Malaya Tribune, 18 February 1946

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  • 29 4/1 The Malaya Tribune Telephone: 5811. The Newspaper Of The People Of Malaya FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune. Monday, February 18, 11)46.
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  • 148 4/1 Reuter. NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—New York morning papers give prominence to a Bombay datelined despatch to a United States agency which says: "The Indian Nationalist Weekly Magazine •Blitz* has published a letter signed by 100 Indian W.A.C.S. charging an unbelievable scandal and
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  • 127 4/1 SINGAPORE, TODAY. His head swathed in bandages, Lin Ah Liang, 25-year-old representative of the Malayan Communist Party, was produced in the Superior Court before Wing Commander F. A. Briggs this morning, when a total of eight charges, in three separate cases, were preferred against him.
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  • 110 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Feb. 17.—Russian passports are being handed out by the Soviet Consulate in Shanghai to Czarist exiles who escaped during the revolution, says the Shanghai correspondent of the Sunday Observer. In a lineup outside the consulate he says: "Long bearded old men rub elbows with
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  • 47 4/1 CHEW.—Mrs. Chew Keow Chim (nee Madam Pang Siew Kin), age 38, at the Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital this morning. She leaves behind her, her beloved husband (Chew Keow Chim of Keng Lee Co.), and 4 children. Funeral wUI take place from No. 41 Scotts Road, tomorrow.
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  • 130 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Feb. 17.—The Monarchisls have made an offer to the Spanish parties of the Left which 4 may produce a landslide in the Spanish political scene within the next few weeks," says the special correspondent of the Sunday Observer. The negotiations, he writes, were started
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  • 50 4/1 Associated Press. SHANGHAI, Feb. 16.--The rickshaw ride, a thrill for tourists, is on the way out. The Shanghai Herald reports that, the Executive Yuan has decided to earn naie. the coolie drawn vehicle by May 1, 1949, o make way for motor traf. Ic. Associated Press.
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  • 142 4/1 The Pan-Malayan General Labour Union conference, originally scheduled for Friday, was held on Saturday morning at the headquarters of the Singapore Labour Union in Short Street. A letter expressing good wishes hi>p been received by the Union from "a group of British Trade Unionists." but no
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  • 98 4/1 Reuter. VATICAN CxTY, Feb. 16.—Sixtynine cardlnall and future cardinal 1 are assembling here for next week's consistory of the Sacred College at which 32 of them —including 28 nonItaiianc—arc to be c;cjitecl cardinals. The youngest of the new cardinals is Monsivnor Be nnrd Griffin. Archbishop of Westminster,
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  • 49 4/1 PENANG. Feb. 18.-As a result of negotiations between Colonel P. A. Malley, Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, Malaya (8.M.A.) and the strikers, the strike of the Penang postmen was finally called off yesterday, and delivery of letters was resumed from today. The strike lasted one week.
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  • 219 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Feb. 15.—Beneath a disused underground railway station in Piccadilly lies one of the jrreat secrete of the war—a suite of offices 100 feet below ground, where governmental execu ive committees conferred daily on control of British Railways, Each day during the blitz the railway
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  • 498 4/1 Canadian Official Detained: Trials To Begin Soon A.P. OTTAWA, Feb. 18.—The Canadian Government'! investigation of leakage of "secret and confidential information" concerning Canada's atomic knowledge has spread to London, where one Canadian official is reported to have been seized. The number of persons now
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  • 40 4/1 Reuter. PARIS, Feb. 17. The French Government will intercede in favour of the Spanish Republicans who fought in France during the liberation and are now held prisoners by the Franco Government, it was learned here tonight.—Reuter.
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  • 153 4/1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The proposed United Stales loan to Britain would "provide a relief lor a decadent Empire," said Edwin C. Johnson, Democratic Senator for Colorado, tchen, with Burton K. Wheeler, Senator for Montana, he took part in the National Broadcasting Company radio forum
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  • 156 4/1 Reuter. KUCHING, Feb. 17.—A clear-cut demand thai no change is to be made in the present status of Sarawak ;:s an independent state has been made by the Malay National Union of Sarawak at a special meeting held in the capital to discuss
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  • 178 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Feb. 17.—The Security Council of the UNO adjourned last night until March 21 after finishing in unusual circumstances the discussion of the Syrian and Lebanese complaint against the presence of British and French troops. The American resolution settling {he issue had been
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  • 109 4/1 Reuter. MOSCOW. Feb. 17.—1n an article in the New Times criticising the efforts that are) made to modify the conditions imposed upon the heavy industry in Germany, David Orlov alleges the representatives jof British and American enterprises are in contact with German industrialists
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  • 48 4/1 Reuter. SHANGHAI, Fob. 17.—The authorities here who blame the speculation in U.S. dollars and gold bars for the soaring commodity prices, temporarily suspended trading on the gold bar exchange on Friday ponding investigation of the recent ;ransactions which sent quotations 10 a new high level.—Reuier.
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  • 226 4/1 Reuter A.P. CHUNGKING, Feb. 17.—Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh has received an "important Russian reply" regarding the question of the Soviet withdrawal from Manchuria, and has left for Nanking to consult with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, according to the Catholic "Social Welfare." Wang Shih-chieh had many
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  • 29 4/1 LONDON, Feb, 17.—New York radio reports that the Chinese Communists in Chungking have announced that civil war in Manchuria began again on Feb. 8.
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  • 87 4/1 Reuter. CHUNGKING. Feb. 17.—Cases of cannibalism have occurred in Yuangnien, in eastern Hopei. where civilians have been beseiged by Chinese Communist forces for the past five months, according to Lv Chung-ling,, Central Government envoy. Lv Chung-ling, who returned to Peiping after a 11-day tour of mo
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  • 29 4/1 Reuter. BRUSSELS, Feb, 17-In one of the calmest polling days in Belgium's >hc luiineft polling day« In Belgium'» NNO voted today In the country» find general elecHon '.nc ll»^0—Ilehte
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  • 76 4/1 Reuter. CHUNGKING, Feb. 17.— More than 6,000,000 people are destitute and 7,000,000 acres of land are flooded in the Yellow River valley as a result of the crumbling of dykes which were neglected during the warfare against bhe Japanese, stated the Chinese Relief and Rehabilitation
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  • 101 4/1 A.P. ALLAHABAD, Feb. 17.—Mahatm* Gandhi today declared that India faces certain disaster unless the government and public approach the food crisis "patiently and courageously." Gandhi urged the transformation of flower beds into vegetable gardens, distribution of leaflets telling the people how to grow edibles and use
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  • 66 4/1 Associated Press. 1 LONDON, Feb. 16.—Britain announced on Friday it has recognised the Government of Rumania. 1 A British foreign office state- ment said that Rumania had accepted Britain's recent condi- tions for recognition, which included an opposition party In Rumania's cabinet, a new election law,
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  • 29 4/1 Reuter. TOKYO, Feb. 17,—Charged with responsibility for the torture and deaths of 150 allied prisoners of war, Maj. Yaichi Rikitake, Japanese prison camp commandant, will shortly be tried. —Reuter.
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  • 17 4/1 Reuter. PARIS, Feb. 17.—Admiral Thiery D'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner for Indo-China, arrived in Paris by air today.—Reuter.
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  • 564 2/3 BY the time this article appears in print, the first session of the United Nations Assembly will have ended after five weeks of strenuous and often heated debate on a variety of problems, nearly every one of which is a potential casus belli for a future world upheaval.
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  • 111 2/3 Reuter. NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Sevcnhnnrtrcd British .naval ratings staged a walk-out strike a/ter going aboard the 80,000-ton liner .Queen Mary last night but they returned two hours later after Naval Officers had assured them that their protests against "overcrowding' would be met by an improvement
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  • 168 2/3 Associated Press. FOLKESTONE, Feb. 16.— Two ships, one Dutch and the other apparently Britisn, were sunk in Dover Straits on Thursday ni<?ht after collisions with two American vessels, it was reported here to-day. The American steamer Edward R. Squib reporter! a collusion with
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  • 131 2/3 Reuter. OTTAWA, Feb. 17.—The arrest of suspects in connection with the disclosure of "secret and confidential" informationCanada's first major spy "probe" —was stated to-night by an authoritative source to be unfinished. The rounding-up of suspec s was not centralised in Ottawa but spread through other parts
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  • 36 2/3 Associated Press. LONDON, Feb. 15.—A lengthy Polish note demanding that Britain demobilise and send back to Poland the 107.000 Polish troops serving under *ho British Command In Italy and delivered to Britain on Friday.— Associated Press.
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  • 327 2/3 Reuter. ?A* AVI A, freb. Troopg of the 23rd Indian division hare taken over the uaterworks at the hill station of Bandoeng, in Wt <tva, tne new headquarters of the division, where Indonesian* had cut European resident*' water supplies four days ago, a British
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  • 86 2/3 A.P. ALLAHABAD, Feb. 16.—Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru appealed to the Association of Editors in a convention to-day to print more news of what he described as the "poverty and degradation" of the masses of the Indian people. Nehru criticised the press of India, but expressed sympathy
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  • 153 2/3 Reuter. LONDON, Feb. 16—Political quarters in London believe thai the British Government, in an important statement on India, which is expected to be made within the next few days, will announce that Secretary of State for India Lord Pethick-Laivrcncc and. Under Secretary of State Arthur
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  • 92 2/3 A.P. LONDON, Feb. 15. -Plans for a Nuffield automobile manu facluring plant In Calcutta were revealed here to-day with the arrival of H. T. G. Smith, who brought orders for ,€750,000 worth of equipment, according lo Exchange Telegraph. The equlpmeni will be shipped to Calcutta where
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  • 77 2/3 Reuter. GLASGOW, Feb. 16:—Clyde shipyards, cradle of British shipbuilding during the war, with orders for more than 150 vessels totalling over 000,000 gross tons, already have sufficient work in hand to keep them busy for the next 18 months. With seven other shipyards in other
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  • 38 2/3 Reuter. BATAVIA, Feb. 15. -In the region ol Semarang on die north coast of Central Java. Indonesians opened fire with whal is believed to be 75-millimetre guns, it is oHicially stated today. —Reuter.
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  • 267 2/3 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Feb. 16.—The daily basic cereal ration In British India is to be cut from 1 lb. to 12 ounces with four ounces more for heavy manual labourers, Field Marshal Lord Wavell, Viceroy of India, announced today in a broadcast on India's food
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  • 240 2/3 Reuter. LONDON, Feb. 16.—The opinion that reinstatement in the Civil Employment Act does not apply to employment outside the United Kingdom nas been upheld on an appeal by an umpire under the Act. The Colonial Office had appealed from a recommendation of a special comJmHtee of
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  • 581 2/3 Official Account of Feb. 15 Disturbances U m? '~1 j J According to a press note issued by the Supreme AUU d Commander's HQ. an enquiry has been held into the incidents arising out of the clash between the police and o. monstrators in
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  • 270 2/3 No disturbances of the peace whether organized or unorganized, will be tolerated, says Admiral Lord Lotus Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia, in a statement issued last night. The statement says it was reported to Admiral Mountbatten, during his recent .'re-day tour, that allegations of extreme harshness
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  • 120 2/3 (From Our Own Correspondent.) PENANG. Saturday.—Three loud detonations were heard in Penang this mening, and smoke was observed rising shortly before noon, ■Pi adlng apprehension in the town. It was later learned that Japanese ammunition dumps on the mainland had exploded, causing a numol small fires.
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  • 125 2/3 Speaking at a tea party organised by tne Muslim community on Saturday in celebration of the Prophet's birthday, Brigadier P. A. B. MacKerron, D.C.C.A.0., Singapore, expressed his confidence that the Muslim community would continue to give their full loyalty and support in the task of rebuilding
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  • 60 2/3 Johore Bahru Muslims celebrated Prophet Mohamed's birthday in grand style. They held two processions, one on Feb. 12 organized by Indian Muslims, and the other the following day. organized by all the Muslims in Johore. II is reported that 15,--000 people took part in the second procession, which
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