Malaya Tribune, 14 January 1947

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  • 51 1 The Malaya Tribune #y THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN AAALAYA Now printed simultaneously in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur. Ipoh Penang. 'Phone Numbers: Editor 5813 Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 2005 EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1947 TEN CENTS The Malaya Tribune TUESDAY, JAN. 14,
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  • 26 1 s ozggest post-ivar merchant ship, me 15,000-ton nthi caught fire in her fitting-out pud on Jan. 4. iii shows her badly totting,
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  • 218 1 Reuter. Jan. 14.--Thirty people including four re seriously inju red and many other:s slightwhen Burmese pouce dispersed with lathi chara party of 500 "Red Flag" Communists who staged ration at the Burma Government Secretariat yesterday. According to unconfirmed reports one of th'e Women demonstrators has
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  • 46 1 P IRIE ARRIVES IN AUSTRALIA r :n:nander-in-Chief, Far M irshal Sir George dew to Japan on Jan. 1 Singapore to visit r.a.F. the British Common rces of Occupation, has his tour andTias flown Melbourne. Australia, has just arrived. stay there, he will on air force problems.
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  • 480 1 Raffles Place Raid By Malays And Chinese Pedestrians, Watchmen Were Looking On (Our Crime Reporter) Armed police threw a cordon around Raffles Place this morning following a report that a member ot a gang of textile banoitS, wi.o earlier today had robbed Crian
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  • 93 1 Jerusalem, Jan. 14.--Sir Henry Gurney, acting head of the Palestine Government yesterday summoned to Government House David Ben Gurion. Palestine Chairman cf the Jewish Agency Executive, foi a talk reported to bear self-confessed Stern Gang terrorist atatcks on Haifa district police headquarters In which four policemen
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  • 117 1 Two armed robberies took place simultaneously yesterday shortly after noon in Beach Road. Three Chinese armed with oistols relieved three occupants of three different rooms of a total of .*},350 in cash and jewellery. At the same time, two other Chinese, also similarly armed, entered
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  • 58 1 U.P. Washington, Jan. 13.--Ha-waiian delegate Joseph Farrington today introduced a legislation to remove all racial discrimination in the American Immigration laws and to assign quotas to the races now excluded. Under the present law, practically all Orientals are excluded from the immigration quotas with the
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  • 459 1 U.P. and Reuter. London, Jan. 14.—As a brigade of Guards took ever th'j distribution ol foo'i from London's strikebound markets yesterday more than 5,000 men in london and 1,000 in the Provinces stopped work in sympathy with the transport drivers whose nine month; old
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  • 33 1 The death has occurred in Johore Bahru of Tunku Atan, brother of Unku Aminah (wife of Tunku Mahkota, Regent of Johore) and Unku Fatimah (wife of the Tunku Abu Bakar)
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  • 231 1 U.P. WASHINGTON Jan 13.— Th Agriculture Department', Office of Fore.gn Agricultural Rlation, says that the restoration of the world's pre-war level of rice pro dUOVlon— tf.400.0C0.000 bushels depend; largely on the recov.-ry Of production in Asia. It said the supplies necessary to bring the pre war flow
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  • 333 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Radio Malaya's three new 10-kilowatt meJiumwave transmitters h?vj arrived and are being unloaded. Only one will be erected in Singapore. The remaining two, one of wfricnwas originally intended for Penang, will go to Kuala Lumpur to serve the centra of Malaya. Mr.
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  • 99 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) On its way out from San Francisco to Singapore, the President liner "Marine Adder" which arrived today ran into a full gale in which one lifeboat want over the side. Describing the journey, a passenger told me: "We had a very interesting journey I
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  • 27 1 Reuter. LONDON. Jan. 13— Georg Zarubin, new S'jviet Ambassador in London, arr.ved in a Russian Dakota at Ncnholt today. He succeeds Fedor Gusev. —Reuter.
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  • 135 1 Reuter. MOMBASA. Kenya. Jan 13.— Armed and steelhelmeted police specially drafted into this great East African port weje on patrol tonight after native strikers had stoned a taxi cab and hotel and injured Europeans including a woman. Some of |he strikers who came
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  • 75 1 The Master Attendant's launch "Mary Rose" early this morning chased a motor sampan in the harbour after it had defied an order to stop. In the resulting collision, the sampan overturned, and its full cargo, believed to be rice, sank. Five people in the sampan
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    • 33 1 I The Morning Tribune Is the only Malayan newspaper with Its own correspondent In HOLLYWOOD vikxry urns Famous Filmland Authority sends air mall news pictures everyday to the Morning Tribune TIGER CUB Gather
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 524 2 j PRE-PAID CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Casual Advertisements: Wanted, Personal, Situations Vacant, Situations Wanted, For Sale, etc. a* $3.00 per insertion of 20 words, 15 cts. for every s additional word. Public Notices Announcement: $4.00 per single column) inch per insertion. Domestic Occurrences: Death, Engagement, Mar I rage, Birth. Notices, etcj at
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    • 648 2 Youth Fellowship I The following have been elect id to serve on the committee of the Teluk Ayer Methodist Youth Fellowship for 1947. President: Peter Lim: Vice-Presi-dent: Owee Ah Leng; Hon. Secretary: Harry Fang; Hon. Treasurer: Michael Wee. Chairman: World Evangelism and Worship: Mis s Lim Poh Luan; Chairman: World
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    • 378 2 MR. BROOKE RESIGNATIONS Mr. Anthony Brooke has issued the tallowing statement Every word of the official statement m the Sarawak resignation) underlines the need for a full public inquiry at the earliest opportunity. The circular issued by the Sarawak Government on December 10, 1943, which nrecipitated the mass resignations, demanded
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    • 615 2 ON SARAWAK gtme or any reversion to Brooke rule.' "It should be noted that this latter statement, which must have carried considerable weight with government servants, is incorrect, as was subsequently admitted in the House of by the Secretary of State tor the Colonies. "The need for a full impartial
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    • 79 2 SHIPPING "MARINE ADDER" (Substitute of "Marine Falcon") Sailing on or about 14th January, 1947, for Madras Bombay, returning to Singapore. Due to sail Feb. 2nd for Hong Kong, Shanghai and San Francisco. 3rd class for men only. FARES la*. Dormitory 3rd Class. Class. I Madras $276. $234. $138. Bombay 340.
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  • 116 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A perspective drawing of a cottage typical of 16 to built on Queen Astrid Park Construction on the first two starts next month and it i s expected that all sixteen will be completed before the year is out. The houses have been designed
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  • 368 3 How a Chinese woman was found shot in her home on the evening of June 7 last year was related at the Assize Court yesterday before Mr. Justice T. A. Brown when a Private, Mohamed in bin Abdul Kadir, claimed trial to committing
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  • 279 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Early yesterday morning the American President Liner The President Monroe glided alongside the wharf, the second postwar arrival of these round-the-world luxury liners- The last one to call at Singapore was the President Polk some months ago. This ship did yeoman work
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  • 117 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A Committee has been formed in London for launching an all-England appeal for £100.000 for the work of the Diocese of Singapore, it is learnt. The Society for the Propagation of Gospel have selected Singapore as their 'study di»>cese' for
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  • 260 3 Witness "Indian prisoners of war on the sick list were not sent out cn fatigues," declared Coi. Suwabe, accused No. 1. in his defence yesterday at the War Crimes Court, Victoria Memorial Hall, where six Japanese officers and N.C.O's faced charges of ill-treating Indian
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  • 58 3 The Department of Public Relations, Malay Peninsula, invites photographs from the public for publication in the monthly Malayan Pictorial Observer. Photogiaphs can be of any subject—landscapes, portraits action pictures etc. Published pictures will be acknowledged and paid for. Photographs should reach the Department by the twentieth of every
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  • 160 3 Mr Rees-Williams in the House of Commons on Dec. 19 asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what arrangements have been made for the stitution of the local forces in British Malaya and Sarawak, both regular and vo!unt?er; how many recruits have been obtained for
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  • 66 3 Three Japanese were eXecUtd by a French firing squad in Saigon last week, the fir°.t War criminals to die In hldo-China. French War Crimea Citi-fj hay» sentenced twelve Japanese fo death, and to date have tried 45 prisoners, of whom four were acquitted. Twenty-nine were
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  • 356 3 "This Is Our True Kris" "Today the kris is but an ornament to the Malay, but it is higher English education to the Malay that is going to be our true kris that will safeguard our future interests against final extinction.' So remarked Mr. Abdul
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  • 90 3 A Gazette notification auth- orises the letting off of fireworks i during the following hours durI ing the Chinese New Year period. 11.30 p.m. on January 21 to 1.30 a.m. ort January 22: 5 am. to 7 a.m. on January 22. 11.30 p.m. on January 29 to 1
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  • 236 3 The replies given below t,> threo questions put to the Chairman of the Consultative- Committee are of public interest. The first question was whether it is regarded as essential that those who submit letters or memoranda should appear before the Committee. The reply was that the
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  • 130 3 Displaying no trace of emotion, a Javanese labourer formerly empoyvl at Wiihemina Camp, Tanjong Kttong Road, yesterday heard Justice T. A. Brown sentence him to death when he was found guilty of murdering a compatriot, Ahmad bin Ampat, in the early hours Of Aug. 11 last
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  • 120 3 Hundreds of workers who are members of the Singapore Federation of Trade Unions will hold a mass meeting tomorrow at 6 p.m. to discuss the constitutional proposals. The meeting will be held at the Trade Union's headquarters, 36 Short Strreet. A communique issued states. "This
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  • 447 4 Both realism and fantasy marked the opening oi il c Downing Street talks on Burma. There was realism in ihe speeches of Mr. Attlee and Major General Aung San, both of whom clearly appreciate the culties which remain to he overcome before Burma's independence is gained, and
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  • 1361 4  -  by- Madox Brown U.P.S. Correspondent SHANGHAI—In Shanghai today the official price of opium i s death. But like every other commodity in this pirate's roost there is always the black market where one can obtain it any day of the week in terms of
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  • 294 4 Ottawa.—New Year' s Day had a special significance for Canadians, for on that day. Canada came of age with the passage into law of the Canadian Citizenship Bill. By this Act Canadians became what the peoples of no other Dominion are—nationals in their own right, as well
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  • 153 4 PASADENA (TJ. S).-T he world's most powerful telescope designed to give man his farthest and most comprehensive look into the universe should be ready for its first test "sometime next summer." according to Dr. John Anderson, of th* Caiiiornia Institute of Technology. Anderson and his associates ai
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  • 536 4 (From Gino Magnoni) ROME. —Increasing neo-fascist activity throughout Italy is causing the police considerable anxiety. What is worrying them most, according to Carmine Bottino, chief of Rome's pLluical police, is the apr vi'en t support, both financial and moral, which this activity receives from certain
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  • 171 4 Sir,—l beg to be allowed to use your column to air the grievi ances of depositors in the Poit Office Savings Bznk. The Government is oeing petitioned regarding back pay and we are told that this petition ii being discussed
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  • 129 4 Sir—Road accidents have greatly increased since last month. It is evident that some steps must be tak n by the authorities to prevent them. Permit me to say that most of these accidents are caused by Military personnel. Indian soldi:rs are in most cases responsible. As long
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  • 106 4 Sir,—The demand* made oy house-owners for th c payment ui tea-money from would-b<. ten .nt> i> bad enough, bu„ when ih tenants themselves continue this dishonesty it surely is time fo: the law to step in. There are tenants of houses today who are prepared to give up their
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  • 75 4 Sir, —Singapore and Malayafourth industry <1 think > gambling—is evidently prospering to judge from the news in your columns that $11,000 was paid for a consignment ol playing cards at a public action heid recently. It amazes one to see how. in this and other parts of the
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 64 4 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By Ernest Hi x /x "I N/CNOLffS WOOD, KENT. ENGLAND, A 4c5J {It HTE fl WHOLE SHEEP ffT </% one g )F Sjfc /w»~ FIRE-QUENCHING ,4^. 8lCfll?B0NffTEOF SODff... W IMMEDIATELY STOPPED A Blazing fike fed bv loaded \fL WjfTVJKL FREIGHT CARS OF OIL, RUBBER k\ AND
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  • 310 5 (Tribune Staff Reporter) KUALA LUMPUR.—The largest fuel-driven electric power station in Malaya and one of the largest in Southeast Asia is now under construction outside Klang near the Connaught Bridge. Estimated to cost nearly $13,000,000 the station will supply power to Selangor, Negri Sembilan
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  • 51 5 G-G Bride Due Tomorrow scheduled to arrive I thia afternoon, the neral Mr. Malcolm and his bride are i -ach Singapore toing about 5 o'clock, me will alight at I Airfieldm of the Governorinformed the I it tne plane carry'ng 4 nalds was delayed in from England due I bad
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  • 50 5 of fraudulent two bales of unbound in their gate 8 of the Harbour Board on Arthur Brarton Ham Dickinson R.E. ng coy., were Third Magistyesterday, to three rous imprisonment Dickinson, said no knowledge of tie cloth, until :opped searched isii at gate 8.
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  • 445 5 he opinion of educated Buddhists themselves that Buddhism is fast losing ground and that is waning from day to day. On the other influence of Christian missions is waxing I that it would not be a matter for surprise if rice even
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  • 192 5 Sukiran bin Aksan (16) a Javanese cat burglar, who was caught nd-handed when he paid a second nocturnal visit to a house he had successfully burgled 23 da>s previously, was sentenced by First District Judge Paul Storr, yesterday to a total of twelve months'
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  • 108 5 Reuter. SHANGHAI, Jan. 12.—About 3.600 Chinese policemen invaded the British Consulate grounds today demanding payment of superannuation due to them by the former Shanghai International Settlement Police. When informed by the Superintendent, Consul C. W. Aldington, through an interpreter that Britain was only one of the 12 governing
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  • 333 5 Mr. John McN'eish, Traffic inspector of the Claims and Accident department of the Singapore Traction Company said that when he returned to Singapore in May, last year, he found the general behaviour of the employees very bad and that there seemed to have been some
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  • 71 5 Police and all troops in the Taiping area are searching for a Japanese Masaoka Tetsuji, who escaped from Taiping gaol on the night of Jan. 6. The escape Jap, who is an educated man of slight build, aged 36, was under detention for interrogation in
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  • 362 5 Six armed Chinese raided the Bungsar Powe: Station at Kuala Lumpur, after tying up the jaga A Chinese clerk in Kuala Lumpur was held up by two Chinese, one armed, and relieved ol over $I.ooo—labourers' salaries. Two goods wagons from Singapore arrived at Prai with wines,
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  • 259 5 H.R.H. Duke who is returning to England from Australia, is expected to arrive at Changi Airfield at 4.25 p.m. on Thursday. He will be met by the Gover-nor-General, th? Governor of Singapore, the Special Commissioner. General Sir Montagu Stopford, C.-in-C S.E.A.L.F., Air Vice-Marshal Breakey.
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  • 56 5 Air Vice-Marshal F F. Inglis, C.8., C.B.E, who arrived by air at Seletar yesterday. He will take over the duties of Senior Air Staff Officer, Headquarters. Air Command, Far East, from Air Vice-Marshal Pendred, who is returning to England to take up the duties of
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  • 164 5 Of three armed committed over the week-end, the biggest haul was made by two Malays and a Chinese who. armed with revolvers, relieved the occupants of a room in North Budge Road of $5.367 in cash and tweeds at 11.30 a.m. on Sunday. The robbers
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  • 34 5 NANKING, Jan. 12.—The Chinese Government is reported to hay.' appropriated a sum equivalent to two million piastre for the immediate relief of Chinese nationals in IndoChina suffering as -i result of the Franco-Vietnam hostilities.
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  • 354 5 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Americans are said to c chewing gum by the million miles annually, but most of this mileage is made up of synthetics because gutta-percha or jelutong is being exported to the United States in dribblets from Singapore. Before the war the agents of
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  • 43 5 Reuter. Rotterdam, Jan. 13. Three formations of armoured cars, tux) artillery batteries and two maintenance sections are leaving Rotterdam on Wednesday for the Netherlands Indies, aboard the motorship Kota Tjeong, the Dutch Army Information Service announced today. —Reuter.
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  • 137 5 Reuter. MOSCOW, Jan. 12.—The development of United States naval bases In the Pacific, recommended in a report by the Naval Affairs Commission of the United States House of Representatives, was attached by the Soviet Government organ, Izvestia, as "not possibly being a measure designed to strengthen peace"
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  • 25 5 Issues of Victory Savings certificates up to January 10 'n the Malayan Union totalled $330,178--50 cents, while in Singapore the total was $253,395.00.
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  • 261 5 (From Our Owr Correspondent) PENANG, Mon— The UMNO has by a large majority turned down an invitation sent by the Pan-Malayan Indian Congress, on behalf of the Indian Interim Government, to attend the Pan-Asian Inter-Relations Conference scheduled to meet in Delhi in March, under
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 98 5 STOP PRESS TPIGER? "Yes, It's Tiger, a gentleman by the name 1 Jim. "Believe it or not, and Wings". Thus saying, he up a brush and made this sketch 1 his suddenly popped have to catch the for upcountry. 1 U IcH you more about it orrow when I come
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    • 10 5 I ECONOMY l LOW TANG CHANG LTDI (INCORPORATED IN SINGAPORE)
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  • 314 6 OUR FINANCIAL SECTION (From Our Oxen Correspondent) The share market opened this week steady but a little quieter and as can be seen from current prices, there has already been a good rise in the industrial section of the market with the result that at
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  • 85 6 Reuter. SYDNEY. Jan. 14.—According to the Sydney Daily Tel2graph tne French Administration oi New Caledonia will attempt to make Noumea, the capital, the Monte Carlo oi the Pacific. Permission was given for the erection of a casino at Noumea. Companies controlling Monaco, luxurious gambling principality on
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  • 117 6 U.P. STUTTGART. Jan 13.—Germany's silver industry, important to the success of the $2,000.--000.000 bi-aonal export programme, is ready to resume large-scale production on receipi of orders from foreign buyers. United States economic officials revealed today. It w»i believed that European nations have be in slow
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  • 71 6 United Press. NEW YORK. Jan. 13.—The Polish-American Congress has appealed to President Truman to sever diplomatic 'relations with the Polish Government "which during the 20 months of its reign of terror has established beyond doubt not only its inability to gcv:rn the Polish people but
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  • 148 6 U.P. COLOMBO. —"We have bee n 131 .wars Under British adr.iip istration and if we look back and say that education has been backward it is a disgrace/ said Mr. C. W. W. Kannangara. Minister of Education, who presided t a public meeting or
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  • 126 6 Reuter. PARIS, Jan. 13,—The Air France spokesman said tonight that the French Air Line had refused Prof. Johan Smertenko, Vice-President of the American Committee for free Palestine, a passage to England on Wednesday because of a "warning handed to aii lines here today by the
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  • 249 6 Moscow, Jan. 12.—The Bri-tish-sponsored Russian language weekly paper, Britanski Soyuznik (British Ally) was today accused in Kultura I Zhizn (Culture and Life), organ of the propaganda and agitation department of the Soviet Communist Party of bias and distortion of news. The author of the article, K.
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  • 302 7 Reuter. (From Norman Preston, Reuters Special Corres). Hobart, Jan. 13.—The MCC shaped much better here today when yet another match was left drawn. Most satisfactory was the excellent batting of Fishlock, Compton and Ikin. Before the fifth wicket fell the MCC had passed 300 but the
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  • 122 7 Reuter. 0 Jan 11 "Sumo", for wntiiries past Japan's mo»t i steadily losing be public and is for tennis, baseball modern games. The rjjn tr -s attending Sumo Iropped to one-third figure and gate reIplpl t vc dlmtaisned accordingly .ii the popularity 0 I g writ ing
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  • 66 7 Inter-Malays BadTournament isi being planned u< be staged in March with th purpose of encouraging further in this field i f spt U A committee consisting repri ntatives of various Malay B..dminton Parties has been manage the tournament A. i> t«d Malay Badminton Parties arc asked to
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  • 80 7 are reminded that a Re D and Dance will be dence of the Patron, i, Hong, No. 75 Kooii Be»| H id, Thursday. Jany. 2i f »t 1 »'m M ofe r wish m to )mii are ir fii ilid to get in tcuch witn H SecreteT) h
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  • 59 7 SYDNEY.—It was announced In Sydney today that the Australia Test te?m for the fourth Test match at Adelaide commencing on Jan. 31 will be the sime that which was played at Melbourne. The team for the Melbourne Test was: Bradman (capt.). Has sett, Morris. Barnes. Miller. McCool.
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  • 28 7 The monthly committee meeting cf the Marigold B.P. will be held on Sunday next tit the residence of the Vice-President. 320, Thomson Road, at 10.00 a.m.
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  • 370 7 Reuter. HOBART, Jan. 13— Major Rupert Howard, manager wCC team, denied to-day that England players fr c Putting cricket first. He was answering an ex- rrom the London Sunday Express in which the 1 ClifT Cary made the criticism. which was wldeiy »J Australian
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  • 189 7 MCC first Innings 374 MCC 2nd Innings Gibb c Gardiner b Murfett 11 Fushlock c ft b Johnson 4 6 Hardstaff c Max Thomas b Johnson AO Compton c Barnes b Layer 124 Ikin C Clark b Miller SO Edrich st. Gardiner b Layer Z2 Yardley b Layer
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  • 316 7 U.P. LONDON —Just a few blocks from Jack Solomon's prize fight headquarters is the office of a discouraged man—Joe Bloom, representative in Europe of the Transvaal Sporting Club of Hahannesburg, South Africa. A veteran of many years in the fight game and manager of Eddie
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  • 46 7 Thp f »Howlng will represent the .f.C.S.A. in a friendly "game of soccer with the R.E.M.E. (B Coy.) oh Thursday, at the McNair Road gfound: Teck Phuah. Hendroff. Ross, Aloysius, Sabapathy, Appaveo, Pllfal. Bakar, Kamsani. Lim Swang, Ortega, K. Bala, Sul Heng, Rodrigues.
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  • 274 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 13. One of the hoaxes in sports for years concerns the signing of 'famous Scottish international" by the football team of Sete, a seaport in South Prance. It Was reportea that Sete, badly in need of a British fullback to bolster up their tottering
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  • 133 7 Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 13.—Draw for the fourth round of the P.A. Cup to be played on Saturday, Jan. 25: Woivea Vs. She field U. Chester vs. Tottenham or Stoke. Birmingham vs. Portsmouth. Chelso>a or Arsenal vs. Derby County. Manchester United Vs. Notts Forest Queens Park
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  • 198 7 MALACCA.—Scoring three goals in the first ten minutes of the game, the Muar Chinese emerged 7-2 victors over Muar Malays in the Victory Cup Pinal in Malacca. The ftrat goal came throtrgh Seng Tuck, who drove into the net after a rob from Sek How.
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  • 39 7 Mr. C. Lawson-Reec», Controller, British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service, Will addrc.4s the Bast-West Society on Thursday ĕt S p.m. at the YMCA., Btamford Road, the subject of his talk will be "The Next Ten Years in Broadcasting."
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  • 236 7 A charity show in aid of the Singapore War Memorial Fund has been arranged by the President and Committee of the Chinese Athletic for the forthcoming Chinese New Year Day, Jan. 22, at Jalan Besar Stadium. The programme will consist of musical performances
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  • 157 7 Th? following, have been selected to represent Singapore at hockey against Selangor and Perak on Saturday Jan. 18 and Sunday Jan. 19 respectively. All players, are to be at th? station by 7.30 p.m. on Friday, and those who are unable to travel, are requested to inform
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  • 153 7 Reuter. New York, Jan. 12. —A rescue plan has landed on open water ten miles from the crashed aircraft which had been missing in the Antarctic since Dec. 30, according to a radio despatch received here. The pilot and the pharmacist's mate went ashore in
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  • 88 7 Reuter. Melbourne, Jan. 13.— The Australian Lawn Tennis Association decided today that Australia will challenge for the 1947 Darts Cirp in the North American zone. It also decided to send a team of four meri and two women to South Africa
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  • 29 7 Reuter. Galax. Virginia, Jan 12 dfxteen of 19 oefsons aboard afi eastern pa.<wen*ef plane trefe fcfiled when the aircraft crashed at nearly Vfrthvilre, the local police headquarters stated today.—Reuter.
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  • 94 7 U.P. Mantla, Jan. 13. The Far Eastern Air Transport announced that another of its airliners with 30 passengers and 12 crewmen aboard, made a successful forced landing at Hoihow on Hainan Island after turning back from a Hong Kong Singapore flight because of bad weather which
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  • 298 7 <By Tribune Racing Correspondent) IPOH.—Official training for tne Perak Turf Club two-day meeting began on a somewhat yielding going. Main interest in the workouts was centred on the new horses under the charge of t» air ers Van Breukelen and Col. Fox. With the exception of
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  • 41 7 In a friendly soccer match player at the Police Training School ground the Jollilads Athletic Union defeated the 45 India. General Hospital, Johore Bahru. by three goals to nil. M. I. Osman, Krisnan and Muniyandi scored the goals.
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  • 47 7 U.P. SUSSEX. ENGLAND Jan Leonard Crawley, of Cambridge, today virtually assured hhtweli a /tact on England Walker vJl*> Team for the fourth tfffie m his career by winning the "Pre*idcmVs Putter" in the first post was torrrnarnent of the Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society —U.P,
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  • 1182 8 Round-table Talks Begin In London Attlee Gives Assurance Reuter. London, Jan. 13.—The following communique was issued after the first meeting between United Kingdom Ministers and the delegation from the Executive Council of the Governor of Burma. 'The meeting took
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  • 131 8 U.P. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—An auUk ntativv official source told the United Press today that the State Department \vat> still balked in its efforts to secure a Far Eastern Com>Q| agreement on Japanese reparations. The source sai.i that the plan limits the amour t which
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  • 94 8 LONDON, Jan. 12.—Reports In the official Soviet Embassy organ Soviet News" indicate that Russia is about to resume the project of Birobidjan, an autonomous Jewiso region in the Soviet Par East which seemed to have been la abeyance lor several years. The Soviet News referred
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  • 214 8 U.P. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 2.—General George C. Marshall when he takes office, will face a major dispute with top ranking Republicans unless he is willing to change United States policy toward China and Argentina. Senator Vandenberg sent up that signal when he revealed that he
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  • 96 8 U.P. TOKYO. Jan. 13.-The Mainichi said today that the art school in Tokyo has been compelled to suspend rlairi for painting nudes lest models contract illne&s on account of the coal shortage The paper said that the school which previously was alloted three tons of coal monthly, received
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  • 225 8 U.P. TOKIO. Jan. 13 —The ranks of Japan's alleged war criminals now on trial before the Inter national Military Tribunal, Far East, grew thinner today two more defendants were missing from the dock. Only 20 were present. Tribunal President Sir William
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  • 245 8 U.P. WASHINGTON Ja v 12.—TJ States ir.iups must r m Caifc, indefinitely despite Oil m internal troubles, »C* bers of Congress whi hh that country recerr They have expressed their v connection with the crctary of State Gauge on the Chinese situation. The group
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  • 143 8 Joseph Davis, a Canadian fron the "Winowa' who upp ar c in the Third Police Court last week on a charge of vagrancy, *o which he claimed trial. wa> produced to-day, in court when Ik wa- acquiiteci. Magistrate K. M. Byrne, pointed ouc that Davies could
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  • 86 8 U.P. MDO, Jan. 13.—Five pC eluding three women Were trilled 'n a collision of two light paUWi Miami Aviation Centre Airpon on Sunday. One of the two pilots was Ne* York woman, Muriel Owen?. Botn were attempting to land when the? saw each other at
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  • 77 8 OSLO, Jan. 12. No: Foreign Halyard M. Laapt, W oy phone to-night, question- suOmitted to him by the United Asked to commert On a d'-paten that tne Soviet Union elailßt BM* l naval base s Jn Spitzbcrfc.-:. "As preliminary oOBVer*al been >trietly Confidential 1 in a
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