Malaya Tribune, 12 April 1946

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  • 29 1 The Malaya Tribune Telephone: 6811. The Newspaper Of The People Of Malaya FOUR PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1946 PRICE 10 CENT* The Malaya Tribune Friday, April 12, 1946.
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  • 97 1 Reuter. COLOMBO, Apr. 11—The Governor ol Ceylon, Sir Henry Monckmason Moore, accompanied by the leader oj the State Council, D.S. aenanayake. and the Ceylon Food Commissioner, K. Vaithianthan, uill leave for Singapore on Saturday to attend thp South-East Asia food conference opening on
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  • 261 1 British Troops Leave Java Reuter. BAT AY lA, Apr. 11.—The British military spokesman here said today that several thousand British and Indian troops left Java this week. Meanwhile. Reuter reports from London taat the lnaones*an constitutional issue will t>e taKen a stage iurtner this
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  • 224 1 Reuter. ATA VTA. Anr. 11—Since Mar. 21 some 12.000 Japanese troops have left Sumatra, but many thousands are still left, the British official military spokesman declared here today. He added that Japanese staffs arr.ved at Soerakarta this morning and have set up an evacuation headquarters. While
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  • 28 1 Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, is expected in Singapore this afternoon en route to Sarawak. Sir Charles will arrive by plane at Kallang at 2 p.m.
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  • 73 1 A.P. NEW YORK. Apr, 10.—Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken. president of Vassar College announced on Wednesday that a conference of representatives from at least 15 nations would be held at Oxford University from July 29 to Aug. S to devise a world plan for combating religious intolerance
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  • 125 1 LONDON. Apr. 2.—Mr. Noel Rees. of Llanshaidar, Denbigh. North Wales, an officr of the Malayan Educational Service was granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court. London, on Mar. 29 on the ground of his wife's acultery. The suit was not defended. Mr. Rees married
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  • 469 1 ATTLEE CALLS FOR RETURN TO WARTIME MEASURES WASHINGTON, APR. 11.—PRESIDENT TRUMAN DECLARED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY THAT THE WORLD FOOD SITUATION WAS DEFINITELY IMPROVING AND THAT THE CRISIS WOULD BE
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  • 328 1 Reuter. CHUNGKING, Apr. 11.—A three-point peace plan to end the spreading civil strife in Manchuria was today rejected by the Chinese Central Government though accepted by the Communists. The plan was put forward by Shang Hlan, leader of China's third party, the Democratic League,
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  • 235 1 A.P. NEW YORK. Apr. 12 —A majority cf the United Nations Security Council members was lined up unofficially today in favour of a complete airing of Poland's accusation that the Franco regime of Spain is a menace to peace and is harbouring German rcientists experimenting on
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  • 174 1 A.P. J TOKYO. Apr. 11—Capt. Beverly I Coleman, a United States navy officer now sitting as President of the E:ehth Arm y Commission trying war criminals in Yokohama, has been selected j to become chief defence attorney for 'x-premier Tojo and .other
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  • 94 1 LONDON, Apr. 11.-The death was announced today of two peers who rose to eminence rrom mod-st beginnings—Lord Southwood and Lord May. Lord Southwood started his working life as a newspaper delivery boy at three shillings a week and the controller of Britain's largest newspaper and
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  • 43 1 A.P. PHILADELPHIA. untitled 9—The N«w ha c that Admtnl Richard Halsey is resting romfortabh' in a Philadelphia Naval hospital where he is receiving treatment of an upper respiratory infection. It is said his condition is good and there Is no cause for alarm.—A.P.
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  • 159 1 Jap elections Reuter. TOKYO, Apr. 11.—A 38-year-old housewife. Mrs. Satoko Togano, is the first candidate of either sex to be virtually assured of election to the Japanese Diet. Representing the Japanese Party she polled 24,000 votes. Her husband, Takeshi Togano who was a member
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  • 530 1 Reuter. TOKIO, Apr. 11.—Incomplete returns from Japan's first free elections show tonight that the most potent factor in the voting was the Emperor. "•vwvuujr me large majority of tne country's 36.0u0,000 voters went to the polls with the express purpose of proving
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  • 66 1 Murdered Ate Up Daughter Reuter. TOKYO, Apr. ll.—Hatsuko Mogi, 33-?/ear-o'(f Japanese woman, was sentenced to serve a term of penal servitude today for killing her 17--year-old imbecile daughter and feeding her fiesh to the rest of her family. The case which was tried at the local court in Gumma Prefecture
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  • 289 1 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 11.—A revolution would occur if the British tried to force Pakistan on the Indian peoDle. declared Sardar Sant Singh, Sikh leader, at the Amritsar.Dav celebration here organised by the India League. The celebrat on was to commemorate incidents in Amrltsar in
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  • 131 1 Associated Press. WASHINGTON, April .-The Senate Banking Committee has endorsed the proposed British loan by 15 to 4. J Senator Barkley predicted that the Senate would approve the loan by a substantial majority. The prospect of a sharp debate was indicated by a
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  • 130 1 Reuter. BAGDAD Art". 11 —Iraq mH shortly Br tain for a revision ol the Anglo-Iraqi treaty of 1930, it is iwr-tad tod9 Tr Tb* Irai To-e'gn Office has prepared n deta led memorandum on 1-nn's attitude to the treaty which irffl soon be submitted through <• momatic channels
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  • 97 1 Reuter. COLOMBO, Apr. 11.—Four thousand Italian prisoners of war have left Ceylon for their home-land which some of them have not seen for the last eight or nine years. Most of the men were captured in the early campaigns in the Middle East: many fought
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  • 26 1 A.P. WASHINGTON, Apr. 10.—The U.S Government today asserted It has broken up world match monopoly and cleared the way for American manufacture of an "everlasting match."—A.P.
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  • 178 1 In a few lines..... Reuter. t WASHINGTON, Apr. 11—President j Truman announced ton ght that Gen George Marshall is returning immediately to China as his special envoy I The President said he had d.scussed Gen. Marshall's plans with the I former Army Chief of
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  • 88 1 Reuter. PARIS, Apr. 11.-one cf the biggest 'round-ups" ever c r nea out in Paris was ma. /J n c s V burb of Sain t £>ehi« v.nere 35 coloured United S'ater LokLers were arrest, d after a re\olver battle. United States military poii< ?EI P^K,
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  • 53 1 A.P. BANGKOK. April n._Charles Yost the United States Charge d Affaires. said «hat a $10 000 000 credit has been eranted to Siam by the United States for the purchase of American *rmy surplus property at Manila. An additional 510.000.u00 cr-dlt may be granted if found
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    2558 2  -  By Henry Commager In the spring of 1945, when the United Nations were grimly engaged in the last bitter stages of the war, word flashed round the world of the death of the American president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had died suddenly, late on the afternoon of April 12,
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  • 699 2  -  Britain's Women Workers Cling To Their Jobs By BARBARA WACE Associated Press Writer Kngltsh sjomen aren't fiork'.ng back to cradle and kitchen qu.te as fasi as was expected. But the «UOO the Bri».sh girl is clinging to her job is not purely a desre for
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  • 280 2 Associated Press. TOKYO, Apr. 11.—The school- veacher who had terrorized his little puplis with a fantastic story that an American soldier cold-bloodedly murdered ten Japanese boys by plunging nis jeep back and forth across their j helpless bodies stood before 1.000 'students and said: "I must
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  • 267 3 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Apr. ltf—A letter Irom Winston unuicnin warning the lute President Koo&eveit t«-n months beiore Jr'earl Harbour that in her present muoa Japan wouiu nave no Hesitation in making war was presented today to tne Uongressionai Committee investigating the Japanese attack of
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  • 11 3 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 9.-Feistead Derby 9.— venues lei- Lis U. u»
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  • 229 3 Associated Pross. NITW YORK, April 10,—An international assembly of women to discuss political, economic and social problems now facing the United Nations, is scheduled in October, it was announced at a dinner here in honour of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today. The meeting will
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  • 89 3 A.P. TOKIO. April 9.—Orders and defence plans for fortification in direct violation of the League ol Nations covenant of the Pacific mandated islands must be turned over to the International Prosecution Section. SCAP had ordered the Japanese m- nt The covenant giving Jap.tn control of the islands'
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  • 106 3 Reuter. LONDON. Apr. 10. —Prime Mm uter Clement Attlee. Mr. Winston Churchill, six Field Marshals and nine Generals were among a congregation of our 300 at a memorial service to the late Field Marshal Viseoun: G VC. at Westminster Abbey tcdiis. Their Majesties the KU%
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  • 34 3 A.P. BOMBAY, Apr,l 10.~Calcutta municipal corporation said in a statement that 19 persons, presumably destitutes, died of starvation in Calcutta in the first six days of April.—AP.
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  • 237 3 A.P. LONDON, Apr. 10. —Abdul Kajee, a young Indian cinema operator, son of a member of the South African Parliament, walked out of a King's Bench division provisional court in London today, after being detained in custody for nearly a month facing extradition
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  • 192 3 Reuter. CHUNGKING, Apr. 10.—Chinese Communists forces have started an all-out offensive against Peiping-Muk-den Railway in an effort to hamper the occupation of Manchuria by Chinese national forces, it was oflicially announced. Thousands of Communists soidievs are battering Sichong, 37 miles northeast of Shanhaikuan, Fengtai, Tunshan,
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  • 78 3 A.P. TEHERAN. Apr. 10—Radio Tabriz, iffcial voice of the newly-proclaimfd autonomous state of Azerbaijan was j heard for the first time last night. The first broadcast heard by moniI lota was a report by Premier Mir j Sayyid Jaffar Pishevari giving the oudget for the
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  • 168 3 A.P. SHANGHAI, Apr. 10.—Captain Hotojiro Tatsuta, commander of the Japanese firing squad that executed three of Doolittle's airmen in 1942, testified at the war crimes trial here that the fliers would die on the cross as Christ died and thus be "honoured
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  • 72 3 A.P. TOKYO, Apr. 10 —The 35th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. 25th Division (Tropic Lightning), in four months' of occupation duty, destroyed in Shizuoka Prefecture the following war materials: Over 13 million rounds of small arms and 100 rounds of artillery ammunition four cargo submarines and
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  • 90 3 Reuter. BERLIN, Apr. 10.—Gen. Vassili Sokolovsky is the new Soviet member of 'he Allied Control Council in place of Marshal Grigori Zhukov, who was appointed Commander-in-Chief ol the Soviet land forces. Gen. Sokolovsky informed the Council he had seen the appointed Com-mander-in-Chief of the
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  • 391 3 Reuter. LONDON. Apr. 10.—A declaration that "we are here to present at the bar of the world the case of Indians in South Africa" was made in London, yesterday by Ashwin Choudree of the South African Indian Congress delegation. Choudree. who is a
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  • 242 3 A.P. WASHINGTON, Apr. 11.—C. M. Chen, Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy and member of the Combined Food Cereals Committee today lauded the proposal of the British Government to ration bread if the United States would do so. He urged that "it is our view that
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  • 29 3 Reuter. LONDON, Apr. 10—Sir. Robert Craigie has been unanimously elected to act as chairman of the United Nations War Crimes Commission during the absence of Lord Wright in Tokyo.—Reuter.
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  • 111 4 A conference on the food crisis in South-East Asia will be held in Singapore under the chairmanship of Lord Killearn, Special Commissioner. The conference, which will open on April 15. will be attended by the Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia, the Governors of Burma. Ceylon,
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  • 65 4 Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, flying in an Avro York, covered the 12.321 miles of his tour to Australia and New Zealand in 58 hours 10 minutes flying time. This was an average ground speed of 212 miles an hour, including all take-offs and landings and
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  • 38 4 Mr. R. D. B. Mitchell, Australian Trade Information Officer, has arrived in Singapore by the "Charton" to join the, staff of Mr. Massey, the Australian Government Commissioner, whose office is at 4, Bishop's Gate.
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  • 238 4 Financial Secretaries To lift Id Conference (Tribune Staff Reporter) A conference in connection with the proposal to issue a Reconstruction Series of Savings Certificates for the Malayan Union and Singapore, some details of which were announced in January last, will be
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  • 305 4 More than a hundred summonses have been issued by the Food Control Inspectorate against coffeeshop proprietors for alleged offences of selling milk with coffee and for charging more than the controlled price for a cup of coffee. When the first 21 cases were called up
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  • 77 4 It has come to the notice of the Central Committee of the Ex-Service Comrades Association that certain unscrupulous persons are carrying out nefarious activities in the name of the M.P.A.J.A. This is interpreted as an attempt to discredit the M.P.A.J.A. The Central Committee of the ExService
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  • 134 4 A 30-yeir-old woman, Poon Jit Meng, described as a person from a good family, and according to Capt. K. H. Cantrell, prosecuting, "probably used as a pawn in trafficking opium." was sentenced to six months' r.i. by Mr. Kenneth M. Byrne, in the third police
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  • 116 4 At a meeting of the Singapore Indian Nationalist Muslims held o.i April 10. under the chair ma r.shiD of Mr. V. P. Abdulla. editor of the Kerla Bandhu Malayialam daily, three resolutions were adopted. It was decided to send cop.es of the resolutions to Maulana Abul Kalam
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  • 53 4 PENANG, Apr 9.—Penang will shortly be affected like Singapore under the Catering Premises Restriction Order which w.ll be -niorced here in a few more days. Cafes. coffee-shop.> and restaurants are prohibited from selling drinks and food containing any controlled items; but coffee-shops may use brown or rock sugar, accord.ng to
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  • 348 4 The War Crimes Tribunal presided over by Lt.-Col. C. H. Withers-Payne condemned to death by I aaging Eizo Takayoshi, a Japanese civil employee in eh rge of a gang of labourers at Nan cowry Island in the Andaman Group, on his being found guilty
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  • 288 4 The Bukit Timah Rubl ST Estates Ltd. in a circular to shareholders state that all the company's statutory and financial records were lost or destroyed during the Japanese occupation. The Secretaries are now in course of preparing new share register. Appended to the circular is a statement
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  • 130 4 (Tribune Correspondent) PENANG. Apr. 11.—Alec Davidson, a European, appeared oefore Wing Commander W. Foulsham in the District Court today charged with possession of arms. He was allowed bail on a personal bond of $100.000 and a cash security of $50,000. The accused was alleged
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  • 72 4 The new railway canteen was the scene of a farewell function arranged in honour of Messrs. K. Kathiravtloo, senior traffic inspector. A. Swiminathan. chief clerk, loco, department and Mr. A. Christian. a.-st. station master, Singapore. The first two are going on furlough to their homeland to recuperate
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  • 246 4 Union Legislative Council Constitu tion Criticised "Falls Far Short Of Expectations" (Tribune Correspondent) PENANG, Apr. 11.—Two announcements were made by the Jlesident Commissioner, Mr. Norman Grice, at the first meeting of the Advisory Council in Georgetown yesterday. One is that the Penang Municipality will soon be re-esta-blished as soon as
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  • 174 4 A.P. FRANKFURT, Apr. 11.—Inventions worth millions of dollars to American industries were found among the several thousand wartime patents of Germany's big I. G. Farben industry, military sources disclosed today. Farben officials tried to hide the valuable patents when Allied troops crossed the Rhine, the sources
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  • 118 4 Associated Press. WASHISGTON, April 10.— Officials have drafted an order ichicli icouid ration flour to bakers and grocers but not to housewives designed to cut consumption by one-fourth in order to send more abroad. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson said he would decide on April 10
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  • 76 4 Tribune Correfpondent) PENANG. Apr. 11.—A gunman in the Chicago style claimed the life of a second victim the same day when a Chinese was shot dead at the junction of Magazine Road and McNair Street at 10 o'clock last night. The victim was shot through the head
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  • 83 4 The Sikh community of Singapore this morning dispatched four cable messages addressed to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, President of the Congress, the British Cabinet Mission to India, the Viceroy, and Tara Singh, President of the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee, voicing strong opposition to any
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  • 34 4 The Ceylon Tamils' Association. Singapore, will hold a social' at their premises, No 11 Handy Road, tomorrow, at 7 P.m., on the occasion of the Hindu New Year and their National Day.
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  • 43 4 Reuter. ATHENS, Apr. 10.—It was considered possible this afternoon that Archbishop Damaskinos mgy now consent to remain temporarily in offioe as Regent. Responsible quarters thought ho may have changed his mind ns a result of thvisits by the British and United States envoys.—Reuter.
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  • 247 4 Tniiisaii Holds Eiii«pr«*c*iie> Talks With Officials A.P. WASHINGTON, April 11.—A gloomy report on the wheat supply sent high officials into a huddle with President Truman and swift action to slash American consumption appeared imminent. The Agriculture Department Crop Rationing Board indicated
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  • 92 4 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Apr 10:—Mohammed Ali Jinnah, President of the Moslem League, winding up a threeday convention here, said: "While we hope for the best we are prepared for the worst." Muslims were prepared to make any and every sacrifice for the attainment of Pakistan,
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  • 144 4 The King has been graciously ploased to approve the following awards in Air Command, South East Asia:— DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS S Ldr. R. J. Clement. A S Ldr. H. A. Jenkins. A S Ldr. D. R. H. Rue, F Lt. A. W. Rogers. F
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  • 95 4 A.P. SEATTLE. April 10.—Miss Muuae Henderson who has spent 42 of her 79 years ministering to the poor and afflicted In China arrived by an Army transport en route to Childhome, Lexington in Virginia. "Grandma" to her villagers near Shanghai, she went to Cnina
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  • 45 4 A.P. TOKYO, April 11.—The International Prosecution Section has ordered the apprehension and confinement in Sugamo prison of Vice-Admiral Takasuma Oka who was said to have worked actively in preparing and drafting the final note to be sent to the United States before Pearl Harbour. —A.P.
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  • 104 4 MADAM LOH CHIT NEO, Wife of the late Mr. Koh Sun Poon. agf-d 77 years, passed away peacefully at 3.30 a.m. on 12-4-46 at her residence at No. 363 A Joo Chiat Road, leaving behind 1 son. Koh Ek Wan. 1 daugh-ter-in-law Lah Boh Chee. 4 grand daughters. 2
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