Malaya Tribune, 7 December 1945

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  • 30 4/1 The Malaya Tribune Telephone: 5811. //'/v NEWSPAPER OF THE i EOPLE OF MALAYA FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1945 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune Friday, December 7, 1945.
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  • 444 4/1 Reuter. BATAVIA, Dec 6.-An assurance that America has "no intention to assist or participate in forceful measures" in Indonesia given by the United States State Department in a letter to the India Leayue of America yesterday, was followed today by a despatch from Noel
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  • 31 4/1 His Highness the Sultan of Johore and Lady Ibrahim have embarked on the New Amsterdam en route to the United Kingdom, it is learned today.
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  • 95 4/1 Reuter. MANCHESTER, Dec. 6—British other ranks of the Signal Section of the Indian Infantry Brigade, SEAC. in a letter to the Manchester Guardian today state they have sent the following to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin: "It appears that we are collaborating with the Japanese and French
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  • 148 4/1 Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. Ir- With the backing of Britain, the United States has proposed that the nations of the world act collectively to break down international trade barriers and promote full employment. In a White Paper issued with the British-American financial
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  • 246 4/1 Associated Press. TOKYO, Dec. 6. —General MacArthur today ordered the arrest of Prince Fumamaro Konoye, three times Japanese premier; Marquis Koichi Kido, Emperor Hirohito's right-hand man throughout the war, and seven other leading Japanese as war criminals. A United Press report states that Konoye, who is known
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  • 22 4/1 Associated Press. WASHINGTON. Dec. 7.—The United States and Italy today signed a commercial agreement designed to promote mutually advantageous trade relations.—Associated Press.
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  • 991 4/1 Churchi 11 's Tirade Fails To Impress LONDON, Dec. 6.—The House of Commons today rejected the sored censure motion against the Labour Government by 381 votes to I^7. Earlier, Mr. Winston Churchill hid declared that the Attlie regime had deliberately encouraged partisan and faclional interests
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  • 175 4/1 Field-Marshal Lord Alan- j brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, who arrived here on Wednesday afternoon in the course of his 35,000-mile tour of 1 the Far East, was closeted last night with representatives of France and Holland for a discussion of the problems created
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  • 54 4/1 Reuter. ROME, Dec. 6—Edda Ciano, daughter of Mussolini and widow ©f Count Ciano, is to appear before a local court at Messina, Sicily, next Monday to clear up her position. Since she was expelled from Switzerland she has been confined on the Island of Llpari—Reuter. (See Page
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  • 230 4/1 "Labour Imbued With Fascism" Churchill Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 7.—Charges that the Labour Government are "imbued with the spirit of Fascism and desire to humiliate their defeated opponents'' were levelled by Mr. Winston Churchill today, opening the second and final day of the debate on the Opposition censure motion. At home,
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  • 42 4/1 HONG KONG, Dec. 7— (U.l>.)—The Military Administration of Hong Kong ended yesterday morning. The proclamation iss v c d stated that Admiral C H.J. Harcourt has delegated all his powers to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer.
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  • 141 4/1 Reuter. SYDNEY, Dec. 6.—Lieut.-Gen. Gordon Bennett, former Commander of the Australian forces in Malaya, told the Government Commission today he was not prepared to take instructions from the Japanese when he escaped from Siwngapore in 1942 Gen. Bennett said in evidence that in his
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  • 182 4/1 Reuter. MOSCOW, Dec. 6.—Russian troops yesterday moved behind the Persian troops screening the noi them provinces, placing themselves between these troops and Teheran, it is learned here. Meanwhile, it is reported from Teheran that new disturbances broke out in Tabriz and other parts of North
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  • 51 4/1 Reuter. MELBOURNE, Dec. 6.—A new gold rush developed in Kwinana, in Kimberley goldfields at the weekend, following the discovery of a reef 3 to 14 feel in width and reported to be bearing rich gold. Two miles along the calculated line of the reef are immediately pegged out.
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  • 250 4/1 CHUNGKING, Dec. 7.-(UP).-Chinese Nationalist troops under General Tv Li Ming are reported to be within less than 20 miles of Mukden and are waiting for a peaceful entry into the city. Motorized units probing in front of the main force reported they
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  • 43 4/1 Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 7.—Lt.Gen. James H. Doolittle. leader of the first air attack on Tokyo, will leave the U.S. Army Air Forces to become Vice-President of the Shell Oil Corporation on Jna. 1, the oil company announced today.—Associated Press.
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  • 203 4/1 Tension In Canton Associated Press. HONG KONG, Dec. 7.—Tension over the Communist situation in the Canton area was intensified today when American officers disclosed that an anonymous note threatening an "American blood purge" was delivered to their airfield. They said that, although the note
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  • 40 4/1 CHUNGKING. Dec. 6—(UP) Forty-five American C-47 and C-46 transport planes have been transferred to the China National Aviation Corporation to strengthen air transportation within China, it was reported yesterday by the Central News Agency.
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  • 705 2/3 FOTJTt months after the last of the Axis powers was brought to its knees, world peace still seems to be just around the corner. How long; it will remain there and whether ii will not eventually elude our grasp defend upon the degree of foresight and prescience
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  • 506 2/3 Historic Agreement Signed Reuter. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The Anglo-American loan agreement was signed at the State Department this morning, it was learned authoritatively here today. Lord Halifax signed for Britain, aft&fr- The agreement was signed on the part of the United Mates by a Secretary
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  • 111 2/3 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. s—Thirty-four pictures of Hitler, some in silver frames, will not be sold with the contents of the former German Embassy in Louden. It is understood this action is taken in view of the unfavourable public attitude to the sale for £500 of
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  • 158 2/3 Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. The atomic bomb ivas not tested until after Roosevelt's* death, Dr. Vanncvar Bush, American, scientist, slated ioday, according to an Associated Press report. An err on c 01 1 8 a ceo lint of Bush's testimony before tiie Senate
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  • 288 2/3 Reuter. CHUNGKING, Dec. 6. (I).P.)—General Tv Li Ming s nationalist vanguards have by-passed Sinrain ana have reached regions which are "within one day's walk from Mukden," it was reported yesterday by a Nationalist military source. Meanwhile, it was reported that the air
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  • 76 2/3 Reuter. MANILA, Dec. s—Demanding the death sentence when he closed the case for the prosecution today in the trial for war crimes of Gen. Tomoyukl Yamashita, former Japanese Commander in the Philippines, Maj. Robert Kerr said: "Anything less would be mockery. We recommend that such
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  • 58 2/3 Reuter. CAIRO. Dec. 6—A bomb was thrown at Nahas Pasha, former Primp Minister and leader of the Wafdist Party, when he was on his way to address a meeting on the occasion of the Moslem New Year today. Nahas Pasha was reported to be uninjured.
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  • 189 2/3 Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5,-Lt.-Gen. Leonard T. Gerow lestifled before the congressional Pearl Harbour investigating committee today that he willingly accepted responsibility for the War Department's failure to send the Hawaiian army command additional warnings to put Hawaii on full alert before
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  • 151 2/3 Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Representative Clare Boothe Luce, Republican of Connecticut, accused Representative Hugh Delacy, Washington Democrat, of presenting "an encyclopaedia of errors" in his recent speech in the House of Representatives on the part x played by Chinese Communists In the war. Quoting Delacy as saying
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  • 41 2/3 WASHINGTON, Dec. 6— (UP) President Truman yesterday signed legislation to pay claims filed 42 years ago by a group of SpanishAmerican war veterans who had to pay their own way home from the Philippines when they were discharged.
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  • 32 2/3 CHUNGKING, Dec. 6— (UP) No information is presently available here about the reported agitation for the release of young Marshal Chang Hsueh Liang, who, authorities claim, "is not exactly confined to prison".
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  • 151 2/3 PARIS, Dec. 6.—(UP).-"The Prince of Zombier and the Sage of Islam" yesterday sagely told the French High Court of Justice that "truth is like the sun, you can't put in your pocket." The judge wholeheartedly agreed and promptly sentenced the Number One of Zombier
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  • 297 2/3 Collaboration Cases IN the Special Court yesterday, dates were fixed for preliminary inquiries into those cases against alleged collaborators which hay already come up for mention. When the case of S. C. Goho, who is represented by Mr. w. Munro, was mentioned, however, Major C.
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  • 46 2/3 For selling a revolver to a compatriot. Lee Yong Peng alias Lan Hor, a Chinese, was sentenced to two years' r.i. when he was found guilty by Major D. P Rees, presiding officer, first district court, on a charge of dealing in firearms without' a licence.
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  • 113 2/3 Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. The Senate today approved and sent to the House of Representatives legislation to provide an estimated 450 million dollars in war damages claims in the Philippine islands. It also approved a bill provid'ng for national elections in t A
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  • 183 2/3 Java Deadlock The only way out of the present deadlock in Java—and the way which is popularly entertained there at present—is for the United Nations Organisation to intervene and take over an administration "which at present is neither Dutch, British nor Indonesian," said
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  • 57 2/3 A party of Press representatives was yesterday taken round the battleship H.MS Howe, now anchored in Singapore roads. The battleship, which was commissioned in 1942, is a sister ship of the ill-fated H.M.S. Prince of Wales, and is fitted with the latest devices, including radar. She will
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  • 32 2/3 Five more persons who were detained by the Kuala Lumpur security police for alleged collaboration, were released yesterday. Their release is provisional and they may be called up if necessary after investigation.
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  • 29 2/3 Brigadier J. H. N. Poett, D.S.O.. M.C., of the Parachute Brigade will deliver a lecture entitled "From DDay to Berlin" at the Victoria Memorial Hall this evening at 6.
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  • 146 2/3 The disbandment .of Twelfth Army on January 1, 1946, announced to-day in the Orders of the Day of the Supreme Allied Commander and the Commander-in-Chief, Allied Land Forces, South-East Asia, cuts short the brief career of the Empire's youngest army. Twelfth Army was formed on May
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  • 80 2/3 Sixty thousand razor blades, which formed part of a consignment of Christmas gifts intended for the Forces, are reported to be missing from a godown in the Singapore Harbour Board. This was disclosed in the third district court yesterday when Haron bin Haji Hassan, a Malay,
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  • 130 2/3 Ex-political prisoners in Singapore are to-day being found work and relief by a group of Malayans who form the Singapore After-care Association. This organisation, which was wellknown in Singapore before the war for its work in looking after discharged prisoners, was recently revived with Mr. G.
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  • 94 2/3 The Price Controller, Malaya, has ordered that all importers of goods from destinations, other than the NET and British North Borneo or Sarawak, shall prod ice, at the office of the Price Controller at Singapore (or of the Assistant Price Controller at other ports) within 48 hours of
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  • 71 2/3 Sentence of three months' r.i., and, in addition, a fine of $1,000, in default, a further term of three months' r.i. each, was passed on two Chinese, a man and a woman, described as wholesale dealers of salt in the third court yesterday. The accused were
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