Malaya Tribune, 27 April 1948

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  • 63 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales than any Afternoon Paper in Malaya Printed Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh d Penang Telegrams: "Tribune Spore." Telephone: 5811 (9 lines). T'GHT PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS The MALAYA TRIBUNE London A gent a Messrs. Colin
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  • 1173 1 Total Payments Estimated At $475 Million BRITISH GOVT. PROMISES £45 MILLION (OR MORE) AID PAYMENTS \o Malayan War Damage claimants will begin next year. The first ins' almem will be limited ie £6,000,000 ($6O million Malayan currency). News of this
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    23 1 A hill ut Kttmpong llharu being dynamited yes-cruay for t 'mstt vction work <>n the new Singapore Improvement Trust flats.
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  • 308 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) There is a likelihood that the present school holidays may b? extended in view of the increased number of cases of infantile paralysis in Singapore tqdav. although. Health and Education oflieials were reluctant to make a statement when interviewed v.'sterday. It
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  • 84 1 Reuter. DAMASCUS. Apr. 26.The Transjordan (iovernment declared war on "Zionism" tonight, according to official sources here. The Transjordan Army has occupied Jericho, it MMM added. The armies of Syria, the Lebanon, Transjordan and Iraq have signed an agreement in Amman, capital of Transjordan, according to which, official
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  • 65 1 Mere strikers went back to work this morning at the Singapore Harbour Board. Fourteen ships berthed along the wharves fo r loading and Unloading. A spokesman of the S.H.B. informed the Tribune that there is sufficient labour to work on the 14 vessels. Eight vesse's
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  • 57 1 Telephone strikers reiterated their determination to con tinu:> the strike until their five demands are settled to their satisfaction. This was expressed in their latest letter handed to the O.T.E.C yesterday. Th t letter was a reply to the notification which the company sent to the absentees
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  • 57 1 As part of a campaign to reduce crime to a minimum, a reward of $150* will b, paid to any person who supplies information which leads tithe amst and conviction of any person who has been guilty during the preceedinc six months of any housebreaking and theft,
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  • 36 1 U.P. MANILA. Apr. 26.—Robert ■"Believe-it-or-not" Ripley, world famed compiler of edditles arrived here today aboara the s.s. 'President Claveland He is on a hunt for additional oddities for 'his 1 lahy newspaper column.—'J.P.
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  • 62 1 Reuter. Berlin, Apr. 26.—A Berlin housewife tried to make coffee with the powder she found in an unlabeUpd tin in a food parcel from America. It was not a success. Today she received a letter from her sister, telling her the tin contained her grandmother's ashes.
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  • 113 1 Reuter. BOMBAY, Apr. 26. The Indian Government wants to maintain "close and cordial" relations with Pakistan so that both may play their part together in international affairs, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister told an open air meeting of more than 200,000 people today.
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  • 40 1 KARACHI, Apr. 26. -Muhammad Ayyub Khuhro, Prime Minister of the province of Sind has been dismissed for "maladministration, gross misconduct in .discharge of his duty, and responsibility, and corruption" a communique from the Sind Governor's Secretariat announced ,tonight.
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  • 641 1 Today's Front-page Leader The Mr'avan war damage compensation announcement which appears on this pßge ha 4 rvnehed the Malayan pulslk' in a manner which necessitates the strongest protest to those responsible for determining the publication hour. This, we understand, was decided with a \>w to obtaining simu!f aneous
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  • 139 1 Reuter. BANGKOK, Apr. «6. -One thousand Muslims today staged an armed uprising against the Siamese Government near the Mam-Malaya frontier town of Sunyei Golok, according to reports recewed here. The reports said that fighting broke out between guerillas and Siamese armed police at the village of
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  • 29 1 Two of four persons who sailed away last Sunday un. der banishment warrants were habitual criminals. The other two *ere former banishees who had unlawfully returned to Singapore.
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  • 30 1 Reuter. TEHERAN, Apr. 26.—The Persian Parliament (Majlis, today gave a vote of confidence to Ibrahim Hakiml and hig government by 67 votes to two. with 19 abstentions.— Reuter.
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  • 196 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A PROTEST AGAINST THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT'S WHITE POLICY" WAS VOICED AT A COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE STRAITS CHINESE BRITISH ASSOCIATION YESTERDAY WHEN IT WAS DECIDED TO WRITE A L2TTTER TO THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT REQUESTING IT TO TAKE NOTICE OF THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT'S
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  • 159 2 CURRENCYA WARNING In a statement issued by the Controller of Foreign Exchange, it is reiterated the importation of United Kingdom and Malayan currency notes into Malaya is.prohibited. In addition prohibition has recently been applied to the importation of notes which are or have at any time been legal tender in
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  • 107 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Mr. i\ A. T. Chrimes, Acting Chairman of the Singapore Harbour Board, expressed bis confidence yesterday that the Harbour Board work would go on despite the fact that no settlement has yet been reached with the striking harbour labourers. "As far as I
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  • 100 2 A 61-year-old Englishman, S. C. Fraser. was produced in the Fourth Police Court yesterday on a charge of cheating. It was alleged that accused dishonestly induced a Malay taxi-driver, Mohamed bin Merbi to let him make use of his tax} without any payment. The total amount
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  • 84 2 A batch of ex-Royal Air Force ground personnel selected to join the Royal New Zealand Air Force is expected to land in Singapore this afternoon. The personnel form part of the 200 chosen maintenance crew for service with the R.N.A.F. From here R.N.A.F. Dakota
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  • 67 2 Reuter and AAP. NANKING, Apr. 26. President and Madame Chiang Kai-shek today sent a congratulatory message to King George the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth on the occasion of their Silver Wedding. The message reads: "On this happy occasion of Your Majesties' Silver Wedding we have much pleasure
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  • 43 2 After considering the sugof the Penang SCBA for changing the name of the Association, the Singapore Straits Chinese British Association decided to postpone the question as the subject of citizenship for Singapore ih now under consideration in London.
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  • 267 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter> AN ARMY PROPOSAL TO GIVE A WAGE INCREASE OF 33' a PER CENT TO THEIR CLERICAL EMPLOYEES HAS BEEN HELD UP BY THE PUBLICATION OF THE TRUSTED REPORT AND THE DELAY IN THE DECISION OF THE SINGAPORE AND FEDERATION GOVERNMENTS ON
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  • 196 2 A young Chinese, Koh Chwee Chee, was acquitted and discharged by the Second District Judge, Mr. A. D. Farrell, yesterday on a charge of assisting in the management of a common betting house for the purpose of bookmaking, without his defence being called. The place in quesfion
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  • 491 2 Mrs. Hannah Catherine Robertshaw, who arrived in Singapore seven weeks ago with her two youngest children to join her husband Capt. B. I. Robertshaw, R.N., anc who died of infantile paralysis on Sunday, was buried at Bidadarj cemetery, yesterday. The Robertshaws have two children, aged 11 and
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  • 153 2 A verdict of "death by misadventure" was recorded by the Singapore Coroner, Mf\ W. G. Porter, yesterday, at the conclusion of the inquiry into the death of a young Chinese, Soon Koh Seng, who was killed as a result of a fall off an omnibus. The
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  • 88 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. The Ceylonese Federation of Malaya held a meeting this a/ternoon to make representations to the Government of Ceylon in connection with the confinement to barracks of some 800 Ceylonese troops following the disturbances which occurred in Kuala Lumpur on
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  • 273 2 Found guilty on a charge of carrying twp .38 revolvers at a house in Rosyth Road on Aug. 1, 1947. a Negri Sembilan Malay youth, Lidon bin Sulaiman was sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Thbrogood at the Singapore Assize Court
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  • 328 3 U.P. KOBE. APR. 26. A STATE OF "LIMITED EMERGENCY" WAS DECLARED iM KOBE AREA AS THE OC- PATION ARMY BEGAN ROUNDING UP JAPANESE COMMUNISTS AND KOREANS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SERIES OF WEEK-END RIOTS. LIEUTENANT ROBERT L. EICHELBERGER COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE EIGHTH ARMY ARRIVED HERE
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  • 121 3 Reuter. lokio April 26. Two Ameri(an soldiers Private Edward Minor, of Minnesota, and Private Billy G. Houseman, of Illinois and five Koreans were found guilty last week of a series of thefts and robberies that netted them more than 2.000 000 yen in cash and goods, the American
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  • 71 3 U.P. Washington. April 26. -United States Air Force officials said today that bombers equipped with newly-designed caterpillar tread landing gear will pound any future United States enemy from secret Arctic airfields in another war. They said the necessary landing equipment looking much like the tarm tractor wheel already
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  • 64 3 U.P. Drosa, (Lisbon). Apr. 25. -The Portuguese Government yesterday announced one of the biggest communist roundups in Portugal's history with detention of university professors publls officials and workers Police raids were still apparent Iv in progress. The Home Ministry disclosed partial list of persons arrested which
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  • 54 3 U.P. Berlin. April 26. General Lucius Clay. American Command-oi-in-Chief. today denied that there is. or will be, any censorship of American military government activities in Germany. He assured news corrcspondeata that the free news policy he has maintained since he took over command o' the American occupation z<»ne
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  • 24 3 Major anil Mrs. K. M. Robertson pictured here with unfont Tunhtcr Wendy Runnn Oi her chastening at Bt Andrews Cathedral tawt fflmdoy, (Tribune Photograph).
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  • 278 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) THFRF tfl NO CHANGE YET IN THE EXISTING RBEXPORT OF COCONUT OIL AND COPRA FROM SINGAPORE. rtnnt/ltu r»ir thp SETHIS WAS STATED BY AN OFFICIAL OF THE SE ORPTARIAT FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS YE&TERUAY A hV RPFUTED A CURRENT RUMOUR THAT THE WOULD FREE
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  • 151 3 wn AUM i AvrOCK f v A u OßE LEGIRLAI lvn. cou^iiiSSf 1 I SE PROGRESSIVE PARTY. '4 MADE BY VIOUS NONCEVSE A OUR M. MR. JOH£ PLATT»- Q N AJfTXAX THATTs E ONLY U sTx PER OF THE PEOPLE FNTITLED TO VOTE IN THE RECENT SINGAPORE
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  • 94 3 Ipoh. April 26. The issumption ceremony of "Jeneralissimo Chiang Kai 3hek as the first Presiient of the New Constitution il Government of China which akes place on May 5 will be commemorated by Chinese in Perak in the form of a grand procession followed by a
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  • 103 3 The Committee members of the Straits Chinese British Association agreed to enrol en bloc as blood donors at a meeting yesterday when the question "of blood transfusion was discussed. The committee discovered that ninety per cent of those who received blood transfusions were Chinese while
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  • 49 3 Reuter -AAP. Batavia. April 26— Dutch authorities in West Java today banned May Day celebrations, the Dutch territorial commander in his order said the maximum penalty for breach of regulations would be a year's Imprisonment or a fine of 10.000 guilders (nearly £I.ooo).—Reu-ter-AAP.
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  • 37 3 U.P. TRIESTE, Apr. 26. AngloAmerican military authorities today issued special orders to the American and British Trieste garrisons to reinforce all Free Territory borders against Communist infiltration during the May Day week-end. -U.P.
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  • 26 3 The following societies in Singapore have been exempted from registration under the Societies Ordinance: The Singapore Olympic and Sports Council Sphinx Badminton Club. Persekutuan Khairatul Islam.
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  • 80 3 Reuter. BATAVIA, Apr. 26—Indonesian Republicans have accepted portfolios to work together with non-Republicans Dutch and Chinese in the first coalition cabinet of Pasundan. new state of West Java, according to reliable sources here today. The Cabinet headed by Republican Raden Adil Puradiredja, a former journalist,
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  • 46 3 One day's simple imprisonment and a fine of $75. or three months' simple imprisonment, was the sentence passed in the 2nd Magistrate's' Court yesterday on a Chinese pick-pocket for relieving an omnibus passenger of his fountain pen in New Bridge Road on Apr. 19.
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  • 50 3 U.P. Rotterdam. April 26.-The Holland-American Line's Noordam arrived this morning with the Art* European Recovery Programme aid. comprising wheat, soya oil and plus agricultural equipment. When the Noordam docked fireworks was touched off welcoming the ship bringing the first Marshall Plan aid to one of Europe's worst blitzed cities. -U.P.
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  • 39 3 SEREMBAN. Apr. 25.—The death occurred at Rambau yesI terday of Haji Ahmad bin Haji Fadhil, father-in-law of Dato j Abdul Malik, Mentri Besar, j Negri Sembilan. The deceased was 76 years of age at the time of his death.
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  • 125 3 U.P. Nanking. April 26. Commu- I nist activity in the vicinity of Mukden and Changchun is increasing and the Reds ar» expected to launch a twin offensive against the Government's last two strongholds in Manchuria within a couple of weeks, according to pro-government reports here today. Both
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  • 93 3 U.P. Shanghai. Apr. 26. The United States Navy was standing by t*>nlght in preparation for sending a doctor down the Yangtze river to meet the Swedish ship Axel Salen on which the second engineer suffered severe body burns in an engine room explosion 320
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  • 55 3 H E. The Governor of Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson. K.C.M.G will declare open the new Hartley Road workshop of the Ramakrishna Mission Orphanage on Thursday at I p.m. After the opening ceremony. H.E. will be shown round the Tailoring Section, and then will be entertained with a variety
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  • 75 3 Charged with causing criminal mischief by allegedly damaging a car a 8.0.R.. Serjeant W. Grant, was produced fn the First District Court yesterday. The car belonged to one W. G Straton-Bryce while the extent of the alleged damage caused was estimated at $1 300. The damage" was alleged
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  • 35 3 Reuter and AAP. TOKIO. Apr. 26. Production of penicillin in Japan has increased by 800 per cent, during; the past year, an officia of SCAP'S Public Health and Welfare Section announced today. Reuter and AAP.
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  • 262 3 Reuter. Washington. April 26. The prospect of a war is stronger than it was three months ago, i General Omar Bradley United I States Chief of Staff told the Senate Armed Services Committee according to evidence Just published, given at a secret hearing last week.
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  • 51 3 ##ers. (Tribuno Staff Reporter) A Bill introducing the long expected Municipal Ordinance foi Singapore has been drafted and is now being considered by the Government, it is undeltt(wiii be recalled that the Laycock Report on Municipal reforms advocated duction of elections to the Singapore Municipal CommissionI
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  • 155 3 (From Our Oum Reporter) i KUALA LUMFUrt, Monday. Army units, RAF and Po- lice are again engaged in an anti bandit operation in North j Perak, according to information release- by Headquarters, Malaya District today. Under the Command of Lieut. Col. A. B. Brown, units
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  • 897 4 The report that Burma is today on the verge of being the Czecholovakia of the Orient has profound interest for all the countries of Southeast Asia. Hitherto the "other world," the Russian dominated sphere, has been contiguous. The iron curtain surrounds a self contained area. History
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  • 881 4  -  by Cable from John Kingsley Britain is now using her financial budget as a major instrument in framing her economic policy and the one presented earlier this month will be a powerful weapon in the fight against inflation as well as a help in production,
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  • 408 4 Sir,—May I make a few comments on your editorial of April 22 and on your reply to "Gunner"? You are certainly right when you say that the "pursuit of communism or any other ideology is legitimate, but not the advocacy of force," especially
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  • 248 4 Sir, As a solution to the strike problem I offer the folowmg suggestions to union leaders for demands once and for all: (1) Fix a daily pay of $10 a day for each male or female employee; (2) the time of work should be from
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  • 132 4 Blackouts far Distribution? P.K. Easu. SIR, The Singapore Ratepayers' Association had undoubtedly given the unaoken thoughts of the general jublic an expression by way ofllodging a protest to the competent authorities against the. increase in the frequency and extent of the blackouts. 'Suggestions to overcome the situation had 6een forthoonin};
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  • 546 4  -  By Mian Abdul Hayee Even a cursory glance through the Percival Report leaves no doubt as to the unpreparedness of the British at the time of the Japanese attack on Malaya. There seems now to be some awakening in Government circles in this respect, though
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  • 44 4 Reuter-AAP. ADELAIDE. APR 25. Mr. J. T. Veiten, of Port U* coin, South Australia, todp.y broke the world record for a shark caught on a number 9 thread, when he landed a Hmale white pointer wdgfcof 1,752 pounds off Cape Donning ton—Reuter.-AAP.
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  • 233 5 "NO WORSE SLOGAN THAN KIPLING'S...." Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY Apr. 26-Australia would antagonise China and Japan to a dangerous degree if she persisted with -petty evictions of people on colour rounds", Professor Thomas Griffith Taylor geographer and anthropologist, told a meeting in Melbourne. ft 1 Professor
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  • 153 5 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Apr. 26. Shirley Maycock. of Neutral Bay, Sydney, suburb, who has received a cable inviting her to go to England as a "starlet" with the J. Arthur Rank film organisation, made her screen debut as a chambermaid in the film •Smithy." in
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  • 65 5 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Apr. 26. -Catherine Gaskin, aged 19, author ot "This Other Eden" and "With Every Year" plans to leave foi London soon aboard the Esperance Bay. Born in Councy Louth, Miss Gaskin came tc Australia when a few months old. She will be accompanied by her
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  • 64 5 Modern treatment was not available to little David (above) when he contracted the infantile paralysis abroad. But carefully graded exercises on the wallbars are restoring life to the damaged limbs and making up for all the time that was lost in the early stages of his fight to regain health.
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  • 409 5 Reuter. NEW YORK. Apr. 26. P new camera microscope using- invisible rays which penetrate cancer cells and take coloured photographs of the living tissues is one of the features of the new-ly-opened Sloan Ketterine Institute for cancer research. Until now, to study tne structure
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  • 119 5 Reuter. Shanghai, April 26. National Fuhtan University students have threatened to stage a general strike today if the school idministration refuse to approve the convocation of the 'School Representative Meeting," an organization similar to the already banned self-gov-erning student body, it was learned today. At this
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  • 33 5 Sentence in a case of theft of 30 katties of dried fish on the midnight of April 25 by a 29--year-old Chinese, Sow Seng Kow, was postponed to May 3. Accused pleaded guilty.
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  • 153 5 Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG, Apr. 26. A collection of wild animals and birds, described as the largest ever consigned to the United States at one time, is at present in transit at Hongkong. The collection was brought from Siam and is destined for United States zoos and circuses.
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  • 95 5 Reuter. COLOMBO, Apr*. 26. Lore Rowallan, the Chief Scout, ha* made a posthumous award oi the Bronze Cross, the highesl Scouting honour, to Cedrit Paktsun of the Ist Port oi Colombo Scout Troop. Cedrii Paktsun lost his life last August after rescuing anothei Scout from drowning in
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  • 128 5 The Happy World Cabaret. Singapore, will hold its annual "Happy's Queen" election commencing from Wednesday. April 28, to May 8. All the 192 dance hostesses of the Happy World Cabaret are qualified candidates. Patrons who buy dance coupouns to the value of one dollar, will >c
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  • 134 5 U.P. t Chicago, April 26.—Its the things tiiut jaihei nut mother teaches daughter that count when a young man makes adI'ouceo, the ponce suid today. They reported the case of Prudence Tolkach, petite commercial artist whose, father was an amateur wrestler and taught her all
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  • 246 5 Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG, Apr. 26.—-Smuggling activity on the Dutch-owned Karimoen Islands, near Singapore, is believed to be the reason for the Hongkong Government's recent ban on the importation of flour from the Netherlands East indies. The two islands in the Karinoen group are
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  • 491 5 Agricultural Department statistics estimate that in 1947-1948 rice season will yield Malaya 332.940 tons of home-grown rice. This represents an increase over the previous year of 75,776 tons. Legislation to protect the important crops of Malaya i'rom becoming contaminated jy the import of diseased dants is being
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  • 131 5 Reuter. BOMBAY, Apr. 25.—8y threatening to resign from the AU-India Congress Committee, Pandit Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, helped turn probable defeat into clear victory for the Congress leadership in the AU-India Congress Committee here tonight. The A ICC was voting at the end of its session
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  • 253 5 Reuter. PRAGUE, April 26. —A new, far reaching system )f special Commissions to keep a check on taxpayers is being established in Czechoslovakia. The Commissions will be 'et up by the Ministry of finance to supervise the colection of the "Millionaires' Tax" imposed by law last
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  • 185 5 Reuter. Prague, April 26. Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria's Communist Premier who arrived hert last week to sign the CzechBulgarian 20-year treaty, ha? issued a statement giving six reasons why there would be nc war soon. Dimitrov said imperialist* and their agents, the RightWing Socialists, were
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  • 68 5 Reuter and AAP. TOKTO, Apr. 26. The first anniversary ceremony of the enforcement of Japan's new Constitution will be held on May 3 at the House of Councillors attended by the Emperor and Empress, the Foreign Oflice announced. Addresses will be made by speakers of the Upper
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  • 777 6 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 26. —In cathedral, parliament and streets, London today celebrated the 25th. or silver" anniversary of the wedding of King George the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth. All day happy crowds n the streets and parks craned their necks to watch the Ro. yal
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  • 61 6 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Apr. 26— A.R.B. (Pedlar) Palamer, the cricket writer and sports journalist, and formerly a noted athlete, has died here after a long illness. Mr. Palmer, who was 61, was associated with Norman. Preston in covering the last English Test tour of Australia for Reuter, for
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  • 45 6 The following will represent 3/Sub-Depot at soccer against 2/Sub-Depot Clothing for the Perk Shield in 2nd Round to be played at the Depot Ground Alexandra today.: K. Jeevarajah, Mohindar Singh, Churm Whitehead, Lear, J. X. Carvello', S. George, Sawklns, Aziz. Young Osman. Reserves: Lewis Galsworthy.
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  • 97 6 Melbourne, Apr. 26. Mr. M. P. Reid's Money Moon (Lovely Scotland) carrying eight stone nine pounds and ridden by R. Heather won the £5,000 Alister Clark Stakes over one mile two furlongs here by a head and three lengths from Mr. K. G. Luke's Fine Fettle (seven
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  • 66 6 Reuter. BAGDAD. Apro 25: —The Iraq Petrolum Company's pipe-line between Kirkuk Iraq and Haifa has ceased to operate, it was officially stated here today. Engineers and labourers have been withdrawn from Haifa, and it was understood that strong armed forces were protecting the line of the Haifa
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  • 213 6 (By Lim Keng Hot) London. April 26. I saw the Royal Procession today in Fleet Street from a hundred feet above from Reuters building where I had been entertained by the newspaper Proprietors' Association. It was a magnificent sight to see the King and Queen
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  • 61 6 Reuter. PARIS. Apr. 25 Nelly Landry. France's No. 1 woman lawn tennis player, won the women's singles final in ihe Paris international lawn tennis tournament today when at the Roland Garros Stadium. I she beat Anne Marie Seghers of France by 3-6, 8-6. 6-2. A crowd of
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  • 79 6 The soccer team representing the Social Athletic Party against the S.C.C. on the Padang tomorrow will be selected from the following Anthony Young, Boon Soo San, Thoeng Joeng Bong, Koh Beng Hoo. Ong Ah Bee, Sim Im Peng, Koh Beng Sum, Bong Meng Chong. Ang Kirn
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  • 63 6 The following will represent the Hongkong Shanghai Bank Sports Club against the Combined Christian Schools at football today at the S.R.C. Padang. Play commences at 5.15 p.m. —W. Van Huizen. J. Ferroa. Lawson Oliveiro. B. Noronha, I.J. Vass (Capt). J. N. de Souza. A. Oliveiro, P. Peters, Henry
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  • 279 6 Mr. Lien Yinjr Chow, who is leadimr the Ibk— ttngent to the China Olympic* in place „f Mr Ont l n of Penang, gave a cocktail party las* evening 7tH T gent. h "ntin- Mr. Lien, who will also br nresent at the Games, leaves
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  • 121 6 Io a return match between he Amber B.P. and the Gray 3.P., which took place at the atter's court on Friday last, he Amber B.P. won by 4 ;ames to 3. The following ire the results (Amber B.P. olayers mentioned first): SINGLES:—Lim Ong Hunt ost to Anwar
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  • 1764 7 SINGAPORE RECREATION CLUB 1. INDIAN ASSN 1 IN A GAME OF MISSED CHANCES THE SR C l SHARED POINTS WITH THE INDIAN ASSOCIATION F i r x7uRE STADIUM YESTERDA Y, IN A DIV 1 LEAGUE After missing countless scoring opportunities in the first ten
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  • 98 7 At the annual general meeting of the Bright Star Sports Club on Sunday, the following were elected officials for the year —President. S. M. Vasagar. Vice President. A. Daniel Dias, Hon. secretary, A. Anthony; asst. secretary, Augustine Joseph. Hon. treasurer, K. A. Richchard De Silva,
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  • 44 7 Under the auspices of the Malay Students' Aid Organisation Malaya (Singapore* the New Grand Nooran Opera at the New World Amusement Park will stage a charity concert, "Chermin Masharakat", (The Mirror of Society), in aid of the Scholarship Fund of the organisation.
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  • 640 7 FOOTBALL NEWS AND VIEWS by SPECTATOR MALAYA Cup players are to be given at least one complete day of rest from football immediately before Cup fixtures. All league games scheduled for the day before the Cup ties, in which State players participate, will
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  • 273 7 On yesterday's game To what extent the absence of a regular player, a good man, can upset the whole forward line. was clearly demonstrated. Beins, Recs' inside-left, who was not well enough to play owing to the injury he received in the game against the throe As, was badly
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  • 598 7  -  By Peter Wilson LONDON, Apr. 26. Last week, at Australia House I was glad \o welcome the- first Australia cricket eleven to visit this country for ten years. I only hope I shall be as happy to wish them Godspeed when they leave England next September.
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  • 67 7 The Indian Association defeated the First Malay Coast Battery, Blakang Mati, by ten runs in a cricket match on Sunday. Scores: Indians (S. M. Ally 38; Cooke 4 for 14. Hamid 3 for 12, Hamminton 3 for 9). Malay Coast Battery, 52 (Smith 14; Ibrahim
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  • 200 7 Before a large gathering of Badminton enthusiasts, the Eclipse B.P. defeated the United Family B.P. in a gam? of 5 Men's Singles 2 Men's Doubles, played in the Clerical Union Hall on Thursday last by 5 games to 2. Detailed results are as follows, (Eclipse Players mentioned
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  • 196 7 (By "CELLULOID"). The Malayan Chinese table tennis team for the seventh China National Olympics games proved too good for the Singa pore Combined team when they trounced them five games to two at the Great World last night. The best tie of last night's
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  • 192 7 Curly-headed, M. K. Sundram, Singapore's champion ouarter-miler, will not represent Singapore at the World Olympics, which are to commence in London on July 29. This was decided upon at the Singapore Olympics Sports C&mcil's Board of Control Games meeting on Friday. It was held that
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  • 273 7 The Bencoolens Sports Club trounced the Johore Postals md Johoie Ist Field Security Sec Lion to the tune of 5-2 and <-0 respectively at table-ten-lis played yesterday at Joioie. Masban Idiis (P T'si beat play* r was matched igainst S.R.S. Naif'u. It was very close
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  • 148 7 In a return friendly match i played at the home court, the Swift B.P. lost to the A.A.I T. Iby four games to five. Results (Swift players mentionled first): Lim Jiak Kirn lost |to Wee Sin Oon (9/15). (0/3); i Chean Thye Hin lost to Syed I
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  • 436 8  -  By ALLAN LEWIS Fast work was clone on No. 2 track this morning which was not in bad condition and some smart times were made. Slow working horses were on the outside of the course proper. Details 2 FURLONGS Karman (Turner) and Glorify (Tait) 25-2/5 sees. Western
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  • 230 8 J A. Spencer, who recently took out a trainer's licence, is getting together a good team of horses, Jack, who incidentally led in the first runner he had, as a winner, has at present 26 horses in work; nearly all are well bred English animals, costing
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  • 92 8 A Chinese family—the father, the mother and their daughter—were produced in the Second Police Court yesterday on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to a compatriot. Accused, Khoo Eng Choon (45), the father, Sim Meng Hiang (34), the mother, and Khoo Ah Lam, the daughter, were
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  • 2750 8  -  ALLAN LEWIS' REVIEW OF THE PROSPECTS FOR TOMORROW By ALLAN LEWIS A card of eight events will comprise the programme for the second day of the Singapore Turf Club's Summer Meeting tomorrow, At the time of writing I am expecting the
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  • 118 8 LONDON. Aps Frank Soakice, w o Jl J 1 vernments legal eipe™£ a questioner i n the H„us e Common, today that turn was "not necessarSji most effecuve u/JS with cases ,i alleged min,t,on agains, co people. lvQ Labour member Sorensen asked view of
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  • 91 8 Reuter. LONDON. Anr 26 -Janus Camb, 31.year-old ship's steward, went down fa British legal history today a.s the first mluirderer to lose bis Japped against a Ceath sentence that he knew would never be carried out. Camb sentenced for the murder of access Eile?n "Gay" Gibson (in
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  • 75 8 The name of Abdul K&dir bin Shaik Mohammed was well-known to many property owners in Singapore tor Kadir" had put through many largo land and property deals in Singapore and the Malay States for more than 30 yews. "Kadir Broker" died at his residence. No. 6
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  • 44 8 TODAY'S DtV. 1. AAA vs. Signals. Stadium; Div. 11. Malays vs. Base Group R.E., Padang; Dir. 3. Serangoon Assn. vs. Malay Coast Battery. McNair Rd. Civil Seivice vs. K.A.S.C. Training School. St. Georges Rd.; Friendly. HK Sham,hai Bank vs. Combined Schools, S.H.C.
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  • 79 8 A middle-aged Chines who was arrested In Singapore W an alleged offence in Malacca was ord. red to be handed over to the Malacca police, by the Second Police Magistrate, Mr L. C. Goh. yesten 1 iy. Accused will escorted back to Malacca by a «1«
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  • 54 8 U.P. NANKING. Apr. 26. Pi lent Chiang Kai-shek In statement tonight said tk gratified thjt the three vnv presidents] csnditlales i> ul been prevailed upon not withdraw from the race. The President called Upon all Kuomlntsng member* t" exercise fnedom of ice and "elect whoever Ihejr consider the
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  • 486 8 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 2d.—King George broadcasting tonight on his sliver wedding, said thai at times his task would have been almost too heavy but for the strength and comfon which he had always found in his home. Sitting beside the Queen before a microphone
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