Malaya Tribune, 17 December 1945

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  • 29 4/1 The Malaya Tribune Telephone: 5811. THE NEWSPAPER OF THE rEOPLE OF MALAYA FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1945 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune Monday, December 17, 1945,
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  • 363 4/1 Reuter. JERUSALEM, Dec. 16. —Plans for a total economic blockade of Palestine Jews have been completed by members of the Arab League. Boycott and economic sanctions are to start on Jan. 1. The object of these is not demonstrative; it is to destroy
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  • 99 4/1 Reuter. NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—The winner of the United States national singles title this year Frankie Parker' is again rated No. 1 in the first postwar list of rankings issued by the United States Lawn Tennis Association. William Talbert who lost to Parker in the final of
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  • 63 4/1 Reuter. MELBOURNE, Dec. 15.—Australia's No. 1 John Bromwich beat the wartime discovery Dinny Pails in the final of the Victorian singles tennis championship by 6/2, 6/4 and 6/2. Australian champion Adrian Quist had recovered from neuritis of the arm sufficiently to partner Bromwich in the doubles final
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  • 98 4/1 Reuter. I SAIGON, Dec. 15.—The, surrender of the last 700 Japanese naval personnel In Saigon was today accepted by Lieut. George Crook, RNR, King's Harbour Master at Saigon, on behalf of I the senior British naval officer I in the port. I All
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  • 28 4/1 CAIRO, Dec. 15.—Egypt has decided to resume commercial relations with Italy, it Is reported here. The Government broke off relations with Italy on June 12, 1940, Reuter recalls.
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  • 156 4/1 More than 8,000 labourers employed by the B.M.A. went on strike this morning. They include employees of the former Municipality and the P.W.D. engaged mainly on various utility services. The strike threatens to spread if a deputation, which is scheduled to see the B.M.A. authorities this
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  • 194 4/1 The news of the death in London of Mr. Bennett Shaw on the 27th of October, 1942, at the age of 82, will come as a shock to his old boys. Those who knew him will not be surprised to learn that throughout the War
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  • 69 4/1 Associated Press. SHANGHAI, Dec. 17.—Roland Sarley, former director of the French municipal police In Shanghai, and L. K. K. Kentwell, former British attorney who renounced his citizenship, were taken to headquarters for questioning in a Japanese collaboration investigation. Headquarters said Kentwell once served In the legislative Yuan of
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  • 37 4/1 Reuter. COLOMBO, Dec. 15.—Ceylon was all-out for 103 in the 'first innings against the Australian Services who had scored 306. In the second innings Ceylon scored 159, leaving the tourists winners by an innings and 44 runs.—Reuter.
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  • 159 4/1 Reuter. CHUNGKING, Dec. 16.—The first reaction of both the Chinese Central Government and Communists to President, Truman's statement on United States polfcy in China Is one of satisfaction. A Central Government official said today that the President's views agreed completely with the policy of the
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  • 545 4/1 "WORLD N A TERRIBLE MESS/ SAYS BEVIN Reuter. MOSCOW, Dec. 16.-The first full meeting of the Big Three Foreign Ministers took place this afternoon. Before the meeting Biitish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin conferred with the British Ambassador in Toheran, Sir Reader Bullard, who has
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  • 72 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 16.—More than 1.000 men and women, some in military uniforms, raised their hands in the Fascist salute to Sir Oswald Mosley, former leader of the British Union of Fascists in London last night. They were members of the "Ex--188 Internees Association" (188
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  • 21 4/1 LONDON, Dec. 15.—The India League is holding an India emergency conlerence on Dec. 23 to discuss the present situation in India.
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  • 95 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 16. The British Cabinet has received urgent cables from SEAC authorities in Malaya urging strong action to avert a threatened rice famine in the near future, according to an item printed in today's News of the World. "Unless something is done quickly tc
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  • 378 4/1 LONDON, Dec. 16 —The fall of Tabriz to the Persian rebels is now confirmed ard all communication with the city is cut off, reports Richard Wyndham, special correspondent in Teheran of the News of the World, in a dispatch today. I was at General Staff Headquarters
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  • 234 4/1 Reuter. t NUREMBERG, Dec. 16.— 1 As the Nuremberg trials enLer their fifth week secut rity regulations have been I tightened in the court house area, increased anti-suicide precautions taken by soldiers I guarding the accused and a new order issued which the defence counsel claim
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  • 420 4/1 TOKYO, Dec. 16.-Gen. MacArthur's headquarters announced today it has been informed by the Japanese that Prince Fumimaro Konoye committed suicide by taking poison iast night. A member of a distinguished Japanese family and three times Prime Minister of Japan, Konoye was 54. At the time of his
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  • 299 4/1 Reuter. BATAVIA, Dec. 16. Further reinforcements of British troops w*re reported today by the Melbourne radio to have landed in Java where the Allied forces have destroyed another Indonesian village owing to continuous sniping by its inhabitants*. Noel Buckley, Reuters Special Correspondent in Batavia, reported tonight
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  • 53 4/1 Associated Press. PEIPING. Doc. 17.—Generalsimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek made their first public appearance in Peiping today and reviewed the Fifth Marine Regiment units on parade near the Legation Quarter of the ancient Tartar wall. They presented awards to more than a score of officers
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  • Page 4/1 Advertisements
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  • 698 2/3 QENERAL Douglas MacArthur's latest directive abolishing State Shintoism in Jap.in is a logical step in the process of debunking the Emperor and the State religion, (of which'he is the chief deity and high priest) which began with his visit to the American general in October. The prohibition of
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  • 639 2/3 $2,000 MILLION LOAN PLANNED Reuter. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—President Truman today calle 1 for immediate cessation of hostilities between the Chine*e National Government forces ar.d the Communists. He urged the summoning of a national conference of representative; of ail China's maj r
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  • 77 2/3 Reuter. MONTREAL, Dec. 15,—Air V'r e Marshal A. L. Fiddament, CBE, DFC, and five members of the Royal Air Force leave here for England on Monday on the last leg of a world flight which started in the United Kingdom on Nov. 12. Their plane, a Lancastrian—a peace-
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  • 65 2/3 LONDON, Dec. 15.—(UP).—Radio Moscow today reported that the Soviet Government had rejected as unsatisfactory the Turkish note of explanation on the demonstrations at Istanbul on December 4. which Russia charges were anti-Soviet in character. Previously the Russian press had indicated that this action would be taken in their editorial attacks
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  • 71 2/3 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. The Uiuted States Department of Commerce announced today that the nation now has a public debt of $275,000,000,000 (£68,750,000.000), the j iiure being four and half times greater than the debt in the sumvi::r of 1940 when American rearmament began. This
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  • 124 2/3 Reuter. TEHERAN, Dec. 15.—Persia's most important religious festival which started yesterday and lasts until tomorrow, was interrupted today by a secret session of the Persian Majlis (Parliament). This is regarded here as indicating the gravity of the present situation. Meanwhile, there arc unconfirmed reports that
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  • 88 2/3 NEW YORK. Dec. 15.—(UP). —Former Governor Harold E. Siassen, of Minnesota, who was prominent at the San Francisco meetings on an International organisation, recently proposed that world order be kept by a United Nations air force of live bomber squadrons based around the world and
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  • 63 2/3 LRTTFR TO EDITOR The famous Shakespearean actor, Mr. John Gielgud, is in town, but unfortunately permission is withheld to civilians gome: to the Garrison Theatre, so that we are deprived of the chance of seeing his acting. Cannot the ENSA arrange a few special performances for the benefit
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  • 226 2/3 Reuter. BATA VIA, Dec. 15.—The Indonesian "Death Army" trained by the Japanese is the core of the extremists' resistance in Java, according to Dutch sources today. They say that the extremists have now shifted their main centre of agitation to Tjikampek, 70 miles east of
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  • 92 2/3 Reuter. DELHI. Dec. 15.—The third trial of officers of the Japanese-sponsor-ed Indian '•National" Army opened today when Viceroy-Commissioned Officers Subednr Shlngara Singh and Jemadar Fateh Khan "were charged with waging war against the King, constraining others to do the same and murder. One of the
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  • 147 2/3 Reuter. lIONOKONG. Dec. 15.—Lieut.Col. Kozuo Kogi today occupied a cell in the Stanley prison, accused of war ciimos. He had been brought to Hongkong after an extradition from Carlton in a British Fleet Air Arm plane. One Charge alleged that in Oct. 1943 at Stanley prison,
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  • 382 2/3 Reuter. MOSCOW, Dec. 15.—The Big Three Foreign Ministers are meeting in Moscow tonight for talks on the disposal of atomic secrets and other vital international questions. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin flew from Berlin in conditions too risky for air travel but landed safely in Moscow
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  • 106 2/3 Associated Press. CHUNGKING, Dec. 15.—General Pal Chung-hsi reported to the Chinese military council today that China must have a strong modern army patterned after (he United States, plus some adaptation of Japanese methods. Pai, who Is Deputy Chief of Staff, one-year compulsory military training for
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  • 92 2/3 WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—(UP). —General of the Army George C. Mar; hall is scheduled to leave for Chi.-ia at 9 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time) today, weather permitting, according to a White House announcement. Marshall is scheduled to arrive in China on December 20. It was
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  • 28 2/3 Reuter. BARNSLEY (YORKSHIRE) Dec. 15.—George Arthur Griffiths, Labour Member of Parliament for Hemsworth, died today after being in Indifferent health for some time. He was 67 years old.—Reuter.
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  • 93 2/3 Wong Ah Meng (age 76), founder of Nang Heng Co., (Piano House), rati er of Wong Shian Vein and Madam Wong Yuek Ngow (Mrs. Chiu Seek Joo) and father-in-law of Chiu Seek Joo, passed away peacefully in China on 30.10.45, leaving behind his loving wife, 1 son, 1 daughter,
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  • 150 2/3 John Gielgud, the world famous Shakespearean actor, on making his final bow at the opening performance of "Hamlet" at the Garrison Theatre, said he and his company were very excited when they heard in England that they were to play in Singapore, and that they were even more
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  • 141 2/3 A total value of Rs. 1.353.24G was issued through 8,522 Money Orders throughout Malaya to India since the service began on Nov. 13. Ceylon received Rs. 134,503 via 1.007 Money Orders. These figures were given by Lieut.-Col. Perry, head of the Postal Department, Singapore. Malayan Postal
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  • 76 2/3 HQ. SEAC, Dec. 16.— H. M. S. "SIMBANG", the first Naval Air Station in Malaya, was commissioned yesterday at Sembawang, about four miles from the Naval Base, under the command of Captain J. S. C. Salter, DSO., OBE., RN. "Simbang" is the Malay name for a frigate
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