The Straits Times, 19 October 1946

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  • 21 1 The Straits Times. MALAY AS LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY lICIIT PACiES. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1946. PKICE 10 CENTS
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  • 531 1 One Month's Free Market Scheme Straits Times Reporter SI AM is to release rite through commercial channels for a period of one month, and the Governments of Singapore and the Malayan Union will not restrict imports in this st-heme in any way. I
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    47 1 British serrice chiefs, including those who had commanded forces in the Far East, were entertained recently at the London Press Club. Above are: Admiral Sir Arthur Power, Second Sea Lord: Admiral Viscount Mountbatten, Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park. Gen. Sir William Slim, and Admiral Lord Fraser.
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  • 77 1 rE Siamese authorities are now prepared to return British and Australian tin mines in Siam to therr owners, and for this puipo>e the British and Austra'.un concerns are requested to ?ft in touch with the Committee for the Control and Ma.i^H'cmcnt of Alien Business
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  • 263 1 Commons Questions On Malaya From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Friday. WRITTEN answers to a number of questions on Malaya were given by Mr. Creech Jones, the Colonial Secretary, in the House of Commons today. Mr. T. Lewis (Lab. Southampton) asked: "Is the Colonial Se- j cretary aware that the non-
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  • 65 1 HARPENDFN, HERTS, Fri Two Royal Air Force training planes, a Tiger and an Oxford Airspeed, collided in mid-air over Harpenden, Hearts, yesterday. The pilot of the Oxford, believed to be a Wing-Commander, was burned beyond recognition. His plane crashed on a railway embankment, and burst into
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  • 162 1 ANKARA, Friday. rE Turkish Government's reply to the Soviet noto )f Sept. 24 on the question of the Dardanelles was handed to the Soviet representative in Ankara today. No official statement is available, but it was understood in well-informed quarters that the Turkish Government had agreed to the
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  • 75 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Fri.— Presiding at the annual general meeting of the Kramat Pulai Tin Company, the Chairman, Mr. Hashworth Hope, declared that the earliest possible establishment of a world price for tin wj. i essential for the welfare of the Malayan industry.
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  • 81 1 NUREMBERG, Fri. —It was officially announced here yesterday that the bodies of Goeing and the ten hanged Nazi war criminals had been cremated and the ashes dispersed secretly. Informed sources at the Vatican said that the cremation of the bodies of Catholics among the executed Nazi
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  • 242 1 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. MALAYAN Collieries have managed to avert a strike at the Batu Arang coal mines which threatened to have serious repercussions throughout Malaya. The Malayan Railways, the Electrical Department and numerous tin dredges throughout the Malayan Union are dependent
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  • 99 1 LONDON, Friday. rREE Princesses Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Princess Alexandra of Kent will, it is understood, be bridesmaids to the Hon. Patricia Mountbatten, daughter of Admiral Viscour.t Mountbatten, of Burma, and Viscountess Mountbatten, at her wedding to Lora Braboume at Romsey Abbey. Hampshire, on Saturday, Oct. 26.
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  • 212 1 TRIBESMEN OPEN FIRE AS NEHRU ARRIVES RAZMAK, WAZIRISTAN, Friday. VENGEFUL tribesmen, crouching behind rocks and shrubs in the sun-scorched North-West Frontier hills, opened fire on this outpost township as the aircraft bringing in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Vice-President of the Interim Government, and his party arrived yesterday. British artillery in the
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  • 181 1 South Africa's £985,000 Gift To Britain LONDON, Friday. FIELD-MARSHAL Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, today presented Mr. Clement Attlee, the British Prime Minister, with £985.000, "with no conditions attached" except that it was to be usid for the advantage of Britain. In a ceremony in the Cai"'net Room at
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  • 82 1 CALCUTTA, Fri— Reports to the Calcutta Statesman from Chandpur. Eastern Bengal, said today that the town, :n which 10,000 refugees are taking shelter is being threatened by a mob. "said to be in absolute control of most areas of Hazinang, Fardgan and Kaohua, and
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 129 1 OUT-DOOR PWOTOGRRPIO Jsfiec\al\£e in. Oe vc I o biTtq. T^viuttnn jP t and (£>utaAqiua SALES fr SERVICE «80-2RAP.JEUTAIHOWNaj ILVUAGE, fINGAPOffcJ J^^lyiX ONE EVENING WSr^^^B > BECAME m^ /W LOVELIER «B ]^*>j- Jf I l5 Moaaad ai the \ta ._^> difference in my coin- 3 MMfc^^fr plexion after 1 had used
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    • 61 1 ff.7-^7 ;'A^ N_" t SH™ WF^ mi ■9■■ k 1 fi MARINE DIESEL ENGINES 80 HP, 100 HP and 120 HP FOR DELIVERY IN 8 MONTHS EX WORKS Comprehensive stocks of Spares in Malayn. Rnsident PAXMAN Engineer available for ServicS- UNITED ENGINEERS «i*»o«. US SINCAPORE *EN ANC I POH MALACCA
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  • 396 2 Sir John Boyd-Orr Defends Food Plan WASHINGTON, Friday. CIR JOHN BOYD ORR, Director-Generai of World Food and Agriculture Organisation, gave the warning today that there was only a 50-50 chance of avoiding a third and disastrously final world war. He linked this statement made
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  • 209 2 U.S. Opinion Of "Political Maze" In N.E.I. NEv\ lotu», liinsday. THE political coniasion in Indonesia is so complete that it "makes even French politics appear simple," according to an editorial in the Herald Tribune. Analyzing the probable results o' the current negotiations, the Tribune said "there can be no doubt
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  • 17 2 Bucharest, Wed.— The government today announced that Rumanian elections will be held on Nov. 19— U.P.. P.
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  • 69 2 LONDON, Thurs. Princess Dcvi, widow of the Maharajah of Chhota Udepur, accompanied by members of his household, received her husband's ashes at Northolt airport tonight. Her husband died on holiday in Portugal and his ashes which arrived from Lisbon are to be flown to
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  • 66 2 NEW YORK, Wed.— Mr. Chaman Lall, head of the special Indian Food Mission to Argentina, told Reuter yesterday he had received a cable from Buenos Aires that four more ships arc being loaded with grain for immediate shipment to India. This is la addition to the 17
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  • 131 2 BANGKOK, Thursday. rE Siamese Government has a^nost completed instructions to its delegation which is returning to Washington tjmorrow to negotiate on the return of the former territories of French Indo-China, demanded by France. It Ls understood that tbo«tn negotiations will be direciy between
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  • 72 2 SOUTH AFRICAN GERMAN CLEARED OF TREASON PRETORIA. Thuio. Jian.s Werner August Paul Neumann, a German who lived in South Africa, was yesterday acquitted by a criminal court in Pretoria on charges of high treason. The charges were that, after serving in the South African I forces and being taken prisoner,
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  • 110 2 okanghai, Ttauaday. FOLLOWING the recent exchange j at Japanese artificial silk lor Chinese salt, the Chinese Government is now reported to have ordered 300 locomotives and 3 000 railway coaches from Japan in return for coal and iron. In this latest transaction the I Japanese
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  • 106 2 NEW YORK, rnurs The problem of how to prevent clandestine operations in atomic energy yesterday occupied the attention of the political committee of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, as delegates were called into session to begin a detailed study of safeguards necessary to restrict the use
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  • 47 2 SHANGHAI, Thurs— Establishment of 60 commemorative schools will highlight Shanghai's observance of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 60th birthday on Oct. 30. The day will also see the launching of scholarship fund and the unveiling of a brai;s statue of the Generalissimo on the Bund, opposite the War Me-morial.-Reuter.
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  • 300 2 LONDON, Friday. PERMANY in the year of the U Allied invasion of Europe developed new submarines which would have revolutionized undersea warfare, and might have changed the fortunes of battle. The Nazis' covert evolution of prefabricated vessels with streamlined hulls, high speed w.ien submerged and
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 331 2 HIS LEG FELT LIKE A TON WEIGHT Krutchcn Soon Had Him Rack on His Ship A lit. .>ii the ocean wave Is usi :illy ;hk or.e. When this old sailor k<<J bf rhMiinatism. he was f r such a life. Yet had h mi buck on his ship :i" mi
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    • 653 2 NOTICE. Tenders will be received at the office the Director, Medical Services, Bin?apore, second floor. Fullcrton Buildings, up to 23rd. October. 1946, for the supply of the following: ia i Foodstuffs to Government Hospitals. (b» Fresh or Frozen meat, etc., to Government Hospitals, ie i Firewood and Charcoal to Government
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    • 642 2 BREAD AND FLOUR RATIONING LAST DAY TO REGISTER IF YOU DO NOT REGISiEK FOR YOUR BREAD AND FLOUR TODAY YOU GET NO RATION For Particulars Ask Your Rice Retainer SUPPLEMENTARY. LIST OF GOVERNMENT LICENSED BREAD RETAILERS v Division A. 2187 Guan Tai 18. Hock. Lam fc'treet. 2170 Akbar AH bin
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  • 430 3 Another Doctor Leaves Govt. MEGOTIATIONS between the King Edward VII College of Medicine Alumni Association and the Government on a revised salary scheme for Government-employed doctors in Malaya have made little progress. While Government is still considering a scheme which the Alumni Association first submitted in
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  • 214 3 Special Ship For Indian Repatriates THE Government of India nave decided to chartar a special ship to take Indian repatriates from Malaya to Ir<dia at the rate of 3,000 persons each month. In order to systematic the selection of repatriates for this boat the Represent*' ive of the Government of
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  • 101 3 TWO clerks Tay Ah Hcng and M. Veloo, '.mployed in a military depot at Bukit Timah Road, were each sentence! to one day's simple imprisonment, and a fl-p--of $300 or in default two months' imprisonment each by the Fourth Police Magistrate, Inche Ahmad
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  • 109 3 Mr. Chng Choon Yin, president of the Singapore Rick and Trishaw Workers Union writes as follows I should like to point out that tlie correct name of our union \s the Singapore Rick and rns'iaw Workers Union. For your information the union is not making
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  • 59 3 CHINESE mechanics and drivers in Kunming, who have been stranded in China since the termination of the war, and who are awaiting repatriation to Singapore and Malaya, have been eiven a subsidy of $200 (U.S.) each by the Chinese Government. CNNRA has started transporting them to
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  • 51 3 The Liberty Musical and Dramatic Association are presenting a charity concert in aid of the China Famine Relief Fund and the Silver Jubilee Fund at the Chungking Hall in the Great World on Oct. 25. The concert will feature Mandarin, Cantonese and Malay songs, danres and
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  • 366 3 rntni Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. WHEN the Japanese attacked Malaya in December, 1941, thp Malayan Post Office Savings Bank deposits amounted to $36,000,000. This amount, it Is revealed, wa s invested in giltcdied securities in London. The Chief Accountant antlrin:itcd these deposits might
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  • 444 3 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. TAKING advantage of a failure in the electricity supply and a heavy downpour of rain, six Chinese prisoners in Pudu Gaol, Kuala Lumpur, on the night of Oct. 13, put into operation a plan to escape from
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  • 270 3 Paratrooper's Defence In Assizes Case THAT he was arrested while 1 talking to a girl he had visited to say goodbye just before his battalion left for Palestir.e, was stated by Alfred Thomas I Goodwin, a paratrooper from the 7th Parachutist Battalion, at his resumed trial before Mr. Justice i
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  • 33 3 THE public holiday far Deepa- I 1 vali will be on Oct. 23 and I not on Oct. 24 as previously gazetted, states an official enni- I munique
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  • 159 3 REPORTS from Brunei show that the population is making every effort to grow more ;ood to ease their own food problems. The people are returning to their own districts and, in most areas, more land has been cleared and planted with hill padi. The growing of hill
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 857 3 Votire of a Quarterly Session 1946 of lor Board of Licensing Justices, S nnpore, to be held Under Rule 7 of tSr Liquors Lietnsinf Rules 1937. m'.s ii n of the Board ol lusti is for Singapore will be he!<l In the Court of the First Magistrate in the Poll-e
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    • 484 3 SALE BY TENDER. The Custodian of Property. Singapore, Invites tenders for the purchase >f the following Pipes, steel pipes (ot various dimensions) electr>d<\s < damaged i Iron rods, wire rope, nsh tail dillUm* bits, Wilson speed e:evator.s. oil drilling bits, square plates with rivet holes on curved edges, steel birs
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    • 408 3 SALE BY TENDLK. The Custodian of Enemy Property, Malayan Union, invites tenders for ;hi purchase of the pnparty ipri IflaJ hereunder and located: Sunfrl Nyok Dockyard. Bbtterwurtb 1. Japanese Launch (Zipper 1> 2. Japanese Launch (7.ipp?r II) Sunfei Pinanf Do.kyard. l'rnanr 3 15 Partly demolished Landlntf Cralt Hulls 4. 17
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  • 821 4 The Straits Times. Singapore, Sat., Oct. 19, 1946. The Planters' Union Today the Straits Times picks up yet another of the threads in its pre-war files and extends a greeting and good wishes to the Incorporated Society of Planters, which has figured in the.se columns many times since its foundation
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  • 111 4 TRIESTE, lhiv».— T-vo BnUsh officers and three men of the Royal Army Service Corps, whose motor-boat broke down off the coast of the Yugoslav zone of Venezia GluUa, souih of Trieste, have been taken into custody by Yugoslav authorities, it was learned here today. They were cruising off
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  • 95 4 WASHINGTON. Thurs -The United States State Department has expressed its deep regrets at the discourtesy shown to the Russian Ambassador, Mr. Nikolai Novikov. by Unitod States customs officials in New York, but denies that there was any breach in diplomatic etiquette or in- tentional discourtesy. The rcgiets
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  • 650 4 THE CASE FOR THE TENANT By A Chinese Correspondent THE voice of the landlord is heard in the land a .in. Their mouthpiece, the Singapore Ratepayers' Association, and various landlord-correspondents of the Straits Times, have been clamouring for a long* delayed increase of house rents. Except
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  • Man In The Street
    • 629 4 I(J13S£KVE with interest m your issue of Oct. 17 that the directors of the SingaporeRotary Club have decided to support the Singapore Association in pressing for a tuberculosis clinic as a WU memorial for Singapore. I am a member of both these bodies,
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    • 77 4 THE planting community was glad to learn from Mr. S. B. Palmer's letter published in the Straits Times of Oct. 15 that he has given notice of another question in the Union Advisory Council following the extraordinary reply by Government which purports to refute his charge that up
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    • 227 4 'pRICES are coming down a 1 I last, and I suppose everynu is interested to know whether they eventually lull to what they were pre-war. Our economic expert. Mr. Pykc, has told us that they never will, but he has never given us an\ reason for his
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    • 214 4 AS a Chinese 1 feel it my duty to object to such insensate talk a.s appeared hi ■the letter signed "Kiauw :Seng. M I Does this wrlt-ei not Know thai although China gained a m ril torious name among the victorious nations, she Ls still the weakest.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 854 4 KKAY At iramfrie* on lbth October wife of J.F. K^af h son. IIK>MSON— To Pemle wife of T Thomson 29. Scotts Road, a daugn'*» at Kandang K>rbau Hospital. 18th istfi. SITUATIONS VACANT V \('ANCIE^ cxiM for a flrst-clas.^ plio i amen operator and .nd half tone etcher Ooo<i were* Aprlv
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    • 26 4 PERFECT VISION HAPPY LIVING. Guard your only pair ot eyes. Should you experience the slightest eye discomfort, have them examined C. S CHONO. O D.. P.P.0.0
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    • 18 4 y^ m*j i TIGER YOUR ILLS HtADACHE CURE POWDtf- TIGER BALM EN6 AUN TONG THE TIGER MEDICAL HALL
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  • 470 5 In Singapore Prices Drop Slowly But Surely Straits Times Reporter CENT by cent the price of fish in Singapore has been dropping during the last three months, and will continue to drop but not to the same level as before the war. A survey of the
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  • 56 5 extraordinary meeting of the Singapore Clerical linion, railed to consider and pass the revised rules of the I n ion was held yesterday. I lie rules were revised to enable the Clerical I'nion to be registered under the Trades Union Ordinance. Its new name will be "The
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  • 161 5 Four Chinese Committed For Armed Hold-up kUMOIMD to nave robbed two Indians at pistol-point, four younc Chinese. Tan Ba Bi. Yong Ah Boon, Tan Eng Seong and Loh Thiam Queo. were committed to •:d trial at the Assizes on a charge Of armed robbery aft-:r a preliminary inquiry yesterday before
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  • 20 5 T«»d..ys menu at IV--iple's -..lur.iiii* will b*: frifj noiidln; ccor stew and fried pra'vns; thov «:m and towiray.
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  • 105 5 Mr. Hamer On Discrimination In Supplies THE Singapore Clerical Union has sent a reply to the Controller of Supplies, Mr. J. Hamcr, who recently denied that there was discrimination shown in the distribution of supplies, and that the Chain Utility Stores had a right to dispose of its goods to
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  • 297 5 P. P. Webb, Inspector of Police, was convicted <-n all ihree charges of causing hurt to Abdul Kadir, U'allington Pereira, and K. Vitalingam during the Japanese occupation and sentenced to 21 months' rigorous imprisonment in all. by Mr. T. T. Russell in the Second
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  • 415 5 Straits Times Reporter rt introduction of fruit juices into the local market at prices almost half of what it costs a local importer lo bring them into Malaya has caused some concern to importers and has resulted in the cancellation of thousands of dollars of orders
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  • 42 5 MORNING SCENE AT CLYDE TERRACE v morning scene at Singap c-.-t's Billinßsgato, which is Clyde Terrace Market in Beach Road. This Straits Times picture shows part of a record catch which recently arrived in Singapore from the fishirtj grounds near the Andamans.
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  • 45 5 The forty-first of the sei.es ..t Saturday evening promenade concerts presented by the Littif Theatre, will be held at th" Armenian Street. Army Education Certre, today at 8 r.rr. There will be a recital of recorded music by Schubert a -.a MoI *nr!
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  • 39 5 A Chinese looter who sampan to land at the Naval Base and stole a wheel and tyre from a plant yard, was yesterday sentenced to three months' i~or sonment by the Third Magistrate Mr. KM. Byrne.
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  • 33 5 There will be a public lectu.c at the Ramakrishna Mission. B Norris Road, "today at 6.30 p.m. i when Mr. D. P. E. Lingwood will I speak on "Vedanta and Mod--1 crn Problems
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  • 323 5 "The Only Standards Are Those Of Humanity MAJOR Kudo, head of the 19tii Ambulance Corps, which was responsible for the medical care the quarter-million Asiatics i .vho fltN press-ganged for labour on V. c 'Death Railway,' and L/Cpl. Onodera, one of his orderlies were yesterday sentenced
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  • 355 5 rHE views of Singapore's commercial houses on the method of distribution to be adopted by the Government for IIM 1,500,000 yards of cloth at present lying in godowns in Urn :ity were given last night by ono of Singapore's I.■ ir«*sl textile importers. "Putting cloth on
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  • 234 5 Third Party Insurance Necessary pOMPUIJSORY Third Party suranee has boon brought into force from Oct. 1 with the publication in a Supplement o the Gov-ernmcnt Gazette ol ;be Road Traffic (Third-party Insurance) Rulrs 1946 Undei the terms of these ratal all owners ot mechanically propelled vehicles intended or :;dap ed
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 173 5 B^^^ W V 7 For the finer articles that need Silver Plating, such as Table Appointments, Lamp Reflectors and Toilet Articles, etc, our work is of the highest standard Telephone 63 77 DANCE EVERYBODY DANCE! b T ,°c N.CHT G"W CABARET You Dance and others DANCE To Entertain You! EXPOSITION—
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    • 94 5 rhisrriilk 1 5 /gg\ FIRST IN PREFERENCE WORLD OVER Js&JiSs. >^^^a^\ SAYS [LS!t ThE BCkOt cow Wondenul news Preparations have arrived FrwJi from London htrp arp Miss Ardrn's fun Once again We can ofTe:- you QWM M^uUite creams and tonics. Um dellcatp powden ana fpa that you lovp to \<
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  • 58 6 CHILD WITH TWO HEADS IN KEDAH From Our Own Correspondent Alor Star, Thurs. A freak child wa& born again at Tanjong Daw&i, scene of the birth of a chilJ att*. two hearts, four legs and ..hire hands m August. This new freaK L> a child with two heads, uno above
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  • 266 6 Penny Editions Now Contain Six Pages LONDON, Fri. {MOST of Britain's newspapers now are 50 per cent. bigger than at any time since the blitz but they still are not quite as large as a small-town American daily. Under the increased newsprint ration authorized September by
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  • 52 6 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Friday. I A public meeting of women of. all communities in Malacca who are interested in the formation of a branch of the Women's Service League in Malacca will be held in the office of the Resident Commissioner on Monday. Oct. 21. at
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  • 103 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Thursday of Chinese to Hong Kong, Swatow and Amoy has eased considerably of late, ac- cording to Mr. T. Huggins, the j Deputy Immigration Officer, who said three or four vessels are 1 new leaving Penang every month for China. A
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  • 86 6 i From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Thursday. THE timely arrival of the Alor Star police helped to prevent an alleged Chinese extortioner from obtaining $2<J.OOC Irom a Chinese shopkeeper in Pekan China yesterday in broad daylight. Coming under the pretence of purchasing goods, the
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  • 79 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Friday. REPRESENTATIONS to the Municipal Commissioners to revise their decision of last week to dismiss seven busmen and grant only half pay to surplus workers have, it is understood, been made by trolley bus drivers and conductors. In pressing for
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  • 113 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Friday. PNANG dock workers who last week intimated that they would be raising tl > handling charges by 20 per cent, have now c.c to waive the increase. This decision. *rhi"h was reached after a three-hour meeting on Wednesday night, was
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 507 6 M3T.am sale of STFRTTN| Large QtuaUty of Asbestos Ccmen M. Hj IVIjI i> 1* Sheets. ••I'hilips" e'.ectric lamp bulbs CJ T \T ~l7> T> \\r A ¥_> T^ (100. GO <Sc 4DW.). "Itonla" British- OIL V l\i IV W i\ I V r_ made a:v battery cells. -Willow" tin- »x
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 654 6 Luck and skiil were needed in said later that he bad not wanud roughly equal parts to fulfill the to guess among tue three unbid bad slam contract in today's deal, suits. Ther e was some logic in South dealer tnls P° ln t of view, but it should Both
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  • 461 7 Around The Market By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Friday. THERE were more buying enquiries today in the local share market than for some time. Tins were favoured, as usual, but sellers still appeared to be holding out. There were declared buyers for Austral
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  • 284 7 SINGAPORE, Friduy. T INEXPECTED activity, prevailed U in the local rubber market 7**t*rday. apparently owing to irtopp»re of supplies from N.E.1., and decrease of production by Malayan estates, says the Chinese press. Many dealers had to deliver their promised foods by baying at higher rates. yesterday's quotations between
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  • 52 7 ShaiiKli^i. Thurs.— Local tea merchants have sent a delessa- I tion to Nanking to petition the Government for substantial cash subsidies to enable them to continue their export business. They intend also for the resumption of trade with Soviet Russia on a large scale, the Chinese press
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  • 64 7 LONDON. Thursday. India took 836 of the 6.592 British cars exported during August and *ac this country's best customer More than 53 per cent of the car exports went to Empire countries including India. The totAl value of car exports was over £1,600.000. In the first eight
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  • 59 7 XKOV Friday. U.S. rubber consumption in 1947 will be about 950.0PJ tons. Mr. John Collyer, President of Goodrich (Company, predicted yesterday. Purchases this year art ?> the rate of 1.000.000 tons annually. .V. per cent, higher than 1940 and an all time record. Manufacturers expect to produce
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  • 182 7 NEW YORK— Rf ports from man a facturors 01 industrial Instrument* 1 veal that th?y expect to tarr. cut this ye»r between 75 million >»ad 100 million dollars worth of their products, or nearly double 'he r.onr.al pre-war value. The general manager of the National
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  • 92 7 WASHINGTON. Wed. The Governors of the Internationa! Monetary Fund have appointed a special committee to study the use of silver as a menetarv standard. The fund was askei by the Mexican Government to institute this study. The managing director. Mr. Camilla Gutt, said that Mexiro dirt not
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  • 65 7 WASHINGTON. Fri. -United ttatM trade w; > Japan during .ccc.it ■OODtha was almost as hUn as pre-war •^^■crage as far as the dollar val-w Is .'onoerncd. the Commerce Department dt-clofed loday. Commei.e team sliuwpd Unttbd States imports !ic:n Jitpan in M.»*. June and July. 1946. toiilicd ?40 fO9
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  • 46 7 The following rublxr crop figures lor September are reported: Alor Gajah. 22.000 lb. Aver r'anas. 63.500 lb; Glenealy Plantations. 47.733 lb; Kluang Rubber. 43,000 lb; Pa jam 138.000 lb; Tambalak Ri.bb^r 24 SCB lb: Teluk Arson Rubber. 68.128 lb; Ulu Bcnut Consolidated 32.360 lb.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 316 7 Mansfield Co., Ltd. i Incarpuraiec m SiiicapureBLUt KUNNH UNI Ballings to ana from Unitrn Kn.tin. rr Saniile sails for I.K. 2Mh ,«U I'rnmelhrus saiN for I .K. :tl-t tvu S»m-ara due from I.K. Ith >ny Ant lornuv sails for I.K. 10. h \o» v\i'«iiern Australia I'hi <hnrt«m r O ul<
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 654 7 SINGAPORE FIDES TODAY: High water: 6.40 am. 7 ft. 2 in: 4.56 p m. 7 ft. 6 in. TOMORROW: High water: 8.04 a.m. 7 ft. 6 in.: 7 00 P m. 7 ft. 7 in. Along The Singapore Waterfront SHIPS positions In Singapore today EAST WHARF Marine Leopard, awaiur..? oading
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  • 432 8 COMBINED XI TOTAL 462 M.C.C- Lose Two For 69 (From Norman Preston, Reuter's correspondent with the M.C.C. touring team.) PERTH, Friday. THE M.C.C. were not in a very sound position at close of play on the second day in the match against the Combined team. The home side totalled 462
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    27 8 Incident in the rugby match. %m wHidl Uu S.C.C. beat the Para troop. rs by 14 points to eight on the padang on Thursday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 163 8 COMBINED XI— 1st INN. Mrulrman c Pollard b I kin lb Edwards run out *5 Robinson c and b Ikin 8 Barnes c and b Ikin 45 Herbert b Kdrich 28 Watt run out 137 Johnson c Mutton b Langridge i" Doorand c Lanfrldge b Pollard 1« Kcs-i-y not
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  • 125 8 THE following will represent the Rocklites at cricket against the Base Signals 'Fort Canning*. at Fort Canning, starting at 1.30 pjn. on Sunday: Claude da Silva. J. Galistan, S. Mosbergen, W. Galistan, D. C. Swyny, G. Carnegie, D. Dharmaraj, P. Swyny, V. V. Sundrum, M. Swyny. C. Rodrigues.
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  • 51 8 The following will represent th? S.CC. at rugby against the Royal Scots on the Padang today at 5.15 p.m. J.J. Bell; F.L. Morris, W. Mcßeitr.. J.M. Fulton. DM. Seaward: C. Milton. H.B. Wilson: J.M. MrCarcer. H.I. Macl«Uan. H.M.R. Wi'son. T.M. Goring. GK Stein. I.A. Nelson, IJ.H. Wheeler. K.J.
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  • 142 8 The S.C.P.A. (Veterans) are playing a friendly game of soccer with the S.R.C. "A" on the padang next Wednesday, in preparation for a charity match against the Malay "Veterans." in aid of the depe ndants of those footballt is who have died during the occuI'rt'on or are missing.
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  • 39 8 To revive the activities of the Peicrdale Badminton Party a genertl mectinT will be held soon. Will all former members of the Farty kindly commjn-ir-xte with Mr. Tay Swee Slang of 72SJ-A. Upper Serangoon Road. Singa pore
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  • 111 8 RUNS FINEST RACE OF CAREER NEWMARKBr, Thur. l ORD Millord's great sprinter, j Honey Way, a five-year-old I horse by Fairway out of Honey Buzzard, ran the finest race ot his career to win the Champion Stakes here today ove r one and a quarter miles. Starting B—l, Honey Way
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  • 136 8 LONDON, Thurs. AFTER a two-hour meeting betwe n e the Football League Management Committee representatives and Players' Union leaders in London today, in an i effort to end the deadlock i n the soccer wage s dispute, it was decided to set up a joint committee i
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  • 111 8 At a general meeting of the Brighton B.P. held recently, the following were elected offlce-b?arers:— President. Mr. A. B. Aljaru; Hon. Secretary, Mr. Henry Seah: Hon. Treasurer. Mr. Harold St&h; Hon. Sports Captain, Mr. Teo Heok Kwang: Asst. Sports Captain. Mr. Alimad Farai: Hon. Auditor, Mr. Arifßn Ahmad:
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  • 85 8 The following will represent the Mayfair B.P. in a return rrlendly bad. minton match of five men's singles and two men s doubles against the MerryUnion B.P. to-morrow nteht at ».he Happy World Covered Stadium at 7.00 p.m. Tan Soo Liew. Johnny C.H. Chua. Lim Yew Hock. Billy
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  • 35 8 The Amicable Badminton Party, vlll hold their reunion dinner at the Great World on Saturday Nov. 2, and all I payments must be paid on or befoie Oct. 31. to the Hon: Treasurer.
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  • 83 8 i St-jke, Thurs. STOKE City »nd England soccer winger Stanley Mathews who refund to play for Stoke reserves on Saturday said this morning 'I was perfectly fit to ')liy for Stoke against Arsenal en Saturday. it Stoke think I an. not l;l then I «»rr
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  • 128 8 ARANG Kaya Indera Maharaja v Perba Jelai presented a challenge trophy to the newly formed Lipls Football League. Some keenly contested matches were seen on the Kuala Lipis Padang. Six teams competed and the league result was as follows. The Army team oroved worthy champions and the
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  • 230 8 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Frt. FX)LLOWING are acceptances for the first day of the Perak Turf Club's October Meeting on Saturday, Oct. 19. BACE ONE Horses, Class 4. 5 Furs. SycUlian 9.o4Robelus f.U M.G.M. 8.00 SCRATCHING Young Giii({:*r b 13 RACE TWO Horses, Class 3, Div.
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  • 256 8 (By Merv Williams, Boxing s Editor of the Sporting Globe, I < Melbourne). MELBOURNE, Friday. THE new Chinese boxer Mok Kai Khoon lost to Val Newman, Queensland flyweight, because of an eye j injury in the 10th round at i Brisbane Stadium tonight. Khoon was
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