Indian Daily Mail, 15 February 1947

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  • 15 1 Indian Daily Mail V"l. 111. N,». 5. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 1522 1 TODAY'S PROTEST MEETING CALLED OFF Government Clerks Ask: "What Price, Loyalty!" '15\ Our Staff Kcporttr) Singapore Gmremawt yesterday evening announced iKision on Ine much-publicised subject of Hack Pav to 1 n n ur>H l Government servants—", subject which has had l wgrrttabb disturbteg
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  • 147 1 London, Feb. 14.—- The British Government is at present considering two important communications from India— Congress representation conveyed through the Viceroy from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to the effect that the Muslim League should withdraw from the Interim Government if it is not prepared to
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  • 625 1 METHOD OF CALCULATING ARREARS The cuts imposed by the Japanese were in general 20 per cent on the first $100 on salaries over 5>50 per mensum, 40 per cent, on t e r !T d SI JJ° and 60 W an a nnnY; K° n thC lher h t^i A
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  • 31 1 Mr. Ivor Thomas, MP. Undersecretary of State for the Colonies will have an informal private meeting with representative ol the registered Unions of Singapore in Government House thia (Batumi v) afternoon.
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  • 229 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Delhi, Feb. 14.— How the Ruler of Baroda broke the Ruler of Bhopals move to sabotage the Constituent Assembly was explained by Dewan Mitter at a Press conference in Delhi vesterday. Mitter said: "On my arrival in Delhi I found
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  • 186 1 (From Our Own Correspondent Madras, Feb. 14.— A meeting af the Madras Congress Legislature Party to consider a resolution «»f "no confidence" in their leader Prakasam has been requisitioned by 30 members of the Party. The signatories want the meeting on Feb. 16. but Prakasam
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  • 139 1 (From Our Own Correspondent > Calcutta, Feb. 14.— Speaking in Comilla on Wednesday Fazlu! iluq. former Bengal Premier, denounced Mahatma Gandhi's presence in East Bengal and severely criiirised his activities. Huq declared that he proposed to move for the removal of Gandhiji from
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  • 46 1 INDIA GOVT's PRO IN LONDON (From Our Own Correspondent) Calcutta, Feb. 14.- -The Statesman report* that Sudhir Ghosh, who acted as Mahatma Gandhi's emissary during the Cabinet Mission's visit, has been offered the po.st of Public F lationa Ollicor for the India Government in London. Copyright.
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  • 549 1 SPORE STRIKE {By Our S»aff Reporter) Stating that the health of the city h causing bin the erayest concern, His Excellency the ■ovenior of Singapore, Sir Frank Jin Gunson. last night warned thaf S JS danger of dysentery and other epidemic diseases breaking out, Uv api>ealed
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  • 10 2 Indian Daily Mail Singapore, Saturday, Feb. 15, 1947. NOTES COMMENTS
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  • 416 2 DEPLYING to u question in the Central Indian Legislative Aslibly last week, Pandit Jawaharlai Nehru staled that "emigration killed labour to Malay a has n banned since 1U33 and the qu« >tion of stopping further emigration ol unskilled labour doc; not Briefly put, the statetn< that the
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  • 277 2 NATIONALISATION OF THE S. T. C. r\NE of the major .suggestions ut the employees of the Singapore Traction Co.. who are on strike, is the nationalisation of the Company itself. Conservatives and diehards may consider this an extreme demand, but one who is .sincerely interested m the welfare of this
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  • 975 2  -  LOUIS FISHER Men And Politics: A Readar Feature: Exclusive To the Indian Daily Mail (By "One Is Without Precedent: Other Of A Sordid Character" The year HUH closed with two memorable events which will prove historic The first is the United Nations resolution regarding discrimination against Indians
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  • 205 2 Bhopal League Council Snubs States Negotiating Committee Bhopal, Central India, Feb. 13.— Bhopal State Muslim League Council has decided to "dissociate" itself from negotiations now taking place between the States negotiating committee and tiie Constituent Assembly committee. In a resolution passed last night, the Bhopal State League Council declared: "As
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  • 350 2 New York, Feb. 13. Indians demand for heavy road transport vehicles far exceeds the supply, declared Nurmahomed Chinoy, one of India's loading authorities on road transport, here yesterday. Chinoy who is here as the Indian Government's representative on the transport and communications commission of
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  • 425 2 western powers. Russia, therefore, remained passive while the weak Iranian army entered Azerbaijan—from which it had been barred for more than a year—and re-established federal rule. Whether the Soviet recession in Iran will encourage America and England in a policy of firmness towards Russia in other regions
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  • 50 2 Rangoon, Feb. 13.— U Tin Tut, Finance Member in the Executive Council is a most likely candidate for the post of Burmese High Commissioner in London, according to reports in several Rangoon newspapers today. Tin Tut, however, disclaimed any knowledge^ of such an appointment. Re uter
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  • 269 2 Singapore Residents' Rs. 2,000,000 Jewellery Safe In Ceylon Colombo, Feb. 13. —An identification ceremony conducted in the vault of the Ceylon Treasury, unmasked an official top secret closely guarded for several years, that a package of jewels valued at more than two million rupees is being held in custody by
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  • 66 2 Paris, Feb. M— The Fm Government yesterday refiw. agree to the demands for i per cent wage increase submr by French newspaper emphj All typographical uniunj France had earlier mldthtC* ernment that they would P strike on Friday if the ment did not approve theiiK demandMeanwhile the
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  • 115 2 "India Passing From Middle Ages To Modern Age" New York, Feb. 13.— Ratan K. Nehru before leaving in the American Overseas Airline's flagship "London" for London en route for New Delhi after attending the United Nations Economic and Employment Commission meeting stated: "India feels the only way of solving our
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  • 176 2 CEYLON COPRA COMMONS QUERY London, Feb. U A question about ex from Ceylon, Mr> Jones, Secretary j Or Ul told the House of fc Q *«j: "Dut y on cop a^ Ceylon i s :>OO rupees 1 the yield in a normal ye export, including export should be about fXjmj^
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  • 960 3 Linggardjati Agreement "We Do Not Trust Dutch Intentions" Batavia, Feb. 11. Indonesian Premier Sutan Sjahrir gave Mr. Richard Applegate, United Press Manager for South-East Asia who is now in Batavia, the first clear pictuie of the actual Indonesian objections of the Jonkman interpretation of
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  • 46 3 Cambridge Beat Oxford In Drunkeness m ,,,rH. leb. 11.-The annual *sffeM reported yes- ha drunkeness in Bri'Lreased 100 per cent dur' a ,l of KngUnd in drunkness d Kford irw second. retard** m a 'bitter" ta fl ,r the dark »>lues of Oxrd i wftrsliy'*- UP
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  • 86 3 Every Tuesday and Friday after its news bulletin at 9.30 pm (Malayan Time>, the British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service will give the details of prices of such commodities as tin, rice, sugar, coffee, cocoanut and rubber, and share prices and market trends in Singapore. Brighton, Sussex, Feb.
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  • 55 3 Jerusalem, Feb. 14. Dov Gruner, 33-year-old Hungarian Jew, condemned to death on Jan. 1 this year for an attack on a Palestine police station, has been granted an indefinite" respite by Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, General Officer Commanding British troops in Palestine, it was officially stated
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  • 68 3 London, Feb. 13.— The hope that nothing would be allowed to interfere with the free and full use of the Suez Canal by vessels of all flags was expressed in a resolution adopted at the International Shipping Conference here yesterday. The resolution drew the attention
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  • 199 3 Russians Invented Electric Light, Says Moscow Press Moscow. Feb. 13. The observance on Tuesday of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the famous I ruled States inventor Thomas A. Fdison uaian occasion for the Russian Press to "remind the world 1 that it was not fcdisun who invented the
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  • 47 3 Jerusalem, Feb. IS.— "Voice uf Fighting Zion" a Jewish terrorist radio, said lasi night that the British 'would bv punished" for causing the death of an Illegal Jewish Immigrant on the whooner La Negev brought Into Haifa by the Royal Navy on Sunday. Reuter
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    • 1486 3 Spiritual achievement of the sages 1. JAPANESE WERE POWERLESS 1 4 A W f\ HYin 4 M M ¥X against navarozi 1L A A I I A LJ llllll'V I A nil mM Due t0 the Ja P an *se occupation. I 10 IP L\ Uk il I II IH
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  • 841 4 "Indians Today Morally, Psychologically A Free People; He says RECALLED AGENT-GENERAL BAJPAI SAYS PLENTY OF GOODWILL FOR INDIA IN U.S. melon, Feb. 14. Eight hundred Indians in Britain ignored the return of wartime blackout when they gathered at a eption in London Inst
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  • 56 4 Lahore, Feb. 13.— Malik Shaukat All, acting President of the Punjabi Provincial Muslim League, was arrested in Lahore at midnight under the Punjab Public Safety Ordinance banning meetings and processions. Shaukat Ali became acting President of the League when President Husain Iftikar Khan, of Mamdot.
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  • 90 4 New York. Feb. 13.— Three hundred refugee Jews from Afghanistan threatened with immediate expulsion from India have been granted an extension and will be able to stay there until the end of March, according to a cable from the Bombay branch of the World Jewish
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  • 38 4 Washington, Feb. cash purchases Of food products from the United States in December at 80,000,000 pounds weight fell by 67,000,000 pounds below the November quantity of 147,000,000 pounds, the United fc|ates Department of Agriculture announced last night. Reuter
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  • 319 4 French Govt. won 't Recogn Ho Chi Minh Regime Paris, Feb. 14.—M. Paul Ramadier, French Prime Minister said yesterday that the French Government would justifiably have "nothing to do with the regime led Dr. Ho Ch.-mmh. Prime Minister in the Vietnam (Annamite Nationalist) Government of Indo-China. "This Government has not
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  • 85 4 New Delhi, Feb. 13.— The Naga tribesmen in Assam, who helped the Fourteenth Army intelligence service in the Burma war against Japan, have "collected'' 315 heads in head-hunting operations since the end of the Far East war. Pandit Nehru, Vice-President of the Indian Interim Governme%\ said
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  • 159 4 Washington. Feb. 14. A demand that the American Government immediately appoint an Ambassador to India lest the Indian Government assume Britain was "passing upon the appointment" was made yesterday by democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler of N«*w York. Mr. Celler stated: "The claim is
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  • 96 4 ADMITTED MURDER, BECAUSE SHE PREFERED PRISON LIFE Tokio. Feb. 13.— A 24-year-old Japanese girl falsely admitted to committing two mudrers because she believed that she would be entitled to regular meals in prison without fear of delayed or cancancelled food rations, and also a warm clean bath once weekly. Tokyo
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  • 18 4 London, ]>^r^ Mountbatten, wiff Mountbatten of R Supreme Allied r^ South-east Asia Vice-Pres.d.:: United Aid to Ch- Reuter
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