Indian Daily Mail, 19 August 1946

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    15 1 Indian Daily Mail Vol 1I« No. 162. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    212 1 I A >,. Ml M oh Ali Jinnah, President In(|i slim League, tonfrht stated thai he had re W*» arr> lK Pa d ,aw «harlal Nehru Pr~ al heir meeting on Thnrsdav. r th 1 i ■in he (.overnmen< cabinet he said he k_i h Viceroy, i«,.„nt Uil vell.
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    376 1 NEHRUJI TELLS VICEROY few Delhi, ii 18. Pandit Jauihiriii M.k. n un -tawanariai Nenrn, presiden mnal ongress, arrived hero bv plane fron it vesterday. and shortly afterwards num. k i nii-i-jinw *peni an hmir and ith the Viceroy, Viscount Lord W_vi.ll I British el_rened silence N submitted his formation
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    35 1 Delhi, Au°. 18.— Confess parliamentary subcommittee consisting of Vallabhai Patel. M iulana Azad and Doctor Rajendra Prasad met here today to draw up the final list of personnel for the interim Government of India. Reuter
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    Jews' "Nerve War" Continues
    58 1 Jerusalem, Aug. 18.—Two more telephone hoaxes caused the staff and customers to evacuate the General Post. Office this morning as the '-nerve war" continued. Three mysterious cails have been telephoned to the General Post omc* since yesterday afternoon. The building was declared safe Al.er searches were
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    British Tommies Injured When Jews Riot
    192 1 Famagusta, Cyprus, Aug. 18. Rioting broke out today among illegal Jewish immigrants deported from Palestine and now held, in a British detention camp on Cyprus. The riot was evidently rearranged .o coincide with a press tour as the Palestine national flag was unfurled by
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    KRIPALINI NEXT CONGRESS PRESIDENT?
    400 1 t Delhi. /ui>2. 18. Pandit Nehru bad a ninety-minute interview with Viceroy yesterday and hud preliminary talks on the formation of the interim Government. Nehru ji is believed to have given Lord Wavell a background of the Working Committee's recent resolution and also the gist of
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    CHINA TO GET RICE FROM INDO-CHINA
    65 1 Shanghai, Aug. 18.— The Chinese Government has negotiated with Henry Maux, chief of the French Economic Mission in China, regarding 50.000 tons of rice from IndoChina. during the second half of 1946, which will be supplied by four French firms. Mr. Sens Hsuehpei. Information
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    Hitler Personally Planned Invasion Of England
    312 1 (By Paul Scott Rankine. Reuters Correspondent) Washington. Auk. 18.— Hitler personally planned to invade £T£tiT l>r<>ad fr nt "^-SS This was disclosed last nigh: in a highly secret document signed by Hitler on July 16, 1940 and one of a series of documents on
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    CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN COCHIN
    196 1 A far-reaching measure or constitutional reform was announced by the Cochin Maharaja yesterday. In a message to the Legislative Council, the Maharaja said IS has been decided to transfer education, public works, land, revenue, excise, industries, publicity, food, and income-tax departments *'hieh at present- are administered
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    River Nile Overflows, Submerges Village
    75 1 Khartoum. Aug. 18.— Waters of the blue Nile still rising have now completely submerged Gereif village, four miles east of Khartoum. The inhabitants have been evacuated. An official of the Egyptian Irrigation Depar.ment declared today the river is expected to reach the record height of
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    600 Dead in Calcutta Rioting
    161 1 Calcutta, Aug. 18. Renewed rioting broke out in this city. Reuters said British police opened fire in several parts of the city on Sunday morning to disperse mobs as rioting was resumed adding to the three-day toll of violence. The Calcutta Eastern Express put the
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    "British Troops Assisting Indonesians"
    141 1 "British Troops Assisting Indonesians The llasue. Aug. 18.— The protest by the Netherlands "National League" to Mr. Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister, the text of which was disclosed in The Hague .yesterday that the British policy in Indonesia "besmeers the honour of the British flag and the British Empire." The
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    Complete Independence For Ceylon Demanded
    185 1 Colombo, Aug. 18. A demand for complete independence of Ceylon as the "first step towards her association as a voluntary, autonomous and equal member of fhe Indo-Southeast Asia group of free nations." was made by the AllCeylon Tamil Congress at a plena rv session at
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    Constituent Assembly Will Cost Rs. 4,700,000
    87 1 New Delhi, Ail*. 18.— The prooosed Indian Constituent Assembly is estimated to cost the Government of India Rs. 4.700.001) (over *:a50.000> The estimates are: Travelling allowance and daily allowances tor members of the Constituent Assembly, Rs. 3.000.000; Secretariat staff. Rs. 1.200,000; alterations to the
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    RIN ACQUISITION
    52 1 New Delhi— Three cruisers of the famous "Leander" cia^ss that defeated the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in 1939 are to be acquired by th? Royal Indian Navy, with the agreement of his Majesty's Government Indian personnel for manning the warships will be trained u; the United
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    Indian Daily Mail Singapore Monday, Aug. 19, 1946. A VICIOUS PLEA
    743 2 Indian Daily Mail Singapore Monday, Aug. 19, 1946. A VICIOUS PLEA fTHE cry that if toddy is abolished, Indian Labour will take to .samsu, If no* a new one. It has been repeatedly raised In the prewar years by European estate managers and others whenever any mov* for the aboli
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    LAST WEEK IN INDIA
    792 2 A Roundup Of Important Political Events By Our Own Correspondent Bombay, Aug. 17. After years of what appeared to be an unsolvable deadlock. India tooka big step on the road to constitutional advance this week when the Congress President accepted the Viceroy's unconditional invitation to form
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    Labour Welfare In India Is Highly Organised Now
    546 2 Calcutta. Steady progress in labour welfare in India is evidenced in the activities of official and non-official organisations in recent weeks. Th-e first step towards the formation of permanent townships for coal miners is a housing scheme for the miners in Jharia
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    Recommendations Of Indian Trade Mission To China
    218 2 Recommendations Of Indian Trade Mission To China Calcutta.— The official Indian trade mission to China reports thai "despite domestic difficulties there is a wide range ol commodities which India can supply to China and which the latter country will need. In a six-week tour covering 8.000 miles bv air, the
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    40 2 Bombay. (Air Mail'.— The U|ksize statue on Bombay seafront of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the Indian nationalist leader who died about thirty years ago, is to be flood- Jit throughout the year, it was resolv- ed by the city corporation. Reuter
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    463 2 THIS STORY TELLS YOU HOW'. Calcutta.-The countrywide and telephonic workers in July India's telecommunications. The first to strike on July grade staff and this was follow higher grade postal, telegraphic The strikers' demands included higher basic pay, increased allowances and linking of grades to reduce glaring disparity. The caretaker
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    503 2 Allahabad: (Air Mail) Na&a tribesmen and the headhunters of Eastern Assam, who played their part in the war against the Japanese, should be included in the boundaries of the Independent India, according to PftftdJt Nehru. President of the Irdian National Congress. Led bv their English iungle "oueen," Miss Graham
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    NARIMAN FLAYS INDIANS IN BURMA
    133 2 Bombay. K. j who recent |> leiurn^ Kangoon. (old the Press that "m<Ki „i j' I in Burma showed depW agility to «ain ihe „n fi and trust of th* jj nation." I He deplored I countrymen th( mainly concern* I iLs in trade and
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    63 2 Bombay. Aug. 18 --NatioJ newqpapen ben promta i i^ned >< v morning mgl on kIM iii.si ani.j\» rsaryoJ maonesian Hepun.. iMdm The messair trtMß Wohm Ah Jmnah ol th, B full sympaw.. e ]g nesian.s in her pendeiue The Hume Mlnlltfi In bay OongltM ciovernment. lta Desai, hojHd ::.<
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    PICKPOCKET RELIEVES JINNAH OF WELCOME ADDRESS
    55 2 Bombay Air M.ul sional pukpoik<i u.iv audit i trie pome lure while negoUtfta| the sale wi a lauf m:\.i uM Jl was later k'urnni that I casket contained an add rev vveliojiie |.re>enU'<l b] tin I.uctoi .Municipal Board to the )W Leader, >tr. M.
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    12 2 Labour Minister Shams med of Bengal ned offered to brine a! A.P.
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    Arrest Of Muslim Leaders, Jinnah Urged
    90 2 Bombay, Au«. 1* Thf India Anti-Pakistan r..m tant Hindu Ore:un>.»ti<>ti ed a resolution la>t miht urf* the Government of ln*iia i clare the Marital i and arrest itx h Mohammed \li Jum dent, .in ha\m- r. lion and UmMm Pakistan 1 [wt\ State). Mr.
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    FRESH ELECTION ORDERED
    39 2 Karachi iAir M that no ruki wn that the flection ol irregularly condu made by the Smd Oj ion Tribunal which the election of 1 from Sind to tin rcss CommitU'e The tribunal lu euwion Reuter
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    SJAHRIR'S WARNING TO THE DUTCH
    186 3 I Republic Will Not Collapse {n d Will Not Be Crushed' IBatavia. Aug. a statement to the press on the in in »l the Indonesian Republic, Dr. s u t an Si«hrir Earned Ita Dutch th.l h Indonesia,! 'Vpub,!' "wm ilsell and will no. be
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    Singapore Indonesians Celebrate First "Independence" Anniversary
    309 3 Singapore Indonesians Celebrate First "Independence" Anniversary I ug. 17.— Cables to the UNO and world leaders rmmn. .on ot the Indonesian Republic and speedv the Indones.an-Dutch stride were authorised >re ndonesians in resolutions passed at a niassnlv E ana fempon* Gla« today. i n itSliH 'versarj of the Indonesian Republic.
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    LASKI'S MESSAGE TO INDONESIA
    44 3 I Professor I Chairman of I has sent "lation to tho Oovernmenl I Us M essage my heart arr ive at an m Du^h which V to selfI -nt by Mr u Member Sir stafI assistant to India. tnmuntet Reuter
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    16 3 i -Indian meetings In it ion. op- move to shipping Jed that d be conti- Reuter
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    Army Desertions Crippling Both Communists and Nationalists
    145 3 Army Desertions Crippling Both Communists and Nationalists tßy Doon Campbell) Nanking. A ir Mail. -Army de -n.on s never admitted bHltSer ve comZ, CriPPUIIK the effe^f ther^ Cng h f ma »y and c" S any trUth in Nationalis and Communist claims of S hK ing ;hat nly 4000 men
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    BASRA TROOPS WON'T ENTER IRAN
    150 3 Teheran. Allff Teheran radio said last ni ff hi that Britain had formally denied that Indian troops in the Iraqi town of Basra on the Iranian border, have Instruetions to enter Iran for any reason. The broadcast said the British statement was made in a
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    Aussie Spy Ship Is Pleasure Launch Now
    351 3 (By Gorden A. Tait, Associated Press Correspondent Sydney. A retired Royal Australian Navy spy ship, with a long war record in Japanese controlled waters, touched Syd- nev recently on its way to New I Zealand to start a new career as a pleasure
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    Priestley's Tribute To Wells
    120 3 London. Aug. 18.— As the remains of H. G. Wells were cremated Friday afternoon, the English novelist and dramatist J. B. Priestley said of the world famous figure "This was a man whose word was light in a thousand dark places. "When he was angry it
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    BRITISH MAIL CARRIERS WANT NEW LIVERY
    94 3 London.— British mail carriers, dissatisfied with their traditional dark blue uniforms wilh thin red piping, are asking new livery. Recommendations before their union call for made-to-measure uniforms, improved finish, shirts with detachable collars, lambskin gloves, waterproof caps and tailored topcoats for all postmen and
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    18 3 London— A sale of Chinese porcelain, mostly of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) brought £23.395 at Christie's recently AP
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    "Agreeing To Jew's Demands Would Be Violation Of Atlantic Charter"
    344 3 (By Tom Williams, Associated Press Correspondent) London. Major-General Sir Edward Spears, a prominent fitrure in Britain's wartime Middle-Eastern affairs, believes that acquiescence to Zionist demands for Palestine would be tantamount to violation of the Atlantic Charter— which embodies ideals of
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    SIAM'S KING AT COLOMBO TODAY
    69 3 SIA M'S KING AT COLOMBO TODAY Colombo. Aug. 18.-Kim Phumiphon Aduldet of Slam, accompanied by his mother. Princess Sangwan Chrukamol. Ki to visit Colombo on his way to Switzerland. He will be the guest of Sir John Howard. Officer Administering the Government, and Lady Howard at Queen's House. The King
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    ATTLEE LUNCHES WITH INDIAN CRICKETERS
    57 3 The Oval. Aug. 17.— The Prime Minister accompanied by Mrs. Attlee. honouring the promise made to manager Gupta during an interview at Downing Street a few weeks ago, arrived at the ground and was received by Mr. B. A. Granvill. .President of the Surrey County
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    Sending Of Indian Troops To Foreign Countries Denounced
    334 3 In a press statement, Mr. Asaf AH. Deputy Leader. (onress Party in the Central Assembly. says: "Sending of Indian troops to foreign lands for maintaining peace or protecting Indian nationals is always an exceedingly delicate matter, which can lead to undesirable complications
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    "World Peace Depends Upon Russians"
    202 3 New York, Aug. 18.— World peace prospects depend upon "the attitude of the Soviets," n t he opinion of Frank Cannett. newspaper publisher. Mr. Cannet. recently returned from Europe, told a fra'ernal order Convention hfre that "If communism sweeps over Europe, we in America will
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    INDONESIAN RICE FOR INDIA WILL BE DEDUCTED FROM WASHINGTON ALLOCATIONS
    329 3 hiB I?l V* C°° d official in Singapore regard the first ate hooefn T/™™ Ind n f a lo India a a rorf-iK T re WK be forthwniiiiK but still are not ward Jml sl ™]> *™"<"b"t'«>n will be made
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    Indian Labour Mass Meeting Resolves Against Immigration, Toddy Drinking
    381 4 A mass meeting of Indian labourers at Singapore yesterday resolved to urge the Indian Government and major Parties in India not to relax the ban on immigration of Indian labour into Malaya; sought the help of the Malayan Governments to abolish
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    SOVIET PAPER CRITICISES MacARTHUR
    122 4 Moscow, Aug. 18. Gen. MacArthur and the American occupational authorities in Japan are severely criticised by the Red Star, the Soviet Army newspaper. An article by M. Ivan Plyshevski accused them of ignoring the wishes of the Allies, failing to carry out the terms of the
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    70,000 Political Prisoners Still In Dutch Camps
    540 4 (By NFL SLIS, Associated Press Correspondent). The Ffaßue.— What to do with the 70,000 political prisoners Nazis and collaborators interned in Dutch Camps, is one of the most hotly debated problems in the Netherlands. Recently the new government announced its intention to release
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    CHARITY SOCCER
    84 4 A crowd of more than 5.000 savthe charity soccer match at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday evening when the Singapore Indian Association shared honours with the R.A.F. (Tengah). the. score being one-all. The Indians took the lead shortly before the interval and maintained it till about five minutes
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    A FARM VEHICLE FROM ARMY SURPLUS
    86 4 Geneseo, Illinois.— Camiel Dupre has solved the problem of farming his rugged, wooded land. He attended a sale of U.S. Army surplus war equipment and for SIOO each bought two combat tanks, with cannon and machine guns removed. He hired a machanic with war
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    TO ROAM THE GLOBE
    76 4 London. —Bydney Turner, 34--year-old former jet plane iml pilot has annihilated time in his flights is going to slow down. He plans to sail soon on a round-the-world journey in which, he says, there will be "no such thing as time." He and his fairhaired, Dorothy,
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    Thefts From Foreign Office Mails Alleged
    142 4 London Aug. 18. Thefts from liplomatic bass addressed to the British Foreign Office are being inquired into by Britain's Criminal Investigation Department. Scotland Yard, and further developments are expected shortly. The* thefts had apparently been going on for some time but becailßf many of
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    VOLUNTEERS WANTED
    38 4 The Jai Hind Committee requires about 200 volunteers for the wreathlaying ceremony at the Azad Hind memorial place on Aug. 21. Those willing to volunteer, please apply personally at 32. Race Course Lane, before August 21.
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    COLONIAL SECRETARY GOING ON LEAVE
    99 4 Singapore, Aug. 17. The Colonial Secretary for Singapore. Mr P. A. B. McKerron, will leave by plane Sepl. 1 for a four-month home leave In England, the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, announced at a press conference today. During Mr. McKerron 's absence the Under-Secretary. Mr.
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    INDIA'S TRICOLOUR FOR Ist TIME IN EUROPE
    71 4 London, Aug. 18—India's national flag: will fly for the first time in Europe this week when /ilm-actor cyclist Janki Dass carries it hiffh at the marchpast of nations taking: part in the world cycling championships at Zurich. Dass, manager of a six-man Indian
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    DR. OSCAR LANGE
    68 4 Washington, Aug. 18 Dr. Oscar Lange, Polish Ambassador to the United States, made an unscheduled stop yesterday in Washington after a bad weather which prevented the Transjorld airlines plane bringing him to this country landing In New York City. Dr. tenge Will go to New York today
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    Only A Coalition Government Can Save China
    423 4 (By JOHN RODERICK. Associated Tre>s Correspondent) Nanking. China, torn bv flict. may be impelled to embark future upon a period ot coalitio Qualified observers say that this is th* last remaining solution, all others having failed. Unless all parties join hands in a
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    G.-G. FOR PENANG TODAY
    43 4 Singapore, Aug. 17.— The Gov-oinor-General. Mr. Malcolm Mao donald. is scheduled to arrive bv plane Sunday ,from a two-week tour of Sarawak and British North Borneo. Government sources said today. He will leave early Monday afternoon for Penang.— AP
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    Governor Gimson Says No Japs To Stay
    72 4 Japanese prisoners of war have applied to escape repatrialion to Japan and remain in Singapore, the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson. said at his press conference today. Of those. 10 are from women married to British subjects and five are from Japanese males. The
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    Dutch Have Reached Agreement With Indonesians?
    388 4 Dutch Have Reached Agreement With Indonesians? The Ilasue, Aii£. 18.— Dr. J. R. Jonkman. Netherlands Minister of Overseas territories told the Dutch Lower Chamber Friday night that the Dutch Government had reached an agreement with the Indonesian Nationalists. "The Government is prepared Ut i-ontinue discussions with Dr. Sulan Rfahrir "Indonesian
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    INDONESIAN WON'T RECOGNISE DUTCH SOVEREIGNTY AT ANY COST
    60 4 INDONESIAN WON'T RECOGNISE DUTCH SOVEREIGNTY AT ANY COST Djokjakarta i, tionalisus of th* I nesia are makin not rffognin D over them even n v\*\ The Indonesia) tara announced d, Indonesian stnr Prague had hen British authority students carry pa M Allied Military Adm iiffalra Biuvau. To carry KUCh pi
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    10,000 INDIAN YOUTHS IN TRAINING FOR FUTURE
    40 4 10,000 INDIAN YOUTHS IN TRAINING FOR FUTURE New Delhi r 10.000 Indian bo trained by the bid to come potential ;<■ alists or the po Reenii ed af ;5 are posted to Sp< panics, where the tensive educatl n training. Reuter
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