Malaya Tribune, 8 March 1946

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  • 31 4/1 The Malaya Tribune Telephone: 5811. The hen ttpaper in The People Of Malaya FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY MARCH 8, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune Frtt§ai/. Mmrch a, 1946. I
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  • 71 4/1 Ihiee Chinese, Lew Chek Eu, Liang Boon Hoon and Chow Chee, who were charged with rioting on Feb. 15, at Short Street, were granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal when their case was mentioned before Mr. L. C. Goh, in the second district court, yesterday.
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  • 34 4/1 Five Indians, two of whom were armed with pistols, robbed $3,015 cash and $37,503 worth of jewellery from a house in Lorong 27-A, Geylang. In the early hours of yesterday morning.
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  • 147 4/1 A.P. MUKDEN, Mar. 6.—(Delayed)—The Chinese manager of a big Mukden aluminium plant showed Unveil States correspondents a pencilled receipt given him by the Russians who, he said, had stripped the factory bare in eighteen different trips. He said that the Russians visited the
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  • 200 4/1 In the first case of possession of arms under the new proclamation, which empowers imposing the death penalty, four Chinese received prison sentences in the Second Superior Court on Wednesday, when they were found guilty of charges of possession of arms, failing to report a
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  • 174 4/1 Pre-occupa'tion mining leases which were not renewed during th Japanese occupation and have r pired, may now be renewed and extended to Dec. 31, 1947. This social measuv* has bten taken in order that lessees shall not suffer on account of circumstances be>ond their control. Such renewals,
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  • 64 4/1 Major W. A. Aeria, who, since his liberation from the P.O.W. camp has been busy at Volunteer Headquarters as CO., Ist Battalion, S.S.V.F., and looking after Malayan Volunteer interests generally, Is leaving for Australia in a few days for recuperation. Major Aeria will be accompanied by
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  • 180 4/1 Many Singapore and Malay States volunteers lie buried in Siam, Borneo and eLsewhere in the East in inmarked graves. All over South-East Asia and the jar East units of a little known Aimy service are doing a painstakng but unspectaculai job. They arc pait of the
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  • 149 4/1 "The court thinks that you were not in possession of this weapon for an innocent purpose, and it does not accept your story that you kept it on your person to prevent it from being stolen. We think you are something of a dangerous man,"
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  • 70 4/1 A Chinese woman Ng Ah Chiang (50) described by the prosecution as a "trafficker in opium" was sentenced to six months' s.i. when she pleaded guilty to possessing 158 leaf packets of topium in .the Fourth Court yesterday. Acting on information the Customs Department raided a
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  • 79 4/1 Columbia's highly entertaining musical, "Something to Shout About." which opened a season at the Cathay yesterday, introduces a new star in versatile Janet Blair, who scores a hit in this film in which she, Don Ameche and Jack Oakie head the cast. Spectacular ensembles, new song hits
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  • 146 4/1 Associated Press. HANKOW, Mar. 7.—General George Marshall, special U.S. envoy to China, declared last night: "The United States has no axe to grind in China." Speaking at a dinner at the end of a tour of China's trouble zone before flying to
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  • 308 4/1 A.P. PARIS, Mar. 7.—A French general staff officer said today that conferences were under way between th c French and Chinese commands at Haiphong, Indo-China, scene of a clash yesterday between French warships and nhinese shore batteries. A Government spokesman attributed the incident to "a
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  • 174 4/1 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Mar. 7.—Crowds of several thousand strong tofiy set fire to the Town Hall in Chandni Chowk, business centre of the old city of Delhi, in demonstrations against the Victory Week celebration* now going on here. The trouble started when tramway workers and some
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  • 60 4/1 (Tribune Correspondent) IPOH, Mar. 7 .—Addressing Perak Advisory Council members today, Lt.-Col. R. N. Walker, secretary to the Council, stated that seventy Malays while praying at Bekau. a small village in Kuala Kangsar District, were killed by Chinese. Military action was taken immediately, and a proclamation
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  • 253 4/1 A.P. lONOON MAR B—GRANTING OF A CANADIAN LOAN OF »1,250,000,000, AT TWO PER CENT INTEREST, WAS ANNOUNCED ON THURSDAY IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS BY BRITISH PRIME MINISTER CLEMENT ATTLEE. Enabling the United Kingdom to purchase foodstuffs and other badly needed supplies from the
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  • 44 4/1 (Tribune Correspondent) PENANG, Mar. 7.—A tin ore buying agency has been set up in Penang at the Eastern Smelting Co. Ltd. with Mr. W. N. Walter In charge. Penang is the fourth centre at which an agency has been established.
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  • 74 4/1 Reuter. BATAVIA, Mar. 7.—Dr. Sutan Shahrir, Indonesian "Premier" said today he expected that the Indonesians would propose a truce in Java within a fortnight, the Netherlands news agency reports. The proposal would be made to the British for them to arrange a general cease fire
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  • 112 4/1 A.P. LONDON, Mar. 7.—A. V. Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty, told the House of Commons that Britain wants an agreement with Russia, but declared that it must be a "two-way agreement" Asserting that the Soviet Press, "by some strange accident" had failed
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  • 162 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Mar. 7.—Tonight's grimmest food news comes from China where a Chungking cable states 1,000,000 people are starving in the rice bowl province of Hunan. The province Is stated to be "littered with dead through drought, famine and pestilence." Crops are said to be
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  • 398 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Mar. 7.—Rising tension was reported from Teheran, Persian capital, today, as Qavam Persian Premier, flew home from Moscow after his talks with Soviet leaders on future Persian-Russian relations. Simultaneously, a communique on the Premier's visit issued in Moscow stated that conversations had taken place
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  • 315 4/1 A.P. WASHINGTON, Mar. B.—The United States has informed Russia that it "cannot remain indifferent" to the Soviet decision to keep Red Army troops in Iran, the State Department- disclosed late last night. A document which was delivered in Moscow on Wednesday,
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  • 584 2/3 pHE United States DepartA ment of Commerce has been impressed by the fact that post-war-rehabilitation in colonial areas in SouthEast Asia is lagging behind that secured in China "which has made the greatest comeback in external trade since the end of the conflict.'' China is stated to have
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  • 996 2/3 untitled To Churchill's Speech Reuter. SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 7. "-Varying reaction in the United States and Great Britain—and non-committal silence m Moscow—greeted B nUun's war-time Prime Minister Churchill's criticism of Russia and his proposal for an Anglo-American alliance. JHgSL*g5 s °viet Union sought
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  • 101 2/3 Associated Press LONDON, March 7-Moscow radio broadcast a Tass dispatch from Athens last night which said that the Government is sending a warsh<p to the island of Cepholonia to quel a revolt organized by the right wing of the monarchist organization on March 4.
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  • 154 2/3 (Tribune Correspondent.) IPOH, March, 7.—Serious communal clashes occurred on Wednesday between Malays and Chinese in the two villages of Mahong and Kampong Bekor, a few miles away from Kuala Kangsar, resulting in many deaths, scores injured and houses burnt. According to information available, several houses occupied
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  • 256 2/3 we A ron P ,ea f L or leniency was made yesterday in the War Crimes Court by the Japanese defence counse for Major-General Sato Tamanori and four other XTrs of a Japanese unit In the Andamans, chargedwith T thl ill* treatment and
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  • 105 2/3 (Tribune Correspondent.) The first official intimation of the return of civil government to Malaya (subject to official contradiction) was given yesterday morning by the Senior Civil Affairs Officer of PeraK speaking at the opening day of the Perak regional advisory council meeting. He said that the
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  • 109 2/3 The issue and receipt of sea passage forms to India has been stopped from the Office of *he Representative of the Government of India in Malaya, Robinson Road, with immediate effect until further notice. During the past two days applicants for sea passages have rushed the
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  • 57 2/3 A start has been made on a food production scheme at Sungei Buloh utilising Japanese P.O.W. labour. The scheme provides for clearing and planting 2,000 acres with quick growing food crops. Of this ajea, 200 acres is also to be stumped by mechanical equipment, so that it
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  • 49 2/3 All information on activities of Japanese war criminals will now be received at 19, Orange Grove Road instead of Goodwood Park Hotel. A woman officer is on duty daily to look after women visitors and translators are avatlable. All information given is treated in strict confidence. I
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  • 166 2/3 As a measure to improve conditions of service of daily paid Government employees, the question of pay whilst absent from duty on account of sickness has been under consideration, says an official announcement issued in Kuala Lumpur At present only half pay is admissable for such
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