The Straits Times, 16 June 1946

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    19 1 THE SUNDAY TIME THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER' /.v MALAYA No. 568 SINGAPORE, SL'NOAY, JUNE 16, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    ATOM SCIENTISTS MAY STRIKE
    340 1 Seeking Control For Peaceful Uses A WORLD-WIDE strike by atomic scientists may take place unless agreement is reached regarding he international control of atomic energy, said M. Frederic Joliot-Curie, head of the French delegation an the Atomic Energy Commission, in New York csterday. Joli6t-Curie said that
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    THE ROYAL FAMILY SEE AIR ARMADA
    41 1 the I ondon V-Day march. r Ast rime a flr-jiast. of 300 l< I air: raft. Wa dung from the saluting base in the Mall arc Quern Mary, the King, the Quefn and Princess Margaret
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    Cost Of Living Report Soon
    65 1 CINGAPORES Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, is anxiously waiting for a reoort by the committee inquiring into t're cost of living in the Colotiy. At a Press conference yestrrdav. Sir Franklin saii an inte-im report had been nrn- misrd by the middle of this month, and
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    Midget Gives Birth To 6lb Baby Girl
    140 1 Midget Gives Birth To 6lb Baby Girl AUSTIN, TEXAS, Sd'.. THE only known midget daughter of midget parents gave birth yesterday to a daughter. She was 20-year-old Mrs. Myrna Myrtle Swenson. daughter of the once lamous American stage midget, Johnny Clii'tt and his wife. Mrs. Swenson. who is 49 inches
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    BIG-FOUR MEET
    52 1 PARIS. Sat—The Big Four Foreign Ministers resumed their peace-making efforts today with the Western Powers looking to M. Molotov for some hint that Russia was ready to compromise. M. Georges Bidault will preside over the first session of the renewed conference which has been In recess since May
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    ADMIRAL THANKED
    49 1 SYDNEY. Sat.—Mr. J. B. Chifley. Australia's Prime Minister, has sent a message to Admiral Lord Fraser on relinquishing his command of the British Pacific Fleet, expressing; the Government's and peoples' appreciation for his successful leadership and for the part played by the Fleet in defeating Japan —Reuter.
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    Efforts To Increase Fextile imports
    166 1 THE Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson, said yesterday that efforts are being made to increase the supply of text.les to Singapore and Malaya. A repre? has gone to Japan to ensure that Malaya receives its proptr share of Japanese textiles available for export. "I believe supplies
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    Trillion Note Has Arrived
    117 1 BUDAPEST. Sat. A NEW one trillion pengo note -v was issued today as* Hungary's inflation reached the stage of being utterly ridiculous. If this note —officially Jtermed "egytnillio milpengo" —had been in existence before the war it would have been worth roughly $200 billion (U.S.). Today
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    'Drastic' Steps Against Crime
    119 1 THE special measures which the Government of Singapore intend taking to stem the crime wave are "drastic and might give rise to poll ical considerations." This was a statement by tht Governor, Sir Franklin Gunson, when replying to a question at a Press conference as to
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    Umber to At Lisbon
    56 1 LISBON, Sat.—Exiled Umberto of Italy reached here today by plane from Barcelona. commentIng "I am most anxious to rejoin my family." His travelling companion said. "This flight does not mean the King accepts as final the voters' verdict abolishing the Italian monarchy. By saving his life,
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    French Assembly's New President
    42 1 PARIS, Sat. —French party leaders agreed on M. Vincent Auriol J (Socialist) as president of the new Constituent Assembly. New Assembly officers included I six vice presidents —two Popular Republicans, two Communists, one Republican and one Radical Socialist—A.P.
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    720 m. p. h. SOON
    55 1 LONDON, Sat—lt will soon be possible to fly at 1,090 feet a second or 720 miles an hour, according to Air Commodore Frank Whittle who leaves by air tomorrow for a lecture tour In America. "Britain still leads on the engine side of Jet development,"
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    HINDU ASSAULTED AT MOSQUE
    425 1 Sunday Times Reporter YESTERDAY afternoon, while uniformed policemen were patrolling the areas in Tanjong Pagar district where rioting had broken out the night before,— involving Indian Hindu labourers and Muslims of the shopkeeper class, and resulting In two deaths and about 43 injured —an Indian Hindu
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    INDIA: PARTY PLAN MAY BE DROPPED
    178 1 NEW DELHI, Sat. FIELD Marshal Lord Wavell, Viceroy of India, having failed to persuade the Indian parties to agree to the Cabinet Mission's basis for an interim government, may now decide to abandon the party structure and endeavour to form 3 government of individuals
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    Indonesians Hold 1,200 Chinese
    152 1 Indonesians Hold 1,200 Chinese BAT A VIA, Sat. GROUPS of Chinese totalling U 1,200 persons in all are still held by Indonesians in Tjoroeg, west of Tangerang. state official Dutch sources. At Kesambi, in the Tangerang district, about 400 Chinese were rescued by a Dutch patrol and brought back to
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    BIG U.S. STRIKE AVERTED
    146 1 BIG U.S. STRIKE AVERTED WASHINGTON. Sat. rE United States maritima strike is off. Fiv.» minutes before it was due to start at midnight (New Ycrk Time) Mr. Harry Bridges, the Longshoremen's leader, announced that a "tentative agreement" has been reached and hs was recommending that the strike be postponed. A
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    Death Sentence On Sikh Affirmed
    78 1 FE death sentence on Fara Singh, a British North Borneo Sikh police sergeant, who was charged with the murder of five Chinese guerillas at Kampong Kital on or about Oct. 25, 1943, has been affirmed in a retrial at Labuan. The retrial had been ordered
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    PREMIERS AT PARADE
    47 1 At th.~ saluting has i i the Mall, watching Ihe London V-Parad© are, (left to right): Prime Minister A. Attlee, Mr Winston Churchill. Mr. Mackenzie King. Canadian Prime Mlnls'.er and Field Varshal Smuts. Brhind are the Duchess of Kent and her riau?htpr. Princess Alexandra.
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    SPOTLIGHT On MALAYA AND MALAYANS
    1421 2 SPOTLIGHT On MALA YA AND MALAYANS CLIFFORD PEER TURNS HIS MO UK than 4;> years 1 -I -ince rank SwetUnham left rnment House on retirement, but .over that period his links with Malaya have been and I think it can i lid that lie has loft his stamp more clearly
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    THE PLANTER'S RETURN
    462 2 No word at the quay— he arrived i all unmet Tlie hote is all crowded- no room j could he get The estate he would manage was long miles away And how he could get there I nobody could say! No transport, save cycles and buses a
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      115 2 ENJOYING LIFE? witts BMi -cider nown I thr ;sin« forms ot kidney MMiknfss. Within 24 hours of ■•I will see. It-el »nd know that th? medicine Emei. .■iihmT *W wanted points Jrom system. ■MB I short time v >ur pains -ir. and you mill once lifr *c the full. DE
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      786 2 Week-end programmes PTXTPlinrsDr London calling. 10.50 I tn. The; 1 p.m. News. 1.01 p m Music for bllibArUKL world looks a* Jesus Christ 11 p.m. romance, 130 p.m. These foolish BED StIWORK from noon to Mu^lc 11 .30 p.m News. 11.40 thlngB< 20 N „01 2 pn.. and o.™ to
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      224 2 sir" dealNORTH mildly, whsn he ll« hli Ao 0 B r, bincd resources. Obviously, he Z Tift iV? mi'-ht lo? a heat and w J l 0 7 4 club. The heart fines., the f\nt el his worries, but h A 7 5 hud lo 4s cf work before him
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    MUNICIPAL LOWERS RESTORED
    61 3 MUNICIPAL LOWERS RESTORED kj I ii. ir^ < u.'ivspunde nt PENANG. I Ktto I.o'ificar» t» thai t** Corn- mi Penang ana tom- i -h R'S dhave i r -.1 to the Ifun'ci- Comn w chairDr W H.I Mr. H. H. Khoo Si.;: Dr K rifl ?.r Jules Mart. F v
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    Scouts Aid Police To Fight Crime
    203 3 i!P'Ja> Times Correspondent JPOH, Sat. I tr and Communication Corps, 1 npo* entirely of present and past Boy are devoted to active assistance in the fi?-ht against crime. Responsible for the formation of this corps is a former Assistant Commissioner of Boy Scout.. for
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    V-FUREWIRJS OVER LONDON
    54 3 and srarrh-lishts merje over the Thames to give mm in V-nifl.t. *hat was claimed *o be the bi**est-ever <>rj-» dJsnlay in liio c ty The Royal Family were among ii \n <>i v rrtato s who saw the r'ver pageant between i c \aiixh.i.l and Chari n
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    Allegedly Posed As Detective
    64 3 C'.F.u with impersonating a an Indian j--ol-Mohd Ashran of 80 Mobilo- Workshops. 1.E.M.E.. T trial before Mr. Ahmad bin Ibrahim in the Fifth Court, E The accused is purported, at midnight on June 12, at Dunearn ipore. to have falsely :iatcd a police clotective and in
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    To Return To Malaya
    64 3 ■■■day Times nrrrspond nt r C. F. H ::i HM fTl^e Of <■ mmissionrr. Coast. Klanu. has left by oir for leave met H.> will return to take iiu a Civil Service appoint- Blake returned with the forci and v:as mt Civil AfTa during the BM.A
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    MR. FYIACDONALD
    15 3 Mr Malolm I d. the Governor- General, will be In ■■faptft on Wednesday
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    16 3 Dr W Ansky YounK. J P., has returned to Klan<^ from England accompanied by his wife.
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    ***** MISSING MEN FOUND
    333 3 To Be Repatriated From New Guinea Sunday Times Reporter THREE hundred members of the Straits Settle- ments Volunteer Force have been located at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, and arrangements have been made for their repatriation to Singapore. The men will be returning via Batavia. Names of
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    $15,000 JEWEL THEFT REWARD
    53 3 Sunday Times Correspondent SEGAMAT. Sat—A $1,000 reward is teinT offered by the police for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for the theft of jcv.el■ery valued pt $15X00 from a p?"-nshon at Bcitu Pahat. I\\i burglary was committed on th<» Pi<rht
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    HOMECOMING
    51 3 Sunday Tim*"s Correspondent PENANG, Sat—A further large of Malayans will be arriving aboard the Dutch ship Klipfontein which is calling at P^nanjj on June 20. Another Dutch ship, the Bloem font: in. will be arriving with nassengers from the UK. on June 18. when shs will call dir?ct at
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    MR. TAY LIAN TECK: COLONY LOSES LEADING FIGURE
    656 3 Sunday Times Correspondent OFFICIAL notification has now been r* ceived that Mr. Tay L an Teck must be presumed to have died en or about Feb. 14, 1942. Mr. Tay MM a passenger in the s.s. Kuala, which was subjtcled very heavy
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    Malayans At Hampton Court Party
    119 3 THE officers of the Malayan 1 and othei; Colonial detachments in Victory Camp, Kensington Gardens, attended a party given by the British Government at Hampton Court Palace on June 11. The King and Queen, the Prime Minister, Mr. £lenent Attl?e. the members of the Cabinet,
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    BODY FOUND IN JUNGLE
    94 3 Sunder Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat— Ths 'C.I.D. have unearthed in Salak South, near Kuala Lumpur, am unidentified male body, believed to have been the victim of kidnapping; before the Japanese surrender. The police walked several mile« through thick jungle before reaching the place where the
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    We're Better Off Here
    108 3 COM! AREO wi h C eylon, the standard of living of the a'.craxe Mala) an is very hi?h, says Mr. V. Coomaraswamy, representative of the C "1 >n Government «n Mala: a, in a rt-pot. vhiih has just been published, on the general and tconomir conditions
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    Malacca Men Cleared Of Collaboration
    184 3 Malacca Men Cleared Of Collaboration Sunday Times Correspondent MALACCA. Sat. AWELL-KXOWN Bombay merchant, a motor car fcreman, a former inspector of police and a police sergeant were cleared of collaboration charges by Major Rintoul, the special magistrate. Dismissing complaints against K. Doshi, a well-known business man and oil mill ownsr.
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    ROBBERS GET 10 YEARS' R.I.
    73 3 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Sat— Sentence of ton years' rigorous imprisonment, with twelve strokes of the cat. was passed by Lieut. -Col. Bellamy In the Penang Si'Derior Court today on Loire Chong Siew. of Butterworth. who was charged in connection with the Kampong Sungei Nyer
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    RADIO PATROL FOR KEDAH POLICE
    43 3 Sunday Times Correspondent ALCR STAR, Saturday. UOBILE police patrols in Kedah will shortly be increased by two through the co-operation of Brigadier Wright Both will be radio-equipped and contact will be maintained with police headquarters in /Mor Star
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    Victory Camp Fire
    64 3 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Sat.—The GovernorOcneral. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, described the Boy Scout movement as "one of the greatest in the world" when ha visited a Victory camp nre held last night by more than 1.000 Boy Scouts in Penang. A programme consisting of 28 items was
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    Officer Entertained
    81 3 Sunday Times Correspondent SEGAMAT. Sat —Before his departure for leave In England, Capt. J. U. Webb, Administrating Officer, Segamat, was entertained to a farewell tea party by local Government emploveees and members of the Segamat Cricket Club of which he was president. Mr. Bell, Manager of Voules Estate,
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    FORMER MINISTER TO SIAM HERE
    24 3 SIR JOSIAH (ROSBY. formerly British Minister in Siam, has arrived in Singapore from Ceylon on his way to Australia.
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    To Help Jobless Indians
    108 3 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Sat. THE opening of agricultural settlements and industrial pursuits is bein^ considered by the Indian Relief Committee of Malaya, which was set up by Pandit Nehru, with himsolf as chairman, during his recont visit to Malaya. Mr. N. Raghavar., vic^-chai-man in a
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    18 3 Dr. Barclay Barrowman. J.P., who was with the Medical Section of the BM.A.. has resumed practice in Klang
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    CHARGES AGAINST EUROPEAN
    178 3 CHARGES AGAINST EUROPEAN DONALD Charles Marriot. 32--year-old European who appeared in the First Police Court on June 7 on charges o* theft of upholstered chairs belonging to the Associated Theatres Ltd.. and possession of a pistol and ammunition, made a second appearance before Mr. Paul Storr terday when a scries
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    CHINESE IN COURT
    69 3 APPEARING in the First Police court yesterday two Chinese, Stephen Lim Beng Sen? and Joseph Choy, had explained to them charges that they extorted from Choo Bob Soon $.''ooo on Mar 22 and $2,000 on Apr 1 Alternatively they were alleged to have obtained th? money lor
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    REVOLVERS FOUND
    47 3 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Sat—Three more revolvers—ona hidden in a junic, and two others beneath a pile of wood —were seized by ths police during the intensified arms driva over the past two days lv> Chinese have been arrc £tei In connection with th? Ais'-v-
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    29 3 A general meeting of t!ie Smjapore Association ot Teachers of Dancing will be held at the Happy World Cabaret Hall today ;it 5.30 p.m. Members are requested to attend.
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      296 3 REFUGEES THRIVE IN ISLAND CAMP Sunday TUiies CmwpMMMA| PENANG, Sat. IN the former leper inland of Pulau Jerejak, half a m.lo ofT the south-east coast of Ponang, hundreds of r>lug <-s and displaced persons, after their harrowing war expenences. are finding such a haven for rest and recuperation th:i r
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, JUNE 16, 1946. Fighting Crime
    590 4 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, JUNE 16, 1946. Fighting Crime ONE of the gra\e tar.d mosl urgent prcbloms Ii Singapore tiday is lb»| Steady increase of crm* 1.! Oi lOC rebbenes reported n May, 87 of these w.t aimed robberies, in the majority in w.iich a |U1 of description was us^d.,
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  • Letters to the Editor
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      Indian George Crosses
      382 4 REGARDING your article on Capt. Mahmud Khan Durrani G. C, I would like to point out the fact that Capt. Durrani is not the only living Indian holder of the decoration We have in our regiment, at present serving in Perak. 6ub. Ahmed Yar G.C.. who was
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    A.I.F. plan to link with 'Zipper9
    1113 4 A.I.F. plan to link with 'Zipper 9 AUSTRALIAN NEWS-LETTER By 808 GILMORK I Ball lives in an outlying Tokyo suburb and has the use of a rattly old-fashioned car, which is tassed at high speed every day cy streams o! modern American cars Issued to senK>r Japanese officials. Digger reaction
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    Men needed by Special Police
    658 4 JT was only the other day that Singapore's Commissioner of Police, Mr. R. E. Foulger, paid a great tribute to the work done during British Militaiy Administration by the Special Constabulary jn Singapore. Sunday Times Correspondent Their assistance has t en invaluable, and in their
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    PENANC KEMPEI-TAI CHIEFS AWAIT TRIAL
    203 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Sat. AF Penang's three Kempei-tai chiefs during the Jap V occupation, two are in prison awaiting trial and third is still unlocated, according to a War Crimes Investigation official who, in a statement to the recently-formed Penang Chinese Victims Committee appeals
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    Press Congratulate Sir Franklin
    51 5 AT a press conference with t.ie Governor yesterday, Singapore newspaocrrr.cn represcntir.c the English, Chinese and Mclay Press, personally congratulated him on his knighthood Sir Franklin Gimson. rentyln*. spolce of the cordial relations t: at existed between the Press and himself and exoressed the hope they would
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    27 5 The U.S. Commerce Department p.nnounceJ that rtandar^ newfnrint will be removed from c list of commodities requiring licences for export on July 1, repoits P. liom Washington.
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    NEW TRADE OFFICER
    416 5 Government Creates Special Dept. THE creation of the post of Secretary for Economic Affairs, announced yesterday, represents a further phase in the re-modelling of the structure of Singapore Government to suit the needs of a colony whose interests are so essentially commercial. The first officer to act
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    Trial Dates Fixed
    59 5 Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH, Sat—Both Kampar and Teluk Anson will hold their first War Crimes trials when, at Kampar on June 24, a police official, An Raku Chosaku will face two charges of alleged war crimes and, at Teluk Anson on June 17. Sgt. Sasaki Saburo will
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    CAN THE EMPEROR BE INSULTED?
    71 5 FE question to what extent the Japanese can insait the Fni peror nowadays may be decided in the litigation ovtr a placard which the Japanese authorities regard as cons.ituting a case of insult against the Emperor, reports AP. from Tokyo Japanese newspapers particuj larly are
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    36 5 Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, now touring the Middle East, has discussed the situation in the Middle East and Palestine with the Palestine High Commissioner, General Sir Alan Cunningham, says Reutcr.
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    LONDON SHOWS VICTORY HATS
    67 5 (<< all o.rr the world were n-esent in London s Ka\ills io.i parade of Victory brtts. des»rnrd by 28 Illine s Here are three stri^pe- mod*-is. Above are a I- panrake of green fel ar.d a striking white fox felt with in iI- of r»rplf grapes
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    GOVERNOR THANKS AUSTRALIA
    109 5 GOVERNOR THANKS AUSTRALIA IN expression of thanks to tho Australian people and the Australian Red Cross for the manner in which they had come to the assistance not only of prisoners of war and internees in Malaya but alsc of the general public, was tendered by tat Governor, Sn franklin
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    Jap Gaoled Fop Life
    85 5 JAPANESE 2nd Lt. Tarumoto Juji. a member of the engineering regiment hich MM responsible for th: cons ruction of t if Siam- Burma "Death" Railway, was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes against Briish prisont.s wiio worked under him. He was found guilty of
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    MECHANICS NEGOTIATE WITH S.H.B.
    277 5 THE Singapore Engineering Mechanics Association is 'negotiating with th:> Singai pore Harbour Board for better I conditions of serv.c? and an increase in wages, Mr. John Brazier. Trade Union Adviser. stated in a brief talk to members of the Association in Club Street ycst?rdav. Mr. Brazier
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    Says He Was Beaten Because He Refused To Confess "Plot"
    319 5 BOW an Indian railway clerk was said to have been harged by the Japanese Special Branch with planning to organize a strike wr en the British and Americans landed in Singapore and planning to sabotage the railways, was related to
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    Three Singapore Weddings
    313 5 rVO names well-known on Malayan spoits fields were coupled yesterday when the wedding took place at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. Singapore, of Mr. Pat Francis de Souza and ICsi Marguerite van To-iren. rat de Souza is the S.R.C. hockey and crirket n'nver and rk> bride,
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    26 5 The Air.r-icin Hebrc" M-^rJ was presented to US Oer»-ral Dwif?ht Eisrnfrnwer. ('hie' ol StalT. for pfOK»t*cwi v i:,-.d*r-standing trtwrrn Christian* and jews, reports A.P. f.ora Washington.
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    R.A.F. OFFICER AND HIS BRIDE
    34 5 Sq. Ldr. and Mrs. A. Le hardy after their wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral jes'erday. Mr. and Mrs. Uric Deans, after thtir urd.in; yesterday at St Joseph's Church, Sinrapore
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    750 Cycles Monthly For Malaya
    268 5 750 Cycles Monthly For Malaya Sunday limes Reporter IMPORTATION of Mi into Mahya -s b Ing specded-up and monthly ments of more than machines for leading Mai cycle agents will Uk from this month. This information was Rhvn to me by the Sin K a port agent of a wrll-knov:n
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    Defence Case In Court Martial
    66 5 THE case for the defence m thf field general court-martial in Singapore, of Major F. T. Methcreli R.E.M.E.. will be dealt with tomorrow. Yesterday the court adjourned to inspect the property nuntioned in the chanre-;. ai.so other property at the di «,in-s. Major Metherell laces
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    SOCCER TEAMS
    46 6 Up -country soccer teams: Top, thr Penanr Chinese Football Asso- iation and the Combined Services v.ho met in a recent charity game; below, the ie!an;or Coast Club and the Combined Services who met in the Klanc Victory Cup soccer match won by the Club.
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    KELANTAN STATE XI BEAT GURKHAS
    259 6 Sunday Times Reporter KOTA BAHRU. Saturday. rE Gurkhas were very unfortunate to lose to the Kelantan State XI by the odd goal in three in a soccer match on the Padang Garong Football ground this week. Despite the fact that the Gurkhas dominated most of
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    MALACCA ENJOYED VISIT OF STORE TEAMS
    634 6 MALACCA ENJOYED VISIT OF STORE TEAMS Week-end page Of Up-Country Sports News Sunday Times Correspondent MALACCA, Sat. THE visit of Singapore sportsmen to Malacca during the Whitsun holidays was much appreciated by the Malacca sporting public who rolled up in great numbers to witness the cricket, football and hockey games
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    Krian Soccer Six Teams In Keen Games
    453 6 Krian Soccer Six Teams In Keen Games Sund.iy Times Carrrsrordert K.mn. bit. THOUGH makln: a lat? start in Kri n is r.w in full swin« pi I keen competition is being evinced in the Le.igue Cmoetltin v .;ii< h .-futed toward; th hitter part <,r last m Cix learns arc
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    KEDAH SOCCER
    83 6 A strong Kedah team co:npri i: r» many State p'.aycrs. de'e.ited the Selangor Rovers cf Kuala Lumpur, in nn Interesting game of soccer i th* Kedah F.A. Oreen by three goal* to one. The visitors displayed good combination at the beginning with Tan r as pivot, but the
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    Lancashire Maintain The Lead
    206 7 v__--.y a able LONLX)N. Sat. T.:e gained yesterday has n at the County .Ticket ip table wi'h 64 pame?, nve of and Yorks come Jl but ..mpions are better placed Igrit. York- aid. triXh sur: a the > of tne season »ns in i-lipt .natches <>N
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    BRITISH HOPE IN WICHTMAN CUP TENNIS
    22 7 BRITISH HOPE IN WICHTMAN CUP TENNIS Mn. I>. B. li.Hon. the B-iti>h \\i-h man Cup player, in her trials against Hit* Curry.
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    Longest Shot
    39 7 i al.fornia. Sat. l lip Inn-rt s.iot evrr to win lloOyv i.J Par^— sporty ime I taw at 111 to one. 1 i foiir-.vc. r < ii .1 I Lni the rrcord Scares oi I I i \P
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    Penang Races Page Eight
    157 7 cludin Gibbo is to allow him to open v h Hutton as he does for Yorkshir. and make Washbrook number six batsman, a position in which the Lancastrian did so well against the Australian Services i last summer. The absence of Martin is a real shock.
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    ENGLAND XI TO MEET INDIA NAMED
    261 7 ENGLAND XI TO MEET INDIA NAMED All The Latest Sports News LONDON, Sat. THE England Test team to meet India on June 22 at Lord's is Hammond (Captain), Gibb (Yorkshire), Bowes, Hardstaff, Hutton, Compton, Washbrook, Wright, Smailes, A. V. Bsdser and Ikin. The twelfth man is Brookes. The surprises of
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    INDIANS v NOTTS: START DELAYED
    180 7 Nottingham. Sat. HALF an hour before the match between Nottinghampshire and the Indi. ns. it \va s still raining steadily after an tight hours" continuous bA The wicket was fully covered but there were pools of water nearby and the outfield was soaked. The prospects
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    DAVIS CUP RESULTS
    106 7 MONTRT>L. Sat. \fEXICO knocked Camda out of the Davis Cup comwMtlon here today when the Vega, brothers I Armando and Rolando— defeated Laird Watt and Brendan MacKcn of Montreal B—3. 6 4. 6—3 In the doubles. i Eailirr. the Ye- o -a brcthers won both the singles.
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    YMCA Win At Tengah
    257 7 i FJLAYINO mithout some ot their re- gular men the Jt.A.K. (Ten?ah) were beaten by the V.M C.A. in a cricket match at Tcn-iah yesterday. The winners passed their opponents' score with four wickets In hand. The scor«s were: RAF. iTENGAH) F O Wellings Ibw Sundrani
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    DOUBLE FOR BARODA
    170 7 LONDON, Fri. MAHARAJA Gaekwar of Baroda scored a double at the Lingfleld Park Surrey Races today, his chestnut flily Sarala, by Turkau out of Faireta, winning the June Two-year-old Plate of five furlongs, and his colt, Captain Gold by Chulmlelgh out of Shield of Gold, winning the
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    CHAMPIONS BEAT REST
    117 7 WATCHED by a large crowd of enthusiastic supporters, th 3 Northamptonshire Regiment, division soccer champions in Singapore, beat the Rest of Second Div. (CrDSskeysi by five ?oals to one at the Police Depot yesterday. Possessing a fast set of for- ware's whose positioning was a treat to
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      322 7 .DAY. JUNE 17 YO U are too serious hy nature MM ar burdened too much by tne realities ot life Fortunately, however, vour sense of nun m and >'om se? MM ..id outill you meet, you have the courage of your strong convictions and will st^nd bv them at all
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      343 7 THIS WEEK FOR YOU C.PMIXI (May 22-June 22)— Start the working wet-k uith tlrlihcrate actions. Don't guess at things Be sore you know where you're going. All inventive ideas are excellent. Exert your best judgment ia developing them. CANCER (June 23-July 23) There may still be disturbed tendencies, so go
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      313 7 B* careful with contracts. There is a possible chance in residence or a profitable journey. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23Dce. 22)— New ideas and experimental notions are not at all good Hold to familiar routine for the best results. All affairs pertaining to travel, finances, inventions and publishing should be subjected to
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      354 7 should give them to a manager who will see that you are protected financially In their commercialization. You are critical of others and IX a woman, you must gcard against being a gossip. Both you men and women are likely to come Into some money during the latter part of
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    MALAYAN CONTINGENT IN V-PARADE
    58 8 > err hers of the Malayan and other Colonial contingents mar.hiiu along Charing Cross Koad in the great Victory inarch through London. A Malayan bearing the F.M S. flas can he seen in the left hand bottom corner. RUht: The ATS. Victory rontinrrnt divides into a
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    Open Sports Meet For Singapore
    187 8 DANK holiday, Monday, Aug. 5, has been selected for the Singapoie Island open athletic meetins: for which entries are now being asked. The event, which replaces the Victory Athletic Meeting which should have Mm place this month, will be run under InterServices Amateur AtMe ie
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    SOM PONG MEETS GIBSON TONIGHT
    136 8 TO-NIGHT'S boxln? programme j at the Happy Woild features the return to the local nni? after an absence of six years of Som Pong, former 'velter-weight champion of Malaya. Som Pong has been billed against Charlie Gibson, the paratrooper, over ten -threes, and the right
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    J.C.S.A. BADMINTON
    61 8 J.C SA. badminton practices are being held at No. 470, Balestier Road, on Saturdays from 5 p.m. and Sundays from 7 a.m. All interested are cordially invited It is honed to utilize the club's Rvmnasium hall for badminton games in the near future. CluHs and parties desiring friendly
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    GEN MESSERVY WINS PENANG RACE
    450 8 Sunday Times Reporter PENANG, Sat. I ORI) KILLEARN, Special Commissioner, South- East Asia, and Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, the Governor-General of the Malayan Union and Singapore, were among the large crowd at to-day's race which saw the hack, Singapore, win the three-furlong Hacks race for
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    HOLIDAY CRICKET IN TAIPING
    106 8 Sunday Times Correspondent Talning. Sat. 'TAKINO advantage of Whit-Monday, x the cricket team of the Ceylon Association. Talplng. enguqid the Old Edwardians In a friendly fixture on the Esplanade. Batting first, the Ceylonese scored 42 runs. Chelvanayagam (15) and V. Kandlah (12) belni? i>.e only batsmen
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