Morning Tribune, 23 August 1948

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    12 1 MORNING TRIBUNE B^P^ 10 CENTS. B7i so m V 0L noNDA^ A
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    SIAM CABINET HOLDS NIGHT CRISIS MEETING
    250 1 SIAM CABINET HOLDS NIGHT CRISIS MEETING r IAM'S cabinet and chiefs of the Army ana b Police met m Bangkok late last night to discuss plans to prevent the Communist terror from crossing her frontier from Malaya. The Government has decided on the closest co-operation with the Malayan Police and
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    2 TERRORISTS SHOT DEAD
    569 1 FROM THE MALAYAN FIGHTING FRONT MALAYAN ROUND-UP SELANGOR. Bunday. At Sungei Samak, Just south of Rawang, a police patrol, entering a squatters* area, came across three young Chinese who ran away at the approach of the force. Challenged and told to stop, they ignored the warning
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    Couple Back From Honeymoon, told Can't Land Here
    218 1 t ,.,.id ttysMmmsm *i»™™» ***~T ■mx********* "2 hm mU >' Z immigration mm _j_A M.C. wan, K^iu-'^-^''"---K r. m England B" Xl be was Krigration B wr^ i 1"-" tf Hie thought that I ■ns permitted to lami wa_ ■obabiv due to
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    CRIME FRONT: ALL QUIET
    5 1 CRIME FRONT: ALL QUIET Ntbx-lSf
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    PALESTINE OBSERVERS
    59 1 WASHINGTON, Sunday. hundred and twentyVA ..Iditional American ■ervkemen will arive m Palestine shortly t4> join the I sited Nations military t.am ofeaert-Bg the truce, the >tai Department announced !oday. The announcement emphasized i hat the men and iheir equipment will be ised only for the benefit of the
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    AIR CRASH VICTIMS NAMED
    55 1 AIR CRASH VICTIMS NAMED The names of those who perished m the RJLF. Dakota which crashed m Batu Melintang, on the Malaya-Siam borfler. have been officially released. They ar?: Flying Officer V. L. Moore. Flight Lieutenant T. Blackburn. Signaler Ist. Class W. G. Brown. Na\lgator 2nd. Class J. N. Hard,
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    P.I. SENATOR PARIS-BOUND
    69 1 P.I. SENATOR PARIS -BOUND -tor Tomas Cadili,' phi- '■'■> Pin« representative to the JN.O General Assembly to be In Paris next month, arIn Singapore yesterday Philippine naval patrol ship under the command ot v Commander S. c. Buonaventura. The Senator was former tory for National De- nee Six hundred. Filipino
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    Much Ado...
    50 1 Much Ado I h -e Singapore Fire Brigade -*s called out yesterday to J with a "big fire." An Sine promptly answered the immons. When i t reached r spot the "fire" turned out be nothing mC re than a biirr.ing refuse dump. engine went back tc fee stat n
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    PEACE FOR A DAY
    76 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Sunday. The I'nit'-d Nation* announced i.tt Jerusalem on Saturday enjoyed its quietest day since the current Palestine truce started five weekc ago. lighting m and around the holy city reached such a dangerous point a few days ago that it threatened to renew a
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    Train Smash: Four Die
    41 1 PARIS, Sunday. Four people were killed and over 3C *ere injured today when the Lyon to Strabourg express collided with a slow freight train near the Isle su le Doub_ station, a message states from Besancon. U.P.
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    'BERLIN AGREEMENT,' SAYS RUSSIAN PRESS IN BERLIN
    207 1 BERLIN, Sunday.— The Soviet-licensed National Zeitung reported m a Berlin dispatch that a "final unanimous solution has been found" m Moscow on the Berlin qrestion. The paper raid "it is certain that the Western powers have agreed to recognise the cur- I rency
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    MORE 'SLEEP' VICTIMS
    76 1 Tokio, Sunday. Five new cases of sleeping sickness were reported m Tokio yesterda> rSSXg the epidemic the worst m the history of Japan. There have been lo_ cast^ m Tokio alone. The epidemic has also increased among horses throughout I Janan and the interruption or ca_Sh_tion of
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    Official Kidnapped
    43 1 BERLIN, Sunday.— Three armed Russian soldiers today seized Thomas Headen, Deputy Director of the American Information Control Ofllce, ten yards inside the British sector at Potsdamer Plata. They put him into a Jeep and drove off into the Russian sector.- U.P.
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    LORRY SKIDS, OVERTURNS
    38 1 Six week-enders were m a lorry which skidded and overturned while travelling near Changi Prison, shortly after noon yesterday. One of the victims seriously wounded, was admitted to hospital. The others were treated as out-patients.
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    MAN FALLS FROM FIRST STOREY
    30 1 A Chinese fell from the first storey of a house he was wnite-washing at Joo Chiat Road yesterday and had to he removed to hospital.
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    MPAA CHIEF TO TALK MOVIES IN BRITAIN
    132 2 London. Sunday. Brie Johnston, president <>i Motion picture Association oi America, a: rived lure tonight by plane to confer with Briti h Aim chief, on the situa tion Of British films m th United States. He told it porters that he also hoped
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    MARRIAGE RUSH
    97 2 PHILADELPHIA, Sunday. The marriage licence bureau reported an "unseasonal" rush, with most prospective husbands between IV and 25, as the nation underwent a marriage rush to beat the new peacetime draft. Similar "unseasonal" reports drifted m form marriage bureaus throughout the United States. In Brookyln 600 men lined
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    HIROHITO SAYS THANKS WITH TEA-CUPS, SPOONS
    62 2 HIROHITO SAYS THANKS WITH TEA-CUPS, SPOONS TOKIO, Sunday. Japanese Emperor Hirohito recently presented Lt.-Qen. James F. Hyland, Commander of the Fukui Military Government, with a ct of black teacups, plates and ipoom mth the Imperirl crest, "as token of Imperial gratttWM" for the ii nli mit id hulp aceouUd Im
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    HOLY HOUR SERVICE
    31 2 Paris. Sunday. Borne 600 Bn _2_s d Cmthollcl by the Most Reverend Richard Archbishop of Boston, |T a.A„ oelsbrated Holy n 0 _r at ■acre Coeur Church here,
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    Russian Consul-General Told: 'Sorry, No Visits'
    220 2 Russia Tacket Out <>/ DMger, *fi'< tiKS l KOSENKINA, war iroiur, 8 vo;| „,;>,/, f ■<>/ th* soviet _^_/____f«-°J«SSr^SS -/,■»> r_*_ HOSPITAL CwwlTh AL LIBT. The announcement fI 6 m ro i vit Hospital »aid Mrs. Ko enkins "considerably lav proved mt%t had been
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    "IRON CURTAIN" DIPLOMAT STAYS PUT IN U.S.
    120 2 "IRON CURTAIN" DIPLOMAT STAYS PUT IN U.S. WASHINGTON. Sunday. Alfons Yogel. press attache here for the Rumanian legation, disclosed tonight that he has resigned his diplomatic post and will remain m the United States as a "political exile". "Yogel told United Press that he had handed his informal resignation to
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    HITLER THANKED HIM
    114 2 EHERTSEY, Sunday.- Charles Richard, gunner, 34 of Egham, Surrey, who was found dead on a railway line achieved fame for microsceptic writings and paintings. He had Inscribed the Lord's prayer on pinhead sized paper and had executed commissions for minature printings for the Queen and members of
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    Soviet Envoy Has "Nothing To Say"
    145 2 Soviet Envoy Has "Nothing To Say" Anr }"o'\\\ Sunday. Mr. Jacob Lomakin. Soviet Consul (ieneral m Ntm York, declined to comment on tlit news from Washington that the United States (torernment had dtmanded his retail bu tht Kremlin. Approached by reporters as he left the Consulate building he said: "You
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    CHINESE REDS' GREETINGS TO JOSEF STALIN
    107 2 SHANGHAI. Sunday The Communist radio today broad, fast "delayed" dispatch aaybin,^Manchuria, sent greetings to Communist party Chairman Mao-Tse-tung, Military Comander General Chu Teh. ami Unciahssimo Josef Stalin on we third anniversary of the Japanese surrender. The message made the customary Communist charges BgalMt "United
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    58 2 Mr. and Mrs. ..4*ifoti Witmer photoarapfud after th<\ T veddini/ at the Cuthedial of *lw Good MfpAerd <■■ 8attiHm aftirnoon. Mr. Witmer is a memlter of thi f: lltlh Airlines staff and uas previously mH*g*pori Aneta neus aijenci/. The bride uas formerly K Alexandra Kei/t. daughter of the latt Mr.
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    Extra-Marital Relations Not Always Wrong
    219 2 Extra- Marital Relations Not Always Wrong LONDON. Sunday. A British doctor argued m the Medical Journal today that extramarital relations are not always wrong and the Church land State disapproval contribute to venereal disease. The debate on venereal disease is now underway M correspondence columns of both the Medical Journal
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    POPE'S BLESSING FOR 100,000 GERMANS
    39 2 POPE'S BLESSING FOR 100,000 GERMANS CASTELGANDOLFO, Sunday. The Pope today sent a special apostolic blessing to 100,000 German Caltrolics who are now attending the 700 th anniversary celebration of the Cologne Cathedral, the Vatican. Secretariat of State announced. U.P.
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    REDS MEET IN SECRET
    41 2 TRIESTE, Sunday. In a carefully guarded former Fastest Party headquarters, Cominformist Communists opened ihei r "extraordinary cong ress" today to create an antiTito, pro-Staltn party. No newspapermen, other than the representatives of "safe" newspapers were admitted.— U.P.
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    JAP OCCUPATION MUST LAST TWENTY YEARS
    166 2 JAP OCCUPATION MUST LAST TWENTY YEARS SHANGHAI. SUNDAY. An Australian member of Parliament Leslie C. Haylen. who led the seven-man Australian delegation on an inspection tour of Japan, told United Press "The Americans are doing a good job m Japan but the military occupation should last another 20 years to
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    BANDITS DERAIL GOODS TRAIN
    45 2 BATAVIA. SU na tearing up 50 tral* bandits derailed p I beiwecn B*#£ t I vakarta to Nk -fl nigh t and shot d ,,_n| the trair.s a' I crew of 18. j Seven 1** the other eight fl kidnapped- Reuter
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    Hush Hush Defence Talks
    144 2 WASHINGTON. Sunday. -I Proposals for joint Canadian- j American action m any Mm emergency are expcted to presenttd by Mr. Jame 3 For-, restal. U.S. Defence Secretary at a hush-hush conference or American war chiefs tnu weekend. well inf-.rmeo sources said here today. The war chiefs—
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    US Awaits Russian Reaction To Lomakin
    168 3 officials awaiting M -4SHINGTON j tf Soviet Consul Gene- af £_ansaa j I il they I to U»t qu p%* -ibility r* bn'J" Hw lential jgjjj in.vttling i" Eg s"a R£S Soviet reaction ove. i upon s&wsioi*i*dtß Uosmauon provided bj l>, state Department Hy'
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    GREEK REBELS WIPED OUT
    91 3 ATUENB, Saturday. Tin ireelc general s IIJ tod* ar. nounced that Greek trooos h* rtioed out General Markos' •Free Greece" movement m the Grammos mountains m tn important victory of th« •ivil war. Inte«*lfe*iee reports uM Matkos" forces pulled OOt o> the last tiny pocket of
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    FYFE TO OPPOSE NATIONALISATION
    44 3 David \i Sunday km. Ml ::;j v"!; *y* formei Brt_* J *neral and chic; at S rbnes trial th rft'Nv >PP ,1 to th, 1;,,. the ba, hroujrbt n case ,m ippeal f niin **-t„ 11. Kin v.,,,,.' '■"> h?ve Reuter
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    PAKISTAN PROTESTS, INDIA ADMITS MISTAKE
    110 3 PAKISTAN PROTESTS, INDIA ADMITS MISTAKE ■KARACHI Satu ■k Pakistan government t pay iti ugh ti rti what it fccrlbed v the strafing sn I bombing of Murree Hill it* 'y Roj i- L n planei n niursday Defer Ministry •a''l thr ti uno whei kti the Indo-Pakurt n m.! "iti
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    India Denies Report Of Burma's Help Appeal
    133 3 RANGOON, Saturday. Th. Indian Embassy here to- J day lenled foreign press reports that the Burmese Government had or was likely to appeal to India military assistanci m suppressing insurrection. It said these suggestions t were "mischievous and were made with a view
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    Sino-Japanese Trade
    125 3 SHANGHAI, Sunday. SinoJapane&e trade ha_ to all practical purpose* ceased nainijf because ol Chinese inability to make payment m kind to Japan, according tc a Central News Agency repo; m taipei, capital <>f m The Central Trus t which Is he purchasing agent for uk hinese Government is
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    "AXIS SALLY" HOME TO FACE TREASON CHARGES
    78 3 "AXIS SALLY" HOME TO FACE TREASON CHARGES WASHINGTON. Sunday 1-ldred Elizabeth Gillars. w ho Broadcast over .he Nazi radio as "Axis Sally" during the war returned to her native Ll >it<ci States today to faro ason charges. Bally, a 47-year-old woman flown here aboard an Army plane from Frankfurt. was
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    BRITONS BOUND OVER ON SPY CHARGE
    141 3 .JERUSALEM. Sat. THe Jewish court, on Friday, bourn, i 0V« two British citizens foi j trial on chaigcs of spying fOi the Arabs. Frederick Sylvester (31), I faces eight charges ol espion- I age including complicity m the Ben Yehuda Street explosion m Jerusalem
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    ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
    55 3 Thee two lftsk MauM o'rls e,e c ;<i spectators at the Island Golf Club on Saturiag when they peeped m at a ir-uhnr. to see Mr. H Tooke. h 9- T*MM Sen a rm I«r taHon Tomrnmsne*t Cup, offering his wife a drink n'** 9%4
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    SHARING THE DUFFER'S CUP
    28 3 After takin,, a sip, Mr. C. Y. Koh shares th* Duffers Cup .rithMrs^v, while Mr. 8, X Gaw. the happy winner, joins m /<" }un.
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    Australian Horses For Siamese Army
    79 3 BANGKOK, Sunday. The Siamese Army is buying 268 io x. iroiii Australia ai a to-. cost el ie.S. 1,331,2-0 1£33,-j js_ at the oideial rate ot ex* kange). Tii« Australian horses, which rill be used by the Plrat t'a.aliv Battalion and the Koyal a.11e ■■11
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    ABLE AN' ALLURIN'
    40 4 Bhmdr and beautiful Marie McDona.lt, Metr o-G S d W ynMayer actress, is a triple-threat performer. In her forthcoming MG-M film, she not only pliys the romantic lead opyomte Gene Kelly, but dames and sings with him.
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    ROME ROCKS
    44 4 ROME, Sunday. Three persons were Injured and several homes severely damaged today when a series of earth-tremors were registered fa the Puglia legion this morning. The Taranto Observatory report, d the sarthqoaks was a repetition of the one registered last Wednesday. U.P.
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    Ex-China Premier Visits Japan
    167 4 Tokio. Saturday. General i Chang Chun, former Piemier of China, one of President Chiang Kai-shek's top advist srs, will arrive m .okio tomoirow afternoon to make a first hand study of post-war Japan. Chang, accompanied by his wife and private Secretary, Y. L. Shao. pre-war Consul
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    BRITAIN, US, CANADA EXPAND ATOMIC RESEARCH WORK
    121 4 NEW YORK. Saturday. Britain, the United States and Canada have expanded the work of the combined policy committee they set up m August, 1943, for directing atomic energy research. Mr. David E. Lilienthal, chairman of the United States Atomic' Energy Commission, disclosed here
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    URANIUM IN KWANGTUNG?
    67 4 CANTON, Sunday. Uranium or what looks like it has been discovered m Kwangtung. This report has been circulating here recently and according to it. traces of the ore have been noted m several parts of the province by a travelling metalogist. A sample of the ore is
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    13 BRIDGES SWEPT AWAY BY FLOODS
    100 4 Berwick, Saturday. Army sappers began a ten-day task of replacing 13 bridges swept away by the recent floods on tho Scottish border. Northern Command troops from the School of Military Engineering In Yorkshire are to help with a section of two Bailey bridges, one
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    Busy Sunday For Shanghai Bank Employees
    374 4 sHVM.HAI. Sunday.— Foregoing their usual Sundav 'holiday, bank employees will work all day to-d-iy to convert current accounts, deposits and money orders into new gold yuan m readiness for the resumption of business tomorrow, ttw M learned. According to instructions from the Central Bank,
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    TALKING THINGS OVER
    32 4 Darryl F. Zanuck, vice-president m charge of production, with Joseph M. Schenck, executive production head, talk things over outside tha executive's room at the 20th Cen-tury-Fox studio m Hollywood.
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    MARTIAL LAW FOR BURMA
    167 4 RANGOON. Sunday- Martial law m those areas of Burma directly affected by the Communist-inspired rebellion was forshadowed m a special ordinance issued by President Sao Shwe Thaike late last night. The President proclaimed a state of emergency whereby the security of Burma is threatened by internal
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      78 4 |ON YOUR RADIO TODAY] MALAY ENGLISH PROGRAMMES From 12 noon to 2 p.m. Radiated on 483 metres In the medium wave band and 7200 ke sec. m the 41 metre hand. From 2 p.m. to S p.m. Radiated on 485 metres only. From S p.m. to 6 p.m. Radiated on
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      312 4 on band and 4825 kc sec. _fl 61 485 metres In the mtifl wave metres band. PROGRAMMES IN ENGlfl 1 p.m. Peter Yorke k fl Orchestra; 130 News; fl I Light Music. 2.00 Close Dofl 8.15 p.m. Programme Sifl mary, News Summary k fl nouncements- 8.20 MusicH of the Theatre;
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    996 5  -  VERA ARDMORE I .WITH *^T ww. I I f.j -room I r Hi m M SS __F n-h Shins. Mr* h v V. Aliist*'^- ■fr 0 Tim** K.rv m Junipe; too X out many fai X )£f were fayoun H H Louch. Mn van dei X Urn
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    THE MORNING TRIBUNE Speed Is The Need
    297 6 THE MORNING TRIBUNE Speed Is The Need London Agent*- Metntra. Colin Turner., Ltd., Talbot Ilou^e. 98, 8t. Martin's Lane W.C.2 MONDAY. AVG 23. 191* rt EOISTRATION starts IS this week m Kedah and Perlis. The other States of the Federation and Singapore should folio ,v suit as swiftly as they
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    Moscow's Veneer Of Prosperity
    1399 6  -  Paul Wohl A won joyful, ticket ml colourful life imnh ih S»7<7 WWW •*> OM lord By CHOPPINn is becoming fun m Russia-for those -ho an afford it. Kation cards are a thing of the as and Government factories are turning out many of the gadgets
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    UNKNOWN
    76 6 R hu Sh.h «rh°P23 a i_Kd the 3 CPai Hu *Ln,S"M .•Gentlemen (^vv^. recently been r( "henpecked-m^- tj ported to have sai rj< more ""J^ Sod-,* of henpecked me J easier for mocratic. m c theCOntr:i:stories m V what had let HlUer d 0 v lf d tl wished
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    SAILING WITH THE WIND
    387 6 STORMS, breakers, sharkinfested waters they have encountered these from very early times, these Indian i seamen who carry precious cari goes across the Arabian Sea m dhows. Modern steamships and freight planes have not disturbs 1 the existence of these slow-moving, graceful craft which from the
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  • ROUND-UP OF CABLED NEWS FROM FAR AND NEAR
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      CHINA APPOINTS HIGH OFFICIALS TO EXECUTE FINANCIAL REFORMS
      342 7 CHINA APPOINTS HIGH OFFICIALS TO EXECUTE FINANCIAL REFORMS gHANGHA-. Sunday. The Executive Tuna Nanking has o'pi.Med the freezing of all cc on the August lPth level. Sid appointed high officials m th ,ic principal cities to supervl .o the execution of the new financial reforms. \ppointed to head the econo!llU
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      BLACK DICTATOR
      273 7 SYDNEY. Sunibty. King v <»»./<■ rMMrete was the MMM* <«/.ii>» /f 1/ by in* ssage stick that rtaihed Mr. BUI Hamey. guide to the a \li a rm. und Am* i nan Scientific Ejptdition to Hinhem Land, recently. Wonga is chief of th*- Balamumu tribe the leading aboriginal
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      ARTS & MUSIC STUDENT
      16 7 ARTS MUSIC STUDENT MB BMEST LAU, th* United 8 I ft 11 I M CUi 01
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      JAP WAR CRIMINALS PAY PENALTY
      61 7 Tokio, Satin day. More than 10 aai criminal- wen liangi d tail; tod_v at Sugamo Prison Id "Tc„io". tho .th Army announced. Ail ot Umbo wen Japan n and wen convicted ty the bth Army Military CoOHfttalOD of having been responsible tor the unlawful killing
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      126 VILLAGES DISAPPEAR UNDER FLOODWATERS
      85 7 126 VILLAGES DISAPPEAR UNDER FLOODWATERS KARACHI, Saturday Oi* ft mdn I tad ttrentnsix \Uaget m th* Sukkvr district of th> >"i. nortki \s\ of the capital, hait J*W irerf „th nohnU sina thi nr( r hhius burst its links M .4/./, s. un.rd*9 k official afafi-ffca mci ken t Thl
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      CEYLON PASSES TRADE UNION BILL
      67 7 CEYLON PASSES TRADE UNION BILL s Sunday. the »>e ,-,..;J, H i ou ';.'ha-«p-.iss-S^g the the Bl "aid f a< U, J of P*** for h m *ad« a^ ctiv n t ,uh!l^' servant, ll rv, i, Ur< connected l i,n Prided 0 Tr^' ___*'ISJ_ lp tt th, em SS_!^
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      GERMAN SCIENTISTS FOR RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA
      175 7 SYDNEY, Sunday. Fortyeight more Cierman scientists will at live m Australia m the next few months. They wil! complete Australia's allocation Of 77 German research workers. The Department of Post-War Reconstruction's Secondary Industries Commission began bringing German scientists to .UStraHa last August. to fill
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      Pacific Island Explosion
      119 7 GUAM. Saturday.--An early norning explosion ripped hrough the huge navy petrol ank depot here today touching 3ff fires that raged through the retaliation. Hundreds of United States oivicemen were enlisted a.' Ire-fighting reserves. It was no. i ;now immediately whether ther .now immediately whether here were any
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      DRIVERS PROTEST
      81 7 LONDON. Sat. Perhan police constable Sidney Brandon was a little too strict about forcing bus and trolley drivers to actually stop at the regular stations on his beat. Last night 1.200 bus drivers sent a notification to the Home Office that beginning September 1 they will not drive
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      No Information To Russians
      175 7 WASHINGTON. Sunday. Army counter intelligence officers largfed American businessmen to help defeat the Russian quest for strategic information about potential United States industrial and military targets. They asked businessmen throughout the country to be wary of inquiries from overseas. no matter how harmless the requested information
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      STUDENTS ARRESTED IN TIENTSIN
      54 7 Tientsin. Friday. -Simultanc- msly with the arrest of stulents m Peiping suspected ol {Communist activities. 40 st_ dents of four Tientsin unver I 'ity colleges were taKen into j :_stOd.' yesterday. They are I likely to be handed over to the .special criminal court m i
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      AIRLIFT DROPS
      29 7 Berlin, Sa«.ui__y. Tae AngloAmerican airlift to blockaded Berlin fell 25 per cent, below us recent average today as a esult of pelting rain and heavy winds. U.P.
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      NO SKELETON'S IN CUPBOARD
      78 7 Melbourne. Complete j skeletons used m hospitals for I demonstration are fetching from £A2O to f AGO m Australia These prices were from £A5 to £A6 before the war. One big Melbourne importer of surgical goods has a waiting list of 150 students, doctors and first
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      SLEEPING SICKNESS
      26 7 Tokio, Saturday. Thirteen new cases of sleeping sickness were reported m Tokio yestcrThe*"*" have been 282 deaths m 1,560 cases. Renter A A P
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      "END CRUELTY TO MENTAL PATIENTS" -DOCTOR PLEADS
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    12-Year-Old Huntress Is Afraid Of Ants
    264 8 NEW TOHIC, Baiurdaj 12 >. -ai-oM. Hh-poun-i hiK _am< huntreM arrived hew today frori, tun month Safari »n th.- r.< Iflaa Ooaffo, eompiain mi,' about ants. Klain«* Mone.srnith. bllie-<y.-.i retiring s s M;1 s „il ged two elephants, seven burlalo, hve leopards, OM orL
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    107 8 CIGARETTE CAUSES BIG EXPLOSION BARI. Saturday. A ruiiiitt* thrown m%JMM 1.,/ a workman m the fxcitiniint of an enrthquak* shock l§ thought to have caused a big *x plosion at a dump of war material on the outskirts of Bart today, killing one and wounding four others. The earthquake shocks
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    BIRDS DANCE UNKNOWN
    539 8 BIRDS DANCE UNKNOWN LOOKINj ....No. I Quarter of a millioi people visit Raffles Museum, Singapore, every year. They wonder from show case to show case, yet how many ever learn the stories behind thexhibits. Almost every exhibits has a history of its own. Perhaps ar. adventure on some hunting expedition
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    FAG RATIONING UNWORKABLE
    72 9 AJej «iKI« v -"Way. sir ti th^Si Tobago S^wfit? introduce •*wS_T^ ■■M Sir drrltc m ten _L Smokt > one 10 le ss each day and refrain from hoarding we should very soon see the end °f queuing." aa? C cstlm t ed that 1,600,000,--000 cigarettes per
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    RED INDIAN IS ANTI-RED
    87 9 SEW YORK, Sunday A love Indian, a fullbloodtd Sioux, paced back and forth today m front of the Soviet consulate. He wort civilian clothes and carried two signs wtth messages to Consul General Jacob Lotaakin. The postirs said: "Do not feel you will be missed when
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    Fish Leaves £30,000: Beneficiaries Sought
    213 9 SYDNEY. Sunday. fVn.ficraries of a 30.000 Sydney estAte arc being mght la Soviet 'er rttory. The estate is that of financier Adolph Louis Fish. son. o; fi Lithuanian hotel-keeper. Fish a bachelor, a^ed 80. died ir Sydney on July 3. 1911. without caving a will.
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    MANILANS FACE RICE SHORTAGE
    76 9 MANILA. Friday. The acute rice shortage is already I being felt oy .viandans and usually reliable sources said government stocks on hand and shipments expected immediately from aboard will be sufficient only for five weeks of rationing. Shipments from Siam, Burma and Ecuador are expected. There
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    CZECH VICE-PREMIER AND FAMILY ESCAPE
    43 9 CZECH VICE-PREMIER AND FAMILY ESCAPE LONDON. Friday. pr. Jaroslav Stransky, former Czechoslovak Vice-Premier an Minister of Education, arrive*, m London today, after escaping from Czechoslovakia. He was Minister of Justice m the wartime London cabinet. His wife and daughter arrived with him- Reuter
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    JAP RAILWAY STRIKE
    59 9 JAP RAILWAY STRI KE Tokio. Saturday. More t.in 1 1.000 Government railway workers are expected to leave their jobs m Hokkaido, the Japanese press reported today. The Transportation Ministry has ordered all striking railway workers to return to their josts by 6 p.m. today. If they rail to do so.
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    1547 11  -  NORGROVE THURLEY *TODAY'S SHORT STORY BY -,-*i<" L I F a and nail I > n(l I m r* tat, X" pogntfd ia f >r tii, wr-Mttl n;t; tor N,exican maTm*****™ SVSS mmi her doubts _n->'. mam sa" „,,..>, Gallon traISS *Kn c~* tin* *gax down and
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    99 11 RAPID CITY. A r force rfletola reported L 2«.» c.ash- 1 and I j ih.j just ai^-i taking f. oa ti routine training flight T'ling II men a crew of 11 lus LltaE Amot'.'e MMM who .ere ,)a.-- f gtn. Oflfeeri viid the big piano dipped
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    97 11 SHANGHAI S h a n g- hai business remained at a standstill for the second successive day today, with all banks and share and commodity markets closed. According to economists, the real test of the new currency regulations will be the Government's Piiort to freeze price
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    JAP STRIKERS ARRESTED
    94 11 TOK.O, Sunday. The Japanese Government lighting to enforce its authority under pressure from Mac Arthurs Headquarters has ordered wholesale arrests and dismissal of government railway workers, who are 'striking m defiance of the Mac Arthur— inspired No Strike edict. But walkouts and transportj ations tie-ups m the
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    84 11 TOKIO. Sunday. The Attorney General's office has ordered the immediate disbanding 1 of the Nihon Tengu (Japan Heavenly Dogs Party) as an organisation approving violence and engaging In blackmail. Informed mythologists said "tengu'' is a lorig-nosed goblin with supernatural physical prowess. Founded m December, 1945, the organisation has
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    339 12 Ocacvs. Fridm9 a. P Pavlor, Soviet delegate to Urn fi Kconomic and fcociai Council, charged today that ta the Soviot refused I o let its women married to foreign*!- leave their homeland because they were being UMd as agents by a 'foreign Kiwei". Pavlov
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    83 12 BOLTON. Saturday. Mrs. Emma Taylor 74. of Georgina St.. Bolton, was killed when a Lancashire United Transport double decker bus skidded on a wet road and overturned at Saint Molens Road. Baubhill. on Saturday afternoon after the driver had tried to avoid her. Twenty seven persons
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    34 12 MUNICH. Friday.— The Air Force announced today that S3 F-80 jet planes, which recently arrived m Scotland from the United States, had been reassembled and flown to Furstenfeldbruck airbase, near here.
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    21 12 NEW YORK. Sunday. Emery Both. 77. world famous architect who designed New York's Rit-7 Tr>___ *UW„i „;„.i today. U.P.
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    116 12 "CANNIBALS TO FIGHT LIBERATORS"— PRAVDA MOSCOW. Saturday. P.avda. organ of fki viunist Party, today accused the British G er*m£mt munitit Party, on Fridtiy, ac nilxih fa >),. liberation of oppressed people." m Iffliaya ,f f e "The "cannibals" were tie Borne., i-^p, in# i<Ae<f m jungle war MMMM st Mnhiij'in
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    36 12 Tokio. Saturday. Hisato Ichimada, Governor of tht Bank of Japan, today said Iv doubted that China's currency reform would prove commercially successful because of China's low Droduction and the civil war. Reuter
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    37 12 FRANCH GOVT. FACE LABO UR PROBLEMS PARIS. The thre-week-old _overnment of An< Marie today faced gmt m labour problems when l French nor. -Communist Tn Union Federation* ;,anoun( that they would no jd co-operati with ment.- U.P.
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      97 13 Co -Op's "Cent Conscious" Campaign The Singapore Co-operative Stores Society is launching a "cent conscious" campaign m connection with its special sales fortnight commencing today. Co-op prices will be adjusted so that the one-cent coins will be used. In this respect the Treasury has been helpful m supplying the necessary
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      797 13 (From A Market Corr.) Malayan markets were generally steady and on moderate quotations improved over the week. Operators would appear to have become inured to the vagaries of daily conflicting reports on Berlin and to be decided to take the long view m assessing
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      BELGIUM TRADE WITH MALAYA TOPS BENELUX COUNTRIES
      339 13 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Trade with Belgium has increased during the last quarter of 1947 compared with any of the other Benelux countries. The value of the Trade with the Benelux countries last year was about two and a half per cent, of the
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    HEAVY RAIN GREETS START OF ENGLISH SOCCER
    710 14 Manchester United Surprisingly Beaten LONDON, Sundav.--liistead <>• the brilliant mjh sliiii»« .mil hone-hard grounds which h.»s usually asso-rif-tod with ihe start of the football IWWI the English League programme began on Saturday under \;»st?v different conditions. Heavy mm Interfered writ i the standard
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    795 14 Onu Poh Lim ol Kramer and Neavt* Sp.n-ts < luh \va«» m top f.-nn M-strrda\. when lo defeated Wong Chong Teck (May lh»wer> li 15, 15 K. 15—7 m one of the .Men* Open Singles lis «,l th.- Singapore Badminton < haiupioiudiips played
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    90 14 CITIZENSHIP EXCHANGE PROPOSAL The HAGUE. Saturday. The International Bar Association, ntteGing here today proposed that British Commonwealth citizenship b^' made available to sitizens ot countries outside the Empiie^ onu a reciprocal basis. The Association suggested that arrangements for equal eitiztnship rights could b° made mi n the tirst place between
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    14 14 SOCCER VICTORY FOR INDIANS <■•■"' J I Buy i s! lor, (,•<>, m point. nJ Reuter
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    24 14 '1 he cricket .-natch was to have been pl« tween the Indian Asm and the R* F:!r E« Tangiln yesterdaj IU^"M ground un:. j
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    173 14 1950 ASIATIC GAME IN CHINA OR P. I. NEW YORK. SUNDAY.- The Philippine Olympic delegation, getting its first real relaxation lere since the London games, a looking forward to the comDetition m the projected 1950 punen under the sponsorship af the Asiatic Amateur Athle:ic Association. Officials accompanying the lelegation. Ralph
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    465 15 ENGLAND VIRTUALLY "MURDERED" BY AUSTRALIANS IU of ViutnimNo icason For Defeat A motiest always follows a 1XUDON, llJa >7C, a strong term to apply to £»d while ">^* players were Ste a game M c«*« Au tra la ns in the Test uailv "murdered ta '1* mo ession of wins
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    115 15 13 NEW RECORDS AT INDO-CEYLONESE ATHLETIC MEET KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. Thirteen of the records set up at last year's meet were smashed today at the Indo-Ceylonese Athletic Sports held here. Perak won the State Championship with a total of 31 points, then came Selangor with 30. Kedah 8. Singapore 4.
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    37 15 SCARBOROUGH. Sunday. F. Kukuljevie, India, won the men's single, title of the North of England ttnnis championships here °n a_ turday defeating G. D. Ool*ley. Britain. 6-3. 6-4. m the ftnal Reuter
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    489 15 PENANG, Sunday.— The Combined Colleges, Singapore, scored a grand Innings and 6S-run victory over Penang Crlcke4 Association m a two day cricket match played at Victoria Grren. The game concluded one Itoar before lunch tfene today. Outstanding feature of the game was the
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    319 15 In a cricket match played between Ram Piara's XI and Dharamaraj's XI at St. George's Road yesterday the latter team were saved by time when defeat appeared a foregone conclusion for them. Ram Piara's XI declared at the score 141 for 9, the captain j
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    CUP FOR WINNERS
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    133 15 London, Sunday. Widespread rain affected every county cricket match at some time or other on Saturday and play was severely curtailed. At Taunton no play was possible between Somerset and Yorkshire. At Bournemouth, Hampshire vs Glamorgan. Glamoigan seven i or zero. At Manchester. I Lancashire vs
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    58 15 Bombay, Sunday. hoiiy Korean athletes who participated m the Olympic Games passed through Bombay today enroute to Hongkong by a Norwegian Skymaster plane. Dr. Han Pun Chung, chief of the Korean Olympic athletic team, said owing to unfavourable weather and "too obvious partiality by referees" the Koreans did
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    28 15 The Cable and Wireless Sports Club defeated the G.3.C. Sports Club by five games to three m i friendly badminton encounter played yesterday at the Chinese V.M.C.A. court.
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    65 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. Three Justices of the Pt ace were appointed by H.H. the oulran or Kedah on the occasion of his birthday. Tiny are: Mr. R. Hey wood, Tuan Syed Mohamed Id id and Towkay Tan Eng Soo. This was the first time
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    65 16 Rone-rille, Georgia Sunday. Two hooded Klti Klux Klansmen rode blanketed hoi_e*a around i burning 10-foot high cros.« i last Light U Dr. Samuel Green, Grand Dragon of the Kian. warned that the South would nt ver permit the equality or' White? and Negroes. The Grand
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    40 16 TEL AVIV, Sunday.—Members of the Soviet Mission to Israel walked out on the performance of "Thais" at the Hebrew national opera on Saturday night because the Star Sprangl"d banner was played but not the Russian national anthem U.P.
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    27 16 ATHENS. Sunday. The historic Gorgopotamos bridge. fclown UP m October 1942 a^ the first, major sabotage of (World War II was formally reopened today. U.P.
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    29 16 TRIPOLI, Sunday- Eitf.-t n American Air Fore- Thun I boit.s were engaged In a q shooting m tnocuvrei m an un-gpecitw'-l socrot zone of the Mediterranean. U.P.
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    54 16 GENEVA, Sunday Eight new countries are interested m joining new tariff lowering negotiations with the 21 nations who las t year signed the general agreement on tariffs and trade m Geneva, it was announced here today. They aacr c Denmark, th e Dominican Reepublic, Finland. Greece. Haiti, Italy.
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    32 16 WASHINGTON Sunday At, least four Navy men were reported missing early today In -plosion and Itre prhic. la_t nifh t ripped through the Navj i r ie at Guar: U.P.
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    113 16 ST^ LOUIS. Saturday i( M|IS L X g^ mz,d his "Christian Nationalist V^f the £2, 'Vxery intent African taew, ft* JT T? pr..bie,» and a Negrs probl*. end c Mm^robtem wi«__ s our b< rd»-rs. I Th,* former Isolationist AntiBritish, a n
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    62 16 ATHENS, Sunday. The War Minister, Georges Stratos, told importers to-iay "The Grammos battle is substantially at an end." The nation had been liberated from the danger of guerillas 'thanks to the success of the National Army." he declared. Order would be restored m the
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