Malaya Tribune, 18 November 1946

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  • 49 1 The Malaya Tribune THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Now printed simultaneously in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. Thonc Numbers: Editor 5813 Editorial 5811 Advertising 58 *2 Circulation Accounts 2005 .!>• SINGAPORE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1946 TEN CENTS. The Malaya Tribune MONDAY. NOV. 18. IMfi
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  • 41 1 A.P. im war for Eu rope and I yi.rniay ;ha: r»a a vaTc cor.vif ef h son eneeS. i- 1.: 1 f>o have been .lea h. 70» -r> J persons ac- -> p«rsona have been c'Ch h. 4S">
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  • 24 1 4 li of 1,650 tons of q rice Is arriving mujeraw by the i bring- 4 of "free" rice.
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  • 505 1 Sufficient For U. K. Annual Consumption Reuter. LOND ON, Nov. 17 —Sydney Gampell, Renter's financial editor, who scooped the British press today with the assertion that the world grain holdup is on the point of collapse, to night backed his claim with a detailed analysis
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  • 105 1 Reuter. N IDC BUS. Nov. 17.-A i ikrge -caie smuggling 'urkeys is expect- J by Ei'e breeders to if f>om the British jn•- 0 f Food's dcci- km to classify Eire birds as i thus allocating a j ■c fOi them than I British and Northern Ire-
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  • 39 1 A.P. ATHENS Nov 18.—General Step rati-, commanderthe ELAS forces ccupation, has bee*> formall; banished to the island between Crete and the Pelopenesus. by the Greek mmittee. on the r he U"a threat to Greek ty.' -A.P
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  • 278 1 Reuter. SEW YORK. Nov. 17.- South African Senator H. II B to-nigh, urged The United States press to cur am and tell the truth about conditions oa em Id fields of South Africa." Mr Basiter. addressing a meeting ot the Abyssinian Church under
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  • 68 1 PARIS, Nov. 18 —The French Socialist Paiyy yesterday accepted conditionally an offer by the Comnnnists to nego/iate on the formation of a Government. The decision was taken by fine Socialis* National Council after an all-day meeting yetf erday to disauss ♦he results of last
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  • 190 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Nov. 17. The Reconversion Direct or Mr John Steelrnan. is tonight studying the plan t n order all necessary railway wagons to be seized by the Office of Defenc T>ansportatio7i to speed American wheat /<>> overseas shipment and to catch up on the
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  • 120 1 Reuter PARI?. Nov. 17 —Marie Rousseau, wife Of 43-year-01.l French tanner Gabriel Rousseau, who w*s found dead with a revolver in his hand in Augus* 194* in the tiny village of Seicat near Periguevx. has now confessed that she murdere.l her husband t ecanise a fortune
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  • 55 1 A.P. LONPON. Nov. 17.—Bad weather prevented a Nene Lancas trian. the first jet-propelled passenger airliner, from leaving London airport on Sunday for Paris where it is scheduled to make demonstration flights. A Ministry of Supply announcement said that weather permitting the flight would begin at
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    52 1 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, vice-p'esident of the Interim Government recently towed tribal areas on the Indian North-West frontier. Picture shows the presentation of three v hitc rants by the Khan of Jandola. The Indian leader touched the rams as a marK of acceptance, and then >et them free.
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  • 253 1 A.P. LONDON. Nov. 18.—Americans whose feelings are rasilv hurt will do well to close their ears when the "revolt" by 58 Labour Members of Parliament against their Government's foremen policy is thrashed out in j me British House of Commons to-day. Some
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  • 279 1 EINSTEIN'S APPEAL A.P. NEW YORK, Nov. 17. Professor AJbert Einstein and a group of scientists tonight appealed for $1,000, 000 in public subscriptions to be used in educating the community in the social implications of atomic energy and steps necessary to avoid
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  • 42 1 A.P. MANCHESTER. England. Nov. 17—An unofficial strike by 5 000 bus and tram car operators in protest against the dismissal of one driver for alleged dangerous driving left this industrial c:ty of 80.000 without public transport, today —A P.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 72 1 rood News l or Malayans takiaf U> publish \WI<) IS WHO?" {ingapon and ;i n Union 1947. to the world by sendiph:es through the book. For further de- v le, phono or call at TH; ORIENTAL PUBLISHERS" Phone No. 4783. GIAN SINGH'S SERVICE j 1 Nylon Parachute for $45.00 y
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    • 40 1 Branded Watches Eterna, Cyma, Mira, Etc. Reliable All Steel Stainless 15-JEWEL LEVER BALANCED MOVEMENT. trtNT I-MAGNETIC, SHOCK PROOF, WATER PROOF INCABLOC. Inspection Invited H. Heng Cheong WATCH CO., Estd. 1911 195. ORCHARD RD„ SINGAPORE. TICER CUB Gathering Strength jIL jfc
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  • 86 2 In sad and unfading memory of »ny dearly loved husband and our da-ling Dac t Claude H. Coshan) nho died skt Sen-mban on November ISh 1944 No one knows the heartache, Oniv those who have lost can teJ. The srief we bear in parting. With one we loved
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  • 97 2 LONDON., Nov. IS, —-Police am. customs officers on the British south coast a.-v today on the look out for smugglers taking cocoa unrationed in Britain throughout the war—to the Continent where it is finding reaTy buyers in the black market. France and Norway are the chief
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  • 41 2 LONDON. Nov. 17. The 27.000--ton United State- aircraft carrier Randolph, cruiser Fargo (10,000 tons>. flagship of the United States Naval Forces in the -Mediterranean and two destroyers will call at the Turkish port of Izmir next Saturday.
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  • 476 2 A.P. Gen. Mac Arthur's report said that the Japanese cabinet announced that 899 topranking government and political leaders vco forced to resign from orlice under the purge directive. A check with the Japanese cabinet secretary statt" disclosed that 7,945 toprankers have been screened of whom
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  • 418 2 Reuter. Dublin. —Eire today is enjoying what may prove be its biggest tourist boom. The post-war period has brought many thousands of visitors and hoteis throughout the country have been booked up for months in advance. The season now ending should constitute an all-time record for
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  • 135 2 Reuter. NEW YORK. No?. 16.—Sluggish trading found the market declining under the leadership of Industrials, rails and minings with losses ranging up to one point or thereabouts. The approaching difficulties of soft coal mining caused less than expected liquidation notwithstanding the fact the extended strike would
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  • 82 2 Reuter. THE HAGUE. Nov. 16—Indications were mounting today that a major crK s might be facing Dr. L^ui s Beer, four month eld Dutch Cab net over its policy in the Dutch East. Indies, the Dutch New Agency reDorfrtd. Dr. Johannes Ringers, who resigned on Nov.
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  • 214 2 Reuter. New York, Nov. 16 The Sectary General of th United Nations. Dr. Trygve Lie, reply Of LO tne recent attack in the committee by the Soviet delegate. Ft d>r Gusev. on the 'swollen mechanism'" of the United Natlonj secretariat told the administrative and budgetary
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  • 60 2 Reuter. PARIS, Nov. 16. Three wellknown French journalists who wrote for the "collalorationis-. paper -Ja Su.s Partouf during elm Geiman occupation, fact iriai he o •fl Monay by a Purge Cour. on enarges of -intelligence with the enemy U was learned today The three accused are
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  • 163 2 Reuter. MOSCOW. Nov 16.—'Pravda," summarising nearly a year's efforts to carry out the Moscow conference decision regardng Korea, say s today: 'The first task of creating a democratic Korean government still remains unfulfilled. The U.S. member of the Soviet-American commission has a slowdown tsndency
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  • 128 2 Reuter. London. Nov. 15.—Eight hundred Polish troops left Britain today in the transport ship "Mar- me Raven" for Poland, the Foreign Office spokesman announced. Inability to fill the ship with these Polish repatriates, which has a full complement of 1.994. was due to the-Polish authorities in London
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 259 2 NOTICES TOWN BOARD NOTICE. AMUSEMENT PARK. JOHORE BAHRU. 1. Application.- are hereby invited for the erection and lease of an Amusement Park at Johore Bahru. 2. The land to be occupied approximately 3.8 acres at junction of Jalan Station and Jalan Ah F<>°k will be alienated under a lease for
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    • 153 2 SHIPPING Silver Line KERR STEAMSHIP CO INC. NEW YORK GENERAL AGENTS SAILINGS To NEW YORK DH.V. Silversandal Penang 4th Doc Singapore 18th Dec. T<« Los Angeles, San Prancisco and Vancouver m.v. HOEGH SILVERCLOUD Pt nar.e 19ih Nov. Singapore 23rd Nov. Agents:— HADDEN CO (SINGAPORE) LTD. Chartered Bank Chamber*. Pnonc Nos.
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    • 424 2 SHIPPING AGENTSFOP MALAYAN NA/im^Sw for all freight pass ac; enquiries dial ***** glex lim: SAILINGS TO AND FROM U. K. iGLENAPP For U.K. The Continent 'EDWARD BRUCE Prom U.K. IXDO-CHIXA S. A I SAILINGS TO SAIOON, HONGKONG SHANf;ni, CALCUTTA fcSANG Fiom Hongkong IMAUSANG Prom Calcutta For Hongkong L Shanghai. ■tritvs
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  • 72 3 Nov. 17.— Sixteen neat De Havilland ield. Hertfordshir3 c Suffolk are once g thr "whistling loon name they give to jet plane, which H.i%illland used to -t his life a few h< waa to attack the d record. >r. as chief test Captain John Cunningham, has s with
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  • 32 3 c •ii forn!i Nov. 17.— hi wreckage of a I Uni e.i S:ates rashed ngasnsr! the peak White '.fountain te.i bj the radio last eleven poop'e en ss leported mi?s;ne
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  • 213 3 MALAYA FOOD ENVOY WILL TELL WASHINGTON Dr. W.M. Clyde. Food Adviser to Lord Kill earn, lef r Singapore yesterday by air for Washington to attend the meetings of the International Emergency Food Council to decide the allocation of to South East Asia countries for the
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  • 339 3 Reuter. U ISHINGTON, NOV. 16 —BRITAIN IS SEEKING THK IMRCHASE IN THE UNITED STATES OF SUFFICED WHEAT TO ENABLE HER NOT ONLY TO AVERT THE IMPENDING CRISIS IN COLONIAL AND OTHER DEPENDENT AREAS BUT TO ALSO END BKKM) RATIONING IN THE
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  • 143 3 Reuter. LONDON. Nov. IT.— The Surety Times'' published an interview with British Ambassador "o China, Si-" Ralph Stevenson, in which he vOld the paper's Nanking represents ive: "I am optimis.ic about the future of British trade relationships with China, taking a long view. Even if
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  • 38 3 Reuter. LONDON, Nov. 16.—Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, has been awarded the honorary Gold Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons in appreciation of his distinguished work and particularly in recognition of his discovery.—Reuter.
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  • 200 3 Reuter. London. Nov. 17. One hund- red and thirtyseven cars each more than 40 year s old to-day j rattled and swayed along 70 I miles of road from London to Brighton on the south coast. They were taking part In the i annual veteran cars
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  • 124 3 Bucks est, Nov. 17.—The British and American Governments sought to presen no.es to the Rumanian Guvt-mmt nt protesting anew the con- of next Tuesday* Romanian elect en i*i which the Communis* Interior Minister. Georgeseu. pre■'iered that there would 1 c no major irtp ents. Feverish las -minu'e
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  • 97 3 A.P. NEW YORK. Nov. 17.-A report that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are planning to acquire a home at Newport. Rhode Island, has been heightened by the sale there of an estate to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Young, close friends of the Windsors. Young, head
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  • 49 3 A.P. A.P. MANILA. Nov. 17. Army military police officials said on Saturday that 200 rounds of small arms fire were directed at I a U.S. Army Superfortress and Liberator plane near Manila but neither was h*t. It was the second such incident. reported within a week.—A.P.
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  • 253 3 PAVILION "Reveille With Beverly," with Ann Miller, Bob Crosby and Count Basic and their respective bands, Mills Bros., Freddie Slack and his band, Frank Sinatra, Dick Purcell and William Wright. (Columbia) Swing-fans will claim this musical lomocy as he picture of the year for it is
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  • 120 3 I*. is propose.! to form a branch of the Royal Air Force Association ir Singapore.. For this parpOM W/t'ommanc'er T S. Gran is UtxioUa to ire. In touch with civilises who have served in Ihe Royal Al? Force or its Dominion equiva'ents. The
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  • 109 3 Reuter. Paris. Nov. 17. Three young Frenchmen who were found removing wreaths from the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Paris early to-day told the policeman who caught them in the act that they had merely wished to remove the wreaths laid on the tomb by
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  • 520 3 KUALA LUMPUR. —-'Malaya is in triri'o I plight with its diseased population. Something must be done about it. The insufficient nourishment, unhygienic living, bad housing, the neglect of the value of early diagnosis of tuberculosis and the absence of a sanatorium are all very serious inroads to
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  • 84 3 A.P. A two-day conference of Malaya's Hmdu lempie ICanttfjement Committee representatives will be held today arc tomorrow in Kuala Lumpur, under the of tile Malayan Indian Congress to consider abolition of all "social disabilities and castv distinctions" still prevaili'ig hi the Hindu relfcyiottt centres, report yAW
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  • 106 3 oUNGEi PATANI. Nov. 16.—After irduig in the Jungle for more than a year thus evading capture, a Japanese civilian named Hikuchi, aged 55, formerly of ii\e Nichinan Seititsu flr';n Dredging Company> a* Sungei Batu. finally surrendered himself to the Police. With Another Japanese named BMhimotO
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  • 44 3 Reuter. SOUTHAMPTON. Nov. 17.- An album page of Mauritius stamps worth £45.000 is arriving at Southampton from New York on the Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday for inclusion In the British philatelic exhibition at South Kensington next month.—* Reuter.
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  • 220 3 Reuter. Paris. Nov. 17. The dismissal of Admiral Thberry D'Argenlieu. French High Commissioner for Indochina, was forecast to-day by the newspaper 1 Paris Matin.' The newspaper alleged that when the Admiral was received yesterday by M. Georges Bidault. French Premier, and M. Marius Moutet, Minister
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  • 61 3 2,458 WAR CRIMINALS TRIED IN WEST EAST A.P. LONDON. Nov. 17. -The United Nations War Crimes Commission reported that up to Oct. 31. 1946, 1.108 war criminals have been tried in Europe, oi which 413 we-.' sentenced to death. 485 imprisoned and 210 acquitted. In the Far East. 1,360 have
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  • 334 3 (By Cur Own Corresjx>naeu!.. Pincapore. Saiur.'ay. Prices quoted below are fo jlcul weight except where othej vise stated. Foodstuffs:—Yesterday's ciuot ations were "Meehocn": Sia $80: Indo-China $05: Kedah $65 No. 1 $95: No. 2 $85; No. 3 $75. Siam glutinous rice $100 Kedah glutinous rice $85;
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 388 3 SPECIAL PROCESS. PACIFIC TRADERS Viil) Forces Education Centre ARMENIAN STREET. SINGAPORE Phone G r »2s. ART EXHIBITION Nov. 27. 28, 29. D ■Rt to 1 p.m. UK p.m. to 5 p.m. ENTBTfcS INVITED FROM ALL SERVICES and General Public For further information, apply r above address. TW—lMimniUW I- ll——»——Good II«»altli
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • 515 4 News that Dr. W. Clyde, Lord Killearn's adviser on lood, has left for Washington, is very satisfactory. Dr. Clyde is travelling by way of London, and he will lake part there in "urgent discussions'' on the food situation in South East Asia before going on to
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  • 262 4 London, Nov. 17. -The world's largest breeding farm for mice and rats will b e the subject of questions in the House Of Com mons next week. Peter Freeman. Labour member for Newport. Monmouthshire. U to ask the Minister of Food, Mr. John Strachey, "Why a weekly
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  • 286 4 Reuter. Slow starvation in concentration camps, forced labour, and bitterness and tear were the unhappy experience of the maj rity ol Chinese nationals who lived in Nazi Germany 1 and Italy during the war. This was revealed by Dr. Wang Wan-tao. Chinese liaison official who
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  • 917 4  -  i by J.P. COPE All is apparently quiet again on the Witwatersrand. fallowing the recent strike of native African mine workers. But it Is an uneasy lull, and those with an intimate knowledge of the currents flowing beneath the seem ingly calm surface of
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  • 142 4 Reuter. HONGKONG. Provincial theatres in Britain are being robbed of some of their best "Top o' the Bill" performers by air trooping difficulties in the Far East. Artistes who constitute the backbone of the "little theatres' in the United Kingdom are being held up
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  • 216 4 Letters To The Editor r > s Sir. Singapore positively smells -that the verdict Of recent arrival to these shores. I feel I can go one better and say that Singapore stinks. Wh:=t with the nauseating whiff> thai gr;et the tourist from stagnan: pools
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  • 359 4 Sir. —While the twelve man committee is hammering out the future constitution of the MalayStates the people of Malaya who are neither Malays of Dato Onn's following, nor Br'tish nor the Government, are becoming more and more convinced that one oi these fin: 1 days they w
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  • 182 4 Sir.—May I through the medium of your popular paper, sav something of the sad pligttt of the probation nurses in the Medical Department? Had -t not been for the war we wou*o long ago have been qualified. In other institutions in Malay there i$ such a thing as
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  • 160 4 Sir, —I read with amusement, the ignorance displayed by Critic'' in his letter on 'Treatment cf Japanese.' I assume that the gentleman never had the fortune or mis fortune to be in khaki. Had he. I contend, he would have under stood the simple psychology of a
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  • 262 4 A.P. LONDON—General Dw ght D. Ei cent triumphant return to the United X ded conclusive proof of the uninhibited a esteem in which he is held by the British No precedent exisL d .or such an lionizing of an America:: vi sitor by all king's
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  • 109 4 United States help is for the development Sumatran Jung] Dr. K. R T. D orbed b> Antara known Industr al Dr. Dipokusum of the Repu'o. a fad Investigation Bur abolition of "the tgnu tarian class whicl the former Dv port-plantations This could be oi ne by
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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    • 91 4 We're flying our flag in Malaya Many Governments, many world Fam UBC Murphy sets to listen-in to the World Why do they choose Murphy. Because these I radio sets are outstanding lor the truth of reP for the ease and certainty with which you can tune in di Stant, stations.
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    • 59 4 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By Ernest H« W rroz£M6&M>/ ir^ll |^BOSTON "POPS" ORCMEST j so 5 AND HAS NEVERMlSSEOPENING IN 61 FROM GREATEST re ATURE OF THE WRIGHT AIRPLANE WAS THE WARPiNCr* OF THE WINGS ALLOWING CONTROLLED Flight ....the idea cake frok wrapping AN INNER. TUBE IN A CAfcOSOATO SOX
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  • 99 5 17.- The Swe arrested a man tspect ol exploding ckholm Centr 1 last night causmated at 30.000 seen carrying a before the exexpl \sions were h Klara (newsand the other at tral Station. The n did no damage p] don shattered h n 300 yards and fs
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  • 674 5 Reuter. Athens.—High in the tall, rocky mountains of northern Greece a grim game of hide and seek is being played. Various sizeu forces of Greek soldiers and gendarmes ar e relentlessly pursuing groups of leftwing bandits and on occasion bringing them to battle
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  • 124 5 fieri are becoming the breadwinners and men -minders in the coal-mining Rhondda Valine 7,500 workless are again calling "The Valley." rk for women ana new factories built s, but few m°n ar have been formea och to London to demand 11 ashing and more
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  • 75 5 Reuter. Nov. 17.-The Auriculture has pr cent, increase production over ith exportable sur remaining at only re-war averages •suiting thi s year's 6.900.000.000 bushred with 6.300.000.--the Department that production is *****0.000 bushels -war bvel of 7,400.--nent in the crop year over the last cted to result in
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  • 176 5 Reuter. PARIS. Nov. 16.—Britain is sending the largest delegation to the first general conference ot the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation "UNESCO' opening here next Tuesday In the British delegation will be lf?ss Ellen Wilkinson. Minister of Education, Sir John P R. Mand. Secretary
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  • 62 5 Reuter. NANKING. Nov. 16.—Fifteen brigades of Nationalist troops, including two paratroops units, are massed outside the Shensi-Nighsi— Kansu bJider area, south and west itf Yenan. Government war planes staged "demonstration flights" for three successive daysthis week over Yenan, according to Communist leader Gon. Chou Fai Lai
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  • 102 5 Reuter. BATAVIA. (Air Mail fiir future posi ion of the Chinese in Indonesia will he defined I y treaty will he as favourable as tha' of Other communities, the Chinese Consul-General Mr. Tsjang <hta Tur.g old Aneta. Mr. Tsjang said that he had been m lighted hy
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  • 35 5 His first meal after "death" Mr. K. K. a London Indian, Whose "fast to death" thieat was called off after4B hours, following appeals bp his fellow-countrymen in India, eating hi, ffrsf meal after his fast.
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  • 246 5 Reuter. Calcutta, Nov. 16. —Ma hat ma Gandhi is 'developing .skin trouble" after further restrictions in the diet which he is observing, his personal physician iep)rted. Mahatma Oandhi hag now moved further into the interior and b camping .it the village of Kazhirhfl after motoring 12
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  • 77 5 A.P. Jerusalem. Nov. 17.—Reliable military sources said that British troops in Palestine, at present estimated at 100.000 would probably be doubled by the end of the year to include four full divisions of combat soldiers. The move was b lieved to De taken because a
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  • 215 5 A.P. TOKIO, Nov. 16.—The defence attorney for ex-Premier Tojo and 26 other accuxed Japanese war leaders asked before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East hsie if tne prisoners' conditions at the Sugamo prison could be improved and tr.at they may be
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  • 129 5 "JEKYLL HYDE" TANKER Furness Shipbuilding Company. of Tees-side, are to buiid a £1 000 000 "Jekyll and Hyde motor tanker of 20.000 ton s fcr Norway. The ranker con bo converted into a floating, whale oil factory to go off on a whale hunt at short notice. Delivered in 1048
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  • 94 5 A.P. BUCHAREST. Nov. 17. Trnohari Georgescu. Rumanian Minister of the Interior, today forecast that Tuesday's general elections in Rumania would prove a close contest and that some heads were bound to b-> broken. Asked at a press conference whether the elections were expected to be
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  • 88 5 Reuter. Paris, Nov. 17 A "taxi tor madmen" and smart police wagons equipped with loudspeakeis are among the latest French police equipment shown to the press by Charles Luizet, Prefect of the Paris police. The 'taxi for madmen" was v cream-coloured van with five padded cells which
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  • 162 5 A.P. SALONIKA. Nov. 17.-A Thiri Army intelligence officer said today that remnants of a partisan force of 1,000 which attacked Skra were fleeing from th 3 Yugoslavia border to join thdr comrades who have escaped into that country after a bloody attack on a
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  • 115 5 Reuter. SHANGHAI.—After months ot negotiations mo c than 800 Chinese, with homos in Canton, Hong Konir an<l North China, are oday on their way Kick U) China from Rabau:, New Britain, where they were sen' by the Japanese as forced Wartime labourer*. The rep* rifttOS
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  • 26 5 Rangoon. No. 17. -The Burmese people are celebrating tomorrow. Monday a? "National Day" with public meetings demonstrations and processions throughout the country.
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  • 28 5 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. The United States Government hagranted $25,000,000 credit to U.S. occupied South Korea for purchase of surplus United Statewar material in the Pacific area. Reuter.
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  • 388 5 Reuter. Lake Success, New York, Nov. 16. —Calling developments in South Africa "dictatorship of a racial group" a new booklet was issued today by the Indian Government replying to th e changes made in a booklet and memorandum issued earlier by the South
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  • 187 5 SYDNEY —Sydney men are becomi ing Americanised, and are demand I ing brighter ties, merchandise ma- rage s of big city stores saio'. "Unfortunately good ties with colourful patterns are of a high price", they Say, "but we hope to Ibe able to iell them more
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  • 110 5 At the request of the SHB Livelihood Improvement Committee, which has been representing the strikers at the SHB it ioas agreed that the Arbitration Board should consist of three persons nominated by the employers, three persons nominated by the employees, and an independent chairman nominated by
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  • Page 5 Advertisements

  • 123 6 A.P. Washing on, Nov. IT.—John Carter Vincent, direc or of the Office of Far Eastern AlTai of he U.S. Sta c Depart men r., said yesterday he thought private trade with Japan may be resumed next year. Vincent na ed that Japanese overseas trade was
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  • 68 6 A.P. SHANGHAI. Not. IS. —United sta" tes official today recovered part of the 3,500 cases oi American blood plasma recently -old inadvertently to a certain Chinese concern hero. The pla-ma WU -old a t US. $25 a pin,:. It would haTC bt-en retail'd for
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  • 73 6 Reuter. JERUSALEM. Nov 17 Mr Joseph Sprinzak Chairman of the General Federation of Jewish Labour, appealed at a meet mg today "to the conscience of the British Labour Party Lo change !t£ attitude towards Palestine." "If a change occurs" he said, 'we shall see in the
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  • 51 6 A.P. WASHINGTON. Nov. 17. In anticipation of a strike by 400.000 miners in the bituminous coalfields, threatened for Nov. 20 the Solid Fuels Administration froze all coal supplies from noon. Saturday. The orders provide that no coal can be distributed without the Solid Fuels Administration's approval.
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  • 38 6 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Nov. 16.— Air Vive-Marshal Hugh Sydney Porter Walmsley has been appointed Air Marshal Sir Charles Roderick Car who has relinquished his duties and is reported to be returning to Britain.—Reuter.
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  • 252 6 (From Michael -Fry, Renter's Corresponaeni) Lake Success, New-York, Nov. 17. —M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, is expected to follow up his disarmament proposals in the United Nations General Assembly by proposing the first concrete Step towaras limitation of armaments, it was learned in circles close
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  • 123 6 Reuter. PARIS. Nov. 16. The French Govt rnnieni does no* intend "at the present time" to sta.lt building the eight-mile !ong tunnel under the 15.782 feet Mont Bianc, Europe* highest mountain for a highway linking France and Italy, it was ofcially stated today.
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  • 82 6 Reuter. PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, Nov. 16. Captain B. G. C. u« Mowbray lea expert *en t by the Colonial Office io repoi\ on the possibilities of growing tM in the Mau/itius for internal loiisumpion and export, foon i the island's climatic conuiioni ar.d soil ideally suited
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  • 455 6 Reuter. CAIRO. Nov. 17. —No dale has been fixed for the next meeting of the Egyptian delegation in the AngloEgyptian nego iations for a revision of the 1936 Treaty between the two countries. As yesterday's meeting ot the Egyptian negotiators, held to consider the
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  • 91 6 I Speaking English. French. I Russian. Italian. Arabic. German j and Dutch, and rubbing along in most of the Slav languages, j Popski. in the flesh (which is seldom the way the enemy met i him) turns out to be one of the mildrst. quietest
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  • 151 7 li 6 If Don In the first Test rid at Brisbane at nth, the Austhank a.-> his wife. It is 11 not more that might Australia's arhere Mrs. BradSh now goes and to hi s office part of rvs w T ork «Ith
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  • 349 7 Reuter. v. 16. —Against what w as regarded as Bifid opposition so far this season unUniversity in defeating the Harlequins lam today by three goals, three tries to red their eighth victory. tins held their a. r I backs alM. P Donnelly, Test batsman. rm
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  • 142 7 A.P. LONDON, Nov. 17.—Tom Hurst, manager of British heavyweight champion B.uee Woodcock, said that B fight between Woo 'ccck and Olle j T;>ndherg of Sweden was almost a certainty this year. ■"Woodcock vi!l have four or five fights in the next six mOn'he j.nd
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  • 33 7 A.P. SYDNEY. Nov. 17. "The Sydney Sun" said on Saturday that «i syndicate of 11 miners, mostly Italians. had discovered y "phenomenal" gold pocket in the rich Kalgoorlie fields of Western Australia- A.P.
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  • 1049 7 London, Nov. 16.—Blackpool lost their unbeaten home record and their League leadership when beaten by Grimsby today. Leading by an odd goal at the interval, Blackpool looked like reccrd-'ng their eighth succes- sive home win. but Grimsby p led on three goals in the
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  • 341 7 Reuters. London No?. 16- The Aga Khan the winning owner, a run ol French big race successes, Frank heading the winaing trainers iist and Gordon Richards l!);h jockeys' championship—these were the features of the 1946 Hat racing season which ended at Man Chester and Lingli id to-day.
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  • 68 7 Reuter. Teheran. Nov. 17. -The mill- tary Governor of Teheran has issued an order banning all meeting* and demonstrations winch interfere w th public ord*r. Teheran Radio reported today. i 1 tical parties are allowed to carry on party activities inside their headquarters but the police have been
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  • 44 7 Reuter. London. Nov. 17.—Anglo-Sw's* talks on the operation of the monetary agreement between the two countries and the probable trend of payments between Switzerland and the Sterling area have now ended with an understanding reached on currency problems, the Treasury announced to-day.—Reuter.
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  • 51 7 Reuter. CAPETOWN, Nov. lfi. Eipht members of the Central committee of the South African Communist Party were aires'Led here today taken before tin- magistrate and raman< c I t<< appear in Johannesburg Cou/t on charpes of sedition On Jail. 8, 1946. Bail of £200 wa* allowed in each
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  • 582 7 I <Bv Archie Quick'. Billy Meredith, prince of socc< r in w\ h 51 appearances for Wales —the last wh< said to mr a: the England-Wales in;ernationa] at Manchester, '"Away with all this phj Lin i dangle. Let us have more ball control. "I
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  • 139 7 FRANKFURT. Nov. 17.—U S. military government officerwere concerned with presumed sabotage and shaiply worded official German criticism of denazification on Saturday. The officers said the automobiles of two German denazifica- tion workers and the home of third had been damaged in an apparent protest at the
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  • 360 7 Devons Chinese Play Another Draw KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday,— The Royal Devon Yeomanry, Perak League and Malaya Command champions, found the S.C.R.C., the Selangor Victory Cup winners, an even match when they met for the second time in aid of the Poppy Day Fund. The Chinese forced a draw of two-all,
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  • 168 7 Reuter. London. Nov. 17.— The British Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey. last night described the im mediate food situation as '"one of the utmost gravity." "Last year." he said, "we sent 700,000 tons of cereals to Western Germany. It would be physically
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  • 278 7 Reuter. Manchester, Nov. 16. —Harry Wragg, one of Britain's j ys and who retires from the saddl< afti r lay sel the seal upon a great career by getting Las Vegas home a three-quar-ters of a length winner of the dramatic Manchester November
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  • 163 7 Reuter. MOSCOW, Nov. 17.— M. V. Hoffman in an English commentary broadcast over Moscow Radic to-day criticizing the Booth African reouen to take over South west Africa, said: "Thr British Government and Field Marshal Bmuts always put a vsry broad interpretation on the League of Nations
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  • 75 7 Reuter. BRISBANE, Nov. 16V-W. A. *?rown had notified the Australian Test <electo» s that he i-> un fit for cricket for two to thiea j weeks owing to an injured thumb Thus he will be unavailable for the selection of the Australian eleven
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  • 170 8 ATHENS Nov. 17 Fears of 1 new wave oi political murders In j Athen-, were expre sed today by j Col. AngelOs E\ert. Athens police chief, who said the p lice were j closeiy watching the situation. -Rightist i" he sa*d, w re India nant over
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  • 65 8 Reuter. LONDON. Nov. 16. Franz von Papen ha> received permission from the Bavarian authorities to go into a Bavarian sanatorium at Lautz. Berlin radio said I night Bavarian Premier, Dr. Wilhelm Roegner gave permission on condition that von Papan remains under police supervision during his
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  • 202 8 A.P. Moscow. Nov. 17. —A Rod S;ar Correspondent who has been visiting refugees in Western Germany on Saturday stated in a despatch that •'hundreds ol thousands ol these refugees were pining for home but 'hat the -Allied authorities were holding them in
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  • 122 8 Reuter. FRANKFURT. N v. 17 Two ol six United States Arms Air Force Supertortrrsses which ar»> making a "routine" training flight from the United State, > the Unitec! State* zone of Germany, arrived here today from Florida. The planes are the same type as those which oombed
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  • 31 8 A.P. BOMBAY. Nov. 16 Sight persona wie ki!i»c' Friday m Hindu-Muslim rioting in Kolaba district across b >mbay harbour. Two others di d in knife attacks in Bombay city.— AP. olylb
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  • 207 8 A.P. NEW YORK M V 10 Anxiety is growing In the United Nat'ons to check the flood t oratory and debate that has thrown the Genera] Ass mbly a week behind its schedule with the thorniest issues still to be argued. One ol the biggest
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  • 99 8 Reuter. I SOME, Nov. 18. The trial of CoL General Eberhard yon Ma ken-en. former -econd in comI mand of the German forces in j Italy who is charged with war crimes, open- here today. In t the dock with him will be Lieut.
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  • 359 8 FOOD SITUATION PRECARIOUS Reuter. HAMBURG, Nov. 17.—The mayors of la ger towns in the Bri ish and United Niates zones of Germany, meeting at Stuttgart, have sent an ur;:ent appeal to the Allied occupation authorities "not to let the uerman people perish in famine
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  • 65 8 A.P. NANKING. Nov. 17.—HuTJg Shishui. fi rector pi Oeneralisaimo Chiang Kai-?hrk'- Beadquarers in Manchuria, doaied lhal he hinese Qorernroen was going to ake over Duiren from the Russ ans, according tn a Hung M m P>i Ppor from Mukden. Pro,. repor fr«. Manchuria aid th-
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  • 169 8 NEW YORK N>v IT. The Big Five Fore t;n Minis! rs will discus the. Vital question ol the Use of the veto in the Un ted Nations Security Council at a "top secret" meeting at th Wal dorf Astoria Hotel here tomorrow 'at 4 p.m
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  • 111 8 Reuter. NANKING, Nov. 17 Revised temporary foreign trade regula tins were announced tonight by Premfer T. V Soong who said they would be effective immed. ately. Stating the time has DOW come to inaugurate a period ol selective Importation Mr. Soong declared the present licensing system Instituted
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  • 44 8 Reuter. I.<>ND"N. Nov 16.—The War oflee announced tha- Majo -General J. C. O. Mario-1. rO'mnarKfini: Guar 8 D vi ilou is to suceeod G- neral S r Charles Lloyd, who retired in February, as Qaneral office- commanding Lemon Diterict. —Eeater.
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  • 335 8 Reuter. LONDON, Nov. 17. —Stricter supervision on matchmaking between British boxers and foreign opponents is the seuqel to the one-sidedness of the recent contest in which Freddie Mills, British cruiserweight champion, conceding height, reach and two stone in weigh' was battered into submission
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  • 95 8 A.P. NUREMBERG. Nov. 17,- Mr-. Emma Goering on Saturday collected her late husband"- effects and clothing and 750 marks (equivalent of H8 15.-,.1 from Nurembeig gaol, but -he was not allowed to collect 50.000 marks I depo-ited in the Reischsbank. The 50.000 mark,, in Goering's
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  • 83 8 A.R.C. HANDS OUT BANDAGES A.P. Washington, Nov. 17.—Asiatic ana buropean nations are receiving millions ol American medical and surgical dressings prepared tor the American forces during the war but not used. Distribution is under the dir ection of the American Red Cross and upwards of 300.000.000 dressings ?re being given
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  • 320 8 NANKING, Nov. 18. —*'ears of full-dn son prices to new ttfgh in this Chittea capital and in Shanghai as householt bought commodities to hoard and bu ed for foreign currency. Pro-Gov.rnment reports yesterday told of continued sporadic lighting at many points in Manchuria
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  • 590 8 Reuter A.P. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Coal shipments to fuelhungry Europe will be cut off immediately if 400,000 miners across the United States carry out their threat to go on strike four days from now. United States Government officials declared to-day. They a/c studying all possible
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  • 59 8 A cocktail party was given by the maaaffemen/ f the Happy World Caban» yesterday on the occasion Of the first anniversary of the reopening of the Cabaret. Mr. S. C. Zakoo, manager of be Cabaret %'aye a short u>\< ress while the afternoon's proceeding! were highli?j:h'ed
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  • 123 8 LONDON, N iter (3tneij A tli to rhe late Franklin Delano R reft, aaight >..'■ I British people eve friendship fo o'hcr country 1 .rca<ka- pi ea' Memorial Pun '.to the Kin- an Q con< i! utnd. The hfemoria' of a statue h Ore. Sqaan which
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  • 81 8 Reuter. LONDON. N Yard is investigating the mysteries of the theft ol more toss *2.500 note- of foreign eamacy from the safe, of the Shipping and Trade Mi n I';• N wegian Governed House. Knightsbi There were n entry. The safe, with keys, one of which
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  • 38 8 The Customs Saturday seized 11 from the Bonis panv tanker wii lrom A baa a.\ As a result of 1 very thorough sm toms searchers found between the crew* quart of the sh.p-
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