Malaya Tribune, 13 December 1945

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  • 29 4/1 The Malaya Tribune Telephone: 5811. THE NEWSPAPER OF THE PEOPLE OF MALAYA FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1945 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune Thursday, December 13. $845.
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  • 220 4/1 New Delhi Trial Associated Press. NEW DELHI, Dec. 13.—Two witnesses at the trial of officers of the Indian National Army which fought on Japarfs side against the Allies gave evidence on Wednesday intended to characterize the Azad Hind provisional regime as a true government and,
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  • 155 4/1 Associated Press. LONDON, Dec. 12.—William Joyce, "Lord Haw-Haw of the Berlin radio," will invoke Britain's ancient Magna Carta in an effort to escape the death penalty for treason. Joyce's attorney deferred rebuttal today as the crown concluded Its case on Joyce's appeal and said he
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  • 384 4/1 At the meeting of the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday, Mr Lien Ying Chow pleaded for a fair distribution of a consignment of foodstuffs such as flour, sugar condensed milk. canned meat,' cigarettes, tobacco, etc.. part of "Which had already arrived in Singapore. "We must bear in
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  • 379 4/1 Reuter. MELBOURNE, Dec. 12.-After the lurrender of Singapore L.eu ,Gen. Henry Gordon Bennett was no longer a subordinate to' L.cut -Gen Arthur Percival, Allied Commander-in-Chief in Malaya, Mr. Brian Clancy, Gen. Bennett's counsel, submitted today to the Government Commission which is
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  • 63 4/1 Lai Bihari Singh, a probationary inspector, Singapore Police Force, claimed trial when he appeared before Major D. P. Rees, in the first district court, on a charge of criminal breach of trust of over $4,000 worth of Indian Troops rations which were in the police store, Central Police Station. The
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  • 51 4/1 Four years' rigorous imprisonment was the sentence passed! on Ho Tian, a Chinese, in the Superior Court yesterday when he admitted robbery of $12,700 worth of jewellery from a house in Havelock Rd. on November, 13. The accused was arrested in Kuala Lumpur and brought down to Singapore on Dec.
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  • 185 4/1 The world-famous pianist Solomon has arrived here He will give pianoforte recitals at 8 pm. tomorrow and Saturday at the Victoria Memorial Hall under the auspices of ENSA The public will be admitted to these concerts free of charge On Sunday he will appear
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  • 24 4/1 Lieut.-General Syme, G.O.C., Burma Command, presented a captured Japanese sword and dagger to HMS Jamaica, the 9,500-ton cruiser when she put into Rangoon recently.
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  • 215 4/1 Reuter. JERUSALEM, Dec. 12,— Twenty-three Jews, including 16 children, trying to cross over the northern frontier illegally into Palestine near Metullah were captured yesterday night by a military patrol w\io fired a number of warning shots when they tried to escape.—Reuter. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The Washington Post editorially condemned
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  • 540 4/1 DUTCH MAY MAKE NEW OFFER Van Mook Postpones Departure Reuter. BATAVIA. Dac. U.-The possibility of the Dutch making a final effort to avert major bloodshed in Java by presenting a further constitutional offer to the Indonesians is being discussed in Batavia tonight, reports
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  • 84 4/1 Reuter. SAIGON, Dec. 12.—R.A.F. Spitfires went into action in support of a small detachment of French troops attacked by an Annamite force at Dac Nathout, GO miles north of Dalat (south-eastern Annam), an Anglo-French statement issued here today reported "Three Spitfires were sent to
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  • 169 4/1 Reuter. zj COLOMBO, Dec. 12.—M. S. Aney, Government of India representative in Ceylon, has left by air for Singapore to represent the Government of India as its special envoy at the peace treaty negotiations with the Government of Siam. Mr. Aney represented the
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  • 88 4/1 Reuter. SAIGON. Dec. 11.—After studying the reports and interrogations of over 8,000 Allied prisoners of war in Indo-China the Allied military authorities have prepared a "black list" of 400 Japanese and their allies to be tried on a war crimes charge. In addition 20
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  • 47 4/1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.— (VP). —U.S. State Secretary Byrnes, who is off today for the Moscow conference, may invite the Russians to send observers to watch the huge atomic bomb test against naval units. The army and navy have already announced plans for the experiment.
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  • 46 4/1 Reuter. MANILA, Dec. 12.—Lleut.Gen. Masaharu Homma, former Japanese Commander-in-Chief in the Philippines, arrived by air in JManila from Tokyo tonight to be tried as a war criminal. He is accused of being responsible for the infamous Bataan Death March in 1942.— Reuter.
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  • 33 4/1 Reuter. TOKYO, Dec. 12.—Prinee Morimasa Nashimoto, 71-year-old wartime member of the Supreme Council and first of the Japanese Imperial family to go to gaol, entered Sugamo prison today accused of war crimes.— Reuter.
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  • 310 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 11.— As more information becomes avail?ble about the scope and nature of the Moscow conference reactions among obervers in London are beginning to crystallise in two directions. Firstly, there is unanimous approval of the declared aims of the. conference insofar
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  • 520 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 12,—1t is now considered certain that questions affecting Persia and Japan will be discussed at the Foreign Ministers' Conference in Moscow. This view, writes Reuters Diplomatic Correspondent, is supported by the news that the British Ambassador in Teheran, Sir Reader
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  • 257 4/1 Hirohito To Abdicate Reuter. (By Deane potter, Daily Express Correspondent, through Reuter). LONDON, Dec. 12.—Washington and Tokyo have been in conference —in coded cables—about lonely Akihito, the 14-year-old Crown Prince. His Imperial father wants to abdicate and leave him the throne. America wants
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  • 803 2/3 MUCH of the bitterness that will doubtless be caused by the reduction in rice ration to three katUes a week (just enough for one square meal a day) could have been avoided If the authorities had not blundered into fixing the first ratywi at a w-hich, they should
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  • 123 2/3 Speaking on "Food Control", to Singapore Rotarians at their weekly meeting at the G. W. Cafe yseterday evening, Coi. K. C. Tours gave a brief analysis of what the process of food controlling entails. It is not illegal, he said in answer to a
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  • 103 2/3 The question of tackling prostitution in Singapore was again brought up at the Advisory Council meeting yesterday when Lt.-Col. R. N. Broome, Adviser, Chinese Affairs, announced the proposal of setting up a girls training school for the reclaiming of girls brought into prostitution under
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  • 28 2/3 Reuter. COLOMBO, Dec. 12.—The first party of over 700 Java refugees including 60 invalids arrived here yesterday by the SS Venerable and were sent by train to Kandy—Reuter.
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  • 805 2/3 "Solution Made Difficult By Directives From The Hague*' Commens Discussions On Java LONDON, DfcC. 11. Indonesia was discussed in the House of Commons on the motion for adjournment tonight Labour me nher Tom Driberg who visited the East a few months
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  • 65 2/3 On P'ridav evening. December 14, at 6 p.m. Lt.-Col. G. G. Thomson of the Department of Publicity Printing will lecture in the Victoria Memoria' HaH on "The Growth of the United Nations". The hall will be open to the public. On Friday week, Dec. 21. Lt.-Col. Frank Owen
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  • 146 2/3 Complaints against the withholding of permission for remittances to China end agaimt the rate of charges made by exchange houses were made by memben at the meeting of the Singapore Advisory Council ySMU rday. One member said "We are tied to Whitehall's
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  • 115 2/3 The suggestion of a police training school for officers and the formulation of a remunerative salary scheme was mooted at the Advisory Council here yesterday by Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. The speaker suggested that candidates selected for training musi i he given the assurance that
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  • 47 2/3 Associated Press. WASHINGTON, D>»c. 13.— Treasury records disclosed today that Film Executive Louis B. Mayer was the highest paid person in the United States in 1943 with an income of $908,070 before taxes. Charles E. Wilson of General Motors ranked second with $459,041. Associated Press.
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  • 452 2/3 Reuter. Men in the Far East had their minds filled with thoughts of coming home. It was not fair to put them into the firing line again in a new war which was not in the contract. Major Wyatt (Labour) said
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  • 818 2/3 D.C.C.A.O. PROMISES TO LOOK INTO MATTER A strong plea for immediate relief to the clerical classes of Singapore was made by their representative, Mi. Lim Chuan Geok, a last-minute nominee, at the second meeting of the Singpaore Advisory Council yesterday morning, Brigadier
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  • 71 2/3 The office for the investigate of War Crimes and Collaboration offences is now situated in the right wing of the old Government Secretariat behind the Victoria Theatre. Telephone 6105 and 5411 Extension 4. All complaints and reports should be addressed, in writing, to Major W. Totman, the
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  • 269 2/3 Mr. Wu Tian Wang, at yesterday's meeting of the Singapore Advisory Council, appealed for more Government assistance towards the rehabilitation of the rubber, pineapple and local industries. He maintained that this would be to mutual advantage for with rehabilitation the unemployment problem would be
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  • 146 2/3 Claims Commission War Damages Stating that it would help greatly towards restoring confidence in the Administration, Mr. G. A. Potts, at yesterday's meeting of the Singapore Advisory Council, asked for an official statement regarding steps towards settlement of claims in respect of insurance of goods and other claims. Mr. Jumabhoy
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