Indian Daily Mail, 8 February 1947

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  • 15 1 Indian Daily Mail Vol. IF. No. 307. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 281 1 Caste System Vigorously Condemned hr. Deshmukh's Bill Referred To Select Committee (From Our Own Correspondent) Delhi, Feb. < —The Central Assembly spent the whole ■u (Ja> (ii^iussmj. Hindu marriages. Dr. I>eshmukh\ loa aiend the .special Marriages Act and conferring on ■ersons already married the
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  • 77 1 I Our Own Correspondent) Justice Meredith, I ihe huni High Courts, has reMp\*A \.V\? presidentship of the Khar LCJS V^Kiuion, disagreeHi: with the itei "f fellow-service Hen rr^ardin? compensation. ■M: Ida that since aed by the m el not the India Is nut just that m tax-
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  • 72 1 I rum Our Own Correspondent Madras, ftb. 7.- M r. B. Yenkata*ni. Andhra agriculturist, was lerdjv appointed Minister in Veerabwami, who "■tij resigned. im la busy exto strengthen his and it is likely he may Ministers, thus Cabinet to 150. and Dr. Raj an, ijagopalachari
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  • 44 1 s\ .sard a miracle" if the of the Conbly could be career present "if*" 1 He describ- lc *l ituation as r Did y ()> ate^man. who I 0< fl M the found- Parliamentary -^iw' dt aU. are bound Reuter
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  • 181 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Lahore, Feb. 7—Lady Firoze Khan Noon has filed a suit against the Punjab Government claiming rupees one lakh as damages for tear-gassing her in a Police van. She says she and some other Muslim gi ri s
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  • 404 1 —Mil. WALTKK FLETCHER. MP London, Feb. 7. During a debate in the house of commons yesterday. Mr. Walter Fletcher. Conservative, criticised the system of bulk purchases and spoke of its failure in respect of tea and rice. Mr. Fletcher recently
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  • 84 1 London, Feb. 7.— A plan to sassinate Marshal Stalin by the Special Duty Service of the German Luftwaffe Kampf Geschwader 200 Hying in patchedup capLured British and Ujiited States aircraft, was disclosed by the British Air Ministry yesterday. The information released by the Ministry was
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  • 28 1 Mr. J. A. Thivy, president of the Malayan Indian Congress, is on a visit to Singapore, and will be staying here for four days.
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  • 14 1 TO SUCCEED MR. S. K. CHETTUR MRS. AMMU SWAMINATHAN "Indian women demand immediate reforms."
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  • 170 1 Further to the notification which has appeared in the Indian Daily Mail, below are full details of place and time fixed for elections of each of the Local Congress in Singapore: 1. Town area members to meet at Sindhi Merchant Association, 32, Enggor Street at 5.30
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  • 44 1 Peiping, Feb. 7. Daring armed bandits staged a bold robbery on the Peiping-Tientsin express on Tuesday (Feb. 4), shot and killed the engine-stoker and escaped with thousands of dollars of money, jewellery and other valuables stripped from the stunned passengers. AP
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  • 34 1 London, Feb. 7.— The Secretary for India, Lord Pethick -Lawrence, has appointed Sir Henry Knight, lately Acting Governor of Assam, to be one of his advisers in succession to Sir Atul C. Chatterjee. Reuter
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  • 67 1 Ranuoon. peb 7. va early set t lenient oi the 12 Id labour strike in Rangoon believed likely a^> the result oi U Aung Ban's discussions with the strike loader.: and employers. Aunt: Ban's efforts arc also expceted to prevent the outbreak of a
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  • 510 1 Reuter (By Our Staff Reporter) Some of the Singapore strikers are gradually returning to work: yesterday all the Singapore Firemen resumed duties and so did about 300 of the 1,000 men who struck at REME Base Workshop, Kallang. But the main strikes, those
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  • 249 1 PRINCES NO RIGHT 'To SELECT STATES REPRESENTATIVES TO ASSEMBLY (From Our O\v 1 Correspondent) New Delhi, Feb. 7. The Prince* have no right to select the Stales representatives to the Constituent Assembly, says a memorandum prepared by the Slates Peoples' Conference for presentation to the Constituent Assembly Negotiating Committee. Only
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  • 176 1 Burma Delegation, Britain Congratulate Each Other London, Feb. 7—The following elcgrams exchanged between the Burma delegation headed by U lung San which visited London recently and has now returned to Raacoo* and the Secretary of sUte for Burma were published bv the Burma Office today: To Lord Pethick-Lawrence: We should
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  • 163 1 Amsterdam, l>b. 7. Prince AJi Khan, eldest son of the Aga Khan, arrived in Am»tcrcJam yesterday from London Ml his way to Cairn and Karachi by air. Ills father is on holiday in Cairo. He intends to .spend tome timt amuiiy: his people and
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  • 103 1 London, Feb. 7. -A reception was held at the Grosvenor House Hotel. London, last night to mark tl\e departure today of the first aeroplane from England for the ne\¥ services of the Malayan Airways commencing in April. The reception coincided with the anniversary
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  • 38 1 Mr. Ivor Thomas, the Undersecretary of State tor tho Colonies. rill arrivo from Australia on Febn: «ry '»th, and v ill slay in Malaya lot about one week before he returns to England.
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  • 633 2 Indian Daily Mail Singapore, Saturday, Feb. 8, 1947. NOTES COMMENTS JAPANESE AS STRIKE-BREAKERS JHE frequent use of the Japanese surrendered personnel as strike-breaker^ by the authorities In this country fin spite of official denial in the Commons) is really to be deplored. Condemning this practice, a spokesman of the Pan-Malayan
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  • 734 2 "Serious War/' Warns Sjahrir Premier Tells Newsman 01 His Hopies, Plans For country van Mook's Three Aims Uatavia, Feb. 7.— Sutan Sjahrir told United Press exclusively on Wednesday, on the ev e o f the full Indonesian Cabinet session debate on whether
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  • 54 2 S JAHRIR'S FREEDOM MESSAGE TO INDIA Batavia, Feb. 7. —The Indonesian Prime Minister. Sutan Sjahrir, telegraphed congratulations to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on the occasion of Indian Independence Day. extending to India the "wholehearted sympathy" of the Indonesian Government and peoples in the Indian "struggle for independence," according to the Republican
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  • 185 2 DUTCH TROOPS IN INDONESIA: FAVOURABLE PRESS COMMENTS Bam via, (Air Mail)— Sounding a new conciliatory note on the subject of Dutch troops remaining in Indonesia, the Republican daily Soeara Oemoem' in an editorial said the presence of such troops in Indonesia was sometimes justified as necesary to guarantee foreign interests
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  • 166 2 Calcutta, Feb. 7. Disturbances, strikes and arrests were reported from many parts of India yesterday. Twelve people were injured at Dacca, East Bengal, when the police made a baton charge against a picket trying to make business houses observe hartal (work stoppage) in support
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  • 69 2 Calcutta, Feb. 7. Demanding "remove Gandhiji from Noakhali" several hundred students demonstrated inside the Bengal Assembly promises yesterday afternoon. More than 100 of them were arrested. Mahatma Gandhi went to the Noakhali area of Eastern Bengal at the end of last year on a "peace mission"
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  • 314 2 Rapprochement Between Aung San Communists! Rangoon, Feb. 7.— The jpoffotilty of a rapprochement tween U Aung San's Anti-Fa.s CI st Peoples' Freedom I^J and the Communist Party of liurma ("Ked Shirts' Under leadership of Thakin Tan Tun and Thakin I^ien P«) i s n r dered imminent in Burmese political
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  • 212 2 Indians, Indonesians To Attend World Socialist Conference Calcutta (Air Mail).— lndian and Indonesian Socialists are likely to be represented for the first time when the next International Socialist Conference meets in Zurich on June 7. The invitation to the Indian Gongreaa Socialist Party led by Mr. Jaiprakash Narain was proposed
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  • 120 2 London, Feb. 6.— New York Banking chief Thomas W. Lamont, who was once a newspaper reporter, yesterday gave $500,000 to the Canterbury Cathedral Restoration Fund as a tribute to British courage in 1940 and 1941, and the "blind faith of free men that saved the world
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  • 142 2 Brussels, Feb. 7. India was allotted two mechanical plants as well as other items of industrial equipment as reparations from Germany during 1946, according to a communique issued here, giving details of the reparations allocated by the interAllied Reparations Agency. Other items allottted to India
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  • 113 2 CONSERVATIVES WANT PARLIAMENTARY MISSION FOR BURMA London Feb. A section of the Conservative opposition will propose a Parliamentary delegation to Burma as soon as trie British Government gives time for debate upon the recent constitutional developments. The idea which does not have the support of the Conservative opposition as a
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  • 99 2 New Delhi, Feb. 7. The policy of the Government of India Is to withdraw troops from abroad consistent with obligations arising from India's past associations with other countries. Mr. G. S. Bhaja. India's Defence Secretary, said yesterday in replying to a auestion in the Central
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  • 73 2 SIND URGED TO GIVE PUBLIC FORETASTE OF PAKISTAN Karachi. Feb. 6.— Ghaznafar Ali Khan, health member in the Interim Government, said here that "the Muslim League Ministry of Sind should by their administration and economic policies give the the people of the province. Muslims and non-Muslims alike, a foretaste of
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  • 54 2 Rs. 50 MILLION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF BALUCHISTAN Karachi. Feb. 6.— Sir Geoffrey Prior, asent to Baluchistan, said here that the Government of India has approved a five-year plan for the development of Baluchistan at an estimated cost of Rs. 50,000,000. The plan includes expansion of agriculture and irrigation works AP
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  • 47 2 London. Feb. 7.— The Gaekwar of Baroda is to have a racehorse breeding establishment in Ireland. He has bouqrht a residential farm at Connellmorf. Newbridge. Country Kildnre. for conversion into a first class stud farm. The Gaekwar already ha s a Ashgill stud near Mlddleham^ England. Reuter
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  • 211 2 The view that there were b mendous opportunities for an pansion of Australian expons India, and the extension of i^.. goodwill towards Australia expressed by Mr. J. h. Kemp, a n presentative of the Asso'ci™ Chambers of Commerce in tfc» Australian trade delegation whir' recently
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  • 170 2 London. Feb. 7.— lf India develon her forest lands Kb nwifr wood for the peasant*' f allow rowdun? to be Ottd for nure there would be a eeneril* ward spiral of prosperitv. Hid Herbert Howard. Inspector-O^" of Forests to the Government Tndia at a
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  • 30 2 "Pencils Please" Is the new series of QuTjz P rogrt ?j£ produced by David Lyttfc JJ Wllcn. the firs- of C K broadcast by Radio Malaya^ nesday evening, after the
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  • 502 3 Britain's Main Problems To-day Shortages Of Men, Money Coal „ondon. Feb. 7— Britain s underlying problems are shorto f manpower, dollars and coal. Of these, manpower is r red fundamental. It is increasingly recognised that the solution ta t0 admit fore »gn 'a»our which Britain despernetds and which is desperately
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  • 747 3 What The French Are Told Of The Indo-China Fighting— III (From David Briggs, Reuters Correspondent) Paris (Air Mail). The people of Cochin-China the southermost member of the Indo-Chinese Federation, look with fear for the present and dread for the future to their Spartan-like northern neighbours, the aggressive Annamite, peoples of
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  • 179 3 BRITAIN'S MAIN PROBLEM'S TODAY (Continued irom Cl. 3) ment'B recent warning that me po&iuon ol ureat Britain is exU emery venous." This may nave been designed to create the rignl atmosphere on the question ol lorelgn laoour. Unless it 18 overplayed, ui wnich there is some danger, it may uo
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  • 145 3 Lake Success, Now York. Feb. 6. Three proposals have been made in lhc l'i>i ed Nations Human Rights Commission on the me! hod oi Implementing and enforcing the international bill of human rights. India wanU un international convention enforceable by the Security Council, Australia favours
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  • 89 3 Hakodate, Ilukkaidu, Feb. 6.— Ihe traditional close-cropped naircut oi older Japanese male students, in vogue since the Meiji Era began, has oeen abandoned by middle school pupils here with the permission of ihe authorities. The students initiated the move through a resolution adopted by
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  • 78 3 FUNDS FOR GANDHIJI'S PEACE MISSION Bombay, (Air Mail)— The sum of K92.305 ha.^ been subscribed by the tnembera of the AU-india Non-fer-rous Metalware Manufacturers' Association for relief of sufferers In the recent rioting and disturbances in Easi Bengal, in response to an appeal from the Association. A glim of R82.305
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  • 154 3 New York, Peb. Sir Alexander Cadogan, British representative on the United Nations Security Council, yesterday described the United Nations as the "only way to salvation" until someone produced a better plan. "It Is the duty of everyone to spare no effort to strengthen its authority
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  • 926 4 of censure of the Malayan Governments is "political" resolution which will be discussed the annual general meeting of the Malayan Democratic nion to be held shortly. The resolution has been circulated to members already and opinions have been invited before a certain date. Various problems that
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  • 436 4 London, Feb. 6.— A State-spon-sored "Marriage Welfare Service" to help (hose about to marry and those in trouble after marriage were proposed in a White Paper (British Government report) yesterday. It also suggests: Firstly, a more solemn form of Register Office wedding. Secondly, Welfare
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  • 170 4 Bombay, (Air Mail >— Willingdon Island, near Cochin, where the naval establishment of HMIS Vendrutti is at present situated' promsies to become a major base for the Royal Indian Navy Discussing the future possibilities of development of this spot into a major naval base.
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  • 63 4 TEA PLANTATIONS AFFECTED BY "BLISTER BLIGHT" Coonoor (South India), (Air Maib —A plant disease called 'blister blight" is causing extensive damage to tea plantations in Nilgiri district in South India—one of the largest tea-producing areas in iudia Planters arc Uyinj to rind mean* ot checking this plant -epidemic" which, it
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  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR
    • 343 4 Sir, Major strikes are on in Malaya and many more may follow while everyone from the Governor General to a scavenger is looking on with a blinking face waiting for an amicable settlement tQ be made. It will be wiiO it the Malayan Council
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    • 152 4 Many grim and heroic stories were unfolded when more than one hundred officers of the 18th Division most of whom were prisoners of war of the Japanese and some survivors of the "Railroad of Death" in Burma held their first reunion at the Savoy Hotel in
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  • 95 4 PRIVY COUNCIL ALLOWING MADRAS APPEAL London. Fcb b n committee of the p a reserved j UC Rave reasons for a PJ»I of Pulukur: Kotnors found gu rioting and murd :h W ment and order of judicature at m,: renutung the c; Sir John Beaun lordship.s were the peculiar circ
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