Indian Daily Mail, 15 March 1947

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  • 15 1 Indian Daily Mail Vol. 111, No. 29. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 468 1 Governor Rushes To See Viceroy: Martial Law Possible Soon: Gandhiji Opposed To Partioning Punjab, Bengal: Willing To Visit Troubled Province (From Our Own Correspondent) Lahore, Mar. 14. Fuller reports received now reveal, both from the standpoint of casualties and damage to property, that what
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  • 1115 1 LABOUR ADVISORY BOARD MEETS (By Our Staff Reporter) first session of the Singapore Labour Advisory Board yesterday. Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, Colonial Secreting the members of the Board reminded them of sponsibilitica and appealed to them to dissociate themron sectional
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  • 218 1 Batavia, Mar. 14.— Hopes for the safety of the missing Dutch Dakota and its 26 occupants faded tonight when all available planes returned from the third day's fuitless search. Earlier it was said a Dutch Army patrol and six ambulances have penetrated Indonesian Republican territory north
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  • 104 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Calcutta, Mar. 14.— "Whatever may be the form of the future constitution, I certainly visualise that the province of Bengal will attain independent status," declared Premier Suhrawardy m the Bengal. Council yesterday. He added: "Under circumstances it is highly desirable that
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  • 34 1 Teheran, Mar. 14.— Political circles here commenting on President Truman's offer of aid to Greece and Turkey said Persia also needs economic and moral assistance from democratic America to maintain her democracy and independence.
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  • 58 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) New Delhi, Mar. 14.— The next plenary session of the Constituent Assembly Ls likely to meet on April 25 by which time the subcommittees would have finished their tasks. It is officially announced that Gwalior, Jodhpur, Patiala, Jaipur and Cochinan
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  • 54 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) New Delhi, Mar. 14.— The India Government is shortly sending a deputation of cotton interests to Japan to find a market for Indian cotton there. Three lakhs bales of cotton are being shipped to Japan shortly. Pre-war Japan imported ten
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  • 83 1 U.P. IN GRIPS OF PLAGUE EPIDEMIC, HELPLESS (From Our Own Correspondent) Lucknow, Mar. 14. United Provinces is m the grip of a plague epidemic. Admitting Government's helplessness m checking the epidemic, Mrs. Pandit, Health Minister, said m the Provincial Assembly yesterday that her department did not have enough plague vaccine,
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  • 27 1 (From Our Own Correspondent; Washington, Mar. 14. It is understood that Asaf Ali will be a member of the Food Commission of the Far Eastern Commission.— Copyright.
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  • 182 1 BUSMEN GAME TO WORK IF GOVT. REQUISITIONS STC VEHICLES BUT ON ONE CONDITION (By Our Staff Reporter) Singapore's striking busmen have addressed His Excellency the Governor once more. In a letter dated Mar. 13, they state that they have read with concern Government's reported intention of requisitioning the Singapore Traction
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  • 927 2 Indian Daily Mail Singapore, Saturday, Mar. 15, 1947. NOTES AND COMMENTS BEWARE OF THE "FAKE PATRIOTS" A TIMELY warning against what he termed "fake patriots" m this country has been issued by Dr. Burhannuddin, leader of the Malay Nationalist Party and a delegate to the Pan-Asian Conference In New Delhi.
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  • 705 2 Questions Answers In House Of Lords London, Mar. 14. Viscount Cranborne, leader of the Oppotion m the House of Lords, asked yesterday if m view of (he Congress resolution, notwithstanding the provision of the (lovernnient of India Acl, that statutary powers and duties of (he
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  • 246 2 Bombay, Mar. 13. A high official of the Reserv India declared on Wednesday importation of m| is banned because recent "avalanche" of internation m the precious metals threatened the economy of t j! and drained oft sterling reserves needed badly for
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  • 23 2 Washington, Mar. 12. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Novikov has been recalled to Moscow for consultations and will leave New York by air tomorrow. Reuter
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  • 196 2 New Delhi, Mar. 13.— Pandit Nehru recently said of Lord Wavell: "I have jnever Idoubted Lord Wavell's sincerity and desire to serve India's interests. He has carried a heavy burden and has worked hard. I have a high regard for him and I
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  • 350 2 Problem Of Law Order Must Be Deait With By Indians London, Mar. 11. To emphasise (heir determination to transfer intact their power to India the British Government should say immediately that it is impossible to hand the Indian Army to anyone but the Central Government, says Woodrow Wyatt, Labour Member
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  • 47 2 Batavia, Mar. 14. The Philippine Airways have proposed the opening of a regular air service to Indonesia, the Republican radio reported yesterday. The broadcast mentioned the Philippine Airways Dakota which landed at Djogjakarta airfield on Mar. 7 and left last Tuesday for Singapore. Reuter
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  • 116 2 Certain British Army Officers In india Get Less Than Indians London, Mar. v Bridgeman, con m the HOUM 01 L it it wa s a fact i tUfa Army office* were paid less than fad lidding •qaivaleot ran,. pomtments, and n Ciovermnen; would give sons icr such aifftrential ment. Lord
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  • 101 2 Rangoon, Mar. 13.- -V. days before the rcgi nomination papers lor election the Burma Constituent Asa the Anti-Fascist Peoples X League, Burma* major party, is busy revising the candidates to contest the c] it was learned here today. The revision of the Leagi of candidates
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  • 60 3 MORE THAN THOUSAND COMMIT SUICIDE THIS STRANGE WAY 13.— The Ministry oi ion revealed loday that 12 month period ending > a total ot 1,241 people I i commit suicide by front oi trains. It icceasful m their d the number ol such Increased lately. Press comments said Lcides were
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  • 120 3 Jftt .oniKht for a three To^hs' Wdtie S J W ether with «.x other World Trade LnioS leaders to J he .n.unchvork of a projected first Asiatic Trade Union ((inference. East A^la as a >rid Federation aGe i iinding comOi iciucUnj Mr. id
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  • 78 3 YANK, JAP GIRL IN SUICIDE PACT lokyo, Mar. 14.— The Am crican soldier who suicided s w h a 30-year-old Japanese Sir. m the Shinto Shrine be- ween Tokyo and Yokohama last Thursday, was Private I Cnarlea Kinchelovv of Missouri General lleadquai<;ers revealed yesterday, following the notification of his next
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  • 140 3 In Defence Of Japan's War Role Tokyo, Iviar. :J. Shinji Hosh.na, former Commerce Minister, told the international War Crimes tribunal yesterday as titience witness inai tlic world economic crisis nan necessitated Japan's pre-war mooilisaiioii oi industry and that her economic policies had been needed to guarantee Japan s independence. He
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  • 198 3 New York, Mar. 13. The United States can no longer "lead a sheltered existence' under the protection of the British Empire and must face world responsibilities, the New York Times said m iis comment yesterday on President Truman's address to Congress.
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  • 226 3 Batavia, Mar. 13.— Mitchell bomoeis, Dakotas and every available Cub observation plane m West Java renewed a search at dawn on Thursday tor the missing Dutch Air Force 19th Squadron Dakota carrying two crewmen and 24 passengers, including nine women and one baby. A Dutch
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  • 131 3 Rangoon (Air Mail). The Burma Civil Supplies Board has given notice to its employees, terminating their services on June 1. Commencing June, the Civil supplies Board will employ a "limited stafT, under terms and conditions of employment to be fixed later. The Civil Supplies staff
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  • 61 3 Tokyo, Mar. 13.— A Japanese Foreign Office spokesman said today that all Japanese nationals left within the Dutch East Indies will be repatriated by the end of The spokesman said that the 1,369 Japanese at present there were mostly engaged m
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  • 37 3 Los Angeles, Mar. 12. Joe Louis, arriving from a profitable LatinAmerican barnstorming tour, announced that his next defence of the world heavyweight title will be next Summer against the winter of the Joe Baksi-Bruce Woodcock fight. UP
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  • 394 3 Sydney (Air Mail).— There had been a blunting of the moral sense m Australia and some people did not think there was any distinction between right and wrong, Dr. J. W. Burton said at the Methodist Conference m Sydney. Dr. Burton, the president-general
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  • 230 3 London, Mar. 13.— The Cabinet is planning to launch an unprecedented advertizing campaign to rally the support of the British people m a drive for the nations economic recovery, high Government sources said here. Estimates were being prepared for the campaign which is designed to use
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  • 81 3 London, Mar. 13.— The Australian High Commissioner's Office said an official announcement would be made m Canberra "m a few days" on negotiations to charter the 44,786-ton liner Quintania to carry British immigrants to the Dominion. Upwards of 200,000 Britons have registered for
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  • 29 3 Athens, Mar. 12.— Reliable sources said today that British troops will begin to evacuate the Dodecanese Island In April with Greek administration officials taking over later m March.- UP
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  • 280 3 IT'S FOR LEAGUE TO SHOW WHETHER ITS INTENTIONS ARE PURELY DESTRUCTIVE OR OTHERWISE, SAYS "TRIBUNE" London, Mar. 14. A bitter irony of fate must have dictated that almost at the hour when the British Government courageously announced its determination to quit India next year come what may, the British Governor
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  • 174 3 Rangoun (Air Ivlail). China does not crave the "leadership 4 of Asia, an olli^ial of the Chinese Consulate-General In Rangoon, refuting the allegation made by Sir Alfred Watson, a former editor of the Statesman < Calcutta; that a free Burma would be "a
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  • 114 3 Rangoon, Mar. 12. It was safe to assume that Britain would be prepared to transfer power to Burma at the same time as to India m view of the Burmese political situation being more favourable than m India, said U Ba
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  • 115 3 Washington, Mar. 14. The Imted stales Government has under cons deration various possible means of extending additional economic assistance to Hungary, lleiuer learned auihoruaiivtiy. State Department oiiiciuis declined to comment upon ihe^r continuing programme of economic aid to Hungary or to relate it to President Truman's
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  • 167 4 New Delhi, Mar. 14. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Vice-President of the Indian Interim Government, is leaving by air tomorrow on a short visit to all centres of recent clashes In the Punjab. Latest reports showed the rioting had spread to Benares, Hindu holy city m the United
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  • 129 4 India's Military Attache m the USA, Col. Nawabzada Mohammed Sher AH Khan, who was m New Delhi on a short liaison visit has left by air for America via Japan. In Japan Col. Sher AH Khan will spend a few days and establish l>ersonal
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  • 79 4 Rangoon, Mar. 14. Royal Air Force Dakotas have just completed the air dropping of 640 tons of rice and 30 tons of salt m the famine-stricken Kareni hills of Eastern Burma, it was announced here yesterday. The Dakotas made 366 operational flights on this mercy mission.
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  • 111 4 Tokyo, Mar. 14. A pair of huge army trained German shephard dogs were put on guard duty on Thursday along with the ordinary guards over the 26 Japanese leaders on "jrial on war crimes charges at the International Military Tribunal for the Far
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  • 38 4 On Board the Royal Train, Mar. 14.— The King had his first sight of South African Indians yesterday when a big crowd of nearly 3,000 the whole Indian population of Ladysmith cheered and wa/ed to the Royal car.
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  • 74 4 Boston, Mar. 14. Miss Lucy Wang, one of China's most distinguished ecfcicators who was president of the Hwang College. Foochow and a descendant of live generations of Chinese scholars, was given the degree of poc^ox of Humanities on Thursday. Even during the war she carried
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  • 61 4 Uisunomiya, Mar. 13. Japanese police gasped when they searched an apparently pregnant woman passenger and discovered she was concealing 12 pounds of rice m packages tied around her waist. The woman was one of 1,000 passengers taken into custody by the police m a raid by 250 armed
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  • 166 4 "East Asian Muslims Source Of Potential Trouble" New York, Mar. 14.-Muslim populations m various parts of East Asia constitute patches of potential trouble, asserts the American author Vanya Oakes m an article m the "International Magazine." Oakes says: "With the Muslim world m ferment, the attitude of Mohammedans of East
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  • 122 4 Paris, Mar. 14. France will send all available air power to IndoChina and blast the Vietnam revolt and thus save the lives of the colonial infantry, it was decided Wednesday night, states the Chicago Tribune correspondent. The Air Minister, M. Andre Manoselli, pledged to the
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  • 44 4 Washington, Mar. 13.— The Senate sitting at a night session approved the constitutional amendment limiting the future of presidents to no more than ten years m White House, including only two full four year elected terms m office UP
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  • 202 4 The former Alexandra Hall m North Bridge Road is now speedily turning into a first rate Cinema Hall, the Diamond Theatre. The renovation will be completed within 45 days by a well-known contractor firm and wil be equipped with the world-famous Western Sound system
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  • 128 4 At a recent conference of officers it was decided to rehabilitate a joint Headquarters Mess at which Volunteers past and present and other ex -Servicemen might meet. It is hoped that occasional lectures and demonstrations may take place as well as unit re-unions, It was also decided to
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  • 65 4 AMMUNITION FOUND, ARREST MADE posse of mtn from f recovered a au-,, ma c p a few rounds of J, Thur.sday f rom Bukit Timah Road. 1 have been arrc,, d In v tion. khl c^ Shortly after the recoveautomatic and UmSSf* rounds of .38 ammunition t] k covered from
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  • 44 4 fctanord, England, March n Fourteen-aged boys w£ guilty of murder today a gardening instructor m of England reform school her he interfered with their escape. The boys-two 15 and 16 years old-wer. to be imprisoned for an in*Z! oeriod. UP
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  • 40 4 London. Mar. 14.- -Labours bers of Parliament, supj Winston Churchill and Eden of the Opposition the Government yet range a debate on President!) man's announcement ol States participation m the Greece and Turkey.- Re uter
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  • 31 4 Bagdad, Mar. 14.— TL trade and barter m Middle East countries v Baghdad yesterday. When iis work m Bcghdac completed it will leave fa cus. Reuter
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  • 48 4 EUROPEAN A ND GIRL FRIEND ROBBED <V=-uropea n ana h pamon were the 2 tims an armc-r; occurred near lht serv at abou- m Thursday and th, Chine.se, one arm'n -d another Wtting both heads and rellevii valuables, drove £j^ The car wa s i a;er lo J
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