Malaya Tribune, 4 July 1946

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  • 35 1 The Malaya Tribune The Paper Of The People Of Malaya 'Phone Nos:—Edl.orial (only) M Advertising, Circulation Accounts 5812 grg |T PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1946 TEN CENTS The Malaya Tribune rfIURSDAY, JULY 4, 1946
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  • 591 1 WHY GOVT. RATIONS BREAD Reuter A.P. )NDON, July 3. —Figures of Britain's wheat and >sition for which the Opposition, led by Mr. ii Churchill, had been pressing, were disclosed House of Commons to-day by the Food Minister, hti Strachey, when opening the debate on the
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  • 23 1 ROME, July 3:—About two thousand Italian Jews held a protest meeting here yesterday against the British measures in Palestine.
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  • 673 1  -  19 Pistols Recovered, Dozen Thugs Captured FURIOUS PRE-DAWN GUN BATTLE TODAY WAR AGAINST LAWLESSNESS ENTERS NEW PHASE By John C. Spittel SINGAPORE, TO-DAY—DELIVERING THE FIRST REALLY SMASHING BLOW AT GANGSTER DO |iN SINGAPORE, THE BIGGEST CO-ORDINATED RAID AGAINST A NOTORIOUS GANGSTERS' DEN WAS CARRIED
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  • 80 1 China Joins S. African Indian Fray Associated Press. NANKING, July 4.—Vice. Minister of Foreign Affairs Liv Chieh said today that China is consulting the South African Government over. the latter's Asiatic Land Restriction Bill. He asserted: "China deplores any law discriminating on the grounds of colour, race or religion." and
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  • 37 1 A.P. CAIRO, July 3 —The British Army Headquarters in the Middle East announced on Tuesday that with th < e-'tion of a small liquidation %t.\i' the British military personnel have completed evacuation of the Lebanon —A.P.
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  • 70 1 Reuter. LONDON. July 3.—The British Colonial Office tonight formally denied that ift'rd degree treatment, beating or torture, have been Inflicted on any Jewish detainees in Palestine. It rvas also denied that buildings and settlements have been wantonly damaged and that Rabbi Fishman uho is one of the
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  • 68 1 A rubber smoke hous? and all tre rubber in it >in an estate at T J j mile. Yeo Chu Kanp Road, was eoapU t destroyed by fire in the small hours this morning. The Geylang fire bripade received a call for the fire
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  • 54 1 A.P. NANKING, July 4.—The Minister of Information said on Wednesday that China is negotiating with Russia for the custody of Henry Pu-yi. puppet Emperor of Manchuria during the Japanese occupation. Pu-yi was seized by Soviet troops. "We expect to have an announcement within a short time,"
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  • 32 1 Cairo, July 2.—Negatiations for the revision of the Anglo-Egypti.i treaty are to be resumed at Alexandra, where the new treaty win probably be signed it was learnt In authoritative quarters here todaj-
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  • 127 1 Reuter. PARIS, July 4.—The "Big Four" Foreign Ministers today agreed on the United States plan for internationalising Trieste, Adriatic storm centre. The plan was described by irrt? delegates leaving the conference tonight as a result of the original Russian six-point plan which was amend ed
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  • 696 1 Opposition To Sarawak Cession Lessens, But Reuter. KUCHING, July 3.—(By Reuters Special Correspondent) Two days after its formal incorporation into the British Empire, the Kingdom of the White Rajahs is less apprehensive of its future. Two days is hardly an exacting test of
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  • 73 1 Reuter. LONDON, July 3.—Questions on delay in the Issue of clothing for demobbed soldiers were answered by War Office Financial Secretary Bellenger, who said that delays in the issue of civilian suits to demobilised soldiers occurred during the rush period of release, but the situation
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  • 84 1 SINGAPORE, July 4.—A congratulatory message expressing .sincere regards and best wishes to Manuel Roxas, President of the n/'t R?pubUc of the Philippines and the Filipino people on the achievement of iheir newly acquired independence has been sent by the "Peikablm" (Indo-nesia-Malaya Labour Party) on behalf of
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  • 49 1 Reuter. JERUSALEM, July nant-General Sir Alan Cunningham, High Commissioner, today received a four-man delegation from the Jewish National Council headed by its chairman Isaac Ben Zevi. The delegation was at Government House for one hour. The subject of the talk has not been disclosed. —Reuter.
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    • 185 1 j ANSWER TO A j i CHALLENGE j 1 The raid this morning on the gangsters' den means that the i police will from today carry the war into gangsterdom. Police J radio patrols will continue to keep up their fine work, but no longer t will the police wait
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  • 674 2 DUTCH—MALAY TROUBLES (Tribune Staff Reporter). Two letters of protest have been sent by the Malay community at Geyiang Serai to Kesatuar. H«layu (Malay Union of Singapore) and the Utusan S£alayu »'a Malay-language newspaper) on the clashes between Dutch soldiers ana local Malays which started 0:1
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  • 56 2 (Our Own Reporter > IPOH, July 3.—The first terge-aoUi combined military and civil police cntf-crime t,weep waa conducted in PusinS Papan and Siputeh ar.as. rtsultLij in the recovery oi more than $2,000 worth of machinery and electrical equipment. The drive was designed to recover otolen rubber
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  • 205 2 Three Chinese Tee Hoh See Ng Ah Kau (28), and Song Kau is.ia who were or* sent with Wong A Thai when Wong was alleged to i; :v< been in possession of a .38 revo.ver and six rounds of .38 ammunition at an
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  • 146 2 Latest time and date of posting at General Post Office. Singapore. Departures Air Mails for.—Australia New Zealand. 9 a.m., Tuesday. Thursday, Saturday 4 p.m. 1-riday. Burma. 4 p.m.. Monday. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Sunday.: Ceylon. 6 p.M. every weekday; China. Hongkong, Macao. Japan k Korea, 6 p.m., Monday.
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  • 152 2 Robinson Crusoe's island may become an international airport. Juan Fernandez, the group of islands which inspired Defoe's classic, is being considered aa a stopping place for the proposed Chilean-Australian air service. The principal island of the group is 13 miles long and four miles wide
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  • 132 2 A.P. DEJON. Prance. July I.—Cen- I.Taxim Weygand. ccmmander-i: of the Allied Armies at the tii the French armistice in scheduled to give evidence ;n a sational espionage trial which op im here on Tuesday Among 44 persons accused of associated with Gennen age service
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  • 134 2 Ihe following passengers arrived by 8.0.A.C./Q.E.A. on June 36 trom U.K. To Labuan: Mr. H. Hopkins, c. Ward. To Singapore: Mr. R. j. White, F/Lt. G. Dawson, Mr. L. w! Fpx, Lt/Col. P. A. Foreythe, Mr. D. Law. From Karachi to Singapore: Mr. E. Hambleton, Mrs. Hambleton,
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  • 39 2 Mi. P P. Garret, Trade Uni.n? Singapore, will give a talk on "Trade Unionism" today a; 5.15 at the M.D.U Assembly *ia., First Floor, 331, North Bridge li •;d Members of the public are cordioliy invited.
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  • 39 2 Two robberies occurred in Singapore Tuesday night. At 9.30 p.m. three men robbed a Chinese of $400 at Queen Street and at 11.30 p.m three Indian soldiers robbed a taxi from a Chinese driver at Thomson Road.
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  • 34 2 London, July 2. Statements on the work of the British Cabi.i? Mission to India, which has r, v returned to Eritain, are expectec' V be made in Parliament next week.
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  • 1051 3 Ships Now Back On Pre-War Services When on September 8 th, 1945, the day of relation. H.M S. «*e*»h», leading in the British fleet, entered Singapore, there must have been many ol those who witnessed her arrival whose thoughts 25* H? ek
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  • 246 3 The birthday of Sir Stamford s on -July 5 will be fXiting- ■>. memorated the follow ng 6- with the unveiling sta ite in Empress Place H.E. the Governor oi Singa pore. law will be regarded as 's Dap" and the Union ill be flown
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  • 250 3 Ex Inspector Found Guilty On Hurt Charge Originally indicted on a charge of murder which amended to one of voluntarily causing grievous hurt at the close of the case for the orosecution. K. vadivellu Pillai, Police Inspector with 21 years service m the Straits Settlements Police, was unanimously found guilty
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  • 46 3 Reuter. SAN FRANCISCO, July 3—Six hundred American army prisoners at Watsonmlle disciplinary wwtp, California, yesterday. Thiriysix barrack buildings were burnt down by the prisoners who a erected barricades. The riot was quelled with tear 90$. The commandant of the teas sightly injured. Reuter.
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  • 174 3 Admiting that she did make an attempt to take her own life as she was "fed up" Wong Ah Peng, a 27-year-old Cantonese woman, pleaded guilty in the Second Magistrate's Court yesterday to having attemped suicide. Wong stated that she married a Hainanese
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  • 216 3 (Our Own Reporter. PENANG, Wednesday The story of an attempt to extort money from a well-known Chinese towkay, Mr. Cheah Cheang Lim a Justice of the Peace, by sending him letter threatening him with bodily harm if a sum of $200 was not paid' was
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  • 123 3 Before Chu Begn Kiam (16) received sentence of 14 weeks' situ;' imprisonment for picking the po ;ket of a passenger in a trolley bus, n told Second Magistrate. Mr- L. V Goh that he had been assaulted l>., the complainant and his fri.tl'* Kwok Pak Ming, the complainar,'
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  • 754 3 beaU^fSlKi 0 Japanese ill-treatment and Dealing suffered by local civilian residents of SinsraSSMfttS S r era A well -known puMic men las a pIo, O th s War Crlm es Court before Lt.-Col G A Peacock and two British officers yesterday at the tnal
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  • 85 3 (Our Oicn Reporrer) IPOH. July 3—The reviewing authority quashed the sentence of death pas3ed by the President of the Perak Superior Court on Anthony Thambydorai, exinspector during the occupation, and on a prominent Singhalese businessman, who were convicted respectively on a charge of murder and abetment of
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  • 288 3 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Wednesday. Three Chinese women created an uproar in the Penang Prison today when they fell weeping and cursing in front of a Taiwanese, at an identification parade of war crimes suspects this morning Thirty-three Japanese Kempeitai and eight Taiwanese
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  • 476 4 ith Singapore s waraccretion of populan of something like two ndred thousand —about Irfiy per cent, of the prear figure —showing no indication of intention to enounce our hospitality, something mor,e drastic that military de-requisi-tioning will have to be undertaken unless Singapore is to degenerate entirely In
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  • 2026 4 Symbols copied from the Mother of Parliaments represent fine examples of English craftsmanship The British West Indian Colonies have known many vicissitudes, political and economic, and have frequently oscillated between great prosperity and financial stringency; but in one respect, at all events, they have maintained
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  • 661 4 R. B. Ooi chats with a man who plans to introduce Until the routine of living, disrupted by me war, returns to normal the governing and th i governed wit] not reach the haven of calm waier. In every cour.try which is suffering trom this disruption
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  • 497 4 Once in the course of an extraordinary career an ex-Army officer, who served in both World Wars, was employed as a kitchen ha id in a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco. The man. Harold Frederick Davies. said to belong to a wellknown and wealthy Cardiff family,
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  • 482 4 "Back Pay" Your recent leader on Uu subject of "Back Pay," i s ol more than usual interest t 0 those affected, than many of the previous press sta einents because it covers 'h e subject efficiently i n a comparatively few paragraphs and cuts out all non-relativ
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  • 395 5 A.P. Bangkok, July 3. —Premier Phanomyong's governtoday clamped a censorship on Bangkok newsis under "state of emergency" powers invoked unrest and criticism, while an official comion of inquiry continues investigation of the hooting of King Mahidol. Premier Pridi's special communique declaring that the
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  • 98 5 v, July 3. A warning I vr.ght easily become Palestine" was given fol Empire Society toC ntervatite Member of Capt. L. D. Gammans v visited the country, its failure to consult pinion on its proposals of the various Mathe British GovemCupt. Gammans, "has the whole
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  • 65 5 3TE, July 3.—Slovenes r ed to have been infllnti Trieste, scene of shes- between Slavs iiians, in order to the Communist and Slav tlemems in tbe gg :n the Fiazza Garii scribed as "no man's Keen the pro-Italian te city and the prosuburb of San Giacore ordered by
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  • 177 5 CAIRO. July 3—An offlcia ■\rab spokesman »aid 'oday that Arabs have planned organised resistance against President Truman's demand for tbe immigration of 100.000 Jews into Palestine. Arabs from states adjoining Palestine would receive permission to enter that country I ioki the Arab res'stance movement in the
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  • 319 5 Aboard USS Appalachian. July 3—Fifty-nine of Bikini's 73 target ships felt the atom bomb blast on July 1, with damage ranging from total to negligible, the Navy reDorted today. Six remained dangerously radioactive on July 3. Five, including one modern cruiser, were sunk. Nine
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  • 118 5 LONDON, July 3.—Quotng a Tcss message from Now York, Moscow Radio this morning stated that the result of the atom test at Bikini came as a shock to the American public The Radio sa d: "The atom bojnb has disappointed millions of American people who
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  • 175 5 WASHINGTON. July 3.—New atomic bombs are far more deadly than any existing typtspredicted Dr. J. H. Rush treasurer of the Federation of American Scientists. He made this forecast when newsmen called his attention to a statement by the chairman oi the Senate's special atomic committee that the
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  • 46 5 LONDON. July 3-—The Dutch destroyer Kortenaer has shelled Indonesian coastal batteries at the eld Dutch fortress of Menari in the area of Sourabaya, the Netherlands News Agency reported today. The Indonesians there recently shelled patrol ships and other shipping, the Agency added.
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  • 42 5 An inspection of one of the largest police districts in the world covering approximately 150.000 sq. miles and extending from Lithgow. near the eastern coast of N.S. Wales to the borders of Queensland and S. Australia, has just been completed.
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  • 223 5 LONDON, Ju'y 3 —Said to have represented himself as a "Utied -entleman of somme substance Ind a former major m the Indian Army. Alec Canning Kostanda. whose age was given as 51 was sentenced at Old Bailey today to four years' penal servitude- The
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  • 272 5 London, July 3. —Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet Government, declared today, in an article broadcast by Moscow Radio, that the Pacific atom bomb test had fundamentally shaken the faith in the sincerity of the American talk of atomic disarmament. Would it really have been
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  • 170 5 NEW YORK. July 3. Th" United States Government in a memorandum to the Sub-com-mittee of the United Nations Organisation's Atomic Energy Commission has proposed T bai any sericus violations in an international atomic energy treaty should be preferred <o the Security Council. The memorandum also suggests that
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  • 75 5 A.P. LONDON. July 3.—Moscow radio, last night outlined the 5-year plar of the Soviet Unions academy oa Scientists, quoting the acting Ptesiavnt M. Vavilov, who opened the Gential Meeting of the Acadoiry on Monday. The broadcast said: '"The greatest attention is being paid to problem: l
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  • 53 5 YOKOHAMA, July 3.—A U.S. ioldier who surrendered on Bataan and made the "Death March testified by affidavit that the Jap- anese invaders of the Philippines forced American prisoners to mingle with Nipponese troops so guerrillas would not fire at them. While so mingled, Americans were used as human beasts of
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  • 73 5 AHMEDABAD. July 3—Three cases of arson were reported in Ahmedabad city last night, despite the 24-hour curfew imposed for three days following the H'ndu-Muslim clashes. Heavy rain helped the efforts of the lire brigade to extinguish the nres. The enly other mc». dent was when a mob invaded
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  • 38 5 Flame. July 2. —A strika called by the Italian Committee of Natior.a'i Liberation has now led to an almoV general stoppage, with the SlovLu'-' Anti-Fascitt Union ordering members to leave their work. jOH C-
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  • 347 5 A.P. San Francisco, July 3.—As the Bikini atom bomb went off, Soviet Russia loosed an economic bomb which may or may not have been intended as such. Moscow cut prices nationally on industrially manufactured goods by 40 per cent. It may have been suspected by
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  • 136 5 TOKYO, July 3.—Admiral Keishuke Okada, one-time assassination target, testifying at the war crimes trial, said American immigration restrictions turned "over-populated" Japan toward Manchuria He referred frequently to the Lancing agreement of November, 1917. An official letter of the then' U.S. Secretary of State, Robert Lancing said
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  • 92 5 CANBERRA. July 3.—The British Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee. with Mrs- Attiee. will arrive in Australia on July 28 for a fortnight's visit, it is officially announced here. Mr. Attlee will be the first British Prime Minister to visit Australia while in office. He expects to spend
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  • 53 5 CAIRO, July 3 The British Nava. headquarters here since the outbreak of war will be turned over to the Egyptians this month as a further step in the evacuation of Egypt b> the Bnt:sh. The headquarters had been a military hospital since 1882 until 1939 when the
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  • 376 7 Reuter. BRADFORD, July 3—Caught on a wet wicket, the Indian tourists, fresh from their great victory over Lancashire, were today all out for 138 against the pre-war champions, Yorkshire, and in reply Yorks had scored 52 for one. York bowler
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  • 250 7 Reuter. ■.N DREWS. July j.—Bobby S v h Airica's 29-year-nder golfer, will tomorrow second round of the pen golf championship Ice ahead of his nearest .Henry Cotton and Norman V Nida of Australia on the old course here. r exhilarating the firs: in which there
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  • 137 7 (Tribune Correspondent PENANG. July 3.—The soccer cuptit semi-final between the Indian Recrtatio' Club and the Malay Associa*on "A" on Dato Kramat ground yesterday was marred by a free fight *hjch developed among the Indian -pectators one and a half minutes before time The incident happened
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  • 100 7 The following will represent the Chinese Swimming Club fa a return friendly table tennis maich against the United Services Team at tne Snackie Club tomorrow at 7 p.m. Singles: Chua Kirn Hearn. Chan Kwok Ming, Loke Seek Cheong. Wong Tong Goon and Tan Miang Siam. Doubles: Lim Choo
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  • 363 7 Playing in their first big game this season the s surprised the Chinese Athletic in the charity soccer match at Jalan Besar yesterday, and ran out dinners 2-1. The Chinese team had jnore of the game but the R *'cs defenders played well under
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  • 239 7 Reuter. SAINT ANDREWS (Scotland.. July 2—Exactly 100 players with aggregates of 159 or better survived the qualifying stage for the British Open Championship here when the preliminaries ended tonight. Now those scores having served their purpose will be erased, and the hundreu will
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  • 197 7 Dara Singh held Jeff Conda lo a draw in the main event of last night s all-in wrestling at the New Woi\.. A large crowd of Indian and Br.ii.h servicemen saw their favourites j.o through ten gruelling rounds a.\ti which honours were shared. Cor.Ca scoring a
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  • 81 7 Washington, July 2,—The US Commerce Department reported that it would be next year before supplies of most styles of sporting goods measure up to the terrific demands. It said the tremendous boom in furnishing, hunting, golf, baseball and other sports together with shortages of materials brought about
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  • 123 7 A.P. NANKING, July 3.—The Government has ordered the National Assembly to convene on Nov. 12, to adopt a new Chinese constitution. A Communist spokesman said the party, whose opposition forced a postponement of the Assembly o.» May 3 was not consulted on the new draft. The
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    51 7 Ri& .'"ajesty the King attended 'he first Test match between England and the Indians which ended a week ago with the Indians beaten by ten P/c'f*res show the King (abovej meeting the Indian 'earn, ana (belau,, shaking hands with and congratulating Hardstaff on his unbeaten 205 for
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  • 156 7 County Cricket Reuter. LONDON. July 3-Hampshire WOWed their appreciation of a good fast wicket by making L heir lighest source of the season. Chief participant in this run feat was Bailey, 'he left hander who completra h:s second century of the season. The MCC included
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  • 87 7 The following Will be the teams for Sunday's cricket match at Thomson Road where the Recs "A" t&cHt the S.C.R.C A S.C.R.C. Ong Swe c Keng, Cheong Th am Siew. Ong Chew Been i Capt Chia Keng Hock. Cecil Wong. Scan Keng Siew. Swee Lim Swang. Ons Tong
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  • 785 7 Petra Geoff Brown In Men's Singles Final Wimbledon Tennis Reuter. (By Vernon Morgan, Reuters Sports Editor) WIMBLEDON, Surrey, July 3.—Yvon Petra of France and Geoffrey Brown of Australia will contest the men's singles final in the first post-war Wimbledon championship. In to-day's semi-finals Petra defeated Tom Brown of California 4-6,
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  • 326 7 LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD (Tribune Staff Reporter) Walt Disney was his hero—so he used his eyes and observed the minutest details of how Hollywood's master of animated cartoons went to work Today, a 19-year-old Chinese artist. Goh Seng Lim, has made his dream come
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  • 97 7 In a game of hockey played at the Suara Grounds, Naval Base, last week, the Royal Naval Police beat the Johore Police by 4 goals to nil. The game was very fast and interesting. In the first half the Naval Police led by 2—nil. Time and
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  • 829 8 Wavell's Despatch On Middle-East Campaign Reuter. LONDON, July 3.—The defence of Crete against the German invasion of 1941 was "among the finest achievements of the forces of the British Empire," said General Sir Archibald Wavell (now Field Marshal Lord Wavell, Viceroy of
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  • 317 8 Reuter. JERUSALEM, July 3—lt was officially stated tonight that the death sentences passed by a military court in Jerusalem on June 3 on two Jewish terrorists, found guilty on three of seven capital charges, were confirmed by Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, General Officer commanding,
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  • 52 8 LONDON, July 2.—Helmets are to be discontinued in the Somerset County police force. Sergeants and constables were asked to state whether they preferred helmets or caps when on duty, and 170 voted for cap s against 148 lor helmets. The issue cf caps will save money for the
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  • 65 8 A.P. Maniia. July 3.—Lt.-Co.. Ryoichi Tozuka, the Japanese murder supervisor'" of Panay Island Btrocities. was sentenced by a military tribunal to hang. He was held responsible for the deaths of 160 unarmed Fihpinos Sad 17 American Baptist missionaries. Twenty eye-witnesse, testified the Baptit missionaries were
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  • 124 8 BANSTEAD. (Surrey! July 2.— Due to he demobilised within a lew days after practically recoveiiiig from nervous trouble gunner Frederick Charles Berry, aged 2fi, Ro.val Artillery, of the old farm of Clecve. in Bristol, apparently overbalanced in the online room at Banslead military
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  • 178 8 A.P. Peiping. July 3.—Two American generals were striving today to arrange unprecedented conferences between commanders of the Government and Communist armies in Manchuria and the Shantung peninsula. Brig. Gen. Thomas S. Timberman. acting director of operations for the Peiping Executive headquarters, proposed a meeting between Gen. Tv
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  • 127 8 A.P. WASHINGTON. July 3.—Re-jecttcn-is In the making here for Britain's, proposal that American troops be sent to Palestine to hplp mainta'n order during the entry of 100.000 European Jews. Authorities familiar with the •ong negotiations, between Washington" and London on the Palestine problem said
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  • 25 8 TOKIO. July 3.—Three thousand taxi-dancers have formed a union with the object of improving their working conditions and their "cultual standing". Asahi reports.
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  • 76 8 A.P. BUDAPEST, July 4 A 10,000,000,000.000,000-P c n go note was put into general circulation on Wednesday as Hungarian economy approached complete chaos. In pre-war days one pengo icas valued at one shillng. Today one shilling is worth 25 quadrillion pcngo in this most fantastic nflation in history. The
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  • 180 8 A.P. NEW YORK. July 3.—The United Nations Atomic Energy Commission waited on July 3 for Russia s next mcve in the campaign 10 make the two-thirds vote of the commission necessary tor the adoption of any recommendations on atomic control Andrei Gromyko. Russian
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  • 57 8 A.P. Warsaw, July 3 Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk charged that irregularity occurred during the Poli>h referendum on Sunday and declared the secret police made terroristic mass arrest B of many members of his opposition Polish Peasant Party. The Government said the arrests were made only where there was
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  • 755 8 13 NIPS ON WAR CRIMES CHARGES What was described by the prosecution as a "sordid tale of human misery and tragedy that may well compare with the worst case that may have been presented before a War Crimes Court," was narrated in the
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  • 300 8 Price Control Lift Results A.P. WASHINGTON, July 3.—Congressional action on the nation's price control crisis remained stalemated Wednesday while* meat prices in some Un; ed States cities soared to record highs and landlords in midwest Minneapolis, Minnesota, increased apartment rents as
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  • 169 8 TOKIO. July 3.—Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur today asked Ute International Military Tribunal to explain why ex-premier Tojo and th t 27 other Japanese on trial for putting Japan into war were not represented by their American attorneys. "We have been asking for more counsel but we just
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  • 73 8 Reuter. DURBAN, July 2— H. G. Lawl'lice, South African Minister of Jurtice, has sent to Durban new orders prohibiting for a further seven days gatherings within 500 yards of the "resisters' camp," which Indians have set up on corporation land near the city, as a protest r.gainst
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  • 55 8 HAMBURG, July young woman and 10 young men went on trial today before a British military court on a charge of taking part in or inciting public disorder during an antiBritish demonstration in the City Hall Square on June 27. All the defendants pleaded innocent. They were represnted
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  • 69 8 A permanent opera house with an opera company of Australian singers is the aim of the "Singers of Australia." society recently formed in Sydney, N.S. Wales. Sydney has a population of 1.398,000. Basso Oliver King, the society's founder and president, says that many Australian singsrs havo i**t
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  • 106 8 A.P. JERUSALEM. July 3.—Tho two leaders of the local J Agency who were not arre (ted 0\ the week-end opened an emerj office here today. British tommies still occupk Agency's regular headqm.rt. rl was seized Saturday in a joint and military operation. The two officials were
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  • 97 8 A.P WASHINGTON. July 3 —The Fv East Commission unanimous y proved basic principles'' of th Japanese constitution design* d establish a democratic irovernmenT j, Japan. The document was sent to G< Douglas Mac Arthur. presumably comparison with the con:-t: Hirohito presented to the Diet eai in
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  • 80 8 A.P SAN FRANCISCO, July I. United States Maritime Commb today called for bids on the con. tion of two giant luxury liners. r two ships, 920 feet long, would i the largest ar.d fastest e\e. built in the United States and would operated by
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