The Straits Times, 10 February 1946

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  • 17 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE U:aDL\G SLWDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA SINOAPORE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1»4« PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 290 1 10 QUESTIONS ON SARA WAX CESSION MALAYA and Sarawak will figure prominently in the House of Commons this week. The Sunday Times correspondent in London says, in a cable received yesterday, that tomorrow Capt. L. D. Gammans will ask why planters and other non-Government employees
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  • 135 1 LONDON Feb. B— A warning that if Britain withdrew trom Transjordan after giving it independence. Kinf Ibn Saud's warriors would be over the borders within 24 hours, was given by Professor Johan J. Smertenko, Executive Vice-Chairman of the American League for Free Palestine, at a Press Conference
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  • 152 1 BATAVIA, Feb. B.— The Dutch are ready to begin negotiations with the Indonesians rhich, It \s hoped, will start in few days, Lieut. Gov.-Gen. of the Netherlands East Indies, Dr. Hubertus van Mook, said today. He appealed to correspondents to report the progress of the negotiations
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  • 60 1 AMMAN, Feb. B.— Two Iraqui Cabinet Ministers. Saleh Jabur, Minister of Finance and Ismail Namek, Minister of Defence, were injured when the car in which they were returning to Bagdad after talks with Emll Abdullah of Transjordan overturned 60 miles East of Amman. The third passenger in
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  • 74 1 M\\ I*l I 111 K.I. 8: Mr II Vri*h'mai' t..r I\MT.iirs :,l th/w legislative \>-sr*»ih!\ fw 'ay that Mir ■ffaaal of far V n to Pandit 1 1 1 I Ne'iru lr> visit Inui'h the UWlsUrt of t'4r Supreme ■Vii-ii t '(f v turbr.\ <un
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  • 240 1 7tw joint application by Syria and the Lebanon for the Withdrawal of British and French forces from their counnow the only remaining complaint still waiting to MOM before the UNO. Security Council— may be settled out nt Today, in both I ondon
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  • 259 1 LONDON. Feb. 8-Paul Henri •paak. chairman of the Security Council of the UNO. said today that there are still 19 items on the Assembly's agenda, although i all but four are relatively minor. The four wnich will still require •MM time to finish are:
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  • 612 1 World Grappling With A New Crisis Desperate Rice Situation In South-East Asia the proposed redistribution. In oriel to avert a famine situation In Indlsj she might have to dispatch to India some proportion of her own allocation of wheat, which Is already r.nn» slderably less than the reautrrm* tffl cf
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  • 102 1 Yamashita Appeal Rejected WASHINGTON, »co 9.— Ihe U.S. War Department nounced that President Truman has decided to lake no action in Yamashita* appeal for clemency. This decision hat been communicated to Gen. Mac Arthur. The appeal to President Truman was Yamashita's last hope that the sentence of death passed upon
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  • 196 1 'Java Fighting Will Go On' "Whatever agreement is reached between the Dutch and the Indonesians, I believe that fighting will go on in Java. I do not know what the Dutch proposals are, but if they are accepted by the so-called Republican Government, the extremists will repudiate them.' 1 Admiral
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  • 152 1 Macarthur On British Task In Indonesia TOKYO, Feb. 9— Responding to a Press inquiry, a spokesman of Gen. Mac Arthur replied thai "the statement attributed to th» British Foreign Minister, 'that the British were given the tinpleasant task of going into Indonesia by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur' presents a somewhat
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  • 231 1 NUREMBERG, Feb. 8. Opening the Soviet case against the major Nazi war criminals today, the Soviet prosecutor, Rudenko, told the War Crimes Tribunal that the German* completely or partly destroyed 1,710 towns in Russia and over 70,000 villages and hamlets, leaving 25,000,000 persons homeless.
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  • 23 2 Mr .an and family bef fc It all telat:. ends wh< -uneral of the U Khim Otian < nee Madan K cars at
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  • 795 2 Very Funny! On Tuesday last, a Sundcrland alighted at Ktietar to inaugurate the civil service ot Overseas Airways Corporation betwom Poole and Singapore. This event had been well publicised, and rightly so. regarded a* one of the things that will carry us a little nearer to that condition of
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  • 1066 2 Recent controversy over the independent State of Sarawak which has been ceded to the British Crown, recalls how James Brooke, the first White Rajah ot Sarawak, acquired the State from the Sultan of Brunei. Mr. Owen Rutter tells the story of the EARLY on the morning of
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  • 77 2 LONDON. Feb. 6.—Consultations will take place this week between Britain and France with regard to the appeal by Syria and the Lebanon to the Security Council for the withdrawal of British and French troops reports the Daily Mail this morning. The report adds: 'They will not.
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  • 647 2 Having lost 37 of its fleet strength of about 50 vessels, the Straits Steamship Co. is building a number of vessels ransing from 970 tons to 75 tonners, which, with the surviving units, the Company hopes to recommence as many services as possible at an
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  • 173 2 (To the Editor. Sunday Times) Your editorial comment and Lt.-Col. Gregson's reply on the subject of horse racing in Malaya make interest. ng reading. As a turf follower for over 20 years, I entirely agree with your views that the quality of horses ava lable <>nd running at
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  • 206 2 CHINESE TO REEDUCATE JAPANESE SHANGHAI. Feb 6— The Chinese military authorities, in an effort to re-educate the local Japanese who In the past have been prevented from learning any form of democracy, hava begun publication of a magazine in Japanese. Known as the '•Reform Weekly," It Is a sister publication
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  • 153 2  - A-Bombinable Alphabet Scorpio by A IS THE ATOM that splits. B stands for Bomb and ror Bit*. C stands for cyclic Collision. D Is the dire Detonation. E Is the Irergy choked up P Is the nuclear Fission. 0 Is the Classification. II is the Hydrogen yoked up. 1 stands
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  • 261 2 Malaya Upside Down, by Chin Kee Onn, Jitts and Co, Singapore. Mr Chin Kee Onn Wv.ll -known as a tennis player In pre-war Malaya. has beer to sonir pains to produce a book on Malaya da. ing the occupation. Several pamphlets have already been issued by
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    • 497 2 Th« Marriage between John Comet JTybro and Mies Louiae Cathanna Aagusta Shutte RaafT was solemnised ■Mtrrday at 4 p m at the Presbyterian O St am fora Road VACANT ED an experienced and C h ten i Box 345. Sunday Time* k-neral office r I tnply personally at r- I
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  • 74 3 On account of the t»..-d.i> general strik* In Singapore last month, a dela> ol«nrari> a weeU has i vised It the »»ork of the Fo«>d Control Department. »nd rii«- deliveries will be late as a result iN- hold up invoked a 4 Hnk uos from the
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  • 294 3 the roller; ion oi fund" 5 for. the Indian Independence Movement Fund dunn; the Japanese occupation of £ingam controlled and directed V Sabhas Chandra ■tatrd m the Supo:ior Court yesterday *rhen charges of extortion «ere t a?ainst seven Indian bu.Mnessmrr. T AbduMfti7 B Mohame* Ib: Abaul Kassim,
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  • 934 3 News From The Singapore Market Front— Government Aid To Manufacturers Cigarettes will come on Singapore g increasing Hst of rations, probably by next weekend, and biscuits at the controlled price of three for one cent, will be available for public sale about Feb. 19,
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  • 26 3 Any seller found scllinc biscuits above the controlled price of three for one cent will be prosecuted and rut off from further supplies.
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  • 513 3 Dirt Dust And Disease In Singapore Streets Sprawling muck heaps (charitably ignored by visitnig correspondents who write home colourful accounts of Singapore's picturesque Chinatown), and other visu«il evidence of the island's fall from grace in the matter of public cleanliness have been the subject of much criticism recently. "Pro Bono
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  • 158 3 Straits Times torr.. KIALA LUMPUR, Feb. 9.— Sentence of eight months' rigorous imprisonment was passed by Major H. L. Wrigglesworth in the District Court on a rice retailer, V. K. Jaganathan Thaver, who pleaded guilty to a charge of cheating under the Food Control proclamation by
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  • 161 3 Schoolchildren in Government English Schools in Singapore and children attending welfare clinics nre being examined for any sign of Infantile paralysis, a number of cases of wnich are now being treated at Midcreton Hospital. Col. W. J Vickers. Singapore medical chief stated yesterday. Cleanliness In the kitchen.
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  • 729 4 Wd. Price Only Provisional, Says Mr. F.D. Ascoli of which 134,000 tons came from unoccupied plantation areas. While the output of 134,000 tons should be maintained, the crop from wild areas, which Increased to 86,000 tons during the war, is likely to fall to Its prewar
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  • 47 4 H.K.'s No.1War Criminal KONG, Feb 8 Col. Menu, Hongkong's No. 1 war formerly chief of the gendarmerie in the ho is alleged to have Kinsible 'iay from rial soon. ■v on Hainan all of !f.»-n> mistress Ho-pit Wor •ed by the tf bed. shot and V P.
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  • 28 4 r<b B— Th. tie relongolla for:kuo. has been I -ruling the Russian na•in with a ploueh and a r..i I nd to be run i Party
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  • 89 4 T9K V O, Feb. B:— Prince Konoye'a wife disclosed today that her eldest son Fumikata "Butch" Konoye, a graduate of Princeton University and an artillery officer in the Japanese Army, haa been missing in Manchuria since last summer and the family Is gravely worried about the family
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  • 251 4 CHUNGKING. Feb. B— The thirty-flve members of the comr.iittee to draft the Chinese constitution revising the 1936 document, will hold its first meeting in Chungking on Feb. 14 to cny out the plan agreed upon at fie recent session of the Political Consultative Council
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  • 222 4 MOSCOW. Feb. The Political Bure*u chairman of the Soviet Union warned an election mass meeting at Tashkent today that "we must remember that our country continues to remain within capitalist encirclement." He added: "Therefore, there must not be any smugness or complacency and we must
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  • 111 4 PORT OP SPAIN. Trinidad, Feb. J. The record-breakrng cricket match between Barbados and Trinidad played v. Queens Park Oval was left drawn, Trinidad hitting up 570 for 8 In the final inning.* which Is one of the highest ever totals for a fourth innings Another world record
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  • 40 4 SHANGHAI. Peb. 9 Gen. Albert Wedemeyer, U.B. Army commander In China, revealed at a Press conference today that there was no liaison yet between the Russians In Manchuria and the Americans In the Chlnet* theatre.— U P.
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  • 35 4 M l. rhief r'erk oi DunloD Rubber and brother- ar- ay »t No. 0 B f: !»stier Road. SinKa- behind his .1 take plaf at II am on Monday 112 40. Papers please copy.)
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  • 102 4 Battle Against Crimeßeaches New Peak LONDON, Feb. B:— Scotland Yard's battle against crime in London has reached a new peak in the past 36 hours. In a sweep supported by wireless cars, Yard men have arrested more than JO suspected shop-house and safe breakers. Thousands of pounds worth of stolen
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  • 398 4 Selangor Race Results Sunday Times Corr: KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 9— Following are the results of the Seian^or races held here today: Race 1: Ist Cumberland (7 10> <Ati Kirn). 2nd Harlnage (9 0). (Dragon), 3rd Gold Dust (8.13). (Mawle); Won by length. 2 length; Time 1 nun 18 sec; Tote
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 227 4 TODAY'S RADIO (From Singapore) RED NETWORK on 225 metres from noon to 10 30 p.m. and also on 61 metres from 1 to 1.30 p.m. 1.43 to S p.m. and 7.45 to 9.30 p.m. Chinese noon to 1.15 p.m (news In Hnkkien at 1 pm; In Cantonese at 1 10
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