Indian Daily Mail, 20 February 1956

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  • 16 1 Indian Daily Mail VOL. XD No. 6 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY, 20, 196ft FOUR PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 557 1 Fulfils A Promise Made Big Send-Off At Airport Today THE VICTORIOUS FEDERATION MERDEKA MISSION ARRIVED HERE TODAY AT SINGAPORE AIRPORT AT 12.30 A.M. Tungku Abdul Rahm an left the Malayan shores 51 days ago, on the New Y ear Day, for London, with the hope and
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  • 44 1 BOMBAY, Feb. 19.— Mr. Krishna Menon, India's Minister without fortfolio, left Bombay yesterday for Cairo. H e will stay ttiere for a few days before going on to New York for a meeting of the United Nation* TVii.tooaMn Council Reuter
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  • 45 1 "It is up to us to proc. i laim independence of Malaya in August 1957," said the Tungleu allayiny any doubt about the target date. He aJso discussed the question of prohibition of opium with the Prime Minister of England.
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  • 133 1 ACHIEVING SOCIALISM PEACEFULLY LJUmuwi, *ei>. i-o. Comlunists tnra .^mout tne world jus week received directives or new tacycs wfticn may iave lax -reaching consequences a many countries. They were told, through the soviet Oommimist Party Congress in Moscow, that there is nor e than one way of achlevng Soclallam. They
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  • 113 1 ALBANY, New York, Feb. 19. Mr. Averell Harriman Governor of New York State, in a statement described as vast conspiracy,' Russia's attempt at the current Communist Party Congress m Mossow to persuade the free world that Soviet Communism had undergone basic changes. Mr. Harriman, considered a candidate
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  • 27 1 KARACHI, Feb. 19.— Bur mese Premier Nu will visi Pakistan shortly, Burmes< Ambassador to Pakistan Oi Bein said Friday. The date hat been fixed, he said. AP
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  • 181 1 IND. GOODWILL. MISSION DUE TODAY, PENANG P£*xmaj.w«j. Ssun. 1« Mrs. .rtjmnu bwtunlnatnan ana m». .janujiiii vcudua^tui, wuo aie uu a, giMtWUt viatC to iviiUUytt, cue aiviving ntsre toaay oy s.vi. "btate ox Atauras." Tne xnuian association, r'tftiuug, in cooperauoni w*t" mm xiiuian uuauioer oi Comiisw. .Natiukottai chetuai wiiuniDcr ot Commerce
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  • 143 1 ALLEGED ANTIINDIAN FEELING IN KASHMIR NEW DELHI, Feb. 19— Mr. P. LaWvanpal, Chairman of the "End the Kashmir Dispute Committee" said at a press conference here that over 90 per cent of the Kashmiris would vote for Pakistan if there were plebiscite in Kashmir. Mr. Lakhanpal returned to New Demi
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  • 55 1 BR. TROOPS WITHDRAWAL FROM EGYPT CAIRO, Feb. 19— The with- drawl of British forces from Egypt is ahead of schedule and less tttan 15,000 British servicemen remain in the Suez Canal Zone, the British Embassy here announced. But the last British soldier is not expected to leave the Canal Zone
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  • 187 1 HONG KONG, Feb. 19. A report in the pro-nationalist newspaper Man Kiu Tat Po said that Chin Peng, leader of the Malayan Communist Party ha<i attended a conference recently with Chinese Communist Marshal Yen Chien Yin* at Haikow on Hainan island off the southern tip
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  • 257 1 New Elections In April Sinhalese To Replace English: Tamil Rejected COLOMBO, Feb. 19. C Ceylon's Parliament was dissolved last night In a bid by fa the ruling United National Party to obtain a mandate from n the people through a general election to replace English by t
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  • 127 1 SBRIA, Feb. 19— The Brunei government has issued a warn. ng to the public in the State lot to subscrloe funds towards he "peoples party of Brunei* vhich is claiming affiliation vith toe Party Kay aat (Peoples Party) of Malaya and seeking :o establish
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  • 102 1 NO DEVALUATION OF MALAYAN KUALA LUMPUR; Any suggestion that the Federation Government contemplates deva. lutlon of the Malayan dollar is entirely unfounded and utterly irresponsible, says an official communique. The value of the Malayan dollar is fixed and established by law at 2s. 4d. Sterling and the Currency Commissioners have
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  • 249 1 Plans Complete For 8-uay Visit To England LONDON, Feb. 19.— Britain has arranged for Soviet leaders Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev to meet Queen Elizabeth during their eight-day visit to England In April. Under present plans the Soviet Premier and Communist Party Secretary will
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  • 102 1 VAiifcllA, M.AU <rou. 19. A civil alrllnfcr, carrying British troops home from Egypt, crashed and burned her e yesterday, killing all 50 passengers and crew. The plane, a four-engined York transport on milittry charter from a Scottish Airlines Company, crashed shortly after taking off from Luqa
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  • 98 1 TOKYO, Feb. China and Cambodia concluded a friendship agreement Saturday. Peking Radio said the pact was signed by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia's pramire now on a vi s *t In China, and Premier Chou En-Lai of Red China. Mao Tze-Twng, Chairman of the Chinese Government, was present.
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  • 86 1 NEW YORK, Feb. 19.— Nancy Hamilton, 13, Of Shanta Monica, California, victim of a blood disease that necessitated amputation of both legs in recent years, left by plane Friday for the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourde s in France. "I don't expect anything," she said before boarding
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  • 658 2 Indian Daily Mail S'pore, Mon., Feb. 20, 1956 TO THE TUNGKU: OUR GREETINGS (>N behalf of the Malayan Indian Community, we extend our warmest welcome, heartiest greetings and sincerest congratulations to Tungku Abdul Rahman and his colleagues on the occasion of their return here today from their successful "Merdeka" Mission
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  • 277 2 No Identical Steps Or Dates For All States NEW DELHI: It would not be necessary to insist upon identical steps or identical dates for all the the States in regard to Introduction of prohibition, says the draft Second Five-Year Flan. Referring to the Prohibition Enquiry Committee's sug.
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  • 263 2 NON-MUSLIMS DEMAND JOINT ELECTORATES KARACHI: The ruling United Front Central Parliamentary Party held heated but inconclusive discussion on the non-Muslim demand for Joint electorates under the future Constitution. according to lobby circles. The sources said that the discussion would be continued. Two proposals were discussed: (1) that there be joint
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  • 466 2 NEW DELHI: Mr. D. L. Mazumdar, Secretary, Department of Company Law Administration of the Government of India, told Pressmen here that the New Companies Law would come into force from April 2 next. The new law provides for better administration of the
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  • 182 2 NEW DELHI: Seventy-four I members of the Rajya Sabha will be retiring on April 2 at tl\e expiry of their present term, but will be eligible for re-elction. Of these 74, four are from the quota to be nominated by the
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  • 40 2 Urs of Khwaja Main_ud_din Christ! began here recently* at i his mausoleum. About 50,000 pilgrims from all over India i and Pakistan have already arrived here and 160,000 more i are expected before the cloatOf <S»y.
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  • 68 2 PAKISTAN A REPUBLIC FROM MARCH 23 KARACHI. Pakistan would be declared a Republic on Mar. S3 the day on which the All-India Muslim League passed its Pakistan resolution in Lahore in 19$0, the local Urdu daily, Anjam; re. ported. The Pakistan Consti laent Assembly is at present discussing a draft
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  • 211 2 COMPENSATION FOR FOREIGN LIFE COMPANIES NEW DELHI: Issues arising out of tne Government ot India's recent decision to nationalize life insurance are understood to have been discussed generally when representa. tives of foreign insurance companies (British and Canadian) met Mr. H. M. Patel Secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs.
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  • 125 2 CALCUTTA: The fourth International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography will be inaugurated here by Mr. Satish Chandra Ghosh, Mayor of Calcutta, shortly. The exhibition has been organised by the Photographic Association of Bengal. O,<t of 1,27i entries in monochrome and colour, submitted by 346 entrants from 37
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  • 37 2 BOMBAY: The Government ot Bombay proposed to extend the milk distribution scheme to about 10 more centres of the State during the Second Five-Tear Plan period Mr. Shantilal Shah, Bombay"! HmIUJ MUdttar i»}d htr«.
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  • 156 2 LONDON: On general sale to-morrow Is the 200--page annual review, "India 1966," prepared by the staff of andia House. The publication has eight illustrations and five colour plastes of such scenes a* houseboats on the Dal Lake with a foreward by Madame Pandit, the High Commissioner in London,
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  • 169 2 CALCUTTA: The influx oi oreigrt visitors to India has nore than doubled in the jast five years, according to n thorltatlve figures available lere. The number of tourist arrivals is provisionally estinated at 42,000 in 1955 as compared to 39,333 in the previous year and only
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  • 36 2 DJAKARTA: India's VicePresident, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, the Vice-President of the People's Republic of China, Madame soon Ching Ldng, and King Saud of Saudi Arabia rtsit Indonesia as state guests this year.
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  • 76 2 RED TRANSPORT OFFICIALS TO VISIT INDIA A team of Russian transport officials is arriving in India next month to negotiate an agreement with the Government Of India for the proposed Delhi-Moscow air service. The service, which will also link Prague with the two capitals, is expected to commence from May.
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  • 77 2 CALCUTTA; Tne Regional t'assport Office here will take over the responsibility for issuing Indian International Passports from the Governmment of Manipur. Indo-Pakistani Passports will continue to be issued by j the Government of Manipur. I Decisions on passport application^ submitted up to Feb. 14, 1956, will be
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  • 137 2 INDIA TO HELP EGYPT IN A-RESEARCH NEW DELHI; India will help Egypt Id building u p her atomic energy research stations by an exchange of Information on research done in this field. A five-man delegation from Egypt's Council of Atomic Research is at the moment holding discussions with Dr. H.
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  • 221 2 KATHMANDU: Hie Government of Nepal W UI hood take up the question of revision of Nepal's 100 year-old treaty with Tibet to regularise Sin©- Nepalese relations in the ight of Tibet's position) in the Chinese Republic, Prime Minister, Mr. Tank*
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  • 96 2 SHAHIDNAGAR: "Do it without words". This was the advice that Maulana Acad cave to Giant Gurmukh Singh Musaflr here when the latter wa» asking the delegates to the 61st session of the Congress to excuse the Reception Committee for any drawbacks in the arrangements made for
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  • 80 2 HYDERABAD: Tributes were paid to the memory of the late sarojiai Naldu on her seventy-eighth birthday at a public meetincr here recently. Speak In «r on the occasion Mr. R. Ramakrishna Rao, Chief Minister Of Hyderabad, said that the State could be proud
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  • 368 3 JMNiriANAM'S WARNING Mr. Santhanam, who was addressing a meeting- here recently on '"the language problem.* 1 expressed his view that re-arrangement of State territories was a comparatively minor issue while the question of language was far more difficult and fundamental. English had served a s
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  • 82 3 AYURVEDA STUDENTS OFFER SATYAGRAHA TRTVANDRUM: Students of the Government Ayurveda College offered satyagraha at the college premises demandIng among other things, permission to practise in modern medicine after completing their course. A group of ten students squatted at the portico of the college. The sudents have been stayin* away from
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  • 137 3 were killed and 17 otehrs injured when a time bomb exploded in a bogie of a passenger train between Kallem a* l^ Colle m in Goa recently according to (reports readning National Conieress (Goa; circles here. The reports said that the time bomb
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  • 151 3 AM EX I (Amin, Di v Islands) The familiar dog is not to bfoigbted in the Atneni Island. •We have oaU and plenty of rats but no dogs," the islanders told President RaJriidra prasad. "Poisonous reptiles like the snake are also very rare here,*
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  • 100 3 MAERAS; The net income rrom the Avadi Congress Session amounted to Rs. 625 621 according to the audited statement Of accounts, prepared by tne Reception Committee of that Session.'. Mr. r. Venkataraman Secretary of the Reception'committee in his report to the Reception Committee said out of this
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  • 40 3 PATNA: The partial strike Hi tne Searchlight and Pradeep newspapers here was called ott recently on the intervention of or. Anugrah Narain Singh, finance and Labour Minister ot iiuiar. The strike started on Feb. 3.
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  • 289 3 CEILING ON ACQUISITION OF LAND NEW DELHI: Immediate steps to implement the policy of ceilings for agricultural Holdings throughout the country have been urged by the nanninjr Commission in the draft second Plan. The ceilin^ recommended *s three times the "family holdings'' for an average faintly wnose members Jo not
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  • 602 3 Nehru On Role or Mathematics in science International Colloquium On "Zeta Functions" BOMBAY: Dr. H. 4. Bhabi Energy Department of the Go\ that as a result of a tripartite eminent* of Bombay and indis Trust, the Tata Institute of 1 hereafter be run jointly bj He was speaking at a
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  • 102 3 INDIAN MILITARY MISSION LEAVES FOR EGYPT NEW DELHI; An Indian Armed 'Korces goodwill mission, headed by Maj.-Oen. "iKram Singh, leit Demi recently by ai r on a fortnight's visit to Egypt. The mission consists or nine other omcers from the Army, Navy and the Air *orce. They are Col. Shiv
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  • 49 3 BOMBAY: Six climbers or the li-member Swiss Everest expedition sponsored by the iiwiss Alpine Research Foundation in Zurich arrived i» Bombay aboard the Lloyd Triestino liner Asia from Qenoa. trJ hC team wlll it* trejt frpm Namohe Bazar in Five other climbers mdudrf tms month.
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  • 397 3 Creating New Avenues Of Employment NEW DELHI: The draft second Plan says the back log of unemployed at the en< of 1955 is estimated at 2.5 mil lion In the urban and 2.8 mil lion in the rural areas makint a total of 5.3 million. Besides an additional labour force
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  • 352 3 ALL-PARTY ACTION COMMITTEE'S DIRECTIVE TO LEGISLATORS POONA: The Action Committee set up by th© All-Party Convention in Poona to "guide, direct .ndVontrol the stru£ <»f fitomyukt* Maharashtra with Bom- y C^y *»-<lay directed such of its members as are memSm.^^!!^!"? 1^ Le tol u
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    36 3 STELLAR DUO Howard Keel and Dokrres Gray be- tween scenes of M-G-M'a exciting musical, "Kismet". The CmomaScope film stars Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Vic Da- mono and Dolores Gray. Vincente Minnetii directs and Arthur Freed produces.
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  • 109 3 LONDON, Feb. 18 Lady Churchill sailed last night Tor I a holiday in Cteylon, leaving her husband In snowbound London. She recently has been Sir Winston had lunch with his wlf« abroad the 27.955-ton Peninsular and Oriental liner Himalaya at Tilbury Docks. As they entered
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  • 304 3 P The selection of a corps of experts, who should Be able to acquire a working Knowledge of th e Russian lanfcuage, is being considered by ■he Government of India. H The 13-man officials mission •which visited the U.S.S.R. last ■year under the leadership of ■Mr.
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  • 165 3 1955 IS A FILM YEAR The Indian film industry has had its brightest year since 1949. In 1955, 284 feature films were produced as against 289 In 1949. Of the 284 films made in 1955. 126 were in Hindi. 5o in Bengali, 46 in Tamil. 24 in Telugu, 13 in
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  • 1439 4 English Medium in Schools Must Continue Minority Group's Views COLOMBO. The minority group of the Commission on Higher Education which handed over its report to the Governor General recently is of the opinion that English be retained until there are adequate books, teachers and background literature in th« national lantruacßS.
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  • 125 4 JAFFNA CP AGAINST HARTAL CAMPAIGN JAJFFNA.: The Commiinst Party does not believe that the interest^ Of the Tamilspeaking people will be served by the hartal. On the contrary, it will tend to inflame communal passion, embitter relations between! the Tamil and Sinhalese people. And also provide a handle to the
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  • 46 4 j IOKYO, Feb. 19.-^lapan's >' Defence Board will Purchase a guided missile from the Oerlikon Co. of Switzerland for dlstnatling and study, Kyodo News Service said Saturday night. Kyodo stated approximately 1 million dollars in yen has been set aside fore the nur- chase A.P.
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  • 145 4 NEHRU— SHAH TALKS: BIG ISSUE AVOIDED NBW DELHI, Feb. l»India's Prime Minister Nehru and tf*e Shah of Iran were reported Saturday to be avoiding any real discussion on the one big issue between their two I countries— the Bagdad Pact. Diplomatic sources here said that if the Pact was mentioned
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  • 44 4 TOKYO, Beb. 19.— Japans Diet (Parliament) is expected to begin consideration early next :nonth of a bill Abolishing the death penalty. The Bill, however, is not expected to pass. It has been introduced in the Lower Chamber. A.P.
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  • 36 4 U.S. ARMS FOR MIDDLE EAST WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 The United States Saturday night cancelled its two-day embargo on the shipment of arms to the Middle East, including- is lieUit tankq for Sau- 1 di Arabia AP
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  • 815 4 The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has decided on granting two scholarships for German tniversittes to students, holders of academic degrees, and other persons with academic background (henceforth called: candidates) in the British possessions in South East Asia, i.e. in the Colony of Singapore,
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  • 377 4 Harry Pollitt Flays 'Br. Imperialism' MOSCOW, Feb. 19.— Mr. Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the British Communist Party yesterday delivered a blistering attack on "British Imperialism" in a speech to the Soviet Communist Party Congress here. The British Government had shed "rivers of blood" in its Colonies, he charged from
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  • 82 4 CHURCHILL SLEPT WHILE vvin&iiJjKnAM, iingiana, Feb. 19.— Sir WJlnstoo cnur- chill slept peacetully Saturday i 1 while a tire flared only a few feet from his bedroom. i 1 The flames were extinguish- ed l a the kitchen of Churchill a I country home Chartwell Manor i r without retired
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  • 46 4 ANTI-RED LEAGUE TAIPBI, Feb. 19.— Mr. Ku j unenjj «ang, Chairman of the e China Chapter ©f the "Asian People's Anti-Communist Lea- gue," will head th e Nationalist Chinese delegation to Manila In j the forthcoming A.P.A.C.L. 1 Conference next montfi if urn* announced today.- Reuter
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  • 40 4 TAIPEI. Feb. 19.— Doctor I s Billy Graham, the American e Evangelist, left here for Tokyo' J- at noon yestreday after getT ting 300 people to "accept lr chrtsf' at the Armed Forces Ic Stadium on Fridav nieht. Reuter
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  • 152 4 BANDITS APPROACH ESTATE IN BALING Sentries on an estate in the ialing district of Kedah nied t ngures seen outside the erimeter wire on »aturua> (ormng. There were no Known asiuuties, says an fcanergency Oiiuiiumque issued in «vu<ua .umpur last nignt. it ados: A patrol oi tne Ist Bn., Jorthern
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  • 93 4 JAKARTA, Feb. 19.—Indoeslan Premier Burhanuddln (arahap, Saturday conaemned tie Proclamation of a "West rian Provincial AdministraIon" in West New Guinea. The proclamation made Frt&y by member of the Goveranent's Irian Bureau was inended to legalize the Indo lesian claim to Eutch-heilc Vest New Guinea. The Premier
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  • 82 4 KARACHI, Feb. 19— The Karachi English language newspaper DAWN forecast today that Major-General Iskan der Mirza, now Governor-One, ral of Pakistan, would be elected the country's first provision, al President when Pakistan become a Republic. The election of provisional President will tak» place wUhin 30 days of
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  • 287 4 Buddha Jayanti In India: Rail Concessions To Foreign Pilgrims Rail travel concession at pilgrims from foreign c< wo pilgrimage in India in c< oc- Buddha Jayanti celebrat fen The Railwa y Board has d ~T cided to issue return tickets foreign Buddhist pilgrims i *P" payment of a single fare
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  • 208 4 Stalin's Policy Attacked New Leadership Praised MOSCOW, Feb. 19- Mr. Anastas Mikoyan, a First Deputy Premier, made an unprecedented attach on Stalin in ilpeecH published yesterday. He mentioned the former deader by name and condemned his economic theories ZTL. !dep*rtires from "coUcctive leadership". The total disavowal of much rf the
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  • 153 4 LONDON. Feb. 19— Marshal Georgi Zhukov, Soviet Defence Minister, told the Communist Party Congress that the Soviet armed forces "have been radically reorganised, and are as far as quality is concerned far ahead of their standard at the end of the Second World war, Moscow raio said.
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  • 47 4 TAIPEI, Feb. 19. A Law maker here Chiang Chin I has created what might be tvorld record by presenting li Parliament a series of writte questions that nun into 16,00 words, it certainty is a n cord for the Chinese Leeri&h tlve Yuan (Parliament; A.P.
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