Malaya Tribune, 21 November 1946

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    53 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Now printed simultaneously in Singapore, Kuala L umpur, Ipoh Penang. 'Phone Numbers: Editor 5813 Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 2005 I psfi PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1946 TEN CENTS. The Malaya Tribune THURSDAY,
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    UNO Puppet
    97 1 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS. Nov. king doll of the Indian ci egate, Sir MahaI not speak to~U:ha>aj Singh r I in} rmed the press w the he would give i ntriloquist show the citnmiitt, met ii I p.m. wht nth, com- »s due to begin Chairman, Senor Hcenchen of
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    100,000 Miners Now Idle
    41 1 Reuter. ''N. Nov. JO.—About. of* coal i.liners —MM the reun ry's soft coal K e—mil idio today as deadline approach.'f e<! nat on-w'de RES. Nov ZQ. —Th*» vcrnment ♦onipnt ariOa a I exports ot m media' ely.—ReU-
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    OUR RICE: MR. STRACHEY BLAMES SIAMESE GOVT
    349 1 "The Failure Is The Failure Of Bangkok" Reuter. LONDON, Nov. 20-The Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey, today pinned the blame on the Siamese G ovcrnmem for failure to fulfil its rice obligations to AAalsya. he told the House nf Commons, i/ was very
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    Searching The Vaults
    74 1 State opening of Parliament The Royal Carriage With full State ceremony, the King accompanied by the Queen, opened Parliament on Nov. 12. Photo on left shoivs: Th,i< Majesties in the Royal Carriage as they pass Horse Guards Parade en route to Westminster. Top photo: Y\ om, n
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    Scotland Yard Gets A Leg Pull
    125 1 Reuter. LONDON. Nov. 20 -Scotland Yard today closed the "Operation Seance" casebook which th?y opened over the week and following a report that a spiritual medium had been told from the "outer region that a murdered man was buried in the back garden of
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    U.K. BUYING MALAYAN PALM OIL AT $400 PER TON
    213 1 Reuter. LONDON Nov. 20 Tfte Colonial Secretary, Mr. Art hur Creech-Jones, I old the House of Commons itpday that Britain had arranged to buy the entire exportable produciion of Malayan palm oil up lo June 3U, 1948, at $400 per ton.
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    Discontent Over Appointments In Malayan Union Alleged
    217 1 Reuter LONDON Nov. 20. Capt. Gammans. Cons.rvative. in the House ol Commons today if the Colonial Secretary was aware that dissatisfaction had been expressed in Malaya regarding the method of appointment of officers to the Malayan Union Transport Board and it he would
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    ONE-THIRD OF WORLD'S LEPERS IN CHINA
    64 1 A.P. Shanghai. Nov. 20 —Mayor X C. Wu acted as the Chairman at a meetine of the Chinese Mission to the Lpers which started a drive to raise Chinese $200.--000 000. Dr. F. C. Yen disclosed at the sam.' time that thi s country's
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    Terrorists Blow Up Income Tax Office
    280 1 "This is a mine. Get out!" Reuter Jerusalem, Nov. 20. —Jewish terrorists blew up Palestine's income ax office in Jerusalem today. The explosion shattered the windows for half a mile around. There were some casualties. According to an eye-witness tares Jews drove up to
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    U.K. EXPORTS HIT NEW HIGH
    80 1 A.P. LONDON Nov. 20.—Britain commercial exports in October hit a new all time high, the Board ol Trade annouivcd today Imports also hit a postwar record The value of commercial exports £86.500.000 and imports totalled £123.400.000. Laving a visible adverse balance of £37.900 000. The
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    37 1 A.P. MANILA. Nov. 20. —untitled man nvi'ian lawyrts Jap anese war C imir.al suspects have pmUvted to he U.S. Secrefery for War, Robe: P. PMttersOti, hat gross niai-aHmiriinstration ll pruventinp: a fair trial for BCCUeod DOnORS.— A.P
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    Radio Malaya: Commons Query
    125 1 Reuter. LONDON, Nor. ?0. Capt. L D. Gammons asked in the House of Commons today why Radio Malaya was not informed of the Colonial Secretary's broadcast to Malaya and why anangnn< nts uu re not made to have the text published in tfu Malayan press. The
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    BUS STRIKE CALLED OFF
    145 1 Reuter. MANCHESTER, Nov. 20 —The Manchester and district transport strike ended today with the withdrawal by the Corporation of Volunteer Drivers, the last point on which the men were holding out. Bus services will he resumed tomorrow and hundr ds oi thousands of workers who have
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    DEATH
    42 2 TAN:—Ai her residence Mai am Tan Gek Siam, beloved mother of Mr. Ne Seak Khuan and grandmother ot Mr. Ng Ken? Siang, on Wednesday. JOth inst. at 11 25 a.m. Funeral on Fr Cay. ttnd inst. to Bi'adnri. a* 4.30 p.m.
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    Don't Be Lavish, UNESCO Appeals
    116 2 Reuter. PARIS, Nov. 20. -'Phase don't give lavish dinners or entertainments." This appeal was the first business when the first plenary session of the United Nat lorn Educational Scientific and I Cultural Organisation Confer- ence opened here this morn- ing. the acting chairman Moniz de
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    Chon Returns To Yenon
    72 2 A.P. YENAN Nov. 20, -General Chou En-lai returned yesterday from Nanking with his peace mission a failure after almost a year ol conferences wth govern nient negotiators; and General George C. Marshall. President Truman's special envoy Chou s landing was delayed while soldiers cleared the airfield
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    At A Glance...
    193 2 Hope.s of a continuation broadcast 3 from the Soviet Uhion by foreign commentators have been dispelled by the Soviet Foreign Office ruling that radio correspondents must revert to their pre-war status under which they are permitted to send new* by cable but not to make "livDivadcasts." A
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    Corfu Channel Mines Recently Sown
    229 2 Reuter. LONDON. NOV. 20.-INTERIM REPORTS REACHING LONDON FOLLOWING THE DISCOVERY OF MINES IN THE CORFU CHANNEL WHEN IT WAS SWEPT BY UNITS OF THE BRITISH NAVY ON NOV. 12 AND 13 DISCLOSE THAT SOME OF THE MINES WERE RECENTLY LAID. "Hhe Blitfsh Government is considering
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    MAIZE FOR JUTE AND SACKCLOTH
    77 2 Reuter. BUENOS AIRES NOV. 19. TheArgentine steamer Marinero carrying 9 600 tons of maize is expected to reach Calcutta in mid-December it was learned here today The cargo |> th? first Instalment of quantity to be sent io India implementing the commerclal treaty recently Mgrnxi
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    No Foreign Broadcasts
    76 2 A.P. Moicow. Nov. 20.—The Press Department of the Russian Minitry of Foreign Affairs to -day informed the Colombia Broadcasting System that broadcasting by forelen corresnondents from Moscow) —a measure adopted dur_ ing the war -had b*en abolished. Representatives of foreign broadcasting companies may continue working in the
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      196 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE IV_ITNiCIPALtTY —i The Public is notified that the Chinese Cemeteries at Bukit Brown ;nd C oronation Road will be closed for burials, except for buiials in rererveo* plots at Bukit Brown, at the end of January 1947 approximately. Thereafter burin's will be made at the new Chinese Cemetery
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    Milk, But Not For S'pore
    102 3 (Tribune Stuif rtepo «ter) Host of the stock of 72,555 cases of condensed mlik and 2,075 cases of milk powder expected to arrive here today aboard the s.s. Pundua, is believed to be for the Governments of Borneo and Sarawak. Considerable stocks, however, are expected
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    EURASIAN ASSN
    86 3 At a general meeting of the Eurasian Association. Singapore, the following were elected officebearers: President: Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers: Vice-President: Mr. J. F Eber: Hon. Secretary: Mr. F. J Shepherdson: Hon. Treasurer: Mr. W. H. Mosbergen: Members of Committee: Captain C. B. Webb. Dr. W. A. Balhetehet,
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    'Don't Move Me' Cried Dying Nurse
    429 3 flgt. W. B. Nichols of the 12th Para Bn.. who admitted under cross-examination that he had been under the influence of liquor but not drunk, said that Nursing Sister Mavis Ivy Jones, who had been sitting on his knees, shouted as she went out
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    BRITAIN TELLS THE WORLD
    201 3 "We British have been accused of being standoffish. May be. we are rather shy." said Sir Angus Gillan. head of the Empire Department of the British Council yesterday. He was speaking to members jf the Rotary Club at a meeting neld on the Adelphi Roof Garden.
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    20 LOCKS IN HIS SOCKS
    67 3 Lim Ah Wah, was stopped and searched by a detective when leaving the harbour board on Tuesday, and was found with a bottle of briliiantine and a dozen reels of thread in his coa: pockets. In -addition 20 pad locks were concealed in his socks,
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    1,500 VESSELS TIED UP IN S'PORE WATERS
    627 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Imports of foodstulis into the colony totalling several million dollars have been brought to an aorupt hall and lost as a result oi ihe enforcement of tne Merchant Shipping Ordinance which has alfected v are than i,500 ships of 7a
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    S'PORE FOOD, PRODUCE
    311 3 (By Our Own Correspondent).. Prices quoted below are tot picul weight except where other wise stated. Foodstuffs:--Yesterday's quotations were "Meehoon": Sian $80; Indo-China $65 Kedah $G5 No. 1 $95; No. 2 $85; No. 3 $75; Siam glutinous rice $100; Kedah glutinous rice $85; Siam rice milling $38.
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    'EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP'
    28 3 Mr. G. C. Thomson of Public Relations will speak on "Education tor Citizenship" at Saturday's Ys Men's Luncheon meeting to be held at Cecil's Restaurant.
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    22 3 untitled Nov. 20.-The National o, > .,,.,!,!>. l 7»1s,n's ?nr<!l»oic», <>».»>' lor 4« bnur» >o s,<',ln<t ?lic "0","»' oo,, ,'l l7> V, /ol- s,.', .,'!.l.
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    Sleeping Clerk Was Murdered, Robbed
    240 3 A case of robbery and murder in a house in Killiney Road was related in the Coroner's Court yesterday at an inquiry into the death of Ong Guan Chye, a clerk formerly employed in ihe Land Office. The mother-in-law of th e deceased stated Guan
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    NEW MOON DAY
    35 3 New (Moon Day. wtyqh falls on Friday, will be celebrated at Th? Sinhalese Buddhist Temple, 96, Outram Road. Singapore, by Mr. Richard Pinnaduwa. All ar Invited to be present for the Plnkama.
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    Govt. Servants Can't Afford To Pay Dues
    247 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Settlement of the claim for back pjv w noi only been one of the burning que j ions for m >re than one year, but also a remedy to relieve the baa y indebtedness of the Government servants, (v: o
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    S.H.B. Clerk Reported Men, Beaten Up
    161 3 For voluntarily causing hurt to Yeo Ban Seng on Sept. 23 hind a godown at the Harbour Board, two Javanese, Ibrahim bin Samsudin 'three months' r.i.) and Mohamed bin Ismail (six weeks' ri.) were in th: Third Magistrate's Court yesterday. Yeo. a superintendent cierk
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    2,000 Tons Of Rice Arrive
    163 3 Two thousand tons of rice ar rived last night from Australia on Euryades, which also brought 600 tons of apples and oranges and 4,000 tons of general cargo. The Norwegian steamer. Nidareid also called at Singapore yesterday on her way to Shanghai. There wa s
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    MDU DELEGATE SEEING GOVERNOR
    87 3 (Tribure S.aff Reporter) Mr. John Eber. vice-president of the Malayan Democratic Union. Singapore, is meeting the Malayan Union authorities t*> discuss matters in connection with the proposed Federal Constitution. Mr. Eber, who left Singapore on Tuesday afternoon, wa s expected to see Sir Edward Gent. Governor
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    Rice At Question Time
    513 4 Parliament continues to show a heartening interest in Malaya's food crisis, but .<s long as Members lack the full facts they can hardly br expected to offer construe! ive suggestions. Nor is it altogether the fau\ ol the Ministers concerned, for they are altogether in the
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    WAR STILL RAVAGES NORTH CHINA
    1155 4  -  by Doon Campbell Desp3 c the latest ceasefire proposal vas areas of North China are still on a war foo-ing. In an eightday tour of Chahar, North Sbansi and Suiyuan lies he debris of devastated industries, square miles of battered buildings, desolation and ruin. Between
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    Shanghai, City Of Rackets
    527 4 With an average of 50,000 people infiltrating into Shanghai monthly from the hinterland, the population of Shanghai which numbered slightly over 3,000,000 after V-J day— has risen to 3.750,000. But Shanghai is no boom city, it faces economic collapse. Although some months before Pearl Harbour the
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    Broadcasting Standards
    291 4 fclr William Haley. DirectorGeneral of the BBC. in addressing the twentieth annual conference of the British Institute of Adult Education in London laid particular emphasis on the necessity lor the preservation of standards In broadcasting, and said that on that score the BBC sh mid be continually watched,
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    Crisis Hits Latin Quarter
    261 4 PARIS. Crisis has hit the Latin quarter. Worldly things or rather lack ol them—and an acute housing shortage, have robbed Bohemian life o! its laughter. Students who in th» old days gave this section of Paris a care free and nostalgia-flavoured reputation, now dnd tne capital
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    THE PEOPLES POSTBAG Juvenile Crime
    280 4 Letters To The Editor it Sir—The alarming incresse m youthful post-war delinquency nas made the establishment oi Child Protection Societies a pressing necessity. A grave r sponsibinty rests on tne Government. The sympathy oi rightthinking people on this matter would also be a gr.-at help.
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    Examination
    144 4 Sir.—Your corn November 16th ma nis scathing reir would like him to statement that c qually to the J tion.' To the be ledge there were tat at the Junior Exgmii of them is an exper: j com m°rcial Master ana i r sure quite accusU i routine work
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    Says British Financed Hitler Murder Plot
    334 4 NEW YORK. -The Munich beer, hall explosion in 1039 which narrowly miss d killing Adolf Hitler was planned by the Ger n an underground before the war and financed by a group of Brit o giitors and business men who had banded together orginaily
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    POISON WAR ON WILD DOGS
    112 4 An aerial dingo campaign, sponsored Queensland Depart iv i I lie Lands. has begun in N West Queensland M 360.000 strychnin, b I dropped from a Qant routes totalling 6.11 Thi s opens Queens] determined drive U worst dingo menace on ret The great Increase
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      98 4 Just A Charming Thought At Xmas Time By arrangement with the makers deliver to any address in the United Kin a small bottle of GOYA PER Ft an Xmas Gift at a cost of $6.50. This eludes postage, duty, tax and all chargi you need do is to send us
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    untitled In untitled Sultans Satisfied
    111 5 nary conference s House, Kuala morning bg-•r-General the van Union the tv States, and the U.M N. 0.. of the constic mmittee was was directed n of various pie underlying constitutional nber of points that in tramthe working comI full regard to principle ot i
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    LOWW FEARS THE WORST
    140 5 Reuter. El BURG. Kov. 19.I b th the Union rica and oi South- mand that the rnment should inS uth- west Africa. I ading member Atrica Nationalist I in an article puo r minent opposition today. i s r surded here *a ng official Nationalist 3
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    GENT AS G-G UNTIL MacDONALD RETURNS
    242 5 Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, the Governor General, will leave Malaya for the United Kingdom tomorrow for discussions with the Secretary of State for the Colonies on various matters affecting Malaya and Borneo, including ihe result of the recent constitutional discussions in Kuala Lumpur with
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    MALAYA SHORT OF MEAT TILL NEXT MAY
    242 5 (Tribanc Staff Reporter! considerable meat shortage ;*.hroughout present, and it may continue to exis; .ill ar. The Army of available ace for the import of livestock from Aush for its use as well as for civilian conmay be over by then. The Army
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    UNITED CHINESE AMATEURS
    45 5 All members of the United Chinese Amateurs are informed that a general meeting will be held at the residence of Mr. Chan Khek Eng. 164. East Coast Road, on Dec. 1. at 2 p.m. The object is to revive the Association's activities.
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    Invitations Out For Indian Assembly
    114 5 New Delhi. Nov. 20—Invitations were being issued to-day for a preliminary meeting of the Constituent Assembly to be held on Dec. 9. The fixing of the date for the Assembly finally sets at r.st reports earlier this week that the Assembly-which is to frame th.>
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    Gandhi's Solution: To Live With Muslim
    137 5 Calcutta. Nov. 20. Mahatma Gandhi told a prayer meeting at Ramganj, Noakhali district I East Bengal, that he had received threatening letters and "angry telegrams'" in connection with the communal.troubles in India. He said some Muslims feared he had come to East Bengal r.o
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    'PEOPLES' CAR' ON TEST
    164 5 Reuter. London. Nov. 19.—The Nuffield Organisation has the British 'peoples car" on test. Sir Miles Thomas. Vice-Cha rman of the organisation, told Reuter to-day on hi s return from the United States: "There need be no secret about the fact that the Nuffield Organisation has in
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    Blood Donors See Red
    106 5 A.P. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. American public opinion is taking a hand in efforts to recover from Shanghai druggists and others of surplus American blood plasma erroneously sold by the U.S. Navy and Foreign Liquidation Commission. American who donated then blood to meet wartime needs have begun
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    SCC Opened: First "Visitor" Lady Gimson
    41 5 Sir Franklin Gimson. the Governor of Singapore, formally declared the Singapore Cricket Club open at a ceremony yesterday. Lady Gimson. who al»o attended, signed the new visitors' book as the fust visitor to the Club.
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    U.S. Leyte, Samar 'Quit' Plans
    124 5 A.P. WASHINGTON. Nov. 20.- Tne U.S. Navy plans to pull out ot its war-built 573.000.000 Philippine base at Leyte and Samaas soon as government property can be di-posed of. an official said on Tuesday. Tho only naval establishmentto be letained in the Philippines will be
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    Inquiry Into New Taxation
    94 5 (Out Own Reportei I MALACCA. Wednesday At today's Municipal meeting, Mr. Tan Siew Sin asked for the appointment of a special budgetary "as was agreed upon at the budget, meeting held onWednesday. Nov. 6." to recommmd if nece s sary the revision of the rates of
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    Rumania Votes For Government
    47 5 Reuter. London. Nov. 20.—Results of and to-day's polling in the Rumanian general elections gave the Government, bloc between 70 and 71 per cent, of the votes. Belgrade Radio reported to-day "The vote for the opposition wa<; very small." the Radio added.—Revt r r.
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    39 5 A.P. YENAN. Nov. 20.-General l.'i" l l5n !ai ll'lN'-e (.'onimuni leader wbo wli.lidr« w last week ir.'lll tlie Nanking peace negoret„r",'s.1 to Vcnan y«." and lound tbe nrep.iNrlg lor »n expecled it, >l'K by Oeneral'8-.-.n>>, < 'l K-'i ts»ops 51'
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    NO MORE 'SUPREMO' FROM DECEMBER 1
    343 5 The appointment of Supremo Allied Commander, Smith-cast Asia, is to be abolished from December L if was announced last night by ALFSEA Hq. The post will be replaced by a Commanders-in-Chief Committee consisting of the three Service Commanders-in-Chief who will have a collective responsibility
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    SOVIET SILENT ABOUT EXCHANGE
    93 5 Moscow, Nov. 19.—Pandit Nehru's recent announcement that Molotov would be willing to exchange diplomatic represents tives between the Soviet Union and India has not been mentoined in the Russian press, and Foreign Office officials hav P not been informed of the statement. An exchange would not
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    U.S. COAL STRIKE MAY STARVE OTHERS
    78 5 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Nov. 19.—The Acting Secretary of State. Mr. Dean Acheson. declared today that the Impending coal strike in the United States would comas a "very seriOUg blow" to all foreign countries receiving ship menu of either American coal or food. He told a
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    NEW TAXES untitled
    56 5 Reuter. PARIS. Nov. 19.—The Vietnam Government Is planninc to enforce new taxes particularly on alcohol and matche- to make up the budget defiicit. according *o the Indo-Chinese paper Dantsanh quoted in reports reaching Paris today. The paper added that the Vietnam Government also envisage cl launching a
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    PAYMENT OF MUNICIPAL GRATUITIES
    144 5 (Out Own Rvportrr > Malacca, Wednesday A question of vitai importance affectmg Municipal gratuities to Municipal employees was discussed by the Commissioners today. Th? first of the problems arising out of the payment of gratuities l s the period of occupation service. It was asked ther
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    China Civil War Again
    110 5 Reuter. NANKING. Nov. 20. -Civil wa» has Oared up again in Chin.* and i> spreading in spite of the recent qease-fir< order, according to reports reaching here todiy from a dozen points In North China. Women and children and noncombatants were reported to be leaving Yenan.
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    CHINESE RELIEVED OF $300
    32 5 Chinese walking along K m Chuan Road on Tuesday even Ing, was held up by two other I nese, one armed with a pistol, and robbed of $300.
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    At The Movies
    246 6 PAVILION "HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY" ivith Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall, John Loder. Sara Allgood, Barry Fitzgerald, Patric Knoioles. (20th Century-Fox) No tribute is too high for the picturised version of Richard Llewlyn's book "How Green Was My Valley" now showing
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    Licence Fees-Municipality Will Benefit
    86 6 'Our Own Reporter Malacca. Nov. 20.—"As a result 0/ talks with the Financial Secretary of the Malayan Union, the Road Transport Department will continue to licence all motor vehicles but the revenue collected on such vehicles will be transferred to Municipal revenue, declared the President of
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    NEW COIN
    33 6 Reuter. FAH IS. Nov. 19. —Frenchmen arc 'o have a ten franc coin which is '.o be put into circulation irnnu' i.iaiciy, he Finaice Mm'S ry announced here to ay. —Reuter.
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    Ipoh Boy Travelling To Britain For Naval Training
    310 6 (Tribune Staff Reporter) An Ipoh boy. former Dalforce member and medical sjudent at the King Edward VII Colleere of Medicine, was among the 600 Chinese sailors who sailed yesterday on the Empress of Australia on their way to U.K. for naval training.
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    Catholics In Malacca will Celebrate
    175 6 Cut Own Reporter) Malacca. Wednesday. Coinciding with the Feast of St. Francis Xavier the Rev. Father R. de Souza. parish priest, wi'l 1 celebrate his &ilv-r Jubilee on Dec. 3 and local Catholics have made arrangements to commemorate both occasions in a ;i*. t ng
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    Stage Club Presents "The Flashing Stream"
    422 6  -  (By Our Own Critic. Last night at the Victoria i Theatre. Singapore, the Stage j Club marked the first anniverI sary of its existence by presenting Charles Morgan's three Act drama "The Flashing Stream." The intention b?hind the selection of this play wa s
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    Rumanian Election
    78 6 BUCHAREST, Nov. 19.—Pinal figures for ho vctin? in he Rumania! general option which opene.; today are expected to be known On Thu sciay. Vo :rc will continue tomorrow ana pnr:inl rebuts aro expecte hy mid.fay cnnrrow. Romanians, voting fcr the first inn- since 1987 are electing 414 deputies
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    AUSTRALIA WANTS TO JOIN BANK, FUND
    53 6 Reuter. CANBERRA. Nov. 19— The Australian Cabinet lias decided to recommend to the Australian Labour Party, the majority Party in the Federal Parliament, that" the Commonwealth should loin the International Monetary Fund and Internal onal Bank for reconstruction and development <!iet up under the
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    NO PRISON FOR JUVENILES
    226 6 (Out Own Reporter) IPOH, Wednesday—The principl delinquents should not be sent to pri by Justice Evans and agreed to by Crov Brodie in the Perak Assize Court tor: This was the result of an appeal lodged by Tribune readers on behalf of a 14-year-old Chinese boy,
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    Bishop Wilson Favour United Church From
    96 7 ty held in his Adelphi Rck>; vening, the Right Wilson, CMG, the japore, paid trimembers of his diov- for the gifts while he was in imp and for the their Christian difficult days ot I he agreed with in c of the Methothe Christian
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    He Knew Nothing About International Law
    225 7 'DEATH-RAILWAY' TRIAL n I save the order to shoot the British pri- know that it was an offence against lonal Law," was the plea put forward by Col. Lie, one of the group commanders of the in railway, in the War Crimes Cour* vester-
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    'DUM' EXHIBITION
    57 7 The inter-club friendly draught match between the Chinese Swimming Club and the Government Treasury Dept. on Satur* day last resulted in another draw. An exhibition by two of Singapore's best players Chia Tiang Kirn alias Joney, and Lim Chin Kwee alias Ah Chwee, will be given on Sunday
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    S.R.C TO MEET RAF
    48 7 The following will represent the SR.C. in a hockey match against the R.A.F. (Paya Lebar) to-morrow on the Padang:—A de Sauza. B. Scheeder. M. Modd:r. R. S. Bath. Jimmy Sanderson. J Scheeder. H. Rozario, K. Armstrong. S. Slope, I. Mendis and J de Mello.
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    WET GROUND MARS VICTORY CUP SOCCER
    521 7 SRC—RNAS TUSSLE ENDS IN DRAW S K. C. 2 R.N.A.S. Sefflbawarig 2 Wha r would have been a fast and interesting game was marred by a wet ground arid a tririky bail, when the S.R.C. drew with the Sembawang R.N.A.S. in the semi-final of
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    Canada Steps Up Wheat Movements
    114 7 Reuter. OTTAWA. Nov. 18.—Wheat movements now underway are expected to relieve quickly the shortage of grain at Montreal elevators for overseas shipments The shortage has been so great that ships wishing to load have been kepi waiting m Montreal for as long as five weeks.
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    MADRAS RAISING BETTING TAX
    76 7 Reuter. Madras:—With the object of keeping the poor away from rac* tracks the Government of Madras have decided to raise the betting tax from 64 per cent., to 15 per Cent, a spokesman of the Government told Reuter. The Government, he added, was considering the question
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    THREE COUNTRIES WIN U.N. SECURITY SEATS
    76 7 A.P. NEW YORK, Nov. 20—Belglum. Colombia and Syria yesterday won two-year seats on the United Nations Security Council by substantial margins over six other nations in a single ballot df the 54-mefriber assembly. The three will replace Mexico, the Netherlands atid Egypt on Jah.
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    Any Winners?
    102 7 (Tribune Staff Reporter) the i.s. Pundua, docking here today, brings 56 horses for Malay a. Oi these U are for the Ipoh trainer -and owner, Mr. Van Breukelen. The remaining 45, mostly griffins, it is understood, are for Kuala Lumpur. The importers for lpoei are said to be
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    MCC BATTING, BOWLING AVERAGES
    176 7 BAITING Inns no. total h.t. av^e Hammond 4 HI 208 i<:'.7s Hut en 8 1 «95 164 98.28 Compton 8 1 HI ill 77.00 Wa<hl rook 8 369 113 4r,.20 Ikin S 3 Oi Gfi 4G.11 5 m ith 3 1 l .»l H 45.50 j
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    Food Relief Must Continue After UNRRA
    112 7 A.P. Lake Success. Now 19.—The United State*; Government will continue to insist that food relief must move in 1947 on a na-tion-to nation agreements after the expiration of UNRRA. a Btate Department official said to-day regardless of the opposition in varying degrees from come
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    "GIVE GRAIN PRIORITY": RAO
    90 7 Washington. Nov. 19.—The food adviser to the India Embassy. Dr. V. K. R. V. Rao. urged the United States government to follow Iildia's example and give priority on railways to grain for export because, he said, that was the only way of averting a World food
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    HOCKEY CANCELLED
    20 7 The hockey match between the S.R.C. and R.A.F. (Seletar) which was to have been played yesterday, was cancelled.
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    'Indies Has Capitulated To The Republic'
    398 7 Reuter. The Hague, Nov. 20. —Liberal papers commenting on the Dutch. Indonesian draft agreement in the main express opposition, although Algemeen Handelsblad in a lengthy review entitled "Loose Sand" wri'es that it reserves its final judgment until "Jne Government and Commission-General have had an
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    FRANCE REOPENING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
    71 7 Reuter. BANGKOK. Nov. 19.—M. Jean Daridan. Councillor of the French Embassy, Nanking, arrived here this morning for the formal re-opening of FrancoSiam diplomatic relations consequent on signing the agreemeht in Washington on Sunday on the border question. The Siamese delegation In Washington is expected to return
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    2 Explosions In Jerusalem
    165 7 Reuter. Jerusalem. Nov. 20—The Palestine police announced to-day that two explosions near the Jewish Agency building and the Navy, Army and Air Force Institute Officer Club last night slightly damaged a police armoured car which was passing at that time, but there were no personal injuries
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    BRADMAN NAMED CAPTAIN
    267 7 Reuter. Adelaide, Nov. 20—Don Bradman will captain Australia In the first cricket Test match with England beginning ih Brisbane on Nov. 29, it was announced today. The vice-captain will be named to-morrow. A Sydney message say s Australia's first Test team has practically chosen itself and the
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    Four Men Will Visit Pacific Bases, Report
    87 7 A.P. WASHINGTON. Nov. 19—The U.S. House Naval Committee has authorized a four-man subcommittee to inspect Pacific bases and report recommendations for permanent naval installations. The sub-committee inspected many bases some time ago but wa s unable to visit all because of war conditions.
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    RUGBY RESULT
    16 7 Reuter. LONDON, Nov. 19.—Rugby Union results: Devonport Services 6 St. Bart's Hospital 8 Reuter.
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    U.S. CARRIER EXPLOSION
    35 7 SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 20— An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier Antitam yesterday killed one civilian worker, seri ously burned eight others and caused minor burns to 26 including two havy enlisted men.
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    Russia Joins World Football Federation
    79 8 Reuter. PARIS, Nov. 20.- The Soviet Football Federation ha.< joined the tnti rnational Federation of Football ichich note includes th-. >uli?ig football bodies of all nations, stated IT. Jules Btmet, President of the International Federation here tonight. M. Rimet said h t had received a
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    U.S. COAL STRIKE MAY PROVE DISASTROUS
    502 8 Starvation Threatens Needy Countries U. K. has good chance of ending bread rationing next year, but Reuter. Washington, Nov. 20.—Britain has a "very pood chance of ending hrcad rationing in 1f)47, i< was stated on reliable and expert authorii y here today. Tlae impending
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    Voyage Ends 1,750 Wiles Short Of Goal
    181 8 Reuter. Suva. 'Fiji Islands*. Nov. 20. I After sailing over 5.000 miles in I a 30-foot schooner from Panama ian American. John Caldwell, i has arrived in Suva aboard a local trading vessel. Caldwell who was trying to roach Australia, his wife lives,
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    CHINESE BEAT UP SOVIET RAIL-WORKERS
    203 8 Reuter. London, Nov. 19. —Soviet rail way workers in the Mukden region ol China are returning to Russia In tile near future because of •maltreatment" by the Chinese authorities, Moscow radio stated last n ght. r Many ol the workers the radio continued. **were subjected
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    Jinnah Asks For Postponement
    109 8 Reuter. NEW DELHI. MOV. 20 Mohammed All Jinnah President ot the Ali Inaia Muslim League. In a letter to Fi.id Marshal Lo:d Wavell, the Viceroy, has asked for an indefinite postponement of the constituent assembly which is to meet here >n December 9 Invitations to attend
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    PLEA TO RUSSIA
    114 8 A.P. PARIS-. Nov. 20 --The readiness "i delegates to welcome the Soviet Union to the United Nations Educational. Scientiiic and Cultural Organization was shown on Tuesday at a ceremonial meeting officially opening the group'> first ijcneral conference in Paris. The French Educat; m Minister. M. Marcel Nagerlin.
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    CATHOLIC PRIEST ON 'LIQUIDATION' CHARGE
    63 8 A.P. WARSAW. Nov. 20.—The trial opened here before a military court of Zjgmunt Jarkiewicz. a Catholic priest accused of direct ing the 'liquidation of Polish democratic leaders. Jarkiewicz denied charges of membership of an underground movement or participation in any killings. He declined to answer
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    STEEL NATIONALISATION PLAN WILL BE CARRIED OUT
    166 8 Reuter. LONDON. Nov. 20.—Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, replying o criticism of the Government's nationalisation policies, denied in the House of Commons today that the Governmei? ;vas retreating from its decision to nationalise >he British iron and steel industry. •1
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    Transfer Of Siam Territories Fixed For Dec. 8
    131 8 Reuter. BANGKOK, Nov. 20. Th, transf< r to French fndo-China of the bordei territories ceded to Slam by Japan in 1941 is due to take on Dec. 8. it was reported her* today. agreement re-toiing tfrt territoiy to French Indo-China was -igned
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    Spagnalo—Woodcock Fight, Dec. 17
    65 8 Reuter. London, Nov. 20. Italian heavyweight champion Bertolo Julio Spagnolo fights Bruce Woodcock, British champion, at Harringav Arena on Dec 17. Promoter Jack Solomons that Spagnolo is probably tne best of Woodcock's European rivals. He is 24 and weighs around 14 stone. Spagnolo will be the
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    Census Of Troops In Foreign Soil Urged
    339 8 Molotov Attacks U. K., U. S. A.P. NEW YORK, Nov. 21- V. M. M I Foreign Minister, speaking before th< mfcVee of the Uni:ed Nations in New S attacked Britain and the United Sta es ing troops in China and Ureece and oth<
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