Indian Daily Mail, 5 March 1947

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  • 15 1 Indian Daily Mail Vol. 111, No. 20. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 374 1 EXCLUSIVE TO INDIAN DAILY MAIL Imperative Indians Behave Themselves In Befitting Manner: When India Is Free, Shell Not Fail Them" COMA (AM FORGET FLAG OF FREEDOM i WAS UNFURLED ON MALAYAN SOIL" (From Our Own Correspondent) I. Mahatma Gandhi, now m Sodepur Ashram j,, a
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  • 249 1 Dunkirk, Mar. 4.— The 50-year treaty of alliance between Britain and France wa s signed this afternoon m the battered town hall of Dunkirk, scene of the last stand by Britain's armies before Germany over-ran Western Europe m 1940. The treaty was signed for Britain by
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  • 227 1 Pandit Nehru Explains Government's Taxation Policy r m Our own Correspondent) Mns> Mar. 4.— The general Madras Stock Exvesterday resolved to keep nse dosed indefinitely fjJ*W atainst the Central "»on measure. decision was also taken Calcutta. members held business profits tax he reir.iposition, m form, of the excess prud would
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  • 69 1 Lahore, Mar. 4.— Troops were called out and a curfew imposed m Lahore today after eight persons had been killed and 32 injured m fresh communal riots. Earlier 30 policemen and about 20 Hindu and Sikh students were injured when police opened fire to
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  • 72 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Madras, Mar. 4. Answering a series of questions m the Madras Assembly yesterday on the working of the anti-Corruption Staff, tne Premier said even complaints against Ministers if properly made would be enquired into. He revealed that once when the
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  • 142 1 Haimchar. Bengal. Mar. 4. Mahatma Gandhi told a meeting last week that America's industrialisation had become a menace to the world.. Although the United States was the richest country m the world. it had not banished poverty and degradation because industry was concentrated In the
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  • 215 1 League In For Surprise In The Punjab 'F"<m Our Own Correspondent) Lahore, Mar. 1. Khan of Mamdot, Muslim League parly leader, yesterday accepted the Punjab Governor's invitation to form a Ministry. Till the new Cabinet is formed, the present team will continue m office. Speculation is rife as to why
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  • 118 1 Jerusalem, Mar. 4.— Three more attacks by Jewish terrorists were reported here today: First. Three British soldiers were seriously injured when their lorry was blown up by a mine near Tel Aviv. Second. Two more British soldiers were slightly injured when gunmen attacked a camp
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  • 64 1 The Bukit Sembilan Estate (Kedah) rioters appeared m the District Court m Sungei Pattani yesterday morning. 17 pleaded guilty; 59 men were each sentenced to 6 months* r.i.; three women were sentenced to 1 month's r.i.. and two women to a fine of 50 dollars (or
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  • 49 1 Hongkong, Mar. 4. India's first Ambassador to China K. P. S. Menon postponed his departure for Nanking today as scheduled owing to bad flying weather. He is now due to leave tomorrow and hopes to make a brief stop at Amoy cnroute to the capital.— Reuter
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  • 22 1 Latest scores are: England Ist innings 280; Australia Ist innings —253; England 2nd innings— l 44 for 6 wkts.- Reuter
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  • 442 1 London, Mar. 4. India's new Viceroy, Rear-Admiral Viscount Mountbatten, will arrive m New Delhi on Mar. 22, it was learned officially yesterday. According to present arrangements, the retiring Viceroy, Field-Marshal Viscount Wavell, will leave New Delhi the following day. The
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  • 63 1 AUNG SAN CONGRATULATES MOUNTBATTEN Rangoon, Mar. 4. I Aung San. deputy chairman of the Burma inter mi Government, has sent a telegram of congratulation to Viscount Mountbatten on his appointment as Viceroy of India. Aung San wished Viscount Mountbatten success m the momentous task he is called upon to shoulder.
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  • 136 1 London, Mar. 4.— The possibility of Prime Minister Attlee visiting India, enroute to Australia and New Zealand later this year, will lie mentioned during a two-day debate on India, scheduled to ooen la the House of Commons on Wednesday, it was learned today. Labour members
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  • 155 1 Commons India Debate Begins Today: Opposition's Amendment London, Mar. 4. Winston Churchill and other Opposition leaders late last night cabled their amendment to the Government's motion asking the House of Commons to approve its decision to give India self government by June next year. The amendment reads: "While reaffirming its
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  • 161 1 London, Mar. 4. Between May and June 1948, the date set by the British Government for handing over of power m India, there is likely to be a considerable programme of expansion at Trincomalee, major naval port of Ceylon and one of the six finest
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  • 678 2 Indian Daily Mail Singapore, Wednesday, Mar. 5, 1947 DATO ONN MAKES HISTORY! £)ATO ONN is on a tour. After the Alor Star conference of the U.M.N.0., Dato Onn who is its President, has been touring the peninsula, hoisting "U.M.N.O. flags" and a.sking Malays to support his organisation. Certainly no one
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  • 674 2 Polling Expected To Take Place On April 9 Rangoon, Mar. 4. The Burmese Government is hastening the preparations for the general elections to the Constituent Assembly, scheduled to take place m April. Officials of the Home Department, who are m charge of the election
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  • 106 2 Lahore, Punjab, Mar. 4. The Punjab Muslim League announced on Monday its acceptance of the invitation to form a new Provincial Government to replace the Coalition Government which resigned on Sunday. The attitude of the Congress Party towards this move was uncertain. The party sources
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  • 40 2 Paris, Mar. 3.— When the world table tennis championships continued here yesterday India beat Switzerland 5-3 m the men's competition for the Swathling Cup, but later lost a match to France by 5-0. The United States beat India 5-0.- Reuter
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  • 335 2 Rangoon, Mar. 4. Two of Burma's numerous indigenous races Karens and Mons on Saturday protested against the proposed plans for Burma's constitutional future. The Mons and Karens claim to number 8,000.000 of Burma's population of 17,500,000 though according to the official census, they
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  • 86 2 Calcutta, Mar. 4.— Three leading 6lock Exchanges, Calcutta, Bomoay ana iviaaras, are closing indefinitely as a protest against the 1947 to 1948 Budget proposals for a 25 per cent tax on business proritjs exceeding £7,500 and increased super-tax. At dawn today, businessmen representing
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  • 167 2 Ambassador Menon 's Advice To Saigon Indians Saigon, Mar. 4.— Mr. K. P. S. AX noii, first Indian Ambassador to China, left for Hongkong yesterday enroute ior Nanking. He was seen off at the airport oy the Reach Commissioner m Cochin-China M. Torel. the Indian vice-Consul Mehta and tlie British
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  • 454 2 India Secretary Of State's Services- Questions In Common London, Mar. 4.— The Sectary of State's servic* dia were reterred to at question tim e m the House oj < yesterday when Mr. Arthur Henderson, Under-SecretT India, m reply to a question the question ol termi the Secretary of State's services
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  • 526 2 Following: on Mr. Attlee's statement on India, the High Commissioner for India m Australia made the following: Press statement m Canberra on 21st February, the main points being: (1) Mr. Attlee's announcement is perhaps the most important event m living memory. (2) There will
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  • 465 3 ee k Crisis Awakens Americans jo World Situation .Mar. 4.— Most diplomats here are deeply m;- crisis and hopeful that the United States k saiy measures lo keep Greece m the demol continuing ecoiiomic cooperation with Bri b ravEtion of the world political crisis. r diplomat*
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  • 249 3 Marshall And Stalin Won't Discuss Far Eastern Problems? Washington, Mar. 3.— United States Secretary of State George Marshall takes off for Moscow prepared if circumstances permit for face-to-face talks with Russian leaders on Lend-Lease settlement and other touchy issues, but probably Far Eastern problems will not be discussed. The U.S.
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  • 142 3 London, Mar. 4. -Sudhir Ghosh. who was the link between Mahattna Gandhi and the British Cabinet Mission when m India and who came to Britain last summer at the request of the British Government, arrived here yesterday to take up his new post as
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  • 26 3 Washington, Mar. 3. The U.S. State Department on Sunday announced the transfer of Charles E. Brookhart from Consul at Calcutta to Consul at Hong Kong.- AP
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  • 143 3 Truman Reafirms Good Neighbour Policy Mexico City, Mar. 4.—^resident Truman speaking nere today appeaiea lor "application oi aemocracy to international relations ana declared: "it is tne only and security.' Addressing Mexican national leaders, neadta oy President iviiguei Alemun, Truman vvno is on iu s nrst state visit to Mexico said
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  • 112 3 Britain's Car Output Halved London, Mar. 3.— Britain's planned output of automobiles will be cut m half, due to coal shortage, states the Sunday Times motoring correspondent. He said despite the support of the export drive given Dy automobile manufacturers, they have received no priority In coal allocations and will
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  • 254 3 New Delhi, Mar. 3.— lntroducing the first national budget m the Central Assembly on Saturday, Nawabzada Liaquat lAli Khan. Finance Member of the Interim Indian Government, declared "it is certain that the responsibility for shaping the future now rests m our own hands." "And while
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  • 256 3 Colombo, Mar. 4.— lndependence Day was celebrated throughout Ceylon on Sunday with members of various politi#al organisations speaking from the same platform at Meeting! m Colombo, Kandy and other important cities m the island organised mainly by the United National Party. Chairman of the Party is
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  • 56 3 Moscow, Mar, 4. Generalissimo Joseph Stalin, has resigned from the post of Minister of the Armed Forces "m view of excessive burden of his main work/ it is announced. General Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin has been appointed his successor. Bulganin was previously de nll v
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  • 38 3 Tokyo, Mar. 3.— lndians of the First Battalion of the Fifth Mahratta Light Infantry will take over the Imperial Palace guard duties on Mar. 6 from the New Zealand battalion which is at present guarding the palace. Reuter
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  • 362 3 Indian troops m Singapore and Malaya have recently been entertained by a team of classical dancers who left Malaya on Sunday on their return to India. They are members of the Fauji Dilkhush Sabha the Indian equivalent of ENSA which
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  • 274 3 "Colonial Appetites Of Imperialist States" Criticised Moscow, Mar. 4.— British promise to leave India by June 1948 does not give a clear picture of the future of India, said Professor of History Huber m a talk on post-war colonial problems, broadcast by Moscow radio last night. "In India," he said,
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  • 27 3 Paris, Mar. 2.— The United States Army officially quit Western Europe yesterday, closing the western base section which the successor to the wartime Sup- reme Headquarters. UP
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  • 88 3 Frankfurt, Mar. 3.— A youthful Hannover music critic who criticised an opera perforcance, is paying for his remarks by labouring on a rosk-pile. A Hamburg newspaper Die Veit reported that Klaus Wagner who writes foi a Hannover paper severely criticised the operatic performance, whereupon the guest
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  • 101 3 Lucknow (United Provinces) Mar. 3.-Twelve out of the 53 European police officers serving under the United Provinces Government, have no academic qualifications, said Mr. Rafl Ahmed Kidwai, Home Minister of the United Provinces, m reply to a question by a
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  • 79 3 Moscow. Mar. 3.— Soviet Government newspaper Izvestia said on bunday that Britain's interest m China was aimed chiefly against Americans, but the paper said "the acuteness of British and American contraditions m China is softened by the interest of Britain m American collaboration on
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  • 67 3 Muzaffarpur (Bihar). (Air Mail) Acharya Kripalini, President of the Indian National Congress declared m a speech here that he was surprised that youths were still shouting the slogan "Delhi chalo" (On to Delhi) although Pandit Nehru and Congress Ministers were m the Interim Government
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  • 355 4 "Comprehensive Militant Operations" (ontempiatea Bandits Shoot European, Take Burmese Hostages Rangoon, Mar. 4.— Official Quarters m Rangoon yesterday expressed #rave anxiety over mounting lawlessness m the Irrawaddy delta and several districts of centrai Burma. It is reliably learned the situation i* so acute that
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  • 51 4 Rome, Mar. 4.— Pope Pius XII tripped on a stone and dislocated his ankle while walking on the Vatican gardens three days ago, the Italian News Agency reported on Monday. The Ponufl temporarily guspendeu puohc audiences which require him to be on his feet lor consideraoie periods.
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  • 203 4 Rangoon, Mar. 4. Ba Maw and U Saw, two former Burmese Premiers, and Thakin Ba Sein, former member of the Executive Council, today announced the formation of an "independence first" alliance under their leadership which will boycott the iorthcoming Burmese elections and resist the British
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  • 119 4 The Ladies Section of the RamakrLshna Mission met on Saturday, March 1. There was a fairly large gathering of ladies and children. The first item on the programme was a talk In Tamil for children, on their daily duties and illustrated by a short story. The
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  • 296 4 ROYAL DIARY' CONTAINS REMARKABLE INFORMATION Prof. K. S. Maniam, T.R.0., Scientist, Philosopher, has produced a unique Diary which contains many useful and new informations regarding the rotations and revolutions of the Earth. His contention is that the earth does not rotate round
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  • 302 4 "The object of the Labour Advisory lj oard some responsible body to which the Government l W and get advise on labour matters. It is not an Un Me| board to settle disputes of any individual industn but it is purely advisory and can
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  • 83 4 The sequel to a street when the complainant, old Chinese youth, Let was relieved of a Hen.. valued at $100, was heard; Assize Court yesterday Justice T. A. Brown and a mon jury when Lim Teo Se^; arraigned on a charge rubbery. The prosecution wii
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