Malaya Tribune, 12 February 1946

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  • 29 4/1 The Malaya Tribune Telephone: 5811. The Newspaper Of The People Of Malaya FOUR PAGEB SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune Tuesday, Feb. 12, 1946.
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  • 258 4/1 Further evidence was recorded in the second War Crimes Court here yesterday at the trial of five Japanese, Terada Takao, Hirazawa Atsusi, Shin Shigetoshi, Hase Ryosoku and Murata, who stand charged t with beating, maltreating and tori turing a number of Chinese civilians
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  • 109 4/1 Seven years' hard labour and *ix strokes of the cat-o'nine-talls i —that was the sentence passed yesterday on a cninese ana a Malay who were found guilty of firmed gang robbery. The case was tried before Lt.jCoi. G. C. H. Culley In the newlyiDpened
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  • 81 4/1 A.P. BALTIMORE, Feb. 11.—A Jtwelve-ounce baby girl was one of the triplets born here to-day Ito Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edward Harrison. The tiny baby girl was born las:. Her brothers weighed three pounds fourteen ounces and two pounds fifteen and one quarter ounces. Officials at
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  • 197 4/1 Heroism in the face of the enemy, selfless devotion to duty In rear areas—in short, the fclood. sweat and tears of the fourteenth Army in the Burma campaign, have been rewarded with publication of the latest gallantry and meritorious decorations awarded by the King. Yesterday
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  • 614 4/1 SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST PRISON AUTHORITIES SINGAPORE, TODAY. Louis de Souza (63) today elected to make his defence in the Special Court after Commissioner J. C. Cobbett had framed a charge under the VW Offences Ordinance against him for alleged betrayal of six
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  • 352 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Feb. 10.—In an impassioned speech before the Security Council, Andrei Vyshinsky, head of the Soviet UNO delegation, today demanded United Nations intervention in Java and strongly supported the Ukrainian plan to send an international inquiry commission there. Insisting that the future
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  • 37 4/1 Reuter. OTTAWA. Feb. 10.—Declining production and Increasing population have made lt necessary to cut Canada's butter ration from six to four ounces per person weekly during March and April. Canadian Finance Minister, J. L. Ilsley. announced today.—Reuter.
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  • 86 4/1 (rrtnn Our Of >i i nrrc. >)■ <lt i Penang, Feb. If. i To commemorate the dute of Sirica, res tan, members vi ttiu! Penang General Labour Union 1 will hold a rally at the Victoria Green on February 15. This decision was reached at
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  • 51 4/1 The steamer Largs Bay which is leaving for Calcutta on Thursday will take 220 Indians as dccl. passengers. Those who wish to leave by this steamer and are in possession of the requisite white cards are asked to call at No. 30 Enggor Street at 10 a.m.
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  • 53 4/1 For assaulting a sub-inspector, a motor-mechanic, John Leslie Duncan, was fined $10 in the Third Couit yesterday. Sub-inspector Fensham, the victim, sustained a bruise and swelling just below the right eye. Duncan explained in mitigation that he did not know the complaint was a subinspector until some time
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  • 457 4/1 Reuter. BATAVIA, Feb. 11.—A spokesman for the unrecognised Indonesian republic said that the Dutch offer to establish a commonwealth is "a starting point for talks, and thaVs all." "Many who expected something substantial were disappointed, but I am not because I didn't expect
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  • 44 4/1 Associated Press. PARIS, Feb. 11.—The demobilization by March 31 of virtually all conscripts and war volunteers In the French naval forces was announced on Sunday by the ministry of armies. The order will reduce the forces essentially to professional navy men.—Associated Press.
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  • 204 4/1 Associated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.— Nearly one thousand persons have petitioned President Truman to assume leadership immediately in transforming the United Nations Organisation into "a true world government" to prevent the destruction of civilization through atomic warfare, the Writers Board said today. The
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  • 389 4/1 "Top Secret" Pact Revealed WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Russia clamped three conditions, including outright Soviet possession of the Kurile Islands, on its agreement at Yalta one year ago to-day to enter the Pacific war. This conditional aspect of Generalissimo Stalin's pledge to fight Japan was disclosed
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  • 513 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Feb. 11.—So long as the Duich Government will not recognise the right of self-determination now, there will be no solution of the Indonesian discussions, says Perhimpoenan Indonesia (Indonesian NaI tionalist Organisation, to which many of the present I Indonesian leaders
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  • 23 4/1 Reuter. NEW YORK, Feb. 9—Tugboat workers in New York decided by vote last night to reject a proposal to end their five-day strike.—Reuter
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  • 207 4/1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman had a hour-and-a-half's talk at the White House last night during which they are understood have discussed the whole field of world affairs with emphasis on the wartime talks Churchill had with the late President
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  • 69 4/1 MANILA, Feb. Hi.—Lt.-Gene-Jral Masaharu Homma was sentenced to death to-day after an I American military commission had convicted him on charges of condoning the Bataan death march and other Japanese atrocities in the Philippines. Homma's trial followed that of General Tomoyukl Yamashita, who succeeded Homma. conoueror
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  • 105 2/3 ONQ Ong Soon Tee pass- I ecJ away peacefully at his residence No. 61, Cairnhill Road at 7-30 a.m. on Sunday, the 10th Feb. 1946, aged 77. He leaves behind his 2 Wives, 6 sons, Ong Slow Sian, Dr. Ong Slow Hian, Slow Kee, Slow Glap, Slow Hin, Slow
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  • 402 2/3 SIMULTANEOUSLY with the puDlication oi me Netnerlanas oner to Indonesia, which Proiessor Schermernorn described a fortnignt ago as so lar-reacning as to "embarrass Britain," taiks have oegun in Java between Dutch and Indonesian representatives. it is premature to indicate the probable course of the present t«Uks or assess the
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  • 300 2/3 TODAY is Abraham Lincoln Day. On February 12, 1809, was born one of the greatest apostles of Democracy, to whose vision and foresight the United States owes in no small measure her present greatness and future promise. Like most great men, Lincoln was many years ahead of his
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  • 1138 2/3 Will Tolerate No Reflection On Bri tish Forces Reuter. LONDON, Feb. 10.—Mr. Ernest Kevin, British Foreign Secretary, reiterated his strong opposition to tiie sending ol a untied iNauons enquiry commission lo Java when ne syoiit at the Security Council s resumed
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  • 68 2/3 Associated Press. SHANGHAI. Feb. B.—Vice-Admi-ral Charles Cooke, Jr. commander or the United States Seventh Fleet disclosed today that he discussed with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek "various aspects of the establishment of the Chinese navy." He declined to 'answer questions about how large a navy China hoped to develop. He
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  • 130 2/3 Letters To Editor On behalf of the Muslims of Singapore, I beg to request the B.M.A. (M) and the Military Authorities of Singapore to declare Feb. 13, as a public holiday for all the Muslim personnel of the Military and tne Administration and to permit Muslims
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  • 295 2/3 N Members of the public who have been anxiously waiting to know the veroict of Yamashita's appeal to U.S. Supreme Court are now satisfied that after all the Americans are not so foolish as to let go a person who is guilty or at least esponsible for wholesale
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  • 332 2/3 S. C. jGoho, prominent lpcal Indian lawyer, was released on bail yesterday and tjie preliminary inquiry into allegations against him postponed sine die, when JJ.-Col. Charlesworth, legal officer, made application to Commissioner J. C. Cobbett in the Special Court to that effect. Bail
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  • 22 2/3 The Indian Dally Mall (published by Mr. G. Sarangapany) resumed publication yesterday. It is to be a morning paper.
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  • 388 2/3 The f-nortest war l. tU ju Slngaport up to dale Ina my 2)4 hours ended li gt, UiU Tothio, the only accused in v* 0 ea.se, ocjng sentenced to three .yeais' imprisonment. Aoki v\us found guilty of committing war cnuies, in
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  • 65 2/3 (From Our Own Correspondent) PENANG, Feb. 11.—The body of a middle-aged Chinese, found shot dead with two gun wounds, was discovered this morning near the Chinese cemetery in Mount Ersklne. The man, believed to have been the victim of gangsters, had been done away with after
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  • 405 2/3 Alleged to have murdered a Sikh cloth dealer, Teja Singh, by slashing him with a Japanese sword at Farrer Park on the night of December 17 last, four young men, Omar bin Ibrahim, Bach in Singh, Wasan Singh and Jagar Singh, are on
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  • 253 2/3 Two students, a boy and girl from Kuala Lumpur, left Singapore recently by air for England, where they wili study for degrees at Cambridge University. These are the first of the fortunate young people who will be leaving Malaya in the
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  • 64 2/3 (From Our Own Correspondent) KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 11. Text-books to the value of $250,000, will be purchased by Government for immediate isW* to schools, it has been officially announced by the Director of Education. The announcement adds that the reduction in school fees "had led to the
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  • 112 2/3 Controlled prices for tinned meat, which will shortly be rationed out to the public have been announced. The retail prices are as follows: Corned beef 60 cents per 12 oz. tin, $4.80 per 6 lb. tin, 80 cents per lb.; Vienna sausages, $1.15 per 23 oz.
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  • 48 2/3 i%i l a iiiiii/ii-ii/ii When the exhibition of R.A.F. achievements—one of the most popular ever shown in Singapore— closed at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Sunday night, more than 153,000 visitors had seen its exhibits. This is a daily average of renrly 24,000.
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  • 38 2/3 Mr. H. R. Cheeseman, former Deputy Director of Education, S.S., will be the first Director of Education, Malayan Union. News of his appointment has been received by a personal friend of his in a letter from Mr. Cheeseman.
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  • 502 2/3 Hugh Chee Ngee (34), described as manager of Sincere Dispensary, was yesterday sentenced by Major D. P. Rees, in the first district court to six months rigorous imprisonment. He was convicted on a charge of wrongful possession of 16 bottles of Penicillin of the type
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