Malaya Tribune, 17 July 1946

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  • 38 1 The Malaya Tribune The Paper Of The People Of Malaya Ph -Q ne N os:—Edilorial (only) 5811 AdvertisingrCircuiation St Accounts 5812 EIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1946.
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  • 66 1 kh ola sciiou lield-Marshal Viscount aomcry paid a vusit to his old school—St. KLTi-iriu/on. Ir um s icre rhat the F eld Marshal seJ fee heaaqwer-, of SHAEF and planned the invasion of -manay. The pfe*tt*f show* Fkld Marshal Montgomery h? giard of honour formed
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  • 264 1 Paratroops' Arrest In Malaya Query In House Of Commons LCXDON, July 16.—The arrest and detention of men of the 13th Parat roop Battalion in Malaya 14. 1946. was referred to by Labour member n Austin in the House of Commons to-day when he fckedif the War Secretary was aware that
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  • 98 1 A.P. OTTAWA. July 17.—it W as on Tuesday that two 9h members of the Russian <*oassy staff, accused oj r **ing espionage operations "Jtoada, left Ottawa hurfollowing Monday's n?* ation °f tf ie government Uork m ke SoVi6t SPY net Th c two are understood to
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  • 56 1 Shahrir To Form N ew Cabinet Reuter. oAiAV"T ,">, D Uly Dr. Zutan [.r« p^ 1 Republic of ndoneB'a\~ ha ti be, n I timated today that 'au net as K«i to form a new ci was dissolved CVer ««cta^f S!an p «fc*ni" took P m a L POWers to
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  • 329 1 8,500 Tons Wheat Flour Rushed To Malaya Reuter. OVER EIGHT THOUSAND TONS OF WHEAT FLOUR ARE BEING RUSHED TO SINGAPORE FOR DISTRIBUTION IN MALAYA. A Reuter report from London, received here this morning, stated that in res ponse to an urgent S.O.S. from the Ministry of
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  • 110 1 Reuter. BELGRADE, July 16.—Gen. Mihailovich's appeal was rejected by the presidenum of the Yugoslav National Assembly. It is expected he will be *t dawn to-morrow. Hundreds of Serb sympathisers with Gen. Dragomir Mlhailovich. Yugoslav Chetnik leader, were arrested today by th e Bulgarian police at Petric, south-west
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  • 37 1 Reuter. LONDON, July 16.—Miss Cecilia Colledge, European and former world amateur figure akating champion has turned professional. She has a contract to appear in an ice review at a London theatre in October.—Reuter.
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  • 119 1 Employing th e old trick of gaining adm'ssicn into a house by giving the impression that they were revenue officers searching for contraband, four Chinese entered a house situated far off the main road in Bukh Timah. yesterday. Once inside, two of them whipped out revolvers
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  • 136 1 (Our Own Reporter). PENANG. July 16.—During two-day visit to Province Wellesley the Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, saw the food production scheme worked by Japanese prsoners of war. Sir Edward also visited various Government departments at Nebong Tebal, Bukit Mertajam.
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  • 82 1 Reuter. TOKIO, July 16—Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's civil property custodian office today ordered the Japanese Government to return the siant lathe seized in Hong Kong in 1942 to the British authorities. It is at present at Okayama and Js l sported to be in good
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  • 30 1 Reuter. NAIROBI, July 16.—The Aga Khan, who was recently rer-crf-ed ill with a high temperature, today intimated that he would attend a big party to be given here tomorrow evening.—Reuter.
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  • 134 1 Reuter. LONDON. July 16. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dr. Hugh Dalton, in telling the House of Commons today of the agreement whereby the South Arican Reserve Bank would seil not less than £80.000,000 worth of gold to the Bank of England at
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  • 112 1 Reuter. DACHAU. July 16 —Fv y three of German officers and BMB convicted of murdering Aa.erican arts tiers during the Ard-nnis battle or Christmas 1944 were sente;vrd by the United States court nerc toaay to death by hanging. They included Col. Joachim ,*jr. Twenty-two. including Gtn.
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  • 78 1 Reuter. DORTMUND, Ju'y 16 —A crowd of 150 people yesterday freed the ringleader of a black market gang who had been arrested here by two policemen. The arrested man was already in a police car when the crowd attacked the policemen and carried out
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  • 36 1 Reuter. JERUSALEM, July 15.—One thousand six hundred Jews detained at Rafa detention camp on the Pales-tine-Egyptian frontier declared a hunger strike in protest against their continued detention, according to the spokesman of the Jewish Agency. —Reuter.
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  • 102 1 A.P. WASHINGTON. July 16.— U.S. Army Air Forces officers on Monday disclosed that a non-stop 10,000-mile flight from Honolulu over the magnetic North Pole to Cairo, Egypt, is being planned fo r a B-29 Superfortress. The date of the flight, which would set a world record,
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  • 92 1 Reuter. LONDON, July 16 The three Russians held by the American authorities ar c to be released. Hamburg Radio quoting a n announcement by United States headquarters in Germany, said tonight. The Russians, two of whom are Red Army officers, were found observing American military installations
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  • 181 1 Reuter. LONDON, July 16—While the country as a-whole is suffering from a fresh outbreak of crime, the pointer on the graph at Scotland Yard, which records fluctuations in lawlessness in London, is moving down, writes a London "Star" reporter. There has been a steady fall last
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  • 54 1 Reuter. LONDON, July 16.—Foreign Secretary Bevin will lead the British diplomatic delegation to the peace conference in Paris, Reuter learns. Prime Minister Clement Attlee is not expected to attend. The Britisn delegation is expected to consist of two or three senior ministers and two or
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  • 198 2 LONDON, July 16 —This is the story of a mother who came from Ireland to find her son somewhere in London. The moth&r, Mrs. R Crosby, arrived in London on Friday with her sister but the only address she had from her son was.
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  • 131 2 Reuter. BOMBAY. July 16— Bombay was today in the grip of Aye separate strikes it. different trades involving over 11.000 men r.nd is further threatened with a one-day general strike. The postal strike, which *i nation-wide, entered us six f b day with 3500 Bombay postmen
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  • 280 2 EMPLOYERS SHOW APPRECIATION Reuter. LONDON, July 16.—The war-to-peace switch-over in Britain's factories and workshops is being accomplished side by side with improvements an wortjng conditions demanded by organised labour for many years and Which were held up at the outbreak of the war.
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  • 122 2 LONDON. July 16. The Egyptian draft of the new treaty with Britain provides that In case of aggression against Egyp. or in certain circumstances against Britain the two countries will coordinate in necessary defence measures. Reuter learns. A joint defence body will b 3 established to study
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  • 64 2 LONDON. July 16—Gen. Nikolaus yon Falkenhorst, Nazi commander-in-chief in Norway during the German occupation, will be tried about July 29 on charges of responsibility In killing 14 British commandos taken prisoners of war, the United Nations war crimes commission announced today. Twenty Hitler
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  • 130 2 The Kalagon Blood Bath war crimes trial had its szquel this week when the Jour Japanese officers sentenced to death paid the extreme penally in the execution square of Rangoon Jail. R ngleader Major Ichtkawa was hanged, while the other three. Captains Midorikawa Hisashi, and Yanagissawa
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  • 101 2 Reuter. SIDNEY. July 15:—Certain essential imports from Canada will be subsidised by the Australian Government to keep the prices stable, according to the Sydney Sun today. This is to offset the strengthening of the Canadian dollar to parity with the American dollar announced early
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  • 71 2 Reuter. LONDON, July 15:—A Yugoslav communique broadcast by Belgrade Radio early this morning said two Yugoslav frontier guards wer c killed in Friday night's incident between United States and Yugoslav patrols on the Morgan Line in the disputed province of Venezia Giulia. According to the American
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  • 144 2 Reuter. DURHAM, July 15.-Becau.se 0 f the acute shortage of brtr the Durham branch of Licensed Association decided not to open their public houses until 8 p.m. next Satutday on th e occasion of the Durham miners' gala. There was prospect of "great thirst" at the
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  • 32 2 The next meeting of the Society will take place on Wednesday, at Toc-H Stamford Road at 8 when Dr. Chelliah will speak on 'Education in a Multi-racial Community.'
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  • 225 2 Making his defence in the Third War Crimes Court at the trial of 13 Japanese who stand charged with offences under the War Crimes Ordinance, Capt. Ueda Tadao faccused No. 4) said he made a protest to Lt.Col. Anami Sanso, commandant of the group
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  • 197 2 Following a robbery in Middle Road on the morning of July 14, the police trailed three Cantonese to a hous e ln Malay Street. A subsequent raid on the house was made when eight Cantonese were found ther e counting out some money which the
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  • 90 2 Five couples were dancing to the music of a six-piece band at The Atomic Club which had been licenced to accommodate 400 persons, when Mr. O. O. Griffiths of the C.I.D. visited the place on the night of July 3. The licence for carrying on music
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  • 80 2 Because a copy of the Theatres ByLaws was not exhibited in the office Yin Van, manager of the Great World Park, was fined $15. by Magistrate Kenneth M. Byrne, in the Third Police Court, yesterday. Yin appeared on a summons charge. It was stated that
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  • 87 2 For stealing half a pound of butter a Hylam, Wang So Soon (32) was sentenced to one day's s i. and fined $150 in the Second Police Court yesterday. When he appear?d before Mr. L. C Goh on a charge of stealing half a
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  • 699 3 ONLY ONE SUIT FOR 5 WEEKS' STAY (Tribune Staff Reporter) Malayan V-Paraders, back from London, are alleging "second-rate" and "discriminatory" treatment while under canvas at Kensington Gardens. Apparent bunglings, mismanagement and "the European complex" made the lives of our Volunteers in London almost "a farce". Preference,
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  • 154 3 Asked why she absconded, a 15--cl Chinese girl. Lee Ah Geok. undergoing a six months in th e Salvation Army n's Home, told Magistrate L. C. Goh he Second Police Court yes- thai she had to get out of the see her two-year
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  • 51 3 isifl i 20). an R.I.A.S.C. r. appeared in the P lice Court yesterday on of criminal breach of trus in respect of 50 bales of try goods valued at SlO.OOO. accused claimed trial and $10,000 was granted. The case has b?en postponed ly 23 for
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  • 287 3 Syed Ahmed Shah was committed to stand his trial at the next Assizes on a charge of armed robbery, at the conclusion of a preliminary inquiry in the Second Police Court before Mr L. C. Goh yesterday. It is alleged that the accused robbed Babu Lai, a
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  • 25 3 LONDON, July 16.— General untitled lovich's appeal for mercy has been rejected by the Yugoslav National Assembly. He will face a nring squad tomorrow (Wednesday).
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  • 475 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The question of back-pay for Malayan Volunteers was thrashed out at many meetings between the Malayan Victory Contingent representatives and officials of the Colonial Office, London. Net result is that there is little chance that backpay may be forthcoming to Volunteers
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  • 89 3 Twenty-year-old B. Morgan (British), of the Royal Naval Air Station. Sembawang, was sentenced to 12 months' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. H. A. Forrer in the Seventh Police Court yesterday when he was found guilty of dishonestly retaining stolen property. "Stolen property" in the case was a
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  • 52 3 A Cantonese woman Wu Sam Mooi (34) had a robbery charge exnlained to her in the Second Police Court yesterday. She is alleged to have robbed Kek Chaw Knff of one tin of cigarettes at 10.30 a.m. on July 15 at Rochore Road. The case was postponed to July 23
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  • 377 3 Charges of abetment of causing grievous hart, causing hurt and criminal intimidation of a Tamil, Gopal. in December 1944, were preferred against a former C. I. D detective-sergeant, K. Narayanasamy, when his trial opened at the Assizes before Mr. Justice N. A. Worley yesterday According to
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  • 112 3 Cpi. Noor b. Hassan and P. C Hussein b. Abu Hassan claimed trial when they appeared before Mr. K. M. Byrne on summonses. They tvere rharqed with negligently allowing Chan Ah Seng tcho was under their custody, to escape from confinement, at 5 p.m. on
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  • 485 3 The story of how a bottle of steaming hot water was poured into the mouth of an Australian sick PoW at a camp in Lieng Khan, French Indo-China, sometime in 1945, was described in the Australian War Crimes Court yesterday at the trial of
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  • 146 3 The Government of India Medical Mission to Malaya had not completed its task and therefore it could not return t o India today, said Mr. S. X- Chettur in the course of his press conference yesterday drawing attention to a statement in the local press regarding
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  • 114 3 Lim Ah Meng and Poo Soo Guan who pleaded guilty to being in possession of two pounds plain each were sentenced io six months' r.i. The opium was found on Ah M?ng on July 15 when he was searched at Canberra Gate, Naval Base. One pound was
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  • 97 3 A 27-year-cld Cantonese Cheong Peng Hong claimed trial in the First Police Court yesterday when he was cnarged with extorting $1580 from Teo Swee Tin, at Nanking Street on th? evening of July 14. It is alleged the accused threatened to smash the complainant's
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  • 284 4 In the "Malayan Observer,"' a propaganda sheet issued by the Malayan Union Department of Public Relations, is appearing a series of extracts from a diary kept by an internee oi Singapore. Number Six oi the series reaches June 28. 1942, so if publication contemplates reproduction of extracts
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  • 243 4 Gime Road Camp, subject of questions in the House of Commons and articles in the Press, is no longer a prison but i: looks like one. Barbed wire still well in evidence, the entry is guarded by a policeman who directs visitors to the guardroom where they
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  • 1167 4 TWO VIEWPOINTS My three years with Eisenhower—by Capt. H. C. Butcher Top Secret—by Ralph hgersoll. USIS. "When General Ike told me to keep a diary, he had in mir.d that it would be principally a catalogue showing dates, places, and reminders of interesting vents official and personal. Because I
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  • 473 4 (From Harold Fa r, Reuter'Correspondent > new YORK.-c- rnia'a b'g jovial Governor. Earl Warren, has put h mself in the Trent rank of posiibUiUeg for the Republican party s Presidential nomination in 1948 The 56-year-dld Mr. Warren, seeking a sedpjrtd four-year t< rm as Governor,
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  • 873 4  -  by- Flight Officer Heather Gwennap-Moere The school -boys cf Singapore Ike most of their generation throughout the world are air minded. When the news spread tiiat an All Scout Group had been formed last January at Etallang airfield, Sccutmas er r AF. Sergeant
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  • 153 4 Reckless Driving It is time that the lfilit*r> this country should open then and realize the extent of blood have spilled on our roads sine came to "liberate' us. The story is always the san Either the Indian driver at the wh is inexperienced and inefficn the 8.0.
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  • 871 5 INDIA DEBATE TOMORROW Reuter. LONDON, July 15.—3p-.eclies for the G:vernmeiV; in the India deba.es in bcLh Br tish H.usts cf Parliament en Thursday may be excecteel to sum up cer.ain positive results cf the Cat met mission's India visit, wn en s.and in direct
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  • 173 5 "Veto"Right Attacked, "Unjust >- K '-fly D, H. V. \ustrallan delegate on the s Security i ounf.1, on k <i Ike veto procedure cil, as aademocTmti s and H«- declared ther? must be T\ir.s Peace confeitsl hoard here and in Di Bratl said, The IHofd of votiag n the Security
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  • 70 5 Reuter. YORK. July 15:..The New •lies Calcutta correspondent a lengthy caoie to his paper T.e food crises in Bengal are generated by greed on the pat -1 Indian grain dealers, and by if Vigorou- Provincial Gopolicy. pecti that the free market a bottomless pit into finite
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  • 74 5 Reuter. 15.—Preparing for of the Britain-to- a British Overseas C poration Hythe class fi here thi> morning on survey flight. due in Hong Kong Airways, one of the pre►AC, opened the route service in December j tr-engtecd land planes a cted t-p with fiying- I from
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  • 39 5 A.P. 15.—Moscow Ra'ho supreme military appeal of the n:n~ need to death for pogrom on July mostly Jews. rvcr J. Vitorov jcrom on the tas- movement which he v io the P< l ?h Peasar.r mier Mifcolajczyk.
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  • 121 5 A.P. SEOUL. July 15:—Lt.-Gen. John Hodge assured Koreans he would not tolerate the "exploitation of south Korea by large firms of monopolies." Lt.-Gen. Hodge, comd. of the U.S. Army forces in Korea, said in a statement that he was concerned by press reports from the United
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  • 106 5 A.P. JERUSALEM. July 15:—Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the Jew's Agency Executive and of th e World Zionist Organisation, arrived here from his home at Rhoboth for a Joint meeting of the members of the Jewish Agency and the Jewish National Council. Three members of th
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  • 36 5 Pennsylvania's planes knocked asunder These float planes on the fan-tail of the veteran battleship Pennsylvania were knocked out. of pos tion and damaged by the atom bomb blast.—A.P. Photo. A.P. Photo.
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  • 641 5 Washington, July 16. —Secretary of State James F. Byrnes warned Russia she was "creating doubts and susp'cions" by objecting to the German disarmament treaty, and announced that the U.S. was acting immediately to break down economic barriers in Germany—with or without Moscow. He said in a
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  • 206 5 BERLIN. July 15 Major General Frank Keating, Commander of Berlin United States district, admitted that tiro Russian officers and their driver, a Russian soldier, all dressed in civiVan eloth?s, had been arrested and wtn now in United States custody. He did net disclose exactly where
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  • 335 5 Reuter. LONDON, July 15. —Krishna Chaterjee, prominent nationalist and trade union leader from Calcutta who is now in London, issued a statement to-day on the famine situation in Bengal. Chatterjee calls for the immediate setting up of an independent impartial tribunal to enquire into the
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  • 129 5 Reuter. LONDON, July 15. from Bournemouth attended an identification parade in London yester day to see if they could pick out the man who had pledged jewellery belonging to Doreen Marshall, ex-WiIEN found murdered in Branksome Dene Chine. The police said the parade would not lead
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  • 32 5 A.P. NEW YORK. July 16.—The Siamese Government late yesterday formally asked the United Nations Security Council to intervene in the border dispute with French forces in Indo-China. —A.P.
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  • 226 5 Ba.sv a, July 16.—Doc or van Mook, Lieut.-Gen of the Netherianti Indies, stated today that the Netherlands Government intends to set up a "General Government Commissariat" for Borneo with the task of designing a political structure in close consultation and agreement with the representatives of the
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  • 121 5 Reuter. DURBAN, July 15.—Twenty-seven more Indians, 17 of them volunteers from Transvaal, pleaded guilty to the charges of trespassing on corporation land here when they appeared at the magistrates' court today. Suderayaloo Chetty, who admitted two previous convictions of trespass, was fined £5 with the
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  • 127 5 A.P. LONDON, July 15.—Sir Edward Spears, head of the Spears' mission to Syria and the Lebanon in 194-2, predicted that if 100.000 Jews were sent to Palestine this year as recommended by the Anglo-American commission, "all hope of peace and security in the Middle East
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  • 101 5 Reuter. JERUSALEM, July 14.—The Jewish Agency Executive met today in its own building for the first time since June 29 when the premises were occupied by British troops. Dr. Chaim Weizmann. President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and Rabbi Judah Leib Fishm&n (member of the
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  • 49 5 Reuter. NANKING, July 15.—The Chinese X (>)rmnunist Party, which is claiming to represent almost 100,000,000 Chinese, is demanding representation at the Paris peace conference on July 29. A Communist official disclosed the party has sent a memorandum to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek setting out its claim. —Reuter.
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  • 555 7 Russian Experiments Proving Big Success Reuter. (By Eric Downton, Reuier's Correspondent) Moscow: (Air Mail) Experiments with a Central Asian cousin of the common dandelion, being carried out in the rich Ukrainian fields, may revolutionise the cultivation of natural rubber in the Soviet Union. Agricultural scientists
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  • 152 7 CHINA FRONT A.P. NANKING, July 16 sighting flared up in Manchuria and North China on Monday while peace negotiations remained at a standstill. Tom Masterson, Associated Press correpondent. reported from Peiping :fca* Communist troops struck at the ion south of Tientsin and launched new attacks in
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  • 87 7 July 16.—Canada will uri- supply the United Kingcm average of ir>O.ooo.ooft I wheat a year for iour ler an agreement which, it i[ .1 here, will be signed beilose of the crop year at j »f this month •hveries may be more than tape in the earlier
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  • 575 7 Reuter. LONDON, July 15.—The Inited States Congress approval of the loan to Britain receives almost unanimous approbation of the British press this morning. Two notable exceptions are the conservative Daily Express, which always has been a staunch supporter of the Empire, and the Commusist
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  • 191 7 LONDON, July 16.—Describing the venerable Dato Patinggi as "impertinent" and his influence as "utterly unimportant" seems "ungracious" of the Rajah of Sarawak "seeing that it was from his hands at the Sarawak c?ntenary celebrations in 1941 that the Rajah received a loyal address on behalf
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  • 99 7 Reuter. CALCUTTA* July 15:—Royal Air Force supply planes took off today to drop supplies by parachute to some 500,060 people cut off by floods in eastern Bengal. The Pl*nes were heading first for th e most isolated areas, an official announcement says, adding that medical
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  • 110 7 SYDNEY, July 16.—Three Dutch ships broke Brisbane's Trades Union blockade today and sailed from the harbour with their boilers working on wood secretly collected. Three other Dutch ships sailed without incident. The ships from Brisbane have a secret rendezvous at se*> with a Dutch collier
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  • 107 7 Reuter. BISLEY, July 15.—England, the holders, retained the Kolapore Cup at Bisley today with a total of 1.088 points followed by India with 1,061 and Jersey third with 1.039. For the mother country SouadronLeader Willott. the King s prize winner, and Major Maxwell who tied with
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  • 64 7 A.P. Moscow. July 14.—The government newspaper Izvestia reports that three women officials of Kirovsky di>:rict s housing department. Moscow, were convicted this week of accepting bribes from apartment-seekers. One was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, another to eight years, and the third placed on
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  • 198 7 Reuter. PRAGUE, July 15.—The President of Czechoslovakia. Dr. Eduard Benes, declared today at Kromeriz, Moravia, he did not believe in the possibility of a conflict between the East and the West, but in the event of a conflict between Germany and the
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  • 174 7 A.P. WASHINGTON. July 15.—Hitlers scientists were at work on supersonic s designed to bombard New York, the U.S. Army Air Forc e disclosed, and it was but one item on a list of 136 secret weapons they were striving to perfect or improve at
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  • 61 7 Berlin, July 16. —Brigadier-General Edwin L. S. Bert, Intelligence chief of the United States forces in Germany, left hurriedly and unexpectedly for London today. He is in charge of the two Russian officers stated to be spies w,ty> are held in United States custody '•somewhere in Eurone". At least one
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  • 326 7 Manila, July 16.—The British incorporation of North Borneo as a crown colony may produce international repercussions involving Britain and the Philippines and become a subject for the United Nations consideration. Nine heirs of the late fabled Sultan of Sulu, declared through their attorney today that
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  • 37 7 PEIPING, July 16.—Chinese press dispatches today said 80,000 Communists are attacking strategic Tatung in Shansi province, a weakly defended city famed for it s huge stnoe Buddhas. A cease-fire eaiii is reported to be en route there.
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  • 197 7 Reuter. PRETORIA, July 16. A new agreement covering the sale of gold by the South African Reserve Bank to the Bank of England for 1046 to 1947 is announced by the South African Treasury. The agreement becomes effective from Jan. 1 last. The statement said: "In terms
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  • 57 7 A.P. SHANGHAI, July 15 —Felix Bou* vier, chairman of Shanghai's famed French Club, was acquitted by the high court an charges of collaboration during the Japanese occupation. Bouvier's associate, B. Boland, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment, confiscation of all property subject to a portion
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  • 175 7 Bangkok, July 16.—Siamese police officials announced today they plan to re-enact their version of King Ananda Mahidol's death before the commission of inquiry investigating the royal tragedy. They said the king's bed and mosquito net would be used in a reconstruction of the royal
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  • 178 7 Reuter. London, July 16: Minister of Supply Wilmot was asked in the House of Commons yesterday whether he expects to speed up the target figures for the production of 370.000 private motorcars and 150.000 commercial vehicles for the year 1946. He replied the actual production of
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  • 141 7 Reuter. HONO KONG, July 15.—A placard announcing "Small Child For Sale." carried by ite 64-yfear-old father, greeted a British police officer a s he stepped ashore on Cheung Chau, an island some ten miles from Hong KonCThe sequel was the father being brought into court
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  • 43 7 BERLIN, July 16. —Within 12 hours after the Russians released the two Americans whom they held in communlcado in the Soviet zone in Berlin for 15 days, United States Army HQ announced today it was freeing three Russians held on suspicion of espionage.
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  • 181 7 Batavia, July 16. —Dr. Shahrir, the Indonesian Premier, said last night that if the British leave Java and Sumatra before a political settlement is reached, they leave the stage set for an armed conflict. He was commenting on the announcement by the Allied forces headquarters that the
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  • 94 7 Associated Press. BANGKOK, July 15:—A group of American dignitaries returning from tho Philippine independence ceremony today laid a wreath before the golden urn containing the remains of the late King Ananda Mahidol as token of United States sympathy with the Siamese people. The group included
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  • 102 7 The Recs' victory over the Chinese Athletic is still fresh in the minds of soccer fans and today's charity soccer match between the Recs and the SC.F.A. should attract a large crowd. K. Leemtruggen and I- J- Vass wh j played so well for the Singapore
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  • 64 7 Three upcountry wrestlers will make their debut in Singapore tonight at the New World. They are Baby Londos, a Chinese wrestler who meets Pretam Singh who is also a newcomer, and Dai Morgan, a Welshman who takes on Roughouse Jeffrey in the opening bout. In the main event
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  • 66 7 The Mayflower Badminton Party, one of the foremost badminton parties of Malaya, will be revived in the near future. Former members are asked to get in touch with Chan Chim Bock c/o Khoo 800 Siew Co., Winchester House. As soon as a sufficient number of old members can
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  • 319 8 'By Leario Constantino) Sh'flß-ld, July 16 —Ton minutes sufficed to bring India's match with Yorkshire to a close today. During that time Yorkshire added eight runs to the overnight total making the score 64 for 0 when rain, wnich threatened from the early brought the
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  • 136 8 Rangoon. July 16—The police today raided the offices of the Burma Communist Party, banned yesterday by the Acting Governor Sir Henry Knight, and seized books and pamphlets. There were no incidents, and so far no arrests have been made. The reward announced for the arrest
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  • 350 8 CRICKET TALK-IN 10, DOWNING STREET Reuter. (B/ Vernon Morgan, Reuter's Sports Editor) LONDON, July 16—The manager of the Indian touring team, Mr. Pankaj Gupta, had a half-hour's interview with th? Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, in the Cabinet room at 10, DDwning Street
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  • 115 8 PEIPING, July 16.—More than 1,000 men and seven planes continued their search today for seven United States marines captured on Saturday by an unidentified band of 80 armed Chinese in n village 22 miles south- v west of Tsingtao. The U S. Marine corps said
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  • 92 8 Calcutta. July 16. The alread grave food situation in India may be seriously affected by the floods in eastern Bengal which have destroyed valuable rice crops, it was reported today. There has been some loss of l fe but no estimates are available. Collapsed
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  • 297 8 COUNTY CRICKET Reuter. LONDON. July 16—County cricket results: At Birmingham Warwickshire beat Essex by 30 runs. Warwickshire first innings 261 (Dollery 121. Smith four for 55, P. Smith four for 70. second innings 155 (P. Smith five for 24). Essex first innings 201 (Avery 115, Hollies
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  • 72 8 A.P. JERUSALEM, July 15:—The arrival of a six-man delegation representing 100,000 displaced persons in central Europe is expected in Palestine soon, it was reliably learned. The delegation will meet with the Jewish Agency and other official Jewish institutions in Palestine to report 0 n the material and
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  • 45 8 Reuter. NEW YORK, July 16.—Mrs. Stephen Wise, wife of the President of the American Jewish Congress, has rejected the award of a membership of the Order of the British Empire in protest against the British policy in Palestine, it i s learned here,Reuter.
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  • 35 8 The Rotary Club meets to-day in j the Roof Garden of the Adelphi Hotel at 1 p.m. Mr. W. Bartley. I President of the Municipality of Singapore will address the Club on I "Old Singapore
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  • 140 8 Reuter. Canberra, July 15. —Lieut.Gen. J.F. Evetts, head of the British Technical Mission to investigate the long-range rocket development in Australia, is understood to have recommended expenditure of between £7,000, 000 and £8,000,000 for the establishment in central Australia of a rocket atom-bomb testing ground.
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  • 94 8 A.P. MANILA, July 16—Telephone lines were clowned in north Manila by wind gusts heralding the approach cf the summer typhoon, off north-east Luzon. In Central Luzon winds were report 5 d nearlng 40 miles per hour- Driving rains buffeted Manila indicating the wide swetp of the storm
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  • 93 8 Reuter. New York, July 15.—Mr. William O'Dwyer, Mayor of New York, told 2,000 Jewish ex-servicemen as they were leaving for Washington last night to demand an end to what he cal'ed "Britain's broken promises The ex-servicemen were on their way to press for an
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  • 59 8 (Our Own Reporter) PENANG, Tuesday. A 36 year old European Robert Ferguson Duncan, was brought up before Mr W Foulsham in the Police Court today on a vagrancy charge. He was arrested at Butterworth. Denying the charge that he was without any means, Duncan said:— "i
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  • 40 8 Reuter. NANKING, July 15.—General Pai Chung-Hsi, Defence Minister, advocated creation of a citizen's army to bolster the strength of national defence fnd protect the existence of China's independence at a weekly memorial service today.— Reuter.
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  • 66 8 An unemployed Malay Abdul I Rashid b. Haji Latif was chargj ed In the F'rst Police Court yes- terday, with wrongful possession iof 1927 rounds of .38 ammunlI tion at a room In Block C AlexI andra Road, Municipal Sewage Incinerator Works. I Bail in the sum of
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  • 226 8 Reuter. TEHERAN, July 16.—Seventeen persons killed and 150 injured in a clash that followed the lynching of an Arab merchant during the strike at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company plan Persia. Th? British Embassy tonighi issued the following bullern: "The general strike at the AngloIranian Oil
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  • 26 8 Reuter. TEHERAN. July LC.—The oil workers general strike ended at noon today and work started in oil factories. Teheran adio i nnounced 'JaSa evening.—Reuter-
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  • 193 8 Reuter. Neath, Wales, July 15.—The steps taken to prevent a recurrence of mass unemployment in South Wales were outlined by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dr. Hugh Dalton, when he received the freedom of Neath on Saturday. He said he had been proud to
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  • 28 8 His Excellency the Governor (Sir Franklin Gimson) and party last night attended the showing of Eagle-Lion's "The Wicked Lady" at the Cathay cinema.
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  • 336 8 Unhappy China A.P. NEW YORK, July 15 T break down of Chinese distribute cf UNRRA food, resulting in Director General Fiortlb La Guard ia, ordering that ail but emergency ippj-Jj be withheld from China, a: ars to have been due to grave -m handling. to use
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  • 94 8 Reuter. RANGOON, July 16. —TJ Police and Fire Services Medal has been conferred on Saw X sub-inspector of the Police 1 district. The citation says Kyamau-lg ed a high quality of lead gallantry during an attack tt. I soners on Daiku police sta February. H e
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