Malaya Tribune, 24 January 1946

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  • 29 4/1 The Malaya Tribune Telephone: 5811. The Newspaper Of The People Of Malaya FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY JANUARY 24, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune Thursday, January L'l. X94t>.
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  • 554 4/1 COUNTR V TURNING ECONOMIC CORNER "Considering the present situation as I know it, 1 feel that there is a reasonable hope that Malaya will have turned the immediate economic corner during the next month or two." Thus stated M-ijor-G ener a 1 H. R. Hone,
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  • 153 4/1 In the most vigorous drive yet to smash the black market racket in cigarettes, officers of the customs oxpartment on Tuesday staged mass nuds in various districts of the island, resulting in the arrest of 77 cigarette pedlars, all of whom were yesterday produced in court.
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  • 244 4/1 The question of providing shipping facilities for the return of Mulayan evacuees in India was again before the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday when Mr. R. Jumabhoy and Mr. Tan Chin Tuan put up a utiong case on behalf of the evacuees. Mr. Jumabhoy said that only 50
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  • 106 4/1 New maximum prices for certain foodstuffs have been fixed by the Deputy Food Controller, Singapore, j The new prices are as follows: Wheat flour, wholesale price $10.95 per plcul, retail 12 cents per katl: »ugar, $10.50 per picul, 12 cents per katl; salt, $5 per plcul, six
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  • 32 4/1 The Allied Control Council in Berlin has agreed to receive military mtsstons from 16 United Nattons including China. The State Department announced that missions will De stationed four to each occupation centre.
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  • 221 4/1 Putting up a strong plea at the Singapore Advisory Council meeting yesterday on behalf of the wives and children and the dependents of the missing Chinese in this country during the Jap occupation, Dr. Chen Su Lan urged the authorities: tt) to send
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  • 117 4/1 Associated Press. NEW DELHI, Jan. 23.—The Indian Legislative Assembly today voted to censure the India Government on the continued detention of political prisoners and others without trial. Members of the Congress and of the Moslem League joined together in a voice vote after a debate.
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  • 69 4/1 CHUNGKING, Jan. 23.—The Chinese Government today released Liao Shen-chi, member of the Central Commities of the Communist Party who has been in custody for about four years as a token of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's pledge to release political prisoners. Llao. who was the Communist
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  • 45 4/1 SINGAPORE, TODAY. One ol the ten Japanese accused of war crimes was discharged shortly after noon today, when the court found that he had no ease to meet. Lt. Kajiro Riyuichi. the fourth accused, was discharged after the prosecution case had been concluded.
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  • 405 4/1 Greece, Persia, Java Said Discussed Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 23,—The arrival in London of the Chief Soviet deleg a te, Andrei Vyshinsky, was today followed by a bustle of diplomatic activity culminating in the meeting of the Security Council behind closed doors at which both
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  • 70 4/1 United Press. CHUNGKING. Jan. 23.—General George C. Marshall, President Truman's special envoy to China, today officially accepted the position of adviser to the military sub-committee of the PCC which Is studying the re-or-ganizing and nationalization of the Chinese army. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek personally appointed
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  • 148 4/1 Associated Press. SHANGHAI, Jan. 23.—China plans to acquire Japan's former world textile markets, a business estimated as high as $300,000,000 annually, said Premier T. V. Soong today. He said that a new govern-ment-sponsored textile development company had the full support of shipping and
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  • 141 4/1 Reuter. BATAVIA, Jan. 23.—Four British soldiers were slightly wounded when a patrol ran into stiff opposition at Kempreng and Dodokan, near the east Java port of Sourabaya, official sources stated today. British artillery was used and opposition was dispersed. Batavia, capital of Java, was generally
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  • 136 4/1 Reuter. BANGKOK, Jan. 23.—aiams boy King Ananda Mahdol conferred Slant's highest honour on Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander in South-East Asia Command, before he lejt for Singapore. The boy King decorated Admiral Mountbatten with the "most exalted order of the White Elephant."
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  • 70 4/1 United Press. MOSCOW, Jan. 23.—Radio Moscow reported today that Russia's national economy and citizenry had suffered a total of 679 billion roubles war damage. This would amount to approximately 272 billion Straits dollars at the present rate of exchange. The broadcast also said that the Soviet machine
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  • 92 4/1 Reuter. CHUNGKING, Jan. 23.—Dr. Jansen, UNRRA field representative, said today on his return from eastern Kwangtung, in Southern China, that residents of Swatow had told him that famine and disease were accounting for so many deaths that "people stagger up to coffins lined up by a charitable
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  • 151 4/1 Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 23.—The strike of "some thousands of airmen" at the Royal Air Force station and transit camp of Mauripur, near Karachi, was referred to by Mr. Trm Driberg. Labour member in the House of Commons, today. Asked if he had any information,
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  • 186 4/1 Reuter. ATHENS, Jan. 23,—The Greek Royalist "X" rebels having failed to comply with the Government's ultimatum, a battalion of Greek National Guard, assisted by a battalion of the gendarmerie, early today made a sweep of the hilly Messenia area, in southern Peloponnesus, where the rebel forces
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  • 63 4/1 Reuter. BANGKOK, Jan. 23.—A Siam-ese-Chinese treaty was signed in Bangkok today by Seni Lemot Setipraman, Siamese Premier and Foreign Minister, and Li Tleh-chen, Chinese representative. The treaty provides for the establishment of diplomatic relations and contains clauses giving the nationals of each country resident in the other the
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  • 58 4/1 Reuter. TOKYO, Jan. 23.—A1l Parliamentary Vice Ministers (deputise to Cabinet Ministers) and Privy Councillors tonight tendered their resignations to Baron Kijuro Shidehara, Japanese Prime Minister, "so as to enable the administration to be fair and impartial in the forthcoming general election." The resignations will be formally accepted at
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  • 50 4/1 Reuter. PARIS, Jan. 23.—Felix Gouin was elected head of the new F»rench Government by 417 votes out of 555 that were cast tonight. Michel Clemenceau, son of the former Prime Minister, received 35 votes. Gen. de Gaulle received 3 votes. Seventeen votes were also given for Jacques Bardoux, former Right-winger.—Reuter.
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  • 121 4/1 Bose Day In India Reuter. BOMBAY, Jan. 23.—The police used tear gas and bamboo staves to disperse, a procession In Bombay today in celebration of the birthday of Subhas Chandra Bose, former head of the Japanese-sponsored "Indian National Government." About 30 persons were treated m
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  • 331 4/1 A.P. CALCUTTA, Jan. 23.—Subhas Chandra Bose's birthday was signalled here this afternoon by processions and chanting of Vedic incantations. As the day broke today, choral .squads, detachments of Gandhicapped young men. college and school students, bugle bands and other processionists appeared on the Streets throughout Calcutta. They paraded
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  • 24 4/1 U.P. CHUNGKING. Jan. 23.—The Chinese delegation to the London ChiefSJ-of-Staff conference headed by General Shane Chen left for London today. Centra*• News Agency reports—U.P.
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  • 599 2/3 2T must have been somewhat disconcerting to the Colonial Oilicc that the Malayan Union plan, whose mam outlines have oeen known in this country since early October, has evoked little enthusiasm among the people of the country. This unwonied taciturnity op the part of Malaya in regard
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  • 140 2/3 Reuter. LANARK, SCOTLAND, Jan. 22.—1t was time for Britain to say "no" to Russia's demands which went far beyond anything which could reasonably be necessary for her own security, asserted former Foreign Under Secretary Lord Dunglash here to-d#y. "The Russian Government
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  • 184 2/3 Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 23.- An Anglo-Russlan-American communique last night announced thai "operable surface craft" of the German navy would be divided equally among the Big Three powers, writes Associated Press correspondent Edward Creagh. A number of German warships may be transferred to the French
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  • 31 2/3 Associated Press. CHUNGKING, Jan. 23.—Madame Chiang Kai-shek arrived on Jan. 22 in Changchun, capital of Manchuria on a goodwill mission, a Chinese dispatch said.— 1 Associated Press.
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  • 311 2/3 The alarming prevalence of tuberculoses among the civilian population of Singapore running into approximately 100,000 cases and the urgent measures required to tackle the problem were emphasised by Dr. Chen Su Lan at the third Advisory Council meeting yesterday. The situation, he said,
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  • 40 2/3 Associated Press. CHUNGKING, Jan. 22.—A Chinese dispatch reported the arrival of Admiral Lord Bruce Frnser at Amoy. Frascr. who commands the English Pacific fleet was reported to he aboard the hattlesbip Duke of York.— Associated Press.
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  • 196 2/3 Associated Press. BRITISH OCCUPATION HQ, GERMANY, Jan. 23.—British authorities are holding an attractive 18-year-old girl who gives the name of GoteTind Toriensen and claims that Adolf Hitler was her father. During numerous interrogations since her arrest in the Magderburg area, she has insisted that
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  • 28 2/3 Reuter. TOKYO, Jan. 23.—Gen. Mac-Arthur tonight ordered the arrest at the "earliest practicable date" of a further 48 Japanese suspected of war crimes. The list includes three Liouten-ant-Generals.—Reuter.
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  • 533 2/3 "Public Ought To Be Told Target Date" Urging for an early resumption ol civil administration in Malaya at the third Singapore Advisory Council meeting yesterday, Mr. Tan Chin Tuan suggested that the Supremo be advised to fix a target date for such change-over arid that it
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  • 103 2/3 Reuter. DURBAN, Jan. 22,—Twentytwo Indians in Natal, South Africa, nave asked the Government of India to appeal to the Assembly of the United Nations now sitting in London against ihe Bill freezing property deals between Indians and other races that was announced by Gen.
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  • 77 2/3 Prices of beer have been fixed as follows. Locally brewed, sold for consumption on or off any premises —$1.00 for each small pint bottle and $1.75 for each large quart bottle. In the case of a small bottle sold for consumption off any premises, an additional charge of
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  • 49 2/3 Civilians are not allowed to travel in military vehicles except on Government duty, an announcement from Headquarters, Singapore Area, SEAC, says. If any civilians do so they are unauthorised passengers, and, in the event of an accident the War Department will accept no responsibility for any injury or loss.
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  • 104 2/3 A visitor to the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday was Mr. Harold Davis, M.P. (Leek Division). Major-Genera 1 H. R. Hone, Chief Civil Affairs Officer, B.M.A. (Maiaya) extended him a hearty welcome to the council on behalf of all the members. Mr. Davis, who briefly addressed the
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  • 115 2/3 (From Our Own Correspondent) IPOH, Jan. 22.—Due to the efforts of the 25th Indian AntiTank Battery, under the command of Lt.-Col. G. H. Searle, vital parts of machinery belonging to mines looted during the transiiion period have been recovered, and will probably lead to an early resumption
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  • 90 2/3 At a meeting held recently of members of the Singapore Government Servants' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society, Ltd- Dr. A. A. Sandosham was elected Chairman. Messrs. S. Sinnathamby and A. S. Wanchik were .elected hon; secretary and hon: treasurer respectively. The other Committee members are Messrs.
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  • 439 2/3 The evidence of only one witness was recorded at yesterday's session of the War Crimes Court, where ten officers and men of the Japanese occupation forces are standing trial on various charges of cruelties, torture and murder of Allied prisoners of war. Witness for the prosecution,
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