Malaya Tribune, 24 April 1947

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  • 59 1 The Malaya Tribune 0 THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN AAALAYA simultaneously in Singapore jgr Kuala Lvrnpar, ipoh Penang. Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 5815 SINGAPOKF, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS. The Malaya Tribune THURSDAY. APRIL 24. 1947. i i.ndon Agents:—Messrs. Colin Turner
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  • 79 1 fn i m f'? EAL Z- ed thC SaKation Arm > Red Shield Club for the S ntt? ad on Tuesd »y- H was me< by Salvation Army chiefs including rn kitlhi T Harvey Major William Price and Majr r and Mrs. Joseph Jordan.
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  • 161 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) p the widows and orphans of those Chisacred by the Japanese to raise some funds, a ip ol .Singapore Chinese has produced a publicacontaining an account of the recent massacre to* in Chinese. rhis book is titled "In Memory of
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  • 47 1 U.P. Canberra. April 23. -Deputy Prime Minister H. W. Evatt told the House of Representatives that the Australian Government had no power to ban Communist activity after a motion had been made for strict governmental action to curb Communist infiltration of unions and public service i^encle».. —U.P.
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  • 97 1 Reuter. THEN'S A Pr. 24. -A company "neri< was reported to wiped out in a guerlla 55? H the toot of Mourn rarnon near Sparta in Southern ""Boonesa, on Tuesday night. tnconfirmed press reports said I wen 50 and 80 gendarmes ■at tilled Je Ifln
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  • 243 1 I LONDON, Apr. 23.—A wide open West End vice ring—never mentioned in tourist brochures —figured to-day in a case at the Old Bailey, in which the rich prostitution syndicate j known as the "Maltese BroI thers" got one of its rare I public airings. A
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  • 25 1 WASHINGTON. Apr. 24 Trm United States Maritime Commission has approved the sale to China of fifteen vessels suitable for use in coastal shipping. Reuter learns.
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  • 145 1 (Tribute Staff Reporter* Pmteraon Simons' godown at I Magazine Roaci was broken in- to at 3 o'clock this morning, by I ten Chinese who bound the I watchman ,-tnd got in through the lavatory roof. They stole knives a id mirrors worth $500
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  • 116 1 CREECH JONES ON MALAYA Reuter. LONDON. Apr. 23.-The Secretary ol State for the Colonies Mr. Creech-Jones, stated in the House of Commons today thai he hoped to receive shortly the Governor's recojnmendatiom on the report of the consultative committee on the new proposed constitution for Malaya. Replying to a question
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  • 120 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Apr. 23.—The iJemocraiic representative, John rtanKin, who is an advocate Ol wane supremacy". toaay denounced in congress proposals to Dring to the United Stales 5.U00 illegitimate children which United States Negro troops leit behind them in Britain. Rankin described these children as "offspring of
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  • 43 1 MADRID, Apr. 23.—In a clash between guerillas and civil guards, it was officially reported that Norberto Castillejo Gimencz. commander of the second group guerilla centre army, had been killed. Castillejc is alleged to have had a long record of a acts of violence.—
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  • 254 1 Two-Meteor IV jet-pro-pelled aircraft have been crated and shipped to Air Command. Far East, in Singapore, and are expected to arrive soon together with th c necessary erection equipment. A special erection party has been selected to report to R.A.F. Station Tengah where
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  • 52 1 New York, April 23 The author of "Twenty Years in Sing Sing" and former warden of Sing Sing Prison. Lewis E. Lawes died today at the age of 63. ife was one of America's outstanding authorities on prison Droblem* and had been the warden of Sing Sing Prison from 1920
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  • 109 1 Calls Them "Brother Officers" A secret session between Singapore's Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, and the working committee of the Back Pay Council of the J.C.S.A. was held yesterday in the Colonial Secretary's Office. The meeting lasted 20
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  • 36 1 U.P. Washington. April 22.—It is learned that the U.S. War Department has sent a Bill to the House of Veterans Committee which If passed, would grant approximately $200,000,000 in veterans benefits to about 90.000 veterans. —UP.
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  • 245 1 Reuter. HONGKONG, Apr. 24.—With Chinese opposition to direct taxation climaxing with a petition to the Governor, to-day !:he Government announces modifications in the direct taxation bill being introduced in the Legislative Council. The standard rate is fixed at ten per cent, while personal
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  • 24 2 CHIONH—At 209, Marine Parade. Singapore, on April 19th, 1947. to Cris Chionh. (nee Chin Kirn. Ec) wife of Chionh Kah Kiat, a son.
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  • 67 2 MRS. LIM TECK GUAN (nee TAN LIAN age 59 passed away peacefully at her residence. No. 11 Balmoral Road on Wednesday 23rd instant. She is leaving behind her bereaved husband, 3 sons (Messrs. Lim Boon Hin, Lim Boon Soon and Dr Lim Boon Tiong), 3 daughters-in-law, and 5 grandchildren,
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  • 166 2 Reuter. London, April 22.—Britain's Central Electricity Board plans to u>e jet turbines adapted from aircraft designs to boost output when Peak consumption threatens to overload inadequate gen crating plant, the Board's i9tn annual report said today. 'These developments." it said, "hold promise of an
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  • 53 2 Reuter. RANGOON. Apr. 22. -Six thousand five hundred-and-sixteen ca>es of crimes ot violence were officially reported lh Burma during the three month period January to March this year, according to a pres<; note today. These include 773 cases of murder and 5.743 cases of armed
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  • 564 2 SIR A. CARR-SAUNDERS* SPEECH TO ROTARIANS Addressing the weekly luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club at the Adelphi Hotel yesterday, Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education in Malaya, said a university could not be sustained with government aid alone
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  • 273 2 IPOH.—•'Is there any particular reason why the open sale of rice in should be prohibited when it is allowed in Penansr, Krala Lumpur and Singapore" was a guestfarj as!r.*d the Hon. Mr. A. V. Aston, Resident Conifliisslcricr v: 2 Press conference. "This
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  • 102 2 Reuter. BATAVIA, (Air Mail).—Relations between the Chinese and Indonesians in Java have again attracted public attention following the alleged detection of a Chinese new-raperman m Batavia forging currency. The Chinese Batavia daily, "Sin Po," points out that the llicktfttt concerns only one Chinese and complains that Indocontinue to
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  • 69 2 Reuter. DAKAR, April 23.—The French President, Vincent Auriol, who is touring the African territories, has denied that an attempt was made to poison the Presidential Party at a banquet last Sunday, given by the Mayor of Dakar, when 30 to 40 of the 200 guests wWe
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  • 102 2 (From Our Own Correspondent)! MUAR, Weds. Four girfl guides from Ist Muar Girl Guide Company (Sultan Abu, Bakar Girls School) are attend-* jng the Malayan Gu'deis Training Course in Ku.Ua Lumpur They are Che' Siti Norani Mrs. De Souz.t, Amlnah b'.nti Mahadi. and Rnfeah binti A.
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  • 58 2 A young Chinese, Teo Ah Cheok, who was arrested at the IOJt mile, Ponggol Road, on Tuesday evening was produced in the Fourth Police Court yesterday on a charge of being in unlawful possession of three Jup.mes" rifles. An application by the prosecution fur 24
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  • 13 2 Cross Street, which has been "up" for repairs, reopens today
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 410 2 situation Vacant TEACHERS WANTED. Apply immediately in own handwriting, with details of qualifications and experience. Box No. 527. M.T. WANTED. Man with good experience in handling import, export bills and documents and letter of credit. Good pay. Must have suitable reference. Apply Box No 528 M.T WANTED by the Shell
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    • 271 2 TO LET TO LET. Furnished Unfurnished Rooms to decent Gentleman Bachelors only, at 130 Sophia Road. NOTICES. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION Tenders will be received at the Office of the Director of Public Works. Singapore, no cO noon of the 2nd May. 1947 for the following works Supply and deiiverv of furniture
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    • 299 2 SHIPPING The Ho Hong Steamship Co. (1932) Ltd. SAILINGS TO FROM PALEMBANG. S S "KLANG" sails for Palembang 4 p.m. Ist May and thereafter at approximately 10 day intervals. For freight and passage please apply to:— The Ho Hong Steamship Co. (1932) Ltd., Telephone: G769 *****. 65, Chulia Street, Singapore.
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    • 441 2 «wS HIP PI n G PAHlII) from Benoa, Padangbaai due N Boeleleng, Sourabaia Bemarang. Batavia Tg Pani'ai, Dabo and Tg VAN heutsz and 27 Penang 1 MAKIAN fomnma BkatandPon- 1 1 JANSSENS fr, to Batavia ay 5 JAnssk.Ss from sabang, Belawan- U Deli and Penang JANSSENS for Batavia May MAKIAN
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  • 64 3 ThrCf Caroll m uJm Jaafes piey.. (25; J|Jf f:.rißtopher« Trlsturn alias ind.sor smith (19* re firsi produced in the :si rate's Court yes- charge of dishonest;v jeep knowing it u>i br( n stolen, were transthe Third C»urt where tentatively charged the ihefl of th' J?ep at
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  • 22 3 qht Annual Oc Ural meeting fiaiaya Mu>'im M»s--v S will be IhpH it pi es ol the AUunied Saturday at
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  • 709 3 [mi ng the occupation, the Japs found In the the Right Rev. J. L. Wilson, the Lord Singapore, certain notes on lectures which n on T. E. Lawrence and they presumed hp was a man who framed his life on the ol Lawrence of
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  • 398 3 A decree nisi to bjj made absolute in three months was granted Mr. K. C? Eu, a well-known local businessman, by the Chief Justice, Mr. Murray-Aynsley, yesterday m respect of his petition for divorce against his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Edith Eu, now in England. The
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  • 198 3 MALACCA. Wed. Two district in Alor Gajan. num. iy, Melaku Pinduh and Cherna Puteh celebrated Hari Ibu Bapu (Parent's Day) on April. 19 and 20, respectively. In iAA -tka Pindah. sports and a conceit were organized by Tne Lembaga Ibu Bapa (Parents' Association)
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  • 333 3 "If Indian labourers were given a good basic wage half of the labour troubles in Malaya would be solved," declared Mr. S. K. Chettur, Representative of the Government of India, at a press conference yesterday. Mr. S. K. Chettur had
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  • 117 3 MALACCA. Wed. An epidemic of "fluke disc.je" among buffaloes and oxen has bsjen reported from Jasm the occurrence being most pronounced m Kesang, Baiang Melaka, Selander Nyalas. and Kirn. The V\ termaiy Department declared thai this disease of cattle is due to the presence of
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  • 115 3 A young Malay labourer at the R AF. Base. Seletar, was sentenced in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to two months hard labour 011 a charge of theft. The Malay youth. Abdul Rahman bin Lassim was seen by a detective 011 Tuesday
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  • 354 3 BITIAWAIs..—-The final episode In the sensational escape of Bins gangster suspects from the pjlice IOCKup here during; the early hours of Wednesday Mar 25, was enacted when five of the men were produced in the District Court before Mr. J. G. Adams for escaping from
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  • 110 3 Hamburg, April 23. Theodore Reid Hurtwick. Canadian-born Control Commission officer and ex-Army Major of Surrey. En» land, was sentenced to sis months' imprisonment and line; .£l.OOO today oh charges of us-in-j cigarettes, allocated to dipla -c 1 persons, to buy black market fur coats.
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  • 31 3 Their Highness the Sultan !oi Kelan.an. Treneg .nu and i Pahang are arriving in Singapore by train on Saturday morning for a private vi.at to Singapore.
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  • 885 3 That a patrol party engaged in anti-looting campaign could shoot in self-defence and in defence of other human lives only, was the evidence given by Maj. R. D. MacLaglan, second officer commanding the Ist Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, at the continued hearing of the case of Mai.
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  • 146 3 MALACCA, Wed. A totai fine of $350 was imposed 00 x 44-year-old woman When produced before Mr. T. F. Penny in the Police Court yesUray un three separate 'charges ÜB'loi the Customs Ordinance. The accused pleaded gull y to all three ciiarges. Mr. J. D.
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  • 84 3 Information lias been received that the Siamese natal sloe p, H.S.M.S. "Mac Klong", under the command ol Capt. That Kia nloet, R.N., will be pri/cei-due-, to Trineom.der, Ceylon, in Uie first part of May lor the pin pose of taking over the corv; 1 tes,
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  • 63 3 The Secretary of State for the Colonies, with the appr <v A of the Prime Minister, has appointed Sir Charles Jeffries. K.C.M.G., O.B:E. to be a Join: Deputy Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in succession to Sir Arthur Daw< K.C.M.G.. 0:8. E., who
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  • 93 3 Kuala Lumpur. Wed. -During the 19 months since the pation. Raja Hitam Coconut Estate. Limited <the largest coconut plantation in Malaya* made "remarkable recovery" and was able to declare a dividend oi fifteen per cent, without dclerr ing expenditure essential to ore sent and future
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  • 54 3 MALACCA, Wed, Labour Day (May 1) will be Celebrated by Labour organisations In Malacca with a mass rally on the Kubu Plains in the morning. Following addresses at this mass meeting, a mammoth procession will be held. In the night free cinema shows will be given at a number of
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  • 353 4 European Government servants who went to Europe on recuperation leave immediately after the Japanese capitulation are new packing their trunks for another spell of leave. The officers concerned have Worked a year or eighteen months and it has been discovered that some of them have not fully recovered
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  • 982 4 J.M. There is nothing new in materialism. It is as old as the story of the Apple in the Garden of Eden. Materialism is unscrupulously and ingeniously contrived by those who wish to gain power on the widest possible scale or who try to
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  • 346 4 The Peoples Postbag UMNO University I Letters To The Editoc' Sir.—Since there has, as yet. been no comment on U.M.N.O's view on the establishment of a University In Malaya, please give this letter some space in your papers. U.M.N.O's view that a Univeri sity be not established, until the Malays
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  • 398 4 Sir,—In the article published in your paper on this subject you are basically correct, but I do not agree with the use of the word "pessimist"' where atomic power is concerned. A man is standing with his friend during an air raid, looking up; they see
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  • 258 4 Sir.—There is an inclination on the part of the British administration, the local newspapers and a certain section of the public in Malaya to hoodwink the whole world as regards the closely linked destinies and fortunes of the Malays in Malaya consequent upon the signing of the Linggadjati
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  • 86 4 Sir, —I am directed by my Committee to advise the Public that the following speed limits are in force in Singapore and that the Police have. already taken action against offenders:— O) constructed to 1 carry merchandise 30 m.p.h. (2) Trolly Buses and Omnibuses 25 m.p.h. There are
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  • 88 4 i Sir. —The Jama atul Kadriah of Malaya with headquarters in Singapore, a Muslim religious organisation, is taking, it appears, much interest to make the Muslims religious-minded. Branches, it i s said, have been opened in certain states in the Malayan Union but not in Malacca. May
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  • 525 4 USIS. WASHINGTON.-The Japanese people are sincere in their desire to learn democratic ways and are making concrete progress in this direction. This is one of the general reached by a group of nine American editors and publishers who recently completed a 25.00C-mile tour of the i
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 1755 5 (From Our Own Reporter) (JMPUR. April 23.—"The delay in lifting w planting will cost rubber estates very Lima of money/ said the Hon. Mr S B President of the United Planting Assolaya, m the course of his presidential annual general meeting
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  • 271 5 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur. Apr. 23. The Central Committee of the SeIangor Estate Workers Trade Umons. on behalf of the Indian tappers of 240 estates in Selan- gor, today sent warnings to the managements concerned that j If. as a result of
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  • 36 5 There will be a public lecture at the Singapore Lodge. 1 TheosoDhical Society, 8. Caimhill Road, on Thursday. 24* h April, at 6.30 p.m.. on Atlantis —The Lost Continent", by Mr. Sten Yon Krusenstelrna.
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  • 65 5 Reuter. BATAVIA (Air Mailt—Mr J. M. L. Mitcheson. senior British Consul-General in Batavia. will be in charge of the British Consulate-General here from the beginning of next month when Mr. Gilbert MacKereti British Minister, returns to England on leave Mr. Mitcheson. prior to his recent arrival
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  • 663 5 Ratepayers Oppose Income Tax "Unfair Easily Evaded" The Singapore Ratepayers' Association announces its opposition to income tax m the Colony. The Tribune is informed that at a recent special meeting of the Committee it was resolved that income tax imposition before the economic conditions of this country are more normal
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  • 79 5 Tan Ah Tee, aged 18 and Poh Ah Lee. aged 20, two Chinese, appeared before Magistrate Ahmad bin Ibrahim yesterday in the Fourth Police Court on a charge of unlawful possession of 95 rounds of Japanese rifle ammunition and three rounds of ammunition of a
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  • 296 5 MALACCA. Wed.—After 23 years of service atvoted to the education of children in French Convents both in Seian-ior a.id Malacca. Reverend Mother Superior St. Manila returns home to her native Ireland on a well earned ions? leave. She came out to Malaya soon
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  • 92 5 Reuter. Capetown. April 23— While the King and Queen were strolling on top of the Table Moun- tain today, the Queen's hat was blown off. -rhe South African Prime Minister, General Bnwts. retrieved it. and picking out one ot the beautifully-shaded feathers he stuci
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  • 33 5 As from April 15 no British subject will be admitted iniu Palestine even tiiougii his is endorsed for Palestine unless it carries special endorsement by a competent British authority.
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  • 35 5 General Sir Neil Ritchie. C.-m-C. SEALF. accompanied by Brigadier H. Sparks of the Singapore District, visited the Salvation Army Headquarters at Oxley Road ye-terday tQ in-pect the buildings and study the activities of the organisation.
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  • 102 5 Equal Pay For Women U.P. BOURNEMOUTH, April 22— Jack Tanner, President of ine Amalgamated Engineering Union, cited Princess Elizabeth today as an example why women should receive equal pay "If Princess Elizabeth at her coming of age gets a raise lor her job—115,000 yearly as heiress
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  • 108 5 Shaw's "Androcies and *-he Lion" and "Winsome Winnie." a Victorian burlesque melodrama adapted by V. C. Clinton Baddeley from a story by Stephen Leacock. will be presented by the Little Theatre Players at 8.30 p.m on Monday and Tuesd-y. Admission by programme, si purchased at the
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  • 90 5 Reuter. PARIS, Apr. 23—France is on the verge vi a bn.-ad crisis *na a cut in bread ration of oetween 40 and 50 per cem. is expected. Bread queue* such as have not been ween m France since the days immediately following her liberation are forming
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  • 21 5 Reuter. The first Largo cargo of untitled aiiao from Cameroons- 125.000 stems--for West South Waies and the Midlands arrived at Avonmonm.—Reuter.
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  • 188 6 SPORE GETS ONE-FIFTH ALLOCATION: MORE DUE (P. H. GOH, Tribune Staff Reporter) *2? Ht ;u than 4,6W bales of Ja Panese textiles—representtng the first past-war shipment to Malaya—are on board the s.s. Sin Kiang which arrived in Singapore last night from Kare
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  • 125 6 To End Juvenile Delinquency Reuter. SYDNEY. -There Wi uld be 9 >harp drop in child delinquency figures If regulations permitted parents to be charged in court witk their delinquent children. Thk i* claimed by Sydney Welfare workers. "Continually in my teaching experience I have t >und
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  • 57 6 A San of $1,832.43 has been revived by the Central Welfare Council. Malayan Union, from Dr. H. M. Soo 4 Presirent of the Kuala Lumpur Symphony Orchestra, representing the proceeds of orchestral concerts held at the Town Hall. Kuala Lumpur, on March 14 and 15 in aid of
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  • 24 6 RANGOON. Apr 22.—The Burma Frontiers Areas Enquiry CommSsion headed by Lieut Col. Ree< Williams has completed hearing evidence during the fortnights sessijn at Maymyo.
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  • 426 6 «Tr.bune Financial Corr.) The tone of tne markets yesterday in both the industrial and tin share sections was lirm while ruobers were qu:etly Steady. ihere was gaod buying of Steam-nips up to $23i wan seller- at uammons firmed up and closed buyers at SS.'iO wnilst
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  • 145 6 (Tribune Market Correspondent) Due to lacK of buying oraers and factories showing no interest in the rubber market, priceeased off during yesterday morning With persistent selling the market eased off still a little further in the afternoon and, at the lower level buyers came into the
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  • 54 6 Reuter. LONDON. Apr. 23. SL plans for the erection of powerstation costing £11.000.000 on the Thames Bank facing St. Paul's are to go forward. The Planning Minister has decided in its favour despite the objections that the building would dwarf St. 'Paul's and hamper the f>outh
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  • 331 6 Prices quoted below are per picul weight except where otherwise stated. Foodstuffs:—Yesterday's quotations were "Meehoon": Kedab $41; Siam $48; Indo-China $43Rangoon $41. Rice: Siam No. 1 $82; No. 2 $78; Rangoon $58. I Glutinous r:ce: Siam No. 1 1 $70; Rangoon $50. "Gula" Malacca:—Superior quality $38. White sugar:
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  • 35 6 U.P. SOFIA. April 3.—One hundred and sixty Greek partisans crossed into Bulgaria on Friday after two days fighting with Greek government forces and now have been interned and disarmed, it was announced officially last night.—U.P.
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  • 390 6 (By Our Own Critic) A crowded house applauded enthusiastically when the curtain rang down on the finale of Joseph Kesserling's "Arsenic and Old Lace" a little after 11 o'clock last night. You too will leave the Theatre after seeing this murder-comedy
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  • 214 6 IPOH.—Replying to a question at a Press conference why Perak has only one representative on the Malayan Union Advisory Council, the Hon. Mr. A. V. Aston. Resident Commissioner "The question suggests that Perak's interests cannot be served by anyone other than a
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  • 510 7 ARCHIE QUICK SAYS LONDON, Apr. 23.—1t is difficult to follow the logic of soccer s Selecting Solomons. Wingmen Matthews and Mullen did not get half dozen decent passes delivered them in the Eng-land-Scotland surprise at Wembley and they are dropped for the game
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  • 59 7 His 15th Hole-In-One tt*» April 22.- i Tamp.s Braid 7 <-year-old A British > I; times win- British open i IcHami s* l6 today i *ed his j ism h in one of his 4 v ioursome t .id holed J yard tentli J w w Walton I o his
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  • 12 7 P0OT» UA I EAGUE Royal Air Jalan Bar, 515 p.m.
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  • 49 7 The Island Club April Monthly Medal will be played on Saturday and Sunday. The competition will be bogey. The couise will be closed to women on Saturday afternoon. The monthly medal henceforth will be confined to members having a handicap Vat not higher than eighteen.
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  • 79 7 Malacca. Weds. The Argonauts Badminton Party is to meet the Jaya Stia Badminton Party of Kuala Lumpur on Sunday on the Argonauts' Courts at 8 a.m. Two singles matches, 5 doubles and 1 mixed doubles will be played. Top-ranking players like S. M. Omar and Sriariff will represent
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  • 67 7 The Anglo Chinese School's Sports will be held at the Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday 17th May, starting at 2.30 p.m. There will be two events for the old boys—(l) 100 yd. Handicap Race. (2) Quarter Mile Relay Race, and intending competitors are requested to notify Dr Ong
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    61 7 Scotland drew I—all with England in the soccer international at Wembley recently. Top: Scotland's goal M cLaren (dark jersey) on his back after scoring the Scottish goal. Also on the ground helpless to prevent the ball hi tting the net, is England's goalkeeper. The other picture shows the
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  • 67 7 The annual inter-Col- lege cricket match be- tween Rallies College and 1 the Meaical College Will be played at Bukit Timah to-mcirow, Saturday and Sunday. The game begins at 1 4.30 p.m. to-morrow and j at 11 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Raffles have Won the match four
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  • 73 7 Reuter. LONDON. April 23.—8i1l Edrich, Middlesex and England cricketer, will in future play as an amateur. He has accepted a business offer, made by a group of companies, the chairman of which is A. E. Baring, former Hampshire cricketer. Edrich will have all the time required to
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  • 120 7 i EPSOM. Apr. 22,—A photo- finish camera operating officially for the first time on any British racecourse here today was called upon to decide the second and third places in the gre'at Metropolitan Stakes' principal race of the day's card. Mrs. Chisenhale-Marsh's 100-7 Outsider won the race by
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  • 55 7 The formal opening of the cement court of the Max'li Badminton Party situated ot No. 729-A, Upper Serangoon Road will take place on Saturday, at 4.00 p.m. All members are cordially invited to attend this ceremony when a TeaParty will be held in celebration of the occasion. Exhibition
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  • 382 7 (By Our Soccer Reporter) The Singapore Chinese Football Association, Selection 2, —the senior team—will meet the Royal Air Force in the Football League today at Jalan Besar. Both teams have featured in live games, but Selection 2 are leading by a single point. A
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  • 931 7 (From Our Racing Correspondent) IPOH, Wed.—Graceful Spear, ridden by Mawi, provided the biggest upset in the Second day of the Perak Turf Club's April meeting by Winning the second race to pay $63. Just before the start of the races there was
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  • 41 7 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 23 —Football results: Scottish B division—Cowdenbeath 2. Alloa 0. Dundee 5, Ralth Rovers 2. Stenhousemuir 4, Albion Rovers 1. Glasgow charity Cup first round: Clyde 1. Partick Thistle 4. Rugby League; Bellevue Rangers 8- Swinton 2.—Reuter.
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  • 42 7 The Tribune Racing Correspondent ipped four straight winners, two seconds and a third at yesterday's races in Ipoh. His winning tips were: Spearmlrth. Victory, Zarina and Sir Fresco, whilst Slickness, Tricolour and Courtesan were his place selections.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • 352 8 Reuter. WOODFORD, Essex, England, Apr. 24.—The Labour Government was accused of evidently C-.;*ng away the "mighty Indian Empire" by Winston Churchill, Britain's Wartime premier, when at his constituency here last niffht. Mr. Churchill said that Palestine was of far less importance to Britain
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  • 114 8 Reuter. LONDON, April 23— As the result of a visit to Paris last week ol' Chief Inspector C. W Jones of Scotland Yard, detectives in France have started a widespread hunt for the man who lis believed to have made the bomb found in the
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  • 81 8 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. —The 32,000--to n battleship Warspite— "grand old lady" of the Royal Navy—went aground at Cuddan Point, Cornwall, a rocky headland jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean. The battleship is a guniess empty hulk and was on her last voyage
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  • 55 8 A Tribune picture of the scene at a shop in Circular Road. Singapore, this week affer a hand grenade had btvn thrown, injuring two passerby. The hoie in the concrete floor where the grenade exploded is ringed. The door was blasted, and in this picture is
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  • 291 8 BANGKOK, Apr. 22.—As an appreciation of the work aone by the Troops in Siam in regard to the rehabilitation of the country and particularly in connection with the movement of paddy and nee, the Hon. Somerset Butler, Chairman of the Combined Siam Rice
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  • 80 8 U.P. CHANGCHUAN, Apr. 23.— Brig. Gen. Robert H. Soule, United States Military attache at Nanking, arrived here at 6 p.m. today, accompanied by his staff, in a personal Dakota aircraft, in preparation for the expected release of Major Robert Rigg and Captain John Collins from
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  • 82 8 U.P. Pirladelphia. April 23.—Stench bomb.-, booa and fisticuffs greet ed the appearaneo of the Norwegian soprrJia. Kir.sten Flagstad in Philadelphia's staid Academy of Music. The demonstration inside of the theatre by a handful of hecklers threw the concert ?ntc a tumult after >everal hundred picket-,
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  • 243 8 Reuter. j LONDON, Apr. 23. —A memI ber of the Korean Mission, B.C. Lamb, in a letter to the Times today propounds a solution for the present state of deadlock in Korea. After recalling .that in 1943 j Great Britain in a conference with
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  • 95 8 Reuter. LONDON. Apr 23 —Britain's coal production on which her industrial recovery depends, is steadily imoroving. figures issued today disclose. According to the monthly report of the European Coal Organisation, the output in tons per man-shift in February was 1.41 or 93 per cent, of 1935-38
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  • 36 8 Reuter. Nanking. Apr. 23.—China made no formal application to the United States Government for a U.S. $500,000,000 loan, the Minister of Information said today, nor have any recent talks been held informally on the subject. —Reuter.
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  • 175 8 U.P. TOKIO, Apr. 23.—A discussion of the purposes and operations of Japan's China garrison army from August, 1936, to the end of August, 1937, occupied the attention of the Military Tribunal for the Far East today. Cross-examination of Gen. Hashimoto, Chief of Staff at
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  • 125 8 BANGKOK. Apr. 22.— Forty off.c alo of tine Ministry of Commerce have been dism'ssed. Tiv s Was disci >sod by the Minister acting fnr the Mim£te:- of Commerce, Churn ionp Daoruang, who heads the Committee appointed to investigate into the csrruption of thic ministerial staff.
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  • 151 8 U.P. New York. April 23.—A threatened strike of Wall Street financial woikers has been averted and wage demands will be arbitrated. Mediation Chairman Grover Whalen announced today Workers, who are members of the United Financial Employees' onion, affiliated with the American Federation of Labour, seek
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  • 289 8 Reuter. LONDON. Apr. 23.—The nationalism of peoples of the hast is a tremendous force and has been given not only opportunities, but also great moral impulse by Japanese conquest, said H. V. Hodson, former Commissioner of reforms in India today. J He was speaking
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  • 93 8 Reuter. ROME, Apr. 22.—British military police and Italian police were today hunting for 16 Yugoslav criminals Vvho were freed last night by a band of 1.000 anti-Tito Yugoslavs. The train carrying jriminals to Sicily stopped at Formia. a railway station about 30 miles south of Rom«.,
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  • 98 8 Reuter. NEW DELHI. April 23.- Ten pilgrims were burned to death, and countless others drowned, and over 1,000 temporary structures were consumed in a Umae, when an accidental fire. fanned by a day wind whin at this time of the year sweeps Delhi
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  • 37 8 General Ritchie, C-in-C, SEALF, photographed during his visit to the Salvation Army Red Shield Club, Singapore, on Tuesday. Behind him in cooruay is BrijUdi<lr Sjarks. 0n Bngadier Harvey of thf va/ion Army.-Tribune ft*
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  • 444 8 Massacre Trial Sequel (Tribune Staff Reporter) Proceedings of the recent trial of Japanese criminals convicted of massacring Chinese in 1942 m at present with the legal advisers of the highe. tary authorities and are not likely to come up fo firmation for some while.
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    • 99 8 TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT FAIR LATER THIS AFTERNOON Singapore wea.her forecast for 24 hours from noon today, compiled by the R.A.F. Central Forecasting StaJoi Air Command Far East. cluuay with moderate rain at first, becoming fair later thiafternoon and evenms. Fmc tonight with oci s'onal showers tomorrow raorniii Wind: Light westerly.
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