Malaya Tribune, 1 May 1946

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  • 30 1 The Malaya Tribune The Newspaper Of The People Of Malaya Telephone: 5811. FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune Wednesday, May 1, 194 J.
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  • 1477 1 Recommendations of Anglo-American Committee Wo llomiiial ion By Either Jew Or Arab nterests Desirable TROOPS ESSENTIAL TO PREVENT PROLONGED BLOODSHED Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 30.—The Anglo-American Committee on Palestine to-day is-> sued a unanimous report r-commendin- 100,000 Jews be permitted to enter tine this year if possible,
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  • 189 1 Plotted Attempt On MacArthur Reuter. TOKIO, Apr. 30. A nationwide search is being made for Hideo Takavama (not Tokayama as reported earlier*) a former Kempeitai man. leader of the plot to assassinate Gen. Mac Arthur during a Communist parade tomorrow to celebrate May Day. Photographs
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  • 476 1 Sultans Favour London Visit (Tribune Correspondent) KUALA LUMPUR, May I.—All eight Malay Rulers including the Regent of Johore arrived here last evening following an invitation by the Governor of the Malayan Union for a conference on Thursday. While the conference is called presumably for the purpose
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  • 85 1 Reuter. CANBERRA. Apr. 30.—When the British Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, visits Australal. probably -n July, his talks there will be bound up with decentralisation of war industries from Britain to the dominion it was stated officially here today. It was also stated that the establishment
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  • 287 1 A.P. NANKING, Apr. 30.—General George C. Marshall arrived here today and reports that he* is "getting closer and closer" to effecting a truce between the National Government and the Communists now bitterly engaged in Manchuria. General and Mrs. Marshall who arrived from Chungking were met
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  • 214 1 Terrorism In Indonesia— Reuter. An urgent appeal to Dr. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to use his influence to stop the increasing attacks by Indonesians on Indians in Sumatra has tw cabled to the Congress President by the leader of the 'local Indian community. According to the
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  • 58 1 Reuter. PITTSBURG, Apr. 30—Navy Secretary Forrestal said a plan for atomic defence of the United States was under study in Washington. It eventually will become part of the United Nations plan for world security. He did not elaborate except to say the plan was not
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  • 74 1 Reuter. HONG KONG, Apr. 30.—The Administration of Hong Kong has announced the cutting of the present Sour ration by half and general consumption of cereals by 25 per cent. This step has been taken to conform with the reduction of allocation to South-East Asia by the Combined
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  • 148 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Apr. 29—The United States State Department today denied press reports that any foreign government was being g.ven secret war equipment or information about its manufacture. "With the exception of certa-n material jointly developed by the United States and other countries, no classified equipment in the
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  • 89 1 Reuter. HONGKONG, Apr. 30.-Sir Mark Young, who was re appointed Governor of Hong Kong, arrived in th e Colony by ;ur from England today. Detachments of sailors, mar ines, commandos and Ja-'pur guards from India provided rhe guard of honour. Official hand-ing-over ceremones from the military to
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  • 279 2 Pickpocketing has bccirife in Singapore foi months. We have hitherto refrained from mentioning this aspect of the presen. crime wave in the assurance thai tne police haa plans in mind for rounding up the gangs. Time goes on, nothing happens, ana we are driven to the conclusion that the
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  • 146 2 Well, well! Even news agencies cannot escape contamination from the prevailing disease of inflation and reports of secret wealth dumped into Tokio Bay cf a value compared with which the combined store houses of the Spanish Main, Eldorado and King Solomon's mines smack almost of poverty, turn out to
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  • 1189 2 This Shattering but good natured broadside against one aspect of the late British A\iiitary Administration is delivered by Charles Beresford in the World's Press News (London) who turns th? Fleet Street, labours under the naive delusion 3&a aya is liberated. It isn't. The Jap has gone,
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  • 57 2 Work will shortly be resumed on the biography of the late Earl Lloyd George, now that the lawsuit concerning the estate has been fctttled. While the action was proceeding, the late earl's papers were in the hands of the administrator of the estate and were not
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  • 221 2 "Flying Wing Bomber Has Range Over 10,000 Miles XB35 Dwarfs B29 A.P. LOS ANGELES, Apr. 28 —The U. S. Army has removed official secrecy from its "Flying Wing" bomber, the X 835, a radical design which dwarfs the B-29, a n] has announced that its is about one-fourth greater than
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  • 190 2 LONDON, April—All the 4,500.000 children in State-aided primary and secondary schools are to be offered two-thirds of a pint of free milk daily from next August, and fret dinners "at the earliest possible date." Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Minister of Education, announcing this in the Commons,
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  • 279 2  -  ißy i > Barton D. Pattie, Associated Press Correspondent) International tennis will be reborn this summer at Wimbledon, where the famous stadium -li:. bears th*? scars of Nazi bombs but the s> recn courts are magnihcenlly green. An All-England tenni* club oiflcial said interest in renewal of tne
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  • 459 2 Perak Newsman Tortured (Tribune Correspondent) IPOH—A well-known Cameron Highlands business man, Loh Khai Fatt, was produced in the District C before Che Samsudom, last Wednesday, in cennee with the preliminary enquiry into a charge of alle?, lv assisting the enemy by acting as informer
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  • 178 2 Volunteers A few weeks ago an art'ele by C. Ealakrishnan appeared in the M Tribune ask:ng the B.S.V.F. quarters to issue a statement oi half of the Volunteers back-pay the period of the Japanese occ and so far nothing has been d the authorities on thi* subject. Do
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    • 182 2 you want a trouble-free radio set? Ah.who won't? We certainly wouldn't promise you that. Bui there's this to say. Before the war we had a pretty good reputation for making reliable sets, and we've learned a lot more about reliability in the last five years. You Km to when the
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  • 370 3 DRAFT TREATY PREPARED Reuer A.P. PARIS, APR. 30.—DRAFT TREATIES TO ENSURE THAT GERMANY AND JAPAN ARE KEPT PERMANENTLY DISARM}ED HAVE BEEN PREPARED BY THE UNITED STATES FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE ALLIED GOVERNMENTS, IT WAS DISCLOSED LAST NIGHT. The text of a draft treaty embodying a 25-year
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  • 93 3 Reuter. OTTAWA Apr. 30.—Ma j. -Gen. D;,n Spry. Vice-Chief of the Canadian General Staff, and at 33 the youngest major-general in the British Commonwealth, retires today to take over an appointment as Ch ef Commissioner of 100.000 Canadian boy scouts. He will be succeeded as ViceChief of
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  • 80 3 A.P. PEIPING. April 30.—Since* early December last year over 600 collaborators have been arrested in Peiping and Tientsin. Yen few are still in hiding and the rounding up job is nearing completion. Nine of the most important, including Wane Yin-tai. will be flown to Nanking for a
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  • 109 3 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Apr. 29 The roundiable talks on the future of India, to which the British Cabinet Mission has invited Congress and Moslem League leaders, will probably take place in Stmla, India's summer capital, it was reported today. Following Congress acceptance the Moslem League
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  • 92 3 6ergeant-Major Yoshikawa Tarn, on trial before the F rst War Crimes Tribunal, yesterday denied the charge against him that as camp commandant of Kranji Hosp tal Camp for POW s he ill-mated British. Australian and Dutch POWs us a result of which deaths occurred and physical suffering
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  • 58 3 Reuter. Jerusalem, Apr. 29.—"Stern" gang, a group of Jewish terrorists who call themselves the "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel" today acknowledged responsibility for the killing n} seven men of the British Sixth Airborne Division at Tel Aviv on 1- hursdav night. The announcement was made in
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  • 286 3 A.P OTTAWA (AP) —Prime Minister Mackenzie King recently announced an unprecedented nine-po'nt programme aimed at restricting the amount of food served on Canadian dinner tables, maintaining warincreased farm production and prov'ding morp food for a starving world faced with disease and disorder. Underlining the world food
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  • 52 3 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Apr. 30. Ml Clinton Anderson. United States I Secretary for Agriculture, last night confirmed thai the United States Government was contemplating further measures to cut down home consumption of vitally needed wheat products in an attempt to halt the increasing failure of United States commitments to
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  • 302 3 Beating was resorted to as a form of light punishment and. sometimes, when investigations had to be rushed through and when the person interrogated refuses to answer questions, one could not help hitting a person. The foregoinu was tne ansut. <Mver b MiLsubashi Mataichi.
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  • 31 3 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Apr. 28.—The fir.al Senate vote on {he British Joan will be taken next week If their efforts to circumvent the the Administration succeed in delaying tactics of the Opposition.—Reuter.
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  • 157 3 Two young Chinese. Fong Pun (23) and Lee Wing (25), w<re commuted for trial at the forthcoming Assizes on charges of carrying firearms, at the conclusion of the nrst preliminary inquiry held n the local police courts since the re-occupadon. Accord ng to the evidence led by
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  • 75 3 Reuter. PARIS, Apr. 2b.— Britain, the United States, Russia. France, Greece and Yugoslavia are to share the Italian fleet except for a small peacetime navy which is to be left to Italy under the peace treafy. The comm «ee of experts, charged to investigate Italy's capacity
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  • 102 4 Officers of the Singapore Improvement Trust were yesterday visiting S.I.T. property in Tiong Bharu with the dual object of examining damage sustained by the buildings during the occupation and of checking the identity of inmates in order to establish whether premises are in possession of the
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  • 36 4 A.P. NEW YORK. Apr. 29.—Andrei •Gromyko. Soviet Russia's prominent delegate to the United Nations Security Council, has been appointed as Russian representative on the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, it was officially announced here on Monday.—A.P.
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  • 404 4 (Tribune Correspondent) KUALA LUMPUR, APR. TENSE ATMOSPHERE WHICH PREVAILED IN KUALA LUMPUR DURING THE THREE DAYS FOLLOWING THE INAUGURATION OF THE MALAYAN UNION PLAN HAS BEEN REVIVED. To-day and for the next two or three days, the Station Hotel will be the venue of
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  • 157 4 Reuter. LONDON. Apr. 30 —Cant Bertram Brooke. Tuan Muda of Sarawa;;. is leaving Fng'and by flying-boat today for Singapore on his way to Sarawak. He made the following .statement: "I have on y two objects in visiting One is to ensure as my constitut onal
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  • 77 4 (Tribune Correspondents KUALA LUMPUR. April 30 —A scheme lor an agricultural settlement in Bentong, under which it is l ntended to cultivate 4.875 acres with padi. is outlined in a Paper submitted to members of the Union Advisory Council at its meeting today. The scheme, proposed by the
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  • 74 4 (Tribune Correspondent) TAIPING.—An armed gang of about 40 Chinese bandits dressed in jungle green and wearing Japanese military caps, are alleged to have shot three Sakais on Apr. 22 at Sungei Labah, eight miles from Grik. The bodies of the Sakais were then thrown into a river.
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  • 98 4 Excellent team work of the Singapore Fire. Brigade was responsible for bringing under control a tlo.ooo—fire in the Tanjong Pagar area early this morning. The fire started in the kitchen of a bicycle shop at premises 176, Tanjong Pagar Road. From the kitchen the fire
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  • 117 4 Th e complete absence of buses of the Singapore Traction Company from the Streets of the city this morning ushered in Labour Day. Trishaws and rickshaws were off the roads in that section of the city north of the Eligin Bridge.- Elsewhere these vehicles were in
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  • 431 4 (Tribune Correspondent) KUALA I.UMPUR. April 30.—"A large percentage Of the population in these States are directly or indirectly interested in growing rubber, and the biggest partner in this Important industry is Government itself. I therefore feel that I cannot too strongly urge that the
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  • 97 4 (Tribune Correspondent) KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 27.— Thirty-six leading Chinese women of Kuala Lumpur met at the Chung Hwa Girls' School to discuss the formation of a Selangor Women's Charity Association. The Association is t° provide free education to women and relief to all unemployed Chinese women
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  • 244 4 THE NEGOTIATIONS CONDUCTED BY THE CENTRAL BOARD OF PINEAPPLE PA C X E R S, MALAYA FOR GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE REHABILITATION OF THE PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY OF MALAYA HAVE NOW REACHED THE FINAL STAGE. A new company is in course of formation which will not
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  • 24 4 The public session of the Advisory Council will open at 10 nm. to-morrow *i the Council Chambers. Municipal Offices, ..nd not at Government* House.
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  • 221 4 «Tr.bune Correspondent) KUALA I DIfPUR April 30.—A committee under the chairmanship of the Econoaiie Adviser to the Malayan Union. Mr. C. J. Pyke, to examine the question of wages and cost of living has been appointed by His Excellency the Governor. The Committee will conduct
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  • 138 4 Horses Class I—Div. 1 5i furs Jesanne 11.5. Krishna 9.8. Sunbeam 9.6. Mickey Roonev 8.10, Wymering 8.4. The Pathan 8.2, Tepong 7.10. Horses Class I—Div. 2. furs* Burraneer 10.0. Bull Toi 9.4. Jimania 9.4, Maintain 9.2, Double Scotch 8.7. Starlight 8.6, Frampton 7.10. Horses Class 2—Div. 1,
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  • 55 4 (Tribune Correspondent) PENANG. Apr. 29—In a- further effort to track down hoarders, Penang food inspectors during the week-end pounced upon a house in Carnarvon Street where rice and salt estimated at $4,000 was found hidden. More raids will be carried in future to curb profiteers thereby smashing
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  • 324 4 Air Marshal Sir George C. Pirie to*iav s ,w, ceeds Ai r Chief Marshal. Sir Keith Park, as Allied Air-Comman-der-in-Chief, South East As a. Air Marshal Pirie in the early days of the 1914-18 war was one of the R.F.C. pioneers of wartime flying. In France and
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  • 143 4 Boys and old boys of St, Andrew's School feted Sir Han Hoe and Lady Lim at an "At Home" held at \S oodsville on Monday. Present at the function were Mr. R.C.H. Lim. president of the SAOBA, Mr. and Mrs. Yap Pheng Geek. Mr.'
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  • 49 4 A.P. NANKING, Apr. 30—The Aviation Corporation has announced Ht has ordered six American-built C 54 transport planes for delivery next month to open a new line from Shanghai to Tokyo, Seoul, Manila and Singapore. The Airline's man office is to be moved to Shanghai.—A.P.
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