Indian Daily Mail, 4 May 1955

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  • 16 1 Indian Daily Mail VOL. XI NO. 81 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1955 FOUR PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 44 1 REBEL CHIEF HIS PET TIGER General Le Van Vleti, Chief of the Binh Xuyen sect and one of the most powerful opponents of Sooth Vietnam Emperor Bao Dai and Premier Xgo Dinh Diem, pats hi» captive tiger at the Binh Xuyen headquarters m Saigon.
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  • 28 1 TOKYO, May 3: Peking radio said Harry Pollitt, General Sec. retary of the British 'Communist Party, left Peking for home by air yesterday.- AP
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  • 334 1 -Menon's Warning MADRAS, May 3: Mr. Krishna Menon, India's United Nations Representative, who has been invited to Peking to Discuss Formosa with the Chinese Communists said here last night that unless tne problem of Formosa was solved "we may destroy one another". Public opinion
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  • 139 1 NEW DELHI, May 3: Mr. V. K. Krishna Menon has ad. varced hir departure date for PckiDg and is now like'y to leave o« Friday to have talKs on the Formosa crisis with Chinese Premier Chou En Lai, it was 'earned here today. Mr.
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  • 63 1 BI-WEEKLY A.I.I. SERVICE TO INDIA Mir. R. N. Kuui, District Managar of the Air India International, Singapore, loud tbe 1 nit. an I>aLy Mai. that Uie Air India mternafeouai wiH double its faults between Singapore and llombay via Madras towards toe end of next month. At present there te "mi>
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  • 112 1 NEW DELHI, May 3. India's Council of States yesterday unanimously passed a Bill making It an ctience to treaty anyone as untouchable. The Bill was passed through the House of the People last week and new goes to the President fo r Assent. It makes offenders liable
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  • 108 1 LONDON. May 3: The La_ bour Party has launched an all out campaign to woo the millions of Liberal voters m Britain key to the outcome of the May 26 General Election. Labour speakers throughout the country are ardently ap_ pealing to the supporters of this
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  • 58 1 NEW YORK, May 3—WHiiam Faulkner's novel "A Fable" has been awarded tne 1955 pultizer Prtie for Literature, it was announced Liere yesterday. Awards In the other categories were Drama Tennessee William's "Cat Oh A Hot Tin Roof Biography William S. White's "The Taft Btory" Music Glan-CarV>
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  • 290 1 Fierce Fighting In Saigon Diem Claims Success U. K. And U. S. Representatives Discuss Attitude To Diem SAIGON, May, 3: A, fierce fighting broke out anew m battle-torn South Vietnam today as the 4*rime Minister, Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem, claimed successes m his weekiong struggle with rebel private Mimics. Government
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  • 103 1 NEW DELHI, May 3. Indian prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharjal Nehru, will visit six capitals m Europe and the Middle East when he goes to Russia next month, it v-as authoritatively learned ncre today. Mr. Nehru will leave Bombay on June S for Prague. He will
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  • 103 1 ATLANTIC CiiV, few* Jersey, May 3. A naUetl Marhyn M«.nn i m .iW ct u.tuir and la.rj;«'r thiin |j»ie,, was projected < n a screen at a doctors' mc«*ttxtg taere as a lew n m Klmpjii cation. it wia» enkaxgement ol the famous picture i"'
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  • 57 1 BOMBAY, May 3: A 32,ycar. old rickshaw boy, Babu Rao Laxman Kochale, went on triahere yesterday for an alleged assassination attempt on Indian Premier Jawararial Nehru. Kochale was charged with attempting to knife Mr. Nehru to death at Nagpur March 12 as Mr. Nehru drove through
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  • 67 1 LONDON, May 3: Indian ana British leaders were reported Monday night m urgent con. sultation over the explosive Situation m Saigon where antiRed revolutionaries are defying their playboy ruler Bao Dai. Both India and Britain are interested m insuring the ful. fl.ment of the Geneva agree,
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  • 112 1 RANGOON. May 3. U Nu, the Burmese Prime Minster will leave here on May 28th. for a world trip Including visits to Japan, the United States and Britain his office announced today He will also pay official visits tc Israel, Yugoslavia and Egypt. U Nu has
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  • 53 1 KARACHI. May 3 Prime Minister Ali said ri a broadcast to the nation last night that he has accepted an invitation by Chinese Premier Chou En-dat to visit China soon He said (he had done so "to strengthen further the friendiy ties between Pakistan
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  • 68 1 HONG KONG. May 3.— William Wyler. the Hollywood film d rector who i s here on a holiday, said! yesterday he was "shocked" at the Hong Kong government's ban on the American Academy Award movie, "On The Waterfront." "It can't be. it's preposterous," he said.
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  • 51 1 WASHINGTON. May 3.— Prime Minister P Pibulsonggram c-f Thailand pledged the U.S. Monday that Thailand "will always b e by your s:de." The Thai leader made his statement on arrival for a three day official visit and talks with President Eisenhower on defenses against Ccmmun:sm
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  • 23 1 The Minister of Health. Mr dang Kerhuu Hospital at- 10 A J. Braga. will visit the Kana.m. today.
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  • 186 1 BODY OF CAPT. JATHAR TO BE CREMATED HERE TO-DAY The body of Capt. Damodar X Jathar, the Chief Pilot of the Air India. Cohstellation "Kashmir Princess" which crashed off Sarawak recently, will be brought to Singapore this morning at 7.30 by Indonesian ship 'Bljan 1 at the Clifford Pier. The
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  • 126 1 Mr. O. H. Bhabha. Chairman of the Eastern* Shipping Corporation India, addressing a luncheon party at the Adelphi Hotel on Friday, Apr 29. The party was given by the Oriental Government Life Assurance Co. Ltd., Kuala Lumpur Branch. Mr. Bhabha is the Managing Director of the Assurance
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  • 525 1 "Restore Your First Wife To Rightful Status" PAK. WOMEN'S ONE-WEEK ULTIMATUM TO MOHD. ALI KARACHI, May 3 The newfey formed League for Women's Rights yesterday threatened civii agitation if Pakistan Prime Minister Mr. Mohammed Al* who recentSy took his former secretary as a second wife, failed to restore hit iirst
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  • 58 1 NEW DELHI, May S—Kieven convicts, inc!M(iin R a notorious outlaw, have walked out of an Indian prison «'ver the past month wfth forced leleaee orders, It was learned today. The forgeries were revca;cu when reflease orders for two more convicts at the prison, fn Fategarh,
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  • 111 1 CAIRO, May 3: Prime Mi. n later Gamal Abdel Nasser described the Bandung Afro. Asian Conference aa "The greatest conference ever held m modern times". For the first time the African and Asian peoples had met without the presence of imperialist powers, he said.
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  • 101 1 SAN DIEGO, Cailfornia, May 3: One of five cas*s diagnosed as polio In chirreo m. ocu.ated with Salk vaccine April 26 has been redlagnosed as an arm infection. One of. the other children was reported to have deve.op. cci no greater disability than a stiff
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  • 511 2 Indian Daily Mail S'pore, Wed. May 4, 1955 INDO-MALAYAN SEA TRAVEL THE Chairman of the Eastern Shipping, Corporation Ltd., Bombay, Mr. C. H. Bhabha announced m Singapore last week that the Government of India hoped to abolish the "decks" m three to six months' time. We believe that this refers
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    94 2 PHOTO, Italian Premier Mario Scelba casts Us vote during the eleot*°» o« Apr. 28 o f a successor li £P& Lttlrl Elnaudl. The voting wm carried out by Deputies and Senators m a Joint session held In the Chamber of Deputies m Home. No nominations were made and every voter
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  • 123 2 NEW DELHI: India will be completely self-sufficient m all varieties of cotton within two years, according to official expectations. Steps are being taken to increase the cultivation of long-staple cotton m several parts of India, including the Punjab, PEPSU. Bombay and Madhya Pradesh. However, so far no
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  • 103 2 "Obscene" Additions To National Archives NEW DELHI: The National Archives of India are getting a number of books categorised as "obscene" for safe custody ana not meant for issue to the public. Obscene literature pubLshca m various parts of the country is banned when detected All copies are confiscated by
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  • 1912 2 -—Bandung Conference—An Appraisal Of Achievements BANDUNG: An outstanding success is the comment of those who took active part m the Asian-African conference which has Ju*t concluded m Bandung Commentators all over the world will doubtless be preoccupied for the next few weeks discussing and ana. lysing the achievements of the
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  • 49 2 NEW DELHI: The Madhya Pradesh Government's proposal to start a straw-board factory m the State to give more jobs tc ddspflaced persons is being examined by the Union Ministry of Rehabilitation. The Centre is expected to sanction the project and finance it on a 50:60 oasl* NAFEN
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  • 287 2 CALCUTTA: Though a major outbreak of polio (polio, myelitis) has never occurred iv India, there have been enough stray cases to justify the assumption that the infec. tion i.s already m the country, j Dr. S. C. Sea!, Professor of Epidemiology, AlLladia Insti. tute of Hygiens,
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  • 47 2 BOMBAY: Prime Minister Nehru sent beat quality Indian mangoe* to dignitaries from Asian and African countries who were staying: m Jakarta after attending- the Bandung conference. Thirteen cases of mangoes were flown to Jakarta recenty by Air India International Constellation "Maratta Princess".- FOC
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  • 118 2 BOMBAY: The pence on Monday dispersed a crowd of abcut 20,000 who had gathered outs:de the office of the Bombay Stevedores' Association to seek employment. The Association had earlier annucunced that over 1,000 workers would be recruited for work m the docks. Later,
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  • 90 2 LONDON: British Equitythe actors' and actresses' trade union has denounced the coltour bar. Its annual general meeting passed a resolution declaring Its d.sapprova] "of any member of Equity being obliged U> agree to appear before any audience from which people are excluded on grounds of religion,
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  • 101 2 DACOA: A fhree-day exhi bition of archaeological fijids unearthed at the Mainanali ridge near Comilla was h- ;d at Burdyan House, Dacca. The finds <*n display mciuied a bronze casket, a copper p ate with 52 lines of tivt inscribed en both sides, somo gold and silver coins,
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  • 699 3 Suhrawardy's Declaration Hug Could Not Stop It CAIjCUTTA. Pakistan's Law Minister, Mr. H. S. Suhrawardy, said here that Mr. Faz.ul Hug could not hold up the progress of 'the Constituent Convention called by the Governor-General of Pakistan. He also dismissed a« -'impossible" Mr Hnq's demand for restoration
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  • 50 3 NEW DELHI: Do hoil.il *iggs loae their taste high altitudes? Myntiftwl cuiUnag'y experts of the Indbui Aftrjnes Carporaiion have found boilP<l eptp. not so pa'atablf during h.frh-aJtitoxie flififhts. Poached eggs are, therefore, taking- the place at boiled eggs m the Airlines menu. NAFEN
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  • 91 3 NEW DELHI: Tennis lovers may Boon have an abundant supply of cheap locally manufactured tennis balls. A well.known foreign firm of tennis baJl makers is likely to be given permission by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to erect a plant m Calcutta. Meanwhile, an Indian
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  • 55 3 Indian Engineers Trained In Germany BERL»IN: Three engineers from the Tata industrial' establishment at jamshedpur are studying boiler engineering with the A.E.G. m Western Germany. A.E.G. are trie largest I'.iers of boilers to Tataa. The engineers, who will be Joined by thre c more m June, wiM spend six months
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  • 121 3 NEW DELHI: Tha Indian Council of Medical Research will soon publish the results of its research on polio at the Bombay Polio Research Institute. For over three years the Council's experts have been probing into the disease. In particular, they have been try. ing to
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  • 59 3 MADRAS: The Madras Government is participating ih the Union Government's Schrme of post-Schccd Scholarships iFor the Blind, and has nciped two Wind students t* pursue unversity course of stydies. One of them has passed t Wo parts of the H.A. Degree Examination and the other has
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  • 116 3 CALCUTTA: The production cf vanaspati increased from 191,000 tons m 1953 to 231,000 tuns ;n 1954, according to an official report. Exports also were encoura-g-ng at 6,500 tons compared with 925 tons m 1953. Though the policy of the Government has been not to encourage expansion
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  • 210 3 BOMBAY. A serious shortfall m expenditure on Community Projects has been noted by the Planning Commission. A working paper recently prepared reveals that against a total provision of Ra 1,010,. 000,000 for the first Flve.Year Plan period only Rs. 140,000,. 000 has been spent 50 far. The
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  • 113 3 Indian Locust Control Team For Arabia NEW DELHI: India Has agreed to send a team of 28 specialists to Arabian countries for locust control operations next winter. The team, at present workIng m Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, will toe back home next month. The FAO Committee on 10. cust control,
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  • 80 3 NEW DELHI: The Union Government ras sanctioned a grant of Rs. 20,000 to the International Dolls Erhibltlon held In Delhi recently and scheduled to be held In Bom. bay soon. This amount haa been given to cover the cost of transportation of dolls form foreign countries and of
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  • 68 3 NEW DELHI: -Hie RaMway Ministry has a rs. 300,000,000 scheme fcr electrification of suburban railways m .Calcutta. The Ministry has suggested to the Union Government that the World Bank might be approached fo r the required money. The electron 1 elation is ex' pected to llower
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  • 45 3 Photo. West German Chancellor kONRAD ADENAUER (right) shakes hands w*tt> French Foreign Minister ANTOINE PINAY as they meet at Bonn on Apr. 29 for two-day talks reviewing irelatiom between thefr two countries m the light of Germany's forthcoming soveretgnity. AP
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  • 52 3 BANARAS: Banaras District »tan<ls first In UP In the matter of Shramdan Unnao and Muzzaffarnagar standing second and third The District Planning officer, addressing a Press conference, stated Uiat Banaras. (Jnnao and Muzzaffarnagar did Shramdan worth about X«. 18 lakhs, 12 lakhs and 5 lakhs
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  • 144 3 JAIPUR: Neglected m the recent past, Chdttor is receiving its due attention from the State as weaii as the Union Government >m the matter of development. The city came into prominence at the beginning of this month, when its original inhabitants, the self-exiled Gael ulya Lohars,
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  • 132 3 KARACHI: The Pakistan. Government has raised with immediate effect the tea cess frcm Re 1-6 to Rs. 2 pe r 100 lb on all tea produced m and issued from tea factories In Pakistan, it is officially announced here. A Press note issued here said: "Proceeds
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  • 98 3 CALiCUTTA: The Zoologies 1 Survey of India, will in* tensify its activities In the current year m order to bridge the gapß that exist m its collections, according to oftt* cial sources. The colllections of the Sur* vey, It is stated, were "seriously damaged" tin 1943 during the
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  • 108 3 NEW DELHI; An IndiaEgypt rle« deal is mi n the offing. The Union Food Ministry is studying the report of an official who recently visited Egypt to study market conditions there. Formal negotiations between the two countries are expected to start socn. The 3ales are
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  • 84 3 KARACHI: Nine American experts are scheduled to arrive nere shortly to help develop the agricultural economy of Sind. They will stay for three years and will be attached to the Slnd University's College of Agriculture at Tando Jam. The experts will provide the agricfiltural "know-how
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  • 114 3 NEW DELJH; With a view to giving more jobs to disp]aced persons, the Union Rehabilitation Ministry has approved a project for manufacturing electrical machin3ry at Fandabad. the refugee township near here. Nearjy l.ooq dispQaced persons will be employed by this factory. It will produce 3,000 tons of
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  • 381 3 Need For Basic Change Stressed CALCUTTA. Stressing the need for the basic change m export policy from restrictive regulation 'to promotion,' the Bharat Chamber of Commerce, m a note submitted to the Union Government, urges for a thorough reappraisal of the Govern. ment machinery vis_a_vis the promotion
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  • 135 3 GAUHATU: Specdal measures were taken by the Assam Government last year for the education of the refugee children m the State, a spokesman of the State Rehabilitation Department tolld. NAIPEN. About 24,000 refugee students got financial assistance from the Government up I" the end of December
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  • 78 3 NEW DELHI: A.I.R. broadcasts to Portugal, started recently, are essentially a news and entertainment service and not a counter-propaganda move, an official spokesman here emphasised. However, the half. hour composite programme m Portu. guese may on occasions, feature talks on India's relations with Portugal. A ten-minute
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  • 228 4 SIR JOHN'S ATTITUDE IN BANDUNG COLOMBO Sir John Kotelawala is in X the whoiie hosr to disrupt and wreck the Bandung Coat n nee and discredit peaceful coexistence m order to satisfy the thirst of the AngloAmerican imperalistic warmongers for dollars m order to entrench the U.N.P. m power In
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  • 116 4 COLOMBO A committee was formed at a meeting hold recently m Colombo m the presence of sir P. T. Rajan, vice-president of the Mathurai Tamil Sangharn, In connexion with the forthcoming golden jubilee cetehrations of the Institution during September. Sir Rajan said an academy for Tamil
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  • 172 4 Rs. 10m. More On Education Ceylon Govt. Proposal COLOMBO: The Government will spend R*. 10 million more on education next year. The draft estimates for 1955-56 put down the expenditure on education at X* 140 million The amount set aside m 1954-56 was R» ISO million. The Increase will be
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  • 93 4 COLOMBO: Nearly 15,000 15.000 Indians whose temporary residence permits have expire^ are defying quit notices issued by the immigration authorities. A determined effort to round them up and have them deported' has been ordered. During the last two weeks about fifteen defaulters were traced. Special
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  • 98 4 COLOMBO: The House of Representatives wllli not take up the question of the alleged breach ot privilege by Mr. Ekunund Samarakkody, M.P. far Ddhlowita, m this session of Parliament, which Is to be prorogued as It has not reOrived the Attorney -Qenera4 s report on the
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  • 173 4 MADAMPE Despite poor women m the villages dying fcixnsters the dowry system continued t o hold sway, Mr. Toopathi Thagir of the AllCeylon Young Muslim League, told tho fifth annual general meeting of the Madampe Yuung Muslim League. Mr. Thasir asked the youthsnot to let the
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  • 164 4 WOMEN ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIMES MATURAMA: Mrs. N. s. Perera, a director of the Central Manila Samiti movement, said here that women were responsible for most of the crimes committed m the country tcday. Mrs. Perera. .who was speaking at the annual general meeting of the Matugama Mahila Sam ti.
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  • 259 4 COLOMBO: Attempts ara now being made to form a new political party and the men behind this move are public servants. The organisers expect to call thear new party "The Servants of L.uika." A manifesto has already teen issued by the "Underground Committee," formed U>
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  • 55 4 CHAVAKACHCHERI: He was greatly disappointed to find that young teachers were still reluctant to come forward and serve their own Association by accepting chief offices m the teachers' association, said Mr V. Subah. president of the Thenmarachchy Tamil Teachers' Association, at the annual general meeting held
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  • 86 4 RADI lA.A: A local character who roams about the streets here with a bee tn his bonnet, smJUonJy embraced a ten-year-o.d girt who was passing by and be^an to smother her with kisses on the puWlc highway opposite me arrack tavern. The gnrj) screamed and struggled
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  • 139 4 JAFFNA: He would continue to emphasis the princ pie of equal pay for equal work, said Mr. V. Kumaraswamy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice (M.P for Chava^achcheri), at a special general meet ng o f the North Ceylcn Tamil Teachers' Association held here.
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  • 31 4 There wdlfl be a Public lecture on MYSTICISM by Mrs. Watkinson on Thursday Way, 6. at 6.30 p.m., at the Theosoph'icaf Society, Singapore Lodge, 8, Cairn Hill, Koad.
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  • 120 4 BR. PARLIAMENT TO BE DISSOLVED NEXT FRIDAY LONDON. May 3 Queen Elizabeth will dissolve the British Parliament by Royal Proclamation nnext Friday clearIng the way for the three weeks of campa gning before the May 26 general Election. She will sign the proclamation according to ancient custom at a session
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  • 48 4 KARACHI. May 3 The P&lrtstan Government announced that fro m May 35 West Germans would be free to visit Pakistan for a maximum cf three months without passports. The announcement said the West German Government Siud made a similar concession to Pakistanis.- Reuter
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  • 57 4 DACCA, Pakistan, May 3. Ten persons were killed and fcj. Injured an a violent storm >esterday when the monsoon broke. About 20 boats capsized on the river Burtganga, outside Dacca city waMs, drownmg bye persons. Details of casualties from places outside Dacca had not »»een received but
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  • 59 4 Mr. David Marshall, the Chief Minister, addressing a May Day Rally of Singapore Harbour Board workers Sunday afternoon. Seated on the dais are: (from left to right) Mr s. Jaganathan, Asr President, Singapore Trade Union Congress; Mr. Duraisamy, Secretary S.h! 8.W.C., Mr. Mak Pak Shee,
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  • 58 4 CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Vidhan Sabha last week passed the Punjab Security of Land Tenures (Amendment) Bill tc prevent large scale ejectment of tenants and adjourned sine die. The House during the threeday discussions on the Bill disposed of ever 400 amendments a record for a legislative
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  • 72 4 Pak. Elections Postponed Indefinitely KARACHT. Pakistan May 3. Governor General Ghumm Mohamed yesterday ordered the indefinite pestponeme it of eiect one, anil consequent meetings, of the proposed c">nsutuent convention. New dates will be announced after a ruling is given by the FederaJ court ot Pakistan, wnich aiready Is hearing- H
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  • 113 4 We have received a ccpy of the first post-war issue of the •'MAHA' 1 quarterly magazine which was a regular publication before the War. and which has now been resuscitated. Official organ of the Malayan Agri-Hort cultural Association. Kwong Yik Bank Chambers. P.O. Box 277 Kuala
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  • 124 4 LONDON. May S. A JJB-year-<i-d man who cant swim dangied upside down 50 feet over the nver Thames here at the end ot a tmminjr petrol soaked tope. He wan wearing n strat jacket. Seconds before the rope split, the man freed Wmspi!f from the jacket,
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  • 167 4 MADrtAS, May 3: The Economic Commission tor Asia and the Far East will organise a study tour of Mining and Geo.ogical regions m Russia m August under the United Nations Technical Assistance Pro. gramme, Dr. P. S. Lokanathan, me Executive Secretary saia here yesterday. Dr.
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  • 93 4 LONDON, May 3: The first Constelation service of the British Overseas Airways Corporation between Britain and Japan left here last night tMonday) for Tokyo. The aircraft's fights mark the firat of about 12 Constellations recently acquired and re. fitted for first class services by BOAC to
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  • 38 4 LONDON, May S. An Abridged version of Shakespeare* play "Henry the Sixth" wU be produced at a fostov theatre under the title of "Sir John Fajstafl"' soon., according to Moectow Radio.- Reuter
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  • 52 4 Charged With Kidnapping Singapore Girl HONG KONG, May 3 Magistrate Hftn SWiir L*> m tnc Hon^ Kong Central) Magistracy today ordered 20-years-'■••a L>o Thuna Ktt a Singanoit Fufccnese be returned to Slngupore m police cust.dy to tacr a charge of kidnapping a 13 years old gtfr: an Singapore <m April
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  • 64 4 HONG KONG, May 3.—Chinese newspapers have started usm X the first batch of about 800 simplified Chinese characters i© a move to refor m the language and reduce illiteracy cue Peking Daily Worker said according to the Oommun-st New China News Agency. The complicated original forms of
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  • 73 4 Canadian Destroyer Due Here OTTAWA, Canada, May 3: The Siour, only Canadian destroyer remaining with United Nations Foorces m the Par East, will visit this Philippines, North Borneo and Singapore during May and June, Naval Headquarters announced. She wiM leave Hong Kong May 12 for a seven.day visit at Singapore,
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  • 132 4 G. C. C. L. U. MAY DAY The Government and City Council Labour unfi'-n at its May Day raljy expiess:a its Kiyaaty to tine Laoour Iffatoit CbUu'ition Government unu hits oitered to iul/y support it. The uiiion m another rceoiuti«.<n lias made it <>ear that it has no malice or
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  • 99 4 City Council Employees' Tea Party To Ministers And M.L.A.S A tea party wal* be he.d by the Singapore City Counci Labour /Unions Federation to the Ministers and Legislative Assembly members on Sunday, May, 8, at 5.30 p.m. a t the S C.< 4 'L.UiF. premises. No. r Vij, Race Course
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  • 92 4 Bus Strike: Inquiry Into Police Action At the request of the Com. mlssioner of Po.ice. the Cover, nor has ordered an inquiry under the Provisions of the In. quiry Commissions Ordinance, 1941, into the action taken by members of the Police Force m moving persons wtio were alleged to have
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  • 63 4 RUSSIA FREES AUSTRIAN PRISONERS PHOTO. •Johann SchJoNsnSrkel is welcjinctl/ by his mother on his arrival by train at Vienna among the party of 15 Austrian prisoners freed by Kussia ■Juhann, en route to Bchool ;l"ht yean ago. when he was only 17. was boundled into a car, and ended> up
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  • 189 4 Minister Visits Resettlement Area In Jurong "A re-settlement area is not a concentration cani-o." declared tnc Minister for Local Government' Lands au(^ Housing, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Juniat at a press conference given after he had spent an Hour touring the re_settle. men i area a'. UW i-*u\ HUMSMMft
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