The Straits Times, 4 July 1946

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    20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY PRICE iff CENTS. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1946. FIGHT PAGES
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    'STATE OF EMERGENCY' IN SIAM
    308 1 Doctors Believe King Murdered BANGKOK, Wednesday. PRIDI Phanoinyong*s Government today imposed a censorship on Bangkok newspapers under "state of emergency" powers invoked against unrest and criticism while an official commission of inquiry continues investigation of the fatal shooting of King Ananda Mahidol. The commission of
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    Hirohito Said End War In Feb 1942
    7 1 Hirohito Said End War In Feb 1942
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    Sir T.Adams Sees Minister
    55 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wed.— l understand Sir Theodore Adams saw the Secretary of Sate for the Colonies today and reported at length on hb recent visit to Malaya. It is likely that if current attempts to secure a general settlement m Malaya fail, Sir
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    DELEGATES HOME FROM INDIA
    321 1 DELEGATES HOME FROM INDIA LONDON, Wednesday. THE Cabinet Mission which returned last night by flying boat from lud^n received an enthusiastic welcome at Victoria Station, London, from a group of members of the British Government which included the Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Arihui Greenwood, the Dominions Secretary, Lord Addison, and
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    Arson In Ahmedabad
    29 1 AHMEDABAD, Wed.— Three cases of arson were reported m Ahmedabad city last night, despite the 24-hour curfew imposed for three days following the Hindu-Moslem clashes.— Reuter.
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    Dutch Shell Java Coastal Batteries
    42 1 LONDON, Wed— The Dutch destroyer Kortenaer has shelled Indonesian coastal batteries at the old Dutch fortress of Menari, m the area of Surabaya, the Netherlands News Agency reported today. The Indonesiars there recently shelled patrol ships. Reuter.
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    Premier's Visit To Australia
    94 1 CANBERRA. Wed.— Mr. Attlee, the British Prime Minister, will arrLve with Mrs. Attlee m Australia on July 28 for a fortnight's visit, it is officially announced here today. Mr. Attlee will be the first British Primp Minister to visit Australia while m office. de expects to
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    ATTACK ON VETO
    203 1 NEW YORK, Wednesday. THE United States yesterday hinted that the United Nations Charter might te amended to eliminate the Big Five veto rights m the Security Council whenever violators of the projected atomic energy code were up for punishment. The hint was contained m a United States
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    The Cadet And The Admiral
    32 1 Ad ml. Lord Louis Mountbatten has a word with 12-year-old Cadet Norman McEvov, of Richmond, while inspecting cadets of St. John Ambulance Brigade m Hyde Park, London.
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    U.s. MISSION ON PALESTINE
    497 1 U.s. MISSION ON PALESTINE WASHINGTON, Wednesday. r: former Assistant Secretary of SFate, Mr. Henry Grady, is to head a special mission to London early this isanOl to make final preparations for the migration of Jews to Palestine if Britain approves the project. According to information from high authorities m Washington,
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    Rain Stopped Play At Bradford
    79 1 BRADFORD, Wed.— The Indian cricketers won the toss and batted first here to-day m the first of their matches against Yorkshire. The Indians are fielding the same side as m the Lord's test, with the exception of Bannerjee for Amarnath. who has slightly pulled a
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    PLANE MISSING OVER THE CAMERONS
    301 1 AN R.A.F. Dakota which left Singapore early o.i Saturday morning for Rangoon, with a total of 16 crew and Service personnel aboard, is missing. It is presumed to have crashed m the neighbourhood o» the Cameron Highlands. The aircraft encountered bad weather ju.-t north of
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    Geneva Home For UNO
    91 1 NEW YORK. Tues— The Secre-tary-General of the UNO. Dr. Trygve Lie, has announced thai the UNO will tak«» over the £2.000,000 Ariana Palace, ioimer home of the Leasue of Na ions, m Geneva on Aug. 1. it is learned here today. He made th s statement
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    Higher Price For Tin In America?
    243 1 Higher Price For Tin In America? NEW YORK, Wednesday. A GROUP of traders ill metals told tho Unit I Press today that lack of pi i: control* and subsidies wouU permit tin prices to reach a realistic economic level of about 65 U.S. c?nts (approximately $1.30 Straits) per pound m
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    New York Stocks
    48 1 NEW YORK. Tues.— Stocks d^»tn.;ed irregularly today In extitmply light trading believed to be <lvi* to the uncertainty over the future of the Office of Price Control. Sales totalled 760.000 Dow Jones averages: Industrial 206.64; rails 85.36: utilities 40.94; land bonds, 107 95.— U.P.. P.
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      80 1 GAR RAR D RECORD CHANGERS RADIOGRAM UNITS Arriving Soon Sole Agents Maiayt KEE HUIT RADIO CO., Ht-ltl Orchard fc.ad Singapore. Phone ISM FLIT SDray is ouci again Sudden Death as deadly m its destruttion of to Mi'ijuitoe* household insert pest, M n i ever before. Obtainable at ...Cockroaches a jj
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    Canadians Look To Prices
    140 2 Canadians Look To Prices OTTAWA, Wednesday. CANADA, where a policy (A gradual decontrol of prices has been followed, war learned on Tuesday night to be making a strong effort to insulate herself against my great price rises m the United State:. Government officials said an r.ttempt would be made to
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    Sjahrir To Make ''Strong Measures"
    98 2 BATAVIA. Wed.— Sutan Siahrir. the Indonesian "Premier," vho was rslrnsed on Monday rfter being held f.ir 75 hours by Hdno'iners. announced ycrt^rday that he was coins to Jogiakarta, Jn^onpsian hendci"?rters m Centrnl Java, to discuss "strong m°?sures a?ainst extremists." H? "lid b« would also com"
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    Government Again Defeated In Lords
    123 2 LONDON. Wed —The Government was yesterday defeated for the fourth time m the House of Lords durin? the present Parliament—and the second time dur- :ng the discussion of the Coal Nationalisation Bill— when the Government amendment about the form m which thp accounts of the
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    U.S. STOPS BUYING FAMINE FOOD
    649 2 No Wheat Or Meat At Former OPA Price WASHINGTON, Tuesday. IN the absence of price control the United States Government has stopped buying wheat and meat for export to famine threatened countries, Department of Agriculture officials said here today. An official explained that the U.S.
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    Beer For The Goats ?
    27 2 Beer For The Goats BIKINI, Wed.— Scientists plan to fly radioactive beer ba?k 1o Washington to serve It to laboratory animals and **i?e what happens."— U. P.
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    Russian Envoy Says No War
    276 2 Russian Envoy Says No War WASHINGTON, Wed. IN his first interview since becoming Russian Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Niko'ai V. Novikov declared, with feeling: "I know this the propie of the United States do not want to wage war against the Soviet Union or any attar country. "I
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    B.B. C. Empire Services To Be Improved
    388 2 MT-r« t LONDON, Tuesday. LCH closer collaboralion wilh the Dominions, India and the Colonies m developing and improving the Empire services of the British Broadcasting Corporation is recommended m a Government White Paper published today laying down the policy for broadcasting. Other leading
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    FLYING FARMER WEEDS BY AIR
    94 2 Mr. Charles Silvertop of Burfor 1, Oxfordshire has taken to the a'r. When he wants to take a coupl; of sheep to a special buyer he uses his Auter Autocrat. The plane also comrs m useful for reconnaissance over his farm's l."00 acres. It has
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    'SAFEST ANTI-ATOM SPOTMAY BE A SHIP'
    391 2 —Admiral Cunningham LONDON, Wednesday. THE first British naval comment on the Bikini atom bomb test has come from the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir John Cunningham. He told British newspaper editors that m spite of atomic weapons the safest place m any future war
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    Truman Signs For Immigrants
    176 2 DRESIDENT TRUMAN lua I signed bills which permit the immigration into trie United States of 75 Indians, 100 Filipinos and 100 |**t Indians annually. He has also signed an order which releases the m.litary forces of the Philippines Government irom serv.ee m the forces of the
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    Eleven Charged For Anti-British Riot
    62 2 HAMBURG, Wed.— A young woman and 10 young men went on trial here today before a British military court on a charge of taking part m, or inciting, public disorder during an antiBritish demonstration In the City Hall Square on June 27 All the defendants
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    Soviet Says America Trying To Dictate
    87 2 MOSCOW, Tues America's Press Freedom Am ndment Act which restricts U.S. UNRRA funds to areas open to Press correspondent, is denounced by thp official Soviet newspaper, Pravda. The paper says: "It is nothing but an American tendency to dictate to other countries and infringe
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    "TRIESTE UNDER UNO"- U.K.AND U.S
    242 2 PARIS, Tuesday. THE "Big Four" Foreign Ministers have reached an agreement on the principle of creating an international zone around Trieste, but today they remained deadlocked on the future government of the zone. Mr. James Byrnes, the U.S. Secretary ol State, and Mr* Bevm, Britain's
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    Holland Now Has A New Government
    231 2 THE HAGUE, Wed.— The new Dutch Cabinet foi mcd by Dr. I Louis J. M. Beel. :tfter over a month's negotiations, was sworn -n by Queen Wilhelmina today. I The coalition consists of five j Caihol.cs, four Labour and four non-party ministers. The new
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    One Million Young Nazis Pardoned
    53 2 STUTTGART. Wed L .eut Gen. Lucius D. Clay toda> cranted -a general pardc to Nazis under 27 years Certain Nazis, against whrm snerifir evidence is found, are to be prosecuted ps war criminal? A Military Government official estimated that this represent reprieve for one million
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    6 Men Attempt China Pact
    231 2 6 Men Attempt China Pact NANKING, Wednesday WANG SHIH-CHIEH, Chen Cheng and Shao Li-t/e have been appo.nted to a a three-man board to meet with a three-man CommcMiSt delegation (expected to include Gen. Chou En-!a:> jn an attempt to solve ttio political difficulties ptcscoily holding up the peac*;. The Manchunan
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    Weygand To Testify At Spy Trial
    129 2 DIJON Wed Gen Alaxim Weygand. Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies at the time of the French armistice m 1940, is to give evidence m a sensational espionage trial which opened hrre yesterday. Among 44 persons accused of bein<? associated with the German ?suionaee service.
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      39 2 RAFFLES HOTEL TO-NIGHT DANCE 9 p.m. to Midnight RAFFLES HOTEL ORCHESTRA Admission to Non-Residents 51. 20 (Including Tax) QUALITY DEFINITELY SUPERIOR SOLD )|»Y S^^M EVERYWHERE *HsslM gigs m DISTRIBUTORS: F-^g2£_l" 111/ CHANG DENTAL CO., 22-24 Java St., Kuala Lay*.
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    Protect Your Child Against Diphtheria
    118 3 THti Singapore Municipal Health Department is rrstartinf its scheme for free immunisa ion ajainst diphtheria for children. Immunisation of children under three years of age is bein; carried out at the three main clinics of the Infant Welfare Centres Parents of children must relise that
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    Gaol For Dealer In , Stolen Drugs
    214 3 Gaol For Dealer In Stolen Drugs From Our Own Correspond*'.. t MALACCA, 3a:. TAN CHIN KIM, proprietor of a Chinese drug-store. Chop Tai Wall, at Mill Road, was conviited b< the District Judge today on a t-harge of dishonestly receiving .stolen drufs, knowing they liad teen stolen. He was sentenced
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    TRAFFIC COURT BEGINS WORK
    81 3 Frrlieve the congestion m the Singapore Police Courts, a special relief court has b?en set »up m the Civil District Court building to deal with traffic cases. This court will sit once a weak, on Wednesdays, but on other days traffic cases are dealt with m
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    Malayan Union Education Problems
    394 3 Malayan Union Education Problems Refresher Course For Technical Students From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wet!. THE heavy enrolment of schoolchildren 353,014 m May compared with 263,354 m December, 1»!1— has put a great strain on the educational authorities m the Malayan Union, who are handicapped by lack oi equipment
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    A Little Difference Of Ages
    145 3 A Little Difference Of Ages WHEN young Chua Beng Kiam was charged with the theft of a curse cpntainin? $12.70 m a trolley bus m the First District Court on March 25, he gave his age as 15. He was sent to the Juvenile Court. In the Juvenile Court he
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    FREE FIGHT AT SOCCER MATCH
    136 3 Ftec Press Correspondent PENANG. Tues. THE radio car patrol wa» summoned to a football match at Da to Kramat Padang this evening when, following a clash betv/een two players m a Victory Cup semi-final between th* Malays and the Indians, the spc;tators entered into tb3
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    Tribute To Local Rescue Service
    136 3 MR. A. O. Coltman, lormerly of the Passive Defence Service, Kuala Lumpur, was recently awarded an M.B.E. on the occasion of the Kind's Birthday. The following letter has t>2en received by Sir Edward Gent from Mr. Coltman: "If, as I suspect, the award is associated
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    Belter Prospects For Air Passages
    232 3 •Hythe flyins-boats, recently added to the Qantas-8.0.A.C". Kangaroo Service, have aiready made inrcads on the long watting list," said Mr. Fysh. "At the same time, reservations tor hignranking personnel from the fighting services are dwindling daily. Of 77 passengers carried by Qantas on flve recent
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    Mr. Run Run Shaw
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    KELANTAN ARTS & CRAFTS
    160 3 KELANTAN ARTS CRAFTS t'ELANTAN is once agal.i pro- ducing wood carvings, .live: and gold works, which before the war, made the State famous as the artistic centre oi Malaya. The revival of the Malay Arts and Crafts Society has once a^ain placed this age-old enterpese on a sound foundation. The
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    QUEUING UP FOR 35-CENT LUNCH
    55 3 The queue m front of the popular People's Restaurant yesterday, which more and more Sinfapor* workers are patronising In spite of the laree number cf pcopte who visit the restaurant a wait or 10 minutes is all that Is necessary before patrons ar* served. Left:
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    Brigade Saves 20 Trapped In Blazing Bus
    218 3 Brigade Saves 20 Trapped In Blazing Bus From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tu.s WHEN a bus m Malacca Street, Kuala Lumpur, buril nto lames and enveloped more than 20 passengers, the occupants owed their lives to «ie hre brigade, which stationed only a fe* yards from the scene raced
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    Surplus In Malayan Food Crops
    299 3 Surplus In Malayan Food Crops THE Grow More Pood campaign m Malaya has produced a surplus of tapioca and sweet potato, and it is oltts aiiv statea that cultivators, especially m Kelantan and Malacca, have j found it difficult and m some cases. Impossible to dispose of their crops. Village
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    Malayan Union Bar Council
    146 3 Malayan Union Bar Counc il From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, TVM. HTMBERS of the Bar pnctWng m I?oh have decided, at a meeting convened o/?r the weekend, to form a Malayan Urv »i Bar Co'incil with lical Bar Co"H:ii>u?<»s m all States where t.'fl number oi practitioners exceeded ten. On
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    The Straits Times Singapore , Thurs ., July 4,1946. The Philippines Republic
    995 4 The Straits Times Singapore Thurs July 4,1946. The Philippines Republic The Republic of the Philippines .that is the proud name of the I new state that is born today. No more appropriate date for f»n historic event was ever ehos-n. Today is Independence Day In the United States, the day
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    Strachey To Speak
    116 4 LONDON, Tues. /COMPLETELY new facts and figures on the wheat position will be given by the Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey, when the British Parliament tomorrow discusses the decision *o introduce bread rationing, according to informed sources. Mr. Strach«y will speak twice m the debate— at the
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    The Little White Ships Come Back
    1187 4 By A Special Correspondent [Another link with pre-war Singapore is restored today with the re-appearance of the Straits Steamship Company m our advertising columns, announcing: details of the rehabilitation of the company. Many of the "little white ships" of pre-war days will never come
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      From Purdah to Petting in the Changing East
      273 4 AS a girl myself, I would Ufce to comment on the letters about girls m Singapore signed "Chinese Green Hern" and "Terong". Their id?as about some of the i sirl.s seen with men m uniform today. and their knowledge of them, may
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      Kissing In Public
      181 4 SHOULD say that it is not only Singapore girls who have made themselves *no cheap, but also g rls of th.i Malayan Union. Why can't they behave themselves nicely m the company cf the men In uniform, instead of waikirirr arm-ir-arm m streets and kissing m the
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      Madame Butterfly
      137 4 I'VE read Western magaz nes and have seen Western pictures, and I gather that wives sweethearts. and girl-friends Abroad are counting the days i when their beloved ones will return Home. But I find that our local girls have been taken m by those m un form, and
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      Thomas Atkins Replies
      246 4 rwas with some d<sma> that we read the letter "headed "Singapore Girls OI Today". The slander on the Malayan g rl is obvious: that on the British Service mar., a little mo:e subtle. Your correspondent, it appears, would deduce some insidx»us traffic tiom these AsiaticEuropean associations. May
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      "Astounded"
      150 4 I WAS astound:d. startled and bewildered to tee a leu^r that gained pi online cc ha] your columns on June 29 from I a reader who would assimilate the demeanour of the British •Service man to that of the despicable behaviour of the Jans during the!i so-called Co-Prosperity period,
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      204 4 Announcement SmPORE STRAITS STE^SHIP COMPANY LTD. (Registered m En«:an<l under the Dcf -ncc (Compani-s) r^egu^tlona 19-iO> STRUTS STEAMSHIP COMPANY LTD., OF SINGAPORE 1. Services. Nearly a.l pjrts m Mu'uy.i at which the C mpan>s veseels previously called are now open and being served. 2. War Looses. During the War y.-ars
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    I Where Is It Going? Ask The Conductor
    93 5 A pietjrc which ill j.-t rates one cf the mai troubles of the Singapore piibl'C a: present. There is not a single indication on this bus of the route on which it runs— a^d this is lypi.al of most of the S.T.C
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    Singapore Jap M.P. On Atrocity Charge
    428 5 EVENTS leading to the arrest, torture, and subsequent death of civilians m the early days of the fall of Singapore were related m the Australian War Crimes Court yesterday when Sgt. Major Toyoda Aki'chi. a former "member of the Kempeitai attached to the Central
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    Moratorium To Be Lifted Partially
    302 5 Moratorium To Be Lifted Partially AN ,he K "u^on LU o'/Th" K mo, Ua,orv ium raised by Mr. S. B Palmer at the Malayan Union Advisory Council meeting held m Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, Mr. K. K. O Connor, Attorne> -General, re- plying said that the dampen'ng effect of tne
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    BMA Cars Should Be Turned In
    241 5 BMA Cars Should Be Turned In B.M.A. <M» registration will be abolisred as 'rom August 1. 1945 and all the B.M.A. <M> cars will nave to be registered with the Registrar of Vehicles, Singapore. In order that the re-registra- tion may be completed by August 1, all persons, firms, civilian
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    Retrial Ordered
    60 5 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH. Wed. IN the Pera.: Supreme Court this morning it was revealed that the reviewir-g authority had quashed lhe convection and sentence of death passed on March 30 this "car on Anthony Thambydurai and I.H.A. Jayasuriya by the Perak Superior Court. A new trial
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    DETECTIVE TO HANG
    139 5 DETECTIVE TO HANG IPOH. Wed. \TONG Kon Kiew, a Jap-employ-ed detective, who was identified as the leader of a party cl detectives who put to death seven women and children m a village near Sungri Siput on Aup. 7 last year was sentenced lo death this morning when the President
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    Municipal Protest On Road Transport
    356 5 Commissioners Allege "Interference EXCEPTION to what they regard as interference with the internal road transport affairs of the Municipality was taken by Singapore Municipal Commissioners recently and a protest was addressed to the Colonial Secretary. The Commissioners decided, at a committee meeting, if no satisfaction
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    Louis-Conn Fight Film
    38 5 A r.ewsreel of the world heavyweight title fight m which Joe Louis knocked-out Billy Com m the eighth rounu m New York recently will be shown duvina: the midnight show at the Alhambra on Saturday.
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    Unveiling Of Raffles' Statue
    373 5 Unveiling Of Raffles' Statue T-HE ume.'lir.g of the s'.utue 1 of Sir Stamford Radka >n the old site m Empre&o Place, m front of the Victoria Memorial Hall, will take pinca on the afternoon of Juiy lime day after Kaiiies' o.i:liday, Jmy 5. Invitations have been issued to leading members
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    MUNICIPAL CHANGES
    106 5 THE Itat the int ~HS 1 of the mir.ovit-.es m Singapore should ba protect- j ed was held by the Munxp'i) I Constitution Committee wnt-n it met to dfaeuta questions nffprlinir the new -c-t-vp o' i affecting me ne# gSJ-J*; the Singapore Mumcipjl Ccmmisfion on Tuesday. How test
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    Dutchman Found Murdered
    325 5 Dutchman Found Murdered A NUMBER of incidents alleged to have t2K-:n place m Singapore during tb« last few duys, and involving Dutch troops and civihani, have resulted m tbe death ot one Dutch soia.er, whi.e ai.other is detained m hospital m a serious cond-tion. me Dutch authorities ani Singapore police
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    Inspector Guilty Of' Simple Hurt
    397 5 Inspector Guilty Of Simple Hurt AFTER deliberating for throe? minutes, ths snecal Jinv empanelled for the trial of K. I Vadivellu liilay rt.urnd an unanimous verdict of *'i!ttj of simDle hurt at the Singapore Aisizt.s yesterday h^:cr3 M. Justice Worlcy. There bPinjj anoth^- charie against Pillay- one of causing grievous
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      210 5 ISSUE ON TAP OF 21% 1954-56 3% l»*?,-66 INSCRIBED STOCK 1. LISTS will be opened on Bth July 1946 and the loans vill remain "on tap" until a date to be notified m the Malayan Union Gazette. The loans will be issued and will be redeemable at par. 2. INTEREST
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    JAPANESE BID FOR TRADE
    149 6 JAPANESE BID FOR TRADE THE JAPANESE arr again :i»aking a bid to sell the country as tho land of cherry hlimomi. golden temples, and Madiine Butterfly, .says the New Yor« Herald-Tribune Tckio correspondent. D'iegates lrom evory part of Japan art now attending a conv^::Uon at Kyoto (south-west Japam to form
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    The Paradise Of Europe
    230 6 STOCKHOLM, Wed -Sweden U the paradise or Europe tcday, v wonderland thioueh whose lied show window* hungry '•ontiner.t looks m awo ihi; i; M country thai said -No" to war, and now Is reaoing the a ?-tin)° harvest, [U man-v<)-x:r undiminished, >'.s dwell- wholf and Its
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    Wanchai Now Deserted
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