Malaya Tribune, 19 December 1946

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  • 56 1 The Malaya Tribune VY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Now printed simul taneousiy I n Penanf P ret K ala L Umpur Ipoh Thone Numbers: Kditor 5813 Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 2005 i PAGES, SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1946 TEN CENTS. The
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  • 220 1 "Cession Still Open To Challenge" Says Creech-Jones (Tribune Staff Renter) Mr Anthony Brooke, ex-R a ja Muda of Sarawak, is expectedi to arrive in Singapore to-day. When he was m Hongkong, the Government there warned him not o
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  • 949 1 In the House of Comm ens ves:erday. Mr. CreechJones, the Secretary ol" State for the Colonies, said that although the cession had been concluded constitutionally, "it is always open to someone to challenge the decision." tor. Crt ,»ch Jones was a nswering questions
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  • 118 1 A.P. N Dec It. The Prime Mr. Attlee and his ;t no! been c msulted < ment for Prinabeth. says an oflicial rumours that she will •rince Philip of Greece r< ire be regarded as he Royal Marriages Ac: ed i guard again>d; marriages
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  • 87 1 Reuter. DON, Dec. 18 A Briier who kept a Dutch the sergeant s mess for nthi in Westphalia in .of occupation was today, the judge com- the War Office should facts of this case wi*h ascertaining what the iding officer was doing, teratc
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  • 49 1 Reuter. DON. Dec. 18.—Five Red. Dakotas are now waiting "P M. Molotov and the of the Soviet delegation to York meeting of Foresters who are due to at Southampton in the Elisabeth to-morrow planes are at an airport, miles from Southampton. 'iter. I
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  • 152 1 (Tribune Strff Reporter). Thinfr are quiet at Elim Camp I pa.a an early morning call today as the men wer_- (ailing nto unit; and briskly marching off to their transports for duty outside the cam*: The general impression I got was that the air
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  • 69 1 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 19.- William Johnston Yapp, last of t/ie original directors of the London tobacco firm of Cart eras, left i 4.501,437, it vms disclosed today. in his WfU, he said: I forfftot all debts which may be owing to wu at my d.at/i by my
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  • 111 1 Authorization to borrow a furcher $10-million> by the i-sue of a rehabilitation loan to cover the colony's $B£-millions deficit in 1947 was granted it tne meeting oi the Singapore Advisory Council this morning. Mr. Nelson Jones. Financial Secretary, said the deficit on the
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  • 36 1 GLASGOW, Dec. 18 —Several soldiers who left the troopship Eastern Prince before she sailed from Clyde for Singapore last night are stated now to be under arrest in Mary hill barracks. Glasgow.
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  • 284 1 England met with early disaster this morning when Hammond, after adding 22 runs to his overnight score of 15, was caught at deep mid-on by Toshack off McCool. with England's total at 280 Hammond had done al most all the scoring this morning,
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  • 135 1 (Tribune Crime Reporter*. The Austin car belonging to Ihe S H.B. contractor Mr. X P. Mohammed Yusoff who was kidnapped last week and forced to sign four cheques, wa.s found yesterday vening by the Police at the 11th m.s. Ponggol. The car
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  • 341 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Doc. 18.— President Truman, In a declaration of policy towards China to-day, reaffirmed United States support for Generalissimo Chian« Kaishek's Government. He recalled the statement a year ago affirming recognition of the Chinese National Government and added: "Views
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  • 148 1 Singapore public services for 1947 will total $58,364,290 and sanction for thi s expenditure next year was approved at the meeting of the Advisory Council today. The Financial Secretary. Mr. Nelson Jones said the sum would be charged on the and other fund,
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  • 53 1 Reuter. NANKING. Dec. 18.—A crowd numbering 2.000 today saw Tsi Hieh-yuan. one ol China's oldtime war lords, executed here by a firing s quad. He had been condemned to death as a collaborator for having served as a member of the Central Political Committee m the Japanese
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    • 75 1 National Employers' Wutual General I MOTOR i 5 COMPENSATION, RSONAL ACCIDENT, u.'.U other classes of ASSOCIATION LTD. porated in England) Chambers, Raffles Place. J SINGAPORE. :N. S WISE. Phone 2835 MAKE YOUR CHILD HAPPY By presenting a Doll or Tricycle They are all new arrivals. GIAN SINGH CO., SS 4
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    • 41 1 The Ideal Gift* for the Seasons KRIS BRAND PEWTER Beer Mugs, Tea Services, Cigarette Sets, Powder Bowls and Flower Vases Etc. Distributing Agents Season Trading Co. 57 High St., Singapore. I but I can ejeh lA SODA WATER with tntj uhisUy
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  • 160 2 A.P. LONDON, Dec. 18. -Bitter cold numbed the fingers and toes of Eastern Europe's thinly clad children and their ciders by the million on Tuesday, as the cold wave that >wept in from Siberia last week-end held sway. One man died of exposure in Paris and
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  • 198 2 A.P. LONDON. Dec. 18. -The Briti>h Government moved >wiftly on Tue>day toward the achievement of one of its major objectivesnationalisation of transport. Mr. Hugh Dalton. Chancellor of the Exchequer, beat down the Conservative criticism of the 90U.U00.00U valuation placed on Britain"- four major railroads. The Nationalisation
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  • 17 2 To help combat the evil opinin tiabit an opium Prohibition Committee has been formed tor North Malaya
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  • 214 2 The War Crimes Court, presided by Lt.-Col. P. A. Forsythe, convicted and sentenced Col. Sugasawa Lju, commandant of the Siam Pt>W Administration Unit since August 22, 1944, to 12 years' imprisonment yesterday. Col. Sugasawa, whose trial began on Dec. 6, was arraigned on
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  • 199 2 Jap Brutality A.P. Tokyo, Dec. 18.—The fall of Hongkong on Christmas Day in 19-41 was marked by the Japanese slaying ol hospital and the raping of British nurses, a Canadian Chaplain told the International Military Tribunal here to-day Captain James Burnett, ol Quebec. Caplain of
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  • 161 2 A.P. Athens. Dec. 18—Four high Greek officials prepared on Tuesday niirht to leave by a destroyer for an "on-the-spot" investigation or the fighting in turbulent NlTcedonla and Western Thrace. Press dispatches reported sound-, of battle In a Bulgarian village Just over the border. The dispatches said
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  • 28 2 The incidence of malaria untitled dropped from 500 cases a month during the Jap occupa tion to an average of about nine cases a month in Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 131 2 Reuter. Paris, Dec. 17—Leon Blum, new French Premier said in a ministerial declaration that the esssntial task of the Government was to balance the ordinary budget for the next year. It is understood that the new Finance M!nister Andre Philip will on the
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    • 477 2 TRIBUNE PRE-PAID CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Casual Advertisements: Wanted, Personal, Situations Vacant, Situations Wanted, For Sale, etc. at $3.00 per insertion of 20 words, 15 cts. for every additional word. Public Notices Announcement: $3.50 per single column inch per insertion. Domestic Occurrences: Death, Engagement, Marriaga. Birth Notices, etc. at $7.00 per insertion
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    • 146 2 EDUCATION University Preparatory Classes. The object is to prepare students for University Entrance Examination* inter Arte, Law, Economics, Commercial subjects and Languages. Business Training or Profession is the Weapon for Economic Inde-ptndei-.ce and Security. Do not waste time. Compressed knowledge and rapid courses for those who are ambitious to proceed
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    • 75 2 SHIPPING "MARINE ADDER" (Substitute of "Marine Falcon") Sailing on or about 12th January, 1947. for M^drr 0 Bombay, returning to Singapore. Due to sail Feb. 2nd for Hong Kong, Shanghai and San Francisco. 3rd class for men only. FARES Ist. Dormitory 3rd. Class. Class. Madras $276. $234. $138. Bombay 340.
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  • 527 3 'Tribune Staff Reporter/ becll Presented by MrHwai. anwore Oversea* Chinese A.-m-Japaaese Voiunte«r Army (Dalforce) on he half of 600 members of the organisation, to the &£r*Sy for (mnesc Affairs, Mr. E. C. 3. Adkins reouestine thai members of Datforee should be treated as British Army uulars
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  • 42 3 Tan Kirn Chiong. who pleaded guilty in the Third Police Court yesterday, to the theft of 24 bottles of essence of chicken, found on his person when searched by a police constable was sentenced to eight weeks' rigorous imprisonment.
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  • 100 3 Ho Kiat Swee who appeals against conviction and sentence of six months' rigorous imprisonment imposed in the lower courts for possession of 35i tahils of opium had his conviction quashed by Mr. Justice Jobling yescerday in the High Court. Mr. D. K. Walters who argued the appeal pointed
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  • 111 3 Two detectives. John Ong and Ong Kirn Liew, who were sentenced to two months' and one month's rigorous imprisonment respectively in the lower court for voluntarily causing hurt to a Chinek appealed yesterday beiore Mr. Justice Jobling. John Ong was stated to have slapped a Chinese who was
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  • 72 3 Alleged to have committed theft of 60 bales of green military trousers, valued at $6,000 from the 223 BOD. No. 2 subdepot, while employed as servants there, on Dec. 17. or alternatively dishonestly retaining stolen property, two Malays. Ibrahim bin Abu Bakar and Saptu bin
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  • 800 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Mr. Winston Churchill's famous words "blood, toil, sweat and tears" might be aptly applied to Singapore's heroic Dalforce, the anti-Japanese Army compose., of 10,000 Chinese, who fought hand-to-hand battles against the Japanese after the landing on Singapore was accomplished in February 1942. Dalforce
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  • 164 3 The Australians and tne Chinese community in Australia (including the Chinese Vice-Con-sul in Melbourne) are already making arrangements to welcome the successful candidates for the Australian nursing scholarship, said Mr. Claude Massey yesterday. Up to date, seventeen Singapore nurses have sent in their applications to the Australian
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  • 14 3 Sir Edward Gent will broadcast on the current political situation tonight at 9.45 p.m.
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  • 325 3 Pi Ices quoted below are for picul weignt except where otherwise stated. Foodstuhs: -Yesterday's quotWere "Meehoon": Siam No. 1 $100; No. 2 $85; No. 3 $75. Indo-Cliina $65. K?dah $65. Rice: Siam No. 1 $100; No. 2 $90; No. 3 $75. Siam glutinous rice $90; Kedah
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  • 485 4 The Sarawak Government's statement on the exclusion of Mr. Anthony Brooke wears a terrifying air of simplicity. Mr. Brooke has been forbidden entry into Sarawak because his presence there would influence popular feeling." From that presumption, the statement goes on to assume Lhal "there is a
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  • 939 4  -  by Tom Stephenson A New Battle of Britain is row being waged—a battle of the Service Departments versus the people for possession of some of Britain's most beautiful scenery. Noble mountains, vast moorlands and wide heaths, lovely valleys, rugged clirTs and attractive coastal reaches are
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  • 107 4 Mr- Aneurin Bevan. Minister of Health, announced in the Commons that, because of the shortage oi softwood, solid ground floor will have to oe adopted in all house-building. The new solid tluurs —of specially treated concrete, witn a twist) of such permanent materials as are available—will
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  • 153 4 An improved method ol refuelling aircraft in the air, now being carried out over Southern England, may If successful enable airliner 3 to cover much longer distances non-stop. In one experiment last week a Lancaster tanker supplied another aircraft of the same type with more than
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  • 287 4 A push-button range that cooks in seconds by making food dance" to radio waves i s the latest American development for preparing meai s rapidly An electronic range, it can bake gingerbread in 29 second.?, grill a sausage in eight to ten seconds or cook a chopped
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  • 250 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR S:r.—l am Instructed to refer to the article "There's one perfect Army camp in Singapore" in your issue dated December 12th. and to dispose once and for all. of th? myth that the Royal Air Force are a. privileged service so
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  • 236 4 Sir.—Almost one and a half years have passed since the war ended and innumerable rnquirie? have been made by members of the Passive Defence Services regarding payment of arrears of back pay. It is believed that before the Honourable Mr. Justice Worley left the Colony for a
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  • 108 4 Sir.—l should like to put two question, to all the organizations concerned including the Government. 1. What right has the Malayan Indian Congress, which is a part of an entirely alien poli tical organization, professing the object-, it does and flying the Indian Congress Flag, to enter into
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  • 481 4  -  B PETER LOVEGROVR Average weekly earnings of all work< vs in the United Kingdom are now £5 Os. 5d., an morta.v of «SS per cent on pay packets in Ociober, 1938. These figures, revealed by the Ministry of Labour and National Service, were compiitd from i'-turns
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 49 4 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By Ernest Hi* contest cmze.! sggaflf <dmS SS8K«& l c%Si°JS&': °/Lj WOHR/R CUTTER/ V „/V#wVorK, HUGE KAPASAKI PINE TREE IS <000 years OLD AND m 300 eOANCHES, SOME OP WHICH EVTENO HOC FO« ZOO FEET. ARE HELD UP BV CRUTCH£.$ f *01 I»-* JN' W-«*
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  • 1189 5 WORKS PLAYS HARD Reuter. PARIS: (Air Mail)— France's new army, now some 450,000 Strong, is taking a leaf out of the copybook of the British Army. Barrack-room and parade ground technique of Napoleonic tradition is giving way to British "Commando" principles of training for
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  • 127 5 Reuter. La (Air Mail*.-Ninety d disabled labourers are receive Government Id the near future as t step towards improvesocial conditions. Antara A bill for purpose submitted to the IndoCentral National Coml temporary parliament) to Republican Social Minister, Mr>. Maria Ult santoso* euvei amelioration lons of
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  • 52 5 i R not nice to go out with t now. because his robe avy people make unkind s laid Councillor C. Wat Saffron Walden. Essex, the Council decided that be. bought in 1879. would last a little longer, and Councillor Hubert Collar. ar-old museum curator, to it
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  • 33 5 WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.— Harold Stassen. former Governor of Minnesota and a leader in the Republican Party, has announced he will be a candidate for Republican nomination for the United States Presidency In 1948.
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  • 88 5 hmi- n m Cairo and Alexandria on Nov. 26 following a Government warning Tt o f Z compel, fortW i>«oto Stade*. 0/ SJnSSSi*«* of th. Cairo Cho am,, ouiiding a bonfire m tn, thorough fan*. Picture token at in, airport oi t*e onto* r.c,»«„ I»
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  • 140 5 Reuter. RANGOON Dec. is MI rGeneral Sir Hub it Ranee, Gov ernor ol Burma, today lad a wreath In the name ol the King at a service In the village ol Thanbvuzyat. lower Burma, commemorating those who perished in building the Burma-Siam 'Death Railway" during
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  • 78 5 LONDON, Dec. 16.—Gramophone needles without scratch and with greatly improved reproduction will be on the market In a year's time. They will use a new electronic device called a Scott Dynamic Noise Suppressor. Sir Ernest Fisk said: "We shall fit Suppressor needles on high gramophones first
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  • 62 5 Reuter. LONDON. Dec. 18. -Mr. George Isaacs. Minister of Labour, in a written renly said he cannot arrange that marred men under 21 shall not b" called up until they become eligible for marriage allowances. He also turned down the request to permit entrants to teachers
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  • 39 5 Reuter. LONDON. Dec. 18. Football Association Cup (Second round* replay results: Queen Park Rangers 2. Norwich City 0. Ipswich Town 0 Walsall i. S'tockoort 2. Halifax Town I. Wrexnam 3. Lincoln City 3 (aft.r extra time).-Reuter.
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  • 660 6 OUR FINANCIAL SECTION A.P. tßy Our Own Correspondent). Malacca Electric Lighting Ud's balance-sheet issued yesterday is encouraging and the accumulated dividend on Preference shares is to be paid in full. This covers the period from Jan. 1. 1942, to Sept. 30. 1946. The
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  • 178 6 One of the steps Singapore police are taking to combat petty thieving which has been occurring repeatedly in the Beach Road area is the rounding up of people sleeping in the five-foot way in that area, in the early hours of the morning. This was revealed by
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  • 215 6 More Wheat Flour Promised Britain A.P. Reuter. LONDON, Dev. 17. Britain's Food Minister John Stratchey told the House of Commons U>-day that the United States had promised Britain enough wheat and Sour between now and January 31, to avert "a very ?rave emergency." Mr. Sirachey. who had earlier abandoned his
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  • 60 6 Reuter. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 17,-Among cne 3,000 pa>sengeis aboaid the Britannic which arrived from the Far East yesteiday were Air Vice Marshal Sir Hugh Saunder*. Air Officer Commanding Burma and Major-General Scott, Commanding Peshawar district, India. There Were also 1,600 Royal Air Foice personnel home for release as well
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  • 233 6 Lall Khan, a young Punjabi Muslim, who was stated to have served for seven years in the 22nd Regiment of the 4th Mounted Battery, and who had been a PoW in Jap hands for one year (after which he was alleged to have served in the
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  • 106 6 KUALA LUMPUR.--According to the heal/Ui intelligence of the Malayan Union 305 cases of small-pox were reported during the week ending Dec 7, with 44 deaths, compared with 223 cases with 57 deaths tne previous week. The largest number of cases was reported from Trengganu, but many
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  • 54 6 Tru King ha- approved tlie award of the Colonial Police Med.d ft* gallantry to th. following Police personnel of Singapore Mr. Alexander Hen-on. Probationary Inspector of Police. Che Ja'afaf bin Daud. Sergeant. Che Abu Ha*9N bin Akok. Sergeant. Che Hohamed Yasin bin Bujai First-class Con-table and Che Othman
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  • 162 6 KUALA LUMPUR. V3£ie incidence of malaria has dropped from 500 cases a month during the Jap occupation to an average of about nine a month in Kuala Lumpur, the Health Department reports. Anit-malarial work in Kuala Lumpur, since the occupation, has progressed now that the whole
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  • 33 6 Reuter. Paris. Dec. 17.—The French National Assembly today, by 580 votes out of 596 deputies voting, gave an inaugural vote of confidence in the Socialist Cabinet formed by veteran Socialist leader. Leon Blum.—Reuter.
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  • 497 7 Royal Navy 16 pts.; Si ngapore "All Blues" pis. The Royal Navy defeated a representative Singapore Asiatic XV by sixteen points (two goals, two tries) to six points (a penalty goal, a try) in a tournament rugger fixture on the padang, yesterday. The
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  • 268 7 British cricket enthusiasts, listening to the test-match commentaries by tneir coai-ration-ed fireside.; in the deptn of tne English winter, do not realise how much they owe to a corporal and two assistants, dressed only in shorts and sandals, who operate the Jungle receiving station at
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  • 159 7 (By Tribune Reporter) Kuala Lumpur —On the padang tne Y.M-C.A. lost to the Selangor Club at hockey by the odd goal, scored two minutes before end of play. A steady drizzle made the ground slippery and play scrappy. The first goal was scored
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  • 70 7 Reuter. BATAVIA, Dec. 18.—The Netherlands Military authorities stated today that Netherlands troops had clashed with a large "terrorist band" near Macassar, in South Celebes, where martial law had been proclaimed. The terrorists suffered heavy losses, it was added. In another area in South Celebes (a
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  • 62 7 Reuter. KARACHI, Dec. 18 -An exclusively Muslim League Ministry is vxpected to be formed in Sind Province before Christmas following yesterday's general elec«ion results which gave the League 54 out oi 60 >eats in the Asembly. This will mean that Hindus, Who form 30 per
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  • 75 7 Reuter. NEW DELHI. Dec. 18.-Seven-teen tliou>and passage registration oeitincates have so far been Issued by tht Government of India to Indians who wl>h to return to Malaya from India, it was officially stated hete today. The ship s.s. "Jalagopar vvhich has been >pecially chartered by
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  • 320 7 (By Tribune Reporter) Seremban.—ln spite ot complete mastery established by their forwards throughout the game, the Negri-Malacca State Rugby XV could do no better than register a 6—o victory over the Northampton Regiment when these two teams met Here. In conceding only two tries
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  • 202 7 Yesterday's play produced 312 runs—the fastest scoring rate in the current Test series. During the play before lunch, 137 runs were scored; between lunch and tea 104 runs; and after tea 91 runs. Sixteen boundaries and one six were hit before lunch, eleven of the fours coming
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  • 127 7 Reuter. BLACKPOOL. Dec. 18.—Fred Davis, brother of the world I sncoker champion Jc? Da<?is. made a snooker break of 189 here this afternoon playins; against his brother. This is one print higher than Joe's world record. After examination of the table by
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  • 135 7 PARIS. Dec II The discovery by the police two days ago of 38-year-old Raoul Duval, who had spent his l»*t 18 y?ars in bed because he was "tired and wanted time to think" had a sequel today when his 72-year-old fathef
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  • 19 7 The appointment of Mr. E. Strandberg to act as the Consul of Denmark in Singapore has Just been gazetted-
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  • 325 7 C.V.M.A. (Catholics) I. Chinese Athletics 4. Despite the rain, a fair crowd turned up to see the charity soccer match played at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday when the C.A. beat the Catholics by four goals to one. Held up by tne rain, some
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  • 63 7 I The following players will play < lor the Jollilads Athletic Union against the "B. Company Buffs Regiment at football on Sunday an the Police Training School ground at Thompson Road. Transport leaves the Railway Station at 4.30 p.m. S. Sithambram. Murugasu and Thambyrajah. M. Ghani, Rasak and
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  • 52 7 The Tamil Brotherhood Association will mm 1 thf R N.A.S. (Srmb.iwangi at soccer, to bt played at Sembawang on Satu day Dec. 21. The Tamil-' team will be: Sithambaram. Thamoyrahah and Rank; Ghany. Shinta and Muniandy. N. G 3amy. A. Berry, Ki-ishnan. Supoiah and OsmaiL Reaenres:— Kayambu. Salaudin. Subiamanian
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  • 112 7 In a friendly game of Badminton last Monday, the Straits Chinese Epworth League beat the Brighton BP. by five games to two The results were: Neo Sene Kee oeat George Tan 14- 14. 3-0. 15-11; Seah Yeak Khern beat Teo Heok Kwang 15- 10. 1-15. 15-2: Tan Huat Keng
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  • 30 7 The hockey match between the Ceylon Sport* Club and the Singapore Recreation Club, which wa- scheduled to take plac*. yesterday, wa- cancelled on account of rain.
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  • 132 7 A.P. London, Dec. 17.—The British light heavyweight champion Freddie Mills who ha s maae a fortune this year, tnough get ting Deaten by Gus Lesnevich. Bruce Woodcock and Joe Baski. probably will make a world tour in 1947. His manager Ted Broadribb is making plans to take Mills to South
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  • 224 7 The Vice-Chief of Imperial General Staff. Lt. General F. E W. Simpson. CB. DSO. Who visiting South East Asia, will arrive at Changi at 4.15 p.m. today from Rangoon, accompanied by the Vice-Adjutant General. Maj-General Roberts. Vice Quarter Master General (Designate) Maj-General Fielden and Deputy Quarter-Master General.
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  • 59 7 iPOH Following hi> suwwii i'ul boxing promotion last week, Mi. V. P. Kri-hna->amy is putting jr. another title fight on Boxing Day < Dec. 26) in the Jubilee Pane arena. The middleweight title of Malaya will be at stake the contenders being Gunboat Smith of Penang and
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  • 564 8 'Blow Struck At Foundations Of United Nations" Reuter. PRETORIA, Dec. 18.—Gen. Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, broadcasting: to-night on the United Nations decisions on Southwest Africa and South African Indians said: "We found unbelievable misunderstanding about race and colour
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  • 108 8 A.P. LONDON. Dec. 18—Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten disclosed on Tuesday that Pridi Panomyang. former Siamese Prime Minister, directed the Siamese Resist.UlC2 Movement against the Japanese who had named him tv tne:r Puppe. Councfl ol Regency. Admiral Mountbatten told a luncheon that the former Siam
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  • 79 8 A.P. SHANGHAI. Dee. 18. -Chinas economic and political efforts •ere ma: ked by the following: < 1 fhc report of extraordinarly Gov- mment controls on foreign -hipping. This was interpreted by the shipper* here as further hampering the already crippled trade. «2» The interview in Yenan. the capital
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  • 234 8 D7OH.--A young and attractive Malay woman. Bastiah binti Haji Abdul Karim faced a charge of bigamy in the Perak Assize Court, before the Hon. Mr. Justice L. E. Cox Evans. Husband No. 1. Shaari bin Haji Ismail, a padi planter, said that he married
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  • 141 8 Reuter. Srirampur, East Bengal, Dec. 18.—Mahatma Gandhi in his first public reference to the London talks with the Indian leaders said at his headquarters today that the talks showed that Indians should make their decision "after careful deliberations and having full regard to
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  • 116 8 A.P. BERLIN Passengers on Bei ir.'- übwa>- and 1» vated trains ire ju-t ordinary bandit-.'* the cierlin Pro-- ha- complained. rwo 11 -built pa--eng<.r trains recently w« re put into s< rvitv betxv' n the Anhaitei and Frhdrichiirasse railway stations. Within -i> day- they had to
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  • 118 8 A.P. WASHINGTON. Dec. 18. The United Slates Government voiced on Tue-day night it- official gratification that the Nethei lands Government have approved the arrangements for the independence of the Dutch East Indies with the Netherlands Queen as Sovereign. The Stat. Department said: "tt is the
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  • 160 8 Reuter. LONDON. Dec. 18, Col. A. D. Deans-Park°r. Conservative, asked the Colonial Secretary in the House ol C mrnoiu today wha acton ne propos.d to take in view of disclosures of irregularities in Ceylon in the AuditorGeneral's report on civil defence exoenditure for 1943/44 and 1944-45:
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  • 40 8 A.P. GUAM. Dec. 18, Japanese Navy Lleutettahi Ry<»ji Tomitan was aCQUltted by the United States Mihtarj Commissioner, on Tuesday, of charges that hi ul-treated iwo Catholic priests on little Atoll, in Gilbert I-land-. on Nov. 5 1942. A.P.
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  • 311 8 Malacca, Wednesday. The dramatic details of piracy and murder on the high seas were described by two witnesses when three Chinese —Ang Huat, Koh Gcng Hua and Yeo Huan Cheh —were produced at a preliminary inquiry before Mr. T. F. Penny on a charge
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  • 416 8 A.P. NEW DELHI. Dec. 18.— Congress Party sources predicted on Tuesday that the Constituent Assembly would pass, without amendment, the resolution of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru for the creation of a Sovereign Indian Republic. The prediction came in the fao of assertions by some Assemblymen
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  • 45 8 Singapore rubber prices at noon today. Buyers. Sellers, cts. per cts. per lb. lb. No. 1 RSS Spot loose 412 411 No. 1 RSS FOB in bales, Jan. 43£ 43i No. 2 ditto 42J 42J No. 3 ditto 42J 42i Tone of Market:—Quiet.
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  • 216 8 Four Chinese and a Malay walked into a Chinese shoe-» maker's shop in Arab Street on the evening of Nov. 8 and attempted to clear the till. On the shoemaker Chan How Cheong, offering resistance, they struck him on the head and. as he lay
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