The Straits Times, 24 February 1946

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    17 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES lUL LEADISG SLSDAY M.Wsl'M'tk IS MALAYA SINGAPORE. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    GANDHI CONDEMNS MOB VIOLENCE
    247 1 "Unbecoming Example Set By Royal Indian Navy" rHM>\ A, Feb. 23. Mahatma Gandhi in a statement today appealed to the country to stop this thoughtless orgy of violence now going on in India.** ,-ihv m the Navy a. id v ring it la not lr. any
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    More Trouble In India Expected
    110 1 More Trouble In India Expected LONDON 1 I. ,',-The Prime .Minister, Mr dement I old tin- Hou^e ol Comiii us tljat British .ulhoritiex i i feat that there will m 'rouble there "before the >itu ..in -ta! ilised." 11 i> I. luitcv xv available in ll<> »l>u\ and Karachi he
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    RIN MUNITY ENDS, BUT CIVIL UNREST SPREADS
    640 1 this afternoon after rioters had set fire to a train at Dadar A mob in Bombay attacked the Sal- vatlon Army headquarters In the cen- tre of the city. Police opened fire and two persons were- killed outright and several injured. SERIOUS RIOTING
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    NEWS IN BRIEFS
    124 1 ■11 oi Ciffi. Chiang Kai- let Moscow to di th<- Manrhurtan problem— t" i> la purrhxse A. surplus of dried frui seasons U P -i rinuna; offence for a i imblne polit.ral activii Ins •iiiritual offi R '.ip.nes•j r ludlng msm Nisei who 1 citizenship toa\r mailed
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    Supremo To Tour N.Z. Australia
    64 1 WELLINGTON, Feb. 23:—Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, is due here on March 1. He will visit both islands of New Zer. lard Walter* Nash. Acting Prime Min'slev announced •in I Wellington today that the Admu.il wi'l hold discussions wi h the Gave nmcnt and Chifs v
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    Freak Baby In P.I.
    67 1 MANILA. Feb. 21.— The Manila Post Mates that a baby with two heads, four arms and four legs was born to a fanner's wu> last night In one of the outlying provinces. According to the doctor who examined the freak baby, the child apparently had two
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    Gen. Northcott in Japan
    21 1 TOKYO, Feb. 23.— Lieut. O«n. John Northcott, commander cf the British Commonwealth occupation forces, arrived today. UP.
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    "Malayans At Home
    681 1 Malayans who were interned in Changi and Sime Road, PoWs from .Malaya and Malayan* who have been in Britain during the last four years had a grand reunion at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, on Feb. 13. It was the finest re-union the Association of British Malaya
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    YAMASHITA'S LAST WORDS BEFORE EXECUTION
    346 1 YAMASHITA'S LAST WORDS BEFORE EXECUTION MANILA, Feb. 23.— YamaJiita, "the Tiger of Malaya." was hanged at two minutes after three o'clock on Saturday morning, Manila time. Yamashitas last words were. "I will pray for the Emperor's long life and his prosperity t i*ever." The former commander of Japanese troops in
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    Sourabaya Hooch Kills 2, Blinds 12
    48 1 British military police in Sourabaya have confiscated 3.000 gallons of poisoned liquor, which has caused the deaths of two lOR's. Twelve others have been blinded. Raiding an innocent looking bungalow in a residential district MP's found an illicit distillery. Dutch News Agency.
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    False Distress Signal Starts Ocean 'Rescue"
    203 1 COLOMBO. Feb. 23: False distress 'ignals believe 1 to have been l>y men of the Royal Indian Nivy before they went off strike sent Brin^i naval and merchant ships caCeylon port of Trlncomalee nulling to the "rescue." An SOS gave the posltioi. •i ships
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    49 2 Wont Peng Nam family thar.ic Rev Mm Joseph Lee and his ehunh Members. a»r.«or S J. Beattle and his stafl of the Singapore ImproveI j»t Captain Anand all relathru a- io p«IJ night visit. it lences at d wreaths the funeral of thf late Mr Wane Penc Nam.
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    MISCELLANY
    856 2 The Turning Point? In the week that has Just passed, there has been a lessening of the tension that has prevailed in Malaya for the past two or three months. There are still strikes in progress in various parts ->f the conutry, and furiher cases of lawlessness have been
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    SHANGHAI -A CHINESE PUZZLE
    1448 2 SHANGHAI SCENE By A Sunday Times Correspondent WHEN your RAF. Dakota, one of two or three planes a week to fly north from 'long Kong, circles ovei the airfield at Shanghai you look down on lane after lane of hundreds of parked American aircraft. It is
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    For to-day
    116 2 God. ,'ive us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands: Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of offict- cannot buy: Men who possess opinions and will: Men who have honour: men who will
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    Local Teachers Seek Better Status
    448 2 Local Teachers Seek Better Status Local teachers are honing for better salaries It i s expec ed that suggestions put l<uward at a teachers' meeting in Singapore will be included In a petition for a rcvisi n of .he present sala:y scheme II scheme seeks to rais? the mi i;il
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    NO EARLY END TO OUR PRESENT HARDSHIPS
    611 3 Brig Ne wboul t S ounds Note Of Warning The return of civil government will not mean on end to all our difficulties. These will continue and win have to be encountered by the same measures which are being employed today," warned Brigadier
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    Protest To Services
    67 3 Protest To Services authorities M issued a circular tc Chinese which. Kerron. n^apore. quite aware of the f. id made strong repre- the Service author*n the lubject. addiig: "You ran be assured that has begp taken and my view* •^eon represented to the >fcked vhal thes? views were Brig. McKerron
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    $1 a lb. Mutton Soon Likely
    94 3 About 4,009 live sheep for Malaya have left Austral a on board the Gorgon and are due to arrive next Tuesday. With the arrival of this consignment, it is expected that the price of mutton uill not exceed $1 a pound. Price control will
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    Naval Officer Acquitted Of Manslaughter
    247 3 Naval Officer Acquitted Of Manslaughter A British Naval Officer. Lt i Cdr Roy Walter Emmerson, Royal Indian Naval Reserve, was acquitted yesterday by a Naval Court Martial on a charge of mansL a^hter of a Chinese girl, Mary Leong. while driving a Jeep along Kallang Road at 3 a.m. on
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    London-Tokio Air Link
    263 3 A new air route to Tokio from i the U.K. via the Middle East, India. Indo-China, Hongkong and i Shanghai is proposed by British Overseas Airways. It will eventually link up with a "local" circular service connecting Manila, Sarawak. Singapore, Penang and Bangkok. Announcing this. Viscount Knollys,
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    14 3 The Centtal lire Biigade team s here sen in action in yesterday's fire-fighting comnftiticn.
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    Fire-Fighting Competition
    129 3 A large crowd yesterday saw two Singapore fire-brigade teams vie with each other in a 'fireflghting" competition staged the courtyard of the Central Fire Brigade station for the Watkins shield. The competition, which was between the Central ?nrf the Oeylang fire-brigade stations was won by the Central station
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    Order To Clear Court Gallery
    400 3 When Lin Ah Lian. Singapore representative of the Malayan Communist Party, entered the dock In the First Superior Court yesterday, about 40 Chinese schoolgirls In the public gallery sprang to attention and saluted him. at the same time shouting "Che Ching Ah Lian wheeled round
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      234 3 SINGAPOREANS! Don V Blame us if you have the 'Blues Here the greatest "Blue" chaser ever seen! COSTELLO with more Sarongs than you ran buy in High Street! COME AND LAUGH .COME AND ROCK Pfc^e I IN YOUR SEAT! Univ«r M iNH BUD ABBOTT LOU COSTELLO ggfjg 'PARDON MY SARONG'
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    Ex-Chindits Build Bailey Causeway
    480 4 Ex-Chindits have built two Bailey bridge extensions to the Causeway which joins Singapore to Johore. The 'Baileys" replace the Jap-built timber bridge which has linked the Singapore end of the causeway to the mainland since the fall of Singapore in February. 1942. These new bridges were
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    Calling Ml Radio Pupils
    69 4 Calling Ml Radio Pupils j!i now Rad :e anti -v'hool on the Air any Tuesday. Thursday and Saturdry--11 they iia\r uw. Thi c mines can he heard on tb( Kctvork (|n tin ol metr. band or on 200 metres Eac!: me i l se n~.r I tory and geuarr specially
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    football League For Singapore Urged
    514 4 There have been many suggestions from soccer (am following the proposals made in these columns last week that some sort of football league should be ■tartod in Singapore, and some of the soundest of these suggestions have been made by a well-known S tngapore state
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    Penang Race Results
    398 4 Penang Race Results T day's Penang race results are as follows: RACE 1 1. Cornsher. (8.10 1 Wahab; 2. Avant Tout (10.00, Che Meh; 3. Rumination (8.8) Ahmad. Time 1 mln 22 sees Tote $10; $6. f. Cash sweep: No. 14S $398. No 505 $199. No. 514 $110; Starters "$59
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      186 4 TODAY'S RADIO From Singapore RED NETWORK on 526 metres ana 61 metres from noon to t p.m. and CM p.m. to 11 p.m. Chines* noon to 1.15 pjn. (news to Hokklen at 1 pjn.; In Cantonese at 1.10 pjn.). and from 7 p.m. to 9 pm. (news In Cantonese at
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