Indian Daily Mail, 23 August 1946

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  • 17 1 Indian Daily Mail Vol 11. No. Iti6 SINGAPORE. FRIDAY, A I 'GUST 23. 1916 PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 560 1 EARLIER MESSAGE REPORTED. Washington, Attff. 22.— The United States Government last nifcht delivered a 48-hour note to Yugoslavia demanding satisfaction tor the shooting down of United States planes. Dean Acheson. Acting United States Secretary of State, handed the note to the Yugoslav Charge
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  • 131 1 Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 21. Imports of rice substitute from Australia are likely to improve the food situation in Malaya, "here the population, whose staple diet is at present equivalent to one pint mug- of uncooked rice each week, are clamouring for more rood. It is
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  • 62 1 Cleveland, Ohio. Aug. 22.—General Electric Company officials today learned what became of the $20,000 worth of post-war plans expensively blueprinted on tine linen missing from the plant over a _wo-moiuh period. A charwoman who was employed about the time the plans started to disappear had taken them home
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  • 24 1 I New Delhi. Aus. 22— Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Congress President, met the Vi |*roy. Field Marshal LorO Wavell. at 11.00. loeal time, today. Reuter
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  • 444 1 FIVE INA MEN ON HUNGER STRIKE IN SINGAPORE Five men of the Indian National Army, including a Captain, a 2ndLieutenant, two Havildars and a Sepoy (all INA rank), are on hunger strike at the Transit Camp No. ft, Race Course, Singapore. In this letter to the Editor, they tell their
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  • 122 1 HILL TO SAFEGUARD TENANTS (From Our Own Correspondent) Madras, Aug 22.— A bill to prevent arbitrary eviction of tenants by landholders or middlemen and protect them from deprivation of their customary rights to grazing, fuel timber, etc., is contemplated by the Madras Ministry. The bill Is understood to be confined
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  • 281 1 r ENSIGN RISING R) Boiling Point I,"~7 V ,es Secre, «'> »f Ste«es .lames led to be read, to accept a failure of the ,f noccssju, (o >vi„ in the showdown with R. 11. Shackh.rd. United Press Staff
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  • 42 1 21. —A bill to in the Dutch members of not be sent to tst Indies ui hment has been subnake the article Pts mav not be lands East ln■id Curacao withou' pt by law.—
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  • 29 1 GERMAN PLAN FOR ECONOMIC ADMINISTRATION Aug. 21.— The dan ior the ion of the d American U) at a confer British, Ameriand Indusbe sent to the Governments R euter
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  • 33 1 GENERAL STRIKE IN MADRAS m, ll > workers '«>day in Arm v\ (> <.e rs of 1 *'♦*>» out for the j^M [vmen and bm I ""..I m ,i s« -uengers *l u ">d demonstra- Reuter
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  • 222 1 Delhi, Auk. 22. Speculation is most keen in Delhi on the list of names fur the interim (Hivernment which Pandit Nehru is reported to have submitted to the Viceroy yesterdav. Maulana Azad is unlikely to join the Government as he is stated to
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  • 187 1 j Bangkok, Aug. >2.~- Siams two major political parties today agreed upon Dhamrong Xavasuwat as successor to Pridi as the premier. Selection by the Co-operative and Constitutional Front Parties virtually assures appointment, writes Alexander MacDonald. Associated Press Correspondent. The name goes to the National Parliament
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  • 54 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bombay, Au£. 22. Sardar Patel is presenting to the nation film of Netaji Bose's life. I The film originally produced by the Azad Hind Government, was re -made by Patel and will portray the impor' ant and sensational activities
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  • 113 1 Jerusalem, Aug 22.— An attack with limpet- mines ™ls made hist night against the British ship, Kn*ire Ri^U whTh I W earl^r to Haifa from C^H^re 1 hi taken Jewish illegal immigrants. e nM I At the time o* the. attack, the
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  • 315 1 EVEN BENGAL EUROPEANS WANT MINISTRY DISMISSED (From Our. Own Correspondent! < afeufj Aug. 2?.— Further Improvement is reported from Calcutta. Broadcasting last nigh:. PrenjJ^r Suferawardy reviewed the measure, tit-Ron to cope with the .situation and declared tha Government would go all out to maintain law and order. "The curfew continues
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  • 989 2 Indian Daily Mail Singapore, Friday, Aug. 23, 1946. THE RICE CRISIS I ORD Killearn's latest pronouncement on the food situation in South-East Asia will certainly add to the gloom with which the minds of the peoples in this region are already filled. To the people of Malaya, in particular, the
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  • 259 2 Colombo, Aug. 22.-The question of negotiations h*™* India and Ceylon on the rights and status of Indians rodent in Cevlon should be left to Ceylon's new parliament under the new constitution, declared Mr. D. S. Senanayake, Leader of the State
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  • 130 2 Colombo, Aug. 21. Plans for a strike involving 120,000 persons which if it materialises would paralyse the Island's transport and communications as well as Government Departments are reported to have been set afoot by the various workers' Unions. The strike is to
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  • 51 2 Bombay, India.— Fish fanciers in ihe village of Amreli had a feast recently when the flood waters of the monsoon-swollen Ajula River receded from their village and left a large school of fish flopping in the streets. The fish were quickly scored up. cooked and eaten.— A
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  • 185 2 Calcutta, Aug. 21.-^The Government spokesman stated today that up to 11.30 GMT yesterday between 20,000 and 30,000 people in Calcutta had been removed by Government agency from areas considered dangerous to them following the recent riote. Under the rescue scheme an escort was also provided
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  • 109 2 Buenos Aires, Aug. 22.— The Indian food mission here, which ls led by Diwan Chaman Lai, yesterday established the first contact with Argentine officials when they called on Foreign Minister Dr. Juan Atilio Bramuglia, who introduced them to Miguel -Miranda, head of the
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  • 56 2 New Delhi, Aug. 22. Expansion plans of the geological survey of Indian include: 1. A special section for geophysical exploration. 2. A section for engineering geology and ground water resources in connection with the engineering projects now being designed. 3. A mineral information bureau and publication
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  • 93 2 j Berlin, Aug. 21.— A Russian woman spy, described as a "secret agent of the NKVD," was seized by the United States Army a month I ago while employed by UNRRA Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, American commander of the Germany revealed today. The woman is being
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  • 151 2 Bombay. Aug. 22.— Hindu-Muslim disturbances are reported from the provinces of Bihar and Assam in which four persons were killed and a score or more Injured. In Bengal two were reportedly killed in stabbings at Dacca and two killed, and a dozen others injured in clashes
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  • 81 2 INDIAN PROVINCES REWARD WAR'S GALLANT SOLDIERS £Jew Delhi, Aug. 22. Many Indian provinces have devised comprehensive schemes to reward those of their inhabitants who were decorated for gallantry during World War 11. The rewards range from cash prizes evaluated at US $3,330 for the Victoria Cross to US$l,OOO for the
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  • 88 2 SOUTH AFRICA FEELS EFFECTS OF INDIA'S TRADE BOYCOTT New Delhi, Aug. 22.— -The Indian trade boycott of South Africa as a reprisal for the "Ghetto Bill" has affected the union thus: 1. Soap rationing may have to be introduced since lack of Indian groundnuts has increased the scarcity of fats
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  • 430 2 New Delhi, Aug:. 22.— The opinion that a Congress-formed interim Government for India will be announced by the Viceroy, Viscount Wavell, probably this week, was expressed Wednesday in high Government circles as the discussions reached the name-discussion stage, writes Associated Press
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  • 551 2 AT AZAD HIND DAY FUNCTION (By Our Staff Reporter) "l Singapore, Aug. 21.— Patriotic fervor irid was once again whipped up this evening u m '-\tM hundreds of flag-waving Indians shouting "Azad u -Nehruji Ki Jai," and "Netaji Ki Jai" parade,)
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  • 180 2 Chinese N ationalised Plan All-Out Drive Nanking. Aug. 2>.__ T l Government May VT S _fl be pouring thousands o h*l Manchuria for an Jr*m afainst Com_* Unisti Jehol Province. *^B Minister of Iniormatir. Hsueh-pe; said _h e qJ was not taking seriously "*l munist call fi rr.obil^l j potential
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  • 142 2 Tokyo, Aug 22.— The G«afl ment has taken thr first movtfl outlaw the autocratic rule of a home by the heads of fimll* which repeatedly has beeiu tacked as a barrier to democs newspapers here reported day. Amendments in the- civil m paralleling the individual
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  • 105 2 Rome. Au*. 21.- bouqu«M red and white dahlias was fl tied to a girdle of a Milan I** station from which Mus*J body dangled before a partisan executioners U s J 1 The ribbon around ww I said: To the Duce Irom h* s
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  • 45 2 19 AMERICAN SHIPPING LINES WANT TO OPERATE IN "SEA" New York, Aug. 2? American shipping I plied for permis the waters of South E* s1 was revealed today The lines asked operate throughout archipelago, the Rh:. the Netherlands Fa ports on the Bay of Bt
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  • 362 3 Negro Soldiers Return To W ar Against Racial Intolerance Lo nd.n. kng. tt. Sww of thousands of Negro soldiers I nnH returning to their homes in the southed states S lri.a <«> fißht ano her war against racial intolerance a _?H tit h the iwes, >a>s me N«» York correspondent
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  • 89 3 knfkok lag. 22.— Rumoors an atwmpt had been made J Ufe cf King Fhumiphon yti lg.year-old ruler of Siam, here in a communi|Ut frorn th Ke^ency Council. «ke King left ou Monday by air J visit tg Switzerland for Jd h ni
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  • 52 3 I*C m? 2 LOrd Peth,Ck*».to<iv retary of s ate f°«* ltt me h rf ceived at the India S«o f the Indian 1 b Sir mVv rsanls a«on, head*Wud.H vesvar ya, who have Non, Th d: vlsltt °'heunltedl n de!e eatlon win iw i ft "Wlecl
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  • 28 3 m**T$ I. Auk Pano- He said his ■'forked f at he had b^n I"' thA r a ,on t«tne and V etw^. I^-miershlp should 7 younger man^- Reuter
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  • 183 3 London, Aug. 21. -Compensation 'or building materials looted from Malaya. Dutch East Indies and 61am by the Japanese for building the notorious Moulmein to Bangkok railway will be paid to those out of Japanese reparations, said the Foreign Office spokesman in London. This
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  • 155 3 London, Aug. 22.— A Br i ash woman who refused to betray her comrades despite the most brutal Nazi torture has been awarded the highest civilian honour, [he George Cross, the London Gazette announced Tuesday. She is Mrs. Odette Marie Sanson, slim petite member of
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  • 110 3 Colombo, Aug. 22.— The problem ol rice supply in Ceylon is expecled to remain difficult until imports from Burma and India the Island's main sources of supply are resum ed, according to a confidential re* oort submitted to the Trade Promotion Department of the Board
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  • 91 3 JUNGLE FIGHTERS ON GOODWILL MISSION TO BRITAIN London. Aug. 21.— A goodwill mission from Karens, a Burmese minority famous as Jungle fighters who co-operated with the Allies during the Pacific war, has arrived in London and will laier go to the United States. The mission consists at present of two
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  • 135 3 m mjamm "I AM HUNGRY i I GIVE ME FOOD" Colombo, Aug. 22.— There was a strange scene in the jx :i;i State Council here when, I during a debate, a khaki clad jS I figure jumped up behind the I Deputy Speaker and ex- :g
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  • 122 3 Colombo, Aug. 21. Boralage Ed* mond Perera. who has been awarded the George Medal for rescuing four airmen from a blazing plane, is the first Ceylonese to be so honoured. The London Gazette in announcing the award stated that Edmond Perera had defied 60-
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  • 38 3 Hamburg, Aug. 21.— Ten thou- sand people, including doctors, of Hamburg are suffering from hunger oedema, the flrst stage of starvation, a report issued by the three-power commission investigating food <faestions estimated today Reuter
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  • 237 3 He Has A Vase That Even The A-Bomb Couldn't Destroy Colombo. Aug. 21. Stranded in Colombo is ex-Lieut, and Gunnery Officer F. Albert who has been "slogging the seas for seven years" and now cannot get a passage back home to Cape Town. Albert cannot easily forget Ceylon as he
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  • 67 3 The Hague, Aug. 21.— Gen. S. H. Spoor, Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands East Indies forces, left Holland by air for the East Indies today. Before boarding the plane he said: "I am taking back to the Indies with me a s.rong impression that the majority of the
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  • 70 3 Alexandria, Aug. 21. The former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem emerged as the key figure in the Arab-Jewish negotiations with an Arab ultimatum that he should be allowed to head the delegation to the conference in London on the Palestine situation. The Palestine \rab Executive Committee announced it
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  • 85 3 Paris, Aug. 21.— CvToshe Sneh, member of the Jewish Agency Executive, said today that he would decide next week whether to return to Pales. ine or stay in Paris now the meetings of the Jewish Agencv executive here have been concluded. Moshe Sneh. also executive and head
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  • 745 3 (By Reuter's Diplomatic Correspondent) London, Aug. 21. Tonight's confirmation through the issue of the Egyptian communique from Alexandria that Egypt has rejected the latest British proposals for the treaty revision is recognised by London observers to create a grave situation. It
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  • 392 3 (By Alexander W. MacDonald Associated Press Correspondent) Bangkok. Aug. 22. Premier Pridi Phanomyong startled Siam with the announcement at noon Wednesday t»f his rcsifc nation from the government due to "opposition and intrigue which is wasting my health and impairing (he services of myself and mv cabinet
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  • 114 3 London, Aug. 22.— Britain ka to have bigger newspapers to supersede the four-page dailies which have #jecn general during tne war. it was announced vesterday. Extra supplies will be avail.iHc from Sept. 22. Under the new rationing scheme newspapers will be allowed to print as many
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  • 609 4 (By John Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic Correspondent) Washington, Aug. 22. The United States has launched a carefully planned diplomatic offensive against Russian expansion in the Middle East and Asia with a rejection of the Soviet demands
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  • 207 4 White Australian Policy Condemned Sydney (Air MaU).— Racial discrimination, as expressed in the White Australian policy, was a menace to world peace, says Mrs. Mitham Lam, a Parsee lawyer from Bombay, who is leader of the Indian delegation to the Women's < harter Conference in Sydney. Coloured people will resent
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  • 340 4 British Maj or Cashiered. Sentenced To Year's Term "NAKAMURA TREASURE" (ASK Alter many weeks' laborious work the Military Police in i estimations into the "Nakamura treasure" case iii Java art neanmr completion. Several, both service and civilian, are in custody and one conviction has alreadj been obtained, statea Tress release.
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  • 65 4 The Governor-in-Couneil hrs approved the increase by one hundred per cent, of its scale of rates by the Penan- Harbour Board vvi.h effect from April l 104G. a notification to this eftect Will appear shortly in the Malayan Union Government Oazette. of en than not
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  • 91 4 21 PEOPLE'S RESTAURANTS IN MALAYAN UNION IN 2 MONTHS The Malayan Union Social Weifare Department's project to oper Peoples Restaurants all over tin Malay Peninsula !s now well un derway with 21 restaurants scheduled to be offcned withm the n -wo mouths. in Benton- a People" Restaurant has been in
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  • 87 4 WHITE CLOTH AS PRIZES IN "GROW MORE FOOD" EXHIBITION n has been arranged thai white cloth will form a part of the prizes offered for the bes exhibits of tht Grow More Food Exhibition at tht Happy World. The first prize in each class will include 10 yards of cloth:
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  • 40 4 loiombo, Au s 21 The Eng land cricket teafti on its wav u Australia may a| r a|| m match in Colombo, according U the latest Information received by the Ceylon Cricket Association Reuter
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  • 110 4 Tokyo, Aug. 21. A Russian plane swooped down on the Mukden airfield to seize Henry Pu-yi from the Japanese as they were flying him to Japan *'by force*' at the war's end, the former Manehurian pup pet revealed for the first time at the war crimes
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  • 520 4 'From Abdul Karim Renters Correspondent) -Bagdad (Air Mail).— The strange, hair covered creature, recently found among a herd of gazelles in the Trans Jordan desert during a hunting expedition is a young boy of about 15, who can become the world's fastest runner.
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  • 227 4 AROUND THE COURTS P. Suppiah, the third accusea, ir making hifl defence, said that h< was employed by the Specia Branch as a detective. Later h( was transferred to the politica section and his .immedia. e superioi wafl Alsagoff. Regarding the Kampong Bhan
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  • 161 4 In another case of armed robbery before Mr. Justice W. T. Thorogood a Chinese, Lau Choon Hue, who was sentenced to seven years' ri. in the previous case was again involved together with another Chinese Kok Chong. The second accused Kok Chong pleaded guilty to the
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  • 149 4 At the Assizes yesterday. Hi. jury returning a unanimous ver dirt of guilty ot armed robber.\, two Chteeaa Lau Choon Hoe and Tan Koon Tian were senteneed to seven years' r.f. each and six s.rokes ot ihe eat' by Mr. Justice W,
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  • 99 4 Further to the shoo Ing of a Javanese by an Indian sentrv on I duty outside 93 Base Supply Depot at the junction of Alexandra Koad and Pasir Panjang Road, anoher Javanese, Kasmiian. who was together with the deceased at the time of the
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