Malaya Tribune, 16 July 1946

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  • 36 1 The Malaya Tribune The Paper Of The People Of Malaya f Phone Nos:—Editorial (only) 5811 Advertising, Circulation Accounts 5812 EIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1946.
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  • 117 1 A foretaste of jururc flying Sir Ben Lockspeicer, Director-G c ncr aI. Scientific Research (Airj at the Mm siry of Supply, holdi7ig a model of the fighter plane of the future which he suggested might fly at 1,700 m.p.h. twice tne speed of sound. The model
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  • 188 1 Firemen's 3-Hour Battle i r or three hours a large number of R.A.F. personnel together with members of the Singapore Fire Brigade battled with a big jungle fire which threatened the R.A.F. wireless station and surrounding buildings at Jurong, yesterday. The fire is believed to
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  • 117 1 Reuter. RANGOON, July 15.—Sir Henry Flight, acting Governor of Burma, has declared the Communist Party of Burma and the Red Flag workers' unions unlawful associations, lt is officially announced today. The ban is imposed oecause the organisations have as their object the interference with the maintenance
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  • 74 1 PICTON. Nov a Scotia, July 15.— Damage estimated at between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 was caused by fire here lat e last night, An old banker and a navy minesweeper are believed to have been lost, as well as the largest crane in the Canadian Maritime Provinces, Four
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  • 68 1 (Our Own Reporter) PENANG, July 15 —While making »quiries at the police station regarding his father and brother who were detained for interrogation, a Chinese youth, suspected to have been responsible for robberies at Balik Pulau, was recognised and arrested as being on the "wanted list." The
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  • 107 1 A.P. BELGRADE. July 16*—General Drri L Mihailovich yesterday was 9 pen eight and a-half n which to appeal the sen'ence of death before a firing squad. The Che'nik leader and the ten co-defendants with him sentenced to face the firing were told by the
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  • 136 1 Reuter. OTTAWA, July 15.—A strike of 4,000 steelworkers in three of *°*da'a basic steel plants fixed for Nk" gave the Dominion Government it s biggest labour since he war. The workers ar s demanding shorter loui-v and more pay. The decision o stop work is the
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  • 29 1 w-ui AHMEDABAD, July 15.-Fifty were arrested here today md a pedeetrl *n had been stabbed 'ounri and R woman bad been > (ta j sla °bed and removed to hos-
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  • 106 1 Reuter. BOMBAY. July 15.—The srike for higher wages is assuming nationwide proportions. The Government of India was toduy awaiting the report of the official adjucator. His recommendations will be considered. Meanwhile, an emergency meeting of the All-India Federation of Post and Telegraph workers has been
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  • 153 1 Kwajalein, July 15.—A report that the Bikini test animals were "dying like flies" came from ths TJSS Burlesson, highly secrec animal ship from which reporters had been barred. An officer who visited the Burlessoh said animals that appear healthy and have a normal blood
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  • 728 1 Britons Prom ised More Varied Diet FIRST $25 MILLION THIS WEEK Reuter A.P. WASHINGTON, JULY 15.—PRESIDENT TRUMAN IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS AND AMERICAN POLITICAL LEADERS TO-NIGHT STGNED AT THE WHITE HOUSE THE CONGRESS B*LL APPROVING THF £937,500,090 LOAN TO BRITAIN.
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  • 106 1 Reuter. LONDON, July 15.—The bread ration of all children from birth to 18 years is to be increased by one ounce a day when the rationing begins on July 21. This was announced in the House of Commons today as measures to help the
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  • 170 1 A.P. WASHINGTON, July 15.«' President Truman, In 1 signing the British loan bill, called it a major steo in rev sing and expanding world trade. In a statement, the President said the loan serve? the immediate as well at the long-term interests of the U.S.
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  • 147 1 Approximately $2,890.50 worth of British and German .38 revolver ammunition were recovered by detectives from near the Municipal Sewage Coolie Lines at Alexandra Road, yes- ay. It Is understood that as a reeirt of information received detectives of the C.I.D. took up positions near the Coolie Lines
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  • 88 1 Reuter. DAR-ES-SALAAM, July 15.— The Aga Khan is expected to arrive here from Nairobi at the ehd of this month for the ceremony in which he will be weighed against diamonds to celebrate his Diamond Jubilee as the spiritual leader of 20,000,000 Ismaili Muslims. The accompax.ying celebrati/ms
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  • 156 1 Reuter. LONDON, July 15. —Britain will have a fine new observatory housing a gian. telescope and other astronomical instruments as a national memorial to the great British inventor, mathematician and astronomer, Sir Isaac Newton, if Parliament votes the money. This announcement was made at the opening
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  • 20 1 HANKING, July 15. —Doctor Leighton Stuart, the new United States pt v 1 Peipinr: this afternoon aboard Gen. Marshall's plane.
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  • 44 1 Reuter. LOS ANGELES, July 15.— Doctors attending Howard Hughes, film producer and aviator who was injured in an air crash, expect he will make a complete recovery although his condition continues critical, it was reported here early today. Reuter.
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  • 51 1 Reuter. ATHENS. July 15.—The railway line between Athens and Peloponessus towns of Patras. Pyrgos and Kalamata which had been destroyed by the Germans in 101 places and repaired by Greek engineers was reopened to traffic today in the Presence of Greek Miniv%°rs. Deputies and UNRRA
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  • 39 2 DEATH—Mr. Goh Kirn We? of Queensland Insurance Co. passed away peacefully on 14th. July 1946. He leaves behina 1 wife, 5 sons. 5 daughters, 2 sons-in-law, 3 grandchildren. Funeral at 55 Koek Road on 18th. July. Deeply regretted.
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  • 234 2 At the conclusion of the trial at {he Azzizes yesterday wtiich occupiea four days. Ibrahim bin Omar, former senior Inspector of the Strats Settlements Police Force, teas found guilty on a charge of aoetment oj causing grievous hurt, and sentenced to 12 months' rigorous imprisonment,
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  • 175 2 A.P. SINGAPORE. Tuos— Followir his tour of South East A.;ia tanitori M in the special mission of investigating conditions of Indian nationals in Java and Sumatra, Mr. S K. Chettur. representative of the Government of India in Malaya, will emplane tomorrow morn'nsr for I Vdan. Durinjr
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  • 355 2 Grave Shortage Of Lan dworkers (Tribune Staff Reporter) SIAM TO-DAY FACES A GRAVE SHORTAGE OF FARMHANDS, WHICH IS GREATLY HANDICAPPING THE REHABILITATION OF RICEFIELDS. President of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Lien Ying-chow, who returned last week a'ter an extensive two-month tour of South
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  • 74 2 The findings of the field general court-mart al which tried Major F. T. Metherell, of the Royal E'ectrical and Mechanical Engineers, in Singapore last month, have now been confirmed and promulgated. The accused is found guilty on all five charges of fraudulent converi on of
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  • 146 2 For U.K.--Mr. E. C. Ramsey, lit. J. B. Leask. Mr. R. M. E. Michaux. Lt.-Col. F. V. Fraser. L Cpl. G. Donaldson. F O M. R. Robison. For Egypt—Hon. T. G. Cochrane. For India—Mr. Popper. Mr. Mathews. For Australia—Mr. L. Pussell. G Capt. A. W. Hopkins. Mrs.
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  • 124 2 Wherever it is practicable, the trial of Japanese war criminals is taking place as near as possible to the scene of the crime. Soon in the small town of Raub. central town of Pahang Japanese District Police Commander Chima Sadao and Kempetai Sgt. Ma
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  • 201 2 PEIPING. July 15.—Seven U. S. Marines were taken prisoner on July 13 by an "unidentified band of 80 armed Chinese" about 22 miles north of Chinwangtao, U. S. Marine Cc-ps Headquarters announced today q§ +i It said all marine garrisons In Chinwangtao and Peitaiho area were
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  • 223 2 The Interim Committee for an All-Malayan Indian Organisation ha? been set up to prepare draft proposals for an open conference to be hold on Aug. 3, 4 and 5 in Kuala Lumpur. The Committee consists of ?0 members from Selangor with MrJ. A.'Thivy as Chairman.
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  • 63 2 Following the discovery on Saturday last that 23,500 detonators were stolen from locked cement safes from a quarry in Kranji, Singapore military and civilian police are conducting a big search for the missing detonators. It is understood that the detonators were kept in th* cement constructionsOn Saturday
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  • 119 2 A.P. SFATTLE, July 14.—The Russian naval lieutenant, Nicolai Redin, was pictured as victim of a "political trial" by the defence counsel in his isnionag" trial on Saturday. Special government attorney Victor E. Anderson said the U.S. Navy nover permitted invasion of the shores except for
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  • 290 2 A passenger vessel being built foi the Rotterdam Lloyd, was launched from the slipway of the "Schelde Company at Flushing on July l. This vessel until then known under the number "214." was christened "Willem Ruvs" by *-J* Ruvs-van Houten. the widow of Mr. Wiilem Ray«
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  • 51 2 A.P. BEIRUT. July 14.—Authoritative sources Saturday denied that any clashes had taken place along the Turkish-Syrian border recently. A Tass dispatch from Damascus Friday quoting the Beirut newspaoer "Orient" said that several armed encounters had taken place. Syria, Tass reported, was planning an official protest to
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  • 59 2 Noticing a Malay who had stepped ashore at Clyde Terrace carrying a basket which appear ed to be heavy on Saturday nipjhi, a Sikh watchman casually inquired what was inside when the Malay dropped the basket and ran away. The basket was found to contain 31
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  • 51 2 A.P. Hamilton. Ontario. July 14.— ClCj United steel workers called a genjerai strike of Canadian plants effective Monday. A union official said it was called because steel companies no t answered satisfactorily a union demand for a $33.60 cents weekly minimum wage and a 40-hour week
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  • 272 2 Tokio War Crimes Court A.P. TOKIO, July 15.—Sir William Webb, the president of the war trials tribunal, recessed the International War Trials indefinitely today with the announcement chat the newly installed air-conditioning equipment would not function until the water supply is increased "We are informed," the
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  • 104 2 PEIPING. July 15 —Fighting flared up again in Manchuria and Nortth China today. The Chinese press reports that 10.000 Communists assaulted Chien?hang in Manchuria and completed the encirclement of the city while ethers captured the Hungfantzu bridgehead on the north bank of the Sungari river. lffiivy moWization
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  • 57 2 A murder charge was explained to a Menadonese Paul Franz Walazinton (25) in the Fifth Police Court yesterday. He is alleged to have caused the death of Tan Soo San while on sentry duty at Sime Road Camp on the evening of March 8. The case
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  • 35 2 Reuter. ROME. July. 14.—President Enrico de Nicola, provisional President of Italy's new Republic, in the Republic's first government formed by M. Aicide de Gasperi at his official residence at noon today.—Reuter.
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  • 183 2 London, July 13.—The sion of Sentences Commit up by the War Office to review individually the case of all men serving terms of imj and who have completed their first 42 days' sentence. round Britain visiting prisons and detention bar Up to date, about ten percetf
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  • 66 2 Alleged to have kidnapped a 15-year-old girl from the I quarters at Sungei Read, wi !ntent thar she might be peiled to marry him. X 111 giah (25), was produced btfore Magistrate L. C. Gch. Second Police Cour: t:. tative charge of kidnapping The charge was
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    • 99 2 NOTICE. EAST AND WEST SOCIETY WEDNESDAY 17th. July at 8 p.m. at Toc-H (Stamford Road). Dr. Chelliah, acting principal of St. Andrews School, will speak on Education in a Multi-racial Community.' Members please note the changed date of this meeting. BALLROOM DANCING Quarter Turns, Natural Turn, we snow all the
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  • 252 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Dealing a serious blow to the import and export oi private merchants in Singapore, about n< >c lightermen struck work yesterday when their demands for better emoluments commensurate he high cost of living were turned down by fcongkang owners. 7, An eight-point
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  • 155 3 roe Question of repatriation of Indians from Borneo was linked with the restoration of the Straits Steamship Service with that country, said Mr. 3. K. Chettur, Government of India Representative, who recently returned from a tour of some districts there, at a press conference yesterday.
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  • 519 3 A serious armed encounter between a party of Japanese Kempeitai men stationed at Jesselton, British Borneo, and the Suluk people in Mentanani Island near British Borneo in February, 1944, where the Kempeis had gone looking for guerillas, resulting in the machine-gunning of Suluk women and children, tied
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  • 282 3 nese youths. Khoo Ah r y Tian Sans: (21 >. Teh 17) and Ng Loi Hoot eaded guilty in the First sterdaj to a charge ex;onion were sentenc- m nth*' r.i. each. Lena and Tay Tiftn i: ided sruilty to a second attempted extortion and to months'
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  • 105 3 -c for a permanent or- Indian children in has already met with I the Malayan Govtment, ras engaging the final at- Government of InaMr. s. K. Chettur at his c i? conierence yesterday. inmates of the orphanage r aoout 100 Indian children T l 1 prese nt
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  • 72 3 Ckar» .p ol armed robbery and irder were explainV Cantonese Chiang in the First Police E^.yesteniay. «Ed that the accused 1 Vr.ng Kee of $132 fountain pen worth the evening of July 12 r ?et. It is also alleged 'ng so Chiang used a attempted murder
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  • 19 3 T EA-PARTY ol Optorg ho, a y a tea-party t of PaUl Clerc Roa d Com Pany. in Ro-
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  • 78 3 Testing a "hydro-bomb".... This apparatus at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, hidden n the hills behind Pasadena. Calif., was usca to test designs for the "hydrobomb"- a type of 'plane-carried torpedo still partially secret Th e 500-foot toning channel seen here, was used by scientists to calculate
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  • 299 3 Speaking at a meeting of the heads of various schools In Singapore at St. Anthony's Convent yesterday to discuss ways and means of tackling the various social lives facing the country in co-operation witji Government, Mr. T.P.F. McNeice, M.C.S.. Social Welfare Department, drew attention to
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  • 142 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) It is understood thai an Air Ministry order wsj issued some j time ago stipulating that any j R.A.F. officer desiring to bring his family ou: to Singapore I must first find accommodation for them. At Changi there are married quarters' allotted to
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  • 59 3 Touching off an uncxplod'cd land mine or shell, tioo Malays were killed instantaneously in an estate off 13± mile, Sembaicang Road, on Saturday morning. It avpears that the Malays were digg ng for buried planks with which they intended to renair their hut. The incident took
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  • 72 3 "Kempeitai K.ndncrs" in which the author, Mr. Tan Thoon Up, g.vcs a graphic account of his experiences in the hands of.the Japanese military police shows the utter helplessness of a victim of the dreaded Gestapo and the futility of fighting the workings of the diabolical cunning that is
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  • 65 3 A 25-year old Hokkien Tan Hong Boon claimed trial in the First Police Court yesterday to a charge of abetting the offence of receiving illegal gratification by a public servant. The public servant is alleged to be C. S. M. Broughton and th* gratification $1,000. The
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  • 536 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) t»r***? c 4 cision was reached in the negotiations yesnf yfl „r?-f W6en i he authorities and the representatives TPiiTn™ r\° me workers of the Singapore Postal and It wSuiSSS ents who havo Deen on strike Bince It is learned that at the
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  • 57 3 Registration Parcel Post Off The Pest Office regrets to announce that With effect from today and until further notice, the parcel post and reOistration services to all destinations will be withdrawn. In. ihe Malayan Union no ju.idti parcels uiid rcgisteied articles win oe accepted for Singapore. Ttiese services will be
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  • 92 3 A sequel to th e armed hola-up which took place at a liquor snop in Middle Road on Sunaay was heard in the Second Po;ii;e Court jcsierday. when three Cantonese Law Ah Kai t23), Chee Chick Seng (25) and Wong Ah Sun (25) were produced before Magistrate
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  • 333 3 At the continued trial of 13 Japanese on atrocity charges against British and Dutch PoWs, who were taken to Ambon Island for the construction of airfields. Capt. Shiosawa (accused No. 3), commandant of a PoW camp at Amahai.told the Third War Crimes Court yesterday that
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  • 112 3 British and Indian troops are being withdrawn from those areas cf the Netherlands Ease Indies in which they have completed the'r military tasks, i.e. all areas other than Java. Sumatra and the Ricuw Archipelago As a result of the joint plan agreed between the Lieutenant
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  • 32 3 There will be a Public Lecture at the Singapore Lodge. Theosophical Society. Cairnhil] Road on Thursday at 6.30 -en the sub tect 'The Universe; A Thought Model' by C Padmanabhan.
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  • 569 4 Ie is whispered "in unofflc a I but usually well-in-t ~m d circles" that the r iponse to the Singapore _v Malayan Union Rehabilitation Loans is disappointing. This is surprising in view of the fact that it has been known for ft long time that there
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  • 1198 4 It all siarted with a letter I j saw in "The Times." "Sir,'* it began, "may I put forward a plea that one of the most noble of England's anciem monuments, the White Horse of Uffington. cut in the chalk on the Berkshire Downs, be restored
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  • 76 4 G. X Chesterton once wrote a poem castigating a landlord who was auoposed to be neglecting his job of maintaining one of England's White Horses. It ended: for if indeed The White Horse fails, then closer creeps the fiaht When we shall scour the face of Eng.and wh te,
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  • 475 4 Reuter. TOKIO, July 14.—As wa s the case with Germany, the necessity cf "ltbensraum" for the large population crowded into her relatively small island possessions was one of the excuses paraded by Japanese militarists for Japan's late-lamented expansionist and land-grabbing policies as alleged justification for the
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  • 82 4 After discussing the presence in Egypt of Haj Amin Al-Husseini. the Mufti of Jerusalem, with Sir Rona'd Campbell. British Ambassador in Cairo, for 40 minutes, Sidky Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, said:— "There is no great difference between the British and Egyptian points of view on the
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  • 132 4 An absurd case the other day was the imposition 0 f a hue of 525 on a shoe-black in High Street. The constable could have told him to move on and warned him not to be there again since it is a prohibited area, out he had
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  • 95 4 S nco the arrival of new omni- vires from home, many old routes have resumed ooeration, h"t th* nof Telok Kurau district are rather unfortunate that the service to this area has not been revived. Formerly three were three rout's leading to Telok Kurua, one via
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  • 1174 4  -  Ivar Kreuger, match-king, who stole £142 million It is not hard to dccc.it the general public But Kreuger never appealed to the public directly. He performed the far harder task of deceving bankert, great issuing houses, millionaires, and even Governments. Kreuger's method was the oldest swindle
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  • 850 5 Reuter. (From Khalek Qucreshi, Reuters correspondent). PESHAWAR, (Air Mail):—A £9,000,000 five-year development plan, the first big friendly step towards the pacification of India's most turbulent region, the Ncnh-West Frontier, will be announced shortly. The plan is designed to bring of law and
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  • 110 5 A.P. KIO, July 13. -The ■oday watched Generals review Chinese warshps it v anchored in Bay—Meved the ime in recent hsChinese icarship* een here. The firs when the Chinese ggni :rar ships here to in >iineral rites Japanese Admiral j who led the Jap rees
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  • 90 5 A.P. BIKINI, ATOLL. July 15.— irmy and Navy aircraft i in their trials for the atom bomb test, the subPilotfish was moved into which may put her lest of any target ship to .doled underwater exploI July 21. moderns heavy-hulled subr.oored between the aircraft carrier Saratoga
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  • 100 5 A.P. 14.— Arguments for t t as. which might I an t r.,000 mdictcullaboration with re postponed in the on July 13 until rcvioaaly announced it arguments but postgranted when it bent that most of the 5.000 rged w th treason wou?d of the
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  • 154 5 A.P. INDIANAPOLIS. July 14 —Four top-seeded singles stars in the Western tennis championships meet today in the semi-final rounds Billy Talbert Winington. seeded Number One player, will meet Herbio Falm of Los Angeles. NumDer Four, and Seymour Greenberg of Chicago. Number Two, will be matched
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  • 63 5 A.P. VIENNA, July 14.—An Allied Council order to the Austrian Government ending the pass system and allowing Austrians unrestricted travel from zone to zone lasted just 24 hours. It was rescinded July 13 on a Soviet objection. The Russians said there were too many Nazis In
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  • 29 5 WASHINGTON. July 15.—France remains in the frontline of free nations of the earth, declared Presiden Truman in a "Bastille Day" broadcast to the French people yesterday.
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  • 74 5 atom bomb burst sends up smoke tower........... Mushrooming as I climbs thousands of feet into the sky, tower of smoke rues from burst of a'omic bomb dropped over the "sitting duck" naval fleet in Bikini Lagoon. R m of Bikini Atoll is visible across the botioin of the picture. This
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  • 470 5 Reuter. LONDON, July 14.—Many people in India are wondering why the Cabinet mission's Constituent Assembly scheme is already foundering, writes the New Dolhi correspondent of The Observer. The correspondent quotes the new Congress President. Par.dit Jawaharlal Nehru, as saying Congress has only agreed to
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  • 161 5 Jesselton, July 15. British North Borneo, with Labuan added, became a British Colony this morning at a ceremony in Jesselton's bullet-riddled wocden Survey Hall. Seventy per cent, of Jesselton's buildings wer* destroyed during last year's fighting and the tow n now cons'sts of little more than
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  • 254 5 Berlin, July 15. —Major-Gen. Frank Keating, United States Commander of Berlin district, said today that at least two of four Americans who have been missing since July 1 when they wandered into the forbidden Russian zone "are being held as hostages". He promised a
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  • 57 5 A.P. Tampa, Florida, July 14.—The pilot of Operations Crossroads has scored again, this tim e in Operation Stork." A seven—pound—nine-«—ounce son was born on the night of July 12 to Major Mrs. Wcodrow Swancutt. Swancutt piloted the 829 which dropped the Bikini bomb. This is Swancut
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  • 508 5 Reuter. BERLIN —(Air Mail) One of those reverse migrations that are now occurring around the borders of the former Greater Reich has uprooted the skilled artisans of an industry that for 250 years brought fame to Gablonz, a little town in Bohemia, in the Sudetenland. Wherever
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  • 138 5 A.P. BEVERLEY HILLS, California, July 14.—Irwin Wi'hams, deep-sea d'ver and explorer, has posed a new problem for the United Nations. It was disclosed that he is seeking the organisation's aid .n dispelling the "Curse of Montezuma," which according |0 legend has hovered for
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  • 97 5 Reuter. ALEXANDRIA, July 13.—A wellinformed Egyptian in close touch with the Egyptian Treaty delegation today declared the revised AngloEgyptian Treaty will be signed before July 25. The informant added that Mr. Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary, would definitely fly to Egypt with the Egyptian Ambassador in
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  • 171 5 A.P. WASHINGTON. July 14.—General Jacob Devers, U.S. Army Ground Forces Commander, predicted Saturday night that a new kind of infantry division," highly mobile and heavily armed would result from American post-war research development. "We must be able to mov c in on any source of trouble Immediately
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  • 172 6 Strong protests are being made in Jersey against the proposal to nationalise the Channel Islands Airwu s, a company registered in Jersey, on the grounds that it interferes with the autonomy of the island. Sir Harold Hartley, chairman of the British European Airways
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  • 202 6 During the storm at Bovinedon. Herts, which flooded nearly every In the village, the Rev. Kenneth Hawkins, vicar of the parish, volunteered to drive members of his congregation home i n his cai after the service. Returning after taking the first party he became
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  • 134 6 (Our Own Reporter) MALACCA, July 11.—A foil mi am Eurasian. Cecil Beir.s. who was alleged to have acted as an informer for the Japanese kempeitai between 1943 and 1944 was comnrtteed Lo st; nd trinl at the Assizes on July 13 at the end of his two-day preliminary
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    • 159 6 WILCOX'S Grosvenor Square' j ANNA DEAN NEAGLE W JAGGER ANNA NE4GIF REX HARRTSON ANNA NEAGLE. ROBERT MORLEY as a DAME IRENE VANBRUGH 11 CAPITOL tlpenin q To-J loirow If MARIA MQHTEZ JIJE^ GLAMOROUS MARIA MONTEZ is in a dual role for the first tims! THE SCREEN'S GREATEST HERO ERROL FLYXX
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  • 223 7 HAZ ARE'S GREA T INNINGS: 244 NOT OUT INDIANS 490 FOR 5 DECLARED Reuter. SIir.rFIELD, JULY 15.—A MAGNIFICENT INNnjGS BY HAZARE WHO SCORED 244 NOT OUT— u {IiGHEST SCORE OF THE SEASON—COUPLED C ENTURY BY MANKAD AND AN UNBEATEN Jm ENTURY BY THE NAWAB OF PATAUDI, ENTHE INDIANS TO DECLARE
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  • 65 7 I tti travelled up to I the week-end and I at Cricket Clmfa in a I at cricket on Sunday. 11 ita took 3rst lease ot I a good tnersWp by Yogoraja D raisany (42) they ran 148. For Segamat Nagesu took five Sega Cricket Club
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  • 137 7 Piaying a their court on Sunda; thi Maxfli Badminton h the Sportlignt BJ in friendly badminton return 3 games-all. The last was abandoned ow■l tailing light. ing were the detail th Maxfli's players mentioned first: D iibles: Teo Thuang Bak Kj ng Yong Heng
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  • 74 7 a meeting of members <* held at 5 p.m. on Thurs•a; the Hostel Fort Canning adjwmmit 0 carry 0n the ad ork of the Association by the voting members. *th S formerly superintendent J«ei Singapore Municipal and InCvntres and for the > Bursar of the Uni*omens College. Melbourne
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  • 63 7 M wing win represent fimS?n bban Bp'n a friendly °n match consisting five and two doubles against conn i J g* p at the Otter's Ju1 21. at 2.30 ma n HaS? 11 Omar Os F ar a Alhabshi, Ahmad Sajom A rm T T ar Al i
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  • 118 7 Yorkshire Ist innings 300 for 6 (dccl.). INDIA IST INNINGS Merchant low Coxon 7 Modi b Aspinall 5 Muihtaq Ali c Yardley b Booth 27 Mankad c Coxon b Aspinall 132 Amarnath lbw Coxon 7 Hazare not out 244 Pataudi not out 51 Extras 17 Total (for 5
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  • 177 7 COUNTY CRICKET LONDON. July 15.—County cricket close of play scores: At the Oval. Surrey 496 (E- A. Bedser 82. Bennett 19. Ames S for 23). Kent 263 for eight (Davies 77. Ames 50). At Manchester. Lancashire -83 Gladwin 7 for 108» and 42 for 0. Derbyshire 213
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  • 68 7 A.P. LEWISTOWN, Pennsylvania, July 1C —At least 23 persons were Injured when two locomotives and six cars of the 16 Broadway Limited, New York, Chicago, Pennsylvania railroad train were derailed near here on Saturday night. A spokesman said 30 cars of a 123-car freight train jumped
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  • 48 7 TB VD Epidemic A.P. Oxford, July 14.—Dr. Enrest Stebbins, American public health authority, told th e International Red Cross that tuberculosis and veneral diseases have reached epidemic proportions in Empire. He said that in his two-month tour of 11 European countries he found the worst conditions in Poland.—A.P.
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  • 45 7 Reuter. CHICAGO. July 13. —Cosmic Bomb won the $65,875 Arlington Futurity, America's richest race for two-year-olds run over six furlongs here toca>. Jet Pilot was second with Milkwagon Joe third. The winner's time was one minute fifty and fourths seconds. —Reuter.
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  • 44 7 Reuter. LONDON, July 15.—Probable runners for the Eclipse Stakes to be run at Ascot on Friday over a mile and a quarter. Aldis Lamp (Cliff Richards) Aldakhil (no jockey) Edward Tudor (Gordon Richards) Gulf Stream (Harry Wragg) Khaled (Jones) Midas (EPH Smith).—Reuter.
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  • 31 7 Flowers for Wimbledon finalists......It was an All-American final in the Women's Single* at Wimbledon when Miss Pauline Betz beat Miss Louise Brcugh in straight sets 6 2. 6--4.—A.P. Photo. A.P. Photo.
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  • 33 7 Women champion Mss Pruline Betz (U.S.A.) who won the Wimbledon championship in the Women's Singles, when she defeated her compatriot. Miss Louse Brough in two straight sets, 6—2, 6 4.—AJ>. Photo. A.P. Photo.
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  • 607 7 LONDON, July 15.—The Soviet Union's plans for the future in sport remain almost as much an enigma as in politics. Inasmuch as sport in the Soviet Union is government-sponsored and controlled, the same "iron curtain" exists. Will the Soviet join in international sport or
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  • 1511 7 An official statement on Postal restrictions and emerency delivery arrangebents says the Post Office regrets to announce that with effect from Tuesday July 16 and until further notice, the parcel post and registration services to all destinations will be withdrawn. In the
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  • 132 7 Reuter. LONDON, July 14 Here is the latest fishing story which happens to be perfectly true. A golfer playing over a course at New Orleans, Louisiana, cursed as he muffed his shot, especially as he saiv his precious go if ball {more precious than ever these days) flying
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  • 246 7 rOKIO. July 15.—The Japanese a mbassador who was negotiating In Washington when the bombs feU on Pearl Harbour warned his government it must stop the southward march of its armies or incur the wrath of the United States. Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura said icday he will teli that
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  • 29 7 In a thrilling soccer match played on Sunday at the Aljunled road ground, the 68 M.T. Embarkation Unit beat the "Rocklites" by 3 goals to I.
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  • 32 7 Reuter. POONA, July 14.—Six people including B.G. Gaikwad, President of the Bombay Scheduled Castes (Untouchables) Federation were injured today when stones were thrown into a camp of 100 repvearntatlves of toe Castes.—Reuter.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • 176 8 LONDON. July 14.—The Board of Deputies of British Jews here today expressed grave concern at the "present measures" taken by the British administration in Palestine against the Jewish community and leaders. Tht Board most urgently urges the British Government to lessen the current tension in
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  • 146 8 Associated Press. Moscow, July 15. —The communist organ Pravda declares in M: article by Boris Izakoff that, while circles have been Unking about the Russian "curtain," "curious details were outlined from time to time behind the folds of the velvet curtain which divides Indonesia
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  • 107 8 (Our Own Reporter) PENANG, July 15.—Suggestions for increase in rice ration for Province Wellesley and the lifting of restriction on movement were made at today's meeting of the Advisory Council here presided over by Lt.-Col. R. F H. Drake-Brockman. Mr. Chew Kean Hor asked if the present
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  • 358 8 FINAL REPORT ON SPY INQUIRY OUT A.P. OTTAWA, July 16—The fourth and final report of the Royal Commission on espionage yesterday charged that there exists a spy system in Canada and that in it there are several spy rings. The 250.000-worci document tabled in
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  • 238 8 Reuter. BATAVIA, July 15—Dutch marines who landed on Madura Island off Java's northwest coast retired after a clash with the local forces. According to the official Dutch statement the marines landed to take a coal-lighter from the port cf Kamal to Sourabaya. They did not expect
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  • 67 8 A.P. Santa Barbara, California, July ,14. Ganna Walska, 53-year-old opera singer, on Saturday divorced her sixth husband in a brief surprise hearing, but agreed to pay him $1,500 and $5,000 attorneys' fees. In return Theos Bernard, 38. identified by his wife as a "white Lama yogi
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  • 34 8 Reuter. LONDON. July 14.—Turkey expects very rich crops this year. Ankara Radio reported today. According to present estimates, this year's harvest will be double that of 1945, the broadcast added—Reuter,
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  • 334 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Here at the invitation of the Union Government to teach local people scientific modelling is Mr. T. Duncan de Alwis, Curator of the Synoptical Museum of the Bacteorological institute, Colombo, who will work at the Institute of Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, for the
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  • 99 8 A Malay Maulani b. Haji Siraj (43) claimed trial in the Second Police Court yesterday to a charge of theft of a police inspector's .38 Smith and Wesson revolver, five rounds of ammunition, a driving licence, a warrant card and a packet of cigarettes. It is alleged
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  • 122 8 For carrying what he called was his talisman, a dagger, around with him, a Javanese coolie Mawi Katar working in the Wilhelmina Camp was fined $30 in the First Police Court yesterday. He pleaded guilty to a charge of carrying a dagger on the public
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  • 34 8 A.P. MOSCOW, July 14 A Tass dispatch from Beyrouth revealed the departure of 2.300 Armenians bound for repatriation to Soviet Armenia. The group were collected from Syria ana tt»e Letenon—A.P,
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  • 305 8 A.P. Berkelv, California, July 14.—The first steps in building a tremendously powerful atom smasher out of obsolete radar sets—the machine that may spearhead to final, all-out attack on the remaining mysteries of nuclear energy—were announced by Prof. Ernest Lawrence. The apparatus is called the linear accelerator.
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  • 33 8 Bangkok. July 12— U. S Secretary of Navy James Forrestal and a group of high-ranking officeri emplaned for Calcutta, continuing their round-the-world inspection of United States naval installations.
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  • 330 8 Reuter. LONDON, July 15— Protests of Indians in South Africa against restrictions on land purchase by Indian were referred to in the House cf Commons to-day by Mr. D. N. Pritt, Labour. H e asked the Under Secretary for India. Mr. Arthur Henderson, whether
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  • 61 8 Reuter. LONDON, July 15. The Egyptian draft of the new Anglo-Egytian treaty to replace that cf the 1936 reached London during the week-end and is now being studied. Comments of the British Government have not been sent back to Cairo. But, meantime, the position was
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  • 46 8 (Our Own Reporter) Pr.NANG. July 15.—The release of condensed milk at 45 cents per tin dealt one more blow to the local black-market. Hitherto it was sold en the black-market at $3 a tin- Sales were made against ration cards.
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  • 407 8 NOW IT CAN BE TOLD Reuter. LONDON, July 15.—Strong criticism of British wartime tank production is contained in secret reports to Mr. Winston Churchill in 1942 and 1944 by a select committee on national expenditure which were published as a Government White Paper to-day.
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  • 167 8 TOKIO. July 15. —The people ol Encland still "are extremely incensed" with the Japanese, newly-arrived British Ambassador P. Gascolgne declared today. The tall veteran diplomat told an AlJied cress conference that British feeline toward the Japanese was not the result so much of the Japanese
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  • 85 8 (Our Own Reporter"* PENANG. July 15.—Remarking tha the carrying of arms was a menace to public order. Justice C. W- V. Carey, at the First Azzizes sentenced Goh Ah Bah. a Chinese, to seven years' r.i. today, finding him guilty of carrying a Japanese automatic Under
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  • 93 8 In preparation for the s n ?a pore Athletic Meet during the August Holidays and with a view to sending a strong repr. sentative team to that meet the R AT (Seletar) are holding their Bas Sports Day on July 24. All R.A.F- units will be aking
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  • 136 8 Tokio, July 15. Japan was preparing to send soldiers carrying stratospheric balloons from Manchuria to the American mainland in the final months of the war, a Japanese repatriate disclosed today. Lance Corporal lsamu Takagi. who said he escaped from his Soviet Army captors, told Kyodo
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  • 109 8 SHANGHAI. July 15.-Chou E top Communist negotiator, conferred here with T- F. Tsiare d: eeneral of the China UNRRA. m relief work in Communist areas arj «•ompensation for farm r- in Col vist territory who must move because of the* Yellow River pefc project. A
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  • 79 8 Offering a series of lessens which most are framed according to the word for word method A E Coope's "A Guide to Malay Con versation" is a useful book to students of the Malay language The author shows understanding of the difficulties confronting a stranger
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  • 282 8 London, July 15. —British and American negotiators resume their talks on Palestine today amid growing indication that Britain insists on all or nothing in the implementation of the Anglo-Ameri-can Committee report. Details of the discussions were withheld under a news blackout imposed at Britain's request, but
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