Malaya Tribune, 11 March 1946

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  • 29 4/1 The Malaya Tribune Telephone: 5811. The Newspaper Of The People Of Malaya FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune Monday, March 11, 1946.
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  • 136 4/1 Reuter. MOSCOW, Mar. 9.-The Japanese Socialist Party was accused of supporting; reactionary forces in Japan in an •rticle today in the Soviet newspaper Red Stir. M Plishevaky, the author of the •rticie added: "They are trying to turn the Socialist Party away from the policy
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  • 30 4/1 e ws been received of the deaih of the Rev. E. G. Proctor vno met with a fatal motor accident between Segamat and Malacca last Tuesday.
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  • 238 4/1 Associated Press. COLUMBUS OHIO, Mar. 9.-The special post-war policy meeting of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America closed with a warning against chur- War against eithe Ca P"alism B.shop G. Bromley, head of the New York area of
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  • 74 4/1 The trial of Clovis Osborne Woodford, 50-year-old Eurasian, under Section 3 of the War Offences Ordinance, opened in the British Officer Court this morning. Woodford is alleged to have given certain information to the Japanese special branch resulting in the a. jest, conviction and imprisonment oi
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  • 39 4/1 A.P. xVEW YORK, Mar. 9.—Former world's heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey has been nam-'d president of the Boxing Promoters of America Inc. for a four-to-six-year period, it was reported to-day, at a salary of $50,000.—A.P.
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  • 237 4/1 InATI (From Tribune Reporter) ih» Kffij lar Ja P anes e led Chinese bandits in the attack on a Malay reserve in Bekor last Wednesday a Tribune reporter was told by refugees who are now in The mosque was the main objective where the
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  • 374 4/1 Reuter. BOLTON, LANCASHIRE, Mar. 10 —Special prayers iur the dead and their relatives were recited today ai morning service in Lancashire cnurches following the worst disaster in British football history when poople were killed at Bolton's football ground yesterday. At a cup-tie match with Stoke City over
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  • 81 4/1 A protest against the proposed increase in the rates for electricity to all consumers has been sent to ihe B.M.A. by the Singapore Ratepayers' Association. The Association strongly urg<>s that the average householder (anyone who consumes 200 units or less per month) be exempted The Association also requests
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  • 115 4/1 A.P. DETROIT, March 10.—The bitter prolonged General Motors strike ftas piled up financial loss to labour and industry to a figure of 1.000 million dollars. As the fight between one of the world's largest corporations and the big Congress of Industrial Organizations' United Auto Workers Union
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  • 380 4/1 A.P. Reuter. BATAVIA, Mar. 10.—The first draft of troops to be withdrawn from Java is expected to sail from Sourabaya within a few days aboard the transports which brought the Dutch to Batavia. The number is expected to be above 2,000. One transport
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  • 152 4/1 Reuter. CHUNGKING, Mar. 10.—A demand icr compensation lias been made by the Chinese First Army Headquarteis in Hanoi in a statement on the clash at Haiphong, principal port of Northern Indo-China, when shelling occurred as French warships arrived to land troops. The Chinese statement added: "On
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  • 45 4/1 Reuter. CHUNGKING, Mar. 10 -Gen. George- Marshall, United States Special Ambassador in China, has told :he Chinese Central Government that he will return to the United States on Tuesday to report to President Truman according to a newspaper repon. —Reuter.
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  • 327 4/1 Early Reply From Soviet Demanded Reuter A.P. LONDON, Mar. 10.-The British, joining the United f °ru Ve J.?l an chur a has delivered through the British Charge d'Affaires in Moscow, Mr. Frank Roberta, a note to the Soviet Government against the re moval of Japanese
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  • 137 4/1 U.S. Soviet Friendship Essential A.P. —Moscow Radio LONDON, March 10.—Moscow j radio tonight said that friendship j between the United States and Rusi sia was necessary for world peace. Dec: ying "irresponsible talk" In I tilt United States, the commentator declared that "the voices of true friends of peace should
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  • 87 4/1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Mar. 10.—Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar, head of the Indian food mission t 0 Washington and London said yesterday that the mission had completed the presentation of its case to the Combined Food Board jln Washington. i They were now waiting for the decision of the board
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  • 137 4/1 Reuter. SOUTHAMPTON, Mar. 10.—inquiries into the cause of the fire which destroyed part of the isolation hospital in the liner Queen Elizabeth were continued today by Southampton Criminal Investigation Department officers, who questioned many of the 800 men working in the ship. They were
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  • 519 4/1 Reuter A.P. CHUNGKING, Mar. 10.—Russian troops have completed their withdrawal from Mukden, principal city of Manchuria, the Chinese Central News Agency reported last night. Fires have broken out in the city the Agency added. Meanwhile Chinese government troops were reported to be engaged in serious street
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  • 93 4/1 Reuter. BOMBAY, Mar. 10.—Gandhi today warned members of the Indian armed forces against resort to mutiny to achieve improvements in conditions of living in an article in his weekly newspaper Harijan. "A mutiny may conceivably succeed but success can only avail mutineers and their kin not the whole
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  • 53 4/1 Sixteen Japanese* including a major-general, are on trial today in the war crimes court on charges of being concerned in the torturing and ilitreatment of civilian residents of Carnicobar island. The accused are alleged to have been concerned in the execution of 82 natives who were
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  • 60 4/1 A.P. Fort Dix New Jersey, Mar. 10.— Movie actor Mickey Rooney has received his discharge from the \-:r.; and has departed immecm.iely for Hollywood to rejoin his wife and his son. Mickey R ooney has been in service for 20 months, travelled 115.000 miles, entertained 2.000.000 Gls and received the
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  • 535 2/3 H.M. Government has been forced to show its hand by the increasing volume of protest wnicn has been pouring into London against the Malayan Union proposals. The Government "will not be deflected from its policy," and as a vehicle for this refreshingly candid declaration it chooses
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  • 78 2/3 WASHINGTON, Mar. 9.—The national advisory council on international monetary and financial problems, which passes on loan requests of the Export-Import Bank, on Saturday reported that contracts were already signed for the following loans: Belgium, $100 million: Finland, $35 million, France, $550 million; Greece, $25 million; tht
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  • 126 2/3 Reuter. HONG KONG, Mar. 9—Thousands of Chinese pouring every week into Hongkong from t»ie Chinese mainland where a million people are reported to be starving have compelled the authorities to tighten the restrictions on the issue of rice. Rice tickets will not be issued to
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  • 99 2/3 A.P. CHUNGKING. March, 10.—A fiveyear plan for highway and railway construction for China was announced today to the Kuomintang Congress by the Minister of Communications, General Yu Fei-weng. Yu said that the Government would soon sign a contract with an American engineering concern to provide material
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  • 30 2/3 A.P. NEW YORK, Mar. 10.—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of President Roosevelt, said to-day she hopes to go to Russia late this summer as a journalist "if I can arrange it."—A.P.
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  • 243 2/3 Reuter. LONDON, Mar. 10.—"Just to make things easy for Sir Stafford Cripps and his colleagues when they get to India," lan Mackay wrote in his daily diary in the News Chronicle to-day, "some of our fashionable hotel proprietors over here have been turning up
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  • 142 2/3 Reuter. LONDON, Mar. 9.—The joint military staff talks in Paris on the Withdrawal of British and French troops from Syria and Lebanon have ended in agreement that all foreign troops in Syria will be withdrawn by the end of April. With regard to troops in Lebanon,
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  • 72 2/3 Reuter. MADRID, Mar. 9.—A Cabinet meeting presided over by Gen. Franco last night issued a communique saying: "The Government has discussed the declaration which at France's request was made public by the Anglo-Saxon Government and decided to express the cabinet's reaffirmation of the line of conduct contained
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  • 202 2/3 PEIPING, Mar. 9.—One British and five American correspondents who made a trip into the heart of Manchuria to investigate that "news vacuum" of the Far East, have returned safely to Peiping after a three-week rigorous experience. An Associated Press correspondent who was one of
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  • 193 2/3 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Mar. 9.—Russia has told Turkey that the signing ol any treaty of alliance between their two governments is conditional on "d'ocussion" of questions of Turkey's provinces of Kars and Ardahan and the Dardanelles, James Byrnes, United States Secretary of State, stated last night. Mr. Byrnes
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  • 99 2/3 Associated Press. TOKYO, Mar. 9.-Oeneral Douglas Mac Arthur has requested the Australian authorities to disembark at Rabaul or some port near Sydney all women and children and malp heads of families who boarded the "hell ship' Yoizuki at Sydney. He also asked a Japanese
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  • 74 2/3 Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Mar. 9— The famed Stilwell Road, which cost the I U.S. over $137,000.000, and eleven J military airfields in Burma are being abandoned. The Foreign Liquidation Commissioners Office said the road, constructed as a war-time measure "is no way related to any potential peace-time
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  • 214 2/3 Writers of letters intended for publication are requested to append their names, not noms-de-plume. Muslim Youth League Owing to their low standard ot education in English, the Malays cannot at present stand up to the other people in Singapore; the.> might do (So five, teti, or fifte:-: ycais
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  • 73 2/3 Associated Press. LONDON, Mar. 9.—British holders of some 123M0M0 pounds sterling of Japanese bonds were told yesterday that their chances of being compensated "are not very bright." Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton said investments have f)ecn "mifortunate for holders and unfortunate for this country in so
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  • 107 2/3 For the third time pressed for a reply in connection with the alleged issue of a circular by the Malaya Command to the Troops prior to the Chinese New Year warning them to be careful against thefts which the Chinese were obUged to make in order
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  • 21 2/3 WARSAW. Mar. 9— The Government has decided that all children born Illegitimately shall have equal rights with those born in wedlock
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  • 242 2/3 In Southern Siam two companies of 629 (Army Troops) Engineers, RIE, have just completed an engineering project that proved too much during the war for the cream of Jap engineering battalions. Across the 200-yard wide, but flowing river at Burst Thani. the Mppera have built
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  • 208 2/3 Twenty-eight passengers in the two R.A.F. Sunderland flying boats forced down on a flight from Singapore lo Hong Kong "picnicked" for three nights in the aircraft before being taken off by sloop. ihc passengers, wno inciuued four women, reached Hong Kong yesterday in
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  • 25 2/3 'Ihe hanging of the first Japanese war criminals, fixed for this morning, has been postponed. Thursday next is the day now tentatively arranged.
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  • 89 2/3 A Proclamation is issued to control driving of motor vehicles. Penalties are provided for dangerous or negligent driving, or driving under the influence of drink or drugs. Any driver involved in an accident involving damage to any person, vehicle, structure or animal, i 3 required to render
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  • 211 2/3 Indian engineers recently began work on one of (heir biggest assignments in Malaya—the opening up for heavy traffic of the east coast road from Kuantan to Kota Bahru. During the Japanese occupation this road was allowed to fall into a serious state of
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  • 156 2/3 (Tribune Correspondent) PENANG, March 9.—lmport and export trade in Penang was at a standstill today as a re.sult of an order prohibiting the export of certain products and allowing the export of other products only on the barter system. A local importer declared that difficulty in obtaining
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  • 147 2/3 BATAVIA, Mar. B—The Dutch, News Agency learns that all Netherlauds banks in Batavia will be reopened shortly. The money situation in Batavia two days after the introduction of the new N.E.I, currency is still confused. The first reaction on the food market was a tremendous rise
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  • 41 2/3 Reuter. MELBOURNE. Mar. untitled—Mrs. Br am ma Us Knockarlow won the Australian Cup at Flemington hpre today. C. R. Hannan's Silurian was second with Messrs. B. and R. Greysmith's Oatcake, the favourite, third. The race was worth £2,275 to the winner.—Reuter.
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  • 88 2/3 A.P. LONDON, Mar. 9.—The Times on Saturday said "the recognition of Annam as an autonomous member pf an Indo-Chinese federation provides an interesting change in the attitude of the French Government." While it once seemed that France aimed at assimilating Indo-China "on Algerian lines," it
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  • 30 2/3 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Mar. 9.— President Truman stated, yesterday that the Anglo-Ameri-can Combined Chiefs of Staff which had headquarters in Washington would continue in existence until the war ivas officially ended—Reuter.
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