Malaya Tribune, 25 October 1945

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  • 29 4/1 The Malaya Tribune Telephone: :iHH. THE NEWSPAPER OF THE PEOPLE OF MALAYA FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1945 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune Thursday, October 25, 1945.
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  • 364 4/1 The currency put into circulation by the Japanese had no guarantied funds to support it and was inflated to such an extent that it got out of control completely. The British Military Administration is determined to restore the Straits dollar to its pre war value
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  • 190 4/1 Transport Strike All Singapore Traction Company Asiatic employees went on strike this morning. Drivers and conductors of trolley and omnibuses, and even clerks In the main office failed to turn up for work resulting in considerable inconvenience to the public. It is learned that they
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  • 128 4/1 When S. C. Goho, the Singapore lawyer, appeared in the Special Court before Mr. J. C. Cobbett this morning, Mr. A. Munro, who is appearing for Goho, made application for bail. Mr. Cobbett said that as a result of investigations made he was satisfied there is sufficient evidence
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  • 19 4/1 A Baseball match will be played on the Padang to-day between teams from the two American battleships, California and
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  • 276 4/1 SINGAPORE —ENGLAND AIR SERVICE SOON Sunderland Gives A Joy Ride •"The latest type of Sunderland aircraft to be used by Qantas Empire Airways and British Oversea Airways Corporation for passenger and freight mail servics from Singapore to England hae arrived here on a survey flight. It is hoped to resume
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  • 54 4/1 Reuter. London, Oct. 23.—About 250,--000 German civilians were killed or missing in air raids between October, 1940, and the end of January. 1945, according to German sources of information, Prime Minister Attlee reported in the House of Commons. A further 100,000 are believed to have been killed between Feb. 1
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  • 396 4/1 A press party including several overseas correspondents was yesterday taken on a "sight seeing" tour of the American battleship Tennessee, the famous veteran of the Pacific war, which had fought its way to a brilliant recoul. To this man-o'-war, the American nation—nay the whole civilized world—could
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  • 145 4/1 Vf AJOR-GENERAL H. R. A A Hone, Chief Civil Affairs Officer, Malaya, yesterday welcomed more than 175 officers of the visiting American Fleet, at a luncheon given in their honour at the Cathay Restaurant. Major-Gen. Hone told his guests of the hardships and sufferings of
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  • 42 4/1 Malay newsman, Abdul Samad, appeared before Mr. J. C. Cobbett in the Special Court yesterday on a warrant. The allegation is that Samad was responsible for the publication of seditious matter. The preliminary inquiry is fixed for Oct. 31.
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  • 449 4/1 U.S. OBJECTS TO USE OF LEND-LEASE ARMS IN JAVA Reuter. London, Oct 24. foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin stated in the A House of Commons today that the Dutch Lieutenent Governor-General in Java was urgently studying the best procedure of conducting discussions with local Indonesian leaders,
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  • 78 4/1 Reuter. London, Oct. 24.—The future of the United Nations Organisation is thought, in well-informed quarters i n London, to be responsible for the surprise decision of Philip Noel-Baker, Minister of State, to fly from Quebec to Washington to-day, writes Reuters diplomatic corres pondent.
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  • 66 4/1 Reuter. Saigon, Oct. 23.—T0-day's Anglo- French communique stated, "Last night a small party of Annamites attacked a petrol dump north of the airfield which was guarded by Japanese who repulsed the attack. There was no damage. "Sniping continued in north of Saigon during yesterday and last
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  • 52 4/1 Reuter. Quebec, Oct. 23.—The Soviet Union has just handed back to Poland 5,000,000 acres of Russian cultivated land in Poland and the Soviet forces who were occupying it had moved out. This was stated here to-day by Polish Vice-Premier Mikolajczyk who heads the Polish delegation to the Food and Agriculture
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  • 94 4/1 Reuter. Batavia, Oct. 24.—Attempts by Indonesian nationalist forces to surround the Netherlands forces' barracks at KexaJoran, South-west of Batavia, were beaten off yesterday afternoon by one Dutch company, who suffered only one casualty, slightly wounded. Thirty Indonesians were killed. The situation is now stated to be quiet.
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  • 243 4/1 Hitch In 3 Power Talks (By Reuters diplomatic correspondent) London, Oct. 24. Uneasiness about the future of the United Nations Organisation is thought to be responsible for the surprise decision of Philip Noel Baker, British Minister of State, to fly from Quebec to Washington to-day. This decision is believed to
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  • 106 4/1 A special mission from the United States is shortly to leave for Tokyo to study the question of Japanese reparations. San Francisco radio says the main harge of the mission will be to eliminate Japan's ability ever to wage war again, while deciding how much
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  • 43 4/1 Sydney, Oct. 22.—With the exception of six Indonesian soldiers and technical trainees, all the men in the Dutch camp at Casino, New South Wales are striking. More than 400 men have been confined in barbed-wire compounds, in an area of about three acres.
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  • 175 4/1 Reuter. t Chungking, Oct. 24. IT was authoritatively learned here today that the Chinese and Soviet are negotiating for seaborne landing of Chinese Central Government troops in Manchuria. While no decisions have been leached regarding landings at Port Arthur and Dairen, both Governments are
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  • 143 4/1 When the patty taken by the frigate Rother to relieve Christmas Island explored, they discovered that since the departure of the Japs the 500 inhabitants of this remote spot, a few hundred miles from troubled Java, had 1 een governed by a local non-poliiical
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  • 34 4/1 Reuter. Washington, Oct. 24.—The United Nations Organisation came formally into existence to-night, when James Byrnes, United States Secretary of State, signed the protocol of the deposit of ratifications to the United Nations Charter.— Reuter.
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  • 53 4/1 Reuter. London, Oct. 24.—Manchester and London dockers at mass meetings to-day decided to remain on strike, despite Union leaders' calls to resume work. Well over 40,000 men are still out in ports throughout Britain. Thus, hopes expressed that there might be an early end of the strike have been dashed
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  • 96 4/1 Reuter. London, Oct. 24.—The third anniversary of the battle of El Alamein was celebrated with a luncheon and dinner in London yesterday. At the dinner, Ernest Bevin, Foreign Minister, declared: "j am hoping that out of this great struggle, we shall leave behind for ever the idea
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  • 160 4/1 Reuter. Batavia, Oct. 23.—The entire itaff of the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration's gaol in Batavia have been suspended following investigations of conditions there by a British staff officer. The 280 inmates of the gaolmost of them Indonesians arrested for looting during the past two weeks'
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  • 76 4/1 Reuter. Oslo, Oct. 24.—The newspaper. Aften Posten, reports that Vidkun Quisling, who was condemned to death for high treason, was shot last night at Akershus prison, Oslo. No official confirmation is yet available. Oslo Chief of Police today refused to comment on the report of Quisling's execution. An
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  • 576 2/3 of the prerogative* of the independent state is that it shall be permitted from time to time to make the front page of the world press. Sarawak has exercised this prerogative on only rare occasions, but it seems to have done so this time with a sure
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  • 1294 2/3 THE first part of a circular issued by the "Malayan Rubber Estate Owners' Company"— an interim overall organization formed in London to function till the industry is 'restored to its pre-war production capacity —was published in Monday's Tv*nla"q TViWnno. A of the second part
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  • 158 2/3 TT is announced in London that ■'■the Rajah of Sarawak is to return to Kuching to resume his rule. This decision follows the dismissal of the Provisional Government of Sarawak which was headed by the Rajah's nephew, Mr. Anthony Brooke. Mr. Brooke has been deprived
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  • 76 2/3 Reuter. Chungking, Oct. 22.—Governor of Shantung Province, Ho Shu-yuan, who on Saturday reported that Communists were still fighting Central Government forces in Shantung, said to-day: "These undeclared civil wars in the province must stop. Central Government troops are on the defensive against Communist attacks. Communists occupy two-thirds
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  • 161 2/3 The New York Herald Tribune correspondent in New Delhi says tnat from all indications the Ledo Road linking India and China will be allowed to return to the jungle from which it was carved. The correspondent says the road, its wartime mission accomplished, is today
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  • 146 2/3 APTLY named "Operation Exodus" by the Royal Navy, f>ne of the strangest combined operations in history has now stalled on Rembnng Island, near Singapore, whore the first batch lof 120,000 Japs from Malaya, Andamans and the Nicobars have begun to create a concentration camp for themselves for a
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  • 43 2/3 Brutality at its worst is depicted in the above picture where Jap soldiers are seen cold-bloodedly utilising Indian prisoners-of-war as "targets" for shooting practice. This almost incredible picture was taken by the Japs themselves. (Picture by courtesy of Inter-services Public Relations Directorate, India).
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  • 149 2/3 Reuter. London, Oct. 23. The national delegate confer ence of dockeis in Lorc'on today representing docktrs of all ports, passed a resolution uiging immediate resumption of work. Il pledged full support to ensure there would be no victimisation. Another resolution was adop ted declaring employers'
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  • 96 2/3 Reuter. Tokyo, Oct. 23. The first hundred letters received by the Supreme Commander ol the Allied Occupation Forces, General Douglas Macarthur, from the Japanese people were all in favour of the occupation policy, it was stated today. This was taken as an indication that critics
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  • 88 2/3 Reuter. Shanghai, Oct. 23. The Commander-in-Chief of the United States Forces in China said the return home of United States forces in west China would be completed by Nov. 14, and that he hoped the remainder of United States military personnel in Shanghai and other
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  • 28 2/3 Reuter. Washington, Oct. 22.—The United States Secretary of Agriculture said rationing of fats and oils in the United States may end on the first of January or earlier—Reuter.
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  • 72 2/3 Reuter. London, Oct. 22. The Washington correspondent of the London Daily Express delares that, according to reports in Washington, Generalissimo Stalin 'will soon step out of some of his war-time jobs in the Soviet Government and put more authority in Foreign Minister Molotov's hands". The correspondent
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  • 77 2/3 Reuter. Paris, Oct. 22.—A pronounced swing to the Left and the emergence of the Catholic Progressive Movement (Republicain Populaire) as the leading Conservative Party were the mam features of the French Election results as they stood this morning, when final results were still awaited in 24 departments.
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  • 101 2/3 Reuter. Cairo, Oct. 22. Egyptian Army units were called in today to assist in restoring order at Fuad University, where clashes took place between groups of students with di fieri ng political views. Trouble at the university has been simmering for some days. Soldiers intervened,
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  • 46 2/3 Reuter. Tokyo, Oct. 22. Sweeping changes in Japan's education system are embodied in an order issued by General Macarthur today, aiming at uprooting from Japan feudal militarism and other disastrous ideologies", a d substituting instruction in the ways of peace.—Keuter.
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  • 146 2/3 Reuter. London, Oct. 23. Tension in Palestine has eased and there is a feeling among both Jews and Arabs they could reach some agreement "if they could be left alone", reports the Jerusalem correspondent of the London Daily Herald. Speaking of "the distaste of a great
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  • 135 2/3 Reuter. New York, Oct. 20.—Close cooperation with Russia and China is essential for successful achievement of the objectives of American policy in the Far East, declared United States State Department to-day. The statement was issued through John Carter Vincent, Director of the State Department's Office of
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  • 106 2/3 Reuter. Madrid Oct. 23 For the f rst tieie under the Franco regime pamphlets, considered seditious, have been distributed openly in view of scores of civil guards. On Sunday afternoon when the bull-fight arena was jammed with spectators, distributors arose and flung handfuls of leaflets and
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  • 80 2/3 Reuter. Hamburg, Oct. 20.—A1l live German U-boat men, accused of murdering Allied seamen struggling in the Atlantic after their ship had been torpedoed, were found guilty by the British military court here this afternoon. Captain Heinz Eck, Commander of the U852, Lieutenant Hoffman, one of the
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  • 56 2/3 In loving memory ot our beloved brother UN HON WING killed in a car accident on Oct. 24th, '45 at 2 a.m. O gentle child, beautiful as thou art Why didst thou leave the trodden paths of men Too soon, and with weak hands though mighty heart Dare
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