Malaya Tribune, 25 March 1947

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    53 1 The Malaya Tribune H y THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA N«>w p/intor! simultaneously in Singapore Kuala I umpur, I poh i'enanr;. Thorn; Numbers: Editor Editorial Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 5K15 iHiHi rrAits SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS- The Malaya Tribune TUESDAY.
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    MIDLANDS, FEN FLOODS & GRAVE DISASTER
    419 1 MIDLANDS, FEN FLOODS GRAVE DISASTER Huge Areas Of Foodcrops Submerged Under Water Reuter. London. Mar. 24. —Floods in the Midlands and Fen district were described by Tom Williams, Minister ol Agriculture in the House of Commons today as "a disaster of the first magnitude". Thousands of acres of winter wheat
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    ‘DID BEST TO MINIMISE MASSACRE'
    353 1 untitled Massache untitled r tin*" further evidence at th;? ttnnt* Massacre Trial this j the fifth accused. Maj. j tated mat he &i al' iv his power to make the Imsi passible ncr lice oi people I the result ol screenins earned out under Kempeital
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    Schoolchildren Held up
    108 1 Two Chinese, displaying handcuffs and revolvers while posing a- detective-, intercepted 0 car conveying children to school, got the vehicle driven to a lonely spot in Thomson Road and robbed the driver of his personal belongings as well as the car. yesterday morning. Later the car was
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    TEST IS 'OFF'
    25 1 CHRISTCHURCK. Mar. 25. The England-New Zealand crickei T' vt was abandoned a- v draw. No play was possible today aftei incewant ia~*i.
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    14 KILLED
    28 1 ATHENS, liar 24. -Fourteen persons described aa "leftists" have been killed by armed m n inside the v ilage of near Mollaoi. it was renorted today.
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    OIL STRIKE
    40 1 CAIRO, Mar. 24—The Standard Gil Company ol NewJersey have discovered oil near the Wadi Baba area of the Sinai desert about 200 miles scuthest ol Suez, along the gull of the Suez coast, it was reported here today.
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    ARABS RAID RAF UNIT
    43 1 Reuter. CAIRO liar. 24. British troop-, with two armoured car*, were dispatched from Caho to Khaiika. north ol Heliopoiis. last night to restore order at a Royal Aii Force Maintenance unit which wa> being attacked by Arab band-. Reuter.
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    3 EXECUTED AFTER NEW REPRIEVE BID
    352 1 Ritual Killings Reuter. ACCRA. Mar. 24 —Three of I 'he Wes Africans condemned r tual murder were executed this afernoon. The case r»f he t\yo is due to oe dealt with tomorrow. Tie executors had been stopped early this morning—live mnu es before they
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    ‘My Blood Boils.’ Says Padre
    93 1 Reuter. BRIGHTON Mar. 24.—The Brit'sh Government wa s today accused of ''criminality*' for the way it was "throwing India to the dogs'" by Reverend D. M. Rus&ell Jones. National President of th; Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches. Speaking to a fellowship rally here he >a
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    ORDERS 'MISUNDERSTOOD,' PRISONERS KILLED
    148 1 RABAUL, Mar. 24.—MajorGeneral Hirota charged with the killing of Chinese prisoners, told the War Crimes Court to<?ay: "My orders were not understood. I ordered the Chinese patients who had rested over three days to be fully reposed. This seems to have been understood by some as
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    FUTURE IS TO THE BROWN MAN—GBS
    162 1 FUTURE IS TO THE BROWN MAN —GBS Reuter. LONDON. Mar. 24. The future is not to the pink man or blac/c man but to the brown man, says George Bernard Shaw in a letter to the secretary of the Indian Workers Association. Asked: "Do you think that South Africa and
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    Jew Delegates 'Walk-out'
    97 1 Pan-Asian Congress U.P. NEW DELHI. Mar. R.—The Palestinian-Jewish dcleßation walked out of the Inter-Asian conference today after an Egyptian woman delegate attacKtM Zionism in a speech before CO proie?s C or Samuel Bergmann. the Palestine delegation leader was later brought back to the Assembly hall by an
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    £4 MILLION MORE IN TEA
    34 1 LONDON. Mar. 24,-British imports of tea from Ceylon are estimated to cost 3,900,000 more in 1047 than 1046. on the assumption tnat imports would continue at the same level.
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    Ex-Minister Sentenced To Death
    405 1 Chalk-Pit Murder Case Reuter. London, Mar. 24.-Thomas John Ley, 66-yeai-c M former New South Wales Minister of Justice, and Lawrence John Smith 38-year-old London joiner, were today sentenced to death for the murder of 35-year-old barman J hn McMain Mudie, whose body was found in a
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    Handgrenades For Two-Not Pistols
    113 1 Reuter. Paris. March 24.—Attorney M. Philonenko ha s challenged exCabinet Minister Andre Le Troquer to a duel to death, states the Chicago Tribune correspondent. During a Socialist Party caucus on the Presne> prison scandal, where convicted collaborators w*re discovered carrying on a smear campaign against French
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    MOUNTBATTEN, NEHRU CONFER
    60 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI. Mar. 24 Admiral Lord Mountbatten. newlyInstalled as Viceroy of India, had a private meeting today with Pandit Nehru. Vice President of the Indian interim Government and Liaquat All Khan, Finance Minister. On Friday. Lord Mountbatten will give a reception for delegates of more than
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    DEATHS
    130 2 DEAIH. Mrs. Tok Joon Chek, r.eo Ng Sok Kheng, age 56 years, i pa*.~x-4 away ceacefully on 25th Marc'i 1947 at her residence, 11 i Ma.:dalay Road, leaving behind her beloved husband, 4 sons— Ick i.c Nghee, Tok lio Kang, 'Ick I.o Hiong, Tok Tio Yong, 5 daugh ers,
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    War On Leprosy: Singapore Health Chiefs Explain
    364 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Though the Health Authorities would be glad to follow up reports of suspected cases of leprosy, they would be entirely opposed to a wholesale round-up of suspects, stated Dr. Vickers. Director of Medical Services, and Dr. R. S. Johnston, Chief
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    TOJO TRIAL FACING 'BREAKDOWN'
    245 2 U.P. TOKIO. Mar. 24.—The trial ci Hideki Tojo and his 25 codefendants Is facing a "breakdown* and all concerned are "viewing with alarm" the length of its proceeding, trio International Tribunal was told today. The revelation was made during a debate and the High Court officially
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    SUGAR AT $10 PER KILO
    83 2 TEHERAN, Mar. 23.—A Teheran newspaper stated today that a Soviet trade agency had sold 10,000 tons of sugar in Iran at the black market price ol 24 shillings per kiiogramme with a profit or nearly £3,000,000. British and American sugar quotas for Iran had been
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    31 2 Notice to quit temporary allotments at Feltham lias been given to the local council by the Ministry of Works. The Middlesex Territorial Association want to build a headquarters on the land.
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    COMMUNISTS EVACUATING YENAN HEADQUARTERS
    184 2 U.P. NANKING, Mar. 24. The Communists are showing signs of evacuating their new headquarters in northeast Shansi, according to pro-C«overnment reports. Government sources Claimed that Nationalist troops have pushed north from the former Communist capital to a point 35 miles northeast and that the Communist administration
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    31 2 The Lord Mayor of London will visit the Richmond Royal Hor-e Show on Friday. Jun, 13. and present the City of London Challenge Cup to the be<t boy or girl rider.
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    Jap PoWs And Internees Die
    105 2 U.P. Shanghai. Mar. 24.—The Central News from Mukden reported today that two Japanese were killed and nine others seriously injured in a severe explosion on Saturday within a building housing Japanes? internees and orisoners-of-war detained pending repatriation. The dispatch said that two parcel? of explosives
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    The N.E.I. Crisis
    460 4 Only gradually has the gravity of the latest crisis in the Netherlands Indies been made clear. That opposition in Holland to the Linggadjati agreement to be signed today remained strong was well known, and indeed it has been so strong that the Dutch Government has still not
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    THE MIX-UP IN GREECE
    948 4  -  A Soldier's comment sums up the civil war in Greccc and presented here in the snapshot technique... by WALTER LUCAS ATHENS. "BLIMEY, I wish I knew," said the British Tommy as he took a pull at his pallid Naafi beer and answered my question: "What do
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    206 4 Letters To The Editor The People's Postbag Sir- -The Chairman of tne Singapore Rural Bo*Td, Mr. C. W. A. Sennet, at the la>t Board meeting tave us seme very interesting facts about the housing shor f age Those are very much appelated, ills figure? of one quarter of a mi'hon
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    Bus Conductors' Rudeness
    209 4 Sir—l am glad the seer tary of the Singapore Chinese Bus Owners' Association has noticed my letter published in the issue of the Malaya Tribune on Mar. 19 under the above caption. I did not take note of the numb'r of the bus nor that of the
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    S.T.C. Strikers' Collections
    167 4 Sir.—l should like to say that my Union is not forcing anybody to contribute to the well wishers fund. So. it is not right for the Ratepayers' Association to address a letter to the Colonial Secretary stating that there is a racket in collect ng funds from
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    Counter Fire
    213 4 Sir.—Mr. Donoghue claims that ht joined the Volunteers in the year 1940 back in England. I do not disbelieve Mr. Donoghue In the least, but I would like him to know that I did not hoodwink the Japs in getting into the Civilian Internment Camp. It was tike
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    Bread Vendors
    180 4 St— I have just read your report concerning "Ten further arre-ts of unlicensed bread vendors made by th. Food Control Inspectorate on Saturday." Why such high-handed action on the>e poor and lowest people who earn their daily living for themselves and their antsThey were not charging black market
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    NEW "IDEAL HOMES"
    191 4 LONDON.—A feature of the j Daily Mail "Ideal Homes Exhltion'* is a "Village'" of six prefabricated ttOUaci erected and foHj furnished, and complete with front garden filled with >pring flowers. All six are Government-spon-sored or Government-approved und are made to stand for years —although these particular houses
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    WHY DO BIRDS MIGRATE
    509 4 LONDON. -What makes a bird migrate? Why. for instance, does one bird twice a y.ar fly 16 000 miles, why does the golden plover fly non-stop from the Aleutian-, to Hawaii and back again, or the tiny hummingbird cross the Gulf of Mexico nonstop each fall
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      35 4 I Ooov./ 'NT* Mrs. IDA j. oody \ay HAS NOT ATTENDED A r MOVIE FOR MORE T HAN 26 Xv' f YEARS- VET ALL TH>S TIME V SHE HAS LIVED IN THE HEART V or
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    LOCAL SHARES CONTINUE FIRM: TINS QUIETLY STEADY
    383 6 The local share market opened firm yesterday. Gammons were done at $5.85 and the market awaits anxiously Whether or not the Changi airfield contract has been awarded to this firm. There is still no official news. Fraser and Neaves improved on the first
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    S’pore Food, Produce Markets
    286 6 Prices auoted beiow are pet picul weight except where otherwise stated. Foodstuffs:—Yesterday's quotations were "Meehoon": Kedah $70: Siam No. 1 $90; Indo-China $70. Rice: Siam No. 1 $94; No. 2 $88: Rangoon $60. Glutinuous rice: Slam No. 1 $75: Rangoon $50 Rock >ugar:— $70. "Quia" Malacca:—Superior
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    H.H. Kung & Son Face Shanghai Newspaper Suit
    92 6 H.H. Kung Son Face Shanghai Newspaper Suit UP. SHANGHAI, Mai 24— Ex-pre-mie; H H Kung and hi* son David L X Kung. have been named ai defendants m a CN$4OO--,000.000 (U5533,333) suit filed by jthe emoioyces of the China 'Evening News which recently i suspended publication due to j los>es.
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    AIR MARSHALS ON TOUR
    85 6 Reuter. Colombo, Mar. 24.—Air Marshal Sir George Pirie, Air Com-mander-in-Chief, Far East, arrived at Negombo airport today from Singapore on a week's visit of inspection of the island's air stations after which he will fly back to his headquarters at Singapore. Air Marshal Sir Rodecic Hill,
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    No Buses, Trams In Bombay City
    81 6 Reuter. BOMBAY Mar 24- Bomba> was today without buses or trambecause of a strike of 7,000 transport and electric power «o.kers A skeleton staff of engineers maintained the supply of electa city and several army technicians stood by to help. Important electricity sub-station were
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    JAP ON THEFT CHARGE
    93 6 A young Japanese of the Ayer Rajah Road Camp was charged in the Fourh Police Court yesterday with the theft of a motorcycle brake wire from the No. 1 sub-depot 223 BOD in Bukit Timah Road on March 22. The Japanese, Ogawa Koe, aged 27» claimed
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    India Has Views On German Peace Treaty
    46 6 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Mar. 24.— Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Vice-President of the Indian Interim Government, announced today that India had asked the "Big Four" Foreign Ministers in Moscow to hear her views in the discussions on .the .German peace treaty.—Reuter.
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    DELHI RIOTS: 3 STABBED
    116 6 Reuter. New Delhi. Mar. 24.—Three persons were stabbed in old Delhi today soon after the lifting of the curtf:w which had been imposed yesterday afternoon following a communal clash between Muslims and Sikhs. Several persons were also injured today, when rioters threw stones in Delhi's main
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    Linggadjati Pact Will Be Signed Today
    97 6 Reuter. Bajtavia, Mar. 24. —According Ito an announcement by the Dutch Information Service tonight, tne Linggadjati draft agreement on the future of Indonesia will be «.ign:d at Dr. Van t Mooks palace to-morrow at 5.30 p.m. < Local Time). The decision was reached today
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    CONGRATULATIONS
    68 6 Reuter. The Hague March 24.—The Dutch Minister of Overseas Ter ritories. Jan A. Jonkman. today sent a message to the Dutch Commission-General in Batavia congratulating th:m for the result of the negotiations with the Indonesians. He asked them to inform Sjahrir. Indonesian Premier, tnat "we share with him confidence
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    FORMER NEGRI RESIDENT DIES
    114 6 Reuter. i London. Mar. 24.—The deatn I was announced at a Sussex home i today of Bir Walter Egerton. I former British Resident ol Negri Sembilan in the Malay Peninsula, aged 89. 1 He entered the Straits Settle--1 ments Civil Service in 1881 and I his
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    Luxury Trooper Ablaze In Dock
    240 6 Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mar. 24.— The British liner Monarch of Bermuda is ablaas in dry dock at Hebbura-on-Tyne near here. More than 200 firemen were called from neighbouring towns to battle the biaze aboard the 22.000-ton vessel of the Furness Line. Leaders of the fire fuhtiwi squads
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    Irish Sweep: New Post-War Record
    42 7 U.P. 4 records were *£1 in the Irish Hostake, which j P** lav with a ■*J E2,l ...DO. The |S (lf ~,awn wa r^S W winncm drawn at ,r t included: tiara iJ?iSert /i.dkovvski of 11 r.
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    Amicables Beat Lucky Strike B.P.
    96 7 »D match of three doubles v icable Sport., id the Lucky ton Party "B" at the latter* he Amicables Strike by five The following Amicables .SINGLES Hee boa' Cyril de 3 0) U»-U>. o. to Hoo Chun p 3 ill «1-15» 1 12—15k bt... Tan
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    CHINESE LAD MAY FIGHT FRISCO IN S’PORE
    395 7  -  SIMA LEAVES FOR MANILA Promoter Kim Has His Eye On Him..... (By Ringsider When Promoter Kirn Lin visits Manila shortly, he will focus .special attention on a Chinese lad who has made quite a hit in Philippine fistic circles. The name? Nicky Wan.
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    To-Days' Sport
    101 7 Football League S C.F.A.I, vs. R.A.F., Jalan Besar. 5.15 p.m. (The Services Sport official have decided at a meeting yeserday to continue in the current league provided they are given the assurance «-hat the Stadium maragement, will take every precaut'on to see that last Thursday's incident will not
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    Unruly Crowds Menacing H.K. Soccer, too...
    274 7 Reuter. Hongkong, Mar. 24.--Four of Hongkong's Service referees have resigned from the Football Association Saying that they are not prepared to "risk their necks" in what has become a dangerous pastime. In recent months in local League games between Service teams and Chinese elevens
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    REST OF EUROPE TEAM
    106 7 Reuter. PARIS, Mar. 24.—Th e rest of Europe team to meet Great Britain in an International Association Football match at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on May 10 will be chosen from the following 15 players. Goal-keepers: O. Jensen of Denmark and J. Darui of France. Backs: W.
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    TEST MATCH EXTENDED
    79 7 Reuter-AAP. CHRISTCHURCH, Mar. 24.— England* cricket team by agreeing to have their dinner on the ship instead of at Christchurch hotel were able to agree today to extend the Test match by one day to compensate for tne loss of a whole day's cricket today through rain.
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    NEW LIFE B.P.
    79 7 At the annual meeting of the New Life B.P. held at 28 Eng Hcon Street on Saturday, the following were elected office bearers: President: Mr. Teo Seng Leong; Vice-President: Mr. Cheah Thye Hin; Hon. Secretary: Mr. Cheah Cheah Thye Eng; Hon. Theasurer: Mr. Cheong Soon Tan: Hon.
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    TERRORIST ARRESTS IN JERUSALEM
    42 7 Reuter. JERUSALEM Mar 24—A num ber of leading terrorists want ed by the police have bten ar related in Jerusalem states an official announcement today Their name* and details about them haev not so far been dis closed—Reuter
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    China National Defence Council Abolished
    57 7 UP. NANKING. Mar reolution abolishing the Supreme National Defence Council was adopted today by the Kuomintang Executive Committee. A Central Political Council will oe created in its place and a vicepresident of the State Council of the National Government will be created. It is rumoured
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    BEST AMATEUR IN AMERICA
    44 7 U.P. Miami. Mar. 24. —Proving that he is still the best amateur in America, if not the world, the National champion. Jack Kramer, won the Miami tourney by defeating Davis Cup player Billy Talbert 6—4, 6—2 in fthe final today—U.P.
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    24 7 Reuter. TEL AVIV, Mar 24—A number of masked men raided a discount bank centte in Tei Aviv today and stole an estimated £20,C00 Reutei
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    Heavy Demand For American Horse
    482 7 Lincolnshire Betting Reuter. London, Mar. 24.—There was a heavy demand for thf American horse Whistling V/ind at the Lincolnshire Callover and he was installed a clear favourite after be had been backed to win £20.000. Some French-trained horses came in for considerable support.' Vagabond, joint
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    China's Foreign Policy "Good"
    105 7 Reuter. Nanking. Mar. 23. —Members of the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee Winding up the historic sess'en this afternoon called on the Government to "urge Russia to fulfil the terms of the Sino-Sovlet treaty of 1945." The meeting agreed that China's foreign policy was "generally good." The
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    COURSE HANDICAP FOR ONE-EYED FAVOURITE
    178 7 Reuter. LONDON, Mar. 24. —One-eyed Vagabond 11, heavilybacked horse and co-favourite with Langton Abbot at 100 to 9, may be seriously handicapped by the running of Lincoln on a round course instead of a flooded straight mile. Vagabond II is blind in the left eye.
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    SHAH TAKES 8 WICKETS FOR 31
    277 7 A breezy knock of 42 runs by A. Jansen and a caudous 31, not out, by Gregory de Silxa. followed by the splendid bowl.ng of M. Shah (8 for 31) enabled the Singapore Clarke Rangers to win Dy 1 w.cke o and €1 runs
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    WELSH, SCOTS WANT TO BE FREE
    77 7 Reuter. Cardiff. South Wales. Mar. 24.— Leaders of Welsh and Scottish Nationalist Parties have adopted a modified version of America's famous Committers of Correspondence to further their fight for freedom against English rule, states the Chicago Tribune correspondent. The joint committee. comDOsed of fiv?
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    Exiles' Prayers Answered
    74 7 U.P. SHANGHAI. Mar. 23. —Fifty homeless exiles in Shanghai, who have been eating their hearts out for the past ten years, yesterday had their prayers answered, when they received their passports with British visas permitting them to rejoin their wives, children and grand children in the United
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    U.K. WON'T SACRIFICE INTERESTS OF COMMONWEALTH
    456 8 Imperial Preferences Reuter. London, Mar. 24,—Sir Stafford Cr pps. President ot the BOi.ua of Trade told the House ol Commons today that iu-itain wouiu certainly noi give away tne interests of the other countries in reuUCmg imperial ereiences enjoy fed by them in the
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    Civilian Control For Pacific Is.
    133 8 U.P. WASHINGTON, Mar. 24,Climaxing a bitter intra-cabinct feud between the Interior and the Navy departments over tne: administration of newly wen Pacific Is'-ands as well as Guam and Samoa, Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug was reported today to have submitted to President Truman a
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    Jap Peace & "House Clean" In America
    92 8 Jap Peace "House Clean" In America U.P. New York. Mar. 24— Radn commentator Drew announced in a weekly Sunday night broadcast that the Japanese peace conference will start in San Francisco n October, with General Mac Arthur among th: delegateIt W3.s also announced Secretary of State Marshall has begun a
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    New President For China's Executive Yuan
    52 8 UP. SHANGHAI, M»r 24- v. a;g Chun-hoL ibe S< e;ota'y-Gcner;« ..f the Bopveme National Defence Council vnll be nppt'int"' President ol this Exccottve Yuan jr. it* interim Qorejrnißatit, succeeding Gen. Chi .ng Kai-shek, who hag been hoidlng the concurrent putjt »in«e T. V Soong
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    Johore Badminton Tourney Next Month
    46 8 At ;he Committee Meeting of the Jchore Bahru D'strict BaJm nton Associa'ion, it was dec ded to hcl I he Johore r~.hru Diarict Championship "our lament m April and May this year. The closing caie ror entries will be April 3.
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    PALESTINE HC IN LONDON
    37 8 Reuter. London, Mar. 24,—The High Commissioner for Palestine. I lieutenant Sir Alan Cunningham, and the General Officer In Command of British troops, Lieutenant General MacMillan, j arrived at London airport today I Reuter
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    WAR RISK OUT OF GRAND NATIONAL
    35 8 Reuter. LONDON. Mar. 24—It was rSiciaily announced this morning that War Risk had Pro Ken cown and would not run in the Grand National at Alntree on Mar. 29.—Reuter.
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    17 8 Five hundred tons of rose hips were collected in 1946 for the manufacture of rose hip syrup.
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    Bevin Calls On Stalin
    338 8 Reuter. Moscow, Mar. 24,—Mr. Ernest Bevin. British Foreign Secretary, visited Generalissimo Stalin at the Kremlin tcnight. Mr. Bevin was accompanied oy tne British Ambassador, Sir Maurice Peterson. The visit is officially described as a courtesy visit. Tnere ar.. however, naturally no limits to what the two
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    No Reparations For Austria
    229 8 Potsdam Secret Out Reuter. Moscow, Mar. 24. —The secret decision at the Big Three Potsdam Conference in 1945 that Britain, Russia and the United States would not demand reparatioss from Austria was disclosed at the Deputies' meeting on Austria today. Du:ing today'- discu-*ion. the British and
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    JITTERBUGGED IN STREET FINED
    48 8 LONDON. Mar. 24.—Arthur Whitmarsh. 18. tailcr"s cutter, was fined 10 shill!ngs today for —in the words of the arresting officer—"persisting In jitterbugging" m a London street. Whitmarsh was charged formally with "insulting behaviour whereby a breach of the peace might have been the occasion.
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    JAP CAPTAIN HEARD WAR ENDED 'ONLY 10 DAYS AGO'
    184 8 Reuter. RABAUL, Mar. 24. —Japanese Army Captain Kesaji Sato told war crimes investigators here to-day that he did not know the war was over until ten days ago when he was arrested by a local policeman on a small Pacific Island.
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    BRITAIN TO PUBLISH YALTA TEXT
    234 8 Reuter. LONDON, Mai'. 24.—The British Government is to publish the whole Yalta Agreement between Mr. Winston Churchill, the lat L > President Roosevelt ana Mar-hul Stalin, including the protocol amplifying the decision that Germany should be obliged to make compen-ation for damage caused to Allied
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    HUGE CUT IN FRENCH ARMY BUDGET
    76 8 Reuter. PARIS. Mar. 24.- A 5,000,000,--000-franc reduction of the French military budget for the second three months of 1947 has been agreed upon by the French War. Navy and Air Ministries at the request of the Finance minister. Robert Schuman, it was learned reliably
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    Deep Water Berths For Penang
    194 8 Penang, Mar. 24.—The long drawn-out scheme 1 provide Penang with deep-water berths has now tab! tangible turn. In a statement to the press today Mr. Henry Bala Chairman of the Singapore Harbour Board and com rent I y Chairman of the Penang Harbour Board nounced
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    Kidnapped U. S. Soldiers Safe
    91 8 U.P. TRIESTE. Mar. 24. —Th c Yugoslavia Government today delivered safely three United States soldiers of the 88th division on guard duty in Venezia Giulia. who were kidnapped and held a week ago by Tito's Yugoslav army along Morgan boundary line between the American and
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    Russia Insists On Reparations To Yugoslavia
    87 8 U.P. MOSCOW. Mar. 24. —Tte Soviet Union insisted todaj that the Council of Forei?:. Ministers permit Yugoslavia '»0 make $150,000,000 reparaUccs i claim against Austia despne the Bis Tthree secret PGtsdai j agreement to extract no repanI tions from that country. The Soviet demanu
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    SINO-P.I. TREATY NEGOTIATIONS
    42 8 U.P. NANKING. Mar. 24 AForeigr. Office source told the press that China had agreed to i Filipino request fur res of negotiation on the CM** Philippine Uea-3 I r; source -..id the talk* v pected tv be resoWd U.P.
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    Air 'Attack' On Seletar Today
    212 8 Another big scale air-sea exercise b from Singapore, called "Operation Lady. a submarine "attack" on a convoy on the and later an air attack on Singapore. Today HM.S. Perm leaver Singapore to escort a fictitious convoy sailing to relieve "the hard-pressed R.A.F. garrison at Labaun."
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    Children Find Hidden Arms
    49 8 VERSAILLES Mir cache of rift* weie playing to the I«** Jut According to 0 3« hidden (,ck **Z?ttt* machinegun- b"£* mark- 10 rifle, for the ol the S«> un(l type-. ThL V the 1 v i den arms cache i the Pa-i- >üburb past two
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    ‘HAPPY’ PROGRAMMES BACK AGAIN
    29 8 •H' I PCJ -H*PPy stat f, > MB, Holland b u again Sunday; gramme, (Singapore L ,:< 16 metre uav. -b.i- p.. arc v, writ.,*to announ^ "ieque-t.<
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