The Straits Times, 9 March 1946

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER— ESTABLISHED 1845 FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 573 1 Under Secretary Begs For Malayan Co-operation LONDON, Mar. B.— The Brit/sh Government will not be deflected from its policy for a Malayan Union "to which they have given such careful consideration and of whose essential rights they are so confident," declared the Under Secretary for
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  • 121 1 LONDON, Mar. 3.—Diplomatic and political circles today proposed a new meeting between President Truman, Prime Minister Attlee and Marshal Stalin as the best method of settling increasing differences between Russia and the western democracies. The Daily Telegraph recommended the proposal m an cdi orial expressing grave concern
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  • 28 1 Two naval officers are ■Iwnf. believed killed, and a third is wounded following an ambush by Indonesian terrorists m Palembang. says a SEAC Headquarters announcement.
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  • 151 1 PARIS, Mar. B.— French casualties m the clash at Haiphong, principal port of Northern IndoChina when French warships arrived to land troops are now stated to be 20 dead and 40 wounded. The clash occurred when five French ships, led by
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  • 124 1 BATAVIA, Mar. 8. Sutan Shahrir, Indonesian "Prime Minister," foreshadowed, m an interview with the Press, that the Indonesians will submit a proposal to the British for a general •"tease Are" and the stop, page of all military movements during the forthcoming discussions between
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  • 384 1 LONDON. Mr. B:— Canada 111 to loan £281.000,000 to Great Britain to enable her to meet "serious problems which she has to fac? until she has had the opoortunity to restore her external income from losses and destruction caused by the war," Prime Minister Clement
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  • 284 1 Britain' s Non-intervention Policy In Spain LONDON, Mar. V.— The British Government, having expressed their detestation of the Franco Spanish regime, do not desire to become embroiled m Spanish affairs, declared Lord Jowitt, Lord Chancellor, when replying to a debate vii foreign affairs m the House of Lords tonight. They
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  • 253 1 LONDON. Mar Hn.un only has one battlesh.D under construction and has decided no to proceed with the building of four other battleships Lion. Trmeraire. Conqueror and Thunderer which were begun m 1938 and 1939. Announcing this when presenting the Navy estimates to the House of Commons
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  • 577 1 The United States has sent a vigorousu s note to Russia demanding the immediate withdrawal of all Red Army troops from Persia, it was revealed tonight, when the State Department made puhlic the text of the Armenian note to the Government of
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  • 968 2 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., March 9, 1946. Communism: Fact Fallacy Of the many "isms" that are curr&nt today, Communism is probably the most frequently used and certainly the most imperfectly understood. As originally i used, the term was almost synonymous with Socialism. Both conceptions cover a multitude of ideas
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  • 1482 2  -  Arthur Bryant B y I m the Observer I i "TheMen Who Gave Britain A Second Chance" Greatness is a much abused a word. But there is no other to describe the service wl:ich the c officers and men—and particularly the leaders —of our Regular t Forces
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    • 288 2 As a Singaporean whose mother and her people before her were born m the British Settlement of Malacca, I wish to have it on rw rd that I strongly ;.-'.test acalnst the disappearance of the colonial status of Malacca. The Malayan Union plan has been foisted upon the
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    • 46 2 It is very gratifying to kr.c.v that at last the law is soing to act and that the goverr.r/ent Is enforcing price r ntrol in certain essential foodstuffs. Unless energetic measures are taken in this direction, price control will become a Evce.— Bkay, Singapore.
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    • 80 2 I am surprised to learn that people at Home are agitating for payment of salari?s to employees of mercantile firms interned during the Jaoanose occupa'ion of Malaya What about the bosses'' of those mercantile firms? Before Government legislates regarding arrears of salary for internees, would it not
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    • 81 2 The Government appealed t« the citizens of Bombay "actively to co-operate with the suthoritiea m protecting the food supplies. The above is a quota ion from a local puper. In reading this aloud, the hearer would say that the adsorb "actively' rrodi!i°d the verb "appealed," but the invor
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    • 87 2 Before th? war, there was a rule that if a normal trained lady teacher attached to a Government school got married, she should be placed on a temporary basis on a fixed salary of SlOO per month, thus forfeiting the permanency of her situation and yearly increment
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    • 62 2 From Jan. 23 no night soil ser- vice has been carried out m certain areas of Serangoon Road. The public m the affected are* has sent complaints to the authorities concerned (even a regis.ered letter signed by 29 I householders) without any resull to date. Is it no:
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    • 67 2 Mr. Frank J. Shepherdson'g statement regarding clerks' activities on race days m the past is rather misleading and a stranger to these shores is apt to think that the clerks out here are nothing but gamblers incapable of honest work. The lack of a proper sense of proportion
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    • 30 2 The distribution of tinned meat last week was most welcome. But it is very uru.ii' that wimea should not be giver a :n::re Lionel de Rosario, Si'V.w >:c.
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    • 227 2 PRICE CONTROL PROCLAMATION SECTION 4 (I) (a) In exercise of the powers conferred by Section (4) (1) ta) of ttaa Price Control Proclamation and delegated to him by the Price Controller. the Deputy Price Controller. Singapore hereby fixes the maximum retail selling price of the vegetables specified in the 1r<rt
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  • 285 3 B. M. A. ANNO UNCES INTERIM PAYMENT Finnl payment of £950,406-95.-ld. has been made m respect of the 5,800,338 tons of tin contributed by Malaya to the 1938-1939 Tin Buffer Stock Scheme, which was wound up m 1942. 1 An interim payment
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  • 74 3 Straits Times Corr: PENANG, Mar. B—The8 The health authorities are takin? stringent measures to pre\ent a typhoid epidemic. Nearly r>o rases have so far been rcpirtcd to the General Ilosp'tal but many more, including: several deaths, are believed to have broken out m the town. In
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  • 102 3 Crew Refuses To Sail With Malayan Evacuees A message that the Laxgs Bay crew at Bombay is "refusing to sail with Asiatic evacuees" for Malaya has been received by Mr. John Layccck, member of the Malayan evacuees* repatriation comi.ilttee. Ai a result, all evacuees booked for the Largs Bay will
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  • 187 3 New Cases Before War Crimes Court Beginning from Monday m Singapore's War Crimes Court, a further batch of 16 Japanese will be tri.^d before Lieut. Col. L. O. Coleman for alleged atrocities against Car Nicobar islanders between April and June last year. Chief accused will be Major-General 1 Itsuki Toshlo,
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  • 139 3 International Tin Committee Expected To Retire LONDON, Mar. 7—Behind c'.rxi^d doors, the International Tin Committee held its 87th c meeting today to put into final form recommendations to the various Governments regarding its continuance or otherwise. Its report to the member Govern- ments must be confidential, a committee spokesman told
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  • 88 3 Vitrrl. Miss Gertrude Owen, former general secretary of the Y.WC.A. In Singapore and Malaya, returned on Wednesday as an emissary of the world"s Y.W.C.A. Council, and will assist m the reconstruction of the Y.W.C.A. In Malaya. Miss Owen Is stay«ne at the YWC.A. m Fort Canning Road. Mrs.
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  • 49 3 Col. P. D. Mac Peat, Penang's popular 5.C.A.0.. is leaving on transfer shortly and his successor, it Is under.•tood. will be Mr. Norman Grice. M.C.S., who has already arrived m Penang. Mr. Grice was Protector of Chinese m 1939 until the outbreak of the war. t
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  • 268 3 New Outbreak Of Sino-Malay Troubles In Perak State Straits Times Corr: IPOH, Mar. 7.— Lieut. Col. R. N. V.alker -ccretary to the Advisory Council, I Perak, at a meeting held today, reported that Sino-Malay communal troubles have broken out afresh, and m the district of Kuala Kangsar, at a place
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  • 478 3 To check the heavy toll of livea i from road accidents In the last three months, there were 893 accidents resulting m 49 deaths and 251 injured, while In the ftrsc week of this month alone there were five deaths police authorities m
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  • 79 3 oingapore ponce nave detained for interrogation two Chinese, Lv Cheng, chairman of the Singapore General Labour Union and general secretary of the PanMalayan Labour Union, and Chu Chek, formerly a member of the Malayan People's An ti- Japanese Army. It is unders.ood from the Malayan
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  • 168 3 btraits Times Corr: KUANTAN, Mar. s— The highest honour paid to a European member of the Resistance Force m this district has been conferred posthumously on Mr. a. B. C. Baker, prewar manager of the Pahang Consolidated Co. Ltd., Sungei Lemblng, by his Chinese
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  • 406 4 MALAY A- WIDE PLANS TO COMBAT JUVENILE DELINQUENCY WELFARE COUNCIL'S APPEAL FOR FUNDS There is a great deal to be done throufchout the Peninsula and m Singapore for these unfortunate people. Without sufficient funds, the Malaya Welfare Council is powerless to help. Many generous donations from different sources have alrerdy
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  • 165 4 Straits Tunes Corr., SUREMBAN. Mar. 8 Three Chinese and a Malay, all masked, one of whom was armed with a pistol, entered the house of a vegetable gardener at Rahang a few days ago, and relieved him of $122 in cash. The Police took immediate action,
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  • 113 4 Straits Ti:nc.3 Corr: ALOR STAR Mar. 8.— Two Chinese were sentenced to three months' imprisonment and 46 others ordered to be of good behaviour for six montii.s and bound over in one sum of $500 in the District Court on a charge of -disobeying the lawfu'
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  • 310 4 Implementation of Salvation Army plans for the establishment of a boys 1 home in every principal centre in Malaya will be among the main concerns of Lieut-Col. John Wainwright, an expert in welfare work, who will take charge when Col. H. A. Lord, present chief, goes home
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  • 111 4 St Andrew's: 7. 8, 10.30. 5.30; St. Peters: 7 30. 10.30, 7.30; Garrison 8. 6 30: Christ Church: 8. 10.30. 5; St. Hilda's: S, 5 30; Good Shepherd: 6.15. 7. 8. 10. 5; Redemptorlst Chapel: 7, 8. 5; Salvation Army: 10, 3, 4; Red Shield 7, Christian Science
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  • 316 4 Malayan Union Proposal Again Criticized Straits Times Corr: LONDON, Feb. 16. (By Air Mail)— Sir Frank Swettenham, who has a'.ready adversely criticized the Malayan Un'on shrme, castigates the prpoea'3 a^ain in a letter to "Briti-h Malaya." Hp brein bv "iym r how anxiou* he is "that Britain's name for fc*epin;
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    • 382 4 Cricket On Sunday The following are invited to play cricket at Jalan Besar Stadium on Sunday at 11 a.m.: R. V. S. Sundrum. E. Barker, L. van Bennekom. J. C. Buckland. Cheong Thiam Siew, E. J. Doralsamy. Ibrahim Isa. Ong Chew Bee. K. S. Ratnam. Seah Keng Slew. Cecil Wong:
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