Malaya Tribune, 20 July 1946

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  • 35 1 The Malaya Tribune The Paper Of The People Of Malaya Phone Nos:—Editorial (only) 5811 Advertising, Circulation Accounts 5812 ?T(,!I1 PAGES. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune SATURDAY, July 20, 1946.
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  • 539 1 Attorn ey-General Supports Probe "Govt. Don't Like Criticisms" A.P. Reuter. Mn r JkZ^^lSlf\^'- A GROWING CONTROTHE LABOUR GOVERNMENT AND AUCTION OF THE BRITISH PRESS REACHED A 2- E lf» PE4KOF ACRIMONY ON THURSDAY NIGHT WTH WINSTON CHURCHILL AND ATTORNEY GENERAL S R HARTLEY SHAWCROSS DEALING
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  • 105 1 Reuter. m ALEM, July 19.— f onts "D Day" for he proposed policy I' 'ptrat.on with the ft Government was fixt: ti Thursday at a I meeting in Tel Aviv I .ng ivas attended m i crt of the Jeiv sh he Jeivish National C Jacish
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  • 169 1 A.P. I 'OKYO, July 20.—Japanese gunfire boomed in two m ions in Tokyo yesterday and at least three Koreans %m n *ed shot. I X ins reported to >t near the Shibuya m r they rode in trucks W United States miliW 1 tmt in
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  • 49 1 IJuiy 19. The y said on Fridav E believed that the ref 1 to Mahatma Gantrain was not an Gandhi's life but the g tram looters, have been arthe investigations, are stated to have lacing the boulders Gandhi's special °«a on June 30.— Pre*.
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  • 23 1 A.P. I. 'v—Allied mm. took over tt* Mon- On July 19 to end kout. Piftv British soldiers have been the yards.—A.P.
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  • 71 1 Reuter. HERFORD. Germany, July 19. Millions of sterling worth of treasure including jewels atid bonds property confiscated by the gestapo in persecuted Europe has been discovered by military government officials near Luneburg, it was disclosed today. Bcxes hidden in the cellar of a house here were moved
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  • 91 1 Reuter. LONDON, July 19.—The British destroyer Bleasdale made a dramatic dash to the 6,000-ton British steamer Victoria Peak after trouble between Chinese firemen and Chinese deckhands of her crew off Southend. The ship's fires went out and her captain's signal for help brought the destroyer
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  • 33 1 A.P. Versailles, July 20.—The French High Court of Justice on Friday sentenced Leon Cayla, former Vichy governorgeneral for Madagasca, to five ears' imprisonment, national indignity for !ife and a 10,000 francs fine. —A.P.
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  • 65 1 GBS n nety next week untitled the Irish sage is looking forward with the eagerness of a schoolboy to the celebration of his 90th birthday on July 26 in his country home at Tiny Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire. Photo shows: Mr. Bernard Shaw at the home of his next-door neighbour,
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  • 163 1 A.P. SAIGON, July 20.—France has submitted an "approximate and provisional" estimate of reparations claiming from Japan totalling 235,000,000,000 francs (U.S. $2,000,000,000) for war damage in the Far East, it was reliably learned. In a claim submitted to Wash ington to the Far Eastern Commission, France
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  • 156 1 BATAVIA, July 19-—Netherlands East Indies rubber production which is hampered by shortages of la bour, transport and fertiliser working materials, must overcome these major difficulties to regain its prewar importance, writes H. van Lennep, chief of the NFH Rubber Fund in the Indies Department of Economic
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  • 31 1 Reuter. SANTIAGO, ChUe, July 19—A state of revolution exists in La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, according to travellers arriving by train at the ChUean port of aArlca. —Reuter.
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  • 74 1 Buenos Aires. July 19. —President Juan Peron is quoted by the newspaper La Prensa as declaring that in ihe event of a world war Argentina must enter it quickly on the side of American republics. The report added President Peion, speaking to the Peronista members of
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  • 311 1 A.P. LONDON. JULY 20.—CONSERVATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS LAUNCHED A NEW ATTACK YESTERDAY ON THE AMERICAN LOAN WHICH ONE OF THEM CALLED BRITAIN'S "MONETARY MUNICH AND A THREAT TO BRITISH FOREIGN TRADE. Replying, the principal Secretary to the Treasury. Mr. Glenvil Hall, described as
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  • 120 1 When a European police officer and some detectives of the C.I.D. stopped a n Indonesian at Allen bury Road, Friday afternoon, two revolvers and a large quantity of ammunition .^<~ c i covered. The Indonesian was arrested. Four masked Malays wh Q \x*r e armed
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  • 44 1 A.P. TIENTSIN, July 20 Search for the seven marines kidnapped by Chinese armed bands a week ago in Chinwangtao are a was halted by Marine headquarters which was reported to give a truce team an opportunity to negotiate for their release. —AP.
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  • 43 1 A.P. LONDON, July 20.—Sir Walter Citrine., president of the World Federation of Trade Unions, who was elevated to the peerage in the King's birthday honour list, na s taken the title of Baron Citrine of Wembley, it was announced on Friday night. A.P.
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  • 71 1 A.P. WHITESHANDS, New Mexico, July 20. The U.S. Secretary for War, Robert Patterson, said yesterday that America is seeking to develop a rocket capable of carrying an atomic bomb half-way round the world. Patterson's comment came while he was watching experiments with a German V-2
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  • 90 1 A.P. LONDON, July 20.—The Board of Trade reported yesterday that United Kingdom exports for June were £20,000,000 below those for May and attributed a large part of the loss to V-Day and the holidays. The total value of the June exports was £65.000,000. July
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  • 88 1 Ottawa, July 18. The Canadian House of Commons by 135 to 87 turned down the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation motion calling for a vote of non-confidence in the Government because of what was contained in the Dominion Budget on June 27. The motion asked the House to express regret
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  • 112 1 Singapore, Today. The Governor told the Prea* conference this morning that the police would be increased and members of the force given a higher standard of training. Criminals wer c becoming more educated and the police would have to keep pace. At no moment in the Colony's history
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  • 919 2 How will the $3,750 million U.S. loan to Britain affect Malaya? Mr. Nelson Jones, Financial Secretary, gave an interpretation last night in a broadcast over Radio Malaya. He said, inter alia: The financial agreement between the Governments of the United States and the United
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  • 113 2 A.P. NEW YORK. July 19.—Captain Alvaro Alberto, Brazilian navy scientist and explosives expert, on Thursday formally assumed chairmanship of the United Nations atomic energy comm ssion with an assertion that not only atomic ivar, but all war should be outlaived. "Outlawing war is a noble idea, perhaps
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  • 34 2 REGISTRATION PARCEL POST AGAIN The Post Office announces that th 0 Registration and Parcel Post Services which were suspended owing to the strike of Uniformed personnel. Will b e restored with effect from Monday.
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  • 45 2 As a further step in the "war' against blackmarket. any stai: holder found guilty of infringement of price control regulations will, upor. first conviction, be liable to have hu c tenancy terminated. Placards tc this effect will shortly be posted ir markets.
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  • 433 2 An admission that he slapped British POW Capt. J. H. Rae who was in charge of British and Dutch POWs in Tonchan camp, Siam, for leaving the camp without the permission of the guards and going out unattended by the guards one day, was
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  • 221 2 Found guilty on two charges of being concerned in the ill-treatment and torture of two civilian residents of British Borneo, Ngu San Tieh and Anis bin Elok, which resulted in their deaths, a Japanese Police Inspector, Sase Yoriyuki, was sentenced to death by hanging
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  • 143 2 "If Government adopts a forward policy now and will deal generously with Volunteers and the Passive Defence Serv ces alike on the question of back pay, I am sure that goodwill and comradeship will come nto existence to make Malaya a place of which we
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  • 506 2 Arrested at night on the premises of the Singapore Reformatory, and thrashed in the morning to elicit a confession, a Chinese, name unknown died the same day at the Outram Road Prison hospital where he was taken in a dying condition. Conducting the prosecution at the
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  • 174 2 London, July 19,—Mr. Herbtrt Morrison. Lord President of th* Council last night told delegates to the Commonwealth Scientific Conference at Oxford how Bhatnagar, loader of the Indian delegation, sin-gle-handed extinguished a fire lit the laboratory of the president of the Royal Society. His action,
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  • 79 2 A.P. Washington, July 19. —President Truman on Thursday virtually shut out any possible American loan to Russia this year in saying he had no intention of asking Congress at this session for more foreign financing. He said he does favour the bill to lend
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  • 47 2 Cotomfco, July 18.—Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore, the Governor of Ceylon, leaves today on six months' holiday for the United Kingdom. Accompanied by Lady Moore, he sails in H.M.S. "Victorious." During the Governor's absence, Sir John Hdward, the Chief Justice, will administer the country.
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  • 169 2 LONDON, July 18.—The releases of men from th. Forces according to the latest statement by the nistry of Labour are well ahead of the programm. targets for the three Services. Th 2 total number I r women released and schaS up to the end of j
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  • 76 2 London, July 18. Dr. F. T. Cheng, until recently Judge of the International Court at the Hague, has been appointed Chinese Ambassador in London in succession to Dr. Wellington Koo, it was officially announced in London today. Dr. Cheng, who is at present in <-
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  • 35 2 CAIRO, July 18—Sidky Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, late la st night announced a reward of £5.000 for information leading to the arrests of the persons responsible for the bomb attack in Alexandria.
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  • 138 2 Ma Hcng Thong, who was can*h operating a game of "paikow" ijj house in Hylam Street, was sentenced to three months' rigorca imprisonment on a charge of assisting in the management of a errmon gaming house when he appeared before Magistrate Ahmad bi: Ibrahim in the
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  • 46 2 A.P. MITCHELL FIELD. untitled July 19. —Six tec-. I of the RA F. Lai c d Thursday to begin a 30-day tour of the U.S. under the auspices ot the U.S. Army Air Forces They arrived from Gander Bay Newfoundland, having left hurt week. —A.P. 1
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  • 264 3 Borneo Co. Chairman Accuses Govt. The British North Borneo Company was asked by the government to "commit harakiri," said Major General Sir Neill Malcolm, chairman of the company, when he addressed the special meeting of shareholders called to approve the decision
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  • 178 3 year-old Malay PC. mcd Ariff b. Hashim, tmmitted to. startd his the next Asszes on a .7 charge which alsz :at at the time of the alleged robbery he voluntarily d hurt to the tcijc of the linani Chong Tse Lim. allegations are that at -i.
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  • 361 3 A Cantonese youth Lav Tai Seng (19) was sentento 30 months* r.i. and fined $500 or six months' r i in default of payment when he pleaded guilty in the First District Court yesterday to being in wrongful ssession of a Japanese
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  • 56 3 SHANGHAI, July 19.—Eight warships presented to Chin a by the United States and manned by American trained Chinese crews have arrived at Woosung. and are scheduled to sail fo Nanking on Saturday for a three-day visit Their arrival her e ended a three-months' journey from the
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  • 120 3 Istanbul. July 18. President Inonu today expressed a wish for a 'prompt and definite peace'" but declared it was still mandatory foi Turkey to keep her army fully Mobilised as it has been for the pcs! three years. In a radio address asking support for his
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  • 250 3 A sequel to the rioting in Chinatown district on Wednesday night when the police had to disperse crowd of about 40 people who were believed to have gathered for a gang fight, was heard in the First Police Court yesterday when several Chinese and two
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  • 81 3 Seven Tamils. Perumal. A. Samy Velusamy. Armugam. Perivanan Vedamuthu a nd Susamuthu. were arraigned i n the Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday when a charge of murder was explained to them. It is alleged the accused caused the death 0 f a compatriot. M. Govindasamy o
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  • 134 3 LONDON, July 19.—Both Britain and the United States have protested to Russia against what they say is interference in Hungarian affairs. The British protest, according to the Foreign Office, complains of "extreme, unwarranted Russian interference in the internal affairs of Hungary". The American protest is
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  • 44 3 A daring daylight robbery was staged yesterday afternoon 100 yards from the Tanjong Pagar police station when two soldiers each armed ivith a revolver, drove up in a taxi to a bar and decamped with six bottles of liquor.
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  • 47 3 LONDON, July 18.— ivir. Edward Pauley, President Truman's personal adviser on reparations, said yesterday Austrian industries, except the war plants, must remain Austrian property. Industry which was of vital interest to Austrian Economy not be submitted to reparations regulations, Mr Pauley said.
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  • 39 3 A.P. OXFORD. England. July 18 jftuj Leaeru c of Red Cross Societies acrvrd Wednesday to ask the next aifTnational conierence of the Red CToai to place the atomic bomb on its ■•outlaw" list.— a.p.
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  • 193 3 The Government have now allocated and almost completed distribution of most of the first consignment of textiles, procured on Government account. Almost 100,000 persons will have benefited from this distribution which has covered Government and TTunieipal employee*. Singapore Harbour Board, cm ploy ecu of netnb
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  • 154 3 Seah Kay Poh a Chinese trucK er employed by RASC ĔFI. wa s convicted on a charge of stealing one tin of salmon belonging to the Forces. Magistrate L. C. Goh ordered the accused lo be bound over In th e sum of $100 for good
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  • 43 3 QUONSET. Massachusetts. July 19 The State police here said toda\ nine persons wer c killed and abou: 38 others injured in a gas explosion which rocked the centre of this Buzzard's Bay village blasting four buildings into rubble.
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  • 318 3 v A A u M ala J, guard comma nder, Staff Sgt. Mohamed b. Arshad R.A. was fined $500 or four months' ri in default of payment when he was found guilty in the Fourth Police Court yesterday of using criminal force on a policeman
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  • 124 3 HONGKONG. July 19.—He igkong got back to business today afte r a typhoon considered by e xperts to be the colony's worst since 1937. The typhoon which at its peak reached 106 miles per hour drove foaming waves before it and flung at least five ships ashore.
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  • 89 3 LONDON. July 19—The First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. A. V. Alexander, who was a member of the Bi tish Cabin?t mission to India. Wiß be a member of the British de- '< cat ion to the Paris peace conference opening on July 29. Mr.
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  • 109 3 Washington, July 18.—The Senate War Investigating Committee studying law books to determine if it can compel Representative Andrew May. Kentucky Democrat, to be questioned about a midwestern munitions combine May had been linked with an investigation of the cor. bine and was charged by the committee with
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  • 110 3 Reuter. SHANGHAI. July 17:—The executive committee of the International Democratic Woman's Federation in Paris has appealed to the Chinese Government grant th e necessary visa to enable Madam e Chou En-lai. wife of the leading Communist delegate in Nanking, to attend its forthcoming meeting. Th e
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  • 244 3 PARIS, July 19.—By 301 to 132 votes the French Constituent Assembly today rejected th? c ommunist proposal to ;nvalidate the elec ion of Edouard Daladiir. French Premier at the outbreak of the Second World War. The debate 'asted until ihe early hours of th's morning. "I
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  • 31 3 NEW YORK. July 19.—Soviet Marshall Gnyun Zhukov and several other high Russians military men hav e been moved to obscure posts according to announcements on the New York radio.
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  • 432 4 The Governor-General, hastening home from Borneo before the date originally contemplated, has met the rulers in Kuala Lumpur to resume discussion as to the future of the Malayan Union, the Malayan Federation or the Malayan Federal Union whatever appellation is decided upon. The meeting differed from the previous
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  • 1322 4  -  Ex-Service Community Centre by Sgt. R. Scott Just an ordinary gate—a strong timbered gate, but during the war Leicestershire countryfolk spoke of it in awed whispers, for it was a forbidding barrier, cutting off sleepy unchanging Gumley from tn," world of war, whera grim
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  • 287 4 A.P. JEDDA, Saudi Arabia.—The leg 2nd that Eve was buried in this Red Sea coasL town is dying. A large "comb" for mother Eve has been demolished and the gates to the burial ground h?.ve been bricked up. A European, who has l'ved
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  • 44 4 A.P. TOWN3END, MONTANA.—A single gold nugget we'ghing 60 was mined recently from the superior lode of the late H.O. Miller's mine near here. Mrs. Miller said the nugget was about the size of a pound of butter— and was worth UJS- $1,300.—AP.
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  • 759 4 "Employer" and the VEmp-oyed Because the war has ended, the young and the old, men and wom«.i, rejoiced, they thought they would suffer no more. There w«s juoilation from corner to corner anu those who ctill live hope to lead a new life, all bent towards the making
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  • 73 4 Reuter. SHANGHAI, July 15.—Preparations hav e been completed for China to be represented at the meeting of the World Christian Students Federation Committee in Geneva from August 9 to 20, according to local press reoort«. China's delegation will probably be six strong, representing the National YMCA Council
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  • 714 4 *R B. Ooi sets down the reasons why the older generation sigh for The present generation who have never known the purchasing power of a quarter-cent or half cent com will view reminiscences of those far-off days as a senile pastime. Europeans who ara here tcda/
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  • 448 4 China's Great Asset NANKING. —Troubled China with its bewildered economy and its bitter polii ical conflict has been spared th 3 terrors of religious warfare suffered by her Asiatic neighbours. Religion has been the basis of almost constant fighting in India and other sections of Asia
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  • 556 5 He's A German Officer Turned Communist A.P. Bj Ha! Biylc, Ametetetf Press Correspond mi) RUN A girl here named HeJga is watting for nd he hjpes will never came back. a German officer who wa; cip.ured before :d. Four years as a Russ'an
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  • 61 5 Reuter. BATAVIA, July 18.—Three Gurkhas were killed and on c wounded when two lorries were ambushed between Krandji and Kebalan, east of Batavia. it was officially announced here today. The leading lorry struck a mine and the Indonesians then opened fire. In operations west of
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  • 91 5 I NO, July lo -7..1e force I ng 78 "r hour H swept Hone Kong I .i 12-knot typhoon I v.iles of the colony I led th s section of B -t reports indicate that H 'viv.h -lowed down I might reach its I to. local
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  • 125 5 July 18.—The five ablegates ai yesterci the Malino nference on the Netherlands East j hat the founding n should not be indicated thai broad agreement N 'norlands proposal wealth status. delegate, Nadjamoelin h Celebes, proI ted States of Indowottld be a f ederaof autonomous so-
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  • 42 5 July 17.— The Mahamu and Kashmir mak- Durbar (holdine of meni since the ban of the Conere«=s PreslNehru at Kashmir, said: "'ard to taking ou*- due constitutional strucbut our concern for of India not imolv us of dictation in our
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  • 308 5 A.P. SAIGON, July 18.—The French General of Army Le Clerc, who this week-end hands over command of the French troops in the Far East to his comrade in arms, General Jean Etienne Valluy, told the Associated Press that robber bands "without doubt will continue
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  • 65 5 A.P. MADRID, July 19: Generalissimo Francisco Franco on Thursday declared "menaces on the frontier" since ♦he civil war bad compelled Spain to maintain a larger than normal ar:nv. "n an interview published on ihr tenth anniversary of his revolt again >t the republic. Franco defended his
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  • 68 5 untitled newest untitled The untitled I photographed at Heath Roiv after her height Lest of 25,000 ft., during which Lord Winster, Minister of Civil Aviat on, was a passenger. The machine has a rang e of 3,700 miles and a speed of 250 m.p.h. at 25,000 ft. Machines on order
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  • 284 5 HONG KONG'S HOUSING PROBLEM Reuter. HONGKONG, July 18. —Th c Hongkong Government's legislation restricting rents to the 1941 level will remain in force as long as there is an acute shortage of houses in the colony, says a Government statement of policy on housing. Dealing with
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  • 74 5 A.P. Washington, July 19. —Back pay and disability and death benefits, dating from Jan. 1, 1042, would he paid civilian employees on Guam, Wake and in the Philippines under a bill adopted by the Senate and sent to the House. Most of hundreds of men who
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  • 77 5 Associated Press, Washington, July 19. President Truman told a press conference Thursday that Senator Warren S. Austin would be nominated ss principal member of the U.S delegation to the United Nations Assembly in New York. He said the other delegates will be Senator Tom Connally,
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  • 151 5 Reuter. NEW DELHI. July 18.— The British Army Command in Ind a today called on all British troops to hcip in ensuring the safety of Service tcomen travelling by train in India. The special order said: "Regard U as a matter not only of
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  • 100 5 Associated Press. Washington, July 19. —Senator Mead (Democratic, New York) yesterday protested to the Senate against what he called "cruel actions" of the British Goverment in Palestine. Asserting the British army there "is engaged in a campaign of terrorism," Mead told his colleagues the U.S. should
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  • 23 5 TEHERAN, July 18.—The 15-day old general strike of workers of the Iraq Petroleum Company, ended today after Government intervention. Conditions are now normal.
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  • 278 5 Reuter. Ottawa, (Air Mail). —Hotel keepers, shop keepers and all who cater for holiday makers in Canada's holiday resorts are worried at the prospect of the largest influx of American tourists in history. From the great luxury resorts such as Murray Bay. Minaki. Jasctr and
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  • 52 5 Reuter. BOMBAY. July 18—Six people were killed and 27 injured at Ratlam in ntral India when police opened fire on a crowd alleged to have attacked a police party with stones ar.d sticks on Tuesday, according to a communique issued here today by the Ratlain State
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  • 141 5 Tokio, July 18. —Companies of the 2nd Battalion of the Fifth Royal Gurkha Rifles are coming to Tokio to lake over ceremonial guard duties from the Dorsets on July 22. Advance elements are dU2 to arrive en July 20 by a special train from Okayama. This
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  • 208 7 Aboard Uss Mt. McKinley, July 19—Premature ex5ion of an oversize photographic flash bomb startlOperaticn Crossroads tasK force today during a ichearsal for the underwater atomic bomb exn on July 25 —and exposed an operational secret. plaining why a 1UUmagneshun flare t off live or ten
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  • 89 7 d n, July 10 —The .Daily TeTebena correspondent re- >terday: "Three British 5 are approaching Persian in the Persian Gulf. I leant[rood authority tonight. General Staff has been mdd of this when the Bntish U tan Attache this morning U* I Razmara. Chief of Staff,
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  • 80 7 July 19.—The resto- :od countries of matefrom them by Japan is to start in mediately, the Far Easl ssioa decided yesterday. Il I -t;.tement issued after the 'a weekly meeting here, property to be restored .le firstly. industrial 'd ti i\ rt machinery, and equin..dly. gold and
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  • 89 7 Having scored a good knockrv over Sailor Musket day Baby Londos. the n s wrestler is billed 10 Garside in the main the Great World tonigh r ten rounds. If Londos idd another scalp to his beli night he will have done 11 because Stan Garside the leading matmen
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  • 119 7 After he had been bound over by Magistrate R. C. Hoffman tn tht Fourth Police Court yesterday for attempting to commit suicide, a 31 -year-old Teochew, Goh Jee Tee suddenly climbed out of the dock ralft#g£ bnt was '.mmediateh cacprht by a constable on
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  • 97 7 Associated Press. Moscow. July 19. —The government newspaper Izvestia on Thursday said that hunger prevails in the American occupation zone of South Korea. It said "Rice reserves are going everywhere except into the stomachs of Koreans. American military governor Maj. Gen. Archer L. Leivh has made one
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  • 83 7 Reuter. ATHENS, July 17.—The first death sentences under the Greek Government emergency legislation lor the restoration of law and opder and the protection of the es.ate against treasonable elements were carried out in Salonika today Two persons were shot by a firing squad. They were found
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  • 76 7 Rangoon. July 19. Three base towns, made famous in the Fourteenth Army's battle for Burma, have been damaged by a series of floods They are Myitkyina. an Upper Irrawaddy railhead town. Bhamo and Xatha; forming a vital part of territory north of Mandalay for which the British strove
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  • 53 7 COLOMBO, July 19.—Six thoroughbred racehorses, the first to arrive in Ceylon since the war, were landed in Colombo yesterday in excellent condition. They were shipped from England by the British Bloodstock Agency, and have all been bought by a local racehorse-owner. Mr. A. R. M. Mukthar,
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  • 38 7 WASHINGTON. July 19.— United States, France and Britain announced today their agreement with Sweden whereby approximately 74 per cent of total German assets in Sweden will b e turned over to them.
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  • 96 7 Scratchings and order of running for today's Kuala Lumpur races: Race 1: Antrum and Four o'clock. Pace 2: Cumberland and verbondRac 1 3: Horses. Class 2 div. 1. 5A fur. (Nil). Race 4: Horsts. Class 4. b\ fur. (Nil>. Race 5: Race for Hacks —Entries are as follows:
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  • 63 7 Colombo, July 18.—Elaborate plans for the celebration of the 2.490 th anniversary of the introduction of Buddhism into Ceylon have been thrown out of gear by an outbreak of cholera in the sacred city of Anuradhapura. seat of the ancient Sinhalese Kings. Thirteen cases of cholera have
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  • 105 7 Moscow, July 19. —The proposal for uniting the former German colony of South West Africa with the Union of South Africa is criticised by the Soviet paper New Times which says: "The unprivileged position of the native inhabitants of South Africa is well known. So it
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  • 56 7 EDMONTON, July 17.—A B-29 Superfortress equipped with Loran (long-range radar) and with a pressurised cabin, recently made a 5 000-mile flight from Edmonton over the north geographic pole, the such flight in history originating on Canadian soil, the Canad'an press said today. It was believed the
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  • 52 7 "TREACHEROUS COWARDLY" Trieste, July 18.—Widespread daylong search of the Oorizia-Triests h ghway area by United States 88th Division patrols failed to produce a clue to identify the ambushers who killed one U.S. soldier and injured others. Maj. Gen. Bryant Moore, division commander, described the murder as a "treacherous and a
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  • 254 7 Reuter. Harold Milks, Associated Press corrstpodScfUf. NANKING, July 18.—The scene at the Nanking military airport on July 18 presented a clear picture of the Chinese situation. American Envoy Gen. George Marshall was about to board a United States Army Transport plane en route
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  • 188 7 A.P. Oxford, England, July 18—Russia pledged its full support on Tuesday to the collective humanitarian work of the Red Cross. "We are in agreement with the principles of the Red Cross." said Dr. Sergei Kolesnikov, chairman of the four-man Russian delegation, told the
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  • 47 7 LONDON, July 19.—P eter Smith, Essex spin bowler, who is suffering from a strained back, will be unable to play in the Test. Richard Pollard, Lancashire fast-medium bowler who gave a great display for the Players against Gentlemen yesterday, 'will fill the vacant place.
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  • 77 7 Reuter. LONDON, July 17.—The VlceChalnnan of the Nuffield organisation stated today that an all-time vehicle export record was established in June when the total value of cars Bnd commercial vehicles shipped by Nuffield Exports Limited alon e reached mor c than £500,000. He said some of the new
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  • 82 7 Reuter. COLOMBO. July 19—An island-wide road safety campaign has been planned by the Ceylon police with a view to reducing the number of accidents which in recent years have taken an increasing toll of lives. Last year there were 2.690 accidents, m which 332 persons
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  • 112 7 Reuter. AHMEDABAD. July 18.—Tw 0 hundred men have been arrested by the police here on suspicion of responsibility for the stabbing attacks on pedestrians during the Hindu-Moslem clashes which have been going on in this second city of Bombay province now for 18 days. Four more
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  • 282 7 At one time there were 1,200 PoWs suffering from dysentery out of a total of 2,000 at the Horoekoe Camp and he did his best in getting medical supplies for all these patients. This statement was made by Capt. Shimada, the Japanese Medical
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  • 146 7 (Our Own ReDorter) PENANG. Friday. Government peons and process and notic e servers in Penang and Province Wellesley are to hold a meeting at Kampong Java School tomorrow afternoon to consider the question of petitioning Government for a revised salary schem e and improved working
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  • 56 7 TRIESTE, July 18 Th c Allied military government has taken over the most important shipyards at Trieste. Col. Alfred Bowman, Head of the Allied military government for the Anglo-American occupied Zone A" of Venezla Giulia announced last night. Nine thousand workers are idle in the shipyards following
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  • 278 7 London, July 19. —The House of Commons, sitting after midnight, endorsed by 305 votes to 182 the Labour Government's bread rationing scheme due to come into force on July 21. In a lengthy debate. Mr. Winston Churchill, leading Opposition, attacked the rationing scheme and declared that
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  • 143 7 TOKIO, July 19.—The onc c familiar sight and sound of B-29s flying in formation over Japan will highlight the August 1 Pacific Ai»- command parad e of it« winged might on Army Air Forces Day. Lieut .-General Ennias C. Whitehead said today that formations
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  • 159 7 Reuter. LIVERPOOL. July 19. The 19.000-ton liner Scythia still requisitioned by the British Government from the Cunard Whitestar line Is sailing from Liverpool today for Bombay empty. She is sailing in ballast with a full crew and not a single passenger. Liverpool shipping companies stated today that
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  • 42 7 The total amount of currency in circulation in Malaya as on June 1 was $382,381,423 compared with the figures just released by the Board of Commissioners of Currency reveal. New issued since the liberation in September last year total $182,898,648.
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  • 21 7 Tho Indian Congress Medical Mission will close its Singapore Centre at 331. North Bridge Road on July 25.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • 349 8 Pataudi Must Gamble —But Odds Are Against India SECOND TEST BEGINS TODAY Reuter. (By Learie Constantine, Renter's special cr cket correspondent). MANCHESTER, July 19.—The Second Tesi match between England and India starting on the historic Old Trafford ground here 10-mpirow is cf vital importance to Inda. Win it she must
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  • 123 8 A.P. TOKIO, July 19. Among odd jobs under way at SCAP's civil property custodian's office are: (1) Search for a bronze statue of Queen Victoria, a pair of bronze lions and another bronze statue identified only as that of a bareheaded, frockcoated young man all looted from
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  • 487 8 SINGAPORE. July 19:—Muara Island, in Brunei Bay. is to be the site of the new oil refineries to be built by Shell company interests for the handling of North Borneo's oil. According to Reuter, several factors entered into the decision not to rebuild the well-known
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  • 137 8 COLOMBO. July 19—The recent r<*commendation tty Ceylon's Board of Ministers to the British Government that the coloured box voting system be abolished and the Brit.sh practice be followed instead in the forthcoming general elections for Ceylon's first parliament und?r the new constitution, did not find favour with
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  • 79 8 LONDON. July. 19—Britain is to vend more troops into Palestine, according to a cable received by the News Chronicle from its Jerusalem correspondent. The correspondent says advance elements of the new division —the First Armoured Division —had already arrived and the remainder are on their
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  • 236 8 Reuter. NEW YORK, July 18—One hundred thousand Negroes are estimated to have gone to the polls in Georgia—former slave holding Southern state of America—for the first time in the state's history. The voting was to nominate Democratic Party candidates for the pcvernor and other
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  • 49 8 A.F. LONDON. July 19 —Dr. Weirniann. president of the World Zlon Ist Federation, arrived in London by air on Thursday afternoon from Palestine. Weizmann landed in British Overseas Airways plane at 4.15 p.m. GMT. and left in a private car without revealing fell immediate destination. —A.P.
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  • 371 8 Reuter. (From Joseph Laitin, Renter's special correspondent). ABOARD the United States Ship Appalachian, July 19.—Vice Admiral William Blandy, Commander of the United States Atomic Force, speaking from his flagship Mount McKinley in Bikini lagcbn, 700 miles away, assured pressmen that if the underwater
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  • 38 8 Reuter. ASCOT. July 19.—Gulf Stream, jumping off well and lying second until halfway, raced into lead to win by three lengths the Eclipse stakes today. Edward Tudor was second and Khaled third. Reuter.
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  • 103 8 Accepting revised rates of salaries. 150 workers of St. James* Power Station who struck work last week resumed duty from last night. Early this week the authorities proposed 25 cents flat rate increase per man per day which was not accepted by the strikers. During further negotiations, the
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  • 93 8 CANBERRA, July 19.—Mr. Norman Makin. Navy Minister and Australian Ambassador designate to the United States, announced today that aU Dutch servicemen and civi'.ans were being evacuated from Australia under the control of South-oast Asia Command. The first movement would be of troops and the second of women
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  • 78 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, July 20.—8y a vote Of 99 to 94 the United States House of Representatives yesterday eliminated from the Atomic Energy Control measure a section saying that the United States may share with other nations information on the ndustrial uses of atomic energy. The motion on
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  • 32 8 A.P. NKWPORT. England, July 20 M'ss Gem Hoahfng of China won the Welsh Women's Lawn Tennis Championship on Friday, beating Mrs. Joy Bibbert of Britain 6—l. 6—2.—A.P.
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  • 258 8 Glamorgan Robbed Of Great Win Reuter. LONDON July 19.—League leaders Lane hi a rude sheck at Cad ff and only luck saved th m defeat—and by an innings, toe —at th? hards morgan. After declaring at 283 for 8, Glamorgan skittled out the leaders for 110-
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  • 49 8 A.P. LONDON. July 19 —The Exchange Telegraph on Thursday night quoUd a Moscow dispatch to the American Columbia Broadcast.ne System as saying that Marshal Zhukov, Commander of the Red Army Grnuml Forces, had been relieved of M* post and appointed commander of the garrison at Odessa. —A.P.
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  • 43 8 Reuter. SHANGHAI, July 18.—UNRRA headquarters should consult regional committees before taking drastic steps such as suspending •applies to China, according to a resolution proposed by the British delegate Mr. P. J H Stent, unanimously adopted at the Far Eastern Council Conference today. —Reuter.
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  • 94 8 TEHERAN. July If.- mciuding a leader of tl (Leftwing) Party, were 21 injured in clashes at about 120 miles from I )t was reported here tonight The clashes occurrc d rtiay after the workers at a :ac tery belonging to the Tudi Party attacked the
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  • 60 8 YOKOSUKA. July 19.- An American bulldozer topped o*« the 8-foot wall here which for 50 yean had screened the home port of the Tapanese Imperial Navv fview. United State? Navv Captai B W. Decker, who commandi the US. Naval activities of Yoko-uka. ha< •umed over part
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  • 100 8 Canton Hong Kong Communications CANTON. July 19: —Commu:. tions between Canton and Hor.:have been further LT.r by the reopening of th? highway from Canton to Shumehur. B British border, a distance of re 70 miles. The highway is now sa. traffic travelling at about 30 mile? an hour, and wiV.
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