Malaya Tribune, 25 June 1946

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    35 1 The Malaya Tribune The Newspaper Of The People Of Malaya 'Phone Nos: —Editorial (only) Advertising) Circulation Accounts 5812 LIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1946.
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    GI'S IN CHINA "A MENACE TO PEACE"
    296 1 Mao Tse-Tung: America Has Broken Promises Red Leader Wants U.S. Troops Out A.P. NANKING, JUNE 25.—COMMUNIST LEADER MAO TSE-TUNG ON MONDAY DECLARED THAT THE CHINESE PEOPLE BELIEVE THE U.S. ARMY AND NAVY FORCES IN CHINA HAVE BECOME A GRAVE MENACE TO NATIONAL PEACE
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    Burma Rire Crop Estimate
    106 1 Reuter. RANGOON, June 24 —Mr. B. O. Birrs, Financial Commissioner, told Reuter today that the Burma mo crop estimate given by the Royal Air Force survey in Singapore wist week, which was stated to be in reaped of tr.e rice harvest at the end of 1946
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    38 1 Reuter. DURBAN. June 24. untitled persons appeared in the Magistrate's Court here today on charges ol" u<lawfully trespassing on a vacant, plot of corporation-owned land. On application by the Public Prosecutor tht rases were adjourned to July I.—Reuter.
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    Making Yellow River Safe
    177 1 Making Yel low River Safe Reuter. NOH AI. Jun e 24 —A I study of the Yellow l Ulna's Sorrow" -w 111 ducted by a special Board the National Supreme mis Council. ard will r< commend Qt measures to hold the ii Ri\ < v in cheek, and will tudy
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    No Despondency In U.K. Over India Deadlock
    152 1 Reuter. 3NDON, June 24.—There is nd?ncy in British Gov. quarters over the predlock in India, accordan authoritative spokesin close touch with the Cabinet. It is still j felt that the efforts of /iceroy and the British Mission will result in he sett'ng up
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    INDIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN NEW JAVA AMBUSH
    54 1 Reuter. VIA, June 24. —Two Indian were killed in ambubhcs Four companies of British were returning from occupyIndonesian concentration Sumatra last Wednesday, ireei reported today, troops released 52 women n from the camp which Batoenoesoe, 12 miles ftf»M The troops occupied the without
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    TWO MORE ROBBERIES
    80 1 Two more cases of robberies were reported in the past 24 hours. In both cases no arrests have been effect d. In !he first case, three Chinese, two of whom were armed with pistols, held up occupants of a house in Hill Street and got away with
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    Price Control In America
    86 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. June 24.—The fcKiate and House of Representatives Committee. conferring on divergent versions of the bill extending the price control legislation which was due to end on June 30, has announced agreement on all but four major points. These were length of extension. Senate amendments
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    Jewish Charge Against Arabs
    114 1 A.P. JERUSALEM. June 25.—An Arab plan for increasing the Arab Legion to 100.000 men and establishing a provisional government for Palestine under the Mufti of Jerusalem, was alleged on Monday by the illegal Jewish radio. "The Voice of Israel." The broadcast referred to tne proposal adopted
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    "Shoot At Sight" Order Against Java Japs
    180 1 Reuter. rat AVI A. June 24.—Japanese dfStrtera believed tn hP West Java with bands of Indonesian rreVars may shortly find themselves the object of a St at order from Allied Headquarters. „1 „f ,„„«0 in ronh.li Copies of an order from Ma,. Gen
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    FOOD GIFTS FOR CZECHS
    45 1 A.P. BREMENHAVEN, Jane gft,—Twealy thousand food packages for CmC*o--.dovakia arrived fcere Of Mouday aboard tac vessel the American Banker. These, each weighing >U pounds, were sent by .individuals in 'he U.S. (zecho>lovak guards will MCwrt the food to distribution centre. A.P.
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    N.C.O. Sits Between Queen And Duchess
    112 1 Reuter. LONDON, June 24.—Sitting between the Queen and the Duchess of Kent in the Royal Box at a gala concert night at the Royal Albert Hall in aid of the Commandos Benefit Fund, Quartermaster-Sergeant Q. Brown from Stockport talked to them about music and
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    Franco: Poland's Proposal Rejected
    171 1 Reuter. NEW YORK. June 24.—The UNO Security Counc 1 today reject:d Poland's proposal that the Council should cir.c, mjmb:rs of the United Nations to break of oipomaVc relations with Spain. The Soviet delegate. M. Andrei Gromyko, supported the proposal. The Polish delegate, Dr. Oscar Lange, in
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    POLISH ELECTIONS DELAY CAUSES CONCERN IN U.K.
    93 1 A.P. LONDON. Juno 25. —Minister of State Philip Noel-Baker erpressed •grvea concern" in the Commons on Monday at '"the delay in hoia ing elections in Poland." Declaring there were signs thai this delay is heing used to under .line one of the principal
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    CANTON'S POOR TAX REVENUE
    107 1 Reuter. CANTON. June 24.—Though imports are beginning to flow into Canton, the Chinese Customs are receiving little revenue from foreign trade. The Customs administration ha/; drawn the attention of the military authorities to the smuggling of goxu from Hong Kong on the CantonKowloon Railway by men
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    HELD INCOMMUNICADO IN LONDON
    74 1 A.P. LONDON, June 25.—Earl Browder. former head of the Communist *>arty in America, was held incommui.icade on Monday, pending his departure from London for New York following his visit to Moscow, British security police said in London. A security police officer said Browder was being held
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    HEALTH INTELLIGENCE BROADCAST
    57 1 For the information of master and shipping conpanies it is announced that as from June 27 a weekly health intelligence will be broadcast from Kranji RNWP station in AA cable code and clear at 1400 hours G.M.T. on call sign GYL, simultaneously in three fre-. quencies at
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    FLOODS RENDER HUNDREDS HOMELESS
    34 1 A.P. ASHALAND, Wisconsin, June 25. —One person was drowned and hundreds were rendered homeless in a raging flood of the White and Bad rivers, following five inches of rainfall. —A.P.
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    MODEL VILLAGE
    36 1 A.P. SYDNEY—The Australian Government plans to build a medel native village of 500 homes near Port Moresby. New Guinea. Edward J. Ward, Minister for External Territories, an. ncunced. It will cost $.185 000.— A.P.
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    Russia Will Not Surrender Veto Power In Atom Plan
    210 1 Pravda Denounces Baruch Proposals A.P. MOSCOW, ,'unj 25— ravda on Monday flatly declared Soviet Russia will never surrender its veto power in any atomic control nlan and said the U.S. proposal for control of the weapon "reflects her aim of striving
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    Another Mysterious Phone Call
    138 1 Reuter. JERUSALEM, June 24. The Hebrew language newspaper "Haaretz' tonight received another mysterious telephone call purporting to be rro.M the Irgun Zvai Leumi (Jewish t< VMorist organisation) saying that a plan to free the three British officers still held hostage by the organisation had not been
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    18 1 A.P. LONDON. June 24.—The former Danish Minister to Washington. Henric Kaufman n. has arrived in London from Karachi.—A.P.
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    Some Hope Still Held To Save India Plan
    199 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI, June 24.— New talks t.day b twes Indian lead, rs and mem bers of the British Ca ji Mission are believe j to have pointed the way o salva; ing a good pare of wha locked like being a
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    U.S. Sole Trusteeship To Pacific Bases Urged
    87 1 A.P. HONOLULU. June 25.—The U.S. should open immediate negotiations for sole trusteeship to Pacific vital to American defence, said Representative Izacs, Democrat of Cal fornia. of the Hou>e naval affair committee. Strategic and particularly popui ed islands from Okinawa to N Caledonia should
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    STOP PRESS
    107 1 The Singapore Harb o ti i Board has informed all emp'jyees that a high cost 'iving allowance is to paid. It is understood that Lb r allowance is to be paid to Up aitterent categories of vorksn in accordance with th' tlilferent grades of the Permanent Labour Com
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      15 1 British Make NEW BABY GRAND PIANO Ava.table at HIE EAGLE PIAXO CO., St-rangoon Road. Singapore.
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    France Prepares To Queue Up For Latest U.S. Films
    432 2 Reuter. PARIS. (Air Mail) —Pari~ians, anxious!/ waiting since the liberation to see fie latent American film?, are preoaring to queue up for them from the beginning of July. With the latest American films no\< assured as rort of the American loa*
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    Burmans Fear Chinese 'Exploitation'
    240 2 Reuter. RANGOON. June 24.—The Chines.' Government's allocation of $2.000.000 tct the relief of Chinese war destitutes in Burma is welcomed by Chinese circles in Rangoon. Whfli the exact number vf Chinese who have lost everything is a re: lit of the war will oe known and
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    N.E.I. Tin Production
    68 2 A.P. B A T A V I A. June 24 —The Dutch Government reports the tin mines of ihe Netherlands Fast Inches Will be unable to r;£»?h full production before IMB. Increa ed production "01 &c possible after delivery in 1945 cf eight large dredges, six of
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    World Survey Of Food Lands
    229 2 Reuter. LONDON. Juno 24.— Promil fen members of the Indian National Con rres> are understood to be the chit movers behind a plan for a world sOrVeJ of land capable of food pro (taction. This survey, which includeall land capable of food growiag land actually
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    Back Pay: Governor's Assurance
    138 2 (Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. An assurance that the Junior Civil Service Association's claims for icack pay was receiving every consideration both at the hands of thSecretary of State and the Malayan Union Government was given by th: Governor of the Malayan Union at tea
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    Jap Communists Assail Govt.
    107 2 TOKIO. June 24 —Kuchi Tokuda. the first Communist ever to speak OB the Boor oi Japan's House of R« proaoatatiwi today bitterly assailed the Yoshida cabinet, and said if the new constitution was passed as now written, it woald be a "'betrayal of the people." The
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    Congress Rejection "A Certainty"
    575 2 Reuter. NEW DELHI. Juno 24 —Faced by the virtual certainty that tne AllIndia Congress Party would reject its plan for an Indian interim eminent, the British Cabinet mission is reported to have made new minute proposals to avert a hrcal down in the negotiations. The new
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    Srinagar Disturbances
    58 2 Reuter. SRTNAGAR. June 24 —Th.- feat* roll in two days of disturbance which broke out as a result of Pandit Nehru's detention has now risen fca seven. Thirteen are in nosn.lai, seriously injuredWit h the return of Pandit Nenrn to Delhi, it Is honed that the political I
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    59 2 A.P. SENDAI. June 24. —Twenty-nine silver bars weighing about 80 pounds each were found buried on the outskirts of the northern Honshu village in a search which also netted quantities of foodstuffs and resulted in the jailing of ;;ome Japanese.. The Army did not say how many Japanese were being
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    BRITAIN'S SMALL BREAD RATIONS
    232 2 London. June 24 —If the British abinet elecides to ratios brtaU normal consumers in Britain Will have one of the smallest and heae) manual worker? in mines and a.,.i cuhure quite the smallest breat' ration in the whole of Western Kurope with the exception of C»i
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    B.N.B. Share Holders To Decide Today
    292 2 London. June 24 The shareholders of the British North Borneo Company will decide at a meeting in London tomorrow ■ohether they are go ng to accept arbitration in their negoiations icith the British Gove ninent for cessation of North Borneo to the Crown. The
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    $10 Million Java—Singapore Smuggling Trade
    208 2 BATAVIA, June 21,—Plantation V™*» c t en plantation equipment (o an estimated value ol Je we n SS.OOXOao and $lfi.Boo,o€B (Straps) has been shipped from Inionesian-h eld ports in Java and Sumatra to Singapore and other Malayan ports sine the surrender of Japan, according to
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    Inadequate Patrolling
    82 2 Reuter. The shortage of naval patrol vessel.-, is the chief reason why the smuggleis ran proceed pnhindcred, but iM Dutch hope that this will be l me died soon. They do not to blockade the Indonesian port.-, nu. to «»t>p and search nil ships enter: ig or leaving
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    Shipment Of Cereals To India
    239 2 Reuter. LONDON, June 24:—Shipj ment of cereals, including rice ;to India, in May amounted to j 172,000 tons and not about 235,000 tons as the House of Commons was informed on June :>. said Mr. Arthur Henderson, Under Secretary for India, in reply to a
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    Food Shipment To China Tops New Peak
    142 2 Reuter. SHANGHAI. June 24.— A bci j cord of 53,681 tonr of f OoJ j shipped to China's taniin. areas in May by UNR7. sifter Chinese Organisat;. CHR£<i (Chinese National Belief ;,n,i U j-. oilitation Administration it v flcially announced. This food tonnage
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    Kurdish Garrisons Besieged
    145 2 LONDON. June 24 —Five important Kurdistan garrison towns. Saghez. Baneh. Miredeh, Sardasht and Rnbat. are now besieged by Kurdish outlaw forces, the Daily Tettgraph'. fptcial correspondent reported trom Teheran today. "Flying over the three la~--nam d terns," he said- T saw besiegers forming close rings around chem
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    CROP OF ARMS CHARGES
    444 2 Several cases for possession of arms and ammunition were mentioned in the police courts yesterday In the District Court, ar. Indian Napalingam pleaded guilty to being ir wrongful possession of s Japanese pistol and 3( rounds cf ammunition He was sentenced to twt years' r.i. on
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    Park As Memorial To Lim Bo Seng
    586 3 (By Our Woman Reporter) Looking at her slight figure and her face with the youthful expression, no stranger wouldx guess that Mrs- Lim, widow of the Malayan hero, the late Major General Lim Boh Seng is the mother of seven children, the eldest
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    Alleged Gang Leader Bound Over for $1.000
    182 3 A curry stall holder, Mylin Sahib, came to the Pciu-e Court yesterday to stand surety for 1 Hamid, alleged ringr of a mixed gang of [ndians who have been r sponsible for the disorin the Tanjong Pagar area recently. Hamid was produced in
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    3 Won't Be Released
    96 3 R I'SALEM. June 24.—Official -aid today there was "no proof* 1 of last night's rehat two of the three British ra still held hostage by the as at Tel Aviv had been freed. The secret radio of the Irgun Leumi —Jewish terrorist orgam—has also announced that
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    STRIKE CALLED IN EGYPT
    83 3 RO. June 24--The executive mmittee of the Egyptian Laovur Union has called for a general strike workers in Egypt tomorrow (Tuesday", to protect the gov.-ri. t's police toward unemployment blems. The announcement accused Government of xai'tao to k»'P its promises to the union leaders io find
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    Malaria Greater Enemy Than Japs—Mountbatten
    120 3 Malaria Greater Enemy Than Japs Mountbatten Reuter. NDON. June 24. Lord Louis MounttMttOßi when he took the if war workers rally in Hyde -.vsterday. said: "At the Kog of the South East Asia Cantor cverv one battle D 4 sick. By 1944 only 20 men sick for every one battle
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    Civilians Tortured
    147 3 (Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. A Japanese sergeant. Nishi Yoahinobi, described by the as "a distinguished member of the Kempeitai" was this WQt\ changed with having between June 1, :iM4 and August 15, 1945, tortured 13 civilians -a Singapore. Kuala Lumpur whi:h reflated ir 'he drai of
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    50 3 SEATTLE. June 24.- A untitled mites we" t° ctused considerable damage m rorthwest Pacific coast area. TWO shocks Sted more than 45 minutes but no casualties have been reported in the Sve cities shaken-Vancouver. SeatT Tacoma. Olympia and Portland (Oregon). At Courtney lumber centred Vancouver island walls cf buildings collapsed.
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    BANDIT SHOT DEAD IN GUN DUEL
    151 3 (Our Own Reporter) Penang. June 24. —One bandit was shot dead and another seriously wounded when the police trapped a party of armed robbers in a compound house in MacAlister Road. Acting on information, the police concealed some of their members in and around
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    War Gave Women A Real Chance
    454 3 A.P. NEW YORK—"I see no barriers—other than those that are self-imposed—to block the rise of women in every field in every nation." says Dorothy Shaver, president of Lord and Tavlor, one of the leading department stores in New York and America. As head of
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    Another Gangster Suspect Escapes
    134 3 Another Chinese. Yep Ban Kek who is facing a tentative charge of armed gang robbery made a spectacular escape from custody on Saturday as he was being taken from the police courts back to -he civil prison. He slipped his handcuffs and at an opportune moment
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    NEW FRENCH GOVT. MEETS
    136 3 PARIS, June 24 —The new French coalition Cabinet, under M. Bidaull, has been formed. Not only will M Bidault be Premier and Foreign Minister but he will also take over the Ministry 01 Information with an Under Secretary to assist him. The first meeting of the
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    HONGKONG & S'HAI BANK
    75 3 HONGKONG S'HAI BANK HONGKONG, June 24. —The head offices ot the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank were transferred back to Hongkong from London on June 20. The powers which were transferred to a committee in London during war have been withdrawn. The Government Gazette notifies the following appointments as directors of
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    "Beating Was Usual Method"
    569 3 In order to get confessions from Recused persons beating was the usual method cuiingth? Japanese occupa irn and the enly exceptions were when those arrested cdmitted their guilt straight away. This was told by Chia >. Poh Nang, a detective who had worked in the Japanese
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    THEIR HOME IS JAPAN
    50 3 YOKOHAMA, June 24.— From Yokohama dockside. 177 reunited families sped to their homes SCatlWed throughout Japan, after a tumul tous reception of 311 wives and children and one mother, who composed the first group of U.S. Army dependents arriving here today aboard the Army transport Ainsworth.
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    Britain Tells Egypt "No Mufti Politics"
    88 3 CAIRO, June 24.—1t is reliably learned that the British Ambassador in Cairo Sir Ronald Campbell today emphasised to the rgyptian Premier Sidky Pasha that the Egyptian Government should ensure that the Mufti of Jerusalem takes no part in Midale East politics while he is
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    Killearn's Office Health Bureau
    271 3 The office of the Special Oenuntesioner. Lord Killearn, has temp uaiilv assumed the responsibility fot a Health Intelligence Section run on the lines of the old League of Nations Far Eastern Health Bureau. This Bureau was created to provide a clearing nouse for the collection and
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    ITALY WON'T YIELD TRIESTE
    173 3 PARIS. June 24. —Hope for a solution of the troublesome Trieste problem, key to the Italian peace treaty, mounted am*d reports that the British, American and Russian delegations to the Foreign Ministers' council are considering the compromise plan advanced by France. While noflhing official was announced
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    CLASH IN S. AFRICA
    76 3 DURBAN. June 24.—Five batches of Indian nassive resisters *»are arrested by police from corpora tic nowncd land at Durban dairin* ihe week-end and charged with trespass. A party of about 40 Europeans last night charged ac:-ss i'c pkM where the Indians had encamped as a protest
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    Concealed Stolen Car
    68 3 An En?rsh sneaking AnnamitMah Fui Han (24) and a Chines* Chia Ens Kwee were sentenced 10 five months' ri. they were found gu l;y of assisting in concealing a stolen car. The car was located by the police in a place off the S\ mile Bedok. In
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    Now For Tin
    504 4 Having received scm. (measure ot satisfaction with regard to rubber, ii is ito be hoped that the Colonial Office will devote energies to obtaining ai adjustment of the tin pric Judged by any siandard. a price or £300 is very modes in relation to present-day cos.s and
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    EVERYDAY USES OF CHEMICALS
    1590 4  -  By John Harley Mason in John O'London's Weekly The film of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra has come under hoavy lire from the critics, who have vied with each other in pointing cut historical inaccuracies. Cne detail, however, seems to have escaped their notice: Miss Vivien L-
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    Four Men Will Help Rebuild Germany
    733 4  -  By Sge. R. Scau For ten long years Germans were encouraged to believe that "netting" Hi'ler and doing as they were told was their mo:t effective contribution to ihe administration of the country. Now. after a year of sobering military occupation. Fritz and his
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    READERS' VIEWPOINTS
    267 4 Prefabs And More Pre* voiiinte^Th havo been th tfcctaiMhrefl hoarse for their 1 arc dem.lnd.n7 ami ttre «"onsideration. th< rally wronged arc seeki] jr in or.i-v th it justice nut; •'llst an '-muty •word ar i let bembed houses are bjttjy fili for compensation. In short majority of
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    Jap Reparations From Next Month
    81 4 MANILA. June 24— U. 8. Repa- rations commissioner, Mr. Edwin W. Pauley, told a news conference today that the first reparations shipments of Japanese industrial naacirinc:y for "liberating the people of the Orient from economic b misery and'poverty" would probably be made within 30 da
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    Singapore To Replace India As S-E Asia Defence Base
    675 5 (BY I tM KENG HOR) iSJ2t P S5 E REPLACE INDIA AS THE DEFENCE BASE FOr. r*I PSSJSf4??JE3L EAST ASIA STOCKS ARE BEING ACCUMULATED J™ v fW QUANTITIES, AND THE PROCESS OF BUILDING UP CON--1 IJAiUIiO. I learnt these facts from
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    INDIAN GIRLS WORE KILTS
    92 5 Reuter. EDINBURGH. June 24.—The oehind tfte scenes highlight of the visit to Edinburgh of the woiten's confine<*nt of the Indian forces who took part in the recent Victory Parade in London was the drrss exchange between the girls and members of the Scottish commandants who acted
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    MORE JAPS FOR TRIAL
    56 5 A.P. YOKOHAMA, June 24 Thin m n Japanese charged with atroeau .vent on common trial before ihe Eignth Army Tribunal Which includes military iudges from Canada Australia and England The Japanese were former officers and civilian workers at war (prisoner camps. Accused of brwaVy mistreating Dutch
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    17 5 Thi' with unanituty r but »|HP Mul'h h«il Iiuv<r v<-.'d o<htpviot thnrt ><.* h'tnouuitK flj>hU>r tho of *.1»--
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    Soviets Start Great New Enterprises
    421 5 Reuter. MOSCOW, June 23.—As the Soviet 11. ion s fourth five-year plan gets under way news has reached Moscow of the starling of a great new enterprises. Work has begun on the construction of Nevinnomyssk canal in Stavropol territory, north Caucasus, one of the biggest
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    GETS FOUR FIRSTS
    66 5 DUBLIN. June 24. —Prince Adenoc Aiedoyin. now at Queen's University. Belfast, won four ties :n the Amateur Athletic Board championships at Dublin. He retained the high jump with six feet two inches, and the long jump with 23 feet eight inches. His other successes were in the
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    The Illusion Of Prosperity
    681 5 R.B. OOI Contends That Racing Creates Judging from the huge sums paid out as prizes to lucky sweep ticke, holders by the turf clubs in 'he Malayan Union one is liable to think that prosperity ha; returned. Racing crea'es a sen.se of prosperity through drawing together
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    'White Russians' Offered Soviet Citizenship
    496 5 Associated Press. SHANGHAI. —Postwar IKe is po:-in~ grave orcblems lot two foreign minorities in China—'■the Russians and th?ir Polish cojsins. Russians, who before the war numbered more than i?, 000 in Shanghai alone, must make a Choice cf future citizenship. Most of them have been
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    A Struggle For Position
    128 5 A.P. WASHINGTON. June 24.—Sunim-r Welles, former Under-Secretary of State, said the United Nations Sc curity Council debate over Spain ui-s a "strucrK'e for position primaiy be tween the Soviet Union and Britain but !n the larger sense between tn Soviet Union and nations of UK western
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    TOKIO TRIAL
    142 5 A.P. TOKIO, June 24.—The prosecution in the trial of Japan's former leaders introduced Japanese photographs of American battleships as an "integral part" of its case in detailing Japanese preparations for war, but the American prosecutor wno offered films in evidence did not elaborate on what he v/apected to
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    Congress Rejects India Plan
    110 5 New Delhi, June 24.— The Congress Working Committee tcday rejected the British proposal for an interim government. A brief letter conveying the Working Committee's decision was sent to the Viceroy after this afternoon's s ssion of the Working Committee. A more detailed criticism of the oioposal
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    Peace Delegates Beaten Up
    154 5 NANKING. June 24.—A howling mob assaulted and beat the "peace delegates" at Nanking's railroad station, resulting in slight injuries to the members of the delegation. Hie delegation, one democratic League member, and three Chinese reporters were taken to hospital. The gendarmes made no arrests. Chinese communists
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    101 6 Yugoslavia Accuses US Britain BELGRADE. June 24—An officia Yugoslav communique said today that Britain and United States were concentrating troops in the Triest» ar-a with the air of "influencim Dublic onin'on durinz the Paris conference as well as intimidating Yuuoslavia." There has been no Yugoslav mlWary change since the demarcation
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    55 6 NEW DELHI, June 24.—M-. John OMannev Stewart Donald. British Political Aeent in South Wa*iristfU on the Indian nonh-we 5 t frontier, was kidnapped two days ego ov tribesmen. it was disclo>ed toaay Enquiries showed that Mai. Don/uO had been located and was brnr well-treated. Effort- to
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    ENGLAND IN VERY STRONG POSITION
    1012 7 Indians Need 66 Runs To Avert Innings Defeat Reuter. "ENGLAND, having replied lO IND AS TCiTA'j OF 200 WITH 428 HAVE PITT HIEMSEIAES INTO AN I NASS4ILABIE POSITION \ND THE INDIANS WILL 9AVF TO PUT IIP REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE TD SAVE THE GAME. \')T ONLY H
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    263 7 INDIA. Ist INNINGS V. M. Merchant C Gibb 1) Bedser i" V. JTankad b Wr.f-ht H L. Amarnath Ibw Bedser vJ V. S. Hazare b Bedser SI R S. Modi not out Nawab of Pataudi C Ikin b Bedser Gul Mohamed b Wripht A. Hafeez b Bowes -W
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    EARLIER PLAY
    1186 7 An hour and a half before the firtt Test was due to be resumed this morning, it was estimated some 10. n OO formed up in long queues (utside the ground despite the threat of thunderstorms during the ray. Weather conditions, like the wickiM. were perfect when Hardstaff.
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    TABLE TENNIS
    79 7 The following will represent the Chinese Swim" tig Club in a Ir.endly game of table tennis against a United Services team at the Chinese Swimming Club's premises at Amber Road, on Wednesday, at 7 p.m. Singles:—Chua Kirn Hearn. Chan Poh Ying, Chan Kwok Ming, Wong Tong Goon, Lim
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    Lanes' Easy Win
    260 7 Reuter. LONDON, June 24.—Lancasnire increased their iead in the county league wich full points from Derbyshire, wnom they oefeated by an innings and 110 runs in two days. Results and close of play scores: At Buxton, Lancashire beat Derbyshire by an innings and 110 runs. Lancashire 252
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    Joe Louis Has 2 Likely Opponents
    396 7 Reuter. LONDON, June 24. —American boxing fans who pr.id b?g prices to see the world heavy-weight title fight I etween Jre Lonis and Billy Conn and snorts writers are angry at the "waltzing exhibition" Conn nut on, en Wednesday night. Many criticise Eddi? Fagan,
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    UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATE
    132 7 Reuter. TEHERAN. June 24.—Police fired 35 shots in the air today during a demonstration by about 2.000 unemployed outside the municipal headquarters in the main square of Teheran. The crowd who were demanding jobs had smashed the windows of the Municipality and Posts and Telegraphs office when police
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    G.G. To Fly To Sarawak
    42 7 Reuter. Sarawak will be formally incorporated within the British Empire on Monday when the Kingdom of the White Rajahs becomes a Crown Colony. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. Gov-ernor-General, flies to Kuching en Monday morning for the ceremony.—Reuter.
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    39 7 A.P. TOKIO. June 24—Parades, reviews and gun salutes will mark the observance here and in Yokohama of the Fourth of July. A 48-gun salute to the union will be fired on the plaza of the Imperial Palace grounds— A.P.
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    First Post – War Wimbledon Opens
    353 7 First Post War Wimbledon Opens Reuter. LONDON, June 24.—The lawn tennis championships at Wimbledon—Mecca of the world of tenniswere resumed today after a lapse of seven years, when the first round of the men's singles were decided. One hundred and twentyeight players from 22 nations, many of whom sent their
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    Poland's War Debt To Britain
    202 7 A.P. LONDON, June 25.—An AngloPolish financial agreement sen ing forth terms for settlement of Poland's war debt to Britain was signed on Monday. The occasion was marked by the issuance of a Polish official denial that Poland is completely under Russian domination. The chairman of
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    31 Jews In Latest Trial
    148 7 Reuter. JERUSALEM. June 24—In the trial of the 31 members of trie Irgun Zvai Leumi. among the accused was a woman. 21-year-old Deborah Kalfus, who sat smiling beside her 19-year-old brother, Mosse Kalfus. The 30 men. whose age range from 17 to 28 wore the
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    38 7 DAMASCUS, June 24.—The untitled press today demanded that the Muf'i of Jerusalem he allowed to retuin to Palestine, where he could "assume leadership of the Arab world in the process of accomplishing its mission of truth and enlightenment."
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    Return To Life From The Death Railway
    661 8 With the completion of the trial of Japanese military officials for atrocities and ill-trea l ment of POW'son the Sium-Burma Railway, at which it n estimated 15,000 Biitish and Allied pr s ners of-war died, a'ten'ion is recalled to the much larger number
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    CONVICTED THEMSELVES
    64 8 •In this case both accused lave attempted to clear themtelvea by putting the blame en he other party. They have only succeeded in convicting tnem;e've*." commented Mr- A.P. rack in tne Relief Coun yester. :ay when he sentenced Salim Hrj Ibrahim and Lim Swee Teng o two weeks'
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    Port Blair Case Nears End
    192 8 fhe defence in the trial of thipr Japanese. I.t. S:\rahara Hidialn, Ci*h> f J etty Officer Catsasuka Minoru 1*» hief Petty Officer Ozakai Singer »no are charped with beinc concerr«v n the hoa f irj? and toriurine of a., ndian, Onlab Hussem. Nt drat hat
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    Dummy a-bomb is dropped in test
    131 8 Reuter. ABOARD the MOUNT vICKIN--IEY", PACIFIC OCEAN. June 24.— A dummy atom bomb was dropped t in the first rehcarsai for the tti afSdnst naval shipping moored off Bikmi Atoll in the Pac«i!: mhlfh ere to begin on July 1. From ten miles away
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    AIR-CONDITIONING IN CATHAY
    42 8 The air-conditioning plant in the C ithay cinema has been re-ins:alled (Living the theatre all its pre-war comfort. The plant had been badly mLeased by the Japs during the occupation and could not be immediately re-h:stahed alter the liberation.
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    Interpreter, Lawyer In Court Breeze
    96 8 the Second District Court pe&terdaWt interpreter Lim Qhoon Ann told Mr. Tan Thoon Ln\ presiding, that Mr. FB. Oehlers, a lawyer, was Whispering thereby disturbing him in his inter, preting. Mr. Oehlers then promptly got up and told Mr. Tan 'that fhe inie:preter had been
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    Passive Defence Workers' Back Pay
    249 8 Members of the various civil defence organizations in Sintiaoore are to be paid arrears of salary and allowances up to and including Feb. 15. 1942. Those eligible are also to be paid "ex gratia" allowances, gratuities and pensions under the 1941 Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme
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    AMERICAN UNKNOWN WARRIOR
    64 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, June 25'—Prei dent Truman has signed legislation directing the Secretary of War to place the body of the unknown serviceman of World War H alongside the unknown soldiers of the First World War in the Ailington national cemetery and mausoleum, r The selection of the
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    Truman "Mystery"
    59 8 A.P. WASHINGTON. June 24.—White Hou>e aides made something of a mystery of President Truman's weekend movements. To questions whether Mr. Truman spent the night of June 22 and the morning of June 23. at the hue President Roosevelt's old Shang"'la hideout near Thurmon* Maryland. Assistant Press Secretary Eben
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    37 8 A.P. LOS ANGELES. June 24.—William S Hart. 83. first ol the screen's western heroes died in the hospital late on Sunday of lingering infirmity. He has left behind an estate valued a t a million dollars. —A.P.
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    15,000 Workers To Refit The "Queen Elizabeth"
    248 8 Reuter. LONDON. June 24—An army of 15 000 men and uomen has -\oved into a holiday camp, five nsffei from the English south coast port of Southampton. They are the vanguard of "operation restoration to prepare the world's mightiest liner, the SSMO-ton Queen
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    BRITAIN'S SPORTING SEASON NOT VERY SATISFACTORY
    504 8 Reuter. (By Vernon Morgan, Keuter s Sports Editor) LONDON, June 23.—Britain's big summer sporting programme is climbing to its neak with the first Test match against India being playel this weekend and the famous Wimbledon tennis championships starting next week. Ascot has come and
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    Britain's May Exports Totalled £85 Million
    298 8 A.P. LONDON, June 24,-Bntain s ejrpofts tor May passed the 1938 average monthly volume, foi the rir,t time since the war, H. A. Marquand, secretary tor overseas trade, said on Monday. The value of the country's May exports was £85.200,000 sterling, an increase oi
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    S'hai Blaze
    73 8 SHANGHAI. June 24.—Fire destroyed most of the buildings of the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury, including the Shanghai office of the New York Times. American soldiers stationed at the United States Army headquarters across the street saved several Chinese trapped on the second floor by ripping a
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    Tojo Betrayed His Foreign Minister
    207 8 A.P. TOKIO, June 24.—A Japanes? newspaperman testified today that the former Premier Tojo broke his pledge and "betrayed" the Foreign Minister when he sent Japan to war th- UnTed StYe The prosecution witness, Suzuki, told the ar tnbunal that less than two months before the
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    HAD REVOLVER ON BOARD SHIP
    46 8 (Our Own Report* PENANG. June 25.—Ch« 22-year-old Chinese who cl itn have come from Shanghai rested on board Tak Be j for possession of a aerna and 16 rounds of ammunition, man was not a passenger ol The police are investigating.
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    Move To Publicise UNO's Doings
    370 8 A.P. LONDON, June 25. —In or .nation centres to disseminata newj abDU. the UNO are to be set up in various parts of th? world, Benjamin A. Cohen, Assistant Se> retary-General of the United Nations, said in London on Monday. Cohen, who is in charge
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    Priests 'Down Prayer Wheels'
    159 8 (From Our Own Corespondent) PENANG, June 24— One of the strangest cases in strikes occurred when three resident priests of the Penan? Buddhist Association "work", asking for extra pay. They stayed in their rooms for over a week refusing to come down for daily prayers in
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