Malaya Tribune, 30 August 1948

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    64 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales than any Afternoon Paper in Malaya Printing thmuliam-ouslu Kmn i i.«>,< >\>r. Ipoh d I'p.nnnn Telegrmmu "Trtinm* sport.'' Teh nhon* 861 l <!> Wne»l EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE London Agent*
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    "REIGN OF TERROR" IN BERLIN
    358 1 Little hope of solving East-West deadlock BERLIN, sT.VDAY—Russia's campaign of arrests and kidnappings continued todny to lend up to what is described as "a fullscale reign of l rroi■." Imp* th U it ivlll he checked by today's ninth crisis meeting at the Kremlin seeaw
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    RED FLAGS
    95 1 U.P. HELSINKI. Sunday. -M or than lo,nftO marched UK'ay through the tre. t« of He 1 inki with rvd Bags as the Finnish Communist Party celebrated it- ~oth anniv-» The de nonatratora, headed by ■ii party •eadera, marched t<~ the "Fair Hall" of Hclsink for n mass meeting.
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    Red Threat
    127 1 U.P. BOMB. Sunday.—The Commu- j lists threatened today to set! >tY a showdown light with the government next month oy lemanding a parliamentary' vote of no confidence in Pro- I nsier Alcide de lasperi on charges that his government is anti-labour. De Gu.-pcri and n;s Catholu Party are
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    Heavy Fighting In Burma
    117 1 U.P. RANGOON, Sun.—Heavy fighting is reported today from several parts of Burma. At r umgdwingyi, after fierce fighting, a Government battalion asked the insurgents to surrender, but the request was spurned, and the fighting continued. Another battalion of Governi 'nt troops were reported to oe converging
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    TITO'S LIFE THREATENED
    77 1 U.P. LONDON. Sunday. Clare Holllngworth, correspondent ol the Observer, recently returned from Belgrade, wrote in his paper today that few people in the Yugoslav capital appear to doubt "that there will now be a series of atti mpu on Marshall Tito's life." Under the headline: "Tito's Fight
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    BRITONS FOR TRIAL
    29 1 TEL AVTV. Sunday. The trial of two Ktitish employees of Jerusalem Electric Corporation on charges of espionage, wifl be held in Jerusalem District, Court on Wednesday
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    ALBANIA'S RED PURGE
    61 1 Reuter. 11ELGKADE, Sunday. —A wide-spread purge of Albanian Communists sympathetic towards Yugoslavia has started on orders of the Albanian Premier, General Enver lloxha. An unimpeachable source disclosed that up to now over 3,000 Albanians had been arrested. Two-thousand of these were jailed before the economic relations with
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    MOSLEM-POLICE CLASH IN MADRAS VILLAGE
    126 1 Reuter. BOMBAY. Sunday. Armed police reinforcements were being rushed tonight to Polampalli village, 60 miles from Bezwada, Madras province, following a clash between Razakars (Moslem military organisation) and Madras police, it was officially learned. Report* Stated Rarikars were ajppoitcd by Hyderabad troops. A despatch from
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    THREAT TO EUROPE
    69 1 Reuter. LONDON. Sunday. On arrival at London oi r r>ort tonight on his way to this week's European Federation c mference at Interlakcn, Switzerland, Mr. William G. Bu'litC, of the American Committee for a Federate.' Europe, said: "I consider the rapid establishment of a Fu ropean conference
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    'PHONE HOAXER ARRESTED
    68 1 HAIFA. Sunday. Members of the United Nations True Commission were ordered out of the fashionable Zion Hotel here after a hoax telephon. message saying i t was timebombed and would blow up i I 15 minutes was received early, today. As police began to search the building,
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    UNLUCKY 13
    26 1 U.P. ATHENS, Sunday.—Thirteen alleged members of the Com-' munist underground —three women and ten men—were sentenced to death by the court martial here yesterday.—U.P.
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    HE MEANT BUSINESS
    78 1 igo pot c t tnmmiigttnner stands guard ever th* Uage of tetany Choh on the j tain Pontian Road after trekking th r o v g I swampy jungles, rubber estates and pineapple, plantations throughout the early hours of yenteraay morning mating "Ouerati(ox Socct r." (More pictures
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    Professor Blames United States
    212 1 WROCLAW (Poland), Sun.—The Congress intellectuals in its final session yesterday, charged that the West threatens a new war. Britten Professor J. B. S. Haldane declared: "I agree with the (Congress) statement that th danger of a new war corner from America." Bryn Hovde. of Pittsburg, former
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    3 CRISIS ARRESTS
    26 1 A Chinese and two Indians were arrested in Singapore under the Emergency Regulations (luting the week-end. The total detentions to date is 241.
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    His Life Was Always In Danger
    81 1 LONDON, Sunday. Dr. Peter Zenkl. the 64-year-old former deputy Premier of Czechoslovakia, alleged soon after his arrival in London by air today that since the "Communist coup d'etat" in Czechoslovakia his life had been in "danger all the time. Dr. Zenkl, who was greeted
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    State Reception For Film Celebrities
    53 1 U.P. SAN MARINO. Sunday. Gino Giacomini, Secretary of State of San Marino, the oldest and smallest republic in the world, today visited the set of the "Prince of Foxes." and invited Tyrone Power and director Henry King to a state reception on September 1 >n
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    Einstein Denies
    121 1 Reuter. PRINCETON (New Jersey I Sunday. Albert Einstein denied today the authenticity of the version of a message, reported in press despatches from Warjaw, sent by him to the World Congress of Intellectuals now meeting in Warsaw. The account of his message reported from Poland consisted largely of
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    GANGES IN FLOOD
    88 1 Reuter. CAWNPORE. Sunday. Flood waters of the rivt r Ganges have submerged abou 100 villages in the Cmwnpor?! and Unao districts in the heart of the United Provinces They have caused extensivi damage to crop? and property but villagers have been evacuated to safety and so far
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    DEATH OF U.N. I OBRERVERS
    66 1 U.P. STOCKHOLM. Sunday Count Bernadotte has just received two preliminary reports on the death of the two French officers serving as U.N. observers yesterday morning in a U.N. Auster plane over the Egyptian-held Gaza area of Southern Palestine. The two Frenchmen were Lieut. Col. Joseph
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    A Queen For 6 Days, Then Abdication
    241 1 Reuter. THE HAGUE, Sun —Queen Wilhciml.ia. who has bsen in retirement since May 13 owing te illhealth, will tomorrow again become constitutional 'ieaJ of the Netherlands for six days to celebrate he*- fiBth birthday and olden jub lee on Tuesday. Queen VVilhelmina will
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    Schuman To Form Govt.
    46 1 Reuter. PARIS, Sunday. Poind. 1 Republican Robert Schurnan early this morning accepted President Vincent Auriol's invitation to form a new French Government to succeed Uic Government of Radical Andre Marie which resigned on Saturday. tA. Schurnan will begin con•tutraticn* this morning. Renter.
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    STOP PRESS
    65 1 Reuter. SUDAN ISSUE ALKXA N DBI A. Today.— Qii«'Ntioii«'d about MM r«--!>;>rts that Egyp' RMgM ral«<» the .Sudan issn«- mi tin Parts mtM'tlng of thr I nitnl Nations General Asvtib'.v ne\t mil Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Khashaba Pasha said: "I will he ready to answer the question if
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    CHINA MAY RESTRICT AIR SERVICES
    64 1 Reuter. S II A N G II A I. Today.— China's airlines ag lin face the possibility of having to restrict air service as a result of the free/inn of demeftttc axial inn lares tit ihe August It) level, following the introduction of ihe gold
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    200 ANSWER CALL FOR "SPECIALS"
    287 2 THE recent call for 200 recruits for the Singapore Special Constabulary has met with speedy response. Applications came pouring in for the 200 vacancies. There is a wailing list of 160, eager to serve Government and help in the battle against lawlessness. The Special Constabulary
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    MORNING THEFTS
    95 2 A Malay. Mohamed Yusoff. living in the Alexandra area, lost $60 in cash and household articles, valued at $24. when a thief broke into his house early yesterday morning. Thieves took a wrist watch valued at $120 from the home of Mrs. T. E. Smith at Goodwood Hill,
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    ULTIMATUM CANCELLED
    73 2 U.P. MAIFA. Saturday. The Jnltcd States Nation* truce earn called here today from Nfabius to repoi.t on disturbances of the truce In that irea during the last 36 hours. In view 01 this, the United Nations ultimatum issued yesterday to Moshe Shertok. Israeli foreign secretary, was :ancelkd. Th
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    BURMA TROOPS IN ACTION
    63 2 Reuter. RANGOON, suaday. Burna Government troops were engaged in small actions against insurgents in the Myingyan district, southwest of Mandalay. and in the Toungoo area between Rangoon ar-d Mandalay, according to an official communique tonight. It added that government forces and "Red Flag Com- munists had
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    DON'T FORGET THE DIVERS!
    84 2 Reuter. LOCH FYNE, ARGYLL, Saturday. —7n a special diving suit, Petty Officer Bollard of Portsmouth today dived deeper than any human benig before. In Loch Fyne he reached the depth of 556 feet —116 feet deeper than the previous record dive held by an American, The
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    Mass "Air Raids" On U.S. Cities
    371 2 U.P. iy A S Ji I J ,GTON Sunday.—The Air Forces announced today that 50 bombers based in Asiatic, Oceanic. Atlantic islands and Europe will converge on United States cities as the target in the greatest massi co-ordinated flights ever attempted against the United
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    KEEP OFF CHINA WATERS
    49 2 Reuter. Shanghai. Sunday. Japanese fishing craft found operating in Chinese waters in future will be confiscated by Chinese authorities together with goods aboard, and the occupants of the vessels will be deported, under new measures passed last night by the Chinese Executive Yuan in Nanking.—Reuter.
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    RING FIND IN HOTEL
    88 2 A $10Q-a-month airline clerk, checking up on a passenger's room at Rafles' Hotel yesterday to see that no baggage had been left behind, found a %1,000-three-dia-mond ring. The ring is believed to belong to Mrs. Ethel Light, who, with her husband and 13-year-old son, was travelling
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    U. N. R. R. A. RACKET?
    129 2 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Saturday. Mr. Leslie Haylon, Australian Labour Member of Parliament who recently led an Australian Parliamentary delegation to Japan, tonight described the distribution of Australian food and medical supplies in China by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration as a racket and
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    Brides Break Traditions
    170 2 'Tribune Staff Reporter) Two week-end brides decided to discard the traditional wedding gowns when they were married last Saturday at tho Office of the Registrar of Marriage. One was a banker's daughtei. and the other came from Kent. The banket s daughter was Miss Dolly Tan. only
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    GREEK ARMY SHAKE-UP
    48 2 U.P. ATHENS. Sunday. The [Greek Army High Command will be shaken up because 5.000 .guerillas in the Mount Grammos sector slipped through the Army's trap and escaped into Albania. Lt. Gen. James van Fleet. Chief of the American Military Mission to Greece said today. -U.P.
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    Why China's Youth Sees Red
    104 2 Reuter. AMSTERDAM. Sunday. iThe youth of China did not really like Communism, but they embraced it "because they are so enthusiastic about their I country's political affairs" Proj fessor Kenneth Li told the World Council of churches here yesterday. They felt their country was corrupt
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    BUDDHIST ASSN. HOLD MEETING
    177 2 The Singapore Buddhist As i sociation held their" annual general meeting yesterday at j their premises in Outram j Road with Mr. George dc Silva in the chair. The following were elected office-bearers for the coming year: President: Mr. W. Sena, vice-presidents: Messrs. M. G. de
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    American Wartime Base As Australian Defence Bastion
    944 3  -  NEW ROLE FOR MANUS STRONGHOLD (By JOHN LOUGHLIN Australia's northernmost defence outpost will be established at the vast American wartime base •of /.ianus, in the Admiralty Group, dominating I the northern approaches to the Australian Com- monwealth. What remains of this £80,000,000 United
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    De GAULLE'S BID FOR POWER
    113 3 U.P. I PARIS. Sunday. General I Charles de Gaulle, spurred by the downfall of Andre Marie's middle-of-the-road government, will shortly unleash an all-out j campaign for his own return J Ito power, it was learned re* liably tonight. I Close associates of France's j ivar-timc
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    2 Admirals Will Join Nelson
    211 3 Reuter. '.«.:.DON. Saturday. Two gr rs» English admirals of tht VU a U rid War join Nelson m lrafajgar Square on Oc. 21. r ;afalgar Day, when on the greatest naval occasion London j.-c s«-en for many years the Juke of Gloucester will two bronze
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    YUGOSLAV PROTEST
    127 3 Reuter. BELGRADE. Sunday M. Simitch. Yugoslav Fore yn Minister. yesterday haidov a note to the Hungan an Ration 1 ere protesting— in tori.-.* simi'jr to those in o note handed to Rumania a few days ago against a: li« propaganda. Tha note said the H.,'.:: .in press and
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    DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY
    81 3 i v.ith took a holiday from Singapore streets this week-end. Saturday had the lowest record ot street accidents in the month, with eight minor easeonly. and yesterday there was only one accident involving miDor injuries. There arere 11 other minor accidents mostly "technical", or an involving
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    18 PORTUGUESE SOLDIDERS HERE
    51 3 Eighteen Portuguese soldiers arrived In Singapore on board the m.v. Modjokerto yesterday. They foi in the last batch of a regiment which left for Lisbon for Macao. lit. Vasco Martins (21), a keen footballer, le ads the last batch. With him are two sergeants and 15
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    ELECTRIC LAUNDRY OPENED
    91 3 The Seiclene Electric Laundry and Dry Cleaning was opened yesterday afternoon at 27, Delta Road. "Many leading personalities of various communities in Singapore, including two Chinese Consuls from up-country, were present at the ceremony. The guests were treated to a tea-party and a demonstration was given by
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    War Against Corruption
    157 3 Reuter. Shanghai. Sunday. Undei the direction of Major-Genera! '.'hiang Ching-kuo, President Chiang's eldest son. the Comnunisl Suppression and Nationil Reconstruction Work Corps ommenced economic investigaion work today. The corps will inaugurate ten üblic service centres at importtnt junctions of the town these channels the üblic may notify
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    PRICES RISE IN SHANGHAI
    101 3 Reuter. Shanghai. Sunday.- Hitherto nore than 200 shops have been iccuscd by the public of raising i vices above the Aug. 19 ceiling j ince th*» introduction of the! ;old yuan, it was learned today. .Ttey range from leading lepaitment stores and restaurnts to bath houses
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    WOMAN IS TUBA ROOT VICTIM
    43 3 A Chinese woman drank tuba root at an address In Holloway Lane yesterday afternoon and was rushed to bos pital by ambulance. Tuba is a poisonous bugkiller used in vegetable garden". It is used sometimes illega"v for fishing.
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    DEATH FOR TREASON
    40 3 PRAGUE. Saturday. The Tanju g news agency reported from Solia today tha t death sentences have been handed down against th c former Genera! Dlmitreo Tomov. Colonel Conko Conov and LieutenantColonel Georgi Kolev. on charges of treason.
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    THE GENERAL SAYS...
    164 4 MAJOR-General C. H. Boucher. G.O.C. Malaya, had this to say at the first of the I fortnightly Press conferences to be hela at Kuala Lumpur:— Things are improving. The way the bandits are being hit is also improving." Then he added that he had his own "suspicions
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    MEN IN THE SHADOWS
    209 4 THE Generals, statement has a ring, reminiscent of statements made by other generals not so very long ago. They were well meant. They believed that coafidence and courage on their part would Toster morale. It did not work out that way. The people, who should have
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    THE NEWS WE WANT
    138 4 THAT is why we wish Major-General Boucher had been a little less optimistic. Just now the Chinese are whipping up recruits for Auxiliary Police Forces to protect towns. Singapore business men have been urged to organise their own fire-watching and firefighters against arson. Moves are afoot
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    THE DAY THE KREMLIN TREMBLED
    1430 4 itch..id Tu«> i7 OI r Carta in—jjfa, OCTOBER 16, 1941. was a day the people in Moscow will never forget. It was the first day of the panic. I had been deep in special ciphering technique study at Filya arid, like my companions, had been
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    PQSTBAG
    347 4 SIR. j I am a Mr. Wong of Singa- pore. I like a cigarette. It is the only luxury I allow myself. I cannot afford to buv tins of 50. I have to buy packets of 10. They used to be sold at 25 to 30 cts. I have
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    MAKE YOUR HOME HAPPY -AND BEAUTIFUL
    1629 5  -  -A Few Hints By The TRIBUNE WOMAN REPORTER SO many people think that a beautiful homo points to a happy home. Do you think so too? A beautiful is certainly a ereat steo towards achievHm happine&s in tho home, but that i. not all
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    Policeman On Job Has Many Temptations
    266 6 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEi—First-Class Sergeant John Joseph Stafford told the New South Wales Industrial Commission recently that a policeman on the job had many temptations. Sergeant Stafford, who has been 27 years in the New South Wales police force, was supporting an api plication by the
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    £1-MILLION PROFIT
    112 6 SYDNEi.- during .he financial year 1947-48 the Queensland State Government Jolden Casket established itse'f is a £3.000.000 business, with a profit of more than £1.00,000 The manager of the lotteries, j Mr. F. Burke, in a report table J lin the Queensland Parliament, jsaid that the profit of
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    GOODWILL GESTURE
    101 6 Colombo. Sunday.—Admiral R. L. Conolly. United States aaval commander in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, said on arrival here today that his visits to the three new dominions of India. Pakistan and Ceylon were "entirely friendly and a gesture of goodwill." He said his mission had no political
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    TYPHOID IN CANTON
    59 6 Reuter. CANTON. Sunday. In the first 10 days of August. 52 cases of typhoid were registered in Canton, Forty pet cent of the cases proved fatal. Energetic measures are being taken by the City authorities to curb the spread of this disease and anti-typhoid injection teams are
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    ATTACK ON GREEK GUERILLAS
    171 6 Reuter. ATHENS. Sund*v. Operations against 2.500 Greek guerillas in positions north of the Grammos area toward the junction of the Albanian. Yugoslav and Greek borders, were under way tonight and expected to be in full swing by morning, a military spokesman disclosed. Three Greek divisions were
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    Cosmic Ray Intensity
    103 6 Reuter. SYDNEY. Saturday.—Mr. P. IG. Law (lecturer in physics at the University of Melbourne) I and Mr. C. D. McKenzie. his assistant, who have been mea- suring the intensity of cosmic rays in areas between AustraI lia and Japan, returned to AusI tralia recently. The scientists brought
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    £24,000 FOR TOUR OF KANGAROOS
    138 6 Reuter. SYDNEY, Sunday.—Cost of the tour of the Australian representative Rugby League team —the Kangaroos—through England, France and America is estimated at £24.000, the heaviest outlay for Rugby League for Australia since the game started here, according to W. F. Corbett, who is travelling with
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    Australia Has Plan To Increase Production
    325 6 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY. Sunday. The Australian Prime Minister (Mr. I J. B. Chifley) has informed the! Associated Chambers of Com-' merce that a five-point plan sub mitted by the Chambers to increase production will not, in his opinion, solve the problem, the Federal Secretary of
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    Pakistan Repeat Hockey Victory
    238 7 Reuter. BRUSSELS, Sun.—-The Pakistan Olympic hockey team today beat a Belgian national eleven by eight to zero, after leading by three goals to zero at half time. Today's games was almost a repeat performance of i3st Sunday's match wfren the B3lgian side lost by the same
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    GHQ Beat Chinese
    269 7 Sneison of GHQ FARELF captured four wickets for 41 runs at Hong Lim Green yes- 1 terday. when GHQ FARELF beat the SCRC by five wickets and 68 runs. Capt. Hunter top scored for GHQ with 60. HQ declared at 189' for four. The Chinese replied with
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    STANDARD NOT REACHED
    119 7 Reuter. LONDON, Sunday. The, Fooiball Association state.! oday that a report has been received s"howin g that the conduct of one o r two club teams playing in matches abroad has not reached the standard, of .sportsmanship that might have been expect cc* and has reflected little
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    NEE SOON RUGGER
    68 7 At a meeting of units staioncd at Nee Soon held on August 13. it was decided to form l combined rugger team for he coming season to be known is "Nee Soon Garrison Rugby Football Club". Matches will be played on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Correspondents should
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    News From The Mews
    520 7 <By ALL AX LEWIS) C'APT H CLOXHAM. who conducts the Veterinary Sanatorium at Ringlet. Cameron Highlands, has been good enough to write me n short note giving particulars of what horses have done, in racing, after spelling at his property. During tin- period ran Ist. 1918
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    JALAN SULTAN CHAMPIONS
    83 7 ■Inlun Sultan xan tht InttrUintrict FoothnU Leu y v c Vhampiimxhip v:h*-n they defeated Pasir Panjanrj team One-nil (it Jalan Utsar stadium yesterday. Good goalkceping by both keepers was mainly responsible foi the low score. No goals were scored in the first session. On the change of
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    Competitors in the 25 Yards untitled Style for untitled at the GHQ FARELF annual Swimming meet—Picture slums Daphne Munlct/, Patricin Peart, Oael Hammond ana Yvonne Beardmore Baldinn. – {Tribune Photograph).
    29 7 Competitors in the 25 Yards untitled Style for untitled at the GHQ FARELF annual Swimming meet—Picture slums Daphne Munlct/, Patricin Peart, Oael Hammond ana Yvonne Beardmore Baldinn. {Tribune Photograph).
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    MRS. ONG HENG KWEE ENTERS 'SHUTTLE' FINALS
    770 7 LEFT-HANDER. Mrs. Ong Heng Kwee (Diehard) entered he junior women's singles final yesterday, when she defeated youthful Miss Rose Soong (Useful) in straight sets in the Singapore Badminton Cham- j ionships at the Clerical Union hall. Another player, Miss Mary Voon (Swift) also
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    Civilian Protection In Atomic Warfare
    157 7 STOCKHOLM, Sun. —A convention to protect civilians against atomic and other types of modern warfare will be the most important item on the agenda of the International Red Cross conference meeting licre in its final plenary session tomorrow. lt will supplement the two existing Red
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    GREATEST ITALIAN PHILOSOPHER ILL
    51 7 U.P. I TURIN. Sunday. Signor 1 Benedetto Croce. 82. the greatI est Italian contemporary philoI sopher. was confined to bed today following a fall down the steps of his villa at Pollone. 50 I miles north-east of here two days ago. He was suffering leg injuries.
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    Bulgaria Protests To Turkey
    88 7 U.P. SOFIA. Sunday.- Bulgaria has filed a strong protest against Turkey's refusal to hand over for trial seven Bulgarian citizens accused of murder, the Foreign Office announced today. The seven Bulgarians are charged with seizing a Bulgarian plane and landing it in Turkey after killing the
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    COMBINED INDIANS BEAT SCC, WIN GANDHI CUP
    734 7  -  By Ram Piara In what w»s perhaps the best cricket match played on the Padang this season, the Combined Indians beat the S.C to annex the Mi ha lama «iandhl Memorial crlck;-t cup. The Indians won l»y five wickets—making the runs needed for
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    FAVOURITE WINS
    78 7 Reuter. PARIS. Sunday.- Leon Voltarra's Amour Drake by Admiral Drake out of Vers Laurore won the 400.000 (£464) Prix Daumalc for two-year-olds over six furlongs at Chantilly today by two and a half lengths and five lengths from Charleval and Fa stone in a field of four. The
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    RECORD SPEED BY ITALIAN
    60 7 Reuter. ALBI, (South France). Sunday.- Luigi Villorcsi. of Italy, driving a Maserati, won the bentn Orand Prix DalU here today wth the record speod of 16£ 003 kilometres (about 104 4 mile 21 hour. "Fifi" Etancelin, of France, driving a Trdbot, was second and l.nuis Rngier.
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    ANOTHER INDIAN HOCKEY WIN
    52 7 Renter. PRAGUE, Sunday.- The Indian Olympic hockey team beat the sport club Hostivar here by five goals to one today, after leading by 3-1 at halftlme. G. Singh (2). Clodius, Fernandez and Jaswart scored for the Indians. This evening the Indian team meets a representative Czechoslovakia
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    HE TOOK HIS OWN CURE
    128 7 fTribune St aft Reporter/ i Chairman of the board of directors of a firm which sells 2\ million headache cure tablets a day. Mr. Maurice Nicholas, of Melbourne, Australia, (above* had to resort to his own medicine in Singapore, last night because of a headache.
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    Benito's Commander To Be Tried
    61 7 U.P. ROME. Sunday. Marshal Rodolfo Giaziani. commander of the armies of Mussolini, latter day republic, will be tried on charges of Fascist activity i n the Palace of Justice at Rome on October 11. i\n official announcement said today. Oraziani will be the biggest Fascism
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    SPRINT CYCLE CHAMP
    178 7 Reuter. Amsterdam. Sunday. Van VUct (Holland) won tne world proicsjiqpJd sprint cycling championship for lh< time tne world chr.mpioi* wore continue lln m today, beating Gcrardin i Franc > fb'two straigh' heati i? thj ftnsJ. Vans Yttct's other UVc w wo i n 19.18. -\';o i n
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    S.C.C. HOLD BATAVIA TO DRAW
    100 7 Reuter-AAP. Sunday. Tho Singapore Cricket Club and th Batavia Cricket Club drew <n jheil two-day match which ended here today. The Batavia Cricket Club, continuing their innings today, made a total of 147 runs (Coyne 96). Bowling honours were divided. Forcing the pace in the
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    ALI RIZA BEY KNOCKED OUT
    94 7 KING KONG, the giant Hungarian wrestler scored another easy victory at the Great World arena on Saturday night. when he beat GeOrge Zcisko. by two .straight tails in the mund o! j the main wr.t in the second main event. Kid Masque, who made lii:>
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    EGYPTIAN CHANNEL SWIMMERS
    62 7 Reuter. DOVER. Sunday. Hassan Abd El Rehlm. one of tour Egyptians who left Cap Oris Nez. France, earlier today to swim the Channel, landed neat St. Margaret's Bay just north of Dover tonight. He made the crossing In J<" hours 38 minutes. One swimmer gave up aftei
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    NEW PHOTO SERVICE
    42 8 The- TCH h«. o Service, riivi-'io.i of Trading Coy. Holland' Ltd.) opened its doom foi busine •al 163 Orchard Road on Ratu'day. The store, managed by Mi. T. c. Pau, caters for a M-houi Developing and printing sei vice,
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    RICE SHOPS CLOSED
    81 8 Reuter. j CAN*o~«, Sunday. Sixtyeigiil rice s*u>, a in Baumcaun, bolder towa near Hongkong, haw been toid that tneir NcenUcJ tkjiVQ bCtfil Hi! l'ft t. Thin order la said to hav ea t us Kwangtun Provincial Food Control Oftic understood io ue atmo it k >ievenu3g *h
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    JEWS, ARABS IGNORE UN DEMANDS
    29 8 JERUSALEM. Sund a yJewish and Arab forces in Jerusalem ignored three demands by United Nations authorities today to withdraw from occupied fighting posi tions.
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    JOHORE JUNGLE MAN—HUNT
    302 8 Troops drawn fro in the Royal Inniskillings Fusiliers, the Gurkhas, and tne Singapore Police Force hunted for terrorists In a drive through the Pontian area yesterday. Six terrorist suspects were rounded up. Two Spitfires and an Auster aircraft also look part in the combined Police-iiulitary manoeuvres which
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    State Inroads On Human Rights
    158 8 Reuter. THE HAGUE. Sun.—Dr. J. Hutchinson Cockburn, director of the reconstruction department of the World Council of Churches, tonight appealed to the Council to start planning to meet the inroads of the upon human rights "T ie time has now come foi the World Council
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    ATTEMPTS TO LOCATE SHIP'S BULLION
    134 8 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Sunday. It has been definitely established by navul and harbour- authorities that a wreck stumbled across Iby a native pearl-diver in Dar- win Harbour recently was not chat of U.S.N, destroyer Peary, sun.: by Japanese bombs during the first raid on Darwin on
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    CEYLON ORDER? RAIL CARRIAGES
    84 8 Reuter. COLOMBO. Sunday The Ceylon Government has placed an older for 100 railway carriages with the United Kinz dom, it is disclosed. The carriages mostly thirr Ctoai would be of the most m flern type, designed to gtv greater comfort in travel th nose used at
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    MARSHALL PLAN REJECTED
    37 8 U.P. BERLIN, Sunday. Heinrich Ran, President of* Qerrnany'i Russian zone Economic Coin mission, today rejected tin Marshall Plan, and revealed a trade offensive by Eastern Germany to gain markets In the dollar-short Europe. U.P.
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    Another "Kosenkina Affair", Say Reds
    174 8 U.P. BERLIN, Sunday. The Rus •dan-licensed press charged today that the American-; wer<« manufacturing another "Rosen* kin;: affair" by refusing to han.i over a 14-year-old Ukrainian girl, who is paralysed. Both the Red Army's Tacgi 'iche Rundschau and the Neves Deutschlaod, the voice of the
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    ARABS AGREE TO FORM NEUTRAL ZONE
    55 8 U.P. CAIRO. Sunday. The United ;tions' LUndstroem announced 'oday that all Arab states had agreed to the establishment of 1 neutral zone in Jerusalem, tfeettve 12.00 hours GMT tomo! row. He siid that the new zone will be around the already demilitarized area, which
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    Badminton Win For "Golden Hind"
    123 8 Playinor away, the Golden Hind BP. defeated the Commercial High School in a return friendly match by six games to one Results (Golden Hind prayers, mentioned lirst): Singles: Chua Sek Poh los o Ronnie Me tht 4-15. 8-15 Harry Goh beat Sim Kirn Chia n
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    GIFT PARCEL LED TO WEDDING
    116 8 )?tJ3Y '<■ *.-tuiday. The 1 i. v ot ffrtt food parcel to By». V(J to a wedding in Mi l- Victoria. recently. intde wan Mra. Frances Bacei, a i CsgYsh war widow. Harold Mitchell, of Wout*«aggfc, They met for the h rt time v hen
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    ABBOT AND PRIESTS ARRESTED FOR SPYING
    42 8 PRAGUE. Frkl Czech Mini. ti f "oi [iteriM innounccd today v had u rested a Dominican tbho) a vl te i others tpxluding priests fn smuggling "traito ami delivefin}, documents a "foreign tap ion age lerviee".
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    60 8 YE© >Ir. Yeo Wah llm of M/s Edgar llrns. Ltd., >int;;w port* passed away |H-a<*fiilly .it the as:»' of t»4 on 29 K 4X at hia residence 101, Ev«*rilt Road, leaving: behind his belowd vvif«, two sons, one daughter, <irv son-in-law and thre»* rhildren to mourn hi>« Ion*. Funeral
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    Track Work In K.L.
    255 8 (fiv Allan Lewis) KUALA LUMPUR, Today >nly a few horses sent out to lake tune this morning on j lumber two track which is /cry hard, as there was no rain n the past week, Best time o: •:he morning returned by Home stretch who ran
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