heavy d for British mere] ships nly 42 arc now available m the homo port's •pt. This is the lowest peace time figure on record. Reuter
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    India wants grain
    22 3 During the last fi v months of 1950 India plans to import 1.238.300 tuns o[ lot >d grain. Reuter
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    BUCKLEY
    14 3 TAKES A LOT OP AMMUNITION BUT IT MAKES A SU,£LL PO6O ST/CK f
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    PREVENTIVE WAR URGED
    90 3 The R< vrenfl John 8. CorDin, m a speech before 400 members of the Catholic Fo- rum of Newark -(New Jersey), advocated what amounts to a preventive war m China. He said that Chiang Kai- shek "the only man m Asia willing to fight the Communism/ should
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    SERVICE PLAN
    29 3 a proposes to extend compu**ury national service to new Immigrants "within the li-mits of international law and practice." the Housi if Representatives m Canberra was told.- Reuter
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    'First human was hatched from egg'
    198 3 HONG KONG, Wednesday. IT is a common belief In Korea that the first human hatched frjm an e?f. This myth dates back to the days when paternity was an unknown factor. Rather than invent an Adam the Kon attributed the process of birth solely
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    LOCUSTS ON THE MARCH
    201 3 ASMARA, Eritrea, Wednesday. f OCI'ST control experts including a score newly J arrived at Asmara from Britain will open a full-scale campaign this month against a serious locust threat to Eritrea, East Africa. The "biblical plague" has already left its mark m widespread farming areas. The
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    BILLS SECOND READING
    37 3 The New Zealand Bouse of Representatives by a vote i f !i8 to 31 gave B second reading to a Bill restoring capital punishment. The former Labour Government had abolished it m 1941. Reuter
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    DRUGS SEIZED
    22 3 Egyptian coastguards tw i two and a quarter tons i hashish and other dr valued i( 4J500.000 m raids.- Reuter
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    NATS. TAKE ISLAND
    12 3 prillas havr occupied a n< I the Fuki U.P.
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    Korean birthrate up
    37 3 AT thf rate the 40 million Koreans are multiplying, they should outnumber the 80 Million population of Urn Japanese islands m ">X years. The Korean war seems to have rhren thr Japanese rr»ni*f U.P.
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    Vietnam R.Cs save delta from Reds
    259 3 WITH FRENCH TROOPS IN TONKIN, Indo-China, Wednesday. Roman Catholics are m a shooting war with the Communists m this Red river delta. Vietnamese Catholics, who total more than 1,000,000 m the south-eastern delta zone, have their own army led by a Vietnamese commanding general
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    DINAH'S STAGE FRIGHT
    141 3 NEW YORK Wed ALTHOUGH she lias been a leading successful si on most of the Broad w; of the world for 10 y< sultry voiced Dinah B v v admits that she c .t. She indeed rets n rrpus when she begins a new venture m the
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    ALBANIA PROTESTS
    22 3 Albania has protested I Unin-d Nations against "new I of provocation c •pd by forces of the G: monarrho-* rnment
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    30 3 A.P photo. A Puerto Rican National Guardsman marches two captured Nationalists through a street in Javuya to a prisoner camp. The group on the right guards against further disturb- ances.
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      66 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR ii i\ oi >ou will I of the ct\iS :tari'is. i-i'l u-.n- I aa retain rihntt >i i.rp-o. D Mad ii t i!i'nt» prone outv «ur proft->--i ktei is. ive the rupirryin? them I ompletion. •efet to have aff of the (1. ft* not easily I pr..
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      203 3 SINGAPORE BFEBS [Singapore IBMH MTWOKK) programme SumIfl a.m. News from Singapore; J^ P». lhe London 10 50 For the Schools; 12 Pro- Editorial* (BBO; 4.53 Composer :.mes m Malay; 1 p.m. The of th, Week-Dvorak; 5.15 „n oio Sterling Value <BBC>; 5.30 Spot Radio Orchestra; 1-30 Time S.g- g£ Sdf-3:
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Nov. 23, 1950 Not so grasping
    220 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Nov. 23, 1950 Not so grasping T accusation b\ the 3 Senate Military Sub-commit tk. 'nationals of friendly nations are profiting unmercifully In they charge he Unit* S aw rubbot" course sheer i M afcn j- m deciding I rubb? p.ices Tk I ed Slut
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    Cold War Plot That Failed
    878 4  -  JOHN BAKER WHITE 'Peace' Conference: The inside story By ~t M. P. and formerly of the Foreign Office Intelligence Dept. IN the collapse ot lhe Sheffield "Peace" Congress the Kremlin has suffered an important setback In its coldwar planning Victory ha.s gone to the oft-abused
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    It Seems To Me.....
    659 4  - It Seems To Me. POLITICO By A ber of Parliament and :i powerfuJ figure m tin Labour Party National Executive, has been s i vprelv censured for absenting himself during the recent series of Conservative challenges which threatened to bring down the Government. Instead of being on duty at Westminster,
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    216 4 ■^HE Manchurian frontier ©f North Korea is the neck of M funnel through which begin 4 to flow men and mr-iitions of war. The vast Communist continent, with its wealth of manpower, its weight of arms, lies above the Korean battlefield. North Korea, although cold, mountainous, inhospitable, is the back
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    A Strange Sort Of Victory
    355 4  - A Strange Sort Of Victory J. L. HAYS By lIT is a strange sort of victory when the recognised tnquerors, having occuoied the enemy's capital and overrun 90 per cent of his territory, have still to decide whether his army has been destroyed beyond all power of recovers-. But this
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    BIG U.S. CALL-UP
    12 4  - BIG U.S. CALL-UP Rodney Campbell I 1 n won I p i
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    Shot dead in front of friends
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    GAOL SENTENCE
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    WOMEN DOCTORS DON'T SPEAK DIALECTS
    286 5 WOMEN DOCTORS DON 'T SPEAK DIALECTS Infant welfare problem 25" l Staff Reporter Vl dodor.s who tan speak several Chinese dialects art- hard to get m Singapore, .Municipal I ommissioners are finding out Owing to the uncertainty of filling" two vacant leal posts m the Municipal tofaat WeHWe Department, the
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    103 5 MEMBKKS of the Committee of the Johore Bahru Association for the Prevention of TB yesterday met the Danish team of experts who are to begin a campaign of BCG vaccination In Johore Bahru. Seated left to right: Mr. P. V. Chary. Mrs. N Su. Mrs. I. Falconer. Matron I. Baeftie,
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    DRUMBEATS, GUNSHOTS
    84 5 Ire* Press StatT Reporter ALOR STAR. Wed. THK md of gunfire and 1 h€ o'. drums d :o have been heard I Keduh village befure a fire broke out at mid--30 and rendering 100 people homrtew O: tines* sno^pke shot d?ad during the it gunshots and told b\
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    'HILARIOUS NIGHTS'
    98 5 tree Press St. ill Reporter I^ICE. said Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald yesterday, "is tne most vital cereal m the work': it la meat and drink for hundreds of millions of people. 'I canno) say that I think that you could produce a rice the best form of liquid
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    Schools divided on new system
    189 5 Frre Press StaiT Reporter XHK Singapore Education Department is studying 1 the virus presented by Chinese school authorities on the adoption of the three-term system ;>s m English schools. Although Chinese schools m the Federation have decided to have three terms from the beginning of
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    SOCIAL SERVICE APPOINTMENT
    33 5 Mr X A. Blacker is Singapore's new Principal Assisttary, Social Services. Mr Blacker will co-ordinate a ing with social i here. tmeni was created last year, but has been nt.
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    MAIL
    36 5 Surface mail to expected m Singapore today from Christmas 1, Tort-mpa and the FederaLatest times for posting surface mail at the GP.O. today arc: n<>on tcr Tren«r?rflnu <pnrerts only); 5 45 nm. lor \he Federation.
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    Joint effort to solve
    269 5 Free Tress Staff Reporter THE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, said m Singapore yesterday that various forms of help were coming to South Kast Asia and the Far East, "but if food fails, if rice tails, then everything else In this part of the world will fail*'.
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    BANGKOK-BOUND
    42 5 Mr Isak Mahdi, Indonesian charge d'Affairea m Bangkok, through Singapore by KLM constellation from Jakarta to Bangkok. Mr Mahdi who, It Ls believed, will be appointed Indonesian charm' d'affaires m g in the near was m Jakarta on a routine visit.
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    26 5 pfctnr*. Till. Governor of Singapore, Sir rrankiia Giinson, Mrs. Kinross Nicholson at last night's Church of England Parish Social at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Free Press
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    SHIP TO BE SOLD AS SCRAP
    60 5 A ship thai has plied th< an coast for more thai 24 years has ended her careei In Singapore Inner Roads up for .sale as scrap. She is the Straits F ship coaster Tapah, which Las gone m and out of p* nnang U
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    BROTHEL CHARGE
    209 5 Free Pres., Start Kcporfer V\\O Chinese women. Lee J Moh. aged 63, and Yap Ah Hong aged 42 claimed trial m the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to charges of living on the earnings of prostitution and managing a brothel at Sago Lane. A Chinese detective of the
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    Rubber duty debate
    94 5 Free Press Staff Reporter r rALKS between the rubber industry's representatives and the Federation Government m Kuala Lumpur concerning the new rubber export duty have broken down. At a meeting of unofficial* of the Federal Legislative Council late last night.it was decided that the Government's proposu!r> should
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    7 men to study S'pore health centre plan
    185 5 •Free Press Staff Reporter r) ensure co-ordination Of effort m the proposed establishment of an urban health centre m Singapore, the Government proposes to appoint a sevenman committee, with the Director of Medical Ser\i< Dr. W. I. Vickers, as chairman. Although the
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    TO ADVISE ON TAXATION
    187 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. 'rHE Federation Government A is to take early steps to appoint a standing committee to advise generally on taxation, it was announced by the Officer Administering the Government. Mr. S. W P. Foster Suttun :n the LegislaCounci] last night Details and the constitution
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    S.E. AISA SITUATION BETTER
    192 5 'THI- the I 1 Co-< p ration. Mr. William C. h told a pr< ;s con fen nee li gapon niriK th thought the South proving. Mr I n coun is on his way back Lo ington. said that the concept of what had to be
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    CHILDREN'S PARTY
    29 5 The Mill ASS tion will hold a i party at 11. Handy Singapore on Saturday !>•- -4 and 6 p.m. Musical pntertainment I ftlso be provided :md th...--party
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    PIANO RECITAL
    23 5 will pive a piano r the pupils of R. tion and Raffl.s Girls School at 10 30 i Raffics Insi ituti
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    COULD ONDINE HAVE BEATEN RICHMOND?
    515 6  - COULD ONDINE HAVE BEATEN RICHMOND? ALLAN LEWIS Hopelessly Ift at barrier By jVtAIN race at Bukit Timah yesterday lest all its interest when Ondine and Grey Bloom were hopelessly left as the barrier lifted. The mishap appeared to bo caused by Grey Bloom twinging round and Ondine doing likewise. With
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    Pakistan beat Services 4-2
    38 6 [> KIS ..led XI by 4-2 In a h i'ch at Aldershot, At jl twothe vices; r they heir opponents. i lup- crer scoi prek- J W i was A ci three of I Reuter
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    W. GERMANY BEAT SWITZERLAND
    18 6 W. GERM ANY BEAT SWITZERLAND m I I Of i I by Bur- > of 100.000 Stuttcarfs Neckitr A.P.
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    YMCA BILLIARDS
    39 6 Fving are ymca rnaj ties f 8 p.m. ab!e X 3 Lee J h liing v. Ec Han Umpire: Mr. T tan Teck 8 pm. 'table No. 2 J R Ifuttlah v. Ch: I Mr David T
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    Lightning may go far
    436 6 HOW CLASS 3 HORSES RAN m ii m ii warn, i—^n— I IGHTNING opened his winning account m Malaya with a comfortable victory m the openIng race at Bukit Timah yesterday: He followecir the leaders until well into the straight, wnere Porky Donnelly pulled him to
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    U.K. rugby results
    36 6 \rESTEHDAY S UK R Union results were: County championship tes Eastern Con::' les Micidl»>s*'X 8: Kent 5, S Surrey 12 Hampshire 9. other match: Cambridge University o. Steele B Train 6 A.P. A.P.
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    CLOSE RUGGER AT NEE SOON
    78 6 A CLOSE rugby game at Nee S In R.A.S.C Crii y. Far. -if by points i goal, penalty goal) to three R.A.SC centre Duckworth scored a penalty to fclve his f f>am an early lead. After half ■n O.H.Q. were on level t( rir.s whm
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    Big Sweep results
    75 6 RESULTS of the Big Sweep drawn on rare seven at Bukit Timah yesterday were. Total Pool: 5408.G60. Ist No. *****1 (SIS3J97) 2nd No. ?<)8032 (S 91.948) 3rd No. *****1 <S 51.082) Starters (56.385 each) Nos. *****7. 7t6945. HJ8340. *****4. *****1. 143, *****!. 32«80*i. Consolation f S."i.o(i4 Nos.
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    Interest in market falls
    80 6 London Stock Exchange! LONDOM INTEREST m the stock Exchange yt% small and produced sum ulant edged Jonti-(Lit» i\ limths firmgroups mixed. The market ins tlif* Oovcrnment decision I A c of th n the b tivity at the st m Dunl'jp rubb- r I nil paid.
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    30 6 T: ring n lost their I lor 27 fjr.s m half an hour yesterday and were all out for 323 on the nd day of their match
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    PERSIAN LORD FASTEST TODAY
    329 7  - PERSIAN LORD FASTEST TODAY ALLAN LEWIS Good trial on heavy track B> fg fg on the second grass track, whioh i^ hea\\, Persian Lord (Wahab) made the fastest time this morning when he went over half a mile m 53 I, 5 sees., the last three furlongs m It 3
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    Landsdown ill
    39 7 GORDON Lansdown waa .-.on ill at the ra :?rdav and Hosp'j il c hospital d. Ihe trouble as acul t of colic. grave doub: n beifi. 5. He he Fre- Handicap on Cambri i^e i n the
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    VARSITY HOCKEY
    23 7 TW< three ht a A! counter between Medicals and p in The annual v v o a me at sterday. Mcdl-
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    All the weights for Saturday
    330 7 WEIGHTS for all ei&ht races on Saturday, third and last day of the Singapore Turf Club Winter meeting, are: CLASS 1, DIV. 1— Abby Kay 8.01 Latin Affair* 8.09 6 FIRS. 19 YDS. Token *01 Rahffn 80S Ondin* 9.00 French Custom 8.00 Prinier's Error 8.07
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    Civilians shine
    306 7 Free Press Rugby Reporter ALTHOUGH they did not have to go all out on the **Padang yesterday, Singapore Combined Civilians to meet Johore In an H.M.S. Malaya same on the Padang on Saturday showed that they are quite a capable team The game was actually a trial to
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    IVERSON GETS HIS CHANCE
    6 7 IVERSON GETS HIS CHANCE sdfg dfg
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    INTER-CLUB GOLF
    165 7 ROYAL Singapore Golf Club and Island Club women will meet m a match at the R.S G.C. course on Monday. The match will be played from L.G.U. tees. The ties art Frorr Ist Tec 18 I M'< Morrison (171 M;> Oa^ 114); 235 Mrs Wheeler (11) v Mrs.
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    FORMER OLYMPIC CHAMPION BEATEN
    35 7 ("KORGE HUNTER. championship at the Lor. Olympics In 1948. ent th African professional beaten at Pr< night by Piet rdom m n 12-round i South Afhearyweight tirlr. Strydom scaled 101 lb?;
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    Hockey drawn
    27 7 TKF v match betw- n Royal Air Force Malaya 1 mjcl Foresters at rer Park yesterday began ended with a goal to a one- ail
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    35 7 piotu re Richmond, strongly riddrn bi Woods, draws away rroid the field to romp home a rfx-lenfth winner In race sii for Class 1. Div. 1 horses over <!f. at Bukit Ttmmh esterdav. Free Pres
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    BLACK VELVET WINS EASILY
    44 7 i i i i i i« picture. Black Velvet (McPherson) scores stylishly from Tail Light (Spencer) m the second race (Class 3. Div. 4 6F.) at Bukit Timah yesterday. Envoy (Woods) just ousted Colorado (Jones) from third Dlace Free Press
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    ENTRIES FOR S.M.C. HILL CLIMB
    486 7 ENTRIES the Singapore Motor Club's Bikit Bat ok climb to be held on Sunday, N>>v 20 are: Motor-i -yrlev. r,."»0 c.C. .nul iinihi i !i4K (En' :i<r.! I an Abbas (Matchless) 350 iKuni Sen Osman Al tchli i 350 (Peter Chan); Motoi \»le^. .iOOi.e. and
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    Costly errors by England's defenders
    424 7 From VEKNON MOKGAN ENGLAND md Yugoslavia drew two-ail after a hard-fou?ht battle at Arsenal Stadium. London, yesterday. England had led 2—l at the interval. By holding England to a draw, Tito's men accomplished what no other Continental team has donin a full international. France once
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    Today's sport
    45 7 IKK Xl I': S B.A tournt-\ 1 X.( i and S X < H< §a pan at Padap". 8.0.D.4 Singapore VdcnUH I I Road. <hHI S F v v a Sfranui on Koad u \m- m < i mflU. IV M B^ h I!, d
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      153 7 Here at last we have a polished Bri^sh comedy that has pace and wit and style this amusing little story hss (cund m the screen its happiest medium. 'The O' -.'.t M MR f AST PREMIERE TODAY FOUR PERFORMANCES 2 4.15 -6.30- 9 30 TOGETHER AT LASTI and how they
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    BIRTH
    15 8 MOXON: On November 17th. at i -a Joan, wife of Gerard I B Robert.
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    14 8 EDWARD LEGGATT murdered by bandits m Johore on Nov. 22nd out estate dut
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    U.K. MONEY
    30 8 xesterda] i ofik-ial closing prices on 'the Hone Kdivj Money Exchange were: HKS6 45 6.49 per U.S. dollar. HKSI6.IO per pound sterling. HK5303.5 per tael of sold.— UP
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    26 8 A U.S. Navy Viking rocket has reached a speed of 3.600 miles an hour m climbing 107 miles into the upper atmosphere over New Mexico. A.P.
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    HUSBAND SENT HER 'LOVE CHARTER'
    255 8 HUSBAND SENT HER 'LOVE CHARTER' 4 Be freer with other men LONDON, Thursday. A "LOVE CHARTER" sent two years after their marriage b> a language master to his wife daughter of a:i Army colonel and hidden by her under a carpet, contained these passages: "I want you to be much
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    48 8 ROYAL (jKOIT Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and her husband. Prince Bernhard. are now m London on a three-day state visit. This homely study of the Dutch Royal F.unik was taken at the Soestdi.jk Palace, I trecht. The princesses, left to rijjlit, are: Marijke, Beatrix. Margriet and Irene.
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    British escape ship's fire
    45 8 CAIRO. Thurt. THERE were no major Brl- tish < isualtlea when the filter. Ea 1.700 tons, caught flre yesterday m Suez harbour. the British army announced tit. -.tided th oa ol War I •am Jelly cai nber of Egyptian i A .P.
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    Jean Simmons to pay £3,000
    130 8 Customs keep engagement ring LONDON, Thursday. I^II.M actress Joan Simmons, home from Hollywood to show off the big diamond engagement rin» Stewart Granger gave her, wa,s charged £3,000 m duty and purchase tax yesterday for taking the ring into Britain. Jean posed for phot I
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    HOW TO RAISE STOCKPILE-BY TYRE CHIEF
    84 8 CHICAGO. Thurs. \|R. John L Collyer. Presl.t! dent ol B. F. Goodrich; Company, has proposed a sixDoint plan to Increase the Jnited States stockpile of rubber. Sp ftt a nation-wide neeting of automobile tyre rs at Chicago, Mr. G>l--yer recommended: the use *>f America
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    Chinese turn envoy hack
    51 8 KARACHI. Thurs. pHINESE Communist I ive AnaU to accredit I 1 to Sinttang, It In Karachi. Pakistan sent the envoy Col. Mohamman Sidd China's b: Muslim pi m October. 1949 He is now returning to Pakistan after closing the consulate at Kashlar, ;n Con': i— A
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    New honour for Nehru
    59 8 NEW YORK. Thui THE Indian Prime M.:. A Panels Nehru, ha* been 1 an Honorary p tnding Member of the American Academy of Art* and Sc;enc' Other noted forelfners elected at the same time were British historian. Mr Arnold J Toynbee. the French novelist, Mr. Andre
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    Britain awaits Russian reply
    48 8 Britain awaits Russian reply The n Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, told the House of Commons yesterday he i reply to c to Russia about Intervention m recent Austrian dlsturbanc The British note lent on Nov 10 alleged that nee prevented the Austrian police from doing their duty.- Reuter
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    GIRL RUNS NAKED THROUGH RANGOON
    139 8 RANGOON, Thursday. 4 YOUNG telephone operator ran naked along a A deserted thoroughfare m Rangoon for help while five men raped her girl companion. The operator, reaching the home of friends, told how she and her companion were attacked during an after dinner walk alone:
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    INDIA BUYS WHEAT
    23 8 Canada announced yesterday that India has agrped to j buy more than U5520,000,000 worth of Canadian wheat this veai A.P.
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    PLOTTERS HELD
    28 8 The President and I President of the Puerto Ri.'an Nationalist party m on a charge of conspiracy to York were arrested yesterday lassinate President Truman. A.P.
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    PLANE CRASHES: 10 BALE OUT
    50 8 PLANE CRASHES: 10 BALE OUT A B-36 bomber crashed yesterday about 10 miles north of Cleburne m north central Texas. Ten men were reported to have baled out from the plane— the world's biggest military plane Reuter U.P. I'm subicct to colds *n the hcjd. Have you i fur-lined hjt>'
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    PLANE STOLEN
    21 8 All British airports were alerted yesterday m a search for an Auster aircraft stolen From Sywell aerodrome, near Northampton.
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    21 8 Senator Tom Connally. Democrat from Texas says he expects Mao Tse-tung to tell Russia to mind its own business soon.- A.P.
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    That'll larn 'im
    118 8 A SEARCH for education almost landed I* -year-old Henderson Dorsey m the VJ&. Array at Baltimore. Horsey, a student, was accompanying some of his schoolmates on a tour of nearby military bases when he got separated from them at (amp Holabird. Dorsey then thumbed a ride on
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    Misguided gesture
    53 8 Misguided gesture 6T PAUL. Mil a Thurs. t TTORNEY-GENERAL. Mr. A J A Burnquist. ha* ruled that the city of Henderson no authority to give away ring spoons to stimulate at its municipal liquor rhe pui-po** oi a municipal liquor s'>>re to conand regulate Intemp I rating liquor. lis nr>M
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    Govt. faces censure by Churchill
    48 8 Govt. faces censure by Churchill LONDON, TbUTf. "WR Churchill last ni^ht laid -ure against the government for •id the por Centurion tanks"' to I i hile E jpt threa with B. The treaty permiU B: to keep troops m the Sues demanded the withdrawal of British A. P.
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