Malaya Tribune, 11 December 1945

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  • 285 4/1 THREE HUNDRED dance hostesses working in Great World Cabarets struck work last night when they failed to get a satisfactory reply to certain demands they had made on the management. They are meeting this afternoon to discuss the situation. Inquiries made this morning reveal
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  • 85 4/1 Reuter. OTTAWA, Dec. 9.—Negotiations for a Canadian loan to Britain are not expected to present serious difficulties, say financial officials here. The Canadian attitude has been all along that Canada will advance Britain all the credit she requires to buy goods in Canada. Whether that will
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  • 70 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 9.—Thousands of civU and military police all over London were combining during the night in an effort to check the unprecedented crime wave which is sweeping the city and country generally. This all-out activity followed a whole week in which kidnappings, burglaries, hold-ups and
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  • 40 4/1 The East-West Club of Singapore will hold its second meeting at the Wesley Church Hall, Fort Canning, at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 14. Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, head of the Chinese Bureau of Missing Persons, will address the meeting.
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  • 137 4/1 Reuter. MADRAS, Dec. 10— India beat the Australian Services touring team by six wickets in the third and final test and incidentally the last game of the Australian tour of India. The Australians who were 148 for one overnight were today all out for 277. India
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  • 86 4/1 In future, and 1 until further notice, the weekly meeting will be held at G.H. Cafe, Battery Road, Singapore, at 5.15 p.m. and wUI be a tea-meet-ing. AU Rotarians are requested to take notice of the present arrangements for future meetings. The speaker tomorrow will be Colonel K.C.
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  • 73 4/1 Associated Press. WASHINGT.ON, Dec. 8:—The U.S. Navy announced to-day that Japanese submarine commander Ike Hassimoto had been called to Washington as a witness before the navy court martial in an effort to determine whether the U.S.S. Indiapanolis was torpedoed. He was summoned by the Judge
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  • 77 4/1 SEATLLE, Dec. 9.—(UP).—Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion, said yesterday that he is ready at any time to drop the vaudeville circuit and return to the ring. He has been appearing in a theatre here in a 14--minute act. Louis said that he is now 15
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  • 48 4/1 MOSCOW, Dec. 10.—(UP) .—Russia has her eyes on the next Olympic games following the successful tour of Britain of her Dynamo football team. If Russia participate sporting experts predict that she will bag the lion's share of the successes since Russians are highly developed athleJtes.
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  • 39 4/1 Reuter. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 9—According to the New York Times the Danish Government expects to start negotiations with the new Republic of Iceland next month regarding its altered status following Iceland's declaration of independence from )the Crown.—Reuter.
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  • 26 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, TODAY,-Reginald Arthur humphries, 29 year-old teacher who during the war broadcast from Germany as "Father Donovan," was sentenced to five years, penal
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  • 94 4/1 Reuter. COLOMBO, Dec. 10.—The first batch of refugees evacuated from Java is expected to arrive in Ceylon tomorrow. The services in Ceylon have made arrangements to provide for 5,000 refugees until they could return to Java when conditions improve or other permanent arrangements could be made
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  • 501 4/1 Viceroy Reiterates Freedom Pledge Reuter. it- Dec 10 --The Viceroy of India. leld Marshal Lord Wavell, speaking at the meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India in Calcutta to-day declared he did not believe that an agreed solution between the parties in India
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  • 250 4/1 "I can assure you," the Viceroy said, "that His Majesty's Government and I as their agent will do their best to secure an agreement to help India form a constitution and secure the support of the principal parties of the Central Government to enable them to
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  • 57 4/1 Reuter. CANBERRA, Dec. 10.—Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, SuDreme Allied Commander in South-East Asia, has postponed his projected visit to Australia, this month, it was announced here today. Mr. J.B. Chifley, Australian Prime Minister, has been advised that the reason is continued unsettled conditions in the
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  • 129 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 10.—Chungking radio says one division of Russian troops will arrive in the Japanese home islands early in 1946, according to an official in Gen. MacArtlmr's Planning and Operations Section. He said, the radio added, there was no information on reports that the Russians
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  • 241 4/1 Reuter. TEHERAN, Dec. 10.—The Persian Government former "Superior Council" consisting of six members, mostly former premiers, is to direct emergency affairs in Persia. Persia's Prime Minister, Ibrahim Hakimi, today told the press that the three Allied countries should remove their forces from Persia,
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  • 24 4/1 SHANGHAI, Dec. 10.—(UP)—The former Japanese Ambassador to the Nanking puppet government, Masayuki Tani, has surrendered to Chinese authorities, lt was reported today.
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  • 423 4/1 NUREMBERG, Dec. 11.—(UP). Active planning for the invasion of Russia took place four months before the actual attack, documents read by Prosecutor Sydney Alderman revealed yesterday at the trial of the Nazi war criminal suspects. The minutes of the conference between Hitler and his
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  • 753 4/1 Reuter and Assorted Press. BATAVIA, Dec. 10-Today the Royal Air Force barracks at Kramat—district of Batavia—were attacked with rifles, machine-guns and grenades and an unsuccessful attempt was made to set fire to the buildings with torches. At Kamajoran airfield, Batavia, men of an RAF regiment
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  • 622 2/3 AMONG (he questions to be 'discussed at Moscow is file'scope and method of Aided %drkr6l of Japan. There tea been -some progress since the first meeting of the Far Ratter n Advisory Commission, fcui as far.as Russian interest Is concerned we know little more than that Russia
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  • 151 2/3 Associated Press. TOKYO, Dec. 10.—Japanese forces in Malaya intended to continue resistance alter Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender, but an Imperial envoy convinced them they should lay down their arms, a Japanese civilian repatriate said today. Shinichi Kara, f6rmer Singapore correstiondent of'the Domel
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  • 108 2/3 NUREMEERG, Dec. 9.—(UP) A written statement by Rudolph Hĕss, former deputy German fuhrer, confirms the claim of his defence that he flew to Britain as a peace emissary on May 10, 1941, it was disclosed yesterday. "I told the Duke of Hamilton that I had
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  • 161 2/3 Associated Press. TOKYO, Dec. 10.—Nagakage Okabe, former attache in the Japanese Embassy in Washington and Minister of Education in Tojo's Cabinet, surrendered himself at the Sugama prison to-day as a "war criminal suspect. Two others named as suspects by General Mac Arthur's headquarters also
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  • 84 2/3 CHUNGKING. Dec. H._(TJP)._ The China Central News Agency, in a dispatch from Changchun yesterday, said that complete agreement had been reached between representatives of Soviet Russia and the Chinese National Government concerning the air transport of Nationalist troops to Manchuria. The report stated that the Russians were to
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  • 65 2/3 Associated Press. BOMBAY. Dec. 10.—After ten daws' stay in Bombay. Gen. Sir William Slim, the famous commander of Fourteenth Army in Burma, left Bombay on Saturday for England. With the General were, Lady Slim and a daughter. Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, chief of the British Imperial General Staff,
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  • 271 2/3 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 9—America's part in China's undeclared ctvil war is expected to be clarified within the next lew days writes the Observer s special correspondent at Chinese army headquarters in Manchuria. "Whether the clarification will be I publicised is questionable,"
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  • 107 2/3 WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.— (UP).—Hussein Ali, Iranian Ambassador to the United States, yesterday revealed that he had delivered to the U.S. State Department a commentary taking issue with Moscow's reply to the American note asking withdrawal of troops from Iran. "We do not want Russian or British influence
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  • 47 2/3 TEHERAN, Dec. 10.—(UP)«—The Iranian Government has been superseded by a six-man "superior council" directed by Premier Abrahim Hakim. The council includes four former premiers and one former Minister of Industry. The council was formed because of the state of emergency caused by the Azerbaijan disturbances.
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  • 136 2/3 Reuter. LONDON. Dec. 9.—Melbourne radio stated today ihat 400 bo-' dies, believed to be British artillerymen who died as the result of ill-treatment while prisoners of war, have been exhumed by the Australian forces on Ballale Island of the Short land Group. Statements by Chinese on the
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  • 100 2/3 Reuter. CHUNGKING, Dec. 9. —President Chiang Kai-shek to-day intervened in the Kunming incident when he wired the authorities of various universities, colleges and middle schools in the Yunnan capital, urging an early end of the student strike which followed the throwing of a hand-grenade to
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  • 68 2/3 LONDON. Dec. 10.—(UP)—Most quarters here consider it highly probable that a meeting of the "Big Five" foreign Francis Georges Bidault and Chinese Dr. Wang Shih Chieh—will follow quickly after the Moscow meeting. British official quarters could not confirm whether the "Big Five" meeting would be
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  • 23 2/3 Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10 King Gustaf of Sweden, who is 87 years old, resumed tennis practice tcday after a fortnight's Illness.—Associated Press.
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  • 230 2/3 NEW YORK, Dec. B.—(UP)._ Americans have a surprisingly distorted view of Asia and the Asiatics which, unless corrected, "may cause us to flounder badly among the post-war problems which are certain bp confront us," says Vanya Oakes, wlu spent nine years as a reporter in
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  • 200 2/3 Reuter. LONDON. Dec. 9 —In spite of shipping difflcuJties and war losses. British shipping companies are doing their utmost to speed up the resumption of regular traffic with the Far East. Australia and New Zealand where the total disappearance of Japanese and German
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  • 525 2/3 Reuter. LONDON. Dec. 10.—There seems no doubt that the Russian policy with regard to Persia is to "soften up" enough of the country to make it a permanently Russian sphere of influence and some of it a Russian possession, writes the former Conservative M. F.
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  • 337 2/3 Court Told Of Mandai Gun Battle A gun-battle betweea police and gangsters at dusk on Oct. 23 m the lonely Mandai Road, the mcrtal wounding of Tan Seng Chye, youthful leader of a notorious gang of thugs, and his death, comprised the highlights in the
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  • 145 2/3 In connection with the armed robbery and subsequent gun duel at Paya Lebar, Saturday evening, four Chinese were produced before Mr. R. C. Hoffman, in the fourth district court, yesterday. The men charged were Tee Kean (49>, Nee Kow Kirn (34), Hee Thong Hean (36), and
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  • 101 2/3 DEATH: Madam Leong Ngan, aged 84 years, beloved mother of Fong Chong Cheng and Pong Foon of Lee Hong Engine Works, passed away peacefully on December 9, 1945, at 11-20 a.m. Funeral will take place on Wednesday, December 12, 1945, at 1-00 p.m. MADAM LIM GEOK ENG, age 63,
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  • 50 2/3 According to official information received by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Kao Ling-pai, prr-war Chinese ConsulGeneral at Singapore, will be returning shortly to assume the same post. Arrangements are complete to 1-reive him at the same premises he occupied before the Japanese assault on Malaya.
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  • 123 2/3 Mr. Aw Boon Haw, well-known Malayan millionaire-philanthropist, returned to Singapore from Hong Kong by flying-boat yesterday evening after a forced exile of four years. Mr. Aw was captured and imprisoned by the Japs at Hong Kong and later he was flown to Tokyo
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  • 47 2/3 A suggestion to form an allCeyloncse association in Singapore was made at a meeting of the Ceylon Tamils' Association held on Saturday evening. It was decided to get in touch with other Ceylonese bodies at present functioning with regard to the implementing of the suggestion.
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  • 49 2/3 Pupils of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus held a highly successful repeat performance of a Christmas concert yesterday at the school hall. The performance was given specially for the benefit of the Services. Among those present was Major D. Roper, Education Officer. 8.M.A., Singapore Division.
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  • 187 2/3 During his talks with the Com-manders-in-Chief in Singapore ihls Week, Lord Alanbrooke. Chief of the Imperial General Staff, discussed with Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, the vital role of the Air Forces in South East Asia. In peace as in war,
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