Indian Daily Mail, 18 October 1955

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  • 16 1 Indian Daily Mail VOL. XI NO. 245 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1955 FOUR PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 1972 1 Governor Strikes Key-Note Marshall Elected Chairman Members* Faith In Mutual Aid India Wishes Malaya Well BY OUR STAFF REPORTER THE COLOMBO PLAN CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE, THE BIGGEST EVER INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HELD IN SINGAPORE, WAS INAUGURATED YESTERDAY AT THE VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL, BY TH GOVERNOR OF SINGAPORE, SIR ROBERT
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  • 134 1 KARACHI, Oct. 17. Mr. Chaudri Mohammed Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan, today reshuffled his Cabinet, taking for himself the post of Minister for Kashmir Affairs and relinquishing the Finance Ministry. The former Minister of Kashmir Affairs, Colonel Abid Hussain, has joined the newly created Government of West
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  • 99 1 LAHORE (West Pakistan), Oct. 17 The levels of all rivers which have flooded 10.C00 square miles of the Punjab were falling- steadily today. Troops and civilian volunteers who have been On roundthe clock watch at protective river walls are beiu^ withdrawn. Labour gangs have beg-un to
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  • 117 1 LUCKNOW, India, Oct. IT. An angry mob of Indians armed with sticks killed two Indian Socialists in a village northern of here last night. One was a Praja Socialist member of the Uttar Pradesh State Assembly, Mr. A. V. Verma, the other was a party
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  • 215 1 NEW DELHI: Mr. Lester B. Pearson, Canada's Foreign Minister, will stay in India for a period of "rest and work," say Canadian sources here. He is expected to arrive in Calcutta after attending the Colombo Plan conference at Singapore on Oct. 24. Mr.
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  • 134 1 TRIVANDRUM, (South India) Oct. 17: A member of the Indian Parliament N. Sreekan. tan Nair, who was arrested a week ago when he began a hunger strike in front of the Travancore-Cochin State Assembly, was released from police custody today. Nair, who is leader of the Revolutionary Socialist
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  • 104 1 TWO INDIANS CHARGED WITH RUNNING A BETTING HOUSE (From Our Correspondent.) KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.: Sinnathevan 44 and K. Periasamy 41 of Kuala Lumpur were today charged in the First Magistrate Court here with running a comon betting house at a coffee stall in Am. pang Street on Saturday the concluding
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  • 37 1 KATMANDU, Nepal. Oct. < onunander.in-ChJef of the Ne. 17: General Kiran Shamshor, palese Army, and the British Ambassador, Mr. R. B. Tollinton returned to Katmandu to. day from a visit to ilurkha troops in Malaya.- Reuter
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  • 304 1 (From Our Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Two Communtat Terrorists who were raptured by the Security i--, W s. 24 hour* lteforo the declaration of AmntKty, today pleaded in vain before the Federation Chief Justice, Sir Charles Mathew to spare their lives.
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  • 69 1 PAK. AFGHAN RELATIONS KARACHI, Oct. 17: The deterioration of diplomatic »3la. tions between Pakistan and Afghanistan was fuith r marked tortay by an announce, ment by the Afghan Minister here, that h's Government ImcJ instructed him to return im mediately to Kabul, the \fa-Hnn Capital. Asked by reporters whether the
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  • 39 1 The smiling Prince** Margaret is holding out her band and the picture on the left is that rf Grou|> Captain Peter Townsond driving his car. Seen behind th!e Princess in her travelling rom|>anion Princess Alexandra.
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  • 120 1 SERDANG. Mon.—Referring to his forthcoming meeting with the MCP SecretaryGeneral. Chin Peng, Tungku Abdul Rahman, the Chief Minister of the Federation said it was common knowledge that the Emergency was a wastage of lives and resoi .c«»3. In his opinion, Chin
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  • 521 1 Princess And Hier Stroll Arm In Arm Discussion With Archbishop On Church Objections BINFIELD Berkshir, Oct. 17: Princess Mar-a--ret and Group Captain Peter Townsend are due to return to London from th is old world country village today after one of the strangest weekends ever spent by
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  • 61 1 LONDON, Oct. 17— An unsmiling Princess Marffaret arrived back at Clarence House, her London home, today after spending- the weekend In a country mansion where Group Captain Peter Townsend also was a guest. The Princess, usually quick to wave and smile, took no notice when
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  • 102 1 COLOMBO, Ceylon, Oct. 17- A mob of 1.000 Ceylonese led by 300 Buddhist monks yesterday attacked a Sama Safajist (Trotskyite) party meeting. Three hundred armed police charged and tear-gassed the mch in an attempt to break it up. After each charge the demonstrators regrouped and
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  • 624 2 Indian Daily Mail S'pore, Tues.. Oct. 18, 1955 Colombo Plan Must Be Extended THE Colombo Plan Conference which began in Singapore yesterday is expected to be i crucial and momentous one, iand on tlie outcome thereof will largely depend the future economic prosperity and political stability of the entire South
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  • 717 2  -  WOODROW WYATT By rpHOSE who think that India ought to be in the Common. wealth, or that she gains nothing from it, would presumably wish that India should not be represented at the conference of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers in London next summer. In
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  • 130 2 HYDERABAD: A camel came to the rescue of radio engineers of the Hyderabad Information Department in installing a radio set at Ghonsi, a remote village in Bidar district. The engineers left Hyde. übiid in a motor van, but on the way the rains came, and the road
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  • 71 2 SRINAGAR; For the first time the State Government is setting u n two family planning centres— one in jammu and another in Srinagar, it is reliably learned. Each centre will have two doctors one male and one female. These centres will in due course control a
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  • 96 2 MADRAS; The total area under cinchona cultivation In Madras State is 9,637,3 acres, comprinsing 2,381.8 acres in the NiUglris and 7,255.5 acres in the Anamalais. Of these, according to a Government spokesman, an area of 5,734.3 ..acres and 200 acres, respectively, are maintained by the Madras
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  • 112 2 MADRAS TO CHART BENGAL FISHING GROUNDS MADRAS; The Madras Government is to undertake the charting of the fishing grounds in~the Ba v of Bengal. This w ill be done with the two new fishing boats, Samudra and Ardinella— two of four allotted to Madras under the Technical Co-operation Administration Programme.
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  • 68 2 DACCA: The Pakistan Government is taking positive steps to encourage Pakistani jute firms to open branches in SffJSSSS. t0 op OBcJ£ lu2'?^}°' Ind o-Pakistani traterf in the hands of iSdian fcrm». which hart a net-work c? asrSMsr 1 thc nouncod shortly, acording to informed sources
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  • 79 2 BOMBAY: The Gandhi Smarak Nidhi has sanctioned 100 small halls to be built In vtllafes m different part« of the country during the current year, Ml a cost of Rs. 20,000 each. This is the first step and many more will be sanctioned in due course. The
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  • 173 2 Non-Delivery Of Foreign Letters: Steps To Check Stamp Poaching MADRAS: The Post and Telegraphs Department are now taking step* to see lettrrs posted ii< foreign countries reach til eir addressees in India properly. Some instances hav«i come to the notice of the I\ T. Department of let ters posted in
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  • 101 2 GWALIOR: An air.oon. ditioned Third Class Janata Express train may start running on the Indian Railways from Oct 2 next year. This was reveuled b>i Mr. B. N. Chakravarty, General Manager of the Central Railway, at a reception given in his honour by the Madhya Bharat Chamber
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  • 229 2 AHMED A BAD: The strange case of how a sane man had to undergo troubles and turmoils in a lunatic asylum for nine months has just been reported from Nadiad. In September 1953, one Mulji Amir was produced before the court of the First Class
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  • 153 2 NEW DELHI: a barter trade agreement will soon be signed by maia and the Philippines. A two-man Philippine delegation recently visited India and held talks with the Union Ministry of Food and Agriculture. ...Th«» barter agreement wiii pave the way for a larger volume
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  • 131 2 DACCA; A schoolboy who a year ago, travelled ticketless last week sent six amws to the Eastern Bengal Railway authorities and sought their blesttinys so that he could "lead an honest life and remain o n the right path." The boy, Mohsin AH., wrote in his
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  • 193 2 LONDON: A group of Malayans training for teaching diplomas in this country have taken time off from their serious academic studies to d ress up in gay village costumes and become film players. Their unexpected entry into filmland followed days
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  • 56 2 KARACHI: The total area under tobacco crop in Pakistan is placed at 197,000 acress during 1954-55 as compared with 181,000 acres i» the previous year, according to the first estimate. This shows an increase of 8.8 per cent. Except for Baluchistan and Bhawalpur, the area under tobacco
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  • 123 2 NEW DELHI: Tu>o I.A.F. pilots FU..U. P. K. Gandhi and Flt.Jjt. N. E. Todd were killed in a plane accident which occurred near Palam air field in Delhi on Sunday last the Defence Ministry announced. It is learnt that they were flying in a Harvard
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  • 76 2 Officials of the Thai Government visited the District Office at Rembau in Neprl Sembilan to watch preparations being made for the State Council elections which are to be held the next day. Picture stums (standing left to right) Mr. (ham haruvastr», Dy Reglcnal Commissioner, *n^(ira
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  • 560 2 NEW DELHI: India's infant mortality has now reached the all-time high of 2,000,000 a year, expert* attached to the World Health Organisation working in India estimate. One out of every two children born dies before reaching the age The rate of mortality is stated
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  • 124 2 POSTED: A COW I LONDON; When Britain's Postmaster-General boasted rtMvntly that his department would deliver anything—even a cow John I u n n< in who runs a farm at Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, felt sceptical. He decided to take the Minister at his world. Lunnon got in touch with his local
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  • 223 2 WORLD'S MOST UP-TO-DATE TELEPHONE SYSTEM NEW YORK; Country folk living in and around America's Georgia, may not have all the amenities of life in the big towns but they can boast that their telephone service runs on the most up-to-date system In the world. Just switched over from conventional methods
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  • 64 2 CHITTAGONG- The cargo handled by Chlttagcn ff port during last month amounted to 151,264 tons, according to the Collector of Customs. Out of the total trade handled, imports acounted for 101.132 tons and exports for 10,132 tons. Included amon» tine items exported were 173.900 bales of jute, 75,890
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  • 404 3 Effect Of SRC's Report NEW DELHI: The R ajp^mukhs of States like rravancore-Cochiii, Mysore, Hyderabad and Rajasthan m likely to be reapponited as Governors in the "n^ lo^* 6merge their shtn B K ram «"*hB of Madhya Bharat. Sauraln Se^shuSE ™J* h L"Z facln a
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  • 84 3 ARTIFICIAL ELEMENTS LONDON: Nuclear physicists at Brimingrham University have produced two trans-uranic elements californium and einsteinium which do not occur in nature. It is the first jlme the feat has been achieved in this country. They are called trans-uranic because they have more electrons spinning round their nucleus than uranium
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  • 167 3 LONDON: More people were working in the United Kingdom at the end of August than ever before. Those in civil employment totalled 23,030,000, an increase of 90,000 on the figure for the end of July and 275,000 more than in August last year. This is the
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  • 132 3 S. INDIAN TEA EXPORTS IN AUGUST COCHIN: Exports of South Indian tea during August this year totalled 7,480,000 lbs as compared with 8,910,000 lbs in the corresponding month of last year, showing a decline of 1.430.000 lbs. The decline was recorded in spite of an increase in shipments to destinations
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  • 62 3 CALCUTTA: Import of precious stones into India has shown a sharp increase from Rs. 3.200,000 in 1953-54 to Rs. 7,700,000 in 1954-55, according to official figures. Import of diamonds has gone up from Rs. 100,000 to Rs. 900,000: pearls from Rs. 2,700,. 000 to Rs. 5,700,000
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  • 133 3 BANGALORE: India's soccer could be improved if a State League system as it obtains in Russia is adopted in this country, opined D. Guna. bhushanum. Secretary of the Bangalore Committee of the Mysore State Football Asso. ciation, giving his impressions of his recent tour of the
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  • 219 3 NfcH DELHI: India's ncient Sanskrit scriptures ami classics will soon 'live" again on the air over radio networks here and abroad. All India Radi-j is keen to make recordings of the Verfr-.v, lor, official* say, no authentic recitations are available. These tf c r
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  • 383 3 CALCUTTA: The jute industry is surrounded on all sules by doubts and uncertain ties, according to jute circles here. The principal reason for this is the policy pursued by Pakistan which, in addition to offeris* keen competition in the raw jute trade. At one time it
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  • 98 3 FATAL ACCIDENT ON GRAND TRUNK ROAD ASANSOI.: Mrs. W. Roberts, wife of the melting shop manager of the Indian Iron and Steel Company, Burnpur, wm killed in a motor car accident on the Grand Trunk Road, about tour miles from here. The other occupants of the car, Mr. Roberts, Mr.
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  • 102 3 NEW DELHI; The reopening of the land route to Kabul through Pakistan is expected now. according to Afghan sources rere. Even so, the goods airlift f ro m India to Afghanistan via Amritsar, will become a permanent feature of Indo-Afghan trade, the sanfe Afghan sources
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    76 3 H.M.S. Ark Royal, Britain's most modern aircraft carrier, steams through the English Channel before leaving for Mediterranean. The carrier is the Hr*t ship to be fitted with remote control gear for. use in the event of an atomic attack, and the first to carry TV diffusion equipment which
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  • 115 3 MADRAS: The number of factories in Andhra State last year showed no substantial change from what it was before partition from Madras State, according to the first Administration Report of the new State for 1953-54. There were 2,939 factories of which only 704 used power, of
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  • 126 3 BOMBAY: Bombay has contributed Rs. 110,000 in Sampattidan since the campaign was launched in the city by Mr. Jai Prakash Narain, the Socialist 1 leader, a year ago. There are nearly 200 volun- tary workers who are contri. buting Samayadaan (gift of time) to the cause
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  • 123 3 Varsity Gradua tes Cut Book-Buying LONDON The British un(lergTaduate of today does net buy nearly as many books aft his predecessor of 20 years ago, says the annual report of the Oxford University. It makes the point in the section dealing with the C niversity. "There is good reason for
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  • 235 3 No Samadhi Swami Threatens Hunger Strike NEW DBLHIi Delhi's Deputy Commissioner has refus. ed to permit Swami Husnanand •to hold underground samadhi i in Delhi. The young ascetic has sought permission to unertake another samadhi, this time of 12-day duration. The addition of four ays to his original eightday samadhi
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  • 313 3 CALCUTTA: As a result of the continuous fall In turn. K£Tt£T > > W? of July thls the Kiwi £l V^ dwit V5 raveBltuatlon and even before 30 per cent of the crop had been offered for sale, many teas were sold at
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  • 934 3 BOMBAY. Dr. B. K. Madan, Economic Adviser to the Reserve Bank of India, has questioned the dtegaosls of the uroMetii of unemployment contained In the draft Second Five -Tear Plan-frame, prepared by p*©f. Mahalanobls. In an article in the latest Issue of the Reserve
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  • 471 3 NEW DELMI: Asia's biggest serpentftrium will be in Delhi's proposed zoo near Furana Qila. It will be a marvel of glass, steel and cement, bigger in dimension than the serpentarium at the Lucknow 200 whioh now *s considered too small. Zoologists here beliovc that snakes
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  • 711 4 Pannikor Was Partial Joint Front In The Offing (From Our Own Correspondent) MADRAS, Oct. 17: All the nine Tamil taluks in Travancore must be mergad with Tamilnad without exception declared the Travaumare Tamil in Congress President Mr. A. N
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  • 65 4 Already there is a growing volume of support for. this in Madras Mr. M. P. Sivagnana Gramani addressing a mass meeting on each last night declared that Peermade and Deviculam must come to Tamilnad. He announced that the major political parties in Mad. ras Congress, Tamilarasu Kalagham
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  • 83 4 Following is the programmefor tcnigSit (Tuesday, Oct. 18) at the Chettiars 1 Temple at Tank Road, in connection with the celebration of Navarat'hri Festival 7.00 p.m.- 7.30 p.m. Mrs. Radha Ra ah (Jaladarangam) 7.30 pm. 8.00 p.m.— <3emini Orchestra; 8.00 p.m. -9.00 p.m. Miss Shanmugavadivu
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  • 95 4 NANDA AT R.K. MISSION Mr. Gulzari Lai Nanda, (right) Minister for Planning Government of India, presenting a cheque for Rs. 32,500 to Snami Srikarananda of Ra.nakrishna Mission, Singapore as the Government of India's donation to the Mission for its cultural activities in Singapore. (Below) Mr. Nanda is ad- dressing a
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  • 122 4 It is reliably learnt that its Colombo Plan contribution On the eve of the Singapore Colombo Plan conference, the j sources said London informed New Delhi it would give th.; J Asian Aid scheme £10,000,000 for an indefinite period. Britain had #iven
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  • 75 4 BERLIN, Oct. 17— Heinz Ldngts, Hitler's valet for 10 years may sell his memoirs to a London firm for about U.S. $100,030, Litige's uncle said herg. The wide, Heinrich Bauer, said Ling-e is scheduled to fly tc Louden this week for final negotiations. He declined
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  • 55 4 INDIA'S LOAN TO BURMA AGREEMENT NEW DELHI, Oct. 17: India is to loan Burma Rs. 200 million (about £13 million ster. ling) under an agreement signed here today. II will be repaid with interest at four percent In hair yearly Instalment? of Rp. 25 million (about £1,600,0 V) ster. ling)
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  • 101 4 COLOMBO: Japan is keen to invest capital in industrial ventures in Ceylon, reports the Ceylon Ambassador to Tokyo In a memorandum to his government. Japanese industrialists are particularly interested in textiles, rubber, fishing and shipping. The Japanese have indicated that they would invest capital
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  • 29 4 HONG KONG, Oct. 17- Red China's Premier Chou En Lai is prepared to meet U.S. Sec. rrtary of State John Poster 1 Dulles.- AP
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