The Singapore Free Press, 23 January 1952
1952-01-23
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Title Section18 1952-01-23 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 18.2%. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.18 words
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Article, Illustration352 1952-01-23 1 A lexander to relieve Mr. Churchill LONDON, Wednesday. PREDICTIONS that Viscount Alexander— now representative of the King in Canadawill become Defence Minister in Mr. Churchill's Cabinet were strengthened yesterday by 9 personal friend of Mr. Churchill. Viscount Bracken, Britain's* war-lime Information Minister, said on arrival inReuter; U.P.; A.F.P.; A.P. - 352 words
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Article, Illustration157 1952-01-23 1 AKARTA, Wed. Indonesian Govq< at has called tttion of the Government reported smugof arms by the via the Philipto West New Philippine Charge a, Mr. Jose Imperial, ;he Indonesian Minister, Mr. AchS ibardjo, yesterday to ::e question. smugging story was d here bj the newsAbadi,AFP - 157 words
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Article31 1952-01-23 1 Ceylon rubber lor Mao The Polish ship Tobruk. Colombo, is loading tana of rubber for a N China port. la :he second shipment I ylon rubber to Commun- China since September31 words
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Article29 1952-01-23 1 VISHINSKY GOES BACK TO MOSCOW The Soviet Foreign Minister,, Mr. Vishinsky left Paris last night for Moscow after attending the sixth General Assembly of the United Na- tions— AFPAFP - 29 words
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Article202 1952-01-23 1 SAIGON, Wednesday. VIETMINH supporters yesterday spread their time bomb and grenade campaign to Pnompenh, capital of Cambodia, exploding two time bombs attached to a bicycle outside a Chinese restaurant. Nine Cambodians were seriously injured. Casualties from time bombs and grenades in the past 13Reuter - 202 words
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Article169 1952-01-23 1 10 KILLED EN TUNIS CLASHES TUNISIA, Wed. FIGHTING flared up again in Tunisia yesterday claiming a further 10 dead— nine Tunisians and a French Colonel, Col. Norbert Philippe Durand. Demonstrators stormed a bank at Sousse, 60 miles south of Tunisia. Twentyflve people were wounded According to eye-witnesses the Colonel wasReuter; A.P. - 169 words
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Article194 1952-01-23 1 WOMAN ROBS CHILD OF GOLD, JADE Free Pf>ss Staff Reporter A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD pupil of the Singapore Fairfield Girls' School was robbed by a Chinese woman yesterday in a lane near the school of Ijer gold locket, gold chain and two pieces of jade valued at $200. The woman had deceived194 words
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126 1952-01-23 1 TOKYO, Wednesday. DED CHINA today charged that Japan's decision 1V to recognise the Nationalist Chinese government in Formosa is a "collusion" of a "reactionary defeated Japan'* with American imperialism in preparing war against "the people and territory of China". r Communist Foreign Vice Minister,AP - 126 words
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Article51 1952-01-23 1 Pirst reaction of Norman Barlow-Graham, a company director, in Marple, England, when told yesterday he had won £210,000 in a soccer sweepstake, was to offer £1,400 towards the expenses of the British team at the Helsinki Olympic Games this year. His initial outlav was 14 cents^-Reuter - 51 words
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Article108 1952-01-23 1 Churchill stays indoors NEW YORK, Wed MR. CHURCHILL who has a cold was "slightly better" yesterday but he remained inside throughout the day before embarking for home on the Queen Mary. Lord Moran, his personal physician, remained overnight at the home of Mr. Bernard Baruch. American elder statesman who isA.F.P.; Reuter - 108 words
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Article22 1952-01-23 1 An estimated 40 per cent of Calcutta's 1,500,000 electorate yesterday voted in West Bengal's state assembly elections.- A.F.P.A.F.P. - 22 words
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Article239 1952-01-23 1 JOHN Samson, driver of bus which crashed into a squad of Navy cadets seven weeks ago, killing 24 and shocking Britain with its worst-ever road accident, was fined £56 yesterday in London for dangerous driving. Samson's driving licence was also suspended for three years By theReuter - 239 words
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Article207 1952-01-23 1 CAIRO, Wednesday. THE pro-Government newspaper, Al Midyp, said A yesterday that Jacob Malik, the Soviet U.n. delegate, has been invited to pay an official visit to Egypt. It did not say whether he has accepted. The Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Vishinsky, Mr. Malik andA.P.; U.P.; A.A.P. - 207 words
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Article76 1952-01-23 1 Australia 's basic wage goes up Saturday. MELBOURNE, Wed. BASIC wage increases ranging from 14 shillings a week in Brisbane to eight shillings in Perth— averaging ten shillings over six capital cities were announced last night. These rises bring the Australian basic wage to approximately £10 6s. with the peakU.P - 76 words
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Article178 1952-01-23 1 23 die as plane hits homes NEW YORK, Wed. AN American Airline **Convair, roaring through a blinding fos, crashed into a row of houses at Elizabeth, New Hampshire, yesterday killing all the 23 passengers and crew, including the former U.S. Secretary of War, Mr. Robert Patterson. The plane crashed intoU.P. - 178 words
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Article73 1952-01-23 1 MIAMI, Florida, Wed. A TWIN-ENGINE Lockheed Lodestar plane carrying five passengers slammed to earth less than 100 yards from the Big Eastern Airlines passenger terminal buildings and burst into flames. Mr. Jo* Grissom, Operations Department Employee, said he saw two charred bodies in the wreckage.73 words
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Advertisement212 1952-01-23 1 New/y lmpor##^ J I LADIES 1 SHOES\ 1 Latest Styles 1 Call Select at THE r OLD CAPITAL J Stamford Road M :£3 T J jjSS^Mother knew '\f\{ which changed Mary from a harassed < housewife to a happy woman >MMf MARY, I MOM YOU I GEORGE. OO II THIS212 words
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Advertisement33 1952-01-23 1 Jk "KESTOS" 2-way ELASTIC ROLL-ONS With Pink Satin Panel in Front, fitted with Two Small Bones and Four Suspenders Sizes MEDIUM and LARGE USUALLY $14.95 Until 29th Jan. J|>l2«oo ROBINSONS (Incorporated in Singapore)33 words
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737 1952-01-23 2 Longevity: Many Questions Are Unanswered 8$) *tßf Jlr *T.Wt ttr* r** *tt^^3L^^^V lff f*j^j*l^O* -j^h%- -I*"' ■•t*--' i;,. t -**i;j't^*l*?i''i;; ,~7j f *T£^^sf**f*;*fTliii3 TMODERN biology, despite great progress in the last hundred years, is still unable to provide answers to many of the questions on longevity. Biologist don't even know737 words
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Article, Illustration40 1952-01-23 2 An important member of a surgical team, the pathologist, examines a specimen of tumor tissue in an American hospital's operating theatre. The surgeons await his findings* to learn the exent of the task remaining: for them.40 words
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Article148 1952-01-23 2 Has A Housing Lottery LIKE every other country in the world, Holland is short of houses. Unlike other countries, the powers-that-be there are trying to boost building by running a lottery. The lottery scheme is centred in Amsterdam where the municipality, short of 35,000 houses and unable to afford to148 words
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Article578 1952-01-23 2 Harold P. Blakeslee - WHERE NIGHT AND DAY ARE ONE Harold P. Blakeslee By T*EST pilots are flying at altitudes where day and night exist together where you cannot see properly inside your cabin in broad daylight unless your lights are on. Manned rockets are reaching for a still more astonishing place where the578 words
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Advertisement227 1952-01-23 2 LJI [U f>cf L-/ i \^J I J? C c>^ook D Sturdy limbs, finn flesh, sound j bones the happiness of abound- t i ing health these are some the n gifts bestowed by this famo'us food. k For there is everything your baby S needs in a tin of227 words
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Advertisement284 1952-01-23 2 u YoU,too,may be one of c MILLIONS who suffer hi ViTAMIN&MINERAL(/^ That is why you feel Worn out Nervous. Irritable. Have heii -aches. Lose Weight. Worry" v. '*\VyBSBK^?--'- m :\«-'>^»^| oß^ <? M/i /JVM«/ ilk/ i^Crf /fe^/M When you're «naemic, feel oervook, hav« itaplant fr., n j. d 4iny tpells.284 words
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Miscellaneous114 1952-01-23 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR JJORN today, you have such a wide tfcriety of interests you most reconcile yourself only to a certain amount of routine hi one place if you are to reach the heights of accomplishment to which your talents entitle yon. Tour store of new ideas appears inexhaustible. Just114 words
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Miscellaneous202 1952-01-23 2 Solution To Crossword No. 566 YESTERDAYS SOLUTION.— Across: 1, Beer bottles. 7, Dog. 8, Younger. 9, Idle. 10. See-saw. 13, Export. 14. Aver. 16, Aurally. 18, Rev. 19, Poppy seller. Down: 1, Bedside lamp; 2, Egg-flip. 3, Bays. 4. Tourer. 5. Leg. 6, Screwdriver. 11. Several. 12, Brolly. 15, Eyre.202 words
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Article, Illustration231 1952-01-23 3 New finds made in Rumania Wednesday. T)i SSIA will begin exploitation of major new K U runium finds in Romania in Ike spring of 1952, uthoritative source disclosed here. The Soviet n i on is already mining large quantities of uranium in Bulgaria. IllLj BulgarianU.P. - 231 words
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Article83 1952-01-23 3 Surfer 1 pays h Australia ng n Australia. v ra get two cents ra i. i performance. a<] v i gel nearlt is anomaly was i Mr Walters, I i Australian Del Composers' v. v numbering Wan rv said Ills bad '.300 perforbe Australian hi he received raging not quiteU.P. - 83 words
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Article58 1952-01-23 3 oi arbitrary arre*t i torture of peasants by Comm d nisi Party workers i^nated several vlllbo Kwangtung and the ment is trying to iicuse. according to a 1 munist press report >i Hong Kong. \rrests and tortures place as party workers fent mto theUP - 58 words
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Article56 1952-01-23 3 Gardner, noider of about 20 ■i >t<H speed records, met «ne of his old Army friends rfiieffield when he was t 'of honour at the dinner meld and Hallamshire i Club. His recordakint runs have been made on the long, straight > ke-Altremotor road in ■Jim56 words
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Article, Illustration224 1952-01-23 3 POLICE HID IN CUPBOARD LONDON, Wed. r>ART of a conversation I which a detective was alleged to have heard while hiding in a cupboard was repeated in court at West London when Horace Sidney Em•iiett. aged 29. ventilator erector, was charged with demanding £9 from "Mrs. X" with menaces and224 words
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Article23 1952-01-23 3 Tin Japanese Government send a delegation to I »rmosa in February to n negotiations for a bilattreaty with Nationalist .a AFP.AFP - 23 words
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Article68 1952-01-23 3 LONDON, Wed. l>aOiooßAPHs of the win--1 ner of a bathing beauty Jtort. said to have been n by her bus-driver hus- were shown to Mr. J. L. V r the magistrate ar West ujndi n pH bus-driver. Archibald Sampson, and his wiie, >thy Bt-ttv Sampson, desJ lb «l68 words
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Article73 1952-01-23 3 An ex-Army staff sergeant, Horace Roach, who won the D.C.M at Cassino in 1944, is patting the finishing touches to a novel based on his war experiences. He hopes to have it published within the next six weeks. The no^l has a JP™*^ 1 story running73 words
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Article66 1952-01-23 3 ginning of last year Sanipson had sent photographs of his wife in unclothed and scantily clothed poses to people who answered his advertisements for «t photos. In a statement Sampson spoke of financial difficulties due to hla hltti rent -and added that he hit on the Idea ot66 words
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Article, Illustration251 1952-01-23 3 LONDON, Wednesday. A NURSE alleged at Bury, Lanes, that after struggling at midnight with a man who followed her off a bus, she was attacked by a second man to whom she appealed for help. Before the Court charged with improperly assaultirfg and illtreating theA.P. - 251 words
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Article26 1952-01-23 3 Miss A. M. Smuts, youngest sister of the late Field Marshal Jan Smuts, former Prime 'Minister of South Afric, has died in Capetown.26 words
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186 1952-01-23 3 LONDON, Wed. rM GREENWOOD. 29--year-old Londoner who married the heiress to the Procter soap fortune, told a New Haven. Connecticut, court that he was offered "a large sum of money" to get out of America and never return. Ex-merchant seaman, exactor who once186 words
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Article25 1952-01-23 3 Marshal Stalin attended a meeting of Soviet goyernment leaders in Moscow to mark the 28th anniversary of the death of Lenin. ReuterReuter - 25 words
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Article87 1952-01-23 3 Britain's civil airports are preparing for a busy year. During. the spring thousands of American visitors will start to arrive on the new touristclass fares, swelling the arrival figures at London Airport to what is expected will be an 1 all-time record. In the summer87 words
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Article76 1952-01-23 3 A message of thanks from India's Prt.iiier Mr. Nehru for the ''generous assurance" that Australia would try to increase wheat shipments to India was given to the Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Sir Arthur Padden in London. Mr. Nehru said he was watching the proceedings "with hope andReuter - 76 words
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Article219 1952-01-23 3 Wednesday. A TWENTY- Year-Old typist, said by the prosecution to be under the domination of a "rascal' with a prison record, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to 12 months' imprisonment on a charge of slashing the man with a razor. The girl, Iris Joy219 words
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Article49 1952-01-23 3 When a man tried to get his wife back after a separation, she considered how profitable a reconciliation would be, it was said at the Norwich Divorce court. Her price to return to her husband was a fur coat and she got it!49 words
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Article185 1952-01-23 3 14, she was night club hostess LONDON, Wed. WHEN a 14-year-old school- girl appeared at the juvenile court at Chelsea. London, she told the magistrates that she ran away from home to become a hostess In a Soho night club. Brought before the Court as being in need of care185 words
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Article29 1952-01-23 3 The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, plans to go to Paris soon to give French Government leaders a briefing on the recent Anglo-American talks in Washington AP.AP - 29 words
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Advertisement129 1952-01-23 3 MADE TO LAST A LIFETIME SILENT ACTION POWERFUL BREEZE PERFECT BALANCE MADE IN INDIA. USHA Fans are the product of mechanical precision, thus resulting in perfect balance and silent running. SHROFFS (MALAYA) LTD. Agency Showroom: 47-49. Stamford Rd.. Singapore 6. Td. *****. 139, Batu Hoad, KuU Luwp- 32, Bishop Street,129 words
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Miscellaneous55 1952-01-23 3 Mdndr3k6 Exelu&nv to the Sinpnpon Fvpp Press in Malaya JANE Exclusive to the Singapore free Press in Malaya TH6v%e comins cxrry übt tub 1 quiok-stkx /^r^H "S??^^ 11 /I /JHk 1 rtM TSO TUB OLD I IT UP VOUft m Ir N6W wUfeSI, f¥BVA» r^c*t TARZAN Waiting By Edgar Rice55 words
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556 1952-01-23 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Jan. 23. 1952. A King the mob WHEN Nahas Pasha, f the Egyptian Prime Minister, denounced the A n g l o-Egyptian Treaty and the Sudan Condominium he started something. It is now doubtful whether even if he wished he could stop that same something.556 words
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Article, Illustration744 1952-01-23 4 Rodney Campbell - Rodney Campbell says SYNE decision could v turn America's Presidential election of 1952 from a complicated hotch-potch of issues and personalities into the easiest thing since President Roosevelt was re-elected, in 1936, by 46 of the 48 United States of America. Reports from the canvassers are sensational. They744 words
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Article, Illustration840 1952-01-23 4 PRESTO - They Also Serve Who Sit and LISTEN PRESTO MUSIC TOPICS BY a touch of x imagination about the Musical Society's plan to devote one rehearsal period, not to playing the works they will perform at their March concert, but to listening to them on records. It has sometimes occurred to840 words
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684 1952-01-23 4 KENNETH AMES - Germans Will Not Make Tanks, Guns KENNETH AMES says WILL German indus"try be forced, in the coming months, to turn to essential defence production? It all depends, as the philosopher said, what you mean by defence production. Take .young Dr Gollnow, head of a firm which has been in hfe684 words
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Article159 1952-01-23 4 "Happy birthday to you!" tings Marian Anderson, contralto, well-known in the concert halls of many countries, who recently broadcast personal greetings to lean Sibelius over The Voice off America on the famous Finnish composer's 86th birthday. Miss Anderson also broadcast a personal tribute to Finland's octogenarian composer.159 words
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Article489 1952-01-23 4 FELIX - THE SWING IN BONGO FELIX By AFRO-CUBAN music which underwent a sort of a transformation during the war under the influence of swing bands, is still continuing to make itself felt in jazz. Featuring the bongo (a drum like the tabla) the music is "clean" as only trumpets and saxes489 words
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Article, Illustration94 1952-01-23 4 WEBER. Overture "Oberon". Vienna Philharmonia Orchestra (Fur twang: 1 e r HJH.V. DB *****. After the first great crashing chord ending the lovely Introduc- tion, the flodU gales are broken down and the torrential sequence that Is exorchestra onrush overtakes us In tremelv thrillinsr st.Hn» ni a «i«94 words
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Article, Illustration28 1952-01-23 4 GEOFFREY i\ | jn - GEOFFREY i\ |jn B> 'Joe, it looks as (hough you i w tuning or the sticwei and n t* resting on the old d'O shorty28 words
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103 1952-01-23 4 I ASKED the Wir how mar.y officen i hoped to recruit in r s] to the announcement officers are urgently to meet the expansi nof the Malay Reg.:. I was told W not be in the p ibli ii I i to Rive the ini rma103 words
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Advertisement15 1952-01-23 4 This Year LONCINES will TIME the WINTER OLYMPICS OSLO. H. SENA, Ltd., Singapore. Penang Bangkok.15 words
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Advertisement9 1952-01-23 4 JmMf) PLYMOUTH A.,'enfs: 1 y^ CALDBECK'S /WkV Mmmw: 5371/2.9 words
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Article, Illustration524 1952-01-23 5 picture. Free Press Staff Reporter ]y|RS. Junfe Wood of Grange Road, Singapore, told the Singapore Relief Court yesterday that Wong Ji Kin, a 19-year-old student* broke into her flat, entered her bedroom and said: "You are beautiful. I want to kiss you". Wong was charged with housebreakingFree Press - 524 words
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Article102 1952-01-23 5 SINGAPORE City Council has agreed :o release Mr. Lim 800 Guan, a committee clerk ;.e Ci:y secretariat, to il in Australia for two yctn under a junior Austrafk n fellowship. T; fellowship is awarded ler the Commonwealth T rhnkal Co-operation S re for South and102 words
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177 1952-01-23 5 TU report to mummy 1 girl (5) told her molester KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A FIVE-TEAR-OLD European girl told a 17--year-old Chinese lift at tendent who took her to the top floor of the Majestic Hotel, lifted her dress and tried to commit an indecent act, "You naughty boy, I will177 words
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Article83 1952-01-23 5 Seventy oversea-Chinese organisations in Singapora have responded to a suggestion, n:ade about tW3 weeks age. to hold a joint function ot fete the Chinese who were honoured In the Not/ Year list. The guests-of-hannar will bo Dato Sir Cheng hoik. Tan. Messrs. Tay Koh Yat,83 words
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Article51 1952-01-23 5 About 500 labourers of the Singapore City Council at the Pontian and Gunong Pulai waterworks extension projects may be provided with a welfare officer. The approval of City Councillors to the creation of this post is now being sought by the City President, Mr. T. P.51 words
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Article17 1952-01-23 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Bandits murdered an estate worker in the Tapah area of Perak yesterday.17 words
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Article70 1952-01-23 5 IPOH, Wed.— At a meeting attended by more than 50 people last Saturday at Parit, a branch of the St. John Ambulance was set up. The territorial chief of Parit was elected chairman and Inche Meor Ahmad Bin Yusuf the Secretary. The branch, hopes to70 words
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Article157 1952-01-23 5 Building materials dearer DRICES of certain building materials have gone up since the temporary suspension of distributional controls last month, traders said yesterday. The materials which cost more now are: pig iron of standard sizes, cement, timber, paints and asbestos. Mr. C. W. A. Sennett, managing director of Sennett Realty157 words
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Article31 1952-01-23 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed: The curfew will be lifted in all wired-in villages and regrouped areas in Jasin District, Malacca, on the nights of Jan, 26. 27, and 28.31 words
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Article20 1952-01-23 5 The Rev. Brother J. Reutens, of Penang, is now on the staff of St. Thomas School. Kuantan.20 words
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Article67 1952-01-23 5 PENANG, Wed. THE Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce will shortly call a special meeting of all associations ani trade bodies affected by the new Indonesian trading regulations to consider them. If necessary, the Chamber will collate the views and send an appeal to the Indonesian authorities.67 words
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Article, Illustration185 1952-01-23 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. BOTH the Federation ol Malaya and Singapore Post Office Savings Banks have had a most successful year. The number of transactions and new accounts and the total amount saved were all' in excess of previous years. In the Federation, deposits lastFree Press - 185 words
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166 1952-01-23 5 Free Press Staff Reporter DROKERS in Singapore doubt that the freezing of 13 land values till the publication of the Master Plan for the development of the Colony would help prevent land values from going up. An official of the Seacon Company said yesterday:166 words
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Article115 1952-01-23 5 IPOH, Wed. Perak State Government is considering the possibility of starting afternoon sessions hi Government English Schools in some of the larger centres of the State to provide accommodation for hundreds of child- rcn who have failed to cet admission. Mr. E. C. Hicks, Senior Inspector115 words
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221 1952-01-23 5 You can't bar War Dept men Lawyer Free Press Staff Reporter ]i|R. David S. Marshall, a Colony lawyer, has iniT* formed the Singapore Ratepayers Association that War Department employees could be elected to the City Council. I The advice of Mr. Marshall was sought by the Association, Five War Department221 words
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Article58 1952-01-23 5 Planners get to work SIR George Pepler, Singapore's town planning expert, left for London on Monday. He will return in July. S'r George ha s some work to do at Cambridge University, it is .earned. The tfam surveying the Colony is planning the work to be done. Field work will58 words
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Article93 1952-01-23 5 plan fishing company Free Press Staff Reporter VHE president of the Singapore Malay Seamen's Union, Inol.e Yacob bin Abdullah, siiid yesterday a new Mai ay fishing company would be formed shortly in Singapore. The company would be known as the Malay Fishing Industries 2nd would be formed with a capital93 words
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Article77 1952-01-23 5 Free Press Staff Repor.er SINGAPORE subscribed $12,--201 for British troops in Korea, to help brighten their Christmas, the Army announced last night. The donations were made following an appeal by the Governor, Sir Franklin Gim'son. on December 19. The donations were sent to Major-General A. J.77 words
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Advertisement231 1952-01-23 5 t 'iiicji liiiiiiiinciiiiiiiiiiiiiciiiiiiiiiiiiicsiiimiiininitiiiiiiiiiinimiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiii^ 1 EZIO PINZA (Boss) j sings his songs from the film i "YOU BELONG TO MY HEART" Vcu belong to my heart j§ Ler me look at you 1 DA 1991 Z V 'V love and my mule C Andiamo DA 1990 (Beth with Fran Warren) S231 words
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Advertisement67 1952-01-23 5 f'^MCHICK. mm AvroMAr/c %££2§&i K 81AP£ CHAA/GE& «i *u*4*u 4T4H L£AD//VG SrO&S li Ja I •Notions, SCOTT ENGLISH (S.E.A.) LTD. >INCAPORi KUALA LUMPUR *eta,u BORNEO MOTORS LTD. ALL BRANCHES SINGAPORE BAGGAGE TRANSPORT AGENCY LTD. for HEAVY LOADS up to 20 tons single lift Loading and Discharging by either Crane or67 words
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Article, Illustration1447 1952-01-23 6 WE sat around the fire and, as the embers glowed and shadowed, we tried to work out how many murderers we know in our own circle. Don't misunderstand me. The orbit of my acquaintances isn't much different from yours. I don't mean men who have actually strangledPopper - 1,447 words
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Article, Illustration468 1952-01-23 6 living In Croydon or Chorl-ton-scum-Hardy or Morningside. The eyes of the management seem to be permanently on you provided you have connections. George Eastman has connections. He has Just burgeoned oui into his twenties. He is a young man with all the physical attributes and the surging ambitions468 words
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Article165 1952-01-23 6 SYDNEY, Wednesday. T*HEY killed a snake in Vaucluse, and everyone x thought that was the end to a 150-year-old legend. It wasn't really. Warren White, a 14-year-old boy with a liking for snakes, had taken it in to the Sydney harbourside suburb. Then theA.P. - 165 words
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Article23 1952-01-23 6 The Ford Foundation ha? granted Rs. 1,660.000 to the All-Pakistan Women's Association for fostering a college for domestic science training. A.P.A.P. - 23 words
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Article551 1952-01-23 6 t E«Y|T 13 IN THE NEWS so I Til#&#nSH TROOPS !k !f l SUEZ CANAL ZONE ANOTft INSTALMENT FROM "MY CAN NOTEBOOk" BY J. L HAYS Tei YOU WHAT LIFE IS LIKE THEte COMEWHAT baffled and bewildered is the Ist Battalion the Inniskilling551 words
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Advertisement169 1952-01-23 6 REX TODAY 11-1.45-4-6.30-9.30 |W %^B fat* PAVILION LAST DAY 1.45-4-6.30-9.30 GLASS MENAGERIE" TOMORROW 4 IN A JEEP" CAPITOL From TODAI 11-1.45-4-6.30-9.3t Malay Film Productions* "ALADDIN" Starring MARIAM. iii TEI ?>4OO AIR-CONDiTIONED LAST 2 DAYS 11 am. 1 13 4.15 6.45 k 9.30 p.m. THRILLS GALORE! t.**** ■a l .yvMfr--^: starring169 words
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Advertisement80 1952-01-23 6 LEONARD MOSLEY (who has prepared this series) argues that .in most cases Murder is not a crime of overwhelming emotion, but a stupid way out of a situation which could nearly always be solved comparatively easily. CRIPPEN for example. "I main-. tain," says Mosley, "that Crippen murdered his wife, not80 words
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Advertisement194 1952-01-23 6 THE (APITOI RESTAURANT Proudly Preset m CHINESE NEW YEAR Saturday 25th Sunday 26rh Extension 2 a.m. Extension 1 ft* "NEW YEAR'S VARIETY SHOW HELEN KEITH in her first appearance a* the ftf** CHOK YUN YUN Celebrated Guest Arhst fro* Hongkong and Shanghai TAN HOCK CHUAN The Winner of NM H#*194 words
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Miscellaneous138 1952-01-23 6 Radio Listening SINGAPORE 8.8.C. SINGAPORE 1.00 p.m. Dance Music by Jerry B J- 15 P- m Sports Round-Up; Cray Ore***,; g^ SS^JSJS^KB News; 1.45 Lunch Time Prom; From The Editorials; 7.00 Sports 3.20 Close; 5.00 Programmes to Worship; 8.15 A Manner of Malay; 6.15 Time Signal Pro- Speaking I—2:1 2:138 words
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Article, Illustration661 1952-01-23 7 Mr. Kee Soon Bee 's Utter in full By The Sports Editor JfEO Chwee Kok, Singapore's World Olympic swimming hope, has never been sent out against the clock since the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association Championships last October. Man to say this is Mr. Tan Wee Chwee,661 words
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Article310 1952-01-23 7 T *lr MX C beat Central 1 'ivnv yesterday by nine wickets at Nagpur. Centra] zone were all out for ISi to" tneir second inning leaving the >1 to get 35 runs to H in with TO minutes play remaining they did M lth 48A.P. - 310 words
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Article90 1952-01-23 7 pOYAL Army Service Corps will actl the Ist Battalion Fiji BsgkMßl in a rugby match at UN Soon tomorrow starting at spm l e Fi-ians arrived In Singa- ;< e recently to join in the cam;.t: against the bandits. They hm ar. impressive rugby record. RA990 words
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Article37 1952-01-23 7 H Q FARELP beat Singapore Cricket Club "A" by three (Jta.v jo one in a friendly hockey rnach piaved at Tanglin yesterday. Sleater t2» and Sweet scored lor GH Q McMuUen gained S.C.C.'s pal37 words
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Article152 1952-01-23 7 /OFFICIALS explained last jV night thai the absence of ringside doctor at the preliminary boats en Monday was due to the fact that he was called away on an urgent case just as the boxing was about to commence. The officials were unable to produce a stand-in152 words
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Article184 1952-01-23 7 rREE trophy races will be run at th e Penang Turf Club's three-day Spring nueting on Mar. 1, 5 and 8. Classes 3, 4 and 5 will toe catered for. Entries close on Wed Feb 20. at 12 noon. The trophy races are:Kedah Cup for Class184 words
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Article83 1952-01-23 7 The Federation final of the Fraser and Neave Cup rugger competition between Malayan Scouts (Special Air Service) and 40 Commandos will be played In Kuala Kangsar. Perak. on Wednesday. The winners win meet Singapore Engineer Regiment on the Kuala Lumpur Pa dang on Feb. 2 for the83 words
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Article113 1952-01-23 7 World lightweight champion Jimmy- Carter on Monday night scored a points decision over Mario Trigo of Los Angeles in a 10-round non-title fight in Pennsylvania. The bout was punctuated by boos and foot stamping by the spectators, and a warning from the Boxing Commission to bothReuter - 113 words
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Article98 1952-01-23 7 THE Victoria Club, known throughout the world as 1 the racing man's "stock exchange'* and the cfearfcif house of British betting amounting to millions of pounds each year, last night held an oHk-ial Callover on the English Football Association t !> Competition. nal Cup winners98 words
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Article578 1952-01-23 7 S.A.B.A. TOURNEY Free Press Boxing Reporter OOXING enthusiasts are in for some good bouts **this evening in the finals of the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's Novices Championships which start at 8.30 p.m. in the S.V.C. Hall, Beach Road. There will be three special bouts578 words
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Article41 1952-01-23 7 f tNIVERSITY of Malaya U fought back to defeat Latiff Wanderers in a Singapore Hockey Association Junior knockout tie played at Sepoy Lines yesterday. The Varsity 2nd XI was a goal down after 20 minutes when Wanderers' outside-left,41 words
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Article1034 1952-01-23 7 DAVE BRADY - DAVE BRADY 'Trouble is he hits too hard' says doctor By **T DON'T know why everybody is so surprised to hear that a boxer has faith... a boxer has a soul to save just like everybody else." That was Jersey Joe Walcott expressing hims' If1,034 words
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Article298 1952-01-23 7 TPHE New York Boxing Commission told Jersey Joe Walcott yesterday that he must sign within 15 days to defend his heavyweight championship. Otherwise, Commission Chairman Robert Christenberry warned in a letter sent to Walcott, New York will withdraw its recognition. Walcott won the title onU.P..; A.P. - 298 words
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Article139 1952-01-23 7 PAGLAR SHIELD RUGBY JJOUSING rugger by "North" earned an 18-six victory over "South" In the annual University of Malaya rugby match for the Paglar Shield played at Buklt Timih yesterday. The South team piayed with 14 men throughout The South XV. which included half a oosen Singapore All Blues players,139 words
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Article168 1952-01-23 7 VICTORIA went for the runs against West Indies when they resumed their match at Melbourne this morning: .at the overnight score of 128 for three. i Victoria declared at 236 for six at lunch and West Indies went in to hit up the 297 runsReuter; AAP - 168 words
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Advertisement15 1952-01-23 7 On Sale Today a New Edition ■f THE STRAITS TIMES DIRECTORY SINGAPORE and MALAYA $3015 words
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337 1952-01-23 8 UN help for Arab refugees WAR IN I-CHINA OF GREAT CONCERN TO FREE WORLD Eisenhower strafes French rulf inJ^ PARIS, Wednesday. PENERAL Eisenhower said yesterday it was unfortunate that the war Prance was waging in Indo-China was considered at first as nothing more than a colonial incident. The General regrettedA.F.P.; A.P. - 337 words
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Article, Illustration34 1952-01-23 8 pi cture THjE FOREIGN SECRETAK Y and Deputy Premier, Mr. Eden arriving at London A irport from New Yejk with Sir Gerald Templer, newly- appointed High Commissioner in Malaya A P.A.P. - 34 words
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Article145 1952-01-23 8 VENICE, Wed. AN almost blind beggar yesterday became an Italian millionaire when he won 4,240,000 lire (£2,422) by correctly guessing all of Sunday's soccer results in the Italian football pool. Rut he nearly ignored his stroke of good luck. He had bought a 100-Kre (1/2) ticketA.P.; U.P. - 145 words
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Article193 1952-01-23 8 PARIS, Wednesday. THE United States yesterday rejected a Soviet move for block consideration of 14 nations seekin? United Nations membership, and called for a new approach to break the deadlock over 16 nations awaiting entry. If the United Nations agreed to the proposed Soviet "packingReuter; U.P. - 193 words
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Article30 1952-01-23 8 The text of the IndonesianJapanese agreement on war reparations, signed in Tokyo, will be made public simultaneously in Tokyo and Djakarta at the end of this month. A.F.PA.F.P. - 30 words
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204 1952-01-23 8 Towgay wells get 4-month 'reprieve' Free Press Staff Rep^-ter THE Singapore City Councils Health Committee yesterday recommended a four-month suspension, until May 31, of action on the closure of wells in the Rochore and Geylang areas used for growing towgay (beansprouts.) After that the wells must be finally closed, said204 words
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Article77 1952-01-23 8 LONDON, Wed. '/"•HEERFUL but without much business," was the description of the London Stock Exchange yesterday by one broker. Cheerfulness wa s attributed to a communique on the Commonwealth Ministers' conference Indicating determination to end the Sterling area crisis and was translated into small grains in domesticReuter - 77 words
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Article67 1952-01-23 8 A top-secret device ior detecting British television sets on which the annual licenses have not been paid is being put into operation by the General Post Office. The new detector will be used to ferret out the estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people who have T.V.Reuter - 67 words
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Article57 1952-01-23 8 Israel walked out of all United Nations meetings yesterday for one day as a gesture of "grief and protest" at the hanging of the two Jews in Iraq on Monday. The two Jews, who were convicted last November as members of the Jewish terrorist underground movement,A.P. - 57 words
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Article97 1952-01-23 8 It is understood Princess Margaret will accompany her parents on the trip, though last night's announcement made no mention of her. The duration of the cruise has not yet been announced. It is expected that the family will visit other places en route. Princess Elizabeth and the Duke97 words
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93 1952-01-23 8 T s LONDON, Wednesday. HE King ana Queen will leave London on Mar 10 for a cruise to South Africa aboard the battleship Vanguard, Buckingham Palace officials announced last night. The visit will combine u goodwill mission with a medical rest. The93 words
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Article82 1952-01-23 8 KHARTOUM, Wed. gTRANGE occult methods are still used in the Sudan. Recently two tribesmen were killed in a fight in the Central Nuer district. A number of suspects were gathered by the "leopardskin chief" and a black goat slaughtered while the suspects drank milk from oneA.P. - 82 words
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Article13 1952-01-23 8 Pakistan will receive US $10,000,000 fro tnAmerican aid funds.13 words
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Article29 1952-01-23 8 Yc-sierday's closing quotations in the Hong Kong money exchange were: U.S.$l HK 6.641/2 cash, HK56.67& T.T.; £1 HK $15.85; one tael of gold HK $3273,. U.P.U.P. - 29 words
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Article27 1952-01-23 8 Eight people were killed and four injured, two seriously, as a result of a collision yesterday between two Nationalist C-47 transport planes over Formosa. AFPAFP - 27 words
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Article24 1952-01-23 8 Britain's Comet jet airliner yesterday became the first Turbo-jet civil airliner in the world to receive a certificate of airworthiness. Reuter AFP.Reuter; AFP - 24 words
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Article55 1952-01-23 8 The U.S. Government yeslerday filed monopoly charges against International Business Machines, the world's largest makers of tabulating equipment. The complaint charges that the firm controls over 90 per cent of all tabulating machines in the United States and 95 per cent of all tabulating machines usedA.P. - 55 words
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Article42 1952-01-23 8 The UJS State Department is actively studying proposals to limit movements in the United States of Soviet diplomatic representatives in response to the recent Kremlin directive limiting the movements of foreigners to a radius of 40 kilometres around Moscow. A.F.P.A.F.P. - 42 words
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Article293 1952-01-23 8 will not U.K. envoy TEHERAN, Wed. PERSIA in another slap i 1 a t Britain yesterday 'refused to accept Mr. Robert Hankey as the I new British Ambassador to Teheran. No reasons were given for the rejecttion of the career dipio- mat who served as the I First Secretary ofReuter; A.P. - 293 words
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Article205 1952-01-23 8 LONDON, Wed. BRITAIN maintained her lead as the Western world's biggest shipbuilder in the last quarter of 1951. the authoritative Lloyds Register reported today, even though her total tonnage for the period was slightly lower. As usual, the report carried no figures on building in theA.P. - 205 words
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131 1952-01-23 8 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. 'THE United States Reconstruction Finance Corx poration yesterday increased the price of tin to American industry from 103 U.S. cents a pound to 121* U.S. cents. The increase followed last week's agreement, by which, the United States sells Britain more than 1,000,000131 words
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