The Straits Times, 30 July 1946

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    20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY I-IGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    "PARIS TALKS ON THE WIDEST BASIS"
    635 1 Bidault, First President, Welcomes The Nations PARIS Monday. THE 21-nation Peace Conference was formally opened just after 4 p.m. this afternoon by the French Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, M. Geoi res Bidauit, who has been elected temporary President of the conference. Welcoming the
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    Officer's Dead Body Found In Singapore
    87 1 Officer's Dead Body Found In Singapore THE boay of a British Officer with a Major's crown on the shoulder straps wafound on Saturday lying in a patch of grass off Reformatory Road. Mystery surrounds the c.rcumstances of th e death of this unknown officer. Identification is difficult because of the
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    Bombay Postal-Clerks' Threat
    95 1 Bombay PostalClerks' Threat BOMBAY, Mon.— A complete deadlock in the efforts to end the 18-day-old postal strike followed the departure to Delhi today of the D rector-General of Posts and Telegraphs, Mr. Krishna Prasada. The strikers' leader. Mr V. G. Dalvi, said: 'The ctrike will continue perhaps with double vigour
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    MANY KILLED IN RAIL DISASTER
    39 1 LUCKNOW, Mon.— At *&M 23 people were killed and thirty were injured m a railway smash near Gorakhpur m the United Provinces late last night. A rescue train has left for the scene.— Reuter.
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    INDIA DECLARES
    42 1 BRIGHTON, Mon.— The Indian cricket tourists, who are meeting Sussex her&, declared this morning at their Saturday total of 533 for three wickets and at the lunch interval Sussex had scored 106 for one. Latest score 177 for 3- -Reuter.
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    ZIONISTS DEMAND "END THE AGENCY"
    326 1 LONDON, Monday. A POSSIBLE new struggle for supremacy in Palesn tine between divergent Zionist groups appeared likely today when the spokesman for the New Zionist Organisation called for a dissolution of the Jewish Agency. Meanwhile Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organisation and
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    Chinese Troops For Japan
    63 1 HONG KONG, Mon. THE first independent Chinese regiment to be sent to Japan tor occupation duties is scheduled to leave here today. The liberty ship Nicholas J. Sinnott is at present load ins supplies and equipment. The unit which contains 2,700 men and 40 vehicles is
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    Love Story In A Dance
    26 1 The love story of Rama and Sita taken from the Siamese poem, "Ramayana, as danced by the famous dancers of Bangkok.
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    U.S. SYNTHETIC AND SECURITY
    257 1 WASHINGTON, Monday. ESTABLISHMENT of a G national supervisory body to ensure the maintenance of a strong synthetic rubber industry that could meet the demands of either war or peace was urged today by the Government's Emergency Rubber Policy Committee. In a 13,000-word report submitted to Congress
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    Synthetic To Be Short
    72 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. TRAIN and alcohol shortages have forced the American Government to restore controls over synthetic rubber which were removed just after V-J Day. The limitation imposed by the Civil Production Administration prohibits tyre and other manufacturers from accepting any general purpose syntJutic without pr or
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    MUSLIM LEAGUE REJECT PLANS FOR INDIA
    663 1 MUSLIM LEAGUE REJECT PLANS FOR INDIA BOMBAY, Monday. THE Ail-India Muslim League Council today decided on withdrawing acceptance of the British Cabinet Mission's short and long term proposals for India. The council also passed a resolution in favour of "direct action" authorising their President, Mr. Jinnah, to take such steps
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    JAPS LOOTED FOREIGN EMBASSIES
    401 2 Revelations Of "Rape Of Nanking' 9 TOKIO, Monday. JAPANESE soldiers during; the "rape of Nanking" in 1937 and 1938 had no respect for other nations, looting the American, British and German Embassies and Ambassadors' residences, Dr. Miner Bates, Prolessor of History in the University of Nanking,
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    ROCKET POWER UNDER THE SEA
    123 2 SHARON, PENNSYLVANIA, Mon. Rocket power which scientists harnessed to propel planes and projectiles through the air has now been adapted for use under the sea, the Westinghouse Electric Corporation has announced. A new aerial torpedo called a '■hydrobomb'' uses the thrust o: burning and expanding
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    U.S. FEARS FOR FOOD OUTLOOK
    229 2 WASHINGTON, Sunday. THE United States Department of Agriculture forecast an "uncomfortably low" world food supply for the 1946-47 crop year. In a report to President Truman's emergency famine committee, the department said crops would be larger than in 1945-46. but the increa.se would be largely
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    AUSTRALIA STOPS SHIP
    110 2 BATAVIA, Mon.-The Netherlands East Indies Government has approached the Australian Government regarding the alleged ndonesian "pirate ship -I which, with her crew, is said to be held by the Australian authorities at Thursday Island off the northern tip of Queensland. The ship, according to the Netherlands Naval
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    Europa Is Now The "Liberty"
    38 2 CHERBORG, Mon.— The formei German liner Europa, turned over to the French reparations commission, has been rechiistsned "Liberty." Shj will be reconditioned and will then start the Le Havre-Nsw York run. A. P.
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    Rivalries In Germany's First Elections
    289 2 LONDON, Monday. THE imminence of the first German local elections due in September in both the British and Russian zov.es and in October in Berlin is accelerating the pace of political competition for influence in Germany at the very moment when disagreement between the occupying
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    "ANTI-SOCIALIST FRONT" PROPOSED
    498 2 LONDON, Sun. A MOVE to form a combined anti-Socialist front to strengthen the force of the opposition to the Labour Government is being promoted by a number of Conservatives in Parliament, says Reuter's Political correspondent. The idea is believed already to have been the subject of conversation
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    Ships Within 950 Miles Of Pole
    79 2 WASHINGTON, Morx Three United States Navy ships have penetrated the Arctic circle icefields to w:thin 950 miles of the North Pole— the northernmost point reached by any large vessel at this time of year— th e Navy disclosed yesterday. The ships comprise a small
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    U.S. Press Barred From Korea
    84 2 SEOUL, Mon. Col.-Gen. I. Chistiakov, Commander of the Russian forces in North Korea, has notified Lt.-Gen. John Hodge, of the Un.ted States, that his request for permission to the American press to visit Russian-oc-cupied North Korea cannot be granted because of a "quarantine" in that
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    Churchill Keeps An Appointment
    49 2 Mr. Winston ChurchiM inspect ing a guard of honour daring his recent visit to Meti, where he went to keep an "appointment made with Gen. Giraud four years ago during the North African campaign. With Mr. Churchill is M. Robert Schumann. French Minister of Finance.
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    Another Typhoon
    59 2 TOKlO,— Mon —The Japanese Central Meteorological Observatory today issued a special warning that a typhoon of more than 100-miles an.hour velocity aceomoanifd by blinding rain, was approaching western Japan. The warning said the typhoon had already been plotted and that winds of more than 100 miles an hoar
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    De Gaulle On The Menace Of Germany
    160 2 FARIS, Monday. GEN. de Gaulle, wartime leader of Fiee France, yesterday urged the rapid conclusion of an Anglo-French alliance. The General was making his second political speech since resigning 83 France's interim President last January. Both Gen. de Gauile and the French Prime
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    HIROSHIMA TO CELEBRATE
    101 2 HIROSHIMA, Mon— On the anniversary of the world's first war atom blast on August 6. Hiroshima citizens will indulge in folk-dancing and in other forms of merriment vhich will form part of a three -day programme serving a dual purpose of commemorating the bomb Ticfms and celebrating
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    UNRRA To End Next Year
    111 2 WASHINGTON, Mon. Britain, Canada and the United States were stat c last night to have agreed to stand by their decision to end UNRRA alter the fixst quarter of 1947. The decision, which in effect reaffirms the policies of the nations from which UNRRA draws
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    TRUCE PACT IN MANCHURIA
    410 2 PEKING, Monday. THINESE Communist and Government representatives of the tn.ce headquarters at Changchun have accepted the American proposal to establish a 20-mih "no-man's-land" in Manchuria. The executive headquarters here announced that two ceasefire inspection teams would have jurisdiction over the vacated area, which would be along:
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    Bombed Ships Are Still Radioactive
    150 2 Bombed Ships Are Still Radioactive BIKINI LAGOON, Sun-ay. A TWO-HOUR tour of Bikini lagoon today showed continuing dangrai: radioactivity aboard all sewn shi^c in the Uiget area. As our small boat nenred the centre of the target fleet a sudden increase in th? dangerous rays was recorded. Several more days
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    Manila-Hong Kong Air Line
    60 2 Manila-Hong Kong Air Line HONG KONG, Mun.-A C-5\ Skymaster air-liner. wh :h arrived yesterday on a tcst-r.np preparatory to opening a new and regular Hong Boat-Manila air line, returned- to Manila todav. The route was declared practical the Commercial Airwav C(r.x> ition. The company \m stttet v o be entirely
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    99,847 Germans Moved
    29 2 PRAGUE. Mon.— The Czeehoslovd:: Foreign Minister. Mr. Jan Masaryl:, has announced that 99.847 Germans hay? b?en moved from Czechoslovakia nto Permnny since last January. -A P.
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      340 2 RAFFLES HOTEL TONIGHT BOHEMIANS CONCERT PARTY International Gypsy Music Sonj£s Chs-ical 6> Modern Also DANCE 9 p.m. to Midnight Admission $2.30. (Including TaxJ NOTICE No. 2. TO ALL GOVERNMENT LICENSED RICE ftETA&EtS. Notice is hereby gi\en to all members of the above m S.ns*P' all neighbouring Islands to register their
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    Government Fix Rates For, Lighterage
    341 3 Government Fix Rates For, Lighterage Decision Reached To 'Protect Public' IN spite of an agreement having been reached be- tween Singapore lightermen and the lighter owners, the Singapore Government has refused to sanction these increases in lighterage charges as these will devolve eventually on the public. The Singapore Government has,
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    Regular Dispatch Of Chicks
    58 3 ONE of Australia's leading rhicken hatcheries will soon bj in a regular despatch of davold chicks to Malaya by air fiom Sydney. The chicks will leave Sydney on Tuesdays and be in Singapore the following day. V. hite Leghorn, Black Orphing'.ons and Rhode Island Reds are
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    100 Japs Want To Remain In Singapore
    203 3 100 Japs Want To Remain In Singapore ABOTJ r 100 Japanes? civilians who were living in Singapore and on ths Malayan peninsula are today waiting in the> internment camp to hear whether they are to be allowed to 1 ve here again. Their applications for loral residence are now being
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    Appointments
    57 3 Miss I.D. Brown lo bo Matron f\a.%3 I; \iiss V.M.H. Patterson to he Matron General Hospital. Singapore: MIsj M. Ack3;s* to be Matron, Class II. Mi. R.M. Young acts as Senior Tnxpactor of Schools. Singapore, Mr. I- I. Sl:aw becomes acting Principal, Raffles Institution, Singapore. whila Professor W.E. Dyer
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    APPEAL IN B.N.B. CASE
    167 3 |UR K. P. K. Mencn. of Sing;. 1 pore, will leave for Labuan on Thursday morning to appear in an appeal against the death sentence imposed on Fara Singh, Sikh police sergeant in British North Borneo after his conviction on charge of shooting five Chinese guerillas
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    Muslim League, Kedah
    98 3 The Muslim Lea<rue. Kedah, g*ve a tea party at the Alor Star recently In honour ol Janab C. Mohamed. their outgoing president, prior to his de-j'i.-cure to India. Jnnab Mohamed Ja?*ar Din. the new president, read the address and Janab P. A. Md. Sultan, vice-president, gar- i
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    Compulsory Planting
    73 3 From Our Own TorresDondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Resident Commissioner. Kedah has ordered that the proprietor of any country land comprising an area of 100 acres or more shall within one month of July 16 cultivate or cause to be cultivated not less than two per cent, of
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    Driver Found Injured
    69 3 AT about 11.30 p.m. on July 2G, a male Tamil taxi-driver was found lying seriously injured at the side of the road on I.ronij Pill, Singapore. The taxi, which was a black Ford 8 hp. saloon. S?18S is missing. Will any person who uan give any information
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    Dance Floor Scuffle Ends In Court
    272 3 Dance Floor Scuffle Ends In Court A dance floor scuffle which developed into a fight outside a local cabaret had its sequel yesterday in the Second Police Court when Choo Sui Peck stood rharp. ed with fighting in a public place, escaping from the lawful apprehension of a Police officer,
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    Prosecution Seek Two Witnesses
    149 3 Prosecution Seek Two Witnesses iN adjournment of a prell- rninary inquiry till Aug. 9, was granted to the prosscution pending the appearance of iv/o important witnesses in a case in which Chua Ah Bee and Poh Kee Chuan faced a char?e or armed gang robbery, in the Third Police Court
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    INTER-SERVICES POLICE BALL
    63 3 THE Inter-Seruces Police in Singapore are hoding a ball in th? Victoria Memoria 1 Hall on F\i?. 9 to au«m:nt the furdi of the B?nevolcnt Fund of the three police services. Lieut.-Gen. Montagu Stopford, the Deputv Sunrems Allifd Comn"\nder, will be presen* amon? ot^er distinr".nshcfi peonle. Two
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    Pork Shortage Noticeable In Singapore
    311 3 Pork Shortage Noticeable In Singapore SINGAPORE is faced *;th ths prospect of a pork famine. A shortage has resulted from the recent decision of the Malayan Union Government to stop the export of pigs to Singapore. A pork famine is expected to follow, unless the Colony takes immediate steps to
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    Discussion On Income Tax
    78 3 On Wednesday evening *his week at 9.45, tne topic of the fortn ghtly discussion arranged by the Department of Broadcasting will be the urgent one of Income Tax. The three people taking part in the discussion Amat, Wong i nd Smith will be confronted by Mr.
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    AT WAR CRIMES TRIAL
    49 3 Lt.-Gen. S:r Montagu Stopford was present at tht conclusion of the A.nhon case on Saturday when six Japanese, including Lt.-Col. Anatti (above), were sentenced to death for atrocities committed m 1913 and 1944 at Ambon and Liang. 1.t. -Gen. Stopford is seen second from left.
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    B.O.A.C. Service To Hong Kong In Aug.
    266 3 B. O.A. C. Service To Hong Kong In Aug. rIERE is every prospect of inaugurating a B.O.A.C. flying boat shuttle service between Singapore, Bangkok :<nd Hongkong 'owards the third week in August. This has been realised as a result of a successful survey flight which has just been completed by
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    Coxswain Is Acquitted
    221 3 AFTER visitinlc Teios Aye: n Basin and seeing how a vessel manoeuvied into the positioo which resulted in a boy bein? crushed to dsath between two vessels on April 29, Mr. Paul Stcrr. the District Judge, yesterday acquitted the coxswain, Ahmad bin Karso, on a charge of
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    2 Japs To Die For Mentani Massacre
    223 3 2 Japs To Die For Mentani Massacre THE massacre of Mentanan! which brought to the dock au the War Crimes Court here Delore Lt. Col. R. L. le Gailais, Major N. S. Buins and Capt. T. Hassan, e.ght members of the Jesselton Kempei-tai, resuit?d yesterday in Se-jond Lt. Shlv/izu and
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    PENANG'S PRODUCE OFFICER
    101 3 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Mon. THE ir.ttntion of Government in st fC up lood production In Pen-i-.fj ,md Province Welles'ey s iatfkata! by the recent appo:: .nent rJ a local produce office l?UttPfVO!th. Mr A F. De Souza. the flKt r.old< r .>' this appointment, la*
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tuesday, July 30, 1946 The Indian And The Planter
    867 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Tuesday, July 30, 1946 The Indian And The Planter "It is admitted on all hands that the economic well-being of the various peoples of Malaya is dependent on the well-being of the rubber industry." So said an Indian correspondent in a letter which was given prominence
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    Synthetic Subsidies
    100 4 WASHINGTON, Sun. SUBSIDIES and the compulsory use of synthetic rubber were recommended by the U.S. Federal Interagency Policy Committee on Rubber as the best /ay ot preserving the U.S. synthet.c lubber indus ry for national defence and -eeping the U.S. economy relatively independent of the fore gn rubber
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    Huge P.I. Death-Roll
    75 4 WASHINGTON, Sun. ANEW estimate that a total of 142,067 Americans and Filipinos died as a result of war crimes was reported by Ass'stant War Department Secretary, M. Homer C. Petersen. The list is still growing. All but some 11.000 were killed m the Pacific theatre, and there
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    Peace in the Thames Valley on a summer morning
    2390 4 Our London Letter LONDON, July 20. COMEWHERE about seven v this morning we crept downstairs so's not to wake the other family who share the house with us and collected the papers. Over our spartan breakfast we read the headlines "Strachey
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      Ten Cigarettes: Ten Days In Gaol
      163 4 I AM sure I am not the only one of your readers who has been shocked to read the report published in the Straits Times under the headline "Three Policemen Take Woman From Dock." Here we are told that a Chinese woman has been
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      Chinese Retort
      61 4 I would like to ask your corres- pondent John Eber, (whom I assume to be a non-Chines?) what business it Is of his, to rc.mir.ent or. the Chinese Government's interest in the education cf Chinese in Malaya. We Chinese in Malaya are very rrratefi.il to the Chinese Government
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      Blaring Amid Traffic
      72 4 1-HE monotonous, ncn-stop loud-speaker music emanating from the Indian res:aurants in Cerangoon Road and Selegie Road since the reoccupation has becotre a public nuisance. This incessant blaring from loud-speakers, adding to the confusion caused by the congested, whirling vehicular and human traffic, has to be experienced to
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      Stepney And Katong
      227 4 I AM amazed to read in your paper that Mr. Piratin, Communist member for Mile End Division, Stepney, has asked a question in the House concerning the facilities ivovided for Service men by tue Singapore Swimming Club. Are we now to be denied all privileges and privacy?
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      For The Policeman
      78 4 I WAS surprised today, when buying apples from a hawker m Rochore Road, to see a small boy asking 10 cents from the hawker as tea-money for a policeman on duty there. I noticed the policeman was holding a bundle of notes m his hand. This Ls
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      At The Cenotaph
      132 4 IF one strolls along the path beside Connaught Drive in the evening, one invariably not ces people sitting or standing on the steps of the Cenotaph, or on the Cenotaph, or on the parapet at the rear of it, simply to rest and enjoy the sea-breeze. Well,
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      Bugs In Buses
      50 4 WHENEVER I happen to get a seat m a Singapore trolley-bus —which is not of ten—l am attacked by bugs. A spray of five per cent solution of D.D.T., or D.D.T. powder, would end this nuisance. There seems no excu.se for allowing it to continue. SCRATCHY. Singapore.
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    War Prisoners Protest To Government
    605 5 Appeal ToßeMude To Whitehall MEMBERS of the War Prisoners (Singapore) Asso- ciation at a meeting yesterday decided that as the Government of Singapore had refused any assistance m respect of their losses of property and personal effects, the Secretary of State for the Colonies should
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    Individuals Not Concern Of Govt.
    168 5 TN the memorandum of the meeting h«ld at Government House on Jt-lv 4. the following important statement of policy was made: "The Governor said that the principle of rehabilitation grants to certain imnortant indmtriea Fad had official apr o al but that the rei .iliil
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    Girl On Charge Of Extortion
    76 5 Girl On Charge Of Ex tort ion iRQE of c::tortins a cheque iOr $173 from a man was pre- erred against an IC-jear-cld Chinese 2irl. m the Second Police Court yesterday. It wr. allsged that Lhw Lee Lee, on July 27 at about 4 p.m dishonestly induced Loh Chai :c
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    Equal Pay For All Po Ws Urged
    164 5 Equal Pay For All Po Ws Urged THE Wai Prisoners (Sin-apore) Association yesterday decided j to petition Government that is i frc.n the dats of imprisonment i 'he rates of pay, allowances ano j pensions to all prisoners of wa: ho were members of the local Forces should be those
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    Major Rothwell Charged
    101 5 WILLIAM Henry Rothwell (40), a major in the R.E.M.E whose address was given as the Road Transport Department, Singapore, appeared in the Fiftn Police Court yesterday and claimed trial on three charges that on July 5, 12 and 19, he cheated and thereby dishonestly induced the Singapore
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    Pyke Allowances Only For Naval Base Labour
    275 5 THE Permanent Labour Committee (an official bod> brought into existence about 1937 to co-ordinati wages between the Services, Government and the Singapore Harbour Board) has decided that the Pykc Committee's recommendations should be applied to all employe** of the British Government m Singapore.
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    Rabaul Japs To Be Tried Here
    46 5 SYDNEY, Mon— Eleven Japanese officers arrived m Sydney today from Rabaul on their way to Singapore where they are to stand trial m connection with the massacre of troops of th Second Punjab Regiment m Malaya mi n 1942.— Renter.
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    Co-operative Stores On London Model
    132 5 Co-operative Stores On London Model IPPL1CATION has been n, made by the Singapore Co-operative Stores Society Ltd. (referred to in the Strait? Times of July 25) to the Colonial Secretary, inquiring what steps should be taken to register the society as there is now no Registrar of Cooperative Societies in
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    Driving Licences
    61 5 AFTER Aug. 1, driving licences and renewals will be issuea by the Traffic Branch of the Police at Maxwell Road, Singapore, as was the case pre-war. Since the liberation driving licences and renewals were ssued by the Controller of Road Transport, Singapore, in Middle Road. All applicants for
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    CHARGE OF ABETTING BRIBERY
    114 5 CHARGE OF ABETTING BRIBERY A 39-year-old Chinese, Tan Chwee Leong, appeared before Mr. Paul storr in the First Pol ce Court yesterday and claimed trial to a charge that on July 27 he trespassed into the Rationing Office at V.ctoria School and remained there •for the purpose of abetting the
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    The Stage Club
    97 5 Mr. Norman C. Hall, secretary of the Stage Club, S ngapore, writes: To correct an erroneous impression which may have ariser. from today's edition of the Ptraits Times (July 29) I would like to point out tnat the arst Stage Club production to be presented to the
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    ON INSPECTION VISIT
    46 5 ON INSPECTION VISIT Air Marshal the Hon. Sir Ralph Cothrane, who is i.i Sin^ap .r>on an inspection visit shakes hands with Group-Capt. E. J. Cor bally, on hi? ar.ival at Chan si airfield. Air Marshal Sir George Pirie, A.O. C-in-C, is seen behind Air Marshal Cochrane.
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    Jap Admits He Shot Malay
    640 5 THE story of how he shot a 1 Malay who, he said, was about to attack him, was told to a War Crimes tribunal in Singapore yesterday, by Okuda Naotake, a Japanese, who said that two Malays demanded $500,000 from him as I the price
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    Govt. Asked To Meet Civil Liability
    353 5 GOVERNMENT is to be asked by the War Prisoners U (Singapore) Association to appoint civil liability tribunals to receive applications and make awards according to the law of the Colony. The Committee of the Association was yesterday instructed and empowered to do all it
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    Teak Imports From Siam
    112 5 IT was announced in S'ngapore yesterday that teak ca>> now be imported to Singa. pore from Siam through ordinary commercial cfianmls. Local firms wishing to import teak are requested to aoplv to the Registrar of Imports and Exports for the necessary import permits. The great scarcity
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    IMMIGRANT LABOUR FROM CHINA
    279 5 IMMIGRANT LABOUR FROM CHINA THE Chine.se Government na-« formulated no policy with regard to the emigration of Chinese labour to Malaya, said Dr. Choh-Mirg Li. Deputy DirectorGeneral of the Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, in an interview in Singapore yesterday. Dr. Li who was on his way to attend
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    COURT-MARTIAL OF PARATROOPERS
    25 5 The court.martial of th#» 267 members of 13 Parachute Battalion accused of mutiny is expected to start on August 15 at Kluang.
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      170 6 Noodles Are The Latest Racket ABUSES have crept into the sale of noodles. It is a well-known fact thai certain noodle manufacturers ace selling only a portion of their daily authorised quota at 17 cents a katty and keeping the balance for sale at 25 cents a katty, w'uch is
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      Pawnshop Delays
      93 6 BEFORE the Pacific War broke out many people had made deposits in pawnshops During the Japanese occupation some of them mad P withdrawals in banana currency. Some people still huve balances :'n the pawnshops, which they are now having difficulty in withdrawing. The pawnbrokers say that since Government
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      Pants At ALFSEA
      87 6 /IRE we, the civilian clerks A oi HQ., ALFSEA, numbering more than four hundred, entitled to any cloth distribution sponsored by the Government? Some of us go to work with shirts and trousers which are badly worn out and have been patched until they cannot i-.p mended
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      Collyer Quay Park
      147 6 Co llyer Quay Park ON the west side of Clifford Pier a piece of ground has recently been enclosed with barbed wire. lhree days ago a notice board reading MILITARY CAR PARK was put up near the entrance, and a Military Police sentry posted there. For thr last three days.
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      342 6 NOTICE. <<ni ITT il»y>> DD AMA A substantial reward will be paid DLUL AKK BKAIIU for the return of the COMMON SEALS and. valuable documents relating to c the business of the following ComHighly Concentrated Soluble panics— P— rnrf- for \emtod Water Borneo Motors Limited. licences. tor Aerated water Motors
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      867 6 SALE BY TENDER. 1. The Custodian ot Enemy Property, Malayan Union, will dispose ot plant and materials at Bungsar Paper Factory, Bungsar Road. Kuala Lumpur, by Public Tender. 2. Messrv Harper UUflllan St Co.. Ltd.. 15. Old Market Square. Kuala Lumpur, have been appointed as as agents to deal with
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      474 6 LET THE COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE CO.. r D~ HASUUL VOUK INSURANCES Beh. Offtt (Commercial Union Rld^ Rohinson Kd.. SINGAPORE. Manager's Phone: 5079 Office Phone: 6944. Sub-Beh. Oft: Hongkong ftmk! Chambers IP9H. MJjZzekieU Svny, Cstat>usr<ed m 1916. OPTOMETRISTS ft OPTISIM3 13. Battery Road. Singapore. ALL the PRE-WAR Qualities and Grades For
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      453 6 RADIO PROGRAMMES DHTM<"1 lUTltT IIVII ENGLISH i p.m to t :.m (news JULY 30 nnUXU l*lt\Lit\ X t\ at 130 p.m) end 9 15 o in to >1 p.m 7.30 a.m. Radio Newsreel. 7.45 Ktu nltwork from noon ta exrept on S-ir.cmys when afternoon a.m. Music Hull. 8.30 a.m. News.
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    CHALLENGE TO 'QUEEN MARY' FOR BLUERIBAND
    315 7 CHALLENGE TO 'QUEEN MARY' FOR BLUERIBAND America To Build Luxury Liner For Atlantic IONDON (By Air Mail)— Plans for £12,500,000 American "hush-hush" liner, designed to capture the Atlantic Blue Riband for the United States, have been disclosed in New York. This will make shipping history, as previously only France and
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    375,000 Out Of Work In May
    189 7 375,000 Out Of Work In May 1CCORDING to the Mini- stry of Labour returns there were 1.175,000 men andj women registered in May asj "not being in employment," i but only 375,000 of them were officially described as "unemployed," writes the News Chronicle correspondent. The Uher 800,000 were demobilised members
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    Enough Cotton
    77 7 Manchester, Monday.— The Board of Trade disclosure that over 50,000 tons of raw cotton are 1-cld by the Cotton Control Board hen and abroad confirms the trade view that no shortage of raw material is in sight. Available supplies are sufficient 'or two years for Lancashire mills. Although
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    Middle East Troops Missed This Treasure
    179 7 Middle East Troops Missed This Treasure IONDON, (By Air Mail.) L Allied soldiers who "scrounged" their way through the Middle East will be appalled to read of one treasure which thousands of them probably saw but which they all missed. It has now fallen into the hards of a piano
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    PITY POOR GERMANS
    179 7 A passionate appeal to the United Nations for merciful treatment of Germans was made by counsel f«r the youngest German, war leader on trial— 39- year ci<* Na-d Poet Baldur von Shirach i-'-the Nuremberg Court. 'You are the highest tribunal of our times," Dr. Fritz Sauter said.
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    Floating Debt Insupportable
    121 7 LONDON, Mon.— Writing on the sterling balances held m London the City Editor of the News Chronicle sal that, regardless of the U.S. loan, .Britain would have had to negotiate with her creditors for funding sterling balances because such a huge floating debt would be insupportable. The
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    Argentina Puts Up Prices
    68 7 President Peron, of the Argentine, announced that the cattle price agreement with Britain which expires on August 20 will not be renewed. He added: "Argentine steers will then be worth the same as North American steers— 34 each instead of fill. We will not enter negotiations
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    NEW USE FOR ATOMIC BOMB
    183 7 NEW USE FOR ATOMIC BOMB BRUSSELS, Mon. The possibility that an atomic explosion could be used to turn coal into diamonds was suggested by Prof. Joliot-Curie, son-in-law of Madame Eve Curie, at a conference of engineers in Brussels. He suggested drilling a tunnel Into the side of a granite mountain,
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    Plant To Produce Rubber Tyre
    50 7 Plant To Produce Rubber Tyre NEW YORK, Monday The Un.ted States Rubber Export Company, Ltd., has announced plans to establish a plant at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to manulacture rubber tyres, rubber footwear and other rubber articles. The company plans to spend about %1, 250,000 on the project.— A. P.
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    Ban On Church Of England Book
    62 7 Ban On Church Of England Book AMONG the books banned in the Eireann Censorship Board's latest black list is "The Threshold of Marriage,' published by the Church of England Moral Welfare Council. Other books listed include "Then and Now," by W. Somerset Maugham, "Private Angelo, by Eric Linilater. "The Trip
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    Birth Increase In Britain
    109 7 LONDON, Sunday.—Emergency plans are being laid by Britain's Ministry of Health to deal with a "steep" increase m the birth rate during the next few months. Local authorities have been warned to prepare for the "invasion" and local councils have confirmed that m London 8t least
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    28 7 Following a poll m favour of Sunday films at Teignmouth, Devon, the magistrates approved applications from the two cinemas provided children under 16 are not allowed to attend
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      183 7 NEW WORLD 23rd ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AUG. Ist. 2nd 3rd We offer FREE specially selected Variety Shows to our patrons m our BOXING ARENA. The programme consists of the following: items: Hawaiian Music, Kronchong Song.-; Vaudeville Hula Hula Dances, Magic, Acrobatic, Cycling, Balancing Juggling Acts, Comic Sketches m Malay Mandarin etc.
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      779 7 AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD LEASEHOLD SINGAPORE PROPERTIES To be held at The saleroom of Messr.. Cheon? Koon Seng Co, Ltd.. No. 10 Cbulia Street. On Wednesday. 31st July 1948. at Z 30 p.m Lot 1 Freehold land and house No. 165 Orchard Road, area 1236 sq. ft. Monthly rent
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      530 7 Mansfield Co., LJ. (Inrorpnrali-d In Singapore) BLUE FI'NNFL LINE Sailings to and from Un.tto Kingdom Benrinne» dur from I X 7th August Glenbeg Sails for IK 7th August McDon d r from l\K. Bth August Enrybates due from U.K. loth Augact Western Australia The shorted tea route it the cheapest
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      793 7 Merely by counting to IS the West led his partner's suit, and declarer in today's deal could South los* two tricks immediatehuve discovered that a certa.n i y East shifted to the trump plan of play could not succeed- jac k th« queen won. and South "V? he^*T ht h^*
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      CLAPHAM WINS OPEN 100 AT CHANGI
      623 8 SENIOR Air Staff Officers and W.A.A.F. were among the competitors at a well-attended Sports Meeting held by Headquarters Unit, Air Command, South East Asia, at Changi on Saturday. One of the high spots was the Veterans Race, won by Senior Equipment Staff Officer, Air
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      Return Soccer Postponed
      58 8 PIE return game of soccer between the Chinese Athletes and the Northamptonshire Regiment, scheduled to be played at Ja'an Besar stadium to-morrow, has been postponed to Wednesday, Aug. 7. On Snnday. Auk. It, the S.C.F.A. wilU meet the Northampton*. To-morrow, at the siaiinm, the preliminary h?ats m
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      LALL SINGH COMES OFF AS BOWLER
      448 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. ETNE hitting by Ee Yong, the for- mer Selangor player, and Nalliah and Appunl helped Perafc to beat Selangor by eight wickets over the weekend in the first inter-State cricket match played here since the re-occu-pation. On
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      JOHORE BAHRU BEAT B.O.D. XI
      135 8 PLAYING their last match before the Puasa month sets In, the Johore Bahru s)ccer team beat a Singapore B.O.D. team on the Istana padang by thrre-one on Saturday. Better combination, plus good feeding by the centre half, J. Bone, 1 enabled the home learn to
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      FRENCH TENNIS CONCLUDES
      112 8 PARIS. Sun. MARCEL Bernard and Yvon Petra won the French doubles tennis titie today, defeating the South Americans Enrique Morea and Francisco Segura. 7—5, 5—3. 0—6. 1—6, 10— In the final set the South Americans took an early lead, which Bernard and Petra finally managed to overcome
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      BOXING RESULTS
      63 8 l/'EEN fighting was witnessed at Sunday's junior boxing promotion at the Happy World Stadium. Results were: Little Loone outpointed Fighting Hassan; Boy Karlm outpointed Kid Caix»:ntier; Denis Anderson outpointed Boy Allen; Jeff Holmes outpointed Jimmy Boyes; Buddy Lai i k od Young Songol in the second round; Young
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      N'hamptons To Meet Seletar In Return
      310 8 N'hamptons To Meet Seletar In Return From Sgt. Slipper (Seletar) TJX5LLOWING Sunady's soccer match at Seletar. In which the R.A.F. (Seletar) provided the biggest surprise of the month by beating the Northamptonshire Regiment, division champions in Singapore, by two goals to nil, a return game will be played early next
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      Good Selangor Defence Foiled S'pore Rangers
      296 8 (Prom Our Own Correspondent) KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. CELANGOR Chinese managed to stave off defeat by putting up a irood defence when they met the Slrvipore Rangers m an exciting soccer match Mils evening on the T.P. C.A. ground. The match was contested m heavy
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      KEEN COMPETITION AT S.R.A. SHOOT
      446 8 FINE performances and keen competition among a large v number of members marked Sunday's Singapore Rifle Association shoot held at Mandai Range. Shooting at the 200 yards range was especially good, Sqdn. Leader T. E. Jones returning a score of 34 out of a possible
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      21 8 The R.AF. (Changi) team which lost four-one to the S.C.F.A m a game of soccer at Jalan Besar stadium on Sunday.
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      Penang Race Weights
      184 8 (Prom Our Own Correspondent) PENANO. Mon. WfEIGHTS for Saturday, the second W day O f the Penang races are as follows: Horses, Class 1. div. 1, 7 fan. Jesanne 11.4: The Elk J0. 2; Tepong 8.09; Krishna 8.05: The Pathan 8.02; Bull Tol 8.00. Horses, Class 1,
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