Malaya Tribune, 18 July 1946

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  • 33 1 The Malaya Tribune The Paper OI The People Of IVlalaya Phone Nos:—EditoriaMonly) 5811 Advertising, Circulation Accounts 5812 PAGES. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune THURSDAY. JULY 18, 1946.
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  • 25 1 untitled protest agains The j B rue j Lt.; '.'<• t rd I .p t-> or ;.t uui J/ rtiftort 0/ a I MttJ fttfldf, I
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  • 87 1 :-7TLE, (Washington), The Russian Lieun;.;.- Xieolai Redin was :day acquitted by a F Court jury on espioc:n?piracy charges. T> Russian was found innon the charges brought by G 7> rtment that he puri about a new type greyer Tender from Her-c-r K nr.edy, a shipyard engi-
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  • 94 1 untitled duty fit for pigs" A.P. Q, July 18.—Threa i German workmen asprrrpare homes for British military govrs nnel rioted yesaring that the food nly was fit for pigs, themselves, living, nip assaulted IkeS r and ihe camp chief n.i-.g to kill ifeem-: pen?cj the doors to
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  • 24 1 Reuter. RoN,jja y n.—conI 'he deadline to Ju'y •of the commiUco inbflity for the ward off the Ml p ftfcri Harbour.
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  • 400 1 Rival Gangs "At War" Tribune Staff Reporter) Police parties swooped on Chinatown last night to nip in the bud a battle between rival gangs and arrested eight persons after they had gathered a second time and stoned the police. In breaking up the mob, the police
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  • 121 1 QUESTION UNDER "LOCAL REVIEW" Reuter. LONDON. July 17.—In the House of Commons Captan Gammans, Conservative, asked if a statement would be made about claims for compensation from widows and relatives of civil defence ivorkers killed in Malaya at the time of the Japanese invasion and the petition by
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  • 299 1 NOTHING TO SELL A.P. firm f July 18 -—Shamsum Lai. owner of the firm of Shamsum and Company of Bombay, said on Wednesday that he had spent nearly three weeks Itu L tryi PS t0 P lace or ders worth £750,000 with British
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  • 93 1 A.P. w «%n<rton, July 17- President Truman signed legislation authorising the transfer of 271 surplus small naval vessels to China to help start the Chinese Navy. The transfer will he made under conditions to be laid down by the President. The vessels may be sold, leased,
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  • 40 1 A.P. Washington, July 17.—The Chinese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Wellington Koo, presented his credentials to President Truman. He said afterwards: "I am glad to be back in Washington where 1 represented my country before." —A.P.
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  • 994 1 MP's question Singapore adminis*ration harbour congestion de-requisitioning Reuter. LONDON, JULY 17.—T H E COLO NT AL SECRETARY IS DOING ALL IN H 18 POWER TO EXPEDITE THE SUPPLY OF MATER I ALS AND EQUIPMENT FOR THE UjLHAB LiTATlON MALAYAN POSTS INCLUDING SINGAPORE AND PORT SWETTENHAM
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  • 97 1 HEAVIER PENALTIES BEING CONSIDERED Reuter. LONDON, July 17.— There were 39 murders and 458 armed robberies in x Sinoapore of which 101 were robberies by armed gangs during the period between Jan. 1 and July 1 10, said Mr. Creech-Jones. I Under-Secretary for the Colonies, in reply to a
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  • 101 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, July 17.— The chairman of the United States Famine Emergency Com-! mittee, Mr. Herbert Hoover, said in an interview today he expected "acute" food shortages in "starvation countries" would be ended by August when the Northern Hemisphere crops are in. Mr. Hoover added: "The si-, tuation
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  • 90 1 Reuter. SHANGHAI, July 17._ T he UNRRA Fa r Eastern Committee at a conference her e today unanimously decided to recommend to the UNRRA Council meeting i n Geneva in August a three-month extention of UNRRA programme for China to June 30 next year. The CNRRA
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  • 63 1 Reuter. LONDON, July 17.—Final negotiations between the British and Canadian Governments for the proposed wheat agreement are, Reuter understands from informed quarters, progressing smoothly and it is exp acted in London that the agreement will be signed within a week or ten days. It is believed the
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  • 36 1 Reuter. STOCKHOLM, July 17.—Greta Garb 0 arrived at Gothenburg, Sweden, from the United States in the Swedish liner Gripsholm today on her first visit to her nativ e land for eight years —Reuter.
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  • 269 2 A.P. NANKING, July JB.—China's opposing armies were reported moving closer to full-scale civil war as General George C. Marshall's peace negotiations remained tightly deadlocked in Nanking. General Chou En-lai, n umber two Chinese Communist, has listed Government "aggressions" on four fronts involving over a million
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  • 257 2 Allegations that he was r.etLay concerned in the ill-treatment and execution of a British trooper ;nd aiso in ill-treating other PoWs n the outward voyage -rom Java to Ambon in April 1943. were -'.enied by S/Maj. Yamamoto (accused '.10. 7) in the Third War
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  • 81 2 Lall Behari Singh, Inspector of Police, was acquitted and discharged by Major A. P. Jack in the Relief Court yesterday of a charge of dishonestly having in his posession in December 1945, a quantity of tinned provisions which were alleged to be police rations. The charge of
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  • 285 2 A search for arms on a motor vessel in Singapore harbour recently resulted in the discovery of bales of cloth and jungle green battledress in the engine room of th e vessel. The vessel was detained by the police just outside the breakwater as
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  • 113 2 A.P. DETROIT, July 16.—Labour veterans and civic, groups across the nation were summoned today for demonstrations to protest against the end of the OPA as the movement grew for buyers' strikes against rising living costs. In the first countryiode anti-inflation action since the OPA expired on
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  • 223 2 (Our Own Reporter) Penang, July 17. Japanese prisoners of war are engaged in the construction of military camps so as to facilitate the derequisitioning of civilian premises occupied by the Services, said Mr. S.N. King. Resident Commissioner, at a press conference. Japanese PoWs are
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  • 139 2 A denial that he ever beat Gopal. or even slapped him in the course of investigations, was made by K. Narayanasamy. ex-detective sergeant Of the CIJD., in his defence at the Singapore Assizes yesterday. A Japanes e named Kawatoko did all the beating, the accused said, adding
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  • 352 2 AIF Show Their Gratitude Plans made by Australian soldiers in Changi Gaol to show their gratitude to the Chinese in Malaya for the help they were given during their imprisonment, are beginning to take material form. Known as the A.I.F. Ma- layan Nursing Scholarship, the
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  • 87 2 Another People's Restaurant will be opened tomorrow at 11-30 a.m. in tho Queen Street Boys' Club. The use of the Club for the puipose has been agreed to by the Club's President. Mr. Riehaid Chu an Hoe Lim. The establishment of this new People's Restaurant will not
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  • 251 2 Nostalgic visions of the good old days were conjured by Mr. W. Bartley's reminiscences of Singapore 38 years ago when he was the guest speaker at the Singapore Rotary Club yesterday. In 1908, when he first sailed into Singapore he found Keppel Harbour wooded
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  • 116 2 Mr. Lim Chuan Geok, p r the Singapore Clerirr.1 Ui received intimation from the SeUu». gor Clerical Union to the effe that in view of the many problen 5 n 0 confronting tho clerical commonitt it feels that the time is now tune for holding a conferlegates
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  • 58 2 Musat Husin (23). an R.I.A.S C Indian driver, appeared in the Fourth Police Court yesterday on charge cf criminal breach of trust in respect of 50 bales oi military goods valued at SIO.OOO fhe accused claimed trial and bail of $10.000 was granted. ihe case
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  • 643 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Officers of the Straits Settlements Legal Service and the Straits Settlements Civil Service have protested against the Cost-of-Living Allowances recommended by the Pyke Committee. v In accepting payment of the allowances, they signified "without prejudice and under protest." All senior
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  • 58 3 (Our Own Reporter). PENANG. July 16.—Police and radio patrol cars had to be called out to restore order among the big queue lor sweetened condensed milk sold at the Singapore Cold Storage here today. Crowds waited for hours, while sonic turned tip even before daybreak, reminiscent
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  • 61 3 heme has been deo assist all large ters of labour who sel up canteens eir employees. The Controller will niake n foodstuffs available mpiowers aopwed by Labour Department. Eai cuutetM must serve mum of 150 per::crion should be the first instaticc Assistant Con'roller mr, Chines* SerreRuHdina.
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  • 45 3 <'ur Own Reporter) Penang. Wednesday. »tatue of Captain Francis Light foßßdei I P-.nang. will be re-erected w plinth at the Supreme The unveiling cerebe performed by Mr. W. Municipal President, on tag It'iOth anniversary of the f ci Penang.
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  • 205 3 The transportation of a draft of British and Dutch PoWs from Lien Khan PoW camp to Saigon by rail in overcrowded vans sometime in 1945. resulting in the deaths of a number of Dutchmen due to suffocation, was recalled in the Australian War Crimes Court -erday
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  • 83 3 Bis Majesty the King has approved the appointment of Sir Chanes Arden Clark C.M.G. as Governor and C.-in-C. of Sarawak. Born in IS9B, and educated in Rossall School, S r Charles saio service in the Great War. and was appointed to the Colonial service in 1920 as
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  • 274 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Raiding the Smith Street and Merchant Road areas yesterday the police destroyed about fifty stalls of unlicensed hawkers and confiscated about seven lorry loads of goods. These areas were cleared of unlicensed hawkers barely six days ago, and the stalls destroyed were
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  • 73 3 (Our Own Reporter). PENANG, July 16—The distressed condition of Chinese settlers in Province Wellesley was indicated by the numerous requests made by individuals at various Government departments. So far no assistance has been given them. These settlers were forced to cultivate foodstuffs there during the occupation
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  • 27 3 TOKIO, July 17.—Allied Headquarters told the Japanese Government it had no objection to police and fire brigade officers joining political associations or participating in politics.
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  • 54 3 J. M. Herbert (20), a British army truck driver appeared in the Fourth Police Court yesterday on a charge of criminal breach of trust in respect of 19 bales of clothing and boots valued at $4,750. Bail of $4,000 was fixed and the case postponed to
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  • 94 3 (Our Otvn Reporter). PENANG. July 16.—When Shaik Mohammed (17) was brought up before Mr. W. Foulsham in the Police Court yesterday on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to Fong Siew Hong during the occupation, complainant told the Court that, when he was held a "helpless prisoner,"
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  • 49 3 NANKING July 17.-The Central Neva Agency said Professor wen Yi-tu American exchange student and a leader of China's third party. Democratic League, Wffc slain in Kunming by an unknown Stastjtp while walking with hi* son. This is the second slaying reported in Kunming Within a week.
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  • 136 3 $5O-MILLION "GIFT" (Our Own Reporter) Penang. July 17. Debts due to the Yokohama Specie Bank by the Oversea Chinese Association. Penang, and the assets in the hands of the Custodian of Property are to be held by him in contemplation of arrangements to be made
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  • 104 3 ALFSEA's number one school of army and air training, situated on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. Malaya Command headquarters, opened yesterday morning and was attended by RAF and Army officers drawn as far afield as Java and Sumatra. Air dispositions of SEAC wer e reviewed and
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  • 73 3 'Tribune Staff Reporter) It may take a day or two more cetore pre-strike conditions can be r estored at the General Post Office where uniformed inkers resumed v.crk yesterday. A good proportion of the unsorted mails accumulated during the strike is understood to have been
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  • 157 3 Pleading that th" place was very I ri-'.rk at the time of th<> occurrence, a Malay police constable —Abdullah bin Taliit —appeared in the Second Police Court yesterday on a summons, charged with negligently allowing a prisoner to escspe while in custody. Abdullah was
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  • 64 3 A large consignment of dhall has arrived recently and is being disj tributed by Government agents to I the trading community. The price at which this commodity is sold by iml porters to wholesalers is $15 per picul. The controlled wholesale price to retailers will be $16.50 per
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  • 50 3 (Our Own Reporter) PENANG, July 15.—Unless they were carried out under duress, all transactions during the Japanese occupation should be considered legal, stated Lt.-Col. Drake-Brockman at the P. Wellesley Advisory Council When th e Question of the validity of such transactions were raised by members.
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  • 266 3 A scuffle which took place in the Happy World Park on April 23 in which some Servicemen Chinese civilians were said to have been involved had a sequel in the Second Police Court yesterday when two English-speaking Chinese, Anthony Chua and Choo Swee Peck appeared
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  • 62 3 Alleged to have murdered a woman with a pair of scissors at a house in Geylang Road on Tuesday night, Sam Foot Heng (30) was produced before Mug strate L. C. Goh yesterday when a charge of murder was explained. The case teas postponed to July
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  • 134 3 Kassim bin Adam, who describ?d himself as a trader, was <vr>.rnc?d to dv weeds' rigorous imprisonment and fined a total of S3OO. in default six weeks" imprisonment, by Second District Judge Tan Thoon Lip. yesterday. He was convicted on a charge of selling a tin of
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  • 74 3 'Tribune Staff Reporter) Eleven-hundred Chinese hghtermen who went on strike on Monday morning are still off the quayside pending amicable negotiations with tongkang owners on the question of increased 1 ighterago. Tongkang owners' meeting with the labour un'onists last night did not bring about anticipated results. Negotiations
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  • 787 4 Government Servants are j denied the right to strike. THIS NEGATION OF THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY iS THE CLIMAX OF MONTHS OF ASSURANCES OB THE RIGHTS OF WORKERS AND TAKES THE LPE uF A BLUNT I tEATTO TRANSFORM LHE POSTAL STRIKE FROM A STRIKE TO A LOCKOUT AND
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  • 1304 4  -  The Leper King Of Angkor By David Scott-Moncrief Splitting French Indo-Chlna from north to south is the Mekong River. Between this and the Siamese border lies an inland lake, and hidden abou twenty miles north-east of th > northern tip of this lake is Angkor, shroudeo in
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  • 693 4 R. B. Ooi examines the prospects of starting life afresh for those who seek For those who can lift their heads above the morass of dissatisfaction with current conditions in Malaya, a new land oi opportunity swims into the r ken. For years Sarawak and Br
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  • 228 4 READERS' VIEWPOINTS Your issue of 17th instant containing accounts of discrimination against iocal-borns anions V-Para<ier> and Volunteers Back Pay.—or.e for Europeans and another for Asiatics—?r. jkes verv reading: to thoso who cherish racia! harmony in our midst as tfu r.w> vuluable asret of Malaya. Everyone knows thai tncre
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  • 33 4 LONDON. July 17.-The i to Lieutenant-General Ls off*< nounced of Sir Frederick 15 former Chief of SafCOH,* S Allied Commander. "Souther and at one time head of the l airborne forces.
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  • 463 5 Dr. EVATT ATTACKS VETO A.P. j Harrc/son, Associated Press correspondent). July 17.—Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, Ausreign Minister, attacked the use of veto ed Nations Security Council and warned 00.0 might be us?d indirectly to nullify deih< forthcoming ptace conference. who plans to leave o the Paris
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  • 137 5 July 17.—Heads of (lie cf the wealthiest world and con- h the Zaibatsu Lution was orderAllies—of most of mlc and industry it is understood i iv d vided to dis.rr.i.y counc'l of the family constituis a group of rs and monopolist activities r 1 .he
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  • 138 5 Reuter. LONDON, July 16.—The Air Registration Board announce tha; the civil aeronautics authority of the United States has given approval for a test flight of 100 hours duration of a "Constellation" aircraft fitted with fuel injection engines. The Beard have advised the Minister of Civil Aviation
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  • 358 5 2 Views Of Britain, By Attlee Churchill London. July 17.—The Priet« niater Mr. Attlee and Mr. Wirst >n Churchill, leader of tho Conservative Party, are giving support to candidates in by-elections which arc now being fought Mr. Attlee in a letter to Granviiie West. Labour candidate in Pootypool by-election, says
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  • 111 5 MANILA. July 17. Filipino indignation is mounting over the sale cf two large estates to U.S. Brig. Gen. Ernest H. Burt The two estates. 840,000-acre Buena Vista and the smaller Capeliania de Tabobong. were bought in Burt's name at what experts called far below
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  • 119 5 New York. July 16.—An electroautomatic Chinese typewriter, capable of typing 5.400 different ideographs at a rate of 45 words per minute, has been demonstrated in New York. The machine can be used in longdistance teletype operations, weighs about 61 lbs, and operates on 110 volts. Each ideograph is
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  • 122 5 Reuter. LONDON, July 16.—Lord Rosebery's four-year-old colt Midas who has not had a race since he finished second to Dante in last year's Derby will not run in the Eclipse Stakes at Ascot on Friday. Trouble with a leg has kept him off the racecourse
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  • 163 5 A.P. TOKIO. luly 16 Doctors iiave convinced Dr. Shumei Okawa. '.,ar crimes defendant who thumped the bald head of Hideki Tojo. that he weighs 1.000 pounds and he is quite p'tastd. The Kyodo news service reported today that Okawa continues 10 be crazy." and said he
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  • 109 5 MANCHESTER. July 17.—Th e first substantial imports of Russian cotton since the outbreak of war have arrived in th c United Kingdom. The shipment amounted to more than 15,000 bales and will shortly b e available to Lancashire spinners. Only small isolated lots had been received
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  • 28 5 Washington, July 16 —The United States House of Representatives has voted—by a large majority—to send the Price Control B'll to the joint Congressional Conference Committee.
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  • 418 5 A.P. London, July 17.—World surplus of natural rubber within the next year is foreseen by informed trade sources here, if real peace returns to the NEI by the end of 1946. The Indies' production also is dependent upon improvements in supply of short
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  • 69 5 Nanking. July 17. —The threat of a military showdown between the Nationalist and Communist armies seemed more real with an independent report of Governmen: troops activity on North China stepped up several hundred par tent, while Government quarters referred to a Communist "general offensive which resulted
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  • 195 5 ANTI-COMMUNIST ACTIONS A.P. LONDON. July It?.—A Foreign Office source disclosed Tuesday that the British Government had advance notice of the almost simultaneous actions levelled against communists hy the governments of Egypt and Iraq. commenting on the reports from Cairo, Baghdad, and Saudi Arabia of the arrests,
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  • 52 5 A.P. Cabanatuan, Juiy 16,—The lull in Neuva Ecija province on Monday was shattered by an 8-hour ctesh belwe?n 80 Philippine M.Ps. and 300 peasant guerillas. M.Ps. said six guerillas were killed and others wounded. The military reported six villages in Pampanga province have become "no man's
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  • 111 5 ALLAHABAD. July 16— Two persons were stabbed to death and six injured this evening la a clash between two groups of workers near South Malaka railway station, suburb of Allahabad. The incident created considerable panic in the area which is now being patrolled by
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  • 85 5 LONDON. July 17 Hongkong to remove the colour bar whicr hitherto kept it- famous --Peak" ex clusively reserved to wealthy whin residents, according to the Daily Mail special correspondent in Hone kong. No Chinese ha- been allowed to occupy a house above a certain altitude, he
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  • 81 5 Reuter. SHANGHAI. July 16 Foreshadowing ar. early exnansion of China's air services, both domestic and foreign, the China National Aviation Corporation has ordered from the United States 150 transport planes of the C—46 and C—47 types for early delivery. This is said to be the largest
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  • 149 5 JERUSALEM, July 17.—Palestine was paralysed today by the Jewish community's one day country-wide general strike, organised to demonstrate its solidarity with the 2 000 hunger-striking inmates of the Rffa and Latrun detention camps. The stoppage began quietly at nine o'clock (local time) this morning ard after an
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  • 194 5 NANKING, July 17.—The Chinese Government today charged that 130,000 Communist troops had opened an offensive along the Yangtse river and were conducting assaults only 20 miles from Nanking and 45 miles from Shanghai. The government carried th e protest to General Marshall, special American envoy, asserting
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  • 30 5 Dr. Cheng Tien-hsi. 62-year-old judge of the Hague International Court, has been appointed Chinese Ambassador in London. He succeeds Dr. Wellington Koo, who has gone to Washington.
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  • 357 7 Players 399 For 5 vs entlemen Reuter. LONDON, July 17.—At Lords the PJayers took Advantage of ihe weak Gentlemen's attack hitiing 399 j OI with England players Washbrook 105, Ikin ll and Denis Compton 87 all doing well. Washbrook's century took him three hours. did not
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  • 42 7 A.P. VDOiV. July IS.—Rain is d to provide tricky o hetp India's spin Saturday?* Indian at the Old Trafford Manchester, an team is expect consist of: Merchant. Amarnath, Modi, P.: audi (Captain). Mohamed. SarHindlekar. and So- Ei'ineriee. A.P.
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  • 83 7 own Reporter) PENANG. July 17. st has as much right as a R.A.F. truck or a handcart", r .-marked Lt.-Col. J r H. Drak—Brockman when LAC P. C. H< adquarters RAF, foul months' r.i. I dangerous drivby causing the death of Ong lay 13
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  • 28 7 Reuter. STOCKHOLM. July 17—Sweigoslavia by 3—2 in c Eur Ptan Davis Cup lawn g" nnis Baal and meet the United be right to challenge lers, Australia—Reuter.
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  • 376 7 Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park. G.C.8., K.8.E.. M.C.. D.F.C., and Lady Park embarked in the Mauretania on Tuesday for Engl and, after Sir Keith had been invested with the United States Legion of Merit, in the Degree of Commander, by U.S. Military Observer.
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  • 43 7 Reuter. KINGSTON. July 16.—The third test between Trinidad aad Jamaica was drawn. Jamaica soj.rd 448 declared, 2nd innings 224 :or 1 Tr nidad 319 and 81 for 6. The second test was also drawn but Jornada won the first. —Reuter.
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  • 75 7 Reuter. LONDON. July 17.—Promoter Jack Solmons stated today that h e had matched Gus Lesnevich, American holder of the worid cruiserweigh' championship, to fight Bruce Woodcock, Br:t i s h heavyweight champion, over ten rounds in a non-:itle bout at Harringay arena. London, on Sept. 17.
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  • 195 7 Reuter. LONDON. July 16:—The following is the County cricket championship standing including matches ended on July 16:— COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE Ist Innings Lead P W L D NR L D Pts Lanes 15 12 1 0 2 1 0 148 Yorks 13 10 0 1 2 0
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  • 71 7 Reuter. STOCKHOLM. July 16—Sweden won the doubles match against Yugoslavia in the Davis Cup European zone final at Varberg Club today. Yugoslavia by winning the first two singles on Saturday lead by two matches to one with two more singles to be played to-morrow. Today's match lasted
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  • 139 7 RIN MUTINY Bombay. July 17:—Commander F. W. King. Commander of Taiwar Indian Navy shore establishment at Bombay where th<> ratings mutinied last February, was today sentenced by a court martial to be dismissed from Dalhousie and be "severely reprimanded Dalh OUsie is a Royal Indian Navy
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  • 109 7 A 25-year old Bengali lascar Abul Khan was sentenced to 18 months' r.i. when he was found guilty on the First District Court yesterday of being in wrongful possession of seven pounds of opium. When Revenue Officers boarded the s.s. Nevasa on the morning of
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  • 45 7 Reuter. LONDON, July 16.—People were roused from their sleep at a number of places in Switzerland early today by earth tremors, Swiss Radio reported. Later a strong tremor was recorded estimated to have its centre some 1,375 miles to the south-east, probably in Turkey Reuter.
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  • 537 7 A.P. TOKYO, July 16. —A battle of words over the Soviet proposal for Japanese labour legislation continued as the Russian Embassy to-night issued a 18--points statement saying the SCAP's economic and scientific section's comment on the Russian suggestion confirmed the "opportuneness" of
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  • 91 7 The Hospital Assistants' and Dressers' Association defeated the Chiate Seng Ahtletic Union 5—2 in a table tennis friendly. Results: (H.A.D.A. names first): J. D. Nalpon beat Chua 800 Lim 3 —l, Lim Keng Wah lost to Goh Teck Guan I—3,1 —3, S. Suppiah beat Wee Aik Leong
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  • 361 7 Combining better than the Recs the S.C.F.A. ran out winners 3 —l in yesterday's charity soccer at Jalan Besar. The Chinese forward line supported by a sound defence played very well and it was only J. de Souza's sound goalkeeping that kept tho Chinese score within
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  • 237 7 At a general meeting ot the Rockli es Sports Party the following were elected office bsarers i for the ensuing year: Pres dent j Chew Eng; Vice President. S. Mosbergen: Gen. Sec, D. C. Swyny: Asst. Sec, G. BalakrishI nan: Treasurer. A. V. Pillay: S Asst. Treasurer. Sam
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  • 75 7 Playing before a fairly larg? eif*~H on Sunday last at the Chinese Swimming Club's premises at Amber Road. the Chinese Swimming Hub defeated the United ServiceTeam in a friendly game of table tennis by four games to one. Following arc the results: Chua Kirn Hearn beat Ekstein 3—l,
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  • 75 7 Among the passengers who came to Singapore by the 'Mauretania' was a first class soccer referee. He is W/O A. Smith, who came with some R.A.F. personnel. He is a member of the English Football Leagues Referees and Linesmen Association and the R.A.F. FA. (Referees section).
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  • 257 8 A.P. Bto WASHINGTON, July 18.—Mr. John W. Snyder, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, announced Wednesday that IS. 8300,000,000 will be placed to Britain's credit today as the first advance on the British loan. The funds will come from the United States treasury balance of more than
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  • 212 8 Reuter. CAIRO. July 17—Seventyeight Italians, including 19 women and nine children have been expelled from Abyssinia and art now in camps in Eritrea awaiting decision on their future. They told Reuter today that on July 1 they wer? ordered by the Abyssinian Minister of th? Interior to Itave
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  • 189 8 A.P. LONDON. July 17—Moscow radio defended th e Soviet use of the veto in the United Nations Security Council. In a commentary by Dr. Lemin, the broadcast said the idea of unanimous agreement of big powers was born of a desire to apply war experience t 0
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  • 76 8 (Ozir OiD7i Reporter). PENANG. July 17. When asked in the Butterworth Ccun today whether he would be able to raise a bail of $200, R. F. Duncan, a European, Intimat-d'his inability. Duncan W£s brought up before Lt.-Col. R. F. H. Drake-Brockman on charges of escaping
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  • 183 8 Reuter. LONDON, July 15.— When Major J. G. C. Ruston, prospective Liberal candidate for the Guildford Divis'on, returned to his home in Chester Square. Westminster, after a dance at Wonersh (Surrey) he was to use his own words—"bashed with half a brick." He had garaged his
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  • 65 8 Reuter. BEIRUT, July 10 The Lebanese Home Ministry ha- decided to take drastic measures against Communists similar to the** recently taken in Egypt, according to the Arabic Daily newspaper AI Nahar. The Ministry will also disoourac-' •tribes, believed to be fomented by Communists, by cutting wajros
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  • 311 8 Reuter. LONDON, July 15.—The last time that Miss Elisabeth McLindon, housekeeper at premises in Chester Square, Belgravia, was seen alive was when she ran out of the house, slammed the door behind her and was chafed up the street by Arthur Robert Boyce, it was said
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  • 409 8 JERUSALEM. July 17.--The British Army's occupation of the Jewish Agency and arrest of its leaders on June 29 has proved to the Haganah that its struggle has been necessary in the past, and that it must continue with greater effort in the future, a leading Haganah
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  • 199 8 PARIS. July IT—.Mr. Winston Churchill's present visit to France conies at what may prove to be the taming point in French ;orei<?n Pohcy. French statesmen are still suffering from the shock of the Soviet 1 Foreign Minister's categorical rejection at the recent Paris Con
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  • 64 8 (Our Own Reporter). PENANG. July 17. Out to smash blackmarketeers in cinema tickets, the police pounc?d upon 'ticket dealers' last night when 10 persons were rounded up. The police are understood to be making regular round-UDs. especially when first rate pictures are screened to prevent
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  • 532 8 Food Minister's Threat Deplored Reuter. LONDON, July 17.—One thousand five hundred representatives of the National Association of Master Bakers from all parts of England and Wales at a mass meeting in London to-day stood firm in their determination that it is impossible to work the Food
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  • 65 8 Reuter. LONDON. July 17. The i number of Jews arrested in the j military searches in Palestine i was 2,675. Releases up to July ?6 were 677. On that date, 1,998 j were itil] detained. These figures were given by I the Under-Secretary for the j
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  • 101 8 Reuter. SHANGHAI, July 16.-Tung oil production in Chin*, once the world s leading exporter, has dropped to 25 per cent, of the pre-war figure, a recent survey reveals. There is little likelihood of the former level of production being reached within the next decade, due to the
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  • 194 8 Reuter. WARWICK. July 16.—The Earl of Warwick told Warwick magistrates yesterday that h e had paid his butler's betting losses. "It |g n ot the first time he has had a little betting trouble. I have always stumped up and he has always paid me
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  • 55 8 London. July 17.—Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Fieid-Marshal Viscount Montgomery i s t n visit Canada and United Stares in August and September. The Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King has announced Viscount Montgomery will be tile guest of the Dominion. From <'"adn th" Field-Marshal will
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  • 75 8 Reuter. LONDON. July 10—Air Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane. Air Officer C'om-mandinjr-in-Chief. Royal Air Force Transport Command, left England today in an Avro York for a three weeks tour of the Far East. His main purpose is to study the operation of the Transport Command's rouie
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  • 95 8 Reuter. DURBAN. Juiy 16—Two Indian women. Soebman Govender ;ind Ambpabathy Supiah. were ler.tenceci to £5 sterling, fine or thre e months' hard labour at the Magistrate's Court roaay ior supplying cue passive esister prisoners working in Durban with food, fruit, cigarettes. and news. The group of
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  • 86 8 LONDON. July 17.—Twelve British shipping companies represented in India, Ceylon and Burma in a conference announced more elasticity in the working of freight registration system. They are now willing to accept registrations for shipment of cargo from any two ports in the United Kingdom served by them.
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  • 50 8 TOKIO. July 17-Fifteen additions ai ships ar« bnnR diverted ftdtn -tie Atlanlle to the Pamir 0 i„ demobilisation fleet, which mus, turn 260.000 iroon s cliKtbl,. for discharge to the us. Th,. snip., am rxpecied to nrrivi* ui Pacific port* t»>~ Wm Auh 7 and I». havaccommodation* for 1.500 pwisArnerrs
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  • 82 8 Reuter. LONDON. July 18. of the England r team chosen to mcc- on Saturday have he drop out of the Go: lemon versus Players > starting at Lords ton They are Paul Gibb. who bruised a foot at Sh> on Monday. Lev. loho is suffer ng from
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  • 157 8 Reuter. JERUSALEM. July 16.—A new drive to boycott Jewish cultural, social, industrial and pro. fessional life in Palesti: launched today by the Pi Arab Higher Committee formation of a "central I committee." Within a sub-committees will be throughout Palestine to tig ur> boycott breakers. Breaches of
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  • 120 8 A.P. SHANGHAI. July 16. —A China's expected crops I LNRRA's agricultural a tation division shows a d; average for 1931 to 1 .»37. UNRRA predicts j tons of rice compared with tht" ■frag* of 45.300.000 and 22.4 of wheat compared with 22.64 However.
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  • 42 8 NEW YORK. July 17. Suphamongkhon. It-yet aiplomat who served th, spy in Tokio during the rived to press the Sian membership in trig United N and to prepare for a henri Indochina-Siamese ttoi before the Security Cou
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