Malaya Tribune, 30 January 1947

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  • 52 1 The Malaya Tribune B y THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Now printed simul taneously in Singapore, Kuala L umpur. Ipoh Tenang. Phone Numbers: Editor ***** Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 20G£ SINGAPORE. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1947 TEN CENTS The Malaya Tribune THURSDAY, JAN.
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  • 482 1 'Agreement Reached On 16 Of 20 Demands'—Official London, Jan. 29.—When asked in the House of Commons today tor a t atement on the strike in Singapore, the Colonial Secretary. Mi. Creech Jones, said that on January 21 seven unions under Inoian leadership, representing a
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  • 54 1 U.P. H n 29. -Chiinfesting the j border areas [vised to sur- uunitions at ere stations j shed for the adopted by vi Siamese and Malayai authoi i'es con thai the bandit- be held for and will bub,' ■b,' I aken i T:% i.
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  • 88 1 n Reporter* or, Rif Franklin full of smiles late ;it today's ic'l meeting when ised through Control Trade Marks the Custodian Vesting Bill, the I esh ResjistiaVoiunteer For- X fence Coros Deli 1 )rovidea for an mob l nation nf »J< members of the
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  • 305 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter/ About $4 000 e n cash and property were stolen in seven rob ben s, in live or wmch tne robbers were armed, in Singapore, yesterday. A gang of seven Chinese, one oi whom brandish, d 8 revolver, b-jarded a motor
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  • 175 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) More than 400 workers emI ployed by the R.E.M.E. Base I HQ and the Base Workshop are j involved in a strike today foi--1 lowing an incident yesterday j morning, after which 150 mechanics staged a walk-out. About twenty armed civil poI hcerrten
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  • 39 1 U.P. FRANFURT, Jan. 29.—Three Ger mans were sentenced by a Dachifu military court to hang for killing five American airmen who parachuted from a plane in August 19**4 and Were shot in the neck after surrendering.—U.P.
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  • 137 1 Reuter. "WASHINGTON. Jan. 29 Director General of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation. Sir John Boyd On. said in a broadcast tonight. "If Government- do not give whole-hearted co-operaiion to the food plan announced by the F.A.O. Preparatory Commission in Washington last week—a
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  • 399 1 Reuter. Jerusalem, Jan. 29. —Major H. L Collins—kidnap victim of Jewish terrorises --was found unconscio us m Jerusalem tonight. Hv. is now in Hadassah Clinic Collins, who was freed by the Irgun Zvai Leumi tonight had b en held captive by the Irgun for 78 hours
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  • 560 1 Reuter. London. Jan. 29.—Drawing attention to contributions to be made by the United Kingdom and the Colonies to the solution of problems of imperial defence. Lord Strabolgi, Labour Po( r said in the Hi/Us? of LorJs tonight that the real problem of
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  • 44 1 IPOH Thurs.—A fatal truck accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon near Troiak villag' near Tanjong Malim. When a vehicle w th five military personnel Draco dint to Ipoh turned turtle. All occupants were pinned underneath One of them, a captain, died
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  • 111 1 A young Chinese gunman who attempt; d to shoot his way out as he was about to be arre teri jbv detectives was wounded and captured in Chinatown at the I junction ol South Bridge Road and Carpent r Street, yesterday. In his possession was a quan- titv
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  • 31 1 COLOMBO, Jan. 29. —A Ceylonese expeditionary force may shortly g<> to Indo-China to fight "the battle <if liberation against French imperialists", the Secretary of the Legion of Ceylonese Ex-Servicemen stated ioday.
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  • 264 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 29.- -Mr. Arthur Creecn Jcr.< >. Colonial Secretary, made the Allowing statement in the House of Commons toaay in reply to a question by D. Rees Williams. Labour, about tie proposals on citizenship and jurisdiction in the Malay States which
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  • 93 1 U.P. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 29—Ten I death sentence* were pronounced I today in the magistrate's court here on members ot the notorious "Lorenzeg Gang" charged With sabotage, torture, and assassination jof hundreds oi Danish patriots, dur- tn German occupation. I The Gang was name.) alter
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    • 511 2 1 TRIBUNE PRE-PAID CLASSIFIED j ADVERTISEMENTSi Casual Advertisements: j 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: $4.00 per single column) inch per insertion. Domestic Occurrences: Death, Engagement, Mar I riage. Birth Notices,
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    • 347 2 NOTICES. TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ORDINANCE No. 22 of 1937 Custodian of Property Proclamation No. 14 of 1945 Notice is hereby given that any person or persons having a claim to the property described in the Schedule hereto are requested to forward such claim to the Custodian of Property, Supreme
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  • 267 3 Unanimous Strike Decision Reached At Meeting (IVjOiine Staff Repoi«er>. Eight o'clock: Saturday morning is the zero hour for yet another major transport stoppage. An unanimous decision to strike was reached at a meeting of the Singapore Traction Company employees at Short
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  • 86 3 Reuter. j WASHINGTON, Jan. 2«J.—Mr. Warren Austin, United States repre- sentative on the United Nations Security Council and Atomic Energy Commission, after conferinj* With I President Truman at White House, said: "Unilateral disarmament for I the United States is done and finished." Mt. Austin added
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  • 100 3 Moluccas Tie With Holland Reuter. Amboina (South Moluccas). Jan. 29.--A move to separate South Moluccas from the proposed East Indonesian state and seek "stronger bonds with the Netherlands" has been aereed by leaders of some political groups here, it was announced at a meeting at Amboina attended by 3.000 people.
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  • 80 3 Reuter. LONDON. Jan. 29.-Dr. William Henry de Barque Hubert. 42. a psycho-therapist of Old Church Street. Chelsea, who gave evidence in the Heath case, and Miss P. Baiky. 27. of Oakeley Street. Chelsea, were found unconscious at the house in Oakley Street, Chelsea. It is understood
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  • 75 3 Jaleson Pandi (26), an Indian prison gub-warder, appeared in th.? Second Police Court on a tentative charge of robbery, yesterday. It was alleged that Pandi, armed Vvlth a knife, and accompanied by three others, robbed another Indian, Dost Mohamed bin Kalah Khan, of $9 at the junction
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  • 62 3 Teo Chwee Seng, a Hoklen. aged 18, was offered bail of $500 when he claimed trial In the Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday, on a charge of theft of 100 tins of Mepacrine tablets valued at $2,900 from the 0.C.8., B D.M.S. on the 7% miles West Coast Road on the
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  • 239 3 Serangoon Shooting Irwin Oliver Jones, 38, was committed for trial at the next Assizes by the Seventh Police Magistrate. Mr. A. P. Jack, at the" conclusion of the preliminary inquiry yesterday, on charges of murder of Maurice Fox and causing serious injury
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  • 89 3 A 23 year old Hylam, Sin Ah Tiew, with a number of alias's was produced before Magistrate Tan ThoOn Lip in the Fourth Police Court yesterday, on a tentative charge of armed robbery of one pair of earings, a pair of bangles, a ring, two gold
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  • 95 3 The assistance of the public is requested in tracing the whereabouts of a Japanese Major suspected of being a War Criminal icho escaped from Mac Arthur Camp in Singapow on December ist'h whilst on parole and undergoing medical treatment. The search which has
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  • 318 3 Ideal Ambitions Of Co-operative Stores Rotary Club Address The ideals and ambitions of the Co-operative stores and their successful growth from the time they were begun in October last year was the subject of the talk given by Mr. Lim Kian Chye at the Rotary Club lunch yesterday. Mr. L:m
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  • 51 3 U.P. Shanghai. Jan. 29.—1t was officially announced today that a China National Aviation Corp plane piloted by an American captain, John Papajik of New York City, and carrying 27 othtri including 9 foreign missionaries, is missing on a flig-ht between Hankow and Chunking since Tue day.—
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  • 52 3 Reuter. Poole. Jan. A. G. Bottomley. Parliamentary UnderSecretary for the Dominions, who was to have left J»oole by flying-boat today for Burma to find out the wishes of the frontier people about the proposed Brlti?h plan for self-government, had his flight cancelled for 24 hours because of the
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  • 216 3 A list of ten demands including one for 40 per cent, increase in wages and another for workmen's compensation has just bee n submitted by the R.A.F. Base lab.Urer:; to the Base authorities. The men have asked for a reply within 15 Jays. Here wen- the
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  • 230 3 Fourteen Japanese surrendered personel, labourers at the Singapore harbour board, pleaded guilty before Magistrate K. M. Byrne in the Third Police Court yesterday, to charges of theft. When A. S. P. Mr. DftVl's of the harbour board police went to the Tanjong Pagar calßp on Jan.
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  • 66 3 His Excellency the GovernorGeneral and Mrs. MaeDonald, accompanied by the Secretary-Gene-ral, Mr. E. E. S. Pretty, will leave Singapore for Jesselton today to attend the North Borneo Governors Conference to be held on Friday. Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, Mr. J. Calder and Mr. Peel. Resident of
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  • 165 3 Batu Arang Strike Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 29.--The two hundred Japanese who started work at Batu Arang today are expected to produce four hundrel tons of coal daily—just sufficient to maintain essential services. If necessary more Japanese will be brought in. The Malay Nationalist Party
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  • 522 4 A week ago we drew attention to some unijaurtaie misstatements of fact on the part of the Colonial Secretary in his replies in Parliament to members' questions on matters of Many an interest. Mr. Creech Jones' statement in the Common s yesterday on the strike of
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  • 1026 4  -  by Dr. George Gretton Publication of the British Government White Paper on relations between employers and workers marks a new stage in Britain's great post-war reconstruction project. It represents a searching analysis of the present economic position in Bri tain. Of all people, those of
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  • 228 4 WASHINGTON.—One of the chief factors which led the Federal Reserve Board to consider inflationary peril in the United States largely past and once more allow a 25 per cent, credit extension for margin trading on the nation's securities exchanges is that the supply of money in
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  • 436 4 PARlS—Devil's Island and the rest of French Guiana's penal colonies arc to become flourishing outposts of the French Union under the Fourth Republic. Colonel Xavier Sainz. director Ol the French Colonial Penitentiary Services, who has jusr returned from a two-year mission to liquidate this 96-year-old
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  • 132 4 MELBOURNE —A service for forgetful husbands is a successful business for ex-serviceman J. J. Hughes of Sydney. Australia. He has established a "Lovely Lady Service" in each of the Australian capital cities, and his job 1? to remember other men s wedding anniversarys. the birthdays of
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  • 157 4 Letters To The Editor Sfr— lt was recently stated that di-cus i'-n., in regard to Indian immigration into Malaya were taking place ai higher levels at Delhi bat so far nothing more nas been heard. It i> time that some action Is taken in the
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  • 143 4 Sir.- In the "Milaya Tribune" of January 27th. Mr. John Eber. the Honorary Secretary of th? Pan-Malayan Council of Joint Action, was reported to have $ta f ed in hi> speech at Kuala Lumpur on January 2uth thai at the Alor, Star conference several memb r
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  • 106 4 Sir,—Singapore, long tamed for smells certainly surpassed itself today. Market Street, Hill Street. Chulia Street, in fact •every thoroughfare I passed through this morning was piled high with refuse of every description., The side-walks were strewn with nauseating rubbish. Surely in the interests of health some solution
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  • 529 4  -  By R. B. Ooi) TANJONG BALEI. —The immigrant, the trader, and the school teacher —>pearhead of colonization in Malaysia for over a century—are in their elemental glory on Karimoen and the other islands in the Rhio Archipelago where life is much simpler than anywhere in Malaya. Now.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 48 4 STRANGE AS JT SEEMS H "5 0r S"' J <?'■-;tu LlGWTNING* WAS SEEN m KNOWN TO TTCAWETL UNOEI?- (\r\ GROUND-AND WILL (HP UP W SlOEWAUiS AND PAVEMENT/ vlA /jV T M£ m£ III SONS'UU M(XL£N£" /S _T v sums aw THE am. the US »zs >*°» t J, I
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  • 521 5 FAMILY OF 5 ESCAPES: 'IT'S GOD'S WISH' SAYS MOTHER (Tribune Staff Reporter) killed and the .passenger injured when an RAF Beaufightei a coconut plantation off Tampenis Road yesterday shortly before a lane through coconut trees about a hundred yards long and •r
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  • 185 5 r Wed.—The down on the nhwotil ol Ba -.-an today ire, Chor g Loy. r K< V aad Ng An I i .T-haired loBj lingly receiv- hanging y Justice Spenthe Supreme tei ced to death untbatten proclamu- dream at SunB Bt i O bei 15
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  • 68 5 Two companies >ps, attempting v French airport of k ng were >traf anker and spitma fled irom the ng 60 dead ac- rep »rts from Hanoi. Dents had at- th lr way into t c sver of darkjl I lit a number of communique v porta dt>cribed the nch
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  • 30 5 Clydi food Adviser Commissioner will broadcast ya to-morrow at yde will be tak<nt visit to Lon > on where he -übject of food for witti the Interrgency Food Coun-
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  • 121 5 Three "families" of Italian bees I from Australia are arming in SinI gapore by Qantas Flying Boat at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday. The import of these bees has been arranged by Mr. Claude Massey, the Australian Commissioner, for transhipment to Saigon. The bees are consigned to Dom
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  • 328 5 LONDON, Jan. 29— The British Press notes with satisfaction that provision is made in agreement with the Burman leaders for the hill tribes to be consulted regarding their own future, but the agreement itself is received with some misgivings by both Right and extreme
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  • 50 5 At 10.15 p.m. (Malayan Time) to-morrow the British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service will re-broadca-t from General Overseas Service of the BBC a description of the departure of the Royal Family from London that afternoon It will be broadcast in the 19. 25. and 44 metre bands-
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  • 45 5 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 29—The State Department spokesman today denied that there had been any negotiations between the United States and Denmark for the purchase of Greenland or that the United States had any such proposal A Copenhagen press report had mentioned $1,000,000,000 as the price—Reuter.
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  • 44 5 Reuter. London. Jan. 29, —Formal negotiations for tne conclusion of an Anglo-French alliance began in London today when M. Rene Massigll, French Ambassador, called on Sir Oliver Harvey at the Foreign Office to begin work on the detailed terms of the agreement.—Reuter.
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  • 171 5 Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 28.— London's Commissioner of Police, Sir Harold Scott, today made a further appeal to the public to help the police in the battle against criminals. Crime g rap ii* studied in ,ne past few days show shop-break-ing cease have increased recently
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  • 214 5 "Why Give Up Bombay Singapore?" Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 29. -In a lettei tne Daily Telegraph. Sh Lionet laworth, formerly of the Foreign and Political of the Goveinmen' of India, asks why Britain houla give up Bombay and Singapore Recalling that Bombay has not been in Indian possession fo--413 years and
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  • 86 5 Ipoh, Wed.—One of a Chinese gang, on encountering a Pathan police clerk attached to the Bidor police station and a Sikh constable who were cycling from Bidor to a nearby village on special duty, threw a handgrenade at the police party, seriously injuring the
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  • 66 5 Mr. Angus Mitchell, Director of the Rotary International, Will be the guest of honour at an informal after-dinner gathering at Raffles Hotel ia-night wbarc fellow-Rota-rians and their wives will gather to meet him. Mr. Mitchell who is a member of the Melbourne Rotary Club which welcomed many pri-soner-of-war
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  • 220 5 COMMITTEE REJECTS OFFER OF 9-MONTH BACK-PAY (Tribune Staff Reporter) "We have rejected the Government's offer of a certain number of months' back-pay to us," said a representative of the Combined Government Servants' Committee which held a private meeting on Monday evening. Though the
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  • 209 5 (Tribune Staff Reporter.) A number of Nepalese hill tribesmen in national costume attracted Considerable attention yesterday morning when they stepped ashore from the Wosang and walked through the main stieets of the town. The men made picturesque figures in their musty looking costumes, brightened by
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  • 287 5 Capt- G. Collier of the 2nd Gurkha Rjfles wa 3 called as a defence witness yesterday to show that one of the three accused Jai Deo (who was his transport driver at the time in question* could not possibly have been involved in the ambush
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  • 133 5 The Government will shortly introduce a bill into the Advisory Council to amend the Advocates and Solicitors' Ordinance so as to clarify the right of a managing clerk (of an advocate or solicitor) to appear before a judge or registrar which under the
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  • 121 5 The Wedding took place yesterday at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd of Miss Maureen Enid Taye, fourth daughter of Mrs. L. E. Taye of Singapore, and Mr. Arthur Charles Wakellng of the Special Commissioner's Office. The bride was attired in a frock of white marocain crepe
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  • 39 5 General Stopford, G.O.C-in-C Land Forces, South East Asia, will be away from Singapore from the Jan. 30 to Feb. Ist on a farewell Visit to the Ceylon Garrison, making the trip by York arrcraft.
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  • 314 5 Prices quoted below are for picul weight except where other wise statedFoodstuffs:—Yesterday's quotwere "Meehoon': Siam No 1 $87^. Rice: Siam No. 1 $110; No. 2 $10fi. Rice milling: Siam $40; Glu' rice; Siam $85. Rock Sugar: —$49. "Gula" Malacca: -Superior cf..nty $41. White sugar: $77. Brown
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  • 20 5 The ban on the Muslim League'S National Guard Organization and the Hindu Rashtriva Sewa Sangh was withdrawn today.
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  • 599 6 COMMISSION TO REPORT ON PROPOSAL Replying to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. A. Creech-Jones, Secretary of State for Colonies, reiterated the Government's decision to create a University College in Singapore, of which King Edward VII College of Medicine
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  • 119 6 Reuter. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 29.Eighteen British war brides returning after staying only a few months in Canada were among the passengers in the liner Aquitania at Southampton from Halifax. Mrs. Elizabeth Burke, returning to her home at Thomas Street, We&t Gorton, Manchester, after five months at
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  • 27 6 U.P. Bogota, Colombia, Jan. 29.-The Av.mca Airlines announced that all 17 persons, including three Americans, wer? killed in a plane which crashed in the jungle last Wednesday.—U.P.
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  • 101 6 Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 29.—Three hundred thousand new houses will be built thi s year if Government plans are realised—double the number completed in 1946 Though Mi. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, refuses to set a target, he hopes that this programme will be achieved. Of the
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  • 296 6 Tins Dull On Reports Of Batu A rang Strike In tin shares, London had a dull market yesterday and prices at that end were slightly kftfer. Private advices from London were th t the market was disappointed at the government price of tin being unchanged and showed
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  • 119 6 The S.CC.R.A.'s rubber prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers cts- cts. per lb. per lb. No. 1 R.S S.. Spot, loose 41J 42 No. 1 R.S-S F.o b. in bales Feb 43 43£ No 2 R.S.S.. F.o.b: in bales Feb. 42i 42| No. 3 R.S.S., F o.b
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  • 65 6 Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 28.—Snowstoims today swept many parts of the country including London. Practically the entire fleet of buse> on route 212, Finsbury Park Muswell Hill—was stranded for a time on the steep Muswell Hill. A woman walking up the Hill was swept off her
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  • 14 6 Penang has received its first consignment of American apples ai.d oranges since the liberarion
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  • 193 6 Reuter. Shanghai. Jan. 29.—Due to the exceedingly grave economic conditions in Germany, military authorities there did not agree to any large scale repatriation of German refugees from Shanghai I with th? exception of those useful to German economy. Dr. J. Baper, retiring Director of UNRRA's
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  • 107 6 Reuter. 1 LONDON, Jan. 29.—Within the next few weeks, almost every I tobacco manufacturer in the country will have increased the j price of many proprietary brands. Aiready several Arms have an- nounced increases. "These increases may remain J foi a long time—for a year or two J
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  • 71 6 Reuter. Paris. Jan. 2*.—The British, United States and Chinese consuls in Hanoi discussed me a ure > to safeguard civilian life in the Indo-Chinese battle areas during a meeting with high Vietnamese officials here, last night, a dispatch to ''Combat" from it.; Hanoi correspondent %a f d. Tbr-
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  • 124 7 Fourth Test Tomorrow Reuter. ADELAIDE, Jan. 29.—Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland players chosen for Australia, arrived here today to join Bradman and Dooland in readiness for Friday's Test. As th? match coincides with tennis, howls titles, and national swimming championships, th<> city i
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  • 339 7 Len Hutton, with an aggregate of 1,253 runs in 21 innings retains the lead in the M.C.C. batting averages Jffi matc «es in Australia. Hutton, who scored a tottU of. 165 runs in the M.C.C.\s match against South Australia a few days ago, nas an
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  • 126 7 LONDON, Jan. 29 —Over 4,000 attended the funeral of Alex Murphy, the Port Glasgow bantamweight who died after fighting the Frenchman, Emile Famechon. Jackie Bryce, Airdrie, won the Scottish flyweight title from Johnny Summers. Edinburgh. Scotland is expecting to hold the swimming contest for the Bologna Trophy at
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  • 103 7 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.President Truman will make the draw on Feb. 3 for the 1947 Davis Cup competition. The trophy will be taken to the President's office in White House by a United States Lawn Tennis Association official and representatives of competing nations* will'
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  • 34 7 U.P. LIFE'S SPAN 66½ YRS. New -York. Jan. 29—The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company r-ported that American wage earners and their families have a new all-time life expectancy high of 65.6 years in 1946. —UP.
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  • 334 7 Chester's Great Bally F.A. Cup Replay Thrills Reuter. London, Jan. Wanderers, favourites t 0 win the English F.A. Cup, were knocked out of the competition by Sheffield United in a fourth round replay at Sheffield tod Jy ?;fter a hard struggle. Their
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  • 67 7 Reuter. GLASGOW. Jan. 29.—The following is the draw for the .second round of the -ScottL,h Soccer Cup to b? played on Feb. 8; Aberdeen vs. Ayr East Fife vs. ClachmacuddLn Or Ea>t Stirling. The remaining fourteen clubs have byej: Albion Rover-. Hibernian. Arbroath or Stenhousmuir. •Dundee Falkirk
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  • 65 7 LONDON, Jan. 29—Football results: F.A. CUP REPLAYS. Sheffield U. 2 Wolves A Manchester C. l f Bolton W. 0 Stoke City 3, Chester 2 Derby C. 1, Chelsea 0 (after extra time) ENGLISH LEAGUE DIV. Everton I. Liverpool 0 Huddersfield 1, Portsmouth 2 Preston N. E. 0, Middlesbro'
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  • 114 7 Tennis Sensation Reuter. MELBOURNE. Jan. 29—A message from the United States Lawn Tennis Association to remaining members of the United States Davis Cup squad in Australia a-king them to retur.i home immediately caused a stir at the annual confer?nce of the Australian Lawn Tennis
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  • 379 7 HOCKEY Pride of place undoubtedly went to the S.R.C when they beat the strong Indian Association by 4-0 in a hockey match played en the Fadang yesterday. The Indians never completely recovered from the shock of the Rec's grand effort in the second
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  • 99 7 I In the seven-a-side rugger tournament held On the padam? yesterday, the game between G. H. Q and H. M- S. Sultan, was palled off and will be played tomorrov:. The S. C. S. "Anazacs" were defeated by R.A.F. Changi six points to {hree. j The next game
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  • 161 7 The following will represent the S.R.C. i n a hockey match to the played on the padang tomorrow when they will meet H.Q. SEALF. R. Rozario; R. Hoffman, B. iCleiman; G. Ross, L. F. de Souza, 11 La Brooy; C. Lloyd, D. Sawyer, C. Raynay, A. O. Valberg
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  • 63 7 Reuter. MELBOURNE. Jan. 29 —Bernborough idol of the Australian .turf, left by sea for the United States today. wa, purchased lat? last year by Louis B. Mayer. American film magnate and racehorse owner for a reported sum of €93 000. A large crowd
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  • 36 7 In order torevive the activities of the Mayblossom Badminton Party, former members are invited to attend a meeting to b? held on Friday at No. 1. Loror-f? 25. Geylong Road, Singapore, at 5.00 p.m.
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    • 28 7 To-night: 7—9 i,s pm. The Screen's exciting story Of 5 Commandos inside War torn Europe! "Desperate Journey" wiya Enrol Flynn Jtonald Reagan Packed with thrills, and tense escapes!
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  • 148 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—German xuerts, who solved Ihe wartime problem of escape fr>m jet planes flying at high speeds, are new in the United States helping to develop better parachutes. The problem of escape from .1 let aircraft was solved secretly by the Germans who Used
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  • 136 8 SHANGHAI, Jan. 29.—Mr. Lee Yung-liang, Secretary-General of the Shanghai Steamrhip Companies Guild, was quoted by the Central News Agency today as warning the Chinese Government to guard "against any attempt to revive British shipping rights in Chinese inland and coastal waters as recently expressed by Lord
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  • 50 8 As intensive vaccination cam paign has been in progress in the various district-; of Perak during the la>t month and a Public Relations Public Address Unit is helping th,- Health authontie; to make the people vaccination conscious. As many as 15 878 people were vaccinated in Central Perak in December.
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  • 239 8 Renewed Fears Of All-Ou t Civil War Reuter. Diplomatic quarters here considered to-day's announcement merely an implementation of the policy expressed in General George Marshall's angry "swan song"' report on the mission to China some weeks ago in which "extremist elements" of both
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  • 47 8 GENOA. Jan. 29.—Pfttte&tj from St. Martins Leper Hospital decided to go to the cinema last night and panicked the town. Tney wandered into a theatre and public fears were only partially calmed by the hospital director's statement that iheir disease was not contagious.
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  • 31 8 JERUSALEM, Jan. 29.—For the third successive day a riot broke out in Jerusalem's central prison, When Arab and Jewish prisoners started a fist fight over their rations.
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  • 33 8 Reuter. PARIS Jan. 29.—The recent order exnellin£ a France-Presse AgellcV correspondent from the battle zone of Indochina wa s revolted today by the French High Command, according to France-Press Agency dispatcll from Saigon.—Reuter.
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  • 320 8 U.P. Tokio, Jan. 29. —There is no prospect of the restoration of free trade or free foreign exchange between Japan and other countries in the near future, nine American newspaper executives now visiting in Japan were told. •They heard an exposition by
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  • 71 8 LONDON, Jan. 29.—Justice Croom Johnson gave judgment in the High Court this afternoon in a slander action by Norman Scobie a racehorse trainer of Whitsbury. Hants, against William Hill, a West End bookmaker. Earlier Scobie said in evidence that Hill had called him an "imposter
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  • 59 8 Reuter. LONDON. Jan. 29 -Gen. Aung San, leader of the Burma dele gation to Britain, and two other delegates U Tin Tut and Thasin Mya, will fly from Bassingbourne ait field, near London, tomorrow morning on the first stage of their journey back to Burma
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  • 32 8 LONDON. Jan 29—Buckingham Palace announced today that Prince Philip of Greece, whose name ha<? been repeatedly linked with that of Princes Elizabeth, will not go to South Africa with the Royal Family.
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  • 34 8 Tokio, Jan. 29. -Mr. George Ateliesop. American Chairman of the Four-Power Council for Japan, left by air today for the United States for consultation with Mr. Marshall, new Secretary of State.
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  • 198 8 Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 29.- The River Thames is frczen for the first time since 1940 following a niglu of snow, blizzards and icy winds There U a thin layer ol ice for one-quart;r of a mile on the river at Windsor. It was the coldest
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  • 41 8 LONDON, Jan. 29.—The Secretary for Mr. Noel Baker, told the Commons today that Britain would be glad to conclude with any other ally arrangements similar to those with the United States for the exchange of air officers.
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  • 100 8 LONDON. Jar thony Brooke, m Wnite Rajan. wa Sarawak by an < i o local law (Sai able Persons Ora,i Arthur Creech J Secretary, in a r.ply today. He added "i> Singapore, it wa whether he shoud indorsement of hi tnat t.rritory. "The grant
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  • 28 8 COVENTRY. Jan year-old Ramsgate, X be. missing since Friday to be adrift in a found last night at C Thrhoped to find jobs th
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  • 28 8 The Catholic Young Men'i Association (Church ol 91 Pr-ter and St. Paul) will bold it- annual general meeting on Sunday. Feb. 2. alter th High Ilia
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    • 644 8 NOTICES. NOTIFICATION Tenders will be received at the Office of the Director of Public Works. Singapore, up to noon of the sth February. 1947 for the following work: Supply and delivery of furniture fitments for the Science Laboratories. Raffles Institution. Singapore Every person applying for a form of Tender v
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    • 178 8 NOTICES. MUNICIPAL NOTICE For Information of Medical Practitioners. Please rote that cases of SMALT. POX have been notified in residents of Palembang Road and Lorong 3. Geylang. By Order N. A. CANTON, Miuvcpal Health officer. CHUNGKING Tanjong Pagar Phone 3327 Today: 1. 3.15. 6.30 and 9.00 "SON OF FURY" with
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