Malaya Tribune, 23 May 1946

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  • 35 1 The Malaya Tribune The Newspaper Of The People Of Malaya 'Phone Nos:— Editorial 5811 Advertising, Circulation Accounts 5812 EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, May 23, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune Thursday, May 23. 1946.
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  • 620 1 COUNTRY FORMALLY CEDED TO BRITAIN Reuter. LONDON, MAY 22.—-THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK, SIR CHARLES BROOKE, HAS SIGNED THE DOCUMENT CEDING SARAWAK TO THE BRITISH CROWN, ACCORDING TO MR. GEORGE HALL, THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS TO-DAY. He said the Sarawak. Supreme
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  • 289 1 All the LATEST in a few lines Reuter. KASHMIR May 22.—Six pct*a:>a ere k*ilt?d by police fv.-e during cii:-- uances which followed the arrest Sheikh Mohammed Abdulla and 0« isaling memoers ol the Ka-sn-national conference here y;*:a:'..v. it was oiSciallv annoimc. d i'.cay.—Reuter. LONDON, May 22 The aboliUon oi corporal
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  • 361 1 SECO Is Dissatisfied A.P. NEW YORK, MAY, 23. —THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL TO-D\Y POSTPONED ACTION (>\ THE IRANIAN ISSUE, FOLLOWING THE REPORT SUBMITTED BY THE IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES, HUSSEIN ALA, THAT ALL SOVIET TROOPS HAD LEFT IRAN
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  • 81 1 A.P. CAIRO, May 22.—The Anglo-American treaty revision talks have nearly stopped, said an Egyptian delegate, Markam Ebade Pasha on Wednesday night. Markam s the leader of the Wafdist Bloc Party. •We cannot accept incomplete independence" he told reporters, on emerging from a three hours* meeting of the
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  • 29 1 NANKING, May 22.—Chinese Government forces today claimed the capture of Kungchuling from the Chinese Communists and said the Chinese First Army had moved northwards toward Changchun, capital of Manchuria.
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  • 76 1 Reuter. MOSCOW, May 22— Moscow Radio this morning broadcast Marshal Stalin's reply to President Truman's letter requesting Russian aid in the world food crisis. Stalin sa d he regretted the request had not been made three months ago when Russia could nave aone something. On Russan
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  • 225 1 Associated Press. WASHINGTON, May 22.—The Government seizure of the nation's soft coal mines to-day failed to remove the threat of a strike of 400,000 miners when their truce expired on Saturday, while a settlement of the railway dispute seemed not near. President Truman's order sei2.ng
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  • 162 1 A.P. WASHINGTON, May 22. —The United States will meet its promise to deliver 400,000,000 bushels of grain by June 30, Mr. D. A. Fitzgerald, Deputy United Stages We nber of the Combined Food Board, told the House Agricultural Committee in Washington today. He recalled
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  • 49 1 Reuter. LIVERPOOL. May 22.—Nearly 1,000 Indian troops, including three holders of the Victoria Cross and more than 30 women from the Indian services, arrived here in the Mauretania today for the Victory Day parade in London The troops will leave tomorrow and travel to London in special trains. —Reuter.
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  • 201 1 (Tribune Correspondent) PENANG, May 22.—1n view of the arrival here on Friday of the Rt. Hon. Mai 20m Mac Donald, GovernorGeneral of the Malayan Union, it has been decided to observe the day as a public holiday in the Settlement, Mr. S. N. King, Resident
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  • 100 1 Police in Singapore are staging a big man-hunt for an alleged gangster who escaped from custody this morning while being conveyed from the Outram Road I prison to the police court. The wanted man. Lee Chye Hock, has three tentative charges of armed robbery, including
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  • 118 1 Reuter. LONDON. May 22.—The march of Soviet troops across Czechoslovaks has been stopped by Marshal Kon|->» at the request of the C*ech Government, Prague radio announced today. The troons who have not yet let their starting point will not move until the day after next
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  • 324 1 A.P. WASHINGTON, MAY 22. —THE FOOD CONFERENCE CALLED BY UNO's FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL ORGAN SATION HAS UNANIMOUSLY AGREED THAT THE COMBINED FOOD BOARD MUST BE CHANGED AND A NEW TRULY INTERNATIOANAL ORGANISATION SUBSTITUTED, IT WAS LEARNED HERE TO-DAY. "Committee No. 3" whose task is to
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  • 69 1 Two bills, the Liquors Revenue (Temporary Imposition) Bill 1946, and the Tobacco Duties (Temporary Imposition) Bill 1946, were introduced at this morning's meeting of the Singapore Advisory Council. The bills were introduced by the Acting AttorneyGeneral Mr. E. W. McL. Henderson. H.E. the Governor, Mr. F. C. Gimson,
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  • 40 1 A.P. CALCUTTA, May 22.—untitled ately fiO United States enlisted men, 135 officers and 40 soldier brides*are scheduled to leave Calcutta on May .'JO, aboard the mamie Jumper, the last troopship to evacuate American military perscnnel from the ChiauBurma theatre. A.P.
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  • 114 1 Associated Press. LOS ANGELES. May ?.2—Superior Judge Alfred E. Paoncssa has issued a court order forbidding the Ku Klux Klan from continni»c m Cat fornxi. He ordered the Klaus* Corpora lion privileges be cancelled a>tn State Attorney General org the Klan had not wĔhere*
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  • 302 1 Reuter. LONDON, May 22. —A protest against the colour discrimination in Southern Rhodesia was made by a deputation from Fabina Society—a Socialist body of British intellectuals— which to-day met the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Lord Addison. The deputation which included lour Labour Members
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  • 75 1 A.P. BATAVIA. May 21.—D0 I Hubertus J. Van Mook. artl Governor-General of the Nethc londs East Indies express hope that final settlement between Indonesians and would be reached after Sultan Shahrir, premier of e cognised Indonesian "Pen 1 returns from the interior J on May 23. He
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  • 787 2 In view of the report that all the nine Sultans of Malaya are coming to London (the Sultan of Johore already here) to put their case against the forthcoming union of the peninsula, Mr. Creech Jones, Un-der-Secretary for the Colonies, yesterday gave me a her explanation
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  • 461 2 Reuter. New York, May 20. —A survey of the prospects of Chungking, China's wartime capital, now that the war is over, is made by the U.S. Department of Com merce publication "Foreign Commerce Weekly." Since the Japanese surrender Government departments and industrial enterprises established there
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  • 257 2 A.P. SHANGHAI. May 21.-? The continuation of the civil war anil Che disruption of the interna! economy has brought the import and expatt trade to a virtual standstill be. r merchants fear to forward goodj send buyers to the wartorn intetior, write-. Associated
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  • 281 2 NANKING, May 22. —Dr. Sun Fo. president of the China Legislative Yuan, declared yesterday that Russia's recent "attitude" in Manchuria might have sprung from fear of the tightening ties between the Chinese Government and the United States, writes Associated Press correspondent John
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  • 198 2 CHUNGKING.— Historic Chunking, whose name during the long war years was known throughout the world as a symbol of China's resistance, has been left with its memoiios and bomb scars, writes Associated Press Correspondent Haroki K. Milks. The National Government h:». gone back home to Nanking,
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  • 151 2 Three British soldiers, James Marshall Hall, Earnest William Johnson and Cyril Henry Bartlett. were produced before Mr. L. C. Goh, in the second police court, yester- day, on a tentative charge of having been concerned in an armed robbery at Aliwal Street on May 16. when $9,200 was
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  • 156 2 A.P. HOLLYWOOD, May 22.— A marriage which had climaxed a romance beginning in a London bomb raid ended tragically today in the death of Mrs. David Niven, 28, wife of the British screen actor. She was fatally injured on Sunday night while
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  • 462 2 (From Our Ipoh Correspondent) An L 5 light reconnaisance plane from Kuala Lumpur, a detachment of the military and a posse of Police guided by those little people of the forest most dexterous of jungle pathfinders—the Sakais, took part in a three-day search
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  • 976 2 The shooting of Fusilier Wanty, a British PoW in the Tamuang PoW Cam Siam, on the night of Dec 31 1944, which forms the subject matter of the third charge' against Major Mizutani Totaro, a section commander of Burma-Siam Death Railway," occupied the attention
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  • 342 2 With tears in her eyes, a Chinese woman carrying a boy in her arms went on her knees and vainly addressed Mr. Tan Thoon Lip. second district judge, in Chinese, yesterday, when Seah Khay San, described as managing partner of Tiong San Trading Company, was
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  • 133 2 Five fishmongers, arrested as a result of surprise visits paid by Food Control Inspectors to Beach Road Market, on Tuesday, appeared before Mr. Tan Thoon Lip, in the second district court, on various charges of selling fish and prawns above the controlled price. One of them was also
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  • 80 3 The WAAF Central Band, which returned from the Continent last jeeek after a tour of Belgium, has already started to rehearse for its part in the great Victory Parade through London on June 8. There are 36 members of the Band and ihey have
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  • 736 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The atom bomb first v sed on Nagasaki and Hiroshima brought an end to World War 11, but what will the future world picture be like ten years hence? TKs was the theme of an address delivered by Capt. L. D.
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  • 164 3 PENANG, May 21.—The pot cc opened fire on a c,ang of Chinese, who, after looting a large quantity of sugar from one of the godowns in Sungti Pinang Road early this morning, attempted to escape by sea. One of the gang was shot in the back,
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  • 151 3 Koo Kirn Chow (35). a ration retailer was sentenced to three weeks r j and fined $1,000. in default, one month's r.i., when he admitted a charge of hoarding rice, sugar and flour, before Mr. Tan Thoon Up. in tne second district court, yesterday. Mr D R.
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  • 39 3 Reuter. UERUSALEM, May 21.—An unexploded anti-personnel bomb was found in the manager's office nfxei three men armed with submachineguns and pistols got away with f2 000 from Barclays Bank in the allMoslem township of Nablus in Central Palestine yesterday—Reuter.
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  • 308 3 For the first time in the history ci the Christian churches in Singapore a special tablet has been set up in and a Red Ensign presented to the St. Andrew's Cathedral by members of the British Coastal Shipping Community of the Colony. A special service was
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  • 182 3 Two masked, Chinese, armed with pistols got a nasty surprise when they entered a house in Bajerai Lane at 2 a.m. on May 20. Instead of finding a few timid occupants whom they could induce to part with their belonging at the point of the gun,
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  • 62 3 Reuter. TOKYO, May 22.—The latest list of suspected war criminals apprehended includes Col. Masayuki Oishi, former Commander of the Militaij Police stationed at Singapore, M.<"m<> ru Ota, wanted for trial at Singapore, and First Lieut. Chochi Saito, aUeeed to have been involved in the illegal
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  • 336 3 Singapore Municipal Commissicners were entertained to tea at Government House yesterday e\en ng by the Governor-Gene-ral the Rt. Hon. Malcolm MaCDcnald. Mr. Mac Donald in an address thanking the Commissioners for thtir welcome message sa d: "Singapore is a city whose fame is second to none on
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  • 119 3 If there is any man who can help unite the various communities in Malaya during the years ahead, that man is the new Gover-nor-General, the Rt. Hon. Malcolm Mac Donald, decleared Capt. L. D. Gammans, visiting Member of Parliament, in an address to members of the Rotary Club
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  • 568 3 STATING THAT THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL A&MINfS i'RATION IS*SOUTH EAST ASIA COULD NOT BE MID TO HAVE MET WITH THE FULLHEARTED APPROVAL OF THE PEOPLE Of SINGAEK)KK AND TH *.T THE'SEVERANCE FRO MALACCA AND PENANG WITHOUT CONSULTING THE POPULATION
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  • 132 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The only alternative to a PresbyUiian Church meeting on Sunday was Capt. Gammans.... so the Hon. Member of Parliament had to address not 50 Scotsmen but 2,500 when he visited Scotland during the war. Capt. Gamans, relating this happening at the Rotary Club
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  • 85 3 With the inauguration of two addi tionul flying-boat services to the United Kingdom each week, it is now possible for a limited number of nonpriority passenger* to obtain an passages to the Middle East and Europe. Bookings are now being registered for any period ahead, instead of
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  • 487 3 The Governor-General of the Malayan Union, the Rt. Hon. Malcolm Mac Donald, speaking at his first press conference yesterday, intimated that an alternative proposal submitted to the Secretary of State by the Sultans is under consideration. H« also aim that he
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  • 86 3 Hopes that Singapore, starved of social excitements since the reoccupation, would be the scene of the mar rage of His Excellency the GovernorGeneral to Mrs. Audrey Fellowes Rowley, are not likely to be fulfilled. The Tribune understands that Mr. Mac Donald is likely to take advantage
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  • 176 3 Kuala Lumpur, Wed.—The police and a gang cf eight armed Chinese gangsters clashed in a gun battle when the former v»cn to the rescue of five Chinese towkays who were abducted from a house in Sungei Way !t appears that while the towkays, four of whom
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  • 517 4 So long as the British people are uninterested in the Colonies and Parliament is too little interested and not always well informed, some organisation should be instituted at home to examine critically and carefully the work of the Colonial Office In those words a correspondent of the
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  • 2076 4  -  Britain And India.—No. 7. Dealing with the difficult and complicated problem of the Indian States in this article, Mr. Casey says: "It cannot be denied that the existence of autocratic Indian States is anomalous in the world today and constitutes a serious part of the All-India constitutional
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  • 365 4 It is rumoured about town that a decision has been come to with regard to the fate of local volunteers. It is also rumoured that some of them will receive a shock when they learn the extent of official consideration! —Volunteer. At long
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  • 680 5 Better be a baker or mechanic than a krani when you compare the earnings. Th e head baker of a certain bakery g£- s $225. th° -assistants. $150 each whereas I am getting less than a baker's assistant after nearly 20 years' clerical service." Thus a middle-aged
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  • 346 5 Mission "Simply Appeasing And Placating Congress" Reuter. DEMAND p OR A COMPLETE SOVEHmn T PAKISTAN "WHICH WE STILL HOLD TO BE THE ONLY SOLI'TION thr tot INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM." th„ ™c final decision on the plan would be given by the Working Committee
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  • 46 5 Ruter. NEW YORK. May 21. The United States report to the Franco Committee of the United Nations Organisation Security Council issued tomght declares that Spanish economy would be 'totally inadequate for waging a war either offensively or defensively against a major power." —Ruter.
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  • 160 5 A.P. BERLIN, May 22 General Joseph McNarney, commander of the American forces in Europe, told a press conference on Tuesday that although American policy followed the Potsdam agreemen that economic uniy should be the goal in Germany, "we are thinking of alternative plans." One of these plans,
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  • 63 5 Reuter. NEW YORK, May 22. The Security Council meeting i n New York today to face th e SovietPersian d spute has before it a n eleventh-hour telegram from Qavam e s Sultaneh. the Persian Premier, stating unequivocally tnat the Persian commission of li.vest gation in
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  • 95 5 A.P. MANILA, May 22. Sixteen Japanese soldiers who thoughJppan was still at war surre id ered to a picked team ol N,sei (.Japanese Americans) interpreters on the southern tip oi Okinawa during a systemau- search cl the island's myr \H ceerj caves, the U.S.
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  • 132 5 Reuter. BATAVIA. May 21.—Two Brit;sh Spitfire planes are now carrying out a photographic survey of selected parts of Java's rice producing districts in order to provide information about the amount of land under cultivrtion and harvest prospects, it was officially announced today. An Indian civil servant
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  • 26 5 CAPETOWN. May 12.— The untitled estimate for South Africa's maize crop, based on conditions in April, ia 18.750,000 haps, being a considerable improvement on earlier expectations.
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  • 112 5 Reuter. CATTERICK Yorkshire, May 21.— Six soldiers, marched into court each handcuffed to an escorting soldier, today faced a court martial here on charges arising from the breakout of prisoners at North Allerton military prison on Feb. 9. The six men were Signalman J. Prentice. Royal
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  • 210 5 A.P. NEW YORK, May 22.—The U.S. feels Spain cannot at present fight a modern war and the U.S. Government has no direct evidence of production of atomic energy in Spain, the U.S. reported to the United Nations Security Council sub-committee of investigation of
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  • 144 5 Reuter A.P. BOMBAY, May 22.—Srinagar, capital of the Kashmir State, is today strongly guarded by the military and steelhelmeted police. The precautions followed what the state's government described as a plot by a certain group to overthrow the administration. Defiant mobs stoned military patrols yesterday
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  • 329 5 A.P. Washington, May 22.—A world food pool to feed famished peoples was proposed to the International Fcod Conference by UNRRA and Belgium yesterday. The meeting also heard Dr. V. K. Rao from India declare that the Western world could save millions "from imminent threat of death
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  • 301 5 SYDNEY.—About 700 men of the Royal Navy who served with the tfri tish Pacific Fleet have already been discharged in Australia and i further 2 250 have applied for their reie 'down-under,*' the Australian Ministry of Postwar Reconstruct! i l c ports. Asked why they
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  • 75 5 Reuter. NANKING. May 21 .—Chinese nationalist forces may reach Chang chun. capital of Manchuria, in a v.-eek's time following their victory over the Communists at Szepingkai. south of Changchun, it is generally believed here. The Communists have, however, scored gains in their offensive in Shantung. Jehol and Hopei. De fence
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  • 114 5 Reuter. LIVERPOOL M4y 21. A blonde maircurist was murdered in her salon during the evening rush hour in the centre of liverpool yesterday, and the poli< c today were making a widespread search for a man from Birkenhead whom they w sh to interview. A passer-by, hearing screams,
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  • 192 5 A.P. WASHINGTON, May 22—Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan Republican, who accompanied Secretary of State James F. Byrnes vo ths Foieign Ministers' Conference in P>:7is, touuy said American has de»CiOped a bipartisan forego policy, which bars •'appeasement"' and »0.1'.s i.'r "peace for keeps oast n justice to all nations.
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  • 250 6 Since the liberation cf Singapore and the subsequant changes 5 administration, its citizen i have had little cause to thank or even praise ENSA. Lately, howaver, the Victoria Memorial Hall has been staging a series of weekly Celebrity Concerts. Commendably, admi sion is free
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  • 60 6 Sentence of death passed on Co-year-old Louis de Souza by a British Officer Court has been commuted to 15 years imprisonment. The Court had earlier found d~ Souza guilty of betrayal of six Europeans to the Japanese Kempei shortly after the Pall of Singapoie. Of
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  • 31 6 A.P. LONDON, May 25.— Moscow Radio said today that President Truman has asked Russia to assign a certain quantity of Russian grain to help UNRRA meet the world food crisis —A.P.
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  • 198 7 'Singapore boxing needs a gymnasium and one of the first things that the Singapore Boxing Association can do is to see that one be fitted up as soon as possible," said Mr. Jack Warner speaking yesterday at the first general meeting bf the Singapore Boxing Association
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  • 68 7 A.P. LONDON, May 22. —A spokesman the Amateur Boxing: Association of London todny that it wouid take action later this year on invitations from Czechoslovakia. Poland. Denmark and Turkey to send boxing I there. The boxing amateur >t'a?on finishes by June 30, the -nokesman
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  • 404 7 Slow Batting At Edinburgh: Tourists All Out For 247 EDINBURGH, May 22.—A stylish century by V. S Hazare, his first of the tour, was the feature of the Bjst days play in India's match against Scotland. StronT on the leg, Hazare who made 101 in
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  • 46 7 A total sum of $13,234.35 was collected from three charity soccer matches arranged by the Chinese Athletic this month. Oi tfrs collection, $2.565.35 was conated t G the Malayan Patriotic Fund, while $10.669 was contrib ited to the China Famine andDistress Fund.
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  • 54 7 R.A.F. and Army "jump to it" in a line up during an Inter-Services Rugby match at Sing apore. The game was the final event in a week's programme organised by the R.A.F. in aid of St. Dunstan's Institute for the Blind. The original arget of $10,000 was exceeded by more
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  • 1251 7 Louis or Couth Joe Da vis '200 th break over 100—Interna* tional soccer—Americans play goodfootball —the Olympic Games —And a tailpiece. (By a Special Correspondent). It will surprise nobody, except perhaps champion Joe Louis and his backers, if the world heavyweight crown graces a new brow next
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  • 92 7 A.P. VILSHOVEN, Germany. May 22.— Pour thousand American troops, striking by surprise at dawn on Tuesday, raided a Hungarian river fleet suspected of smuggling SS fugitives, ammunition and black markcl supplies along the Danube. Nearly 400 boats, including many former units of the Hungarian navy, were searched
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  • 60 7 Boxing Freddie Mills receives one to the he#d duri:g the light heavyvvt ignt fight at Harringay Stadium recently which was won by Gus Lesnevich on a t.k.o. in the tenth round after a terrific fight in whic t.h? fighters were bathed in blood. Below, the winner battered
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  • 139 7 County Cricket Reuter. LONDON, May 22.—Twenty-seven wickets fell in the first day's play at Bristol between Glamorgan and Gloucester. Glamorgan batting first scored only 95. but Gloucester even worse being all out for 59. Clay taking seven for 21. In their second innings. Glamorgan
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  • 88 7 LONDON, May 22 —The Swedish Crown Prince and Crown Princess were the guests of honour at a reception given by the Anglo-Swedish Society at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Wednesday. Members of the Anglo-Swedish Society and guests of the Swedish Institute present included Lord Sempill,
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  • 37 7 According to the Sin Chew Jit Poh. five thousand Japanese prisoners of war have been sent to complete the Siam Burma railway, In the construction of which thousands and Allied prisoners and Asiatic labourers lost their lives.
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  • 114 8 Qavam Gets His First "Insects Reuter. TEHERAN, May 2!.— The military governor of Teheran has arrested three former right-wing deputies in the Persian Parliament, it ivas announced today. The three arrested men are AH Dashti, Jamal Imam and Salar Say d Sanandji, former deputies for Isfahan. Teheran and Durid.f*an respectively.
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  • 179 8 Transjordan A Kingdom On Saturday Reuter. AMMAN. Transjordan. May 21. -Saturday will be a day of pageantry in this ancient capital of Transjordan when a salvo of 101 rounds will signal that Em r Abdullah Abu El Hussein has become King Abdullah of the Hashimite k ngdom of Transjordan. A
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  • 68 8 A.P. LONDON, May 22. -A Fereim Otfice spokesman said todaj that Britain would protest to Finland au r ain :t whai he termed an anti-Bn-tish attitude of a section of the Finns hp re■ Some Finnish papers, the sp©i*Sman said, have criticized the British policy In figypt, Indonesia and India.
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  • 227 8 Waved Invites Azad And Nehru For Talks Reuter. NEW DELHI, May 22.—The Viceroy of India has invited Dr. Maulana Abul Azad, President of Congress, and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, President-elect, to meet him to-morrow morning tc discuss the formation of the interim
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  • 272 8 A.P. DACHAU. May 22.—A grmfaced American lieutenant cont rented 74 defendants in the Dachau war (Times trial on Tuesday and pointed an accusing finger at an SS trooper, vhom he identified as the man who fired the first shot n the 'Malmedy Massacre." in which 71
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  • 41 8 Reuter. RANGOON. May 21. —An American Army plane which left Rangoon lor Calcutta on Friday morning is missing. A% the plane has not arnveu at Calcutta, parties have been scouiing the Acyab area where typical monsoon weather has prevailed since Saturday.—Reuter.
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  • 111 8 A.P. STOIN, England, May 22. General's daughter from stately Martin's Hall married a gypsy to-day with the blessings of the bride's widowed mother. Arthur Smi h "wk\\ forsake" his humble dwelling to live in the big house of h's lady. Edith Hume Henderson, whose father ;he
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  • 130 8 A.P. PEARL HARBOUR. May 22.— Ten target and support vessels, the biggest group of atom bomb test skl| s to leave Pearl Harbour, sailed tor Bikini lagoon today, headed by tin I»:gshin of the task force commander. Vice Admiral William H. P Blamiy. Only
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  • 63 8 A.P. ATHENS. May 22.—Press dispatches from Corfu Wednesday s id the British warships Orion a->d Suburb were flret". on from the A h nian const passing through thp Corfu channel. The warships were not drma-ed. these reports said, adding that the warshins wore hound for Corfu
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  • 311 8 Reuter. LONDON. May 22.—Seven days after the British evacuation of Dunkirk, when the Germans were already crossing the Seine, northwest of Paris, fresh British divisions I'jft England in a last desperate bid to halt the Nazi onslaught, barely 24 hours before the first German armoured cars
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  • 120 8 Britain's la est and grea est. and the world's largest bat IsSkip is the 42.5G0.cn H.M.S. Va ?t guard w hie h. I nc n d about a pear a o> i sozn i commence her tw'.a s. 5< re learned from the G man iva?i'. as loell as a
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  • 330 8 LONDON. May 21.—L0.d Lstewel. Postmaster-General and fcrmer Under Secretary for Inoia. stated in the House of Lords tcday that the British Covemment were anxious that the general election >a Burm t should begin at the earliest potE ble moment and that
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  • 48 8 Reuter. KHARTOUM, May 21.— Twenty tribesmen have been billed in a five-day fight at Jokan on the Sudan Abyssinian border. The combatants were of different nationalities h*t belonged to the' seme tribe. Six Abyssinians and 14 Sudanes? very killed and many were Injured. Reuter.
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  • 491 8 Reuter. MUfCOEN, May 22.—T.ie capture of Kungchuling by th? Government new First Army has been reported by miliary dispatches received in Mukden. The cisoatehes said the city was taken on Tuesday at 1 p.m. and advance units in pursuit of the re--r< s i ij
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  • 220 8 Reuter. LONDON, May 22.—Lord Jawitt, the l ord Chancellor, said to the debate 0:1 Fsypt Hous Lords yesterday that "if the tanger of WW wmcs Britain would do all possible to help Egypt difemi territory after BrUisli forces had been evacuate In the Commons,
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  • 32 8 Reuter. BATAVIA. May 22.—The Austialian Government is sending a judge here to investigate the- murder of the three Australian war crime.- investigator! last month near Boitenzorg hill station, south of Batavia. Reuter.
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  • 45 8 Reuter. NANKING, May 22 .—Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek asked today for views on the British Government's proposals for the future of India refused to make any comment. The Chinese newspapers are likewise too occupied with domestic affairs to p w attention to the proposals.—Reuter.
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  • 80 8 A.P. NEW YORK. EJaj 22.—Mr. rollo H. LaGuardia. UNRS/ c-ctor-tfeneral, on Tuesdj that countries which were al should continue to giv? foo I hungry lends i.istead of tying ih»« international agency mercy into "an international p shop." LaGuardia disagreed with president Herbert Hoover recti mendation that
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  • 99 8 Reuter. PARIS, Miy 22.—An Indo-Chim Viet Nimh I nationalist I dell B will leave Hanoi for Paris on I 31, for final negotiation* France on the future sta Indo-Chinese Viet Hlmfc pi inside the French Empire, officially announced from H:; day. Admiral Thierry d' Ar_French High
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  • 127 8 A.P. I NUREMBERG. May 2J- —B Ernst yon Weizsaecker. former G man Ambassador to the Vati< elared at the international war I I trial that history wou'd lis! Pop? of Rome at the top of all tl deserving praise far his coacuet during the war in
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  • 135 8 Reuter. TOKYO, May '22.— Shi-.-m V da. today formally Installed ti >' nan's third Premier sinct- the I nation, declared that Japan confronted by a grave crisis. He said: "While v.c r.r? obiij seek the friendly KSsist' n Allied authorities in Kit tohra our food pea-blent,
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  • 50 8 Senior War Department I employees held a meeting on 19, to" consider a proposal formation of an association Department Civilian employ* >c Singapore on the lines of the 1 Civil Service Association. Applicaiton for permission < such a body has been subnrt the General Officer Co::. Singapore
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  • 46 8 Reuter. SOUTHAMPTON, May 22. tish aircraft carrier has jnst here for Mombasa with 160 1 passengers. They include 90 Roi Catholic priests, who are Africa for ten years' mi*»» 0 work, and form the biggest tnis nry party to sail from By ti I many years.—Reuter.
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