Indian Daily Mail, 4 March 1947

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  • 15 1 Indian Daily Mail Vol. 111, No. 19. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 250 1 A/ant immediate Transference Of Power To nterim Covt, Withdrawal Of All British Troops (point Programme For dievifly Freedom Drawn Up W I'"in1 '"in Our Own Correspondent I ".—The Socialist Party Conference met ore yeserday evening and resolved demanding all deluding paramoontcy, be immediately
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  • 61 1 MAHARANI, PRINCESSES OPPOSE MAHARAJA ml rum Our Own Correspondent) Btnfcljr, Mar. :j. Grave situam developed m Santhar State i Bundllekhanrt Agency following peoples movement demanding responsible government. >sion was dispersed ir^e and two daughW\r Ruler, protesting 1 uid sympathisthc people, have suspendd their studies. The Maharani also observed two sympathising
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  • 71 1 PRINCES AGREE TENTATIVELY Froni Ow Own Correspondent) Delhi. Mar. 3.— Discussions befn the Constituent Assembly inces Negotiating Com- Delhi have resulted m agreement on the allocation of seats to tec and election of States sentativc, m he Constituent bly. stated a large number of are anxious to fully partiombly's work
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  • 64 1 >~The Sunday 1 People' said yester»rj of state George J^WU ha. M.^ested In a i,, ria !t *in ih it an internaPolice tone maintain r Palestine, W the note was ago, and also itea would be Security Goun- mating eomimmediatelv tie United Na- the
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  • 85 1 New Delhi, Mar. 3. It was. authoritatively learned her* that the Canadian Government has taken steps to modify the Canadian franchise law to permit a vote by Indian subjects, resident m Canada, possessing knowledge of one European language, English or French. This action followed a
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  • 250 1 New Delhi, Mar. The leader of the Indian Interim Government, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, told leading industrialists of India today that the food surplus nations had forced India to 4k pay through the nose' for imports needed to stave oft starvation. At the same time
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  • 142 1 MADRAS HAS 1/ 2 LAKH SURPLUS! (From Our Own Correspondent) Madras, Mar. 3.— The Budget estimates for the coming: year presented by Premier Prakasam m the Madras Assembly on Saturday disclose! a small surplus of half a lakh. Important features of the Budgot are the levy of agricultural Income- tax
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  • 11 1 Latest scores: England 280; Australia— lB9 for 4.- Reuter
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  • 301 1 London, Mar. 3.— Addressing delegates to the conference of Empire Communist parties here, Professor Hyman Levy, professor of mathematics at Imperial College of Science m London, speaking on "science and the colonial problem," said that the main outcome of utilisation of natural
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  • 33 1 Berlin, Mar. 3. Prussia the largest and most populous state of the former German Reich— ceased to exist as a political entity under a law published by the Allied Control Council yesterday.- Reuter
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  • 266 1 (By Our Staff Reporter) While most of the speakers favoured the suggestion that Singapore should join the Federation of Malaya, Mr. J. Laycock opposed this move saying that there was more snobbishness among the European officials oi the Malayan
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  • 386 1 Lahore, Mar. Sir Khizar Hyat Khan Tiwana, Prime Minister of Punjab, last night submitted the resignation of his Cabinet to Sir Evan Jenkins, Governor of Punjab. Announcing the resignation of the Government, which is a coalition of Unionist and Congress Parties, Sir Khi/ir said: "His Majesty "s>
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  • 170 1 Our correspondent cables that the Cabinei's resignation has created a piquant situation on the eve of the Budget session of the Assembly which begins today. The Coalition Party has still 95 members out of a total of 175 m the Assembly. The majority thus is still
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  • 221 1 C P O INJURED IN CLASH WITH LABOURERS Kedah's Chief Police Officer, Mr. A. C. Maxwell, three police constables and 20 labourers were injured yesterday morning, when the Central Kedah labour situation exploded for the second time m four days, m a clash between 200 labourers and a hundred policemen
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  • 121 1 (From Our Own Correspondent Peshawar, Mar. 3. Replying to the Muslim League allegation that the Frontier Ministry is suppressing civil liberties. Premier Khan Sahib says: "Licence for loot and violence cannot come within the definition ol civil liberties. "The Frontier Ministry has never Interfered
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  • 80 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Colombo, Mar. 3. The Indian Agent m Ceylon, Mr. Aney, is understood lo have informed the Government of India that South Africa is trying to obtain Indian jute bags indirectly and have placed orders with the Ceylon Government for two million
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  • 53 1 An outbreak of smallpox lias ooen reported from Kembau District m Xtgri Scinbilan. Six 6MM have been recorded, one of tliein RigOCOUI precautionary action has been taken by the Health Dopartment and a Public Relatloui Loudspeaker ran li isaiajUng In this campaign to everybudy iv
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  • 23 1 Tokyo, Mar. 3.— A Skymaster plane crushed this morning when taking off m heavy rain from Haneda airfield, Tokyo. There were nocasualties.- Reuter
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  • 75 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Calcutta, Mar. 3. A new institute of culture named after Xetaji was inaugurated m Calcutta by Sarat Bose on Saturday. Sarat Bose explained that the institute would endeavour to train youths physically, intellectually, morally and spiritually. Physical culture would includi military training
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  • 57 1 Buffalo, New York Sate. Mar. 2 —The Teachers Federation of city announced late last night thai they will end their strike, which had closed schools here for thpast week, affecting 71,000 student! The teachers have decided t accept the city's offer of an increase of salaries
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  • 84 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Poona, Mar. 3.— The Poona Police are hunting for a gang engaged m supplying arms for use m communal riots. Getting information of a leakage from an Army ammunition dump m a nearby town, the police laid a trap and arranged io fake
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  • 607 2 Indian Daily Mail Singapore, Tuesday, March 4, 1947. BACK PAY FOR NON-GOVT. STAFFS PHB Back Pay problem U enlarging itself— and rightly so. So iar, when Back Pay was mentioned, it was meant only m conCtion with Government servants I now, employees of business .U commercial firms, of estates id
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  • 1293 2 Men And Politics: A Regular Feature: Exclusive To Indian Daily Maffl "n Major Problem Ot Kremlin Today Is To Weaken lies Between Britain And America —Says Louis Fischer The Moscow conference of the Big Four Foreign Ministers promises to have incalculable historic importance, and its preliminaries
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  • 774 2 (By Our Political Correspondent m India OF the two Indian Ambassadors Pandit Nehru has so far appointed, to represent this country abroad, K. P. S. Menon who was for the last four years our Agent-General m China is one. The
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  • 101 2 London, Mar. 3.— Big British Cabinet changes within six months were forecast on Sunday m the Sunday Pictorial. The Pictorial political correspondent referring to the illhcalih of Ernest Kevin. Foreign Secretary, and Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, said that a change of
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  • 356 2 London, iMar. 2— The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, told the United Nations Association meeting last night: "Today every person who thinks seriously on the dfvructiveness of modern weapons must realise the danger of the age we live m but even tins may not
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  • 89 2 Johannesburg:, Mar. i. The "Daily News" commenting on the 1947 South African budget which included cuts m income-tax, petrol tax, reduction of postal rates and withdrawal of duty on sugar said: "That such a picture tan be produced at this stage of world affairs shows up
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  • 246 2 Saigon, Mar. H It is understood the composition of (he Ind<>-( hina d nation to the Inter-Asiatic Conference convened by l>ar Nehru m New Delhi on March 23 will be amonu >übl discussed by K. I*. S. Menon, India's iirst kmtos*l*
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  • 99 2 Washington. Mar. seven per cent mum duction the world food I only slightly better tfcM J*£ Mid serious ihorU m Europe and Ihc cording to a sta^mnt the United Slates De»^U Agriculture today. •*in several eoun r ration! wUI have duoed unlew Uu received from
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  • 1478 3 -Writiag on "Britain and India" m the ,v hmes yesterday, commentator "Scrutajtain's hope and aim must be when she leaves the machine "m £ood working order." r on the British Government's decision to hand [ndian hands not later than June, 1948, he such as
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  • 145 3 DECISION TAKEN IN DESPAIR" The Hague, Mar. 2.— Under the headline: "Britain shifts its Military Pivot," the independent Labour newspaper Laagsche Dablad quotes the Yorkshire Post military correspondent as saying that Rear Admiral IViscount tMountbatten's new task will be to withdraw the British Army from India. This despatch and other
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  • 491 3 Tokyo, Mar. 2. The war-ravaged islands of the Ryuku group, including Okinawa, are slowly returning to normal and Kyukyuans who had long been dominated by the Japanese are now assuming a role m their own government, General Douglas Mac Arthur reported
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  • 165 3 U.S. To Help Britain In Greece Washington, Mar. 3. The United States has agreed m principle to help impoverished Britain shoulder the load m Greece, diplomatic sources said on Saturday. Such a move may bring a historic change m American foreign policy. The decision was reported to have been made
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  • 262 3 Washington War. I>. Senator Arthur Capper (Republican, Kansas) said on Sunday that he feels sure ihat Western powers are "definitely going to pull out oi Asia politically and probubly economically." When Britain grants independence to India.... the nexus will be
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  • 115 3 New York, May 2. Louise Vim, Korean observer at the United Nations, on Wednesday said a letter »vas sent to Mr. Trygve Lie, Secre-lary-General of the L'nhed Nai oils Organisation, asking that an investigating commission oe named iiuntuiaitly to iiy to Korea and cneck reparti Uuu
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  • 64 3 Washington, Mar. 2.— The Civi--1 an Production Administration ion February 28) predicted a critical shortage of tin by the end of this year, and that the nations 53,337 ton stockpile of tin will be entirely gone before the end of the year and
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  • 382 4 UNANIMOUS REJECTION OF GOVERNMENT'S OFFER ADVOCATED "Government Has Not Budged Inch From Original Stand" (By Our Staff Reporter) ore Asiatic Government servants are advised by the Vorking Committee of the Singapore Government Servants' ick Pay Council to retrain
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  • 74 4 G.-G.'S TRIBUTE TO SINGAPORE CHINESE <"•""*«; cummur. pore by the Govern* Malcolm MacDonu-d v held on Sunday at'th Chamber oi Commerce he, Mrs. MacDonuld, of Singapore and U were guest s of the munity of Singapore. Lim presided and th» i attended by oven 2to amongst whom were th/ various
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  • 91 4 MAILS ON ILL-FATED DAKOTA LOST R gistered and unregistered all mail correspondence posted at Singapore between 6.00 p.m. on 23rd and 6.00 p.m. on 25th February 1947, and addressed to Hongkong and places m Indo-China was included m the mails lost on the missing Dakota which left Changi Airport on
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  • 47 4 Mr. Lawrence A. Gomez. 2nd Lt. of the I.N.A. died on 28-2-47 at Nagercoil Hospital. It will be recalled that Mr. Gomez took an active part m the I.N.A. Rally at the Jalan Besar Stadium during Nehruji's visit to Singapore last March.
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  • 303 4 "As one of the founder members ol the Young Malay Association of Kuching regarded by the Government as a "pro-Cession" organisation, I would like m the public interest to clarify the status of this association and define its relationship wih the Young Malay Association, Sibu, of which
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  • 238 4 The Aryan Gymkhana India soccer team may shortly tour Malaya and play exhibition soccer matches at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Penang against representative local tealms. The Indian touring team will consist of the best players m India drawn from all parts and representing the
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  • 396 4 Pursuant to a decision arrived at the Pan-Malayan Indian Conference inaugurated m August last year, plans are^now under way for the establishment of a Netaji Memorial House m Malaya. The projectod memorial is intended to be the centre of a Malayan Council of World
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  • 95 4 Cairo, Mar. 3.— "President Truman assured me that he will adopt a neutral attitude towards the Palestine problem," Amir Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, told pressmen when he arrived at Cairo by flying boat from Britain yesterday. The Crown Prince expressed satisfaction at Britain's
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  • 86 4 Berlin, Mar. 3.— Hitler's platinum treasure worth several thousand sterling has been discovered by Allied officials m the steel chambers of a German Bank, according to British news service. The platinum which was a gift of a wealthy South African whose name is not disclosed is
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  • 149 4 Chicago, Mar. 2.-The Bri u not only interfering mi n politics, but interfering fully, declared the Chicago bune m reporting that *Z£m called the British Magazi nt been established m America i attempt to influence .w thought by offering British m The Chicago Tribune, kg
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  • 81 4 London, Mar. I.— The British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin. told the Commons yesterday that the new treaty of alliance with France has been agreed upon and that he hoped it would be signed on Tuesday. March 4, at Dunkirk. Bevin announced that
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  • 49 4 "Paris. Mar. 3.— Carrying 8,000 more African troops and Foreign Lesion battalions the lie De France will leave Toulon on Tuesday for Indo-China. The French liner will also carry units of heavy equipment, field artillery and tanks (according to the Chicago Tribune correspondent) Reuter
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  • 37 4 Mr. N. A. Mallal, recently appointed Municipal Commissioner, will address the East-West Society on Thursday, March 6th, at 8.30 p.m. at the V.M.C.A., Orchard Road. His subject will be: "India and South-east Asia."
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  • 46 4 Vatican City, Mar. 3. Special Masses were celebrated m churches throughout Rome yesterday the Pope's seventy-first birthday. Mass m the Vatican was attended by all diplomatic representatives to the Holy See. The Vatican flas gold and white was flown from all Vatican buildings.- Reuter
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