Malaya Tribune, 5 April 1947

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    54 1 The Malaya Tribune B y THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Now minted simultaneously in SingaporeKuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. Thonc Numbers: Editor 5813 Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 5815 ,K,ii i m** B SINGAPORE. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS. The Malaya Tribune
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    $57,680 food Fines But Only 3 Complaints
    100 1 (ftitaac Stall Kepor/er.) ,D Food Control J;..; Mr. T w. I lead, made^a •i] 514 arrests in 677 offence cases last nd in the remaining 10 cases summonses were n linee 'he beginning of Hpi three pr.vate sere made by the T'- me
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    Air Wreck, Dinghies Found
    167 1 Reuter. An R.A.AF. l 4 boat today found iR( t the Royal New Air Force Mosquito **n by Wing Commander B R J J with Plying Officer J. Colg London as navigator, S3 c id been musing since JJ« 26 on a flight from Dardesolate northern
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    HANOI FIGHTING FLARES UP AGAIN
    274 1 Vietnatns On The Attack Reuter. HANOI. Apr. 5. —Fierce fighting flared up around Hanoi in northern Indo-chin a on Thursday when French armoured columns engaged in patrols both north and south cf the city were caught in road ambushes by Vietnam nationalist guerilla bands and
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    ANOTHER MUTINY IN FRENCH ARMY
    163 1 U.P. Agen, France, Apr. 5. —Eighthu ldred Indo-Chinese solciers in the French Army barricaded themselves in their quarters yesterday end refused to surrender despite threats and enreaties from their commanding officers throughout the cay. Three squads of Republican guards and security company clcsed the barracks
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    MADAME CHIANG 49
    46 1 SHANGHAI, April 4. M<'.lame Chiar.g Kai-shrk cele bratel her 49*h bir hday on -We nesday at Chikow n Chek'ar<z Province the'Genera--1 ssimo's b'r'.h place. A threeJ ay round of ceremonies was o'a ined by s'udents in the area, culminating in a lantern parade.
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    British Women's New Clothing Crisis
    232 1 U.P. LONDON, Apr. 4.—Thread-bare Britons—particularly the women folk—will be compelled to choose between natural modesty and practicality, when it comes to clothing themselves during the next cijrht months, according to the Board of Trade's latest ruling. The Board of Trade's President, |>ir Stafford pripps, j
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    BURMA PAYS BACK PAY
    165 1 Reuter. RANGOON. Apr. 4—lnflation on a big scale is anticipated in Burma when the Government pays out about R5.50,000,000 as six months' advance on wartime arrears of salaries and pensions to Government servants. Orders have already gone out for these payments to be made from the
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    Spanish Belles Mystery: Millionaire Sought
    262 1 U.P. PARIS. Apr. 4.—French Surete officials to-day combed the Paris underground for trapas of another vanishing millionaire—Michel Lupesco—wanted in connection with the mysterious deaths of two young Spanish women at his sumpt ions villa at Herblay last year. The Paris press hinted that the two
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    Kenya Governor Wants Unofficial Majority
    62 1 Reuter. NAIROBI, Apr. 4. Sir Philip Mitchell. Governor of Kenya, has proposed to the Colonial Secretary that the present number of African seats in the Kenya Legislative Council be increased to four to create an "unoTicial majority" in the Legislature. Hitherto the Council has had
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    BRITISH NAVY
    91 1 Rome. April 4—According to the Italian News Agency Ansa, units of the British Navy have entered the waters of Cape Distria off the Adriatic coast, where the 47.000-ton liner Rex —-,unk in 1944 by RAF rocketfiring Beau fighters—is lying Demolition work by the Yugoslavs Ls continuing on the
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    IN ADRIATIC
    41 1 Reuter. be referred to the United NaI tions. I The liner's present ownership is not known, since it is held by the Allies as reparations and no decis:'on has yet been made as to whom it is to go.—Reuter.
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    DEATH OF MARHUIS OF SALISBURY
    39 1 Reuter. LONDON. Apr. 4.—The Marquis of Salisbury, former leader cf the Hcuse of Lords, died in London today. He was 85. He was leader of the House of Lords from 1925 to 1931.— Reuter.
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    Piracy Victims In Singapore
    276 1 I KILLED, I WOUNDED (Tribune Staff Reporter.) One man has died In a Singapore hospital and another is recovering from wounds as a result of two cases of armed piracy attempts at sea. The second cf tho incidents occurred this week at Fangerang Point, Johore, about
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    OVERSPENT, FINED £3,000
    131 1 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 4—Britain's efforts to conserve her dollars had a sequel in a London police court when David Clore, manager of a British piecegoods manufacturing firm was lined X, 3,000 and sentenced to three months imprisonment for financial offences. CJore who was alleged to have overspent
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    42 2 MRS*. TAN CHONG LEX a n C famly thank all frie.ics, rela\vi and others who seni t:t hs, caskets, telegrams uJCJa and lent their cars anc pa a night visits for the funera. of laic Mr. Tan Chong Lek, J.P, Malacca.
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    MARTIN BEHRMAN LEAVES BATAVIA WITH EMPTY HOLD
    329 2 U.P. Batavia, Apr. 4.—With empty hold the American freighter Martin Behrman sailed from Tandjong Priok yesterday for Singapore. The departure ended her 32-day stay in Java in which the vessel became a test case against the Dutch shipping restrictions on trade with the
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    River Steamer Sinks: 120 Dead
    58 2 Reuter. HONG KONG. Apr. 3.—About 120 Chinese passengers were feared to have been drowned when the small Chinese river steamer "Lusan*' sank yesterday afternoon on the Yang Tse, midway between Kiuliang and Nanking, after the ship's engine exploded, according to Chinese press reports. Only 15
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    New Treatment For Army "Bad Hats"
    107 2 Reuter. London, April 3,—"Bad hat" training at army battle schools was stopped during the war because psychiatrists advised against it. This disclosure is made in a report of an expert committee on the work of psychologists and psychiatrists in the Services which was appointed
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    SINGAPORE ROAD ACCIDENTS UP 400 PER CENT
    302 3 Big Safety-First Campaign Planned (Tribune Staff Reporter) A 400 per cent, increase in road accidents COffiffWred with pre-war, and a warning by the Colonial Secretary. Mp. P. A. B. McKerron earlier this week thai accidents were fast becoming a serious menace, Has resulted
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    RESISTANCE HERO BACK
    121 3 (Tribune Ships' Reporter) Col. Jchn L. H Davis, C.8.E., D.5.0., ana h s bride vverc amo :g the arrivals oi the Otranto on Thursday. Landing secre.ly in Maiaya cy submarine in 1943 Col. Day s ma ntaincd liaison between ohe South East Asiu Command and <he General
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    Asia, With Its Lone Past, Has Great Future if f
    170 3 Reuter. NEW DELHI. Apr. 3.—Pandit Nehru, head of the Indian In I terim Government, addressing j the final session of the Asian Relations Conference here last night, said that Asia was in the process of "finding itself" and 1 therefore
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    Conquest By 'Spirit Of Love'
    96 3 U.P. NEW DELHI, Apr. 3-Mohan-das K. Gandhi told 20.000 delegates attending the and session of the inter-Asian e-in-ference t<>o ay that Asijr must c««nauer the West with the spirt* uf love" oc the atom bomb means* the utter destruction of the world Gandhi urged one
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    'PACIFIC INDISSOLUBLY LINKED WITH ASIA' SAYS MITCHELL
    199 3 ys i n k r x i "It took the war to awaken the Australian people to full consciousness that their rights and responsibility aw primarily ttux* of a key Pacific natlpn aid M* B D Mitchell, addressing tne Kast West Society pingapoic
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    Russian Envoy Quits Greece
    128 3 U.P. ATHENS. Apr. 2.-Admiral Rodi< muff the Russian ambassad r i v Or«CCc has requested a carport lor what was reported to r:- his immediate return to Moscow as King Paul 1 opened ids r ngn of turbulent Greece. II w s reported tha Rodionoff w
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    Life For A Life, Demands Woman
    484 3 MASS PROTEST AT SINGAPORE MASSACRE TRIAL VERDICTS (Tribimc Stßff tfcpciter) Voices Wi re raised to a high pitch and tables were bamed a* reeling ran high in yeSj*rt%Y?t meffc.ng Of the Oversea Chinese Appeal Committee For. Singapoie.iCiinese Massacred by the Japanese, in protest against
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    DNRRA SHIP'S WOUNDED 'CUT OF DANGER'
    212 3 U.P. and Reuter. SHANGHAI. April 3.—The China Water Transport Division oi the Chinese National Relici and Rehabilitation Office announced today that it has been informed that the five wounded abcard the UNRRA relief ship "Wanshen" which was bombed nnd strafe: yesterday by Nationalist planes,
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    CALCUTTA RETURNING TO NORMAL
    59 3 U.P. < M,CUTTA. Apr t no{ i.o.ir.d Calcutta to he rrturntne to normal tocHv with calualt.es in the j nghtine dwindling to two dead and 22 injured yesterday. A new problem wa s ans ng I with garbage collectors being keot from work by fear and
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    The Census And Common Sense
    533 4 In the near future, the dOoT of every palace, house, teneme nt and hut in Malaya will be required to be opened to strangers in the name of the law! The significance of this will not be lost upon the lawless. If the operation is
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    MALAYA'S POSITION ECONOMIC CRISIS
    1056 4  -  by W. A. Harpur As a dollar arsenal, Malaya is failing to contribute its share towards the Empire in the present economic emergency. That is not altogether Malaya's own fault; some of the factors accounting for her poor showing are entirely beyond her control. Rubber production
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    THE SLUMS OF SINGAPORE
    671 4  -  By S. S. CHUA Yesterday, I went home from the slums of Chinatown, sick with what I had seen. The narrow streets stank with refuse. But these smells I waved aside. I looked up at the windows from which protruded hundreds of bamboo poles carrying pitiful
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    ISLAND DISPOSED OF IN "JUMBLE SALE"
    248 4 In littlo over three years since setting up shop, the Commonwealth Disposals Commission, which has been given the job of selling up Australia's wartime stock in trade, has done about 90-million pounds' worth of business. The things it has to sell are listed in
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    An Actress's Record Of British Guts
    693 4 Reuter. (From Muriel Perm. Reuters Correspondent). LONDON.—A Victory Tap:stry. which in ages to come may rank with the famous French Bayeux Tapestry as an outstanding historical work of art. is on show in London at present Like its Bayeux counterpart, it is a saga
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    Communications Between MPs And Constituents
    388 4 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 3.—The question i f the privilege attached to communications between MPs, and their constituents was raised in the Hous of Commons on Wednesday, when Mr. Driberg, lab m for Maldon. asked the Secretary of State for War, he question ol which he
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    WON'T FORECAST
    88 4 Reuter. LONDON »r. l 'lrL e Dctary foi O rseas partmeni in r< -piy lv romß »otf tion in the H« use 0 j*this aften possible I ca t a IVj! j tobacc Britain I obtain durii Gr <t«> (r im B Rhodes* The L,IS con* 1 large
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    S'PORE HOSPITAL GROUND TO BE MEMORIAL GARDEN
    290 5 Planning By Mr. H olttum 500 WAR DEAD LIE BURIED HERE... (Tribune StalT Reporter) Plans for the erection of Memorials in commemoration of members of the Malayan Medical Services who died as a result of enemy action during the invasion and the occupation
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    China's Rulers Buried In Pyramids
    89 5 Jei y». Apr. Airlines Pilot a said be be- hinese rulers 11 scores in the ram id-, which E unknown to the many years. i t t he Army China, Burma J made the flight Sheehan, when ighted aboui l ol Y« nan. "altogether we
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    HIROHITO SHOCKS JAPS AT SOCCER MATCH
    272 5 UP. Vpr. 3.—Emperor Hirohito up£et his court j by acting in too democratic a manner twar sports event where he did everythe first ball at Japan's biggest all-star soccer game. just one m nth from today, ibea tint new constitutioi] goes htecfeet the Emp
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    Armed Men Take $6,728 From Shop
    37 5 iTrilv,. •s«nme aff Reporter). mSSSi r sin **»aw 501dr0i,.,,., on Thurs> t< »ith toy men armed sh i» r entered the a p V! in Aral Street J Thursday 2 Wlth
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    He Killed "Only Two Million"
    113 5 U.P. WARSAW, April 3.—Rudolf Hoess. 47, was sentenced to death by hanging today for exterminating tour million Nazi "slaves'' while commander or Hider's most effic.ent death camp at Oiwecim (Auschwitz) His w.fe and children, somewhere in Germany, may moura h:m, he said, "but if I
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    First Chinese To Become An A.S.P.
    174 5 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Mr Kok Hoo Soi g, (40), Chief Inspector attached to Tanjong Pagar police station is the first Chinese in Malaya to be promoted to the gazetted rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police. He is the second Asiatic Inspector to be promoted
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    VENGEANCE MISSION
    45 5 UP. JERUSALEM, Apr. 3.— Eight masked Jews forced their way into the home of a man, named Moshel Segal, in Kiryat Hayim settlement, near Haifa, before dawn today and beat him severely in what is believed to have been an underground vengeance mission—UP.
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    R.A.F. Chaplain-In-Chief Here
    133 5 Rafpro. The Chaplain-in-Chlei to the Royal Air Force, The Reverend J A. Jagoe M.A.. C.8.E., arrived in Singapore from Saigon yesterday lor an eight day visit during which he will conduct services at St. Andrew's Cathedral and at R.A.F. churches on the Island. On Easter Sunday, he
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    20,000 Tyres Go Up In Flames
    32 5 MANILA. Apr. 2.—Some 20.000 second hand tyres went up in smoke today in a 3-hour fire at a salvage depot in the north suburbs of Manila.
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    1,000 S'pore Chinese Children Celebrate
    363 5 (Tribune Stfaff Reporter) The child is father of the man, was tne keynote of simple address given by Dr. Wu Pushing, Chinese I Consul-General, at a mass rally of more KW Chinese school children in rons Day at the Cathay Theatre yesterday morrnmr. lhe children
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    JAP CONTRADICTIONS AT TOKIO WAR TRIAL
    230 5 U.P. TOKIO, Apr. 3.—Two Japanese defence witnesses at the Allied Military Tribunal for the Far East gave conflicting evidence today on the role played by defendant Seishiro Itagaki, in the conquest of Manchuria by Japan in 1931. As a result, the Allied High Court
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    Malaya Gives Ceylon 9,000 Tons Flour
    226 5 Reuter. COLOMBO, Apr. 4.—With Ceylon's rice stocks precariously low—only enough to last one week—Ceylon s representative at the recent Singapore rice conference, X Alvapillai, urged the rice allocation of 10,000 tons to cover May and June, and got instead 13,000 tons for May. Alvapillai
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    Punishment For Taiwan Gov.-General
    133 5 U.P. Nanking, April 3.—More than 20 Shanghai and Nanking Taiwanese delegates called on the National Defence Minister General Pai Chung Hsi following after his return from Taiwan yesterday afternoon and demanded punishment for the Taiwan Governor General Chen Vi for "the massacre of the Taiwan people."
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    Malaya's Food Envoy Off To US.
    150 5 Dr. W. M. Clyde, M.A..'Ph. D., Food Adviser to the Speci.d Commissioner in South-east Asia, Lord Kilieam, leaves Singapore by air for Ceylon on Apr. 3. He will nold consultations with the t authorities there and then leave for the United Kingdom and Washington
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    Factory Blowup
    35 5 Clinton, Missouri, Apr. 2.— Ten bodies have been recovered from a fireworks factory where an explosion occurred here today Four other people, two of them in critical condition, have been rushed to hospital.
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    INA Releases: Gen. Auchinleck Threatened Resignation Crisis
    235 5 U.P. New Delhi, Apr. 4. —Pandit Nehru yesterday told Assembly members that the question of releasing all the remaining Indian National Army prisoners was being referred to the Federal Court, while reports from the Assembly lobby said the entire British Senior Command in
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    Apes—And Not Progenitors Of Man
    114 5 U.P. London, April 3.—The noted British surgeon and anthropologist F. Wood Jones in a letter to (the scVentdric weekly "Nature' said that the lamea Australcpethicine sensational primitive "species ol South Ainca was definitely an ape and not a progenitor of man. "It can be asserted
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    HOW CHINA'S RED CHIEF DIED
    95 5 Reuter. Nanking, April 3.—Semi-offici-al dispatches reaching here today, commenting on the reported death of General Cbenyi, Commander of the Communist New Fourth Army, said on March 16 Gen. Chenyi and his staff were driving alongside the TsingtaoTsinan railway in two motorcars when they were ambushed
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    Concern Over Congress "Latitude"
    102 5 Reuter. Coventry, April 3",—Two hundred Indian workers, a meeting of the Hindustani Mazuoor Sabha in Coventry, last night unanimously adopted, a resolution viewing "with, gnve concern th? latitude bejng »j Congr: ~«5 to the Muslim League in the matter of Ind'a political set up." The resolution
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    AIR MARSHAL PIRIE BACK
    35 5 Rafpro Air Marshal Pirie arrived b«*ck at Changl from Ceylon last nig.it in a York aircraft. He had been making a tour of insoection of all R.A.F. units in Ceylon.— Rafpro
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    Malaya To Get Jap Industrial Equipment
    235 6 Mac Arthur Told: "Hurry Reparations Removals" Reuter. WASHINGTON, Apr. 4.—The United States Govfiaj directed General MacArthin to'make immecftatajy ;-.v tillable o'J per cent, of all Japanese industrial (ou pyr.'ju which can be removed a3 reparations to Cn n?, the Philippines, the Netherlands Indies, Burma,
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    PRINCES MAY JOIN INDIAN ASSEMBLY
    161 6 Reuter. Bombay. April 2 —The suggestion by a section of the Indian culled 'progressive group." that individual stateshould be given freedom to go into tne Constituent Assembly at the appropriate stage was accepted by the Conference of Rulers ot Indian States today. The Standing Committee
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    IMPORTANCE OF ARO TO ASIATICS
    122 6 Reuter. Birmingham. April 3 —The de- cision to -et up a permanent AsVan Relations Organisation may well prove to be of farreaching consequence for Asiatic peoples, states the Conservative Birmingham Post in its main editorial today. "It heralds adds the Birmingham Post, "an attempt to
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    U. S. Commerce Dept. Credits
    91 6 U.P. Washington, April 3--The Commerce Department recently announced a credit ol $15,000,000 extendi'd t:> Japan by .the Office of Foreign Liquidation Commission. This inft rmaf.on was contained' in a resume of the Un'tjd SUtcs Governments outstanding leans and credits whtc.n totalled $9.280 009 on December
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    BURMA DEFICIT Rs. 1,072-MILLION
    164 6 Reuter. Random. Apr. 4—Total deficit 1,67^-sail on rupees in Burma's budget for 1946 to 1947 (Wv > noang Sept. 30 thte year) Wa.vfjrtjcldlcd 6y Thakhi Myx FlnanCfe Minister rnerriber of tne'ihtenm government. This deficit does not include the n f'u: reßaynteat of Burma's debt and pension
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    New Bevin Rumours
    158 6 Reuter. LONDON, April 2.—Suggesions that Ernest Bevin would leave the Foreign Office to take ever the job of supreme planner cf British economy were again widely circulated in London today. Similar suggestions were made before Mr. Bevin went to Moscow when it was said the change might
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    42 6 UP. ATHENS. Apr. 3. untitled Dedous.sis, Right Wing deputy, was killed on Wednesday whik leading a group of armed peasants in an a:iti-guorril;a opcr t in hit own parliamentary Constituency in thf middle "'est sectUtf] of Greece, it was reportid today. -UP.
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    Britain Suffered Unprecedented Losses Through Weather
    188 6 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 3. -Britain has lost an equivalent cf a month's bread ration and more than a week's meat ration in %h< :>ti/3ar;, snow and flood. Mr. Tom Williams. Minister of Agriculture, broadcasting last night, said that more than 2.0C0.000 sheep and lambs,
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    Amalgamation Of 3 Colleges
    34 6 SHANGHAI. Apr. 3.—The Association of Christian Colleges announced its dccteion to amalgamate three leading Christian colleges in China- St. Jonn's University of Shanghai. Soochow University and the Hangchow Christian College.
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    LONG-TERM RUBBER INSURANCE
    128 6 U.P. Akron <Ohi<>». April 3. John L. Collyer. President of b F Goodnm. tne* of the nations leading rubber executives* re.cc.mmended a three-point programme for the drafting of t longterm rubber insurance' policy for America. Declaring mat the "Maginot Line on the rubber frontier would be a
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    U.S. To Withdraw Atom Control Proposal
    142 6 U.P. Washington. April 2. —benator' Robert A. T*Vlt. proposed to-day ttaat the United fttites withdraw Us prpposai for- international control of aixmric energy "as lon, as Russia is taking the position She new is taking,' in a speecn opposing the 1 confirmation ol David
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    Brilliant Soccer At Jalan Besar
    614 7 Services draw with the Selangor-Negri Chinese Selangor-Negrj Chinese 1 Combined Services 1 Down by a goal half way through the second session, the Selangor-Negri Chinese rallied gallantly in the'closing stages and saved themselves from defeat by a last minute equaliser, in the first game of
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    Malacca Soccer: Police Hold Malays To Draw
    157 7 MALACCA, Friday. Firstclass .soccer was seen on the Banda HD» Park when the Ma acca Police clashed with the Malacca Malays in a League Although the Malays displayed better form than their j*? o l was the indomitable defence work of both Abu
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    FERN HILL B.P.
    90 7 At the founders' meeting of Fern Hill Badminton Party the following were elected office bearers:— President, slamat Bin Haji Salleh; Secretary, Jaffar Bin Haji Abdul Rahman; Treasurer, Ahmad Bin Umar; Auditor, Sabudin Bin Urrlar; Auditor, Sabudin Bin Akep; Sports Captain, Hodtt Bin Habi; Asst. Sports Capt. Onsi
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    Endeavour Party Revived
    71 7 The Committee oi the Endeavour Badminton Party wishes to inform all its old members and friends that the Party has now been revived and activities are in full swing. AH old members, who have not already done so. and all friends who are interested, are invited to
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    Vital Easter Friday Results May Settle Promotion Problems
    496 7 ENGLISH SOCCER SURPRISE LONDON, Apr. 4.—Large Crowds watched many games during the first of the holiday programme™ 7n end J s° r w iX mot^f 3 n d by the time the enas with two more full programmes of matches some ally
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    Mercury B.P. Office Bearers
    93 7 In a recent General Meeting of the Mercury Badminton Party, the following have been elected Office Bearers for the year 1947. President; Mr. Wee Leong Quee; Vice Presidents: Mrs. Lim Som Chuan; Mr. Tee Swee Cheng and Mr. Tan Hock Lye: Hon. Secretary: Mr. Chan Wah
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    FRIENDLY TABLE TENNIS MATCH
    51 7 The following will represent the Chinese Swimming Club in a friendly game of table tennis against the Harmony Musical Association on Sunday, at 2 p.m. George Shen, Lee Tong Keng, Yap Kar Koi, Chlo Eng Quee and Lim Choo Ann. Reserves:—Sim Boon Hoon and Cheah Hong
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    Hardstaff, Snr. Third Only To Hobbs, Dead
    105 7 Reuter. NOTTINGHAM, Apr. 3.-Joe Hardstaff, whose son Joe. Jnr. is on his way back from the Australian tour with the MCC. died suddenly, aged 66. Hardstaff Sr. was a former Nottinghamshire— England player, later becoming a first-class umpire. He visited Australia in 1907
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    Invitation To Junior Tennis Champions
    119 7 Reuter. London. April. 3.—Davis Cup lawn termi s nations throughout the world have been invited by the championship committee of the Wimbledon Championships to send their junior champions to watch the second week's play at a classic meeting opening at the All-England Club on June
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    Today's Races: Going Soft
    104 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. —Order of running and scratchin gs for today's races:— Race 1: Maidens, div. 4, 6, fur; —Prattlin Peace. Race 2: Maidens, div. 2, 6 fur. tH* Race 3: Horses, class 3, div. 1, 5V 2 fur: Prince Colin, Tim Pocket, First Lady. Race
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    Straits Chinese M.Y.F. Beat H.A.D.A.
    128 7 Playing a friendly return game of badminton on Monday, the Straits Chinese Methodist Youth Fellowship defeated the Hospital Assistants and Dressers Association by 5 —2. Results (Straits Chinese M.Y.F. mentioned first): SINGLES: Neo Seng Kee beat Goh Ah Kow 15—6, 15—«; Seah Yeak Khern beat
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    250,000 RUHR MINERS WALK OUT
    108 7 U.P. Dusseldorf, April 3.—Upwards of a quarter of a million Ruhr miners walked out of jobs in a 24-hour hunger protest strike today. The walkout was quiet and orderly and In Essen, Hagen and other towns the miners stood in the drizzling rain to hear
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    31 7 U.P. Nanking. April 3.—The Food Ministry announced its decision to end the food requisitioning programme to meet the needs of the army, reviving instead the wartime system of collecting land tax.—U.P.
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      62 7 CHUNGKING Tanjong Pagar Phone 3327 Last 4 shows: 1. 3.15, 6.30, 9.00 p.m. "Overland With Kit Carson" (Ist Instalment) With BUI Elliott Iris Meredith Richard Fiske —Tonight At Midnight— "DURBAAN" (Hindustani) Opening Tomorrow "Overland With Kit Carson" (Last Instalment) I VICTOR V HAPPY WORLD OPENING TODAY AT 7.15 9.15 p.m.
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      209 7 3.30-^-8 I 'p.m. "Raja Rajeswari" (in Tamil) —To-night at Mid-night-, "Dewan Bahadur" I (in Tamil) IkUI! ffWBBHi p.m "JAILOR" —To-night at Mid-night— 'Bulbule Baghdad' (Both Films in Hindustan i) HJ'l-!!:JJuU«UWJWt!!| Tense Wild West Drama! "San Antonio" (in Technicolor) with Errol Flynn Alexis Smith To-morrow "The Class Key" A rm, M
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    Ganghoo Returns To Dublin In Triumph
    268 8 Dublin, Apr. 4.—Caughoo came back to Eire yesterday. The little 200-winner of the Grand National Steeplechase stepped on to Dublin quayside with the "Wearing of the Green" piped, while thousands of Dubliners cheered him home, just as they did in Saturday's race at Aintree.
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    UNBALANCED DIETS IN SINGAPORE
    68 8 Dr. C. J. Oliveiro. Acting Professor of Biochemistry at the King Edward VII College of Medicine, Singapore, who gave evidence on local diets at the inquiry into the S.T.C. dispute last Thursday, says that about 80 per cent, of the families Investigated by the Nutrition Unit
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    CHINA TO COUNT MALAYA'S CHINESE POPULATION
    371 8 First Census In 175 Years To Be Taken In 1950 Reuter. Shanghai.—After having had to be satisfied with only "rough estimates" of her population for more than 175 years, China »has decided to conduct the first nationwide census in her modern history and, as
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    S'pore Art Club Has 20 Members
    113 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The second meeting of the YMCA Art Club at the YMCA premises in Orchard Road on Wednesday proved to be a greater success than the first. It was very well attended and everyone snowed great interest in the proceedings. The Club
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    WANTS INDIA'S ARMS DIVIDED
    127 8 Reuter. Lahore. April 4.—Sir Firoz Khan Noon, a Muslim League leader and former High Commissioner in London, demands a division of India's armed forces and military equipment before June. 1948, the proposed date for the transfer of power by Britain into Indian hands. "Whoever gets the
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    Govt. Reopens Conscription Battle, Wants 12-Months' Service Now
    449 8 U.P. London. Apr. *L—The Government throw the House of Commons' battle over Britain's first peacetime conscription Bill wide open again yesterday, by introducing an c-mendment to reduce the period of service from 18 to kill the measure. The gesture was calculated to
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    STALIN BANNED SOVIET WIVES OF BRITISHERS
    156 8 U.P. LONDON, April 4: Angry Conservatives charged in the House of Commons yesterday that Russia's refusal to let 15 Russian wives to join their British husbands "made a complete mockery of the treaty w l;n Russia The Minister of State Mr. Hector McNeill, replying
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    800 Peace Treaties Are Sunk
    128 8 LONDON. Apr. 3:—A fourergined Air France Constellation, flying from New York to Casablanca, with six passengers and 11 crew, was reported from New York to have come down in the Atlan.ic about*34o miles south-west cf Lisbon. T ien'a message from tne plane was picked up:
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    BRITISH INTERESTS IN INDIA
    181 8 Reuter. London, April' 3. —The British man 111 mcna »nouid ii_ti iiiiiiscii uiue*Jtea to ms repitse.icadves at u*e legislatures, especially tne L-eiurai legislature, ,ior tut* coiitiiuutioii tney have maae oy intelligent ana sympauieuc co-operation in tne puiiucai nie 01 me country, states car J jini lnoixie,
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    Straits Chinese Choir Service
    69 8 A feature of the Easter Sunday service to be held at the Straits Chinese Methodist Church at Kampong Ka,por Road tomorrow at 5 p.m. will be the rendering of a cantata entitled "Resurrection Morn" and two anthems. "All Hail Victorious King" and "Hail Their Day" by,
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    52 8 U.P. Batavia. Apr. 3—According to Radio Jogjakarta a choice out of the following three cities, will l>e made by the Republican Ministry of Public Works, for the capital of the Indonesian Republic: Bandoeng about 100 miles southeast of Batavia. Magelang 40. miles north of Jogjakarta. Malang the present capital of
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    Married & Divorce To Kill Time
    197 8 Married Divorce To Kill Time U.P. PARIS. April 4: Actress Isa Miranda was in Paris yesterday to buy some clothes to make a movie, and incidentally to get a divorce—if she and her hubby can figure out what to do with their dog. Alfred Guarini her husband is with her
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    900,000 TONS BURMA RICE THIS YEAR
    260 8 Reuter. RANGOON. Apr. 4: Approximately 9C0.000 tons of rice will be available for export during 1947. according to estimates based on the latest crop report it is offici- ally announced. J The total area under paddy 1 cultivation according official reports is 8,144.600 acres—an
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      97 8 RAFFLES HOTEL Tonight Orchestral Concert 8 to 9 p.m. j DANCE 9.15 to midnight RAFFLES ORCHESTRA Tomorrow EASTER Holiday Attraction LIGHT ORCHESTRAL CONCERT in the palm COURT 9 to 11p.m. RAFFLES ORCHESTRA directed by Joe Speelman with Joan Fraser A Tibor Kunstler. Vocalists and Guesr Artists Margaret Smart, violinist and
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      116 8 Church Services St. Andrew's Cathedral: Easter Day: Holy Communion 6, 7 11.30 a.m.. Choral Eucharist 8.30 a.m.. Mattins 10.30 a.m (Preacher: The Lord Bishop of Singapore) Evensong 5.30 p.m Preacher: The Rev. J. A. Jagoe. Chaplain in Chef Royal Air Force). St. Hilda's Church, Katong: 8 a.m. Holy Communion 5.30
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      101 8 WEATHER REPORT »1« Occasional This Afternoon s i ngapore *eath#r« hours from n/ I,jr,j ca i« Piled by theRATrS casting StaUon Far East: r Cj ffirnaa fl WKh occasional m S y for wers. Fine ron, gh morrow morning hi d fa r toof a heavy she m ft** *md:
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