Malaya Tribune, 12 January 1949

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  • 61 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper in Malaya. Printed Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. Telegrams: "Tribune Spore." Telephone: 5811 (9 \ines). EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice Glover, c/o Newspaper
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  • 366 1 Govt. Officials Run From Capital Reuter and A.P. MEW YORK, Tues.—Reports irom Nanking said l that Government officials are continuing to flee from the capital as the Communists launched new attacks today. Communist troops are reported to be rrushing the trapped Government armies on
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  • 64 1 Reuter. HAMBURG. Tues. Germans ordered by the British. Military Government to dismantle hammers in the drop forge shop of the Ruhr's Bochum Steel Works abandoned "go slow" tactics this afternoon and went to work in earnest. German police stood hy. They had not been called on to intervene
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  • 29 1 Reuter. Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. Chinese Ambassador to the United States, was presented with the 1949 Alexander Hamilton medal by Columbia University for distinguished service.— Reuter.
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  • 188 1 Reuter. VATICAN CITY, Tuesday. The Pope prayed God's blessing on "The King, the Royal House. His Majesty's Government and the entire British people today when he received the visiting Parliamentary delegation. Col. Douglas Clifton Brown. Speaker of the House of Commons, leads the delegation. The
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  • 37 1 A.P. NEW YORK, Tues. The United Nations Internationa! Children's Emergency Fund announced today that it was sending 100,000 blankets to Greece, where 200.000 child refugees in the north are reputed to be in need. A.P.
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  • 220 1 Reuter. LONDON, Tues.—Forty Indian seamen weie sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment tnday on a charge of combining together to dstohey a lawful command given by the ship's chief officer. They were members of the engine room crew of the steamship City of Exeter with
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  • 57 1 Reuter. LONDON, Tues. I Britain had concluded I double taxation agree--3 ments with the Federa- tion of Malaya and with Singapore, the British Department of In'and Revenue announced here today. 3 Arrangements, which i were published today as schedules to draft orders ■in council, follow the same pattern
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  • 68 1 U.P. LONDON, Tues. A cabinet meeting tomorrow will consider legislation for changes in the King's title, made necessary by the Ireland's Independence Act, it was reported by reliable quarters today. The cabinet will hear a report on Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's recent talks with Northern
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  • 269 1 Reuter. LONDON. Tues. Rev. Austin Lee of Hounslow. Middlesex, has appealed to the King and Queen by telegram to stop tomorrow's hanging of Margaret Allen, 42-year-old murderess who dresses like a man. Allen, who claimed to have changed her sex through an operation, battered
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  • 27 1 Above is a picture of Flight G. Francis at the controls of the R.A.F. ■rapefOed V>lllUifrr that lort* hV%ded at Mlrs Bay, Hongkong, yesterday (See b*Ok -mgr).
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  • 329 1 Reuter. TEL AVIV, Tues.-The Israeli Government. today instructed its representative at the United Nations to request an urgent meeting of the Security Council to hear an Israeli complaint against Britain for 4 unilateral intervent-o:; in the Israeli situation." This news followed a declaration by
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  • 107 1 Reuter. LONDON. Tuesday. King George has approved that the date of Empire Youth Sunday shall be fixed permanently as the Sunday after Ascension Day. which falls this year on May 29. Announcing this today. Lord Elton, chairman of the Empire Youth Sunday Committee, wrote in his
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  • 50 1 U.P. PARIS. Tues—Edouard Herriot. veteran Radical Socialist leader and former premier, was today re-elected President of the National Assembly. Herriot. who has presided over the Assembly for the past two years, received 274 votes against 140 for Marcel Cachin. 83 years old Communist dean of the Assembly.—U.P.
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  • 72 1 A.P. BATAVIA, Tues. Netherlands officials in Batavia Tuesday revealed that Indonesia's Republican President. Dr. Soekarnb, was not held in the island of Bangka. off Sumatra, as was announced to the United Nations Security Council on January 7th by delegate Van Royen. The disclosure was made in a letter
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  • 161 1 Reuter. THE HAGUE, Tues.—An eight-point programme to settle the Indonesian oroblr-r: put forward by the Independent Socialist newspaper Het Parool has aroused interest in The Hague. The points, as editorially outlined by Mr. Frans Goedhart. "extreme Progressive" member of the Dutch Lower House, were
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  • 90 1 Reuter. LONDON. Tuesday. Shouts of "We Want Mosley" the prewar British Union of Fascists leader- and a barrage of interruptions greeted Prime Minister Clement Attlee tonight when he made his first speech in the East London suburb of West Walthamstow which he will contest at
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  • 56 1 A.P. NEW DELHI. Tuesday. An Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman here said today that "possibly most of the Asian conference will be in closed session." He said that the question of publicity will be decided by the conference itself. The opening and final day of the session is expected
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  • 445 1 LAKE SUCCESS. Tues.—The Un'ted States charged the Netherlands with deliberate!" flout;ing the United Nations Charter in fhe Security Council today and demanded that the Dutch hold free elections throughout Indonesia and begin an early and complete withdrawal from the East Indies. U.S. delegate Dr.
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  • 99 1 STOP PRESS TIKNTSIN, Tues. Less than two hours after the departure of Tientsin's peace emissaries on a second trip to Communist territory to seek a ceasefire today, the city was heavily shaken by the booming of bi°: guns as the artillery duel in the outskirts was
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  • 82 2 A.P. Picture. SARDAR Budh Singh fright». President uf the Malay an Indian National Congress talks to Gfani <Hiramukh Singh Uusanri (left) at the !atter*s home ct Ncv Delhi, India, where h ht*d a pr. ss conference BuuU Sinsjh weat to India on behalf of the Malayan
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  • 98 2 Reuter. BRISBANE. Tues—Grtgor Wills, a life saver, of South port 'Queensland* recent., l :sked his life to save his pet kelpie pup. Wills had thrown a stick into the sea and the pup had dashed in to retrieve it. Wuk then saw a shark lying
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  • 27 2 Melbourne. Tues. The German stowaway, ria:.s Heinrick. will be deportee from Australia immediately says the Minster for imm 5 gration. Mr. Calwell.
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  • 168 2 TOKYO, Tues—ln an important 3tep to gear up the "Tourist Japan" drive, the Japanese Central Government this year has takf-r, over from the prefectural governments roaa re pairs and construction work on all major and secondary highways throughout che count: v. This is the initial
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  • 266 2 Movie actress quit because she was told to crawl U.P. HOLLYWOOD, Ttie». MOVIE Actress Teresa Wright, who has Kept mum since Sam Goldwyn dismissed her for being ••temperamental," broke a three week's silence recently to say that she had been trapped into losing her job because she wouldn't crawl on
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  • 99 2 CANBERRA, Tues.— The Australian taste for beer has grown considerably sine the war. In 1938-39 the consumption of beer per head of the population was 12.13 gallons. In 1946-4? it had risen to 15.94 gallons. The figures axe contained in a report issued by the Acting Common w
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  • 24 2 A.P. ATHENS. Tues. Widespread activity with considerable losses were being indicted on guerilla bands reports from the Greek General Staff indicated today.—A.P.
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  • 254 2 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—From the near millionaire who spends something tyre 5250 (about £60) a day on a 15-day cruise, to the New York typist who jumps on a weekend train for a bit of ski-ing in nearby mountains, Americans are launching themselves
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 325 2 On Your Radio Today BLUE NETWORK Close D°wn 1.00 p.m. Dance Music IA O darin^£ol tf eW s in Manda*9*«r.i££L »2n?££ rin, 5.15 Talk on General and Waltzing. 2.00 Close TopicfJ 530 Hv lam or HakDr«^ra mmo c limm rl ka Selections. 600 Close «itfWK2EX rJZ? Sii »00 Signature and
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  • 208 3 U.P. arrived in Coiombo. condemned the renewed police action" of his Government agai. the Jndonesian Republic. rie was Mr. Chris H. J. Scheffer, who arrived heie from India. He is on a tour ot South East Asia on bohalf of several daily and weekly
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  • 71 3 U.P. Bombay. Tues.—a meteorological expedition, sponsored by the Roy3l Indian At Force, is on its way to L 'nt Himalayan regions, report* i-eaching here from Srinagai Kashmiri said. The expedition, led by Fly tag Officer K. Chandra, wu: study meteorological conditions associated with atmospheric disturbances in the
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  • 273 3 U.P. COLOMBO, Tues.—-The action of two European Servicemen in desecrating the 21 feet rock statue of the reclining Buddha, in the Angangla Buddhist temple, Kurunegala, Ceylon, by taking photographs of it with themselves standing on the statue, was condemned in strong terms at a largely attended
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  • 51 3 Reuter. MASERU. Basutoland. Tuts -Ntsebo Nkhahle Lebor.a daughter of the paramo uit chief of Basutoland (Regent Chieftaintss Mantsebo Seeiso appeared in High Court here today charged with the muj a>r of her uncle. Malebacy. Letsona. i n December. 1943. The indictment alleges that she poisoned his porri ice' with
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  • 179 3 A.P. BERLIN. Tues. Militar* government and America:; farm organisations are cojperating jn a programme te modernise Western Gcr many' s agiculture. nhe aim is to increase pm duction, r aise the German standard of living, a nd at Lie same time take some of the
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  • 42 3 A.P. THE HAGUE, Tues. The International Court of Justice has received the report of the three-man committee of neutral experts on scientific aeronautician problems relative to the mining of the three British destroyers in Albanian waters at Confu in 1946.—A.P.
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  • 71 3 PROFESSOR FREDERIC CURIE, France's High Commissioner for Atonii? Energy, said lust he would leave the Communist Party if it ordered him to betray secrets to Russia. Speaking at an Anglo-American Press Club luncheon in Paris he said it was h.s duty a frenchman to guard atom secrets until their us-
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  • 130 3 U.P. BOMBAY. Tuesday-India soon may be connected Wiio fwo more international air l&gt; n es. it was learned here A provisional agreement has been reached between iho Indian and Iranian Governments which will permit Ira n&gt;an A ir Lin es to fly from Zahidan to
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  • 313 3 Reuter. ««S^fe. M Tues -A brains trust with ™5 i JjT the t G °vemment, the Trade Unions 'i to b? formed to heH reen;iure Sweden s dwindling prosperity. The Prime Minister. Mr. Tage Erlander. announcing this decision in the Swedish Parliament, stated that taking
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  • 107 3 U.P. OTTAWA. Tues—The Department of Fisheries stauv&lt; that Canada, when joined by Newfoundland. will rank *mong the greatest fish pre Jucing nations of the woni. The enlarged Canada, estimated th e department, would have £150.000,000 &lt;M) industry each year based on cur rent price levels,
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  • 468 4 THINESE and Malay leaders meeting in Penang set up a committee to study ways of bringing the two communities closer together, of cauterising old sores, and restoring a healthy circulation of ideas for the common good. Of course the committee will be criticised. Some will hold that
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  • 1035 4  -  By ROBERT LLOYD Rcutcr's Correspondent) BEHIND the struggle over 'a few crucial paragraphs in the West German Constitution which is threatening the whole work of the Bonn Constituent Assembly with failure, lies a struggle for power in the as yet unborn West German State. It
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  • 590 4 A.P. This is a tale of six cities in crumbling China. It is a lale Oi defeat, anxiety and lost faith in the Government among the Chinese in IViping, Tientsin, Tsingtao, Hsuchow, Nanking and Shanghai. Hsuchow has fallen to the Reds. Pciping and Tientsin are
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  • 116 5 U.P. SYDNEY. Tues. Men throughout the worl d mwear more !»U if Austral i |a to have incentive to keep tkr rabbit menace in ch.-ck to the conclusion of grazier* and landowner;;. Ord-rs for rabbit aUlfe irom the hnt-mak;n g centers of Ne.v York, London and
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  • 270 5 Reuter. THE HAGUE, Tues.—Holland needs at least 70,000 new houses a year for the next ten yeaia to eliminate the present shortage caused by the destruction of 92,000 houses during the war to keep pace with her increasing population. Of the 70,000 now
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  • 344 5 This Couple So Ived It U.P. k F',^ ew Guinea Tues.—Joan DaLymple. £!r£?* of P montns solved the problems of how wur t0 live with in-laws—she and her h"Ft&gt;*nd moved to Nev/ Guinea. The Dalrymples left Sydney to make a home on the edge
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  • 36 5 A.P. NEW DELHI. Tues. The Indian Government announced today a ban effective immediately o the export of lightweight hides and skins because of the shortage of supplies for the domestic tanning industry. —A.P.
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  • 163 5 Reuter. CANBERRA. Tues Orchid growers i n Australia ar t capitahoing on the pcPOlarity of ihe orchid in the U-nted States. Last year, of orchids by ai] from Australi? to the United States were highly successful and to „he coming season Austrauan growers will send more than
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  • 45 5 GREENER GRASS— Marcelie BfSJtSSSr, right, seems to think that the gift package of Mireille Gentil is a bit better than hers. The 50 French orphans from the Children of the Garden Day School really had a good turn- at Paris party sponsored by E.C.A. employees.
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  • 191 5 PULLMAN, Washington, Tues —A counter part of Alcoholics Anonymous for smokes has sprung up in this small college town and is growing to a national scale. It is known as "nicotine unlimited." Its members are men who have quit smoking and want to stay that
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  • 72 5 There arc also r.\&lt;&gt; \erses. Onr reads: "Tobacco is a h!thv treed. Th said th»« ievfl sowed i hi- seed, it robs the pockets ef the c'ofhes. It makes a chimney of the nose." The other goes like this; "No\\ I |a\ t.ie down to
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  • 99 5 Reuter. Tokyo. Tues.—The frozen assets of 25 'A" Class war criminals, including Tojo, have been released by the Japanese Government, it S/al learn, d mday. All property thus released, however, will be subject to a property tax by the Finance Ministry. The properties of the war
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  • 301 5 A.P. BERLIN, Tues. What are the oraspecta ot war in Europe? Since only one nation in Europe is capable of launching a war, the chances of the conflict depend on the plans and capabilities of that one nation—the Soviet Union I Nations
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  • 322 5 A.P. PARIS, Tues.—ln the dark and gloomy Sante Prison here, along the somber grey walls pockmarked by German bullets that killed French patriots, a slim man dashed around the corner to the next boulevard toward freedom Prisoners crowded behind I the barred windows applauded and yelled
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous

  • 484 6 Third Test Review....by Ram Piara THE third ciicket Test match between India and the West Indies at Calcutta went the way cf the first two Test at Delhi and Bombay respectively- it was drawn. But whereas in the first two Tests the
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  • 41 6 Pi j .-.own W. Shute playing for England against France m the second round of the Thomas Cup Badmintou 'tournament at the I'ford Baths, Ilford, Sussex on Jan. 5. England trounced France by nine games to nil.
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  • 226 6 THE following horses have been reclassified by the Straits Racing: Association Class 4 Our Hope; Shubel. From Class 3 to Class 4: Affable. Aquatic. Assail. Barham. Baroda Prince. Berton. Blemish. Bon Ami. Carolina. Coldstream. Countess. The. Dale Xixen, Fine Lady. Gay Chief. Golden Slipper. Grecian Prince,
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  • 31 6 The annual general meeting of the United Family Badminton Party will be at No. 26 Carlisle Road. The Anniversary will be celebrated at No. 714 Upper Strangoon Road.
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  • 268 7  -  'But U.S. Is Pretty Good' THOMAS CUP BADMINTON TOURNAMENT (From JIMMY GLOVER LONDON, Tues. CIR George Thomas, donor of the famous Thomas Cup for badminton, expressed the opinion that Malaya stands a very good chance of annexing it. "I think the winners of the
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  • 107 7 SIX of the twelve bottles of "Challenge" Scotch Whisky donated to the Tribune Thomas up Fund by a well-known Singapore sportsman are still unclaimed. So we are reducing the target of $50 and a bottle wUI go to everyone who gives $25 or more to
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  • 97 7 A.P. NEWARK, New Jersey, Tues —The New Jersey Amateur Athletic Union announced Monday the request to suspend Herb McKenley had been withdrawn. McKenley'.s suspension had been requested by the Secretary of the National Amateur Athletic Union. Dan Ferris. In withdrawing it. Ferris said McKenley had fulfilled his obii
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  • 146 7 Reuter. LONDON. Tues.—Freddie Mills, wona and British light heavyweight champion, may defend his world title before he meets Bruce Woodcock, British heavyweight champion, on June 2 next. Previously it had been understood that Mills's contract with promoter, Jack Solomons, stipulated he should not fight before
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  • 71 7 A.P. LONDON, Tues. Ann de Borman of the Belgian team moved into the third round of the British Wimen's Open Squash Rackets championship Tuesday with a 9—o, 9—o, 9—3 win over Mrs. M. H. Daylis of London. Holland's one entry, Miss M. Laer, was eliminated by
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  • 29 7 U.P. SAN FRANCISCO, Tues. Promoter Leo Leavitt of Honolulu today announced tentative arrangements for feather champ Sammy Saddler to meet Chico Rosa at Honolulu on March 29.— U.P.
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  • 57 7 AP LOS ANGELES. Tues.—Jos Weidin, Austrian heavyweight 1 whom Jack Dempsey named as a coming *orld champion, meets Fn ddy Beshore Of £1 Monte. California, in a 10--rounj bout tonight in the Olympic auditorium. Weidin, who won 17 out of ,22 pro lights in Europe, is a
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  • 271 7 TEOH SENG KHOON, Tribune staff reporter 1 and member of the Malayan Thom;u&gt; Cup Team now in London, writes to say that Uie cow English weather has oecome an ally to the Cup Team. Mr. Lim Chuan Geok, the team's non-Dlaying captain and
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  • 85 7 U.P. TAMPA, (Florida), Tues. Gardner Mulloy, U.S. Davis Cup team member, defeated Gardner Lamed I—6, 6—2. 6— 3, 6—2 to win the Dixie Tennis tournament championship. Maggie Mac Beeland, topseeded in the women's competition, beat Louis Miller 6 —3, 6— 3 to take the women's title. Lamed and
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  • 29 7 A.P. Rome. Sun. The Italian Boxing Federation announced that Aldo Minalli, lightweight challenger, must fight national champion Giuseppe Fusare before January. 15 for the crown. -A.P.
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  • 47 7 M. Le Renard of Paris seen in action in the second round of the international badminton championship for the Thomas Cup at the Ilford Baths, Dford, Sussex on Jan. 5. Renard played for France against England. France lost all the nine games.
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  • 131 7 At the meeting of the Selection Committee of the Singapore Hockey Association held at the S.R.C yesterday, Mr. R. Minjoot, hon. secretary of the SHA strongly supported the suggestion of the Selangor Hockey Association to form a Malayan Hockey Association. The following players have been
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  • 202 7 ASIAN CRICKET A.P. CALCUTTA, Tues.—Five Asian countries hay? decided to get together for playing cricket and havo agreed on a tour programme. The headquarters of the conference shall be held each of the member countries in this order: India. Pakistan, Ceylon, Malaya and Burma. The otesident
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  • 65 7 i India, Pakistan, Ceylon, S Burma and Malaya J)r Meeting in a here agreed on this programme: /949—Pakistan to visil Ceylon, with the possibUty of one match being played in India. 1949- 50 Ceylon visit India and Pakistan.^ 1950- 51—India to visit S Pakistan; Malaya to
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  • 53 7 Reuter. &lt; KINGSTON, Jamaica. Tues. —The player to reinforce the 1 West Indies cricket team in j India has been chosen but his name will not be disclosed until tomorrow. It is believed in cricket circles here that the player is George Mudle. Jamaica's best j
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  • 385 7 PORT ELIZABETH, Tues,-The MCC and eastern Province drew their three-day cricket match which ended here today with the final scoreboard showing the MCC 450 for nine declared and 353 for three, Eastern Province 397. The home side continued their first innings this morning and were all
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  • 69 7 The hockey trial matches between the Singapore State Hockey team and The Rest and The Colours vs Whites ot the Girls' Sports Club, which should have been played yesterday at the S. R. C. padang were cancelled because of rain. Another trial between the Singapore SU'te Hockey
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  • 59 7 A.P. NEW YORK, Tues Robert Viluemain, French middleweight who was defeated last week by Steve Bellolse, left here by Air France Tuesday for Paris on the way to a rest in the Riviera. Then he will begin training for his match in New York at the end of
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  • 358 8 Kian Peng Tragedy A 'Mistake' MR. A. M. WINKELMAN, Netherlands CeunsuliTl General in Singapore, last night described as *a fatal mistake" the machine--unr:i!j hy Dutch aircraft in Indonesia jn New Yer.r's Eve of the Singapore barter vessel Kian Pei.? v,ilh the loss of nine lives.
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  • 160 8 Reuter. A.P. and U.P. THE jet-propelled Royal Air Force Vampire lighter based at Tengah airfield forced landed yesterday at Mirs Bay, Hongkong, at the end of its flight from Singapore. The pilot, Flight Lieutenant G. Francis, was unhurt and the aircraft undamaged. The plane, the first
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  • 85 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) DIGGING for "treasure" in Singapore may begin soon at another site, it is understood. Work on the present spot at the junction of Stamford Road, and Orchard Road, ceased yesterday afternoon. The hole had been refilled with mud and clay. One solitary police
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  • 45 8 Five hundred and eighty persons were interrogated in a security check-up in the Bukit Timah area. No one was detained. Meanwhile, two Chinese have been detained in connection with the robbery of a Chinese woman at Upper Aljunicd Road on Dec 22. 1948.
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  • 26 8 Tlie next monthly meeting of the Rural Board will be held on Thursday 20. in the Council Chambci, Colonial Secretary's Office, at 10 a.m.
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  • 95 8 Reuter. I PARIS, Tins. Genr eral Nguyen Van Xuan, J Prime Minister of the Provisional Vietnam Gov- ernment, in Paris for talks on the return to Indo-China of ex-Empe- ror Bao I)ai of Annain, 1 today saw M. Emile Bollaert, former French High C ommissioner. After his arrival
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  • 24 8 Reuter. Washington. Tues. A reduction of $50,000 previously authorised for rice for Indonesia was announced in Marshall Plan authorisations today. Header.
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  • 125 8 THE flag of the new Com-mander-in-Chief, Far Eastern Fleet. Vice-Admiral Sir Patrick Blind, was transferred yesterday to Admiralty House while that of the former C-inC, Admiral Sir Denis Bovd. was flown in H M.S. Alert. The Band of the Royal Marines conducted by Fleet Band Master
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  • 79 8 U.P. NrJW YOKK, Tues.—An Official of a registered Soviet propaganda agency today said that Russia has been buying large quantities of strategicmaps or the United States and ts po essions. He said that they were ordered for public libraries in Moscow. Allan Markoff
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  • 260 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) SENTENCING two young British soldier* who beat up a Chinese taxi driver in an attempt to rob him of cash. Mr. Justice Brown told then: in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday You have brought yourselves to the level of local thugs
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  • 27 8 A.P. Washington, Tues. James Forrestal said, after a talk with President Truman today that he expects to remain as US. Secretary of Defence A.P.
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  • 21 8 Reuter. LONDON, Tues.—Trade talks etween Ceylon and Czechoslovakia will start in London shortly, it was learned here today.— Reuter,
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  • 33 8 Mr. G. G. Thomson, I*ub»fe Relations, Singapore, speaking at the mass gathering of Muslims at *alan ley on the occasion of the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed yester»ay.
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  • 173 8 SECURITY forces shot and captured one of two bandits contacted in an anti-squatter raid in the Sungei Jeloh and Siput areas *,f Kajanp at dawn yest?rday. The other nan esc»Ded. He is still b°in?; hunt?d. The operation, aimed at the screening and detention of
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  • 116 8 Reuter. LONDON, Tues.—Britain s i miners opened 1949 with an output which fell 365.900 tons short of the first week s proj duction in 1948. I Provisional figures issued I here tonight by the Ministry of j Fuel and Power gave output !at 3.717.500 tons. The
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  • 45 8 WASHINGTON, Tues. A 21-man mission from the organisation for European Econo- j mic Co-operation arrived here today to aid the United States Economic Co-operation Administration in preparing facts and figures tor the coming Congressional debate on the second year of the Marshall Plan—
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  • 126 8 Reuter. m knos aires, Taos. N —The harter agreement 1 between India and Ar- gentina for the exchange j of 70.000 tons of hessian i against 555.000 tons of Argentine wheat, signed S in October, has so tar i v worked out successfuMv j that it
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  • 106 8 $88,920,73 MissingHotel Case For 20 years an accountant of Raffles Hotel. Sarkics Matyiose Arathoon appeared in the First District Court yesterday charged with falsification of accounts and breach of trust of $88,920.73. belonging to the hotel. Mr. L. R. Prynn, prosecuting, said that on October last year, the hotel account
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  • 332 8 THE four-man Singapore delegation to the Asian Leaders' Training Conference held at Kandy in Ceylon was welcomed back by members of the Singapore Student Christian Movement yesterday evening with a social at the V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road. The function was also a goodwill gesture to delegates passing
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  • 152 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) NEARLY 15.000 Muslims yesterday flocked to Jalan Besar Stadium to celebrate the 1422 nd birthday anniversary of Prophet Muhammad. The gathering was preceded by a two-mile long procession, headed by the Muslim Divine, Maulana Abdul Aleem Siddiqui, followed by members of the Malay Scouts,
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  • 200 8 New Order —Asia For The Russians U.P. NEW YORK, Tues.—The New Yor K limes in an editorial today commented: the Japanese started their Pacific war of coacM' one of their most powerful weapons sra* the slogan Asia for the Asiatics "In time most native pcopies of Eastern Asia found out
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  • 56 8 A picliminary meeting i s being held next week of the subcommittee of the Singapore U.N.A.C. Sub-committee set up jto make recommendations on j the allocation of the proportion lof locally-collected U.N.A.C. funds, which will be retained in Singapore. Those who wish to submit applications for consideration should
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  • 47 8 Rotary: Dr. H. H. Petei on "Child Growth and Devel&lt; mcnt." Adelphi—1 p.m. Y.W.C.A.: Katong Group meeting, St. Hilda's School P MEDICAL C O L L E I \LUMNI ASSOCIATION: I' icr in honour of Bishop J I Wilson, Adelphi Hotel —8 p.m
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  • 214 8 CATHAY: "The Red Shoe(in technicolour) with Anto,, Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine, Robert Helpmann, Esmon&lt;i Knight Albert Basserman an&lt;. Ludmilla Tcherina—1.30, 4. 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. ALHAMR R A "Variety Time," with Edgar Kennedy. Leon Errol, Frankie Carle, Pat Rooney and Miguelito Valdes— 1.45, 4.15, 6.45 and
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  • 79 8 HOCKEY: S.C.C. Women v. Changi Ladies H.C.—S.C.C.; S.R.C. "A" v. Spore Colts.— S.R.C.; Khalsa Assn. v 223 B.O.D. —B.O.D. ground. RUGBY: R.A.F. Seletar 2nd v. R.A.F. Changi—Seletar; Nee Soon R F.C. v. S pore Arty. Ftcgt.—Blakan Mati; R.A.F. Jhangi v. G.H.Q. FARELF— Changi; G.H.Q. Sig. Regt. v. H.M.S. Terror—Naval
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