The Straits Times, 13 June 1946

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    20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY UIGIIT PAGES. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    GOVERNOR OF SINGAPORE MADE A KNIGHT
    1040 1 Many Malayans In Birthday Honours List TWO knighthoods for Malaya are anno unced m today's King's Birthday Honours list. They are a K.C.M.G., for Mr. F. C. Gimson, Governor of Singapore, and a K.B.E. for Mr H. R. Hone, Secretary-General to the GovernorGeneral, Mr.
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    Search For The Grand Mufti
    254 1 Search For The Grand Mufti Paris, Wednesday. THE mystery of the whereabouts of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and hs supposed escape from France deepened today 'as two French police services gave numb.T one priority to the investigation of the biggest post-war international puzzle since the Allies failed to find
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    Gandhi Has Hour's Talk With Viceroy
    202 1 w New Delhi, WednesJuv. MAHATMA Gandhi said last night that "v.c are exploring overy avenue to avoid I a breakdown" m the n:g tiations for Indian independence. I A deadlock appears to have arisen owing to the unyielding stand of Congress Party against i
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    Rebuff To Franco Spain
    106 1 NEW YORK. Wed.— The United Nations Economic and Social Council has expressed disapproval of Franco Spain >y Icvinj that government oti. the list of nations invited to attend the World Health conference on June 19. The rebuke was made' more pointed by the fact that seven
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    28 1 Special postage stamps have h^en issued by the British Post Office m connection with the Victory celebrations. Picture shows the 2>id. stamp (left) and the 3d. stomp (riiht).
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    JET ENGINE FOR BOAT RECORD BID
    198 1 JET ENGINE FOR BOAT RECORD BID London, Wednesday. A JET engine will be used for the first time m a boat when Sir Malco.m Campbell, the famous rcciiig motorist, makes a furthe: attempt this autumn to beat his own world's water ipMtd record. He will probably make the attempt m
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    Plan For Atom Control
    89 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. Mr. Jame.i Byrne?, United States Secretary of Sta-e, ha.i announced that the Government has decided on proposals for the international control of atomic energy. He will make the proposals to the United Nations Atomic Commission, which meets on Friday. Mr. Byrnes declined to disclose
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    London View On Rubber Costs
    63 1 From Straits Times Corr. LONDON. Wed. Commenting on Malayan rubber production costs London's Daily Telegraph says there is reason to believe these costs will soon be lower. "Meanwhile" says the newspaper, "a long term agreement Is being sought. Negotiations are unlikely to result m the
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    King Meets Three V.Cs
    42 1 Th; Kiii£ talking to three Australian holders of th* Victoria Cross when h- visited Emnire troops camped m Kensington ('n~dcns for the Victory celebration? Left to right: Pte. F. J. Partridge, Ptr. Richard Kellih er and Sgt. Rattcy.
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    New South Polar Expedition
    67 1 WASHINGTON. Wed— An expedition will Irivc for the South Polar regions late this year under th: command of the Norwegian Commander Finn Ronne. This was disclosed m Washington yesterday when the United State* Senate Naval Committee approved the loan of an Amerir.i'i naval KMfl to 'he
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    Bevin Answers Foreign Policy Critics
    126 1 Bevin Answers Foreign Policy Critics BOURNEMOUTH, Wednesday. nEPLYING to criticism of La- bour's foreign policy at today's debate at the Labour Conference here, Mr. Ernest Bevin. Foreign Secretary, aid "No one v/ill be happier th?p I. if. before I leave this Office, I can carry the world organisation a stage
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    RIVAL FLAGS FLY IN ROME
    353 1 RIVAL FLAGS FLY IN ROME ROME, Wednesday. ITALY is m a turmoil today with at least 12 dead and a hundred wounded m the Naples monarchist riots, while King Umberto and the Prime Minister, Signor AJcide de Gasperie argue the right to rule the country. Both Monarchist and Republican flags
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    "ACCIDENT CAUSED KING'S DEATH"-Siam
    312 2 All Persons Loyal And He Was Happy BANGKOK, Wednesday. DOLICE Headquarters here investigating the death of King Ananda Mahidol are now certain that there is no possibility that his death was other than accidental. There is stated to be not the slightest doubt that everyone who
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    51 2 T« l iT«iS lie S"- > P oke ft¥e thousan «l delegates who represented 303,000 of Britain's country housewives at the annual general meeting of the National Federation of Women* Institutes at the Albert Hall, London. Here Her Majesty is seen standing by the conductor during the singing of the
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    Couin Resigns
    34 2 PARIS. Wed.-Fran:e.s Socialist President M. Felix Gjuin, yesterday tendered his resignation, along with hi.s cabinet, m a constitutional step designed to pave the way for the formation of a new government. A.P.
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    Labour Bill Vetoed By Truman
    307 2 Labour Bill Vetoed By Truman WASHINGTON, Wed. FE controversial Case Labour Bill died yesterday when President Truman vetoed the measure and an uproarious House of Reprasentatives sustained the veto by a margin of rive voles. The House cheered and booed when the result of their vote was announced. Two-thirds ot
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    Loan Vote Today
    47 2 WASHINGTON, Wed. The House of Representatives Bankins Committee will vote tomor•ow on the !egi c !ation rat'fvin;: the British loan, it was announced yesterday by the Committee Chairman Mr. B. Spence. Only six of the 27 Committee men have tbMs far indicated opposition. A.P.
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    Atomic Energy Control Plan Now Ready
    198 2 Atomic Energy Control Plan Now Ready WASHINGTON, Wed. THE UNIIED STATES has completed a definite p. an for international control of atomic energy for sabm.asion to the United Nations Atomic Commission. Anno icing this at a Press comerence, Mr. Byrnes, U.S. Secretary of State, declined to say whether the plan
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    Monty Starts Talks
    69 2 CAIRO, Wed.— Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery got down early today to the first of a series of talks he is holding with high-ranking British officers. The talks, it was reliably learned, cover all military aspects. Lord Montgomery is expected to leave for Palestine at the end of the
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    Moscow On Java "Carnage"
    88 2 LONDON, Wed— Mosrow radio yesterday quoted livestia, organ of the Supreme Council of the USSR, m a review cf the Indonesian freedom movement, as sayinz that Anglo -Ind'an forces began a bloody carnage m Sourabaya and other centres m Java. 'After the defeat of Japan the
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    Byrnes In Paris Tomorrow
    41 2 PARIS, Wed. The United States Secretary of State, Mr. James Byrnes, is expected to urrive m Paris on Friday m President Truman's private plane to attend the Foreign Ministers' conference, it was learned authoritatively last night.— Reuter.
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    ACCUSATION AGAINST GEN. CLARK
    129 2 ACCUSATION AGAINST GEN. CLARK WASHINGTON, Wed. SENATOR ALBERT THOMAS. Democrat, Utah, who U chairman of the U.S. Senate Military Committee, has prom sed a thorough iifUag of assertions that Major Gen. Mark C ark needlessly wasted the lives cf American soldiers m Italy. He has assured four former Army colonels
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    Ex-Yugoslav Leader Says Memory Bad
    336 2 BELGRADE AND NEW YORK, Wedn^dny. THE former Yugoslav Minister of War, General Draha Mihailovitch, v.ho is accused of collaborat.n<; with the Germans agams*, Mar.-ru») Tito's partisans, has made many protestations m Court to the effect that bi has a bad memory. He has identified as
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    ALLEGED NEWS BAN IN WEST AFRICA
    593 2 LONDON, Wednesday. A PROTEST that Reuters news service had b:en denied to the twenty-two million people cf West Africa was made by Mr. George Padmore, representing the Press of Nigeria at the Imperial Press Conference here. He said his paper was the only one
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    WAR STARTS IN CHINA AGAIN
    202 2 WAR STARTS IN CHINA AGAIN PEIPIXG, Wednesday. DESUMPTION of the Government's Manchurir* offensive was reported by a Communist spokeTman, who said the fifteen day truce which went into effect on June 7 was broken on the order of General Tv Li-ming, Commander of the Nationalist NorthEast Forces. The spokesman said
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    Arab League Ultimatum Issued
    196 2 Arab League Ultimatum Issued BLUDAN, SYRIA, Wed. THE ARAB LEAGUE last I night gave Palestine's opposing factions twenty,lour hours to compose ihn'ir differences into a so id ircnt or the League would siep in and dissolve the partie*. This v.as learned shortly after a delegation of five minority I groups
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    33 2 LAGOS. Wed.— Twenty-two people were reported Silled In a plane crash 60 miles rorth of Lagos, southern Nigeria The crashed plan© was found two days ago by a searching bomber from Accra. Reuter.
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    Indian Troops To Tour Germany
    47 2 British Army Occupation Force Headquarters, Germany, Wed. A Contingent of 120 Indian troops of all ranks, who have fought on fronts all over the world, will be visiting Germany from June 17 to June 23, the British Military Government anno'"~~'"1 yesterday. -A.P.
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      108 2 ENDLESS WATER for RUBBER and other ESTATES THE PRINCIPLE of raising water by means of an endless chain is not aew, but a method by which 20,000 gals, per hour are raised with a singl c chain Is a distinct advance upon anything yet introduced m pumping methods and has
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    $50 Million Loan Plan For Union
    401 3 Council Approves Neiv Finance Bills From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE Malayan Union budget is likely to show a deficit 1 considerably m excess of $100,000,000 this year. This was stated by Mr. W. D. Godsall, Financial Secretary to the Malayan Union,
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    39 3 Scheduled to begin in the High Court. Singapore before Mr. Justice R. Moor yesterday, the first Assizes for Singapcra were postponed till MonCay. The accused in all nine cases on the list wers called and were remanded in custody.
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    TERAUCHI DIES IN JOHORE
    127 3 TERA UCHI DIES IN JOHORE AN announcement from the Singapore Headquarters of the Supreme Allied Comman- dor South East Asia, yesterday, said that Field Marshal Hisaichi Terauchi, Supreme Commander of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces, Southern Regions, died of cerebral haemorrhage at 0340 hours yesterday at his quarters m Johore. He
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    82,000 FINES ON RICE CHARGES
    104 3 Fines totalling $2,000 were imposed by Mr. T. L. Tan in the Second District Court, Singapore, on a 39->var-old Chinese, Tan Ah San, on two charges of possession of 30 piculs of white Siamese lice in circumstances as to raise suspicion and for moving the
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    Jap Sword For Princess Royal
    88 3 k 15th-century Japanese officer's sword, taken m Malaya after the Japanese surrender, has been presented to the Princess Royal by MajorGeneral R.H.R. Steward, on behalf of all ranks of the Royal Corps of Signals and the Indian Signal Corps of the South-Hast Asia Command The
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    Ex-Detective Took Part In Beatings
    188 3 THE procedure adopted by members of the Japanese Special Branch m extorting confessions from S.ngapore civilians, was given by a i former Malay detective before Mr. H. A. Forrer m the Seventh Police Court yesterday, at the pr^liminaiy inquiry into tentative r.urt charges against Hussain
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    SUPREMO AT THE MAP
    26 3 Admiral Lord Louis noun that ten is seen at a Press conference m London, illustrating his remarks with a map of Burma.
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    FOUR JAP OFFICERS SENTENCED TO DIE
    274 3 CEXTENCE of death by hanging was passed by the Sixth Singapore War Crimes Court yesterday on two Jap majors and two captains convicted of unlawfully killing an unidentified American flyer m Saigon last year. Three of the accused, Majors Mabuchi and Nakamura and Captain
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    V-Parade Newsreel Arrives In S'pore
    52 3 V-Parade Newsreel Arrives In S'pore Gaumont British newsreel shots of Saturday's Victory parade Id London have arrived m Singapore and are being screened at the Pavilion cinema. The newsreel shows the Uttirt parade, beginning with the drive o! the King and Queen. A ?l:mps^ of the Malayan contingent n-.archlng past
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    SURGICAL SECTION REOPENS
    174 3 SURGICAL SECTION REOPENS CINGAPORE'S Financial Secretary, Mr. Nd-<on Jones, was among the first patients to be admitted when the surgical section of the General Hospital wes reopened fcr civilian vse yesterday after a lapse of more than four years. The out-patients' department was also functioning and a week later it
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    27 3 An emergency general meeting of the Negrl Sembilan Planters' Association will be held in the Sungei Uiong Club. Seremian on Monday, June 17. at 2 15 p.m.
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    French Admiral & General Honoured
    69 3 French Admiral General Honoured Admiral Thierry d'Argcnlieu, the French High Commissioner and General LeCler-\ who commands the French ro.ces m IndoChina have been accorded hi™:i honours by the French Gjvctiment. according to a report by the publicity officer of the AU;P<I Land Forces detachment Li French Indo-China. Admiral d'Ar^enlieu has
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    Allied Pilots Were Told To Bomb Military Targets Only In S'pore
    432 3 WHEN Singapore was subjected to air attack by Allied aircraft during the Japanese occupation, pilots tcok every precaution to I bemb only Japanese military targets and to avoid the city and civi.ian property. The undamaged state m which Singapore
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    Poor Price May Force Estates To Stop Tapping
    439 3 Poor Price May Force Estates To Stop Tapping LOCAL PRODUCER'S YIKW "IF the present fixed selling price (for rubber) is maintained, and production costs continue to rise, we may reach the point where some producers, m order to reduce their losses, may have to place their properties on a care
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    16 3 A Welsh service will be held in the Union Jack Club at 7 p.m. on Sunday.
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    Dutch Did Not 'Flee To The Hills'
    222 3 Dutch Did Not 'Flee To The Hills' A REPORT that SOO DuWi-m-n hail "lit rl to tie hills surrounding Singu}rather than be shipped back to the Ne'h?riands Kut Indies was described M "high'y coloured and ncorrcct" by the Sing.ipcio Dutch Consul-General, Mr. M. F. Vigeveno, m an m crview yesterday.
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      88 3 RAFFLES HOTEL TO-NIGHT KING'S BIRTHDAY BALL 9 p.m. to Midnight RAFFLES HOTEL ORCHESTRA Admission to Non-Residents $1.20 (Including Tax) TERMITE EXTERMINATION AND PROPERTY MAINTENANCE On re-examination of properties serviced by us. pre-war, it was found that considerably less deterioration and re-infestation by White Ants had occurred than on prooerties not
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    36 4 TV famiy of the late Mrs. Chun Boon Im (DM Choo Kim l.reu) beg to Iha.k ail h-.o e who kindly paid mgnt i ntt^ndel the fune al, lent motor cars arid sent wrca.!is etc.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs , June 13, 1946. One Hundred Millions
    1135 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs June 13, 1946. One Hundred Millions The Malayan Union faces a deficit of one hundred million dollars in its first financial year. 'I hat fact was revealed at the meeting of the Union Advisory Council on Tuesday, and it will have a sobering and salutary
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    Indonesians For Students'Congress
    55 4 Indonesians For Students'Congress JOGJAKARTA (JAVA). Wed.— The Indonesian Students Organisation has accepted an invitation to send three representatives to the International Students' Congress to o<t held at Prague, Czechoslovakia, In August. Letters have been sent to student organisations m London, Paris and Belgrade, as'nr.g them to assist the Indonesian representatives
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    A Cost-Of-Living Allowance In Singapore Today
    1298 4  - A Cost -Of -Living Allowance In Singapore Today A Chinese Economist By The Singapore Committee on the Cost of Living is expected to present its recommendations this week. Here is the case for DECENT correspondence m the Press shows clearly the severe pressure of an abnormally inflated price-level on the
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      "Why I Became A Salesman And Tea-Money Man"
      1034 4 1 SUBMIT below my monthly budget. In my late jcb I was paid $170 after ten years service, which was sufficient before the war; but my expenses are now $350. for a family having three children House rent $30 Municipal rates 1
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    Layman's Challenge
    214 4 IN your article entitled "Cost Of Living Grant Ii slble' you mentioned that "sane experts hold the view tl'.at the vtrant towards a higher cost of Urine allowance would load to inflation." I am an ordinary layman, i■•norant of economics, but on b' Ibaif of a frw thousand
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    ROGETTES FROM THE PRINCES
    38 5 ROGETTES FROM THE PRINCES s I.;i ti and Princess Margaret wr( among early rs t» Hi- Windsor Itoyal II) m Show, held m the Home la Uof Windsor asil- Prim-ess BUsakcUi is s?en pr^se.Uinj nrsettrs to the wHn^rs.
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    Witness SavsHe Was 'hreatened By Sgt.
    538 5 MMGAPORE COURT-MARTIAL AT yesterday's proceeding* i/i li.i? ile.'d general court- martial m Singapore, m which Major F. T. Metherei!, R.E.M.E. is charged on five counts of fraduler.t conversion of motor vehicles and parts and bicycle accessories entrusted to his care, V. C. B. Menon,
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    M.B.E. FOR SECRET NEWS MAN
    39 5 Mr. J. F. C hrjr*o«tnni, who i* awa <led an MBR. ICHtt) m the Bi thday Honour* list piiMi-hej <o.lay. Unrinx the Japanrsr oxapatlon he ran a secret Rrtttah nrw« s'rvlre throughout thr Penin.iula
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    U.S. Surplus Property In Spore Area
    502 5 U.S. Surplus Property In Spore Area Disposal Of Army Stocks Completed IjISPOSAL of U.S. Army surplus property, lagging m many parts of the world, has been completed m the Singapore area, which dealt with Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies, Siam, Burma and Indorhina. The American taxpayer received back approximately $300,000(U.S.),
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    30 5 Ar Marshal Sir George Pirie, /Mlird Air -in-f S.K. Asia H pir nrrd durin* a tour of the V Exhibition in thr Happy World. Sincapore. which he oprnrd on Tuesday.
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    POLICE FIND ARMY STOCK
    178 5 As a result o! an anonymous I phone rail ro<t<ved about. 7.30 1 p B. on February 18. Sgt Hall. 123 Section SIB. attar-hrd to Whit° HOHH, ari:ompa»u*>d by a detective and a party of police, carried <>ut a search of 24 Hnl--idr Drive ,md No
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    CHARGED WITH ENTICING GIRL
    64 5 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Wed- Charged with entioinn a Chinese school-girl under 16 years of age from the guardianship of her father, a young Chines;, Aw Boon Teck was granted bail of (1.030 m the police court today. Accused, it was alleged, too'c the irl
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    Y.M.C.A. Welfare Worker To Retire
    65 5 Mi.^s Nancy Russell. Director of Y.W.C.A. Welfare work for Malaya, is leaving shortly for Australia on retirement. Y.W.CA. members will havo an opportunity to farewell to Miss Russell at the usual "nrtniKhtly meeting today, Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Y.W.CA. Hoste.' Fort Canning Rd.
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    ARMS HAUL IN PENANG POLICE RAID
    191 5 ARMS HAUL IN PENANG POLICE RAID Prom Our Own rurrrspond^nt i PENANG. Wed > pENANG polio mnd«- Ihtir ni^gest coup sine j iistitutnn of the arm.'* c'riw la;t month wh« 11. folloWtaS '<* four-hour search dUliag thniHht. they found pistols and revolvers, t. with more than 100 r v d
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    SINGAPORE'S BIG PARADE TODAY
    430 5 SINGAPORE'S BIG PARADE TODAY The King's Mrllulny CIAIN(J m Victory formation, aircraft of No. SI Squadron. R.A.F. will Ih i mci ;»l>a\ o Sinirapore thin morning as units of tho X.V, Arim ;in<l A.F.. and a mechanized column stage on tho ground, m <-<<- lehration of the King's hirthd.iy, tho
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    Malaya Greets The King:
    187 5 Rirlhtla> em I n lo lli<* Kins, from thr prop'- ni Hi.in I'nJon and sim have Urrn warri< el Ml Ihell behalf b* the «it» fral Mr M il.i.ln V. p.n, foll.iv < r*aT»- Ikt him.- ii to t'nclrr rftinr< <mm thp proj'ir of Malaya i«
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    18 Months R.I. For Selling Revolver
    60 5 18 Months R.I. For Selling Revolver '■'-it m thr i r "v with two ol DOli< r In Buk f Fron rrr f., r tlir a! holn tra> i a plot against I >>" a f 7 t> m Boddhlsts will cr^bm' at 'm. poao. tho 2294 th anniversary of
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    Concession To Medicine Students
    325 5 pORMLR students of tha I King Edward VII College' of Medicine, Singapore who wore receiving scholarships or exhibitions pricr to the occupation, wi'l c ,n'.inue to rece.ve them when they re- turn to college this mon'.h to complete their stud e^. Students who had qualified during
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      WOODCOCK LOOKED LIKE THE LOSER
      371 6 WOODCOCK LOOKED LIKE THE LOSER DRUCE WOODCOCK, Britain's heavy-weight champion, with one eye swollen and shut tight, his mouth and nose damaged, looked like Gus Lesnevich when he was declared a points winner over game and gallant Freddie Mills at Harringay Stadium on June 4. Once again Mills had the
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      Indians All But Beat Glamorgan
      356 6 Indians All But Beat Glamorgan (By Leary Constantino CARDIFF. Tues. THE Indians nearly brought off a great win here today out a sloppy ground prevented se- rious cricket and play was commenced more m the nature of giving the crowd of 3,000 some value lor their money. Play could not
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      AMERICAN GOLF
      46 6 PHILADELPHIA Mon Herman Barron. White Plains. New York, veteran won the first prize ct $2,500 In the Philadelphia Enquirer Golf tournament today, edging out youthful Lew Worsham of Bethesda. Maryland, by three strokrs m the 18-hnle plavoff. Barron scored 70 and Wcirham 73. A.P.
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      277 6 Mills was dangerous throughout with his aggressive swinging attacks, and shook Wood <>i k badly with repca ed left hooks to the jaw, but the young Yoikshireman was never m danger of taking the count. Only once did his legs dip. Mills simply could no; hit
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      DUTCH SOCCER WIN
      34 6 AMSTERDAM, Mon.—Before 30,000 spectators, Jurgarders. a Stockholm soccer team, were defeated one-nil m <c Olympic Stadium on Monday by t;.e Dutch Volewokcrs. Ttv- only goal loUlU'ii from a penally A P.
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      Worcester Won With Two Minutes To Spare
      339 6 County Cricket London, Tues. ONLY one of the County cricket matches finishing today produced a decision. This was when Worcestershire accepted the challenge of the Essex captain who declared m the second innings when leading by 166, leaving Worcestershire two and a quarter
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