Malaya Tribune, 24 October 1945

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  • 29 4/1 The Malaya Tribune Telephone: 5811. THE NEWSPAPER OF THE PEOPLE OF MALAYA FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1945 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune Wednesday, October 24, 1945.
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  • 222 4/1 action by the police yesterday evening led to the elimination of an armed gang, said to have been moving about by car and terrorizing the city populace. In a gun duel in Paya Lebar yesterday evening, one of the gang was
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  • 214 4/1 Ipoh, Oct. 22. Fifty-five more bodies were exhumed yesterday from a mass grave In the Chinese cemetery, Batu Gajah, when the disinterment, which began on Tuesday, for 83 alleged victims of the Japanese butchery In 1942 was resumed in the presence of Maj. G. R. Macdonald,
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  • 34 4/1 Reuter. Sydney, Oct. 23.—The decision by the M.C.C. to send an English Test side to Australia has been received with tremendous enthusiasm throughout the country. Ausralian cricketing public, players and officials alike are delighted.—Reuter.
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  • 35 4/1 Mr. Un Hon Wing killed in car accident this morning at 2 a.m. Short service will be held at 99 Clemenceau Avenue at 4 p.m. to-day, Cortege will leave for Bidadari at 4.30 p.m.
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  • 213 4/1 Ipoh, Oct. 22. WIDESPREAD strikes broke out In Ipoh yesterday involving shop-keepers, restaurant staffs, hawkers and tradesmen. The result has been that the populace has been forced to do without meat, fish, vegetables and other foodstuffs and necessities. Amusement centres, cinemas and cabarets too
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  • 23 4/1 All ten members of the propaganda corps of the Singapore Labour Corps who were detained ty the police on Sunday were released yesterday.
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  • 173 4/1 i General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief in India, has announced plans for the complete Indianization of India's armed forces of the future. A communique says the Gov-j ernment of India, in agreement l with His Majesty's Government, has decided that the grant of permanent commissions in
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  • 54 4/1 Reuter. Sydney, Oct. il. Twenty-two Lascar crew walked otT the two Dutch ships, Japara and General Verspijck, which were scheduled to leave Sydney yesterday. The men said they were unwilling to act for the Dutch, who were fighting Indonesians. The third Dutch shrp. I'atras, sailed yesterday, several
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  • 307 4/1 A LMOST twilve thousand families representing about 40,000 persons have received relief amounting to nearly Si 12,000 from the Emergency Relief Committee, up to Oct. 11. 1 his was disclosed at a recent meeting of the Committee. It was emphasised that the chief cause of
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  • 167 4/1 The RAPWI organisation of South East Asia Command has seen 75.622 prisoners and internees safely on their way home. They had been assembled and dispatched from camps in South East Asia. They came from places outside the Command—Shanghai and Manila. After being cleared from their
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  • 110 4/1 A hunt is now in progress in coastal regions of South China for a band of ten pirates, reportedly led by a woman, who recently defied the British naval anti-piracy patrol in the Hong Kong area, to rob a small coastal steamer. Adopting the old trick
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  • 22 4/1 All Indians interested in playing cricket or hockey with the Services are requested to communicate with D. Dharmaraj. No. 52. The Arcade.
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  • 222 4/1 Reuter. Batavia Oct 23 Major-General Hawthorne, Head of the Allied Military Administration in Java, has issued orders to prevent the use of cars allotted to th» rehabilitation of prisoners of war organisation for other purposes, the Allied spokes man said tonight.
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  • 89 4/1 Reuter. London, Oct. 23.—Marshal Stalin is "in excellent health,'' the Soviet Embassy here stated to-day. "He is simply taking a rest." This statement was made in reply to many rumours to the effect that Stalin is dead, dying or very ill. in Washington. a State Department
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  • 378 4/1 U.K.s First Post-War Budget Reuter. London, Oct. 23. gRITAIN S first poM-war budget will bring no relief to the most heavily taxed people in the world for another six months. Bat from April next year the standard rate of income tax will be reduced by
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  • 60 4/1 Reuter. New York, Oct. 22.—According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, operations of United States steel mills will be the lowest since April 29, 1940, due to coal shortage and, it is estimated, mills would operate this week at 65.1 per cent capacity with a production of 1,192,400 tons,
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  • 85 4/1 Reuter. London, Oct. 23. Indian and British casualties in the recent disturbances in the Far East, reported up to Oct. 14, were, according to War Minister Jack Lawson in the House of Commons today: French Indo-China: One British officer and 14 Indian otlier ranks. In Java
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  • 78 4/1 Reuter. London Oct. 23 The mystery of the whereabouts of Dr. Ir Soekarno, Indonesian nationalist leader who has been missing from Batavia for 19 days was solved today when, according to the Melbourne Radio, he returned to the capital after a tour of western Java Melbourne Radio
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  • 198 4/1 "We Will Tolerate No Threats" —Truman Reuter. Compulsory Army Service Plan Washington, Oct. 23. President Truman in a message to Congress today urged one year's compulsory military service for all male Americans before the age of 20 whether physically qualified for combat service or not. This is President Truman's most
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  • 213 4/1 Reuter. Chungking, Oct. 23. {Representatives of the Government and the Communist Party are reported to be meeting today to try prevent the present clashes between Communists and Central Government troops in Shantung Province from developing into a full-scale civil war. General Ho
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  • 104 4/1 Reuter. London, Oct. 22.—The Allied authorities in India have requested the former Japanese Foreign Minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, to attend as witness the forthcoming New Delhi trial of leaders of the Indian puppet government. The request was transmitted through General Mac Arthur's
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  • 390 4/1 Reuter. (By Renter's Diplomatic Correspondent) London, Oct. 23. THE state *of Anglo-Soviet relations is causing much heart-searching in London. Ever since the breakdown of the first session of the Foreign Ministers Council, the question has been asked, "Why are there so many and such
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  • 617 2/3 T IKE the recent labour dispute in the north, the strike of Singapore dock workers has an economic rather than a political basis. The sympathy of the workers with Indonesian nationalist movement ought not perhaps to be underrated, but at bottom the men are interested in
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  • 321 2/3 A Dakota aircraft* whose port engine failed while flying over moun "tainoui Siam jungle, was saved from crash landing last wee b another Dakota which found an enre geccy landing field for it. Pilot-Officer Phillip Ornsby. wireless operator of Dakota "A for Able", picked up
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  • 63 2/3 Reuter. Moscow, Oct. 22. Figures so far available show that in the plebiscite to decide the status of Outer Mongolia, practically a unanimous vote was cast for independence. In the capital area of Urga, 24,000 out of a population of 26,000 inhabitants voted in favour of
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  • 306 2/3 f* APTAIN LUNSFORD Y. MASON, Or.), Commanding Offcer of U.S.S. California, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1897, and began his naval career on entering the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in June, 1916. Because of the demands of World War I, the course was accelerated
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  • 37 2/3 Reuter. Kiel, Oct. 22. Two hundred thousand tons of German poison gas are to he sunk in the deepest part of Skaggorak —arm of the North Sea, between Denmark and Norway.—Router.
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  • 425 2/3 C ING APORB accorded the United States Task Force which steamed into port yesterday morning a tremendous welcome. Crowds of people were at the Pier waiting a long time to say "hallo" to the first batch of American sailors to step down from
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  • 42 2/3 Reuter. Tokyo Oct. 22. The Japanese Government announced today that in conformity with Allied policy, it is embarking on the dissolution of the huge industrial combine Zaibatsu. A rough estimate of the properties of the Zaibatsu would be 100,000,000 Yen.—Reuter.
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  • 28 2/3 The strike of stevedores and labourers on Sunday at the Singapore docks was of small dimension and without any political implications, says an official statement.
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  • 141 2/3 Reuter. Washington, Oct. 22. 'PHE Anglo-American talks may "Mail. It is authoritatively learned today that the American delegation has reduced the size of the suggested loan to Britain, and also increased its rate of interest, Lord. Halifax, British Ambassador in Washington, after visiting United States Secretary
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  • 131 2/3 Reuter. Teheran, Oct. 22. The Persian Prime Minister, Mushin Sadr, has resigned. His Government will continue to hold office until a new government is formed. Anussurawan Sepahdobi, Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, today announced that all foreign troops would be evacuated from Persia by March 2, 1946.
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  • 30 2/3 Members of the S. C. R. C. are requested to note that a general meeting will be held at the club house, on Friday, Oct. 2b, at 5.15 p. m.
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  • 215 2/3 Reuter. London, Oct 22. MR. Winston Churchill, leader of the Conservative Opposition, called for a big speed-up in Britain's demobilisation plans, when he addressed a crowded House of Commons today. Amid Opposition cheers, Churchill, who was making his first speech since his recent indisposition, suggested that
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  • 123 2/3 Chinese, Low Kin Hwa A (21) and Yeo Kho Teck (23) w ere sentenced to six months' •"igorous imprisonment for looting leather worth $1,000 from a former Japanese factory which had become B.M.A. property. Pleading guilty before Major D. P. Rees, in the First District Court, the men
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  • 39 2/3 Reuter. Haifa Oct. 20 The cruiser Sirius arrived in Haifa this afternoon from Alexandria. This brings to three the number of warships present here. The other two are the destroyers Milne and Haydon.—Reuter.
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  • 167 2/3 Reuter. Paris Oct. 22 The whole French people, in the first free elections since 1939, have demonstrated to the world, in no uncertain terms, their determination to make a clean sweep of the old regime —regarded by them as responsible for the disaster in the
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  • 306 2/3 VfALAYAN handbooks for use of the British Military Administration published in 1943 and 1944 exhibited for sale in a second-hand bookshop in Bras Basah Road led to the arrest of a Tamil, R. S. Maniam (37), a filing clerk employed in the
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  • 71 2/3 Reuter. Manila, Oct. 22. Civilian communications to and from the Philippines were virtually suspended today, when 15u Filipino telegraph workers struck, after the collapse of a fortnight's negotiations with the Press Wireless arid Radio Corporation of America. Reuters, United Press and Associated Press news reception will
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