Malaya Tribune, 19 October 1945

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  • 22 4/1 The Malaya Tribune Telephone, 5811, THE NEWSPAPER OF THE PEOPLE OF MALAYA FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1945 PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 365 4/1 Held up Mah Jong Party, Marched Them Through Street "T do not want to see hooligans of your type taking the law in your own hands. If justice is going to be done, we can do it, stated Major D.P. Rees, presiding
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  • 147 4/1 Numerous applications are being made to the Registrar of Vehicles by persons who claim to be the owners of motor vehicles being used by the Services and by and with the authority of the Biitish Military Administration. The ownership of privatelyowned motor vehicles is not
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  • 143 4/1 In the next six months, more Whan 120,000 Japanese soldiers and sailors from Malaya, the Andamans and the Nicobars, and perhaps some from Java and Sumatra, are to be transferred in their own ships, manned by their own merchant seamen, to the small jungle-covered uninhabited
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  • 141 4/1 'J'HE Chinese Consulate-General in Singapore will start functioning as soon as the new Chinese Consul is appointed by the Chinese Government. This was disclosed by Mr. Lien Ying-chovv, president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, at a Press Conference yesterday, following a call he made
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  • 41 4/1 Lt.-Gen. O. L. Roberts, Commanding 34th Corps, said farewell to his men on Tuesday at a ceremony at Kuala Lumpur. General Roberts is leaving Malaya to take up an important appointment at the War Office.
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  • 43 4/1 By the end of November 25,000 tons of rubber from Japanese stocks captured in Malaya will be en route to the United Kingdom and America. A report from Kuala Lumpur puts the latest estimate of the rubber captured in Malaya at 50,000 tons.
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  • 216 4/1 The following is a continuation of the list of Singapoie Europeans and Eurasians in India at present, together with their addresses: Mrs. R. Y. Benjamin (Aye children), Karavana Building, Kilbridge Road, Colaba, Bombay; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bennett and Miss M. K.
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  • 206 4/1 THE local authorities have made payments of >100 on account of oi pensions due to dependents of S.S. Volunteers who were killed in action or who died when prisoners-r»f-war in Japanese hands, it is learned. The offlcer-in-charge of S.S. V.F. Records, is authorised to make
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  • 496 4/1 Indonesian Nationalists Raise "Quit Java" Cry APPEAL TO GEN. CHRISITSON Reuter. Batavia, Oct. 18. "T\R. Hatta, Vice-President of the Indonesian Reannounced over the Indonesian radic tonight that Soekarno "Government" had recently made the following suggestions to General Christi son. Allied C-iu.-C in N.E.I No more
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  • 112 4/1 Reuter. Sydney, Oct. 18. Sir Thomas A. Blarney, Commander-in-Chief of the Australian military Jo r c t 9 today appointed lAcutcnant-G c n crat Leslie Morshead as member of the Army Hoard of Inquiry to investigate the circumstances of Lieutenant. General Gordon Bennett' a escape
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  • 124 4/1 Rangoon, Oct- 18. A message ol greeting from Hts Majesty the King to the people of Burma was read at a ceremony at Rangoon yesterday to mark the return ot the civil administration. His Majesty Said: Through the ever-memorable bravery and skill of the
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  • 89 4/1 It is understood in Singapore that high-ranking Allied officers of the South East Asia Command are going to Java to investigate the confused political situation there. Correspondents say it is felt that an improvement in the political situation in Java Is urgently needed
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  • 38 4/1 Reuter. Paris, Oct. 18. Undei the chairmanship of Sir Samuel Ranganadhan, Government ot India delegate, the Constitutional Committee of the International Labour Conference today passed a resolution, pledging full cooperation of thel.L.O. with the CJ. X. organition.' -Reuter.
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  • 61 4/1 Reuter. Chungking Oct. i,s Chinese military traitors and collaborators- will l>e tried by civilian courts, and not as hitheito by courts-martial, under the law enacted by the Legislative Yuan. The law will have an important bearing on the status ol troops who fought for the
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  • 101 4/1 Washington, Oct. 18. United States C hief of Stalf, General Marshall said today that guided missiles, containing atomic charges and with television heads,' are now feasible, and the present anti-aircraft detent es are useless against them. Predicting that in any future war. atom bombs
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  • 72 4/1 Reuter. Washington Oct. /<V. /'resident Truman disclosed at his press conference litre today that all tuitions interested in the Far East were carrying on correspondence regarding the situation there. This consultation was not limited to the Big Five, hut to some JO or 12 countries. He declared
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  • 164 4/1 Reuter. Chungking, Oct. 18. On his return from Shanghai, K. P. S. Menon, India's Agent General to China, told Reuters that with the abrogation of extraterritorial rights, Sikh policemen in the International Settlement were preparing to return to India. Mr. Menon went to Shanghai to see
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  • 34 4/1 Reuter. Chungking, Oct. 17. Nearly 300 people were killed and many injured in what reports reaching here described as a "violent midnight earthquake "at Lanhsien. in Shansi Province, on Sept. 19,—Keuter.
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  • 124 4/1 Reuter. Saigon, Oct. 18.—A determined night attack by nation- alists, under cover of smoke and using bows and arrows, which it is believed may nave been poisoned, was beaten off by Gurkhas, holding a bridge North-west of Saigon. Gurkhas, holding two other bridges were heavily sniped.
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  • 128 4/1 I General Mac Arthur's headI quarters have revealed that a I jtortune in diamonds has been! j found buried in a chicken coop on j (top of a mountain, 160 miles j north of Tokyo. This is one of I dozens of "caches''
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  • 28 4/1 Paris, Oct. 18, Paris magistrates today sent delegations to the French Minister of Justice to protest against the manner in which the trial of Pierre Laval was conducted.
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  • 296 4/1 Reuter. London, Oct. 18. ALL Java is now in rebellion, and it is hardly an independence movement any longer but a bitter racial war. fostered by the Japanese and whipped up by Soekarno, declares Noel Monks. Daily Mail special correspondent in Batavia. Meanwhile, Christians in a
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  • 934 2/3 RISES TO LEADERSHIP DESPITE SELF-EFFACEMENT The outstanding quality of the patient, purposeful 62-year-old man who now holds the helm of British politics is that none of his qualities is outstanding. Attlee is not a deadly debater, as Philip Snowden
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  • 47 2/3 News has been received from a number of Malayan R.A.F. personnel, who were taken to Japan as POW's saying that they are now safe and well In Melbourne, Australia. It is hoped to get a full list of these Malayans for the information of the general public.
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  • 78 2/3 Reuter. Saigon, Oct. 16. THE French have arrested A the Japanese puppet Premier of the Indo-Chinese province of Cambodia, Sonn Ngoc Tak, at Pnom Penh, and replaced him by the former Defence Minister Kin Mit. Meanwhile, quiet continues in Saigon, and British troops are extending operations to
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  • 113 2/3 Sir Horace Seymour, British Ambassador to China, has arrived in Shanghai by air from Chungking for discussions with Dr. T. V. Soong, President of the Executive Yuan. Sir Horace is expected to stay in the city for a week and have talks with leading
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  • 249 2/3 FUTURE OF CABLE WIRELESS Reuter. (By Fraser Wighton, Reuters Political Correspondent) London, Oct. 16. An announcement by the British Government on the future of Cables and Wireless Limited—the great British Empire communications organisation with a capital of £30,--000,000—is, I understand, likely within the next ten days If Whitehall is by
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  • 64 2/3 Reuter. Washington, Oct- 17. James F. Byrnes, United States Secretary of State, refused at his press conference to-day to comment on reports that United States Government is negotiating secretly for bases in British and French Empire territories. He added that even if su. h
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  • 93 2/3 Reuter. Paris. Oct. 17Sir Samuel Ranganadhan, High Commissioner for India in London and Indian Government delegate to the International Labour Office Conference, was today electeil Chairman of the Constitutional Committee of the Conference. The Committee, which will be in charge of most important items on
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  • 746 2/3 Kurdish bandit leaders She k Ahmad, Al Barazani and Mullah Mustafa and remnants of their oands have fled from Iraq to Persia. Operations against them are considered to be at end. see Radio Moscow stated that the Soviet News Agency has denied the report that international
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  • 140 2/3 Calcutta —S'pore Air Service Soon AIR Marshal Sir HughSaunAir Marshal Commanding, Burma, welcomed in Rangoon an RAF Sunderland aircraft from Calcutta, resuming the British Overseas Airways route. The pilot was Wing Commander G G. Stead, DFC, of New Zealand, whose present home is Hermitage, Anthony's Avenue, Lilliput, Poole, Dorset. The-Wing
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  • 38 2/3 Aceording to the Pans Radio, she French Minister of Food stated that French sugar ration was now assured because oi advances from Britain. Soon France should be able to obtain by her own ellorts all the required sugar.
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  • 36 2/3 Ontario's Minister of Agriculture has announced that a delegation of Ontario farmers will visit Britain and Denmark next year to study conditions and agricultural methods with a view to retaining United Kingdom cheese and bacon markets.
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  • 382 2/3 About 600 R.A.F. ex-POW's from all over the Far East have been flown home to England fiom Singapore during the past few weeks as a result of the speedy repatriation arrangements of the Air Ministry's Far Eastern Welfare Divisien. Now only 25 physically fit exPOW
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  • 557 2/3 bringing with her an ensign carefully made in Java prison camps by survivors from the British ships Exeter and Jupiter and the Australian cruiser Perth, the Royal Navy's 10,000 ton county dais cruiser, H.M.S. Cumberland, has sailed from Singapore for England after 18 months
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  • 26 2/3 Regent Archbishop Damaskinos has resolved the Greek Government crisis after Greece had been eleven days without a Government by himself assuming the functions of Prime Minister.
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  • 43 2/3 A untitled exp'oded outside the house of Mohammed el Husseini, kinsman of Ilaj Amin el Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, early today. No damage was reported. The police believe the incident was the result of "rivalry" between leading Moslem families in the holy city.
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  • 169 2/3 JJXirS of the RAF Regiment, brought in to defend the airfield at Saigon, made an armed sweep during the weekend to clear the area of Annamites who had t ollected just before dawn within 300 yardl of the control tower. On
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  • 78 2/3 Reuter. Lisbon Oct. 17 Shopkeepers throughout Lisbon, who were collecting signatures to the Opposition's demand for free elections, were summoned to the civil Government's office today and warned that it would be "in their own interests" to stop doing it. Doctor .Salazar's Government announced today that.the
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  • 173 2/3 Thirteen drums oi" petrol buried in tl c vicinity of a house were recovered following investigations made after a Chinese was arrested while driving a lony stolen from a Jap vehicle dump. Chan Seek Kow, who was the driver of the lorry, was arrested while operating the
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