The Straits Times, 12 August 1946

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    20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A* CENTURY i;i(iHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    MONTGOMERY ON ARMY REFORMS
    886 1 "Efficiency Is Improved By Democracy" I petty restrictions in the shape of unnecessary parades. I propose to discuss these at in> forthcoming conference with Army commander*, and as soon as I have had the benefit of their views, reforms or these character wiil be introduced very
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    Italy Appeals To The Peace Conference
    156 1 Italy Appeals To The Peace Conference PARIS, Sunday. SKI- ->R ALCIDE de GAS PERI. Prime Minister of Italy today appealed for a provisional peace to avoid 'the irreparable blunders of internationalising Trieste." Appearing on the rostrum, which he called a dock, the hawk-faced Italian Premier pleaded m eloquent Italian for
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    INDIA MURDERS
    33 1 NEW DELHI. Sun— A British officer and soldier were killed on Tuesday, when their truck was fired upon near Kohat, m the Peshawar area, an official announcement said today.— A. P.
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    Stockpiles Of Tin And Rubber For U.S.
    190 1 WASHINGTON, Sunday. THE United States Secretary for War, Mr. Kenneth F.oyall, states that the American Government is starting to build up immediately a $2,100,000,000 (U.S.) war reserve stock of critical materials such as America would be likely to need m an emergency. The
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    MALAYAN CHINESE GETS M.M.
    280 1 MALAYAN CHINESE GETS M.M. From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. THE Military Medal has bee n awarded to Mr. Ban Tsanpr Chuan, an assistant m the Division of Entomology, m the Institute for Medical Research at Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Ban, who is probably the first Chinese to receive this
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    Congress Ask Muslim Help
    50 1 NEW DELHI. Sun —The Congress Working Committee, after a vital three-day debate, has reaffirmed acceptance of the British long-term proposals for a constitutional settlement for India, and appealed to the Muslim League to co-operate m making the constituent assembly a suc1 cess.— Reuter and A. P.
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    "KILL JEWS" VON MANSTEIN'S ORDER
    362 1 NUREMBERG, Saturday. TODAY'S witness at the War Crimes trials here. Field-Marshal Erich von Manstein, who was the leading commander o n the Kussian front from 1941 to the spring of 1944, crumbled after profuse denials of complicity mi n the murders of 1)0,000 Jews when
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    50 m.p.h. Running Speed Claimed
    105 1 LONDON, Sun.—British sports experts said if reports from Transjordan on a 15 year old "Human Gazelle" are substantiated, the sports world might well toss its current track records into the waste basket. A crass-eating boy, reared by a herd of gazelles since infancy, is supposed
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    Mr. Attlee In Paris
    68 1 Ihe Prime Minister, Mr. dement Attlee. is here seen (centre) at thf Paris Peace Conference which opened m th<. Luxembourg Palace, on July 29. Mr. Attlee took the place of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Mr Ernest Bevin. who, through illness, was unable to
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    FRANCO SENDS GERMANS BACK
    57 1 MADRID, Sun.— The Spanisn Government has issued an appeal to Germans living m Spain and whose return to Germany has been demanded by the Allies, asking them to go back. The Government stated that it is guaranteed they will not be sent to the Soviet zone
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    U.K. WILL STOP SUSPECT SHIPS OF ANY NATION
    320 1 LONDON, Sunday. AN authoritative Whitehall spokesman said on Saturday that Britain will warn the world next week that ships of any nation, suspected of carrying illegal Jewish immigrants from Europe, may be intercepted, searched and arrested by units of the Royal Navy.
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    Paratroopers Face Court Martial Today
    170 1 Paratroopers Face Court Martial Today KLUANG, Sunday. ONE mile out of the township of Kluang .stands the ancraft hangar which has been converted into the largest courthous? m Malayan history and contains what is probably the biggest dock m the world. Into tnis dock tomorrow wih file the 263 Br.tish
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    MOSCOW ACCUSES AN OIL COMPANY
    330 2 "Anti -Persia Plots I Of Anglo- Iranian" LONDON, Sunday. MOSCOW RADIO has accused the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company of plotting against the Persian Government. The company is half-owned by the British Government. The charge was made m connection with Persia's note to Britain asking for the
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    The R. A. Teach Tomato Drill
    94 2 On what was once a Nazi experimental farm at Ostin^hausen, officers and men of the British Army of the Rhine mre taking training courses m agriculture. The Rhine Army School of Agriculture can take up to 80 students a month. The monthly courses are
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    Charged With Theft Of 210 Valuables
    116 2 FRANKFURT, Sat. Capt. Brumbaugto, who is representing Colonel and Mrs. Jack Durant m the Krontorg Castle jewel theft case, said the WAC captain when told what the charges against her were, exclaimed: "My God is the Kronberg case stili there?" The charge sheet alleges
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    WRECKERS SHOT
    39 2 TIENTSIN, Sat.— United States marines shot it out last night with 50 Chinese who had prepared demolitions and wrecked a coal train, south-east of Tientsin. Casualties were inflicted on the Chinese but no marines were injured. Reuter.
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    Copenhagen Rioting
    57 2 COPENHAGEN, Sat.— S tre e t fighting involving American soldiers and Danes broke out here tonight and was broken up an hour later only when Danish and American military police intervened. Fighting began when the Americans were reported to have assaulted a Dane who reported them to the
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    No Mirrors Used For This Trick
    64 2 TOULOUSE, Sun. Puzzled petroleum control officials could not understand what had happened to more than 3.Q00 gallons of petrol which they knew had tone into one end of the pipeline here but had not come out at the other An examination showed that the
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    RIOT EN NEW REPUBLIC'S PARLIAMENT
    134 2 RIOT EN NEW REPUBLIC'S PARLIAMENT ROME, Saturday. PCENES of uproar have marked the first session of the Italian Parliament— now restored to Italy after 20 ears' interruption under Fascism. The trouble began when General Bencivenga, the once notable anti-fascist, remarked that political exiles driven out bv Mu«olinJ had come back
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    ECUADOR COUP ATTEMPTED
    54 2 NEW YORK, Sat.— An attempted coup against the Government of Ecuador was put down today according to despatches from Ecuador. New York radio said tonight. The Socialist leader, Rodrigo Cardinez, led 60 civilians who attacked the guards at the Ministry of Defence and two people were wounded,
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    America May Grant Shipping Subsidies
    122 2 WASHINGTON, Sat.— The U.S. Maritime Commission announced today that hearings will begin on Monday on the applications of nine shipping companies for operating subsidies on the transpacific trade routes. Subsidies were granted under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 to enable Americans to compete with
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    Vast Jap Group Is Uncovered In Peru
    290 2 Vast Jap Group Is Uncovered In Peru LIMA, Peru, Sunday. THE police here announced today that they had arrested three Japanese m connection with what they believed to be a vast Nipponese organization with ramifications m Panama, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. Abe Kenzo, whom the police say is organizer of
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    Vienna Police Stamp Out Nazi Revival
    101 2 Vienna Police Stamp Out Nazi Revival VIENNA, Sunday. AUSTRIAN detectives have arrested m the past lew weeks nearly 100 people m Vienna on suspicion of being implicated m attempts to revive nazi organisations. Many of those arrested were employed m printing shops from which they are alleged to have been
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    Drive Against Greek Outlaws
    163 2 ATHENS, Sun.— Strong "anarchist" bands, thought a fortnight ago to be concentrating m the mountainous area round the mountainous area around Greece, are now believed to have escaped through gaps, m the "net" which elements of two Greek Army corps drew round the area. After eight
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    Bread Rationing Ends In Russia
    47 2 LONDON, Sat.— ln preparation for the abolition of bread rationing the capacity of bakeries m the Soviet Union is beLig increased by at least 3,250 tons daily, said Moscow radio today. Twenty-five thousand new bakers and confectioners are now under traning.— Reuter.
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    Chinese Wives May Enter America
    27 2 WASHINGTON, Sat.— President Truman has signed a bill placing the Chinese wives of United States citizens on the non-quota immigration list.— U.P.
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    Africans' Slogan
    51 2 NEW YORK, Sat— The eighth international convention of people of African blood and descent is being held m New York under the slogan "Africa for Africans— at home and abroad." The delegates include representatives from Nigeria, Accra, Capetown, Liberia, Canada, Jamaica and also six from Father Divine's "heavens."
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    Germans At Large
    38 2 TORONTO, Sun.— At least 40 escaped German prisoners are at large m Canada, says a spokesman of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. That is a greater number than any reported as escaped before.— A. P.
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    Death For Pirates
    74 2 HONGKONG, Sat.— The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Sir Henry Blackall, today sentenced to death two men for piracy on the high seas, the first such case here since 1930. The men were accused of pirating a junk on May 29, from which two of the
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    TOKIO INQUIRY BY CHINESE
    253 2 NANKING, Saturday. THE Chinese Foreign Ministry of Information head, Mr. Ho Feng-sheng, announced today that the Chinese Government has instructed the Chinese diplomatic mission m Tokio to take the following action regarding the shooting of five Formosans m Tokio by the Japanese police. The mission has
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    Earth Tremors Still Felt In Caribbean
    179 2 Earth Tremors Still Felt In Caribbean NEW YORK, Saturday. A WAVE of terror, as a result of the six-day ordeal ol earthquakes and tidal waves, has spread through the northern provinces of the Dominican Republic. Fear that shocks will strike again— tremors of varying intensity are jarring the terrain throughout
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    Moscow Attacks U.S. Policy In China
    88 2 LONDON, Sat.— The official Soviet newspaper, Izvestia, today accused the United States o.' encouraging the renewal of civil war m China. In an article, which was also broadcast by Moscow Radio, the paper said: "At the end of July the American forces were involved
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    Washington Silent On China Statement
    60 2 Washington Silent On China Statement WASHINGTON, Sun.— The U.S. State Department said that it, had no confirmation that Gen Marshall and Mr. I.eighton Stuart had issued a Jo-iu statement admitting their inab.lit.v to concil ate China's warring factions. A SDOkesman said that until the Department received a connrmat on of
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    KedahPublic&PoliceSwoop
    634 3 On Gangsters Huge Haul Of Arms During July From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Sun. THE public ot Kedah are co-operating m a big way m the drive which the Police are conducting against crime and have m the past few days managed to reduce the incidence of crime.
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    Johore Has Pre-War Calendar
    62 3 IOHORE returns to its pre-war J calendar of working days ihi, week. This means that Saturdays and Sundays will be working days while Thursdays will be half days and Fridays —the Mohammedan sabbath holidays Since the liberation, Friday has been a half day and Sun da*,
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    Cabaret Girl Falls To Her Death
    105 3 Cabaret Girl Falls To Her Death i i ■•m Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Sunday. CTEPPING out of a loor where she thought was a staircase. a cabaret girl. Miss Molly See. t-ll w> her death la.st night from tii* top floor of the Shanghai Hotel m North Beach She was
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    COUKT CHANGES
    84 3 As from today. Inche Ahmad bin Ibrahim, the fifth police magistrate, will take over duties as the fourth magistrate m pia? of Mr. R. C. Hoffman, who goes on tranter to the Land Office. Mr. Ahmad 's place will be taken by Mr. Eu Cheow Chye. formerly or
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    Food Inspectors Charged
    104 3 r'rom Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR Sunday. TWO Alor Star food control inspectors, Abdul Rahman bio Salleh and Chin Hock, were ,-xoduced m the District Court before Che Azmi Mohamii ed on a chars° of abetting u^e of a forged documsnt. was stated by the prosecu- m
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    Re-opening Of Y.W.C.A. Hostel
    80 3 Miss Gertrude Owen, oi the Ma layan Y.W C.A., the Governor. Sir FranMin Ciimson lady Kill earn and Mrs. l.oh Poon l.ip at the i< opening of the Singapore Y.W.C.A. on Saturday. Below, Lady Killearn. who declared the hostel re opened, receiving a bouquet of flowers.
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    31,550 R.A.F. Men Return To Britain
    91 3 FIGURES recently published show that m the first six months of 1946. 20.000 RAF. personnel have been returned to Britain by sea from Singapore. The grand total for the South East Asia is 31.550 an average of just over 5.000 a month. Allocator for
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    Java Rice Ship For India
    95 3 Java Rice Ship For India THE first cargo of Indonesian rice for India will be loaded m two days' time at Probolinggo m Ea^t Java, aboard 'he 9.000ton steamship Empire Favour. Mr. K. L. Punjabi, Food Secretary to the Government of India. said m Singapore on Saturday. Mr. Punjabi, who
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    829 3 Kluang 1 Kuala Sldun 2.20 Kundon« I .1 T una? 1 «rM»laka Pinda 1 J5 Mandai rekor.j l» Mantakab 40r\ New Seudai 7k New S?rendah Nvalas fir Pa jam 1.70 Parit Peralc 1 23 Perak River 97c. Radella CO Sandycrott 7'i.' Sepang Vall^* 1 Or Sungei Bazan
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    SHARE BUSINESS NOT SO BRISK
    518 3  -  A Market Correspondent By BUSINESS m all sections was o n a smaller scale than for some weeks past. In Tins London continued a buyer of sterlings with few price changes. Australia again made offerings to this market ..d m general dollar tins were inclined
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    SIKH GAOLED
    80 3 From Our Own Corresiiondent IPOH, Kn CENTENCE of ten years' r.i. O v/as pass'd on a 27-year-o:d Sikh. Tara Singh, th s week oy Mr. Justice L.X.C. Evans m the Pet-afc Assire court on a charge jf rarrvi.v; arms. Eridrnce showed that the police acting on information, arrfs'ed
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    | Gaiety Players Present | 'Bird In Hand'
    174 3 Gaiety Players Present 'Bird In Hand' THE OalNg Players, another new repertory company foimed In I Singapore, have booked th e Victoria Iheatre for three even r.gs I commencing tonight 'or prei sentation of John Drir.kwater o I three-act piay. 'Bird m Hand. This new company has derh ed its
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    Army Driver Gaoled
    86 3 Army Driver Gaoled From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN. Sal AN Indian Army driver. Mubarak Khan, was sentenced i eiiht mont'is' rigorous imprisonment m the Serrmban District Couit by Mr. D. M. X G^an' D* strict Judge, on a charge or 1 causing the death oi a 1 Lim Theng Yok.
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    Malacca Chines Association
    158 3 From Our Own Correspondent Malacca, i uui. DEPRESENTA'IIVES oi nearly S3 I■* Chinese Associations, <uilds and 'v kuani I -jiided meeting hell at the "liner 1 Chamber or Commerce premiMa ,to consider the formation ot .1 central body called the i I Iftaa Kong Hua>" (Malacca i
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    DEATH
    19 4 Allstor Pelham Mackllligin of Changkat Asa Estate died sth August 1946. peeply mourned by his wife and family.
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    Y.M.C.A. Fund
    240 4 DONATIONS to the V.M.C.A. fupd now total $5,981, including $300 from Dr. Hu Tsai Kuen, $250 from Mr. T. W. HU:i ani $230 each from Dr. J.T.P. Kandy and Dr. C.J. Paglar. The following Is a further list of donors Staff and students of tne Singapore Chinese Mandarin
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    Indian Medical Mission
    59 4 The Indian National Congress Mpdlcal missior from Apr. 15 tfi July 31 treated m eight centres (eight stationary and seven :.iobile) Kota Bal.ru, Sungei Patani. Taiping, Teluk Anson, Rautj, Kuala Lumpur, Scremban, and Singapore a total of 122,860 patients of whom two were Americans, 66 Europeans, '9.770
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    SHir Straits ©mrs Singapore, Monday, Aug. 12, 1946
    908 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Monday, Aug. 12, 1946. A Year Ago Today Today's issue of the Straits Times will revive many memories for the people of I Singapore. A year ago today this city was agog with excitement. Shall we ever forget that Sunday....? A rumour spread like wildflr c
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    The Last Days... more memories of Robinson Road
    1292 4  -  CM. CONNOR By AN the afternoon of v Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1942, five days before the fall of Singapore the first Japanese bombs fell close enough to the Cable and Wireless ofjice m Robinson Road to let those of us m the
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  • Man In The Street Ten Thousand Acres Of Rubber – One European
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      Ten Thousand Acres Of Rubber One European
      345 4 "THE return to settled labour conditions and wage rates throughout the country will not be attained until the rice position is normal." So writes the planting correspondent of the Straits Times. Apart from rice, which we all know is th« staple food of
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      Buying A Raincoat
      304 4 I HAVE to express my gratitude to you for informing the public through the columns of your paper where to tret a reasonably priced raincoat. I managed to get one from one of the Chinese shops mentioned m your report at the nearest retail point to the
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      Mr. Sharma: Footnote
      152 4 I REFER to your statement contained m the last line of your introduction to Sree S. M. Sharma's article, headed A Malayan Indian View Of The Union." one who abandoned all his Interests and properties to leave before the fall of Singapore, rather than collaborate with the
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    SCRAM
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    ''Today, Last Year We Were Agog'
    351 5  - ''Today, Last Year We Were Agog A Chinese Correspondent By August 12, 1945 was the beginning of a memorable week tor Singapore. On that day Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration became known. The article below gives a picture of Singapore at that time. TO all residents of Singapore j
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    NIPPON WILL FIGHT ON TO THE VERY LAST DECLARES ARMY SPOKESMAN War Aims Not Altered By Soviet Move
    321 5 Commenting on the sudden declaration of war by I Soviet Russia on Nippon, Lt.-Col. v Saozo Nakajitna, Syonan Sim bun headline of a year ago. Sunday passed quietly. Warnings were issued that
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    SOVIET DECLARES WAR ON NIPPON; INVADES MANSHUKOKU TERRITORY Stale Of War Formally Announced
    127 5 SOVIET DECLARES WAR ON NIPPON; INVADES MANSHUKOKU TERRITORY Stale Of War Formally Announced <• Tokyo, Aug. to, (DomeiJ-^Dai Honyei announced m a communique released at 5 p.m. Thursday, as ioflows Hiroiiii.o had issued h-s Second Rescript and sued for peace. But this rescript was suppressed by the Japanese Propaganda Department
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    40 Prisoners To Work At Hospital
    278 5 Appeal For Volunteers Satisfactory. SaysM.O. ABOUT 40 short-term prisoners from Outram Road gaol will be on duty at the General Hospital today working as rubbish carriers and drain cleaners. They will be operating under guards. This is just another step being taken by Medical
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    DRIVE FOR WELFARE FUNDS
    151 5 From Oar Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun AT the third meeting of the Malayan Central Welfare Council held In Kuala Lumpur, Mrs. Cheah Inn Kiong stated that the Penang Welfare Committee were proposing to hold a Welfare Fortn ght during the last week m August and
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    Bomb Nearly Wipes Out Family
    75 5 0 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sun. A fisherman and his whol- family were seriously injured ar.d one died yesterday c an.ng /hen a bomb which he had eanier 'ound on the Tanjone: Tokon& beach and had taken home to show his wi:e and children,
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    Statue ()f Capt. Light Unveiled
    266 5 Statue )f Capt. Light Unveiled From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Sun. rOUND on the re-occupation lying under the covered way at the rear of a Northam Road house which the Japs had used as a naval store, the statue of Penang's founder, Capt Francis Light, was unveiled for a second
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    Town Hall's Half Million Insurance
    92 5 Town Hall's Half Million Insurance rE Victoria Memorial Hall has been reinsured for $580,000 by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners. Other tit-bits about Singapore's Town Hall: The Theatre is not to be let out for use as a cinema; The Municipal Commissioners were unable to consider a suggestion that they purchase
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    H.K. & S. R.A. DISBANDED
    129 5 H.K. S. R.A. DISBANDED BOMBAY, Sun. THE famous Hong Kong and Sin- gapore Royal Artillery, with a recard and tradition reaching to the early days of the British Empire m the Far East, has been disbanded at a ceremonial parade held at Visapur Camp near Ahmednagar. Lieut. Gen. Sir Thomas
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    "For All Honest Men"
    136 5 That was why Francis Light was honoured by all races represented at the ceremony, Mr. Taylor said, "He is honoured as the founder not merely of our far city of Penang but as the founder of a city that belongs to all honest men and women
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    34 5 The marriage took place at the Wesley Church, Kuala Lampur, recently of Mr. S. Veerapar. of the tutor al staff of the AngloChinese School, Seremban, and Miss Tan Kirn Ngo, writes our Seremban correspondent.
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    CONGRESS INVITES MALAYAN INDIANS
    220 5 CONGRESS INVITES MALAYAN INDIANS MALAYAN Indians are to be invited to attend a conference at the next session of the AH India Congress, according to a letter received by the Straits Times yesterday from the AllIndia Congress Committee, Swaraj Bhawan, Allahabad. The letter is as follows: "The Indian National Congress,
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    Nanking Discusses Malayan Union
    183 5  -  Our Chinese Correspondent By A FKLkb conference was held recently by the Chinese Foreign Office m Nanking for foreign correspondents when the question of the Malayan Union and the Chinese was discussed, according to the Singapore Chinese newspaper, Kung Pao. The Chinese Foreign Office spokesman giving
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    "Masters Of Malaya"
    138 5 The Malay people themselves are opposed to the Union because they are of opinion that the Chinese, the Ind.ans, the Europeans and other nationalities, will be masters of Malaya and that the slogan "Malaya for the Malays" will no longer hold good. Th s is what should
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    Queen's Scholars May Have To Wait
    343 5 ARRANGEMENTS are being made for Dr. E. S. Monteiro. acting Associate Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine, Singapore, to leave for England by the end of this month to carry on further studies under the Queen's Fellowship award scheme. Dr. Monteiro, who was one
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    THERE WILL BE COMPENSATIONS...
    17 5 THERE WILL BE COMPENSATIONS... post-war fashion on ontinental bathing beaches at the Sin<rapor c Li'.o m ITIO
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    Eve Defeats The S.S.C.
    131 5 ONE of the most eMfWic 1 traditions c.t bygone Sinjipore has just been srrappf' The latest circular of the Singapore Swimming Club states that "until farther notii lady members ire .if'nved ♦<> use the ciub all day on Sun days' For half a century Sunday at
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    CO-OPERATIVE STORE
    66 5 from Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR. Sa: S' jested by the Welfa:Council. Lrovcrnment servants o." Sungei Patani met at fee ri )ffloe to propose the formation or i co-operative store w th government st vants as shareholders. rhe object of the store will be to :ombat blackmarket m
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    ING ENIOUS WAY OF RAISING TAX
    365 6  -  An Ancient Method Used By Chinese Emperors By HAROLD MILKS, Associated Press MAN KING, Sunday— The clever trick China's old emperors used to boost painlessly tax collections caused such a snarl m the nations system of weights and measures that government experts assisted by
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    Stalin Optimistic About UNO
    166 6 Marshal Stalin and Moiotov are "optimistic" that (NO will succeed. Mr. Tryjve lie, tbe Sec-etary General of the ISO, declared on his arrival from Moscow at Copenhaien. nation, still cling to old-lashioned yardsticks of weight, length and volume which vary from village to village and from
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    SHANGHAI'S FEAR
    128 6 SHANGHAI. Sun —Fear of economic disaster pervades Shang- hai. Chinas greatest commercial' city, now struggling for rebirth &;ter eight years of war. Leaders of British. French,! Dutch. Swiss and Norwegian busi- j ness interests have told Mayor X. C. Wu that unless action" were! taken to control rapidly
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  • The Japanese Fifth Column In Malaya
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      The Japanese Fifth Column In Malaya
      268 6 The Japanese Fifth Column In Malaya AS a n old resident, I ami sending you some notes on the controversy over Jap applications to stay in Malay*. which may be of interest. I warned Government as iar i jack as 1923 about several Jap hotel kt-epers. photographers, demists, pimps, etc.
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      Occupation Taint
      120 6 DEPRESENTATIVES of the! IV public on all official bodies including the Social Welfare 1 Counc 1, fie Municipal Comniis- sion. Legislative Council, and Advisory Council, should be peopie of unblem shed character and unsullied reputation »n order to keep out th*>se dcs^l. cable collaborators with the enemy during
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      Sundays Preferred
      107 6 IS it not rather drastic fo» your correspondent "Anti-Sun-of -Heaven-Tactics" to say that the British are undemocratic in changing the Friday holiday to Sunday in Johore? After all, I am sure even the mosque-going government servants have no objection. As a matter of fact, they lik<? it, as
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      A Malay Voice
      58 6 EVERYBODY is entitled to his views, and so is Mr. S. M Sharma. The Malays prefer to be th* slaves of John Bull in the meanlime, rather than be the slaves of Uharma or Cheng Lock. We k£OW we cannot avoid slaving for s> mebody until our
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    Indonesia Will Issue Currency
    113 6 BATAVIA. Sun— Dr. Soerachman, financial secretary or the unrecog lised Republic of Indonesia, declares m a newly published pamphlet that the Republic w:il issue money which will have thequivalent value of one Republican cnt for one Japanese guilder. This would set the value or Republican guilders
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    Australia Makes Anti-Dutch Film
    78 6 SYDNEY, (By Air Mail. A film of the wat<*r den' 'black ban' on Dutch ships hSLs been made In Sydney. The film presents the case lor the waterside workers, and i.s anti-Dutch. Commonwealth Film Censorship Board has banned it for export, but approved its exhibition m
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    China To Buy U.S. Equipment
    84 6 SHANGHAI. San -A PS $4000 TOO budget for the purchase by t'NRRA of laboratory and: other technical equipm?nt for use by China'o educational institu- tions m th« fields o r medical, agricultural and industrial reha- j bilitation has been established and a list of requirements
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    Japs Go Roman
    38 6 TOKIO. Sun -Japan s Education Ministry is establishing special council to explore the pos- sibility of substituting Roman letters lor the Japanese characters, which are considered to have Impeded swi:t modern forms ot! communication.—A. P.
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      502 6 RADIO PROGRAMMES RADIO MALAYA l pm np ln Maliy f 30 Dm) |On National Eisteddfod of Wales. nrwiW WrtLnin B NGLI8H pn toipn <new« I 8. 15 a.m. Experiment 11. Freedom KLO N! I WORK from aoon to j at 30 P > »'•<• SI.- pm to 11 i.m i
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    FOOLING HITLER OVER D DAY
    2190 7  -  Rear- Admiral G P. Thomson SECRETS OF THE CENSORSHIP —2 By YOU did not have to travel far m the United Kingdom m the summer of 1941 to notice that there were a surprising number of Americans about. In London, Edinburgh, and Belfast they were
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    ANNOUNCEMENT
    187 7 Military and civilian censors were detailed to be m the conference room at that hour, and arrangements made for motorcycle dispatch riders to assemble outside to take the correspondents' stories written at the conference to the various cable companies for transmission overseas. A communique had already been drafted and
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    SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY SMALL POX.
    125 7  -  Heads of Business Firms and Employers of Labour are 1 otifled that Smallpox Is endemic in Singapore. They are requested to Drin< this fact to the notice of their employees, and to urge them and their families to be vaccinated. The Municipal Commissioners are prepared to
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      369 7 GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Tenders will be received at the Offlce of the Director of Public Worts Singapore, up to noon of the 16th August. 1846 for the following work:Supply and delivery of furniture to the Raffles College Offices and Lecture Rooms. Singapore:— i.e. to supply by (say) 20th September, 1946. Every
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      349 7 NOTICE. Re: Chan Loi Fatt also known as Chan Hi Yon;. Information Is required concerning Chan Loi Fatt also known as Chan HI Yong previously employed In the Customs A Excise Department, Singapore (the husband of Maiam Wong Fook Yin of No. 45 Tras Stree:. Singapore) who was detained and
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      663 7 THE SINGAPORE AUCTIONEERS. SALE OF SURPLUS STORES SCRAP MATERIALS ETC. ETC. By Order or D.A.D. O S (Salvage) H.Q. Singapore District SE.A.C. The following Items of Surplus Stores A Salvage Materials will be sold by Auction m No. 1, Indian Ordnance Salvage Unit, RAP. Staiion, Seletar. On Wednesday 14th. August
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      390 7 Mansfield Co., Ltd. (Incorporate* in Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE Sailings to mci from Un.tto Kingdom Samaffaric due from U.K. 20th AucimI Samoa due from IK 30th Aug. Samharle ul'i for U.K. 31st August Menelans vails for U.K. 31st Augtua Western Australia The «horte«l tea root* at the cheapest rate Single
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      30 7 CROSSWORD Owing to pressure on space it has not been found possible to ipefude m today's issue of the Straits Times the crossword feature. It will appear m tomorrow's paper.
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      S.C.F.A. BEAT N'HAMPTONS TWO-ONE I
      750 8 S.C.F.A. BEAT N'HAMPTONS TWO- ONE S.C.F.A 2 Northampton* 1 AFTER they had been scored against 15 minutes from the end and all seemed hut, the Singapore Chinese Football Association snatched a great victory over the Northampton* by two goals to one m a game of soccer played at Jalan Besar
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      Mills' Opponent For Tomorrow Arrives
      49 8 Mills' Opponent For Tomorrow Arrives LONDON Sat. JOHN Nilson. Swedish heavyweight boxer who meets Freddie Mills, Britain, over 10 rounds next Tuesday, arrived on Saturday by plane at Northolt. He was accompanied by the Finnish welterweight. Yrjoe Pitulainen. who will fight Johnny Waiters on the same card. A. P.
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      BOXING OFF
      26 8 THE junior boxing projramm? scheduled to have taken place at tha Happy World stadium last night was postponed to next Sunday owing 10 rain.
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      Recs Defeat S.C.C. By Six Wickets
      441 8 Recs Defeat S.C.C. By Six Wickets 'PHE Singapore Re.rea'ion Club her1 aided their return to jrodang cricket w.th a slx-wtckpt \i.-tory over their former rivals th^ Singapore Cricket Club In a match nlayed yesterday. This wns the first encounter between there two major elulM slnre 1941. Credit for the Re:s"
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      COLONIALS WIN BY 9 WICKETS
      176 8 A REMARKABLE bowling feat by W. cx Ratnayake «vho took six wickets for one run, v.'hLh was followed by unbeaten Innings by Miller (55) and R. Delilkan. (33) helped the Colonials to beat Hq.. Singapore District, by nine wickets at Fort Canning yesterday. The scores
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      Whitcombe Wins 'Lotus' Golf Tournament
      205 8 SLOUGK. Buckinghamshire. j Sat. REGINALD WHTTCOMBE, Brl- tish open golf champion m 1938, today scored the first major victory of the season when, with an aggregate of 280, he took the first prize of £350 m the "Lotus" tournament on Stoke Poges course. lie had
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      RANGERS DEFEAT MOTHERWELL 4-2
      355 8 SCOTTISH FOOTBALL STARTS MAJOR league football for the season started today with the Scottish League a .id while there were many away wins, the results generally followed expectations. Among the home winners was Hibernian, the surprise of this game being the size of the Hibernian score
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      Inventor Of The 'Googly' Dead
      106 8 Mmritzburg. South Africa. Sat. THE death occurred here today of the South African Test however, Ernie Vogler, the man who invented gooeiy. Vorler, who was m his 70th year, played for South Africa against England m 1907 and Australia m 1911. One of the greatest
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      NO PLAY IN 7 COUNTY GAMES
      104 8 NO PLAY IN 7 COUNTY GAMES LONDON: Sat. THE weather hit cricket harder 1 than ever before this year today :.nd m the programme of ten first-class matches p!ay was possible In only the following three: At the Oval Surrey 233 (E. A Bedser 67. Edrich 5 for 74). Middlesex
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      CHANGI AIRMEN DELIVER PAINT
      86 8 r TWE players of the RAP. (Changl) soccer team have kept their word. Following a suggestion that the goalposts) at Jalan Besar stadium needed a new coat of white paint which they offered to supply, they handed grounds.man Taib a pot of paint at the stadium
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      254 8 7TH CATHAY ANNIVERSARY LAST 5 SHOWS TODAY! 11 am 2 4 15 630 9..10 p.m. Thon? 3190 THEY'RE DANCING ON TOP OF THE WORLD TO MELODY OF LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS: GRAND OPENING TOMORROW AN ISLAND OF FUN IN A SEA OF LAUGHS PACKED WITH LOVE, FIERY ACTION, COMEDY. AND
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