Malaya Tribune, 6 October 1947

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  • 64 1 The Malaya Tribune B) THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper In Malaya Now printed simultaneously hi Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. 'Phone 5811 (Three Lines) iJSfI PAG! SINGAPORE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS The Malaya Tribune L n.i >n Aynr.s Me**rs f'>./*>. Turne-r
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  • 97 1 iTribui c Staff Reporter) KUALA LUMPUR, afondaj. Belita (boh I Sir Fresco ißlen r< amore. the few w*oi k this morn, ire late s l hc m< I>c exercs* ti V til most track, v V- ni two rounds, round ai ci I -00 Hp noks Rghtirg
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  • 51 1 Reuter. 5 -An aircraft Es Air Force Will ai d i*s cutiving th DDT tomorrow to arrylng flies. j nil lasj two hours of Health to- people over the j fidoor> but to to allow tno houses, ween Egypt I 'mpo- iwJi g to the c
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  • 39 1 RE D PLOT IN AUSTRIA I- Prim, iflnufcri li 1 Uuiai< d 50,000 K*-n»bj of the L JU com- Austria, bv w hi tiut Mi ScTrtary of the ka a iid within the will b« the Hj>. mot ftttempti
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  • 20 1 Q person. wei a i c nc« Plant crashed c Madagascar to- reportT■»••;.lian-. ir crew mtmpersonnel.
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  • 29 1 Ij -Ta.Fh*rCub and Ciiflord 2 -.an wternocn in Amov. s*i una'Je to pro--5 4 idiM,,] il!1;:h;ii fr,,m Hong- I *aw early thj* evening.
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  • 851 1 Secret Conference Launches World-Wide Campaign LONDON. Ocr. 5—Communist, parties oi' nine European nations today called for the rebirth of the Communist International to lead the fight "against the front of anti-democratic imoerr>listic forces led by the United States/'
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  • 112 1 I Nanking, Oct. 6.—A special Communique released by Ministry ol Nat onai Defence las' night claimed that Government troops scored another major victory ov.r large Communal forces at Tsimng. in West Shensi. inflict, ng 20,000 casualties and Cap tu; ng 900 prisoners ana a great quantity o
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  • 133 1 U.P. JERUSALEM, Oct 5. The Stern Gam; today threatened it would avenge thf* blood of Alexander R-übovitz. 16-year-old Jew of whose kidnapping and murder Capt. Roy Alexander Farran was acquitted" by a court martial here on Friday. Oborvers interpreted this as conflicting vith earlier Stern Gang
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  • 67 1 U.P. CASTELGANDOIIF'O. Ort. 0. Tiiree-thousand inhabit; nts of Caotvigaiuiorf o paid homage to the Pope today I y unveilimr a marbtS olaaue in his honour, in token of their gratitude for his aid raid protection during ?ind after the war. They also unveiled a marble bust in
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  • 113 1 Reuter. London. Oct. 5 —Sir Ralph T. Stor.eham. Government projects financial representative in I Burma, who arrived in Eng. land last right by flyirg boat from Rargoor, forecast the downfall of independent Burma. "I believe that as soon as British scientific, engir-eering and financial planners have
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  • 38 1 (Tribune Tafif There were three lallang flies over the weekerd in BU> gapore at t he edge of the Kaliarg airfield In Tanjong Rhu yesterday, and in Mount Pleatah Road on Saturday and King's Road yesterday.
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  • 46 1 At 1 a.m. on Sunday g fnc caused slight damage to a large stack of timber in the Kwocfg Hock Cheong sawmill in Padanu Jcringgau. The fire was cxtirguished by the labour. ers themselves with buckets of water before the arrival of the Brigade.
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  • 175 1 NEW DELHI, Oct. s.—The Government, 0 f India announced officially tonight that it could not, accept the accession of Junagadh State to Pakistan. The Muslim ruler of Junagadh, a Hindu state surrounded by Indian dominion territory, recently announced its accession to Pakistan. A communique issued from
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  • 44 1 Reuter. FAMAGUSTA, Oct. s.—The British ferry ship Snowdon Smith arrived at FamußUsta this afternoon and disembarked another 835 illegal immigrants to Palestine, i«« addition to the more than 800 landed earlier today irom the Empire Comfort and the Empire Rest.—Keuter.
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  • 51 1 U.P. GENEVA. Oct. 5.--An international paxide of warpfanai was Witnessed today by some 30.000 people at Geneva's Cointrin airfield. Warplan C 6 from the United States. Trance, Belgium, Britain and Switzerland were shown and flown. De Havilland jet Vampire Flight and United States ddm'* n the most attention.
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  • 155 1 U.P. LONDON. Oct. Princess BJUMObrnm Mode it a.s clear as SMJ COUld today ihat her Slid age on Nov. to to Lieut. Philip Mountbatttn is a love match nhen she insisted that the word "obey" remain in the ceremony despite sua (/rations that thy future
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  • 448 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) At the next meeting: of the Singapore Urban Cooperative Thrift and Loan Society on Wednesday, an entirely revolutionary housing scheme on the hire purchase system will be introduced and discussed. This was revealed to the Tribune by the Chairman
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  • 56 1 Three pistols were recovered by the police last night. In one case a Chirese youth. claiming to be 15-years of age. was stated to have been arrested with two loaded revolvers in his belt in/the Kandang Kerbau area Another pistol was recovered and a Chinese man arrested
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  • 40 1 Rover Scouts of the sth. Singapore Crew held a successful social at their Headquarters in Stamford Road last evening. Tho social was attended by girlguides anil' close friends of the Crew. There was dancing and games.
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  • 39 1 An armed street hold-up took peice in Pagoda Stteet at 10.30 last night when a Chinese pedestrian was held up at the point of a pistol by three compatriots and robbed of $1.90 and a wrist watch.
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  • 35 1 A shot was fired in Joo Cliiat yesterday, but there were no casualties. It is believed lt was the result of a gambling squabble and a shot W8? fired in the air.
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  • 35 1 Nanking, Oct. 6.—ln a lengthy investigation report issued by the Control Yuan last night, Dr. T. V. Soong, former Premier, was charged with being respon sible for the mismanagement of China's foreign exchange funds.
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  • 126 1 TEHERAN, Oct. s.—Angry word*, boiled out of Iran's National Assembly, and tears flowed as members gave an overwhelming vote of confidence to Premier Ghavam es Sultanch, today The portly Premier, who has been accused of traitorism for reeotiatfcjr a tentative oil pact with the
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  • 132 1 'Tribune Staff Reporter) It is understood that some W aerangs and lascars, who hav<* served for over 20 years irj Goverr ment launches liavt? \pcti_ tiored to Government to place them on the pensionable establishment. Their first petition was sent to the Colonial Secretary in which they
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  • 85 1 U.P. LONDON. Oct. ;>.-The Commonwealth Party Anti-Fascist Organisation staged a 30 speaker filibuster at Dalston. London's tough East Bad U>d; y, to prevent the British League of Ex-servicemen from holding its regular Sunday night meeting at its established location Tho League's loudspeaker van, now a regular
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  • 67 1 An old Singapore resident Mr. A W. Cashin diod suddi-nly ;it his home, 79 Grange Road, last nieht, 7] Hf was (he only son of the late Mr J. W. Cashin, well-known Singapore property ownor. He leaves four children—two s«>ns studying at Oxford,
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  • 142 2 NE A DELHI, Oct. 4.- Muslim attacks on non-Muslim refugees moving on to India from Pakistan still continue, according to latest reports. An Indian Army Major and two Other Ranks, members of the Indian force escorting a non-Mus-lim convoy from Tandlianwala (Pakistan), were killed on Thursday when they
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  • 56 2 U.P. JOGJAKARTA. Oct. 5. —According to the Republican Radio three sugar factories in Madiun area in East Java are now ready to go into produc. tion. It further says that there pre sufficient sugar stock*, to cover the requirements in Re-public-held areas durirg the
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    • 684 2 PERSONAL Mrs. C. H.r OTRKRAN who held her dress show at 14 Lornle Road on Oct. 3rd can be contacted by letter c,o The Hong Kong Shanghai Bank, Singapore. GRASP OPPORTUNITIES. Individual Instruction Pitmars. Expert, late Pi l marus College. Beginners Classes rat Subjects English. Maths., Morning 9 to 10.
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  • 339 3 ANSWERS THIS QUESTION How do fo k(r ji fntre f The day of rigid dieting, in my opinion, is paase. I will not endanger my health with .stringent diets tor I can keep m y figure trim mostly by exercise. However I don't eat potatoes when
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  • 166 3 West Indian buses arc like me! included ranee. Dignity, 1 Made-It. printed on vi buses ire perGrenadians. growing old. "Hills are caiisi i Grenae christened their three v oear the B n Voyage, Happy us underneu npaper mdvermUsed a free fundied ttXpTi sj i ill to all
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  • 748 3 Behind The Scenes LONDON, (by air mail).—Latest of the .seaside rackets is reported from Ramsoratc and a south coast resort. Joining the queue outside the local food office, wide boys' oiler to save mothers with children a tedious wait by drawing their emergency ration cards for
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  • 46 3 Reuter. SHANGHAI. Oct. s:—Thirty Chinese passengers were killed and 44 seriously injured when a Chinese motor ferry struck a floating mine off Taipo in Hong kongs mainland last evening. Majority of the injured survivors were brought to Hongkong this afternoon and admitted into hospital—Reuter.
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  • 35 3 Reuter. TEHERAN, Oct. 5.—The Persian Majlis (Parliament) to Jay voted a confiderce motion i JI favour oi tfce Government of Ohavam Es Sultaneh by 93 votes to 12 with 11 abstentions and four blark votes.—Reuter.
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  • 934 4 Mr. H. .b. Heasman, British income-tax expert and author vi the notorious report recoinineuding the imposition oi uireci taxation in lvxaiaya ana Singapore, nas returned to tnis assist in de lice; a Lions now going on in connection with Whitehall's predeter mined policy of forcing
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  • 1519 4 rarely op°n a newspaper W nowadays without seeing a letter, or an article, or a news-flash from some part of the work!, about this wU espread and devastating disease' TB. We read that its the biggest post-war killer in this part of the Bast, that it's
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  • 393 4 TOKIO. (Air Maili The virtual absence of any realisation of individual responsibility for Japans war guilt is one of the great problems racing those who would refoi m her, according to "Bungei Shunju'. one of "he largest and more responsible or Japanese magazines. Discussing
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  • 121 4 In regard to an article, entitled 1 by v* "Duff Romance in Keuuv tan," which appeared in our issue of June 21. last, we have to point 1 out that this article was publish- ed by us without the knowledge t or consent of the author.
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  • 8 4  -  A. v ERNEST HIX
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  • 203 4 Sir,-—Your correspondent who calls himself proletariat is a strange person and that is why .ne Progressive Party tried to -jet at him. However it got what .t deserved but I hope that Pro.etariat's blows to the new born babe are not so
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  • 230 4 Sir.—I was not interested in politics but I read with great Interest all the controversies re to vote or not to vote in the forth com.ng elections and also "One of the Proletariat." It does not, appear strange for the ProgresBive Party <and here I am
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  • 46 4 ing in I 1 st *U am un bi' I streets of Bras B, Bencoolen Street H cut fear Of being r" the police must h/V-'W of this danger point supply an efficient I I I cerned will tak- --m steps. KUS'SAIN ANGULUA.
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  • 38 4 Sir,—it gives me sure in end I about tne P: sre; would add. Hot can -B label itsel: "p. gr r S I I H These two ded together. Uni:-: the sure.-: real progress in CO-OPERATOR.
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  • 212 4 Sir.—Your Contributor. "Anak Malaya" was curious to know whether the decision of the Ex-, cutive Council of the Clerical Union would have been different if instead of six seats on the Les. Co. there were offered, say. only two Speaking as an ordinary number o c
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  • 240 5 Socialists May Be Bad But Not Socialism" U.P. DEI HI, Oct. s.—Mr. Gandhi, striking a* s criticism of the British Labour hi( h gave India its freedom, de°larecl may be had but not Socialism." i spoke, unofficial reports were received between Hindus and Muslims at
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  • 55 5 nee about the move•time Halifax i new prupeiu" >ssel Chileo i toads of SingaC and the RAF v and confusion. i!ie aircraft left UK night there has 'tion of its mover, the plane was H\F Base at to the airstrip s, the plane was
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  • 49 5 Staff Ren< irter» id its lenges •a nighi wh n all n tlie city were two and a half 1 10 P.m. Many Inatown were also j Understood iha« 1 mat there is a similar black- scd on the same >z' due to a fault in
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  • 48 5 U.P. LAKE SUCCESS. Oct. 4.—Tho Latin American delegations will con tithe their efforts to secure the c:ec io:i 0 f the Ukraine over Irdia to the Security council when the General Assembly meets again probably rcxt week In an effort to broak the dead, lock.— U.P.
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  • 45 5 U.P. SHANGHAI, Oct. 5 The Central News Agency reported that Sir Alexander Grantham, Gover ncr of Hongkong, had returned from Nanking to the Crown colony yesterday after a 3-day visit to the capital during which he called on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek—U P
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  • 39 5 U.P. CHICAGO, Oct. 4-The International College of Surgeons has designated three of IU members including Czech Arnold Jirasek from Prague as "master surgeons" giving them the new title to set them apart from, the rest of the held -U.P.
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  • 738 5 (By N. Mamat). Muslims in Singapore will be glad to know that at long last the Muslim Advisory Board has been re-constituted and has begun to function. The first meet. ing to elect the Chairman was held on Wednesday at the Council
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  • 54 5 Reuter. KARACHI, Oct. 4.—A British aviation mission will go to Siam soon "to negotiate and conclude an agreement for a regular commercial air service.'' Lord Nathan, British Civil Aviation Minister, told Reuter today. Lord Nathan arrived in Karachi yesterday after a two-month tour of Australia. New Zealand, China.
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  • 99 5 U.P. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. A thin ragged Japanese soldier stumbled cut of the wooded mountains in Guan ard surrenrered to naval officers after thre? years in hid ng ai d three attempts at suicide. He said sheepishly that he had folicw?d his comrades
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  • 133 5 U.P. SHANGHAI. Oct 4.—Police arrested seven employees of the Wins On Company Limited and the China Na tne Product,, store, after an attempted labour uprising in the two Drm* At the same time, it was reported that a general strike was railed |n [We other large
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  • 111 5 untitled mand'ng Officer of OHQ Signal Regiment, recently opened the new telephone exchange at Neo. Boon camp. The new exchangt replaces the old three position manual exchange which wat 100 email to deal with the number of calls. It is opera! <( bp cix A.T.B. telephone 'operator*, and has a
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  • 37 5 Reuter. HAMBURG, Oct. 4.- -Professor Max Blarck. the German physicist who originated the Quantum Theory, died this morning in a hospital at Goct. tingen, the German rews service in the British gone reported. He was 89.— Reuter.
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  • 387 5 U.P. BATAVIA. Oct. s.—American Consul-Genera! Wai ter A. Foote today appealed by radio to Indonesian Premier Sjarifuddin to release three Dutch army o.W ers, Mho are being held nt Pameungpeuk, along the south r*oast of Java. G3 miles south-east of Bandoeng, wr Kn American Beechraft
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  • 49 5 CARDIF, Oct. 4. Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's new Minister for Economic Affairs, declared hero today that Britain was now facing the "hatHe of balance of payments" a fight to obtain sufficient exports quickly enough to enable her to import the £oods essential to her very existence.
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  • 57 5 Reuter. LONDON. Oct. I a woman prisoner escaped iioni Pertonville Prison on Saturday dressed in a woman warder's uniform. She had been taken from Holloway Prison where she was serving a 15-month sentence for theft to do housework in the women warders' quarters at Pentonvillo where some
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  • 53 5 U.P. Shanghai, Oct. j. The city came in for austerity with a venyeance hist ni'/hf when polico atrrstal fin cnyaycd covplr for kisslny in a dark street in Nanta'» suburb an old native city. They were charyed with liuyyiuy ea-Ii ether "too closely." The man iwis </ ia
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  • 53 5 Reuter. PARtS, Oct. 4,—Rabbi Baruch KorfT, 33-year-old co chairman of the American Political Action Committee for Palestine, who was detained here on Sept. 6 in connection with a reported Jewish plot to drop leaflets by air on London, was today released temporarily on bail, in a recognisance of
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  • 33 5 U.P. WASHINGTON.OOf.c f 4.—Senator Homer Ferguson revealed that the Unit d States Immigration Service ha s lost track of a States |0 be trained ir. a lacorv at Buchanan Michigan.— U.P.
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  • 123 5 U.P. CALCUTTA. Oct The Western Bengal 0 r-ernment ha* decided to approach the Government of Trutla, [he abolition of racial discrimination in the existing criminal procedure code, r was U imed n reliable quarters 4 >(it ii. The wentd include ar withdrawal of privileg<
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  • 60 5 U.P. SHANGHAI. Oct. 5 —Reports from Jlukden said that the Nationalist Chief of Staff, General Chen Chen?, who is personally commanding Nationalist forces m N;srth China and Man /.luria. called a conference of provincial G< vernor- and mayors, I and assured them that there were j absolutely
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  • 49 5 U.P. TOKIO. Oct. 4:—The Sixth Group lof stateskie? bo&ej B-29 Super forts, scheduled far <>ne month's training vith the Par East Air Forces, reached Yokota Army Air base, near Tokio, from Rapid City, South Dakota, where eight arriving aircraft are based permanently with the Fifteenth A.. Force.—U.P.
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  • 170 6 U.P. LONDON. Oct. 4. A pink and healthy Cupid with a shsci'd bearing: tile* initials of Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten will adorn the official four-tier wed(ilnc cake, it was disclosed loday. The Cupid will be crowded j for /»lbow room In
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  • 208 6 The Malayan Federation Constitution proposals were defended by His Excellency the CfrOWnOirGeneral, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, in a broadcast ovir a Malaya wide hook-up last niffht His Excellency said: "To-night I would hke to emphasise three things. First, the new Federal Constitution 'establishes certain reforms which
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  • 111 6 Reuter. BERLIN, Oct. 4. The Get' man Bi-Zonal Food and Agricultural Organisation today warn, cd Germai s in the British and American zones that "under ro circumstances'' would additional food imports be distributed o make up for German failure t0 meet the grain delivery Quotas from
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  • 40 6 Reuter. Bangkok. Oct. 1 The Siamese Air Force mission headed by Air Marshal Deparidh Phanluk is expected to leave fo: Singapore on Wednesday on the invitation extended by the Air Officer Commanding Singapore. Reuter.
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  • 69 6 Reuter. KOEPAXG. Timor. Oct. 3 Sailing round the world, a Danish 20-ton yacht with an outboard motor under Capt. H. Nilsen and a Danish 'crew of two, arrived here today from Thursday bland, off Cape York in northern Australia. Capt. Nilsen sailed from Copenhagen, passed
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  • 42 6 BANGKOK. Oct. 4—The Siamese Government har, decreed that foreign cxi hanjj realised out of private cement exports from Siam must l«e turned to the Bank of Siam. This measure is intended to 'conserve cl ment badly needed here for rehabilitation.)'
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  • 241 6 This week's activities delude. TODAY: 5.30 p.m- Y-Vv.C.a. FORTNIGHTLY GROUP meet, ting at 8 Fori Canning R° ad Guest speaker: Mrs. Lim Knoon; Teck. Subject: "Women ot China". rtl et! Y.W.C.A. COOKING CLASo hold over until 13th at 5 P-m--(Mali Mcc boiled and fried will be demoi-st rated)
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  • 223 6 (Tribune Market Corr.) The upward trend oi rubber n. ices which conlmned throughout the week was led chiefly by New York and th* a roponaeu to by oth r markets. Although forward oJTerngs for the higher grades of ribbed smoked sheets were well taken up. the
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  • 148 6 Reuter. LONDON, Oct. Hundreds of million* of dollars may be aaved tnrougn Import cuts by the Sterling countries of the British Comna nwea'.th as a result of the London talks which t( day entered their third week, it was learned. Tins figure includes the value Of
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  • 41 6 Reuter. STOCKHOLM. Oct. 4. The Swedish liner Drottningholm left Gothenburg today with 250 cases of Swedish gold for New York for the purchase of dollars. The Swedish State Bank is keeping the amount of gold a secret. Reuter.
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  • 28 6 U.P. SHANGHAI, Oct. s—The Comrnattist radio monitored here claimed that a 35-mile stretch of the Mukxk-u railway line was thoroughly d< between and Suichung ai»U Shanhaikwan.—U.P.
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  • 229 6 Malaya Wide Hartal Called For Oct. 20 October 20. the day on which the British Parliament re. convenes for its autumn session, during which it is expec ed to debate the constitution for Malaya, has been chosen by the Putera and All-Malayan council of Joint Action for a Malavawide hartal.
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  • 134 6 U.P. Berlin. Oct. 3.--General Lucius D. Clay today issued a ruling which will nilow 500.000 to escape trial for prohibited activities. Clay approved three Germansubmitted amendments to the bulk of American zone denazification cases. He also cleared the way for 250.000 lesser Nazis to
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  • 332 6 Within six hours en Saturday night, Chinese robbers raided two bOUSQe in ,he town area to collect a total of $2,240 in jewellery, cloth and cash. The first raid was made on tlit- premise* of a Chinese shop in South Bridge Road at 9
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  • 122 6 (From Our o\v n Report*,.) Uniformed Postal workers in Sii Malayan Union will go on strike on We ing. This decision was reached late last ing of delegates from the Posts an tions Departments of Singapore an r held here. Earlier it was reported that the
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  • 141 6 Reuter. SHANGHAI. Oct. 5 tv trict court held bri t h yesterday of the "*g Van.la.. a 35-year- o ij SL bom Chinese suspect tog,he eadei thi y of Li An-t Chines,. Ph lands On t. argume I and held for the next ing the app< arai
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  • 75 6 Relat ves of peop.e is d after b?f-r, ce'icr. in Concen.rr.tion Areas. A::: Street, in F bruarv 1942 a:; who have :i< t yet ?uiasifti "Missing Pc:\y;> Fcnn%toi Appeal Ccra;n tte« for Cars Massacred by Japa <e r' gt-ntly requc-s ed to uo .a it® earliest opportunity.
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    • 194 6 I DAILY A V j < SHOWS C3O 9.13 s I AVI DAY TO-DAY OF THE GREATEST SERIAL EVER SHOWN IN SINGAPORE! I FINAL 4 DON'T I S CHAPS. M,SS! I ./A j START S i'tt-HOKlunv J A GRAND STORY IN ALL ITS MAGNIFICIENCE WD SPLENDOUR! S I "CATHERINE THE
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    • 112 6 rAI»i TO s I AIR-CONDITIONED PHONE 1 LAST DAY f 11 A M.-2—4 IS 45.30 and H He gambled witfi W&A> m*mM B an empo and a woman as the stake* fmWii M B Itanwyck kijf I 11SS woman wttn a silk £jwn an) an *m will. Itf PTjflj B
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  • 108 7 Reuter. JOHANNESBURG, Oct. s.—The Board of Contiol for Cricket in South Africa have agreed to the amended laws for cricket and wil] bring them Into operation immediately. It was announced today tha: the tour of England during the summer by the South African
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  • 78 7 rhe Stipendiary gtewaitia's repori on the first day., races in Kuala Lumpur ve;*erdav a as:— J Race pne: Norton was checked at the fourth furlong when his ndjr anticipated being squeezed by the horses on the outside. Jeffers, rider of Morion, was reprimanded Race Four Prince Avon
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  • 136 7 In the feteran Singles Badminton Finals. Koh Kecg Siang, iPlayfair) reckoned to be one pi the fastest veterans m Ma. a today, romped home an easy ocr ovei- Seah Eng vat, 'Mayflower 1 the score bein? 15—6. 15—: l Both played n placing
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  • 39 7 TOKIO Co j_» "c*,-., P*fcese v.o.v.en. rv.. m m >-- ii -I*1'*" if c coder the new tl^rfni? Te n aaottl ,r i"c Ui. w tftltsic Cornrnittcc current adultery law, which aaakM cniy women punisfca .j..>_ u.P
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  • 302 7 Reuter. LONDON, Oct. 4.—Leading non-league clubs are renewing their efforts to bring about the formation of a fourth division of the English football league. Their cause is being championed by several first and second division clubs including Brentford. Tottenham, Hotspurs. Sunderland, Huddersfteld, Liverpool.
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  • 223 7 Reuter. LONDON, Oct -1 The following are the rugby results: NorOiumberland and Durham 0, Australians 15' Rugby Union O untry Chaxnplonahip. Gloucestershire iMDorset and Wilts 13. dub Matches: Bleckheath 22, Birkenhead Park 3. London Welsh 0, Richmond ift St. Marys Hospital 23, Old Cranlefghans o. Barnstaple it. Rcsolven
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  • 419 7 (Tribune Staff Reporter). At a general rm -ting of the Singapore Rovers Sports Club which vas held at the residence •>i the new president, Mr. Ang Soon Hoe. yesterday, the following were elected I o bold office for the current
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  • 76 7 NEW YORK. Oct. 4. The son and daughter of Bull Lea, famous American thoroughbred sire, were ""first and third respectively in the 6 1/2 furlongs Belmount futurity this afternoon, Citation out Of Hydroplane the Second winning in one minute 15.8 seconds from Whirling Fox by Whiriaway out of
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  • 780 7 Reuter. LONDON', Oct 4 But for the element of luck which lowed Arsenal to share points of a goalless draw there world i,.--no unocaten team in the major leagues of English football this si ason. Arsenal still hold that rceoid however and even remembering that Rooke
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  • 298 7 Smashing through their opponent's weakening defence With furious vigour, Wee Chye Koon and S- Aamad Alhabshee 'Eclipse B.P.j emerged winnor<. oV e r Sng Haw Pau and Lye Ah Leng (Devonshire) amidst thunderous anplause, the Mtr.'.s Junior Doubles BaMminten Semi.Firals ai
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  • 184 7  -  (I3y RESERVE A Java Chinese football team comprising players from leading Chinese clubs in Java. Sumatra, Celebes and Borneo will tour Malaya to play a series of matches in ai l of the Java Chinese Relief Fund sometime towards the
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    • 171 7 Kranji Beat Nelson 44 Al Soccer ger match m 1 q Saturday jr 3 ted the :'1 < ib 1Jr I 1 1 ether V. scored The C es nil a few "QUEENS .jHE SON OF THE GUARDSMAN"' VICTORIA rHEATRE LAURA" VERA CASPAR* MLAOPENINl i IN AID S A T
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  • 455 8 "Essential To French Security" He Says U.P. PAPTS. Cct. 5. —United States' solid ooDosi'ion to Soviet Russia is essential to French security, Gen. de Garble toid a political rally hero today. I t first speech in the French caoi'al since
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  • 101 8 Two Ch'nesc labourers were Slightly Injured early last right v her a drum of carbida ex. pJoded as ir was bei- g taken out of th~ lunken toi kau-z Ir the Smgap-'! Rivt>r. A fey/ days after tp c first explcsirr. :j which iv persons
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  • 53 8 U.P. HONGKONG. Oct. s—The Democratic Li'apruc iict; or Chow Chin". Wen whom tho Government charged is pra-Gommuiust on (Saturday night flatly dinted the charge calling it "ridiculous." He said that during the year be altsffUly wai he!) ln» the Communists in \>n-n he act v* My was working
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  • 39 8 This untitled is in the i> art of Dm :-'tn. ftvrt Indian andtvnc s are sttown programme* of he latent films from India, UolUficoo<l and BriUi n. The theatre is also much need for \mper*an* >» t#« mam of Indians.
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  • 84 8 U.P. PRAGUE. Oct. s.—Yugoslav news agei cv Tar jug today cited "practically the ertirc A hens press as "confirming reports" that a joint GrecoTurkish military headquarters had been established with the r.'Dproval of American represer tatives in Greece. Gen. Omurtak and fifteen ser ior staff officer., left
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  • 179 8 Reuter. tiAARBRUECKEN. Oct 5More than one.third ot the electorate of the Saa r had voted by noon today and >t was forecast that 85 cert, ot me population would vote tor their first post-war constituei t assembly °r District Parha. men; -wh ch
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  • 83 8 U.P. BERLIN. Oct. 5. One out of every two German prisoners of war returned from Russia to the American /.one stai ving, general Lucius D. Clay, American Military Governor, sa* l in t semi-monthly repot to the War Department He said the stages >' starvation of "njutrltional edema"
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  • 97 8 Reuter. NANKING, Oct 5. semiofficial source, commenting on the suggestion of George Catric, ;i well-known British university professor and euihor, that Premier Chang C'lu;n vr V "e-Minister Sun Fo ahouki le tnv!?jd to visit Britain, said today thai Premier Chan;: Chun will not comment till an official
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  • 49 8 U.P. BATAVIA, Oct. s.—The R e Republican news ngcncy. Antara. reported that Dr. Sutar. Siahrir, former Pr'me Minister of ihe Indonesian Repbuiic. had »->cn reouested by the present Republican Goven mc-rt to take a seat in th? Irdoncsian delega. for fu'ure talks with the Dutch. —U.P.
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  • 66 8 Reuter. RANGOON. Oct. B A sneeial meeting of 1he Burmese Cabinet will shortly decide the (Sate for the fo r mal transfer of power to Burma in accordance with a request made by the Brit sh Government, the official paper, New Times of Burma In accordance with a
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  • 49 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Oc 4.-Mr. ""h.ules Luckman head of President Truman's "sav«; wasV commtitee, anrour.ee-J tonight ihfct the Urvted States "DiatiUed Spirits Industry" had agreed to recommend the alcohol distdl,ng industry that they s f op al use of wheat and curtail the us? of other grair. in ihe Industry.—Reu'er.
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  • 131 8 Reuter. LAUSANNE. Oct. 5. only four drivers completed the full distance of 291.24 kilometres (90 laps) m the Grand Prix De Lausanne motor race tooav. Luigi Villoresi (Italy) on a Maseiati won in two hours 49 minutes 30.4 sees, an average speed of 103 09 kilometres
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  • 55 8 U.P. Pa fl I fl rouses le Pa U cf j ..fl cham bj I fl L*Arc de Tri mpht. Le fl Rocheti fl 2,400 fl fl ten place. Mure I fl !o I to 10. while fl delon. rid ''fl lOs, fl length.
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  • 158 8 LAHORE, Oct. 5.—A Provi ernn Dftt has boon set up in Kashmir M a telegram reaching Reuler's con > tonii'ht from Rawalpindi. The message, which was sign- i ed by Anwar, President of Republican Provisional Govern j ment of Kashm r.' stated that
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  • 40 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Oct :> T Sen- ate Appropriations Oororoifcte* tortav summoned to me«t on Nov. by its Chairman. Ptnatnr Styles Bridge*, lor bearings on President Trumaifs proposal to provide $580,000,000 euicraencv aid to Europe for tbe coming winter—Rou'.r
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 53 8 TODAY'S VVEATHER REPORT Bright Periods Cloudy, occasional ram, a few bright periods. Wind fresh west-soutn-westerly. Sunset 1325 hrs. Sunris- 061. hrs. Moonrise 2346 hrs. Moonset 1120 hrs. Temperature for the past 24 hours: Max. 89.3 deg. Mm. 75 deg. Rainfall: 1.6 mm. Humidity yesterday at 0730— 84: 1330- 73;'1930 68;
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