Indian Daily Mail, 6 March 1947

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  • 15 1 Indian Daily Mail Vol. 111, No. 21. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1947. PRICE 10 CEMTS
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  • 1652 1 CRIPPS INITIATES INDIAN DEBATE IN COMMONS 15. Sir Stafford Cripps, member of the Bri>n to India and President of the Board of rrowded House of Tommons today to move a ing m the name of the Prime Minister. Mr. *ir. A. Alexander, Mr. Arthur Henderson liat this House takes note
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  • 26 1 (THE ABOVE IS A REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN COMMONS -RECEIVED IN SINGA PORE UP TILL 2 A.M. THURSDAY FOR FULLER DETAILS SEE TO-MORROW'S ISSUE^- ED
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  • 191 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) New Delhi, Mar. 5. Replying to criticisms of the Budget proposals m the Assembly yesterday, the Finance Member, Liaquat Ali Khan, warned that if private industrialists are not willing to help m improving the country's economic condition, "there are
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  • 31 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Madras, Mar. s.— The Madras Government nave removed control regarding ihc sale ox new cars under pcimits. Price control, however, continues.- -Copyright.
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  • 29 1 Sydney, Mar. s.— One of the most keenly fought tests m the history of cricket ended here today with Australia victorious by five wickets. Reuter
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  • 163 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Calcutta, Mar. 5. Before leaving for Bihar yesterday, Mahatma Gandhi told Dr. Amiya Chakravarty, of Calcutta University: "I will be going back to the Noakhali furnace and if I come back alive, I shall have something to tell the
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  • 94 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Karachi, Mar, 5. During his three months' sojourn m Sind, Mr. Jinnah appears to have persuaded the Ministry to initiate plans for Lbe transfer o» Bihar Muslims to Sind. Mr, Jinxu i j s.• spearhea his drive for ski
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  • 68 1 <F>«»iii Our Own Correspondent) Now Delhi. Mar. s.— lt is understood Congress President Krlpalani has written to Prakasam to resign the Madras Premiership if the R. rty has lost confidence m him, but there seems no disposition on Prakasam 's part 10 follow this advice.
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  • 86 1 Ks. 50,000,000 ON EDUCATION THIS YEAR Bombay. Mar. 5. Vaikunth Mehta. Finance Minister to the Government of Bombay, said m the local legislature that me Government had decided to spend 50,000,000 rupees for education during the year. He added that this meant over 20,000.000 rupees more than
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  • 79 1 Allahabad, liar. 5. The Middk East department oi be All-India Congress Committee will start a news bulletin m Arabic from It will be called Akhbar-Nama and published twice a month. Mohammed Mian Faruqi, secretary of the Middle East Department of the Congress Committee, will be the
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  • 64 1 New Delhi, Mar. s.— The Government of ndia is considering a fiveyear plan of mineral investigation In the country. A complete survey of the quantity of the minerals obtainable m India is shortly to be undertaken by a committee of experts. The minerals available
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  • 99 1 London, Mar. 5. Illness struck i gain on Monday at the British i'rinxe Minister Clement Attlee's work-laden Cabinet. Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, who is charged with carrying out the Government'^ major housing programme, was confined to his home by an attack of pneumonia Physicians said
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  • 95 1 Hifl liajestj the Kin^ lias been graciously pleased to approve the award oi the Medal of the Moat Excellent Order of the British Empire for meritorious service to Mr. Wong Peng Swoi. Assistant Superintendent, Postal Deyanment, Singapore. This award is made iv Mr. Wong
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  • 121 1 It is notified for the information of the public that the offices of the Deputy Malayan Representative m India and the Colonial Office Representative for the Far East at Bombay were closed m September and June. 1946, respectively. Persons who are desirous of entering
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  • 674 2 Indian Daily Mail Singapore, Thursday, Mar. 6, 1947. AMERICA EXTENDS HER TENTACLES ABROAD A MERICA'S political and economic um'jiiion kiic./s no limit. The end Of the Second Great Global War has seen this giant grown into a super-giant. It is a veritable Colossus which has fattened on the wretchedness and
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  • 260 2 Even American Dollars Cant Hold It Together! London, Mar. 5. While admitting on Tuesday thpt "the sun is setting on the great empire," the Communist Daily Worker denied that "Britain's day is over except as a museum piece for Yankee tourists." "The empire," said
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    27 2 GANDHIJI TEACHES CHILDREN: Gandhi ji who opened a villa, school m East Bengal recently is seen m this picture m the r.i of a teacher.
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  • 94 2 London, Mar. 5. Sudhir Ghosh. Public Relations Officer for the Government oi India, who arrived m Britain this week, told Reuter he dined and had a long conversation with Sir Stafford Cripps Monday night. He said he hoped to see Prime Minister Attlee at
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  • 116 2 ORIGINAL CASKET HOLDING BUDDHIST RELICS WANTED Colombo, Mar. 5. A notice of motion was given m the State Council yesterday by J. R. Jayawardene urging the Ceylon Government to take steps, m consultation with the Government of India, to secure from the British Government the original caskets m which the
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  • 72 2 Coventry, Mar. 5. Chowdhury Akbar Khan, President of the Indian Workers Association was re-elected to office at the annual meeting held here yesterday. Arrangements were made for a public demonstration to be held m London later this month to protest against the Portuguese occupation of Goa.
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  • 155 2 Rangoon, Mar. s.— The creation of a Burma Currency Board to function from April 1 with the main office m London and a branch office m Rangoon was announced yesterday m a communique from the Finance Department of the Government of Burma. "The Currency Board will
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  • 107 2 New Delhi, Mar. s.— Mrs. Swaminathan, M.L.A., presided during the course of a debate m the Legislative Assembly hero recently. IhSj is the first time m the history of the Assembly that a woman has presided. When Dr. Ziauddin. M.L.A. and Vice-Chancellor of the Muslim University
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  • 100 2 •This is the most opportune time for us. Dravidians. to achieve the goal of Dravidasthan. and if we nonder over the events that are happening m this country, we are strengthened m our conclusions that the early attainment of Dravididasthan is the only solution for all the
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  • 90 2 GANDHIJI OPPOSED TO STATE AID TO RELIGIOUS BODIES Calqutta, Mar. s.— Mahatma Gandhi said m the course of a post- prayer address m an East Bengal village that he was opposed to State aid, partly or wholly, to religious bodies. He added that religion being a purely personal matter, State
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  • 66 2 PLEA FOR INCREASED CIVILIAN PASSAGES FOR MALAYA To obviate the difficulties experienced by intending passengers to Malaya m securing passage, the Southern India Chamber of Commerce, Madras, has sent a telegram to the Government of India suggesting that 50 per cent of the accommodation m every ship proceeding to Malaya
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  • 62 2 Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, Dewan of Travancore, paid a warm tribute to the services of the late Dr. Annie Besant to India and made an impassioned appeal to every Indian to extend generous and wholehearted support to the Besant Centenary Memorial Plan, when he addressed
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  • 289 2 Glassgow, Mar. 5. The Independent Glasgow Herald m its editorial yesterday on the problem of Indian settlers m Natal States said they were brought m as indentured labourers some 80 years ago and finding they had better chances m South Africa than m India
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  • 156 2 Lahore, Mar. 5. Tne Coalition Government of Punjab announced on Wednesday it "no longer was able to continue m office because of riots occurring m Lahore/ 1 The announcement by the Government, which resigned on Sunday night but continued m office temporarily pending the
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  • 88 2 Rangoon, Mar. 5. Hundreds of village headmen of the Toungoo and Mandalay districts have gone on strike demanding an increase m the allowance granted by fhe Government, according to Burmese Press reports. These headmen of rural Burma carry on functions with the consent of
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  • 283 2 New Delhi, Mar. s.— Maulana Abul Kalani A/ad, education member m the Interim Government, said here that 15Q ye of intimate contact has made English an integral part of 0 educational system and this cannot be changed without mi un to the cause of
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  • 68 2 New Delhi, Mar. 5. Replying to questions m the Central Assembly, an official spokesman said that no famine was apprehened m India. He added that food grains are distributed throughaut India m well-established ration system and things were moving as they should be. But
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  • 71 2 Hongkong Mar. s.— lndia'! first Ambassador to China, K. P. S. Menon arrived here from Saigon yesterday en route to Nanking to present his credentials to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek. He told the Press he hopes to conclude a Sino-Indian trade pact which is still under discussion
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  • 90 2 Allahabad, Mar. s.— Congress President Acharya Kripalani made a fervent appeal to root out the weaknesses that had crept into the Congress organization and adovocated a thorough searching of the heart m this matter. He added that there was no harm m the existence of many parties
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  • 252 2 London, Mar. 4.— Mr. Henderson, Under-Srrrctun India said m the House of C* mons yesterday that he m 'n£ the Government of India I reasons for the suspension of Klu: Bahadur Nawab Sheikh Mihfc All Khan, political agent m Mala kand, North -west Frontier
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  • 33 2 NEHRUJI'S HEAD SCULPTURED BY EPSTED Lahore, Mar. 4. huad sculptured In bro tein has been -most rcaaonal iount Lahore Central M Curator of the The Pandit'a to India after the Leicester Gal Reuter. „>
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  • 45 2 Under the au Hindu Provr meeting presided o y ness Sri Jagadgim b Swamigal of c ll tlv Puri, was held rean Ponnappen Street, devise ways and mea ment the resolution pConference m repaid blLshment of a Hino« m Madras.
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  • 546 3 Order To Kindle Lother World War" Mar. 5-— Allegation that Anglo-American impcriup sratcgie bases m India, Malaya and parts j ider to kindle another world war was made Monday's conference of Empire Communist I r m London. r t ri
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  • 31 3 Jerusalem, Mar. 5.—A terrorist workshop was discovered on Sunday m ihe .all-Jewbsh city of Tel Aviv during searches by British troops after the bomb outrages, it was officially announced here Reuter
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  • 179 3 Cambridge, Mar. s.— Asian and African students at Cambridge University have started an Institute for Asian and African Affairs. "The Institute will serve two purposes." said Subrata Roy Chowdhury, former President of the Cambridge University Majlis. "It will bring us closer to each other and promote
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  • 168 3 Hongkong.— The future United Nations Air Force would be modelled on the British Commonwealth Air Command now m Japan, m the opinion of Geoffrey de Freitas, British Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Air. Interviewed here on his return from Japan, de Freitas
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  • 123 3 Washington, Mar. 5. Rea:/ Admiral William E. Parsons. Navy director of the Atomic Defense, an International agreement for the control of atomic bomb w\\\ not prevent its use m the event oi another war. He told the Science Talent Institute that "any major war
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  • 98 3 Moscow. Mar. 5. Tass official Soviet news agency, late Monday nisht denied that Russia was recruiting 500,000 inhabitants of Northern Korea, which she occuVies, into the Soviet Army. The United States Commander's reports have no foundation whatsoever and are a ridiculous fabrica\ion. the agency said. Reutcr
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  • 73 3 CEYLON TRADE DELEGATION TO TOUR WORLD Colombo (Air Mail).— A six-man trade delegation from Ceylon may shortly start on a world study tour. It is learned that the Ceylon Board of Ministers having agreed on this proposal are shortly to ask the State Council for a supplementary vote to cover
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  • 116 3 Rangoon. Mar. 5. Lt.-Col. D. Rees Williams, Member of the British Parliament who arrived here on Sunday on a special mission, will visit the Shan states during the weekend and tour other parts of the Bui ma frontier regions tor preliminary investigations regarding
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  • 119 3 London, Mar. s.— At an extraordinary general meeting of Reuters. Limited, final steps were taken to convert Reuters into a world news agency under the ownership and control of newspapers of the United Kingdom. Australia and New Zealand. New articles of association have been adopted by
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  • 83 3 London, Mar. 5. Frank Owen, journalist of international reputation, is to succeed Stanley Horniblow as editor of the conservative "Daily Mail." Owen was editor of "SEAC" newspaper for South-East Asia Command forces. He was also chief press aide to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten
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  • 72 3 "AUNTY KATE," OF SEREMBAN, IN AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL Sydney (Air Mail). Mrs. Kathleen Rozario, of Seremban, Malaya, who is a patient m Royal Melbourne Hospital, is seeking Eighth Division soldiers with whom her family was friendly before the Japanese occupation. Mrs. Rozario, known to many AIF men as "Aunty Kate," often
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  • 126 3 London, Mar. 5. Mr. Winston Churchill protested v'olently m the Commons yesterday against being celled a "gate crasher" by the Speaker Douglas Clifton Brown. Mr. Churchill objected because the Speaker chose to speak to him m "unparliamentary language." Brown said ho thought thai the term "gate
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  • 545 3 London, Mar. 5. Winston Churchill, leader of the Opposition, caused an uproar m the House of Commons by denouncing the Government measure to put a time-limit on certain debates as the "first step m curtailing our national liberties." Amid loud Opposition cheers, Churchill continued: "I
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  • 153 3 Manila, Mar. s.— lt was authoritatively learned that General Motors Overseas Corporation is pullin? out of the Philippines, probably for Singapore. Furthermore, the plans calling for a large assembly plant employing approximately 400 persons have been cancelled. This means the loss of revenue of well
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  • 81 3 CANTON'S RICKSHAS TO STAY Canton. Cantons rickoha.i will not be abolished after all, despite much publicity to the contrary. The Executive Yuan ha.^ instructed the Kwangtung Government not to carry out any orders 'that might bring about an unfavourable reaction from the people," according to an announcement of the official
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  • 1116 4 With Retrospective Effect From Jan. 1947 Details Of Special Commission's Recommendations (By Our St; The salary schemes for th€ been completely revised and nc t>pe of persons will be attract* "It is hoped/ 1 said Mr. R. Police at a Press conference
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  • 82 4 Singapore, Mar. s.— Dr. Lucius Nicholis, Nutrition Adviser to the Special Commissioner for S. E. Asia. Lord Killearn, leaves Singapore by air for Hong Kong today when he will stay about two weeks as the guest of the Governor. While In Hong Kong he
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  • 157 4 The first election meeting of the Seremban Indian Congress was held at the Vivekananda Hall, Seremban at 4)30 p.m. on Friday the 21st Feburary, 1947. The following Office bearers and Committee Members for the year 1947 were elected unanimously: Office-bearers: Mr. G. Sundram: President; Mr. S.
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  • 190 4 In the presence of a large sahertag of ladies and i:entlemen .it a Tea Party held on Monday. 3rd March. 1947. ai the Lee Wong Kee Cafe. Batu Road. Mr. Gurdial Singh, Hon. Treasurer of the Selangor Regional Indian Congress. was entertained. Mr.
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  • 116 4 Lord Beveridge has begun another inqui.|/ on social security aimed at strengthening co-opera-tion between state and individual. The inquiry covers all forms of voluntary social service and m particular future of the friendly societies whose functions are taken over by a new Ministry of National Insurance m
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  • 51 4 Dr. J. W. Field, of the Institute of Medical Research, Kualal Lumpur, will give two lectures at 6 p m on March 10th and 11th at the College of Medicine, Singapore. Subject: Recent Advances In Malaria. All medical practitioners, civilians and Services, are cordially invited to
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  • 488 4 An ordinary meeting of the ah Malayan Estate Workers' Union was help Sunday at Kuala Lumpur under the Chairmanship of Mr. C. P. R. Menon. the acting President of the Union. The Council discussed the following subjects, and the relevant decisions were taken. 1. Cost of
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  • 185 4 DETECTIVE ACCUSED ALLOWED BAIL sail m the sum m allowed N g p^VJ I himself as a detect^ >\ the CIS)., Singapo I pealed against ,1 F ed on him by Mr p the Fourth Criminal l i when he was found I charge of extortion 1 The complainant, Ho
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