The Straits Times, 8 March 1946
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Title Section18 1946-03-08 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER— ESTABLISHED 1845 FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1948, PRICE 10 CENTS18 words
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611 1946-03-08 1 'Share Food By Eating Less Truman Tells Americans LONDON, Mar. 6. As India's war a gainst famine entered a new phase today with imminence of committal of her armed forces into the fight, tighten the belt appeals are sweeping from corner to corn er611 words
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Article82 1946-03-08 1 PARIS, Mar. 6:— Thir.y-two Trotskyists, including three Britons and one Palestinian, were arrested yesterday at a public meeting held by the Trsach section of the Fourth International m Paris, it was rrpor rcl tcr'ay. A statement issued by *he police =-ad the men, whoReuter - 82 words
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50 1946-03-08 1 LONDON, Mar. 5:— The birth of a son to the wife of Major Francis Hymphreys Is announced tcday Mrs. Humphreys Is the eldest daughter of Vic— -nv Fi^ld M*r.«h«l Lord Wave'l. Major and Mrs. Humphreys already have one son, born In 1944— ReuterReuter - 50 words
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Article130 1946-03-08 1 Spy Ring In America WASHINGTON, Mar. T— Indications that the Canadian spy ring was operating also m the United States were given today by Chairman John S. Wood of the House of Representatives Un-American Affairs Committee who said his committee had uncovered a foreign spy ring seeking information at the130 words
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Article480 1946-03-08 1 Mobs attempted to loot grain shop? and ration offices in several districts in south India on Wednesday. At Conevcram, near Madras, police fought five looters, killing three. Police fired at lmtrrs in Choyyar and killed one. —UP. A series of long distance training flights like that ofReuter - 480 words
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Article211 1946-03-08 1 No Decision At Moscow On Persia MOSCOW. Mar. 7 —The Persian Premier, Ghavam Sultaneh, arranged his departure from Moscow today to give the Persian Government a report on his negotiations with Marshal Stalin and Foreign Commissar Molotov. Ghavam concluded the talks without reaching a formal agreement on any of the211 words
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211 1946-03-08 1 Bomb Incidents In Barcelona Madrid MADRID. Mar. Taree bom'o explosions, two m Barcelona and one m Madrid, and a guerilla gun battle near the French frontier were reported today as the United States Embassy contemplated a new protest to the Spanish government against what it considered a distorted and ■wilfullyReuter - 211 words
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502 1946-03-08 1 WASHINGTON, Mar. 6:— India and Argentina were mentioned as the countries who might give credit to Britain to finance the sale of their products when Mr. William Clayton, United Statrs Assistant Secretary of State m charge of economic affairs, today supported the proposed £1,100.000,000Reuter - 502 words
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104 1946-03-08 1 British Woman Is Wounded In Terrorist At tack JERUSALEM. Mar. 6.-A British woman welfare w( rker was seriously wounded m the abdomen during Jewish attacks at Sarafand today. A few hours after the arrival m Palest:re of the Anglo-Ameri-can mission of inouiry into the Palestine question Jewish terrorists wearing FrHi'hReuter - 104 words
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Article103 1946-03-08 1 Sjahrir Calls On Clark-Kerr BATAVIA. Mar 8 Sutan Sjahrir, Indonesian 'Premier." called on Sir Archibald Clar'--Kcrr, Britain'! Special E -voy m Java, today and reported on the recent meeting of the Indonesian Central Committee. Dutch sources reported. The meeting. S.iahrir stated, gave him f ull responsibility for negotiating with theReuter - 103 words
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102 1946-03-08 1 AUCKLAND, Mar. 6:— Lord Winster. British Minister of Ci\M Aviation, I and Lord Knollys. Chairman of British Overseas Airways, left Auckland for Sydney today after attending the i South Pacific Air Conf>rfiicc In New Zealand. Before leaving Lord W-i.strr said: "The object of the cnmVrenceReuter - 102 words
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Article150 1946-03-08 1 3 Cents To Jap Guilder N.E.I. Exchange Kate Fixed The revised currency system In the Netherlands East Indies, announced in a proclamation by the Allied Forces' Commander in the N.E.I., Lt.-Gen. Sir Montagu Stopford, took effect yesterday. As a first step towards eliminating the Japanese occupation I currency, the Japanese150 words
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Article100 1946-03-08 1 Haiphong Incident Statement PARIS, Mar. 7.— The first French official statement on the incident at Haiphong issued early today said that French battleships arrived there yesterday and were engaged by Chinese batteries. After half-an-hcur's firing the order was riven to the French, who had already suffered losses, to fire back.Reuter - 100 words
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Article38 1946-03-08 1 HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 7.— Oona O'Neil, daughter of the famous playwr'sr Fugene O'Nei! and wife of screen aotor Charlie j Chaplin, pave birth to a boy tnI day at St. John's hospital In Santa Monica.— UP.UP - 38 words
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Advertisement31 1946-03-08 1 p^FRASER MAVEssji SERVICE L f CiJ GIVE GENEROUSLY a THE MALAYA WELFARE FUND DONATIONS TO:-MAJOR-GENERAL HONE, PRESIDENT, MALAYA WELFARE FUND, H.Q., DM. A. (M), KUALA LUMPUR. SPACE DONATED BY FRASFR NEAVE.31 words
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774 1946-03-08 2 The Straits Times Singapore, Friday. March 8, 1946. 'As Generous As Possible' Questions asked m the House of Commons recently, m regard to the treatment of people outside Government service who were m captivity throughout the Japanese; occupation of Malaya, produced little by way of elucidation of a mos unsatisfactory774 words
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1086 1946-03-08 2 J. L. Garvin - J. L. Garvin By Far-reaching issues bo.h of policy and practice wer- involved m the debate on the food crisis m the House of Commons recently. It marked a grave momem m the relations between the Labour Government and popular feeling. Mr. Attlets Government1,086 words
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Article488 1946-03-08 2 Straits Tiir.es C'^rr: LONDON. Feb. 16. (By Ai: Mail>— lt is Interesting that the selection of Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald to be the first Governor-General Malaya has pleased everyone m political circles here except a section of his own Party. This section cannot forgive Mr. Mac488 words
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Letter745 1946-03-08 2 I have been rerding the corr:*pondence on .he subject of nonEuropeans m naafi canteens. I should like to state my views, and I believe the official one. We m the army consider Eurasians as BORs for administrative 1 purposes. They live with the BORs. c?t with them. and.745 words
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Advertisement667 1946-03-08 2 LXM TAN The engagement was announced on 5.3 46 between Mr. Lim Chin Aik (Sunny) only sen of Mr. and Mrs. Lim Hock Saa and Miss Tan Glm Guat (Mary) eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Chwee Boon of Chop Ban Teck Seng. Up country papers please copy. PERSONAL667 words
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959 1946-03-08 3 MARKED DROP IN SINGAPORE COST OF LIVING "But Prices Still High/ Says Control Dept. While the cost of living m Singapore since Feb. 9, when it hit the peak following Chinese New Year buying, has dropped to one-third of what it was then, a survey being carried out by the959 words
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Article79 1946-03-08 3 A start has been made with the Sungei Buloh food production scheme. The project provides for the clearing and planting of 2,000 acres with Quirk-, Tnwinc food crops utilizing Japanese PoW. labour. Of this area, 200 acres are to be stumped by mechanical equipment,79 words
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Article125 1946-03-08 3 The issue and receipt of sea passage forms to India has been •topped from the Office of the Representative of the Government of India in Malaya, at 98 Robinson Road, Singapore, with Immediate effect until further notice, says a Press note issued by the Representative.125 words
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112 1946-03-08 3 While final arrangements are being completed for the first execution of Japanese war criminal In Singapore, the Straits Times learns that a BOR has volunteered to be the c»ecutloner, and that; the MMMMh wilf be heid in Changi gaol. It Is understood that112 words
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129 1946-03-08 3 Remarking that the Court did not think he possessed the weapon for an Innocent purpose and that he should therefore be "out of the way until better times come," Lieut. Col. G. C. H. Culley sentenced R. N. Tlndle. a demobbed Australian soldier, to a129 words
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Article81 1946-03-08 3 Deep gratitude for the hospitality received by Dutch evacuees on Singapore island was expressed by Lieut. Col. H Creutzberg. commanding officer of the Netherlands Indies Repatriation Service, when he received a large number of British military officers on Wednesday night m the public hall of Wllhtlmina Camp. The81 words
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466 1946-03-08 3 A conviction that Japan would never again wage war and an assurance that the Japanese were already repenting their misdeeds were expressed by Okada Kenji, Japanese defence counsel, in Singapore's War Crimes Court yesterday during the concluding stages of the trial of466 words
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Article25 1946-03-08 3 Postal agencies have been reestablished at Ketereh, dual Perlok, Rantau Panjpng and Wakaf Bharu (Kelcuuan), at Lambor Kan.ni and on Pangkor Island (Perak).25 words
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137 1946-03-08 3 As a measure to Improve conditions of service of daily-paid Government employees, the question of pay whilst absent from duty on account of sickness has been under consideration, says a B.M.A. (H.Q.) communique. At present only half pay Is admissible for such periods and137 words
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Article376 1946-03-08 3 GENERAL SENTENCED TO DEATH Unanimous sentences of death by hanging were passed by Lieut. Col. H. Teacock m Singapore s War Crimes Court yesterday on 53-year-old Major-General Sato Tamanori and 43-year-old Lieut Col. Tozawa Keizo. who were found guilty of being concerned ir the ill-treatment and Wing of 61 Burmese376 words
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Advertisement246 1946-03-08 3 JA P AJN pjPygU M mlm J_A PAN The Land *1 M I &Vj I I The Land ot ot Seer c c y! iSHHßfifiSfiyMHfiHM Terror! "GESTAPO" OUTWITTED AS NEVER BEFO^II! JAMES CACMEY's QQ ty UNITED ARTISTS' TRIUMPH N "BLOOD and ON BOLDNESS! fr THE SUN" Men «uch as Mr.246 words
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Advertisement572 1946-03-08 3 SfOKTINO RACEFORM tell* you race Dy race n< they lookeo tn the paddock, how they went In the betting and how they ail ran. The Idea) contact for overseas sportsman with racing tn England Weekly by Air Mall Pull particulars from RACEFORM 39 43. lattersea High BtreeU London SW 11572 words
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Advertisement249 1946-03-08 3 Former Policy Holders are invited to communicate direct with the Association, or wltn any of their representatives as listed below Rates for Motor, Fire. Workmen'! Compensation and Personal Accident Insurances on application Quotations may be oktc a from:\t alter Grenier A Co.. Ilign St.. X U I A iilrt Kk249 words
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390 1946-03-08 4 Creech-Jones' Denial In Commons LONDON, Mar. 6. No threat of deposition was used against the Sultan of Kedah during the recent negotiations with Malayan rulers for the Malayan Union, said the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Creech-Jones, m reply to a question m the House390 words
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Article166 1946-03-08 4 The Road Transport Department has instituted another check on all B.M.A. vehicles to ensure that the vehicles are being used solely In the interests of the B.M_A. A recent directive issued by the Department states that all CV and CEV numbers are cancelled. These numbers166 words
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209 1946-03-08 4 Straits Times Corr., tONDON, Mar. 8.—In a letter to The Times and the Daily Telegraph. Sir Richard Winstedt asks: If the Malaya.) Union is such a beneficent measure, as the sponsors claim, was there any reason for a democratic pow«" to deny the n!tn time209 words
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219 1946-03-08 4 People acquiring Malayan Union citizenship m the future will not thereby becon-.c British subjects though they will be British-protected persona, said Mr. Creech Jones, Under-Secre-tary for the Colonies, m a Parliamentary answer today. Nobody m Malaya, however, who was previously a British subject, will lose219 words
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250 1946-03-08 4 Battleships Not Failure In The War LONDON, Mar. 6.—The asscrfon that the atomic bomb v battleship experiment, which le to take place m the Pacific, had been boycotted by American a'om scientists because the bomb was nut jong to drop inside fhe ocean ("which, I take it, wou'ti succeed mReuter - 250 words
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Article124 1946-03-08 4 Red Cross Confab In Singapore A conrerenrc of all representatives of the International Red Cross will be held at Singapore on March 12 to discuss their work throughout Asia including relief mearurrs and the care of PoWs. Chief of all International Red Cross delegations, Mr. Frederic Siodet. left Hongkong yesterday124 words
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Article404 1946-03-08 4 Killearn Sees Pasha On R ioting CAIRO, Mar. 6.— Lord Killearn, retiring British Ambassador to Egypt, m an m erview lasting an hour, today discussed the recent anti-British riots m Cairo and Alexandria with Egyptian Prime Minister Ismail Sidky Pasha. Lord Killearn leaves Cairo this weekend to take up his404 words
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Advertisement139 1946-03-08 4 WANTED (a) Two thoroughly experienced and influential salesmen to handle imported sole agency lines of cosmetics, provisions, hardware, stationery, patent medicines etc. (b) An indenting salesman wlMi good connection... (c) An experienced man to manag; insurance department. (d) A general office cleric experience-! m import/export. Must be eood typist and139 words
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Advertisement358 1946-03-08 4 A Columbia Musical Extra- vSSSZte^ 1 1 a.m. vaganza with Eye-stunning d****s^ 215 Beauties Mounted on a Scale of |V %30 Grandeur and Magnificence rf^ 7od Hitherto Unattempted! i 30 DON AMECHE (The heart-throb of kr^. Singapore's Gentler Sex] B «t* r *~~s£^ JACK OAKIE M j& (Okays the show358 words
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Miscellaneous245 1946-03-08 4 SINGAPORE RADIO RED NETWORK from noon to 2 p.m. and 6 30 to 11 p.m. on 225 metres from noon to 2 p.m. on 4.815 mes/sec. in 61 metre band and from 7.45 to 9.30 p m. on 4 78 msc 'src. in 61 metre band Chinese noon to 1.15245 words
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