The Straits Times, 9 December 1945
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Title Section19 1945-12-09 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPhIJ xli MALAY A m SINGAPORE SUNDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1945 PRICK 19 CENTS.19 words
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459 1945-12-09 1 Better Understanding Hoped Between Great Powers The creation oi better understanding and the elimination of suspicions *t»tcn the 4freat powers are expected to result from the meeting of the Foreign vlirjister* of Britain, the lotted State* and Russia which will take place inReuter - 459 words
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Article104 1945-12-09 1 Agreement For Congress Wi.UM \S. LOAN HINGTON. Dec 8— Pre•id»n* Truman said he would send the AngJo-Arnwrlcai; financial agreement to CongTM* n> the near f'jtur* Asked abou* a loan agreement ths United States and Presdent said he did not know that the Ooviet Union Leading members of Congress trenuoiw opposli104 words
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Article61 1945-12-09 1 •>ON. Dec 8. A British note on the withdrawal of troops from Persia by Jan. 1 is belrg drafted and win be presented shortly Unofficial sources said that British Military leaders believed the withdrawal of "several thousand 1 British troops trom their sector i»l Persia by61 words
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30 1945-12-09 1 Samurai Swords Into Pruning Hooks NAOOYA. Dec B —Factories which formerly turned out Bunura! swords have begun production of "ploughshares and pruning hooks." It was disclosed liert 10-lay —United Prv«s30 words
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Article137 1945-12-09 1 U.S. POLICY IN CHINA OUTLINED WASHINGTON. Dec. B:— The U.S. State Secretary, Mr. James F. Byrnes yesterday told the Foreign Relations Committee that the charges of Major Gen Patrick J. Hurley, former Ambassador to China, that career diplomats wrecked the United States policy in China, were without foundation. The secretaryUP - 137 words
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Article121 1945-12-09 1 >TCW YORK. Dec. 7— The stock market today continued firm with rails developing strength to lead the list of new 15-year highs. Carriers buying Increased when Ne>w York Central hit a new high of 33. up one and a quarter. Gains of a point or more were121 words
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Article210 1945-12-09 1 TOEIO, Dec. B— Vive thousand peraots today jammed Kyoritta hall and shouted approval while speaker* charged that Emperor Hlrohlto wm Japan's number one war criminal. The meeting was sponsored or the Japan Communist Party and four other organization.-, which report as their chief purpose "the210 words
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Article20 1945-12-09 1 Chungking, Dec. 8.—Unconfirmed reports circulating nere yesterday stated that the Chinese nationalist troops were entering Mukden. —U.P.UP - 20 words
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Article51 1945-12-09 1 PRETORIA. Dec. B:— That the Witwatersrand goldmines may yield considerable quantities of ores containing uranium- -th" main constituent of the atomi bomb Is being investigated, says p statement issued today from the office of Field Marshal Jan Smuts. Prime Minister of the Union of South AfricaReuter - 51 words
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Article383 1945-12-09 1 HONGKONG. Dec. B:— South China, left In relative peace by the Japanese surrender. Is now, slowly recovering something oft!: peacetime way of Ufa, after seven years occupation and bloodshed. Reports from various centre? In the southern provinces and up and down the populous south em ChinaReuter - 383 words
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Article204 1945-12-09 1 Sarawak: Changes Ahead From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, T>ec. B.— The admission in the House of Commons In answer to questions on Dec. 5 of the Secretary of State for the Colonies that he was consulting Icajah Vyner Brooke on the subject of altering the pre-war constitutional position of Sarawak,204 words
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Article133 1945-12-09 1 WASHINGTON. Dec. 8:— TIM Pearl Harbour investigating committee yesterday received b letter General George Marshall wrote to Mr. Thomas Dewej. during the 1944 presidential campaign revealing that the Vtf tories at Midway and the Coral Sea were partially due to knowledge of the Japanese code. TheUP - 133 words
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Article693 1945-12-09 1 GENERAL BENNETT'S ORDER SYDNEY— "The perimeter will be held. Every man will stay at his post and nobody will leave". Lt.-General Gordon Bennett issued this order |t Singapore before lunch on Feb. 15, 1942. according to evidenc? given by Colonel J. A. Thyer, his seniorUP - 693 words
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Article671 1945-12-09 2 Opinion Safeguarding The Peace Even when the war appeared U be going favourably for the Axis Powers, there was much earneit discussion in Allied countries as to the procedure to be adopted to safeguard peace after the victory which no one doubted would b* won ultimately. Many schemes were put671 words
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Article131 1945-12-09 2 'From Our Own Correspondent London, Dec. 6— The Bell Telephone Laboratories have corf structed. primarily as an alj to the deaf, a device which, employing electronic tubes, makes spoken words visible in characters sllghtlv resembling shorthand, but with the difference that all characters ore broad and131 words
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Article981 1945-12-09 2 Special Correspondent Part They Played In Malaya 9 s Liberation This is the story of the Malay guerillas and of the part they played during the occupation of Malaya by the Japanese. It is a story thai has not been told before. Few know, for example, that they981 words
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Article, Illustration44 1945-12-09 2 Rockets were used by RAF Mo^uito. again., .the I«£ n tremtets in Java, when aircraft baaed at BaUvla blasted two Kad.o SUUoS at SoerakarU and Jogjakarta. Picture »how S personnel of 3'l» Serricing Commandos fltt ing rorkeU t« the Mosquito*.44 words
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924 1945-12-09 2 A WOMAN IN ENGLAND WHITES TO HER COOKIE IN SINGAPORE This is a letter from a woman in England to her cook in Singapore and it gives, in the clearest possible manner, the position of people in Britain today as compared with Malaya: Dear Cookie, I was very glad indeed924 words
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264 1945-12-09 3 Navy Relinquishes Dockyard Control \itally is it linked up with the reception of urgently required for the Services and the rehabilitation of Malaya, that the reconstruction of transit sheds in the Singapore Harbour Board area is •wing rushed with whatever available materials, even it the264 words
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Article, Illustration70 1945-12-09 3 Mr Eric Greenwood, former Pc nang Flying Club instructor, is shown in this picture with Group Captain Hugh Joseph Wilson wearing cap) who, flying a jet- propelled Meteor, established the world air record of *>*♦» m.pJi. Mr. Greenwood, who is now test pilot of the Gloster70 words
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479 1945-12-09 3 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN. Dec. s:— How two soldiers, believed to be Australians were alleged to have been shot in cold blood by two Malays attached to the Negri Sembilan Police, was related in the Supenor Court today, when Rauf bin Hajl Ahmad479 words
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Article50 1945-12-09 3 Ruses And Chassis For Malaya t rum Oar Own Correspoadent. COLOMBO, Dec. 7.— lt ss reported here that a consignment of buses and lorry chassis ordered by the Government Is not wanted by transport companirs in Ceylon, and there Is a likelihood of the consignment belt g diverted to Malaya50 words
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Article235 1945-12-09 3 If they return to work this corning, the 200 firemen, dr.vers and clerks of the Singapore Fire Brigade will receive increments of pay which they would have drawn I during the last 3' 2 years, and the authorities would be prepared to discuss with235 words
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Article240 1945-12-09 3 Military Control Still Exists 'The report that the British Military Administration of Hong Kong has ended is not correct. The position is exactly the same as it is here," Brigadier H. C. Willan, Acting Chief Civil Affairs Officer, Malaya, told the Sunday Times yesterday. Pointing to the240 words
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Article366 1945-12-09 3 Making good use of whatever chances their pack gave them on c sodden pitch, the Army beat the Navy 10 points (two tries and Pi drop goal) to nil at JaUn Be»ar yesterday in a charity rugby match. Two English Internationals In the Army366 words
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Article240 1945-12-09 3 From Our Own Correspondent COLOMBO, Dec 7. -Planters and administrative staffs for Malayan estates from Ceylon are bitterly complaining about the official slowness in getting them back to Malaya in view of the urgency to rehabilitate estates The procedure for their return is as follows: Prom240 words
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Article149 1945-12-09 3 Three hundred and sixty planters are on their way to Malaya but no advice is available as to when they will arrive. Brigadier H. C. Wlllan. aetlng Chief Civil Affairs Officer, Malaya, stated yesterday. No definite news has also been received regarding the return of149 words
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Article171 1945-12-09 3 At the first all-naval marriage since the reoccupatlon at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Singapore yesterday afternoon, Flag Officer Malaya, Rear Admiral J. A. V. Morse, CB., CBX., DJ3.0., gave the bride away, and the best ,man was Commander John Waterhouse, D.8.0., R.N., who has been during the past171 words
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Article, Illustration1863 1945-12-09 4 Gen. Percival Was "Irritated' Officer's Story At Inquiry Colonel Thyer said at the inquiry in Sydney that when he was captured by the Japanese at Singapore and interrogated he told them General Bennett had gone into action with his forward troops and. no doubt,1,863 words
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135 1945-12-09 4 TOKIO. Dec. B— Mr. Edwin Pauley, President Truman's personal representative to study Japan's ability to pay reparations disclosed today that he will deliver hL> interim report president personally. At a press conference. Mr Pauley said that .\e personally believed Japan could immediately pay the equivalentUP - 135 words
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Article75 1945-12-09 4 M ASS AC RE IN PERSIA TEHERAN, Dec. B.— Democrats shot two officers and 21 gendarmes on Wednesday at Sarab, it vas revealed yesterday. The Democrats entered t«e town, ordered a parade, then attacked the billets and arrested and disarmed the troops. Sorru of the troops were released after theirUP - 75 words
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Article125 1945-12-09 4 MELBOURNE, Dec. 7:— When the inquiry into the escape from Singapore of Gen. Gordon Bennett, was resumed today, Mr. Dovey, read what he drM-ribed as Gen. Bennett'* last despatch written on Feb. 14, 1942. "I can rely on my troops to hold to the last as usual.125 words
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