Malaya Tribune, 24 July 1946

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    NEI Situation "Improving" —Queen Wilhelmina
    395 2 Reuter. THE HAGUE, July 23.—Queen Wilhelmina in her speech from the Throne to the Dutch Parliament today said: "There is improvement in the development of events in the Esat Indies. "In important parts of the outer territories a beginning has been made with ihe establishment
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    Five Face Robbery Charge
    173 2 Five Chinese Ong Tang Lim (19), Koh Yak Chuan (22), Chu Swee Lan (22), Koh Bah (20) and Teo Tai Cho (25) were yesterday committed to stand their trial at the next Assizes on a charge of armed robbery. At a preliminary inquiry held in the
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    Woman Creates Scene In Court
    135 2 "I am innocent: I have never stolen anything from anybody." shouted a middle-aged Cantonese woman. Wu San Mooi when a charge of robbery was explained to her in the Second Police Court yesterday. She was told that her case *ould b e postponed till the
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    Mexico Claims Nine Islands
    88 2 A.P. MEXICO CITY. July 23.—Mexico's claim to nine islands off the United States Pacific Coast is being prepared for presentation to Washington The islands include Frralones, off San Francisco, the famous resort island of Santa Catalina, off Sanpro and also Suntarosa. Santacruz. Santabarbara, Sannicolas and San
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    Ex-Prison Chief Denies Charges
    206 2 H© had never interrogated or beaten tne unknown Chinese, neither had he instructed h.s wardi.r s Anmad and Lee to thrash him, Manikam Thanipathy staied in a lengthy defence in the witness box at the Singapore Assizes yesttrday. Tnanapathv was charged witr. abutment ot murder and
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    Medical College Gets $150,000 Gift
    237 2 Mr. Liew Kwong Hon of Kuala Lumpur has offered to donate $150,000 to the King Edward VII College of Medicine, Singapore, to perpetuate the name of his father, Mr. Liew Weng Chee, the well-known banker. This offer is contained in a letter written by Mr.
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    Freedom Of The Press
    195 2 LONDON, July 23.—Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, promised he would confer With Prime Minister Mr. Attlee and the Cabinet on the petition of the National Union of Journalists for appomtment of a Royal Commission to investigate the British press. Mr. Morrison told a Union
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    SENTRY COMMITTED TO ASSIZES
    92 2 An Indian sentry Jamna Das 21) was committed to stand his trial at the next Assizes on a charge of armed robbery, at khe conclusion of a preliminary inquiry held before Mr. Storr yesterday. It is alleged that on the night of June 1 he held
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    CASHING FRANCS
    56 2 Holders on July (8 of current 111 distinct from demonetised note s of th c French Franc Area should apply immediately to any Bank which is a member of the Malayan RsdUMfC Banks Association for information as to how such holdings may be encashed. Applica t.ons for encashment
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    Murder Of Policemen On Lonely Island
    260 2 How a party of Japanese, members of an espionage unit in Singapore, who sought asylum in Keiron Rangsang, a small island off the coast of Sumatra some time before the surrender —killed two Malay policemen by shooting, was alleged at the War Crimes Court
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    Three Nips To Hang
    299 2 Three of the seven Japanese who were on trial in the Australian War Crimes Court on of lnnumane treatment of British and aAustralian PoW s and thereby causing the deatlis of three at the Lien Kha n Camp, in French Indo-China. between April 15, and July
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    CO-OPERATIVE THRIFT SOCIETY MEETING
    46 2 Members of The Singapore Mercantile Co-Operative Thrift and Loan Society Ltd. are reminded that the sixteenth Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday, July 25, at 5.30 p.m. at the Co-Operative Societies Department, 6th floor, Fullerton Building. Refreshments will be served.
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    K.P.M. Resuming N.E.I. Runs Shortly
    264 2 IT has been decided by the X.P.M. Line to ope ratf under the management of the Neth. Indies Ship pip Organisation which body is acting as agents f or *Jj merchant vessels under Netherlands flag, several re*, lar services, connecting various ports in the Netl£t
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    $3 PORK LEADS TO 4 WEEKS' GAOL
    51 2 Lim Kwang Siak 41, charged $3 instead of a kalty of pork a ach*Z market on Monday was sentenced to four rigorous imprisonment t Second District Ju Je »J Thoon Lip yesterday v m arrested after he sold liL to Food Control Insi
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    BRAZIER IN MALACCA
    55 2 MALACCA. July 22 Ifr. j Brazier. Trade Union Ac Malaya is to adun Union in Malacca when it Saturday. Current pn lemi ag w ing the interests of ail clerical ployees will be pre-. Adviser. At the nu->--presentatives will be chopresent Malacca at the fori meeting in
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      281 2 NOTICES Ulu Benut Consolidated Rubber Co., Ltd. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twenty Second Annual Ordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Registered Office, Hongkong Bank Chambers. Collver Quay. Singapore, on Wednesday. 7th August. 1946. at 12 o'?iock :ioon. AGENDA To receive the Directors' Report
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    Retrenchment Cause Of Naval Base Strike?
    635 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The biggest strike in Singapore's history got under way yesterday when the remaining 3,000 Naval Base dockyard men downed tools and joined 8 000 who struck work on Monday. There has been no sign of violence or trouble. Both workers in
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    MURDERED WOMAN HELD DAGGER
    127 3 Mystery surrounds the murder of an unidentified Chinese woman about 50 years of age. who was found dead in a back lane of Geylang. In one hand she clutched a dagger and on her person were a purse containing $5.65, a gold ring and a silver
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    Second Committal- To Assizes
    164 3 Second CommittalTo Assizes se, Seah Sock Heng. who tted by Magistrate X- M. Monday for trial in the < on a charge of armed robwith violence, was again prom the Third Police Court ijr, this time on a charge of d robbery. complainant. Lim Lam Hua, h< was sitting in
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    Full Rights And Privileges Asked
    614 3 W hat Chinese Volunteers ask is that they be acrded full rights and privileges as other members of British Army who have taken part in the war in tiers of recognition, back-pay, rewards and other .vileges. This is the statement which appears in the Memorandum.
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    Racing Cyclist Acquitted
    88 3 Cyclist Ismail bin Osman was acquitted and discharged by Mr. A. F. Jack in the Relief Court yesterday morning of a"'charge of having in his possession bicycle spare parts suspected to have been stolen. The spare pans, claimed by Ismail, were not returned to him. Usri bin
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    Jungle Warfare School
    199 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Juiy 23: Britain's latest battle icfccol in 'he heart of tho Malayan jungle about 20 miles from Kuala Lumpur where students undergo the most strenuous forms of training has hot and cold water laid on in the camp. General Sir Frank Messervy/, 0.0.C. Malaya Command,
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    O.P.A. EXTENSION APPROVED
    30 3 Reuter. Washington, July 22. —The Senate and House of Representatives conference of members has officially approved legislation extending the Office of Price Administration until June 30, 1947.—Reuter.
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    RICKSHAW PULLERS WANT TO BECOME TRISHAW MEN
    224 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Holding (he view that trishaws are more practicable than rickshaws, officials of the Rickshaw Association told me yesterday that they are asking for authorization to convert 2,000 rickshaw into trishaws. This ivas one reaction to the dec sion of the
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    "World’s biggest plane......The Hughes flying boat, said to be the world's biggest, seen from the air at a graving dock in Long Beach, California. The wing. 320 ft. long already joins the fuseiage while work on the tail assembly, surrounded by scaffolding, proceeds. Note t ny figures of workmen standing at the wing's centre.—A.P. Photo.
    57 3 "World’s biggest plane......The Hughes flying boat, said to be the world's biggest, seen from the air at a graving dock in Long Beach, California. The wing. 320 ft. long already joins the fuseiage while work on the tail assembly, surrounded by scaffolding, proceeds. Note t ny figures of workmen standing
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    Chinese Volunteers’ Grievances: Details
    1050 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Grievances of Chinese Volunteer on the matter of back-pay, pensions and cne apparent lack of a definite scheme regarding financial compensation are set out in a 5/-page Memorandum drawn up by Chinese Volunteer officers and to be presented to H.E. the Governor, Sir
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      102 3 I» 111 s De Witt's Man Zan is specially prepared for the tment of Piles, and by means of the special hygienic applicator is easily applied to the effected part —economical to use, a Pile sufferer will find instant continued use will lasting results. De Witt's "Man Zan" Pile Remedy
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      358 3 CpLD~ STORAGE CO. LTD. Will former Singapore unpioyeos of thjs Company please note thai vacancies now exist, and that :.ppl:--c K.nts for re-employment will ue DCS interviewed on Tuesdays and Thursdays at our Orchard Road Retail Establishment between 10 and 11 a.m. up to Ist August, 1946. PRINCE'S FAMED FOR
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    Military Transport
    507 4 August 1 is now stated to be ihe target date for reducing the present chaos of military traffic to some semblance of order. We only hope that, the new military regulations about to be introduced will be more effective than the Government Proclamation earlier this year which had
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    Mr. Rhodes Of Rhodesia Was Right
    1287 4 A new book that is being much talked about in Britain and a recent London speech serve to remind us that If the spirit of Mr. Rhodes of Rhodesia wanders the wild hilla of the Matopos. where ivs body lies buried, it must have
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    READERS' VIEWPOINTS
    482 4 Radio Times Before the war the Singapore Raj c 1 o station put on their Maiay pro gramme after the '.Tusiinis' Magrib" prayers which fall between J B.M p.m. and 7 p.m. This was so <lcne in response to requests from local Muslims. Now the Malay programme is
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    Hyderabad Has $125,000,000 Industrial Development Plan
    623 4 A.P. From this fabulous city of glittering minarets and mud huts, modern build'ngs and ane'ent mosques, of broad boulevards and tortuous alleys, seat for 700 years of Moslem rule ove r a vast Hindu population, will be directed the construction of ft vast project
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    TALKIES
    669 4  -  In August 1926, the world saw—and heard—the first soWd film. Next month, Hollywood will celebrate the 20th anniversary of by Robert H. Myers, A ssoialed Press writer. Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD. lAP •>—Sen timental Hollywood. which builds its prestige and fortune on the foundation of showmanship of the cinema, soon
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    "GREATEST DISGRACE"
    103 4 LONDON, July 211.— Moscow Radi.. reported tc-night that "democratic newspapers" in China are urging the Chinese government to fulfil its promises concerning freedom o: ti." press. A Tass dispatch quoted Shan«.ic paners as saying the Chinese Ho.ii-> Ministry had issued instructio. s "concerning the suppression cf ceitain liberal
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    "The Mounties"
    159 4 The "Mounties," as tht- 1 diuns call them, have tion from the cities acr Detroit up to the iceWit h a strength of only 4.470 men the Royai Mounted perl .or Canada functions which in he United States require thfederal Bureau of Investigati Coast Guard. Seer-: Service. Border
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    Ex-Service Men Who Return To India
    170 4 In an appeal n Legion to discourage men from returning t< find employment, me of the Ex-Service As India, says that their are nil." Making the appeal he writes: "Certain cases ha\ brought to the notice Headquarters of ex-Sen and their families who turned
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    Cut In Foreign Shipping Rights In China Imminent
    269 5 Reuter. S HAN ;pH'\I Juiy 22.—A dras ie curtailment of foreign shipping right* m China is reported to be imminent. I his to lows repeated vigorous representations by Chinese pipping interests against Government "concessions" to foreign shipping in the past few monhs.
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    No Persian Protest
    133 5 London. July 22. Ke protest from the Persian Government concerning the British warships repotted to be lying: off the south Persian roast has yet been received. the British Foreign Office spok< stated today. At the same time he deeded reports current in the last few days that
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    LABOUR RETAINS SEAT
    36 5 KENT. July 23— Britain's Labou* Government has retained a seat »h e by-election here, it wa s announced early this morning. The Labour majority was 1.851 as against lI.TGI in the last election.
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    Crowd Wrecks Harringay Dog Track
    93 5 23: Angered Ly I I l dog which •eetiea of the d Barringav Grey ast ght. led the track, as ;r:d pel ice. ovei R trap*, veiled *ip tartt d several fires. canters and wreckI rcwd was pu; any women. b~iee got it to disthrown
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    Yellow River Project
    71 5 —An agreee?etts*| by DeYellow River re- wo'ving the redykes dynamited >"ST eras reached on r oir,!.-.unist negoE lal and T. ft tor General of the work. i proauaed thou he hinese Government II 5,t00,00P.000 Chinese ;y U557..~00.000. aad rehabilitation in ting followed the return <:" boa who
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    AP EDUCATION REFORM BILL
    24 5 -2—An Education I dying the United Mission's sugges- txalising the Japanese chtduied Tor preO'et .omonow. id separate the Japanese Home
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    Tommies Complain Of "Relsen Express"
    246 5 Reuter. L OCCUPATION ZONE HQ. I Air Mail) Travel I Europe for BAOR men and women are so bed I ie rs are choosing to spend their leave in Gei" b*n endure the ordea] of the journey io Britain. that the luxury France to Gerreserved
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    Dutch Buying Munitions From Siam?
    95 5 A.P. JOGJAKARTA. July 23.—The Indonesian News Agency Antara reported it learned from "informed circle*" that the Dutch are endeavouring to strengthen their military forces in Java and Sumatra by ordering munitions through Siam* Antara said the Dut.'h employed procurement through Siam as a result of
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    Police Open Fire
    90 5 MADRAS. India. July 23. Six persons were wounded today when oolice opened fire to disperse a mob which set fire to ten handloom factories at the Karur Wearing centre r ear Trichinopoly in South India. Three of the weaving plants were d -«troyed. The troubl c began
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    Phone Call To Wife Costs Month’s Gaol
    81 5 A.P. HAMBURG. July 23.—After rowing 20 days across the Baltic in a three-foot square rubber dinghy from Germany to Denmark, a German soldier 7uas arrested white telephoning to this Danish w fe. Albert Kruger married a Danish girl While he was icith the
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    More Cordial U.S. Attitude To Bolivia?
    123 5 A.P. WASHINGTON, July 2^.—Diplomatic odscials her.- expect tha United States to show more cordial attitude towards the new Junta Government of Bcliv a. than it displayed towards the Viellarroel regime which Junta overthrew. The State Department officials said th; 1 s.tu:iti<>r: in La Pa?a
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    CHINESE GENERAL IN BERLIN
    31 5 LONDON. July 23.- Lieut -Get Kwet Yuiig-chin. head of the Chip ese military mission r 0 lh« Alliec Control Council in Germans arriver in Berlin on Sunday.
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    Italy To Have Army Of Quarter-Million
    322 5 London. July 23. —The Italian Army is to be reduced to a maximum of 250.000 men and 200 tanks under the provisions of the treaty between Italy and the Allied powers, Reuter learned today. The Italian navy will be cut to 2 battleships with
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    Demonstrators Wounded
    65 5 A.P. MILAN, July 23.—Three person? described as "demonstrators" were shot and wcunded on Monday when police fired into a crowd near the city hall here. Two armoured cars were caiied into action to disperse a crowd estimated at 2.000 persons who gathered In front of the city hall
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    NO DIVIDED GERMANY, SAYS U.S.
    100 5 A.P. WASHINGTON. July 23—The U.S. Statt Department on Monday gave its instructions to General Joseph T. McNarney, th 3 American military commander in Germany, making it clear that the United States does not desire a divided Germany. The instructions on which General McNarney based his
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    Simpler Visas Promised
    99 5 A.P. LONDON, July 23.—British Foreign S?cretary Ernest Bevin promised early action on Monday towards simplifying, if not abolishing, passports and visas for persons who want to enter and leave the United Kingdom. Speaking at a holiday camp exhibition, Mr- Bevin said he objected to all these attempts
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    BURMA MURDERS
    40 5 LONDON. July 23.— There we re 217 murders in Burm a in the month of June the HoUs e of Commons was informed today. Incomplete reports from Rangoon state that there W9t* 1.033 dacoities, excluding the Myitkyina district.
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    JAPS' "4 STEPS TO WORLD CONQUEST"
    367 5 A.P. TOKIO, July Iml— China's Minister cf National Defence admitted &t the war crimes trial to-lay that he could not name the author of the pamphlet circulated to the Chinese people as Japan's notorious lanaka Memorial plan to conquer the whole world. Asked by
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    US Has Record Maize Crop
    174 5 A.P. WASHINGTON. July —The United States Agriculture Department in a special report yesterday forecast the largest maize cron in American history, lt is estimated at 3 bushels, an increase Of more than 140.000.000 bjvhels M>ove the forecast a fortnight ago. The Department forecast n 1.133.075.000
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    U. S. OFFICER ON CRUELTY CHARGE
    81 5 A.P. Nauheim, Germany. July 23. Captain Joseph A. Robertson lost his P.gal battle to escape trial on charges of aiding and authorising cruelty to American soldier prisoners in Lichfield (England) detention camp, but won a three-day postponement >o let him seek additional defence witnesses.
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    EGYPTIANS CONFESS.
    53 5 Reuter. CAIRO. Ju'.y 22. —A meeting o? high Government and pol ce officials at the Ministry of Interior in Cairo today, it is understood, ccnsiderec taking further measures against the Misr el Fattat organisation tc which belonged 11 Egyptians arrested today who confessed to taking part in recent
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    Communists Allege U.S. "Invasions"
    174 5 j NANKING. Ju'y 2:5. —The ccmmuI nist New CMsia News \gency said today that Communist General Yeh Chien-yj has protei led to Peiping Executive HeedkjttTteri over repeated "invasions" of Communist-con-trolled sreaa by United states Marines. The agency dispatch reported that < T Tarines along the Pt
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    $20 MILLION LOAN TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA
    83 5 A.P PRAGUE. July 23. The United Sates and Czechoslovakia sicned an agreement yesterday ex ending to Crechcslavikip a ZB million U.S. dollars credit for purchas p of American raw cotton. The credit will be tuod by the Tzech texnle mills On th e United Btatea
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    BRITT’S NARROW ESCAPE
    62 5 Reuter. N KWM A RKKT. Juiy 22. —Kdgar Britt. the Maharaja Ga-'kuur of Baroda's jockey had a narrow escape from injury when at exercise with Fred Armstrong's team here today. Britt was riding a two-year-old when the girth broke throwing him to the ground but he managed
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    RECORD HARVEST
    43 5 WASHINGTON. July 23.— Uni:ed Stan* will hav e a record harvest both wheat and maize. Estimates up to July 15 showed that a wheat crop of 1,132.075.000 bushels of Wheat was likely—compared with last year's record crop of 1.123.000 000 bushels.
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    Military Leaders Gaoled
    218 5 BULIVIA REVOLT L.A PAZ, Bolivia. July 23.—At ihe insistence of women civic leaders, the bodies of President Gualbert Vellarroel and three of his lieutenants were cut down from lamp pests last night and taken 10 await burial "as Christians". The bodies had hung before the Residential palace
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    Three Ships Aground
    120 5 SAN PEDRO. California, July 23.— A dense ccastal fog today caused two 10.000-ton vessels to co on the rocks west of the port of Los Angeles in tl'.e first groundings here since prewar days. Four tups at hijrh tide tried to free the Liberty ca rgc carrier
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    CHINA'S NAVY
    70 5 NANKING, July 23.—The eight warships presented to China by the United States Government have arrived in Nanking under the command of Commodore Lin Chun. The UnitedSStat s Senat c last month approved the legislation authori-mg the "loan,ssa c or gift" of up to 271 warships to China. The
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    WANTS INDEPENDENCE
    39 5 LONDON, July 23.—Complete independence for a united Liby a and admission to th e Arab League was demanded in a note sent to the Leagre by the "National Libyan Bloc" of Tripoli. Rome Radio reported last night.
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      287 6 Daily: 3 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. A banished Prince's plight climaxes romantically! Audiences moved by the year's •Top' of Tamil Dramas "Jagathala Prathapan" with a popular caft p U. Chinnappa, N. S. Krishnan. P B RANG AC" ARI. M. S. SAROJINI, t. A MATHURAM and OTHERS. Daily: 3—7—9.15 ;>.:n. Love
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      163 6 DAILY 3 SHOWS: 3—6—9 (Hindustani* Starring Geela Nizami-Jairaj. Her beauty was her Fate! Excitement! For a murder she didn't commit sne was entenced to life-'mprison-ment in the Andamans What a blasting she gave the JAPS when they landed there! 9t>K her ;ountry •he refused to turn traitor! Released thru the
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      218 6 Malayan Pensions A temporary increase in pensions was notified by the Government of India in May. 1945. In view of this, the Colonial Government have also' apreed to a further increase over that previously notified, in the pensions of the pensioners of the Government of Honp Kong and the Malayan
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      114 6 Terrorism! WHEN GUN-MEN RomancA THEMSELVES GET KILLED I as 'm h£a: Roy Stuart I f I S. Z. Sakai, 5 I 11 am.—2 p.m.—4.15— Sacha Bozic J 30—9.15 p.m. distressing B j| ™W MJ murder. X S ZCUDDLtS'SAKAIL I Sensational Such T0 "TARZAN TRIUMPHS" I KKO RADIO'S SI PER Of
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      374 6 ON THE Am. and Saturday. I Ismall pwim his Quartet. 0900-1000 hrs.) English Schools' 1545 Malay Songs—Extra Broadcast every Monday, Wednesday iyoo Malay Proverb* Sayings by and Friday. Mria Ahmad Shah. 1100-1200 his.) Chinese Schools' 1915 Malay Listeners' Favourites Broadcast every Monday. Wednes- fR) day and Friday. t 1930 NEWS
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    Sohoni, Hindlekar Beat Clock, Save India From Defeat
    1247 7 Alec Beciser's Seven Second Innings 1 hy Learie Constantine, Reuter's special correspondent) OLD TRAFFORD, Manchester, July 23.—I n d i a drew the second Test match with ft&iarid Mttlinfc back gallantly in spectacular fasliidn 1 against tretritertdous adds and they still li
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    Pataudi's Plan Miscarried
    297 7 Reuter. Ltarie Consiantine) LA CHESTER, July 23.— v were hopes yesterday of lian victory in the secTest but they disappear* ':cn six wickets fell for 36 Why did th s happen 0 critic* are saying that U due to a fatal error of ment in :he Indian
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    Score Board
    353 7 ENGLAND Ist INNINGS Washbrook c Hindelkar b "Mankad 52 Hutton C MuShtaq Ali b Mankad 67 Compton lbw. Amarnath 51 Hammond b Amarnath 69 Hardstaff c Merchant b Amarnath 5 Gibb b Mankad 24 Ikin c Mankad b Amarnath 2 Voce b Mankad 0 Pollard not out 10
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    Yvon Petra In Semi-Finals
    112 7 Yvon Petra In SemiFinals FRENCH TENNIS PARIS, July 23.—As a result of today's play in the French lawn tennis championships at Roland Garros stadium here today, Yvon Petra of France, Wimbledon winner, his fellow countryman Marcel Bernard, Tom Brown of America and Yaroslav Drobny of Czechoslo\'akia have reached the last
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    School Boxing Finals
    118 7 Ihe finals of the St. Andrew's School boxing championships were fought out at Woodsville yesterday afUrnoon. The school, pioneers in schoolboy boxing, once again took the lead by holding the first amateur boxii.fr competition since the rt occupation There were 41 entries and the ccmpetition provided clean
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    WORLD LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT
    64 7 LONDON, July 23 —The world lightweight championship fight between Ronnie James oi iwansea. who holds the British championship, and Ike Williams, a coloured American, has been fixed for Ninian Park. Cardiff, on Sept. 4. Jack Solomons, the promoter, announced today that final arrange•nents are now settled.
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    AIDING SPY CHARGE
    43 7 OTTAWA. July 23—Henry Harris, optometrist of Toronto, one of the nine persons named in the final report of the Royal Commission on espionage, appeared in court yesterday on charges arising out«of alleged attempt to obtain passport for the Russian agents.
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    Film Extra's Death: Airman Held
    158 7 A.P. LONDON, July 24.—Debonair, fair-haired Neville George Heath, erstwhile Air Force officer, was remanded on Tuesday on a charge of murdering a film extra, Mrs. Margery Gardner. Brought from a Brixton prison by two detectives. Heath spent only a few minutes in a West London
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    Newsprint Famine Will Continue
    100 7 LONDON, July 23.—Sir Keith Murdoch. Australian publisher forecast here today that there would be no relief from the present newsprint famine for three years. This, he said, would consequently nave a bad erTect for Democracy. Sir Keith, who was the chairman of the Australian delegation to
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    MALACCA SCHOOL OLD BOYS
    75 7 At a meeting of old boys held to discuss the advisability of travelling to Malacca during th c August Holidays to play two charity games of soccer, a committee was elected to mak c the necessary arrangements. Old boys are requested to get in touch with
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    Woman Weight-Lifter Found Strangled
    181 7 LONDON, July 22: —Just before morning service began yesterday at Saint Luke's Church, Peel Road, Holloway North, two choirboys passing through the churchyard found a murder ed woman in the bushes. The police identified the body as that of Mrs. Vanderstay of Camick Road, Holloway. 46-year-old
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    60 7 NEW YORK, July 23.—Representatives of th e United Nations before the close of the International Health Conference here yesterday signed what was described by the President. Dr. Thomas Parran. as a "Magna Carta for health." Dr. Parran—a surgeon of the United States public health service—declared the n°w organisation created by
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    "Possible" Test Batsmen Shine
    329 7 Reuter. LONDON, July 23.—Several "possible" Test batsmen for inclusion in the team to tour Australia substantiate! their claims during the latest series of County championship matches. The selectors are expected to choose at least another batsman—possible an opener—and the performances of Charles Carnett of Gloucestershire who
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    COUNTY CRICKET RESULTS
    164 7 LONDON, July 23: County cricket results: At Wells, Somerset beat Leicestershire by four wickets. Somerset 259 and 142 for six. Leicestershire 275 and 125. Derbyshire beat Sussex by two wickets. Derbyshire 178 141 for eight (Langridge 7 for 47». Sussex 202 and 115. At Birmingham, Glamorgan beat
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    A KING'S PIANO FOR SALE
    234 7 LONDON, July 22.—One of the worlds finest pianos will soon be offered for sale in London. Once it graced a king's palace and was eventually sold at a salvage sale in Palestin c for' £60. It is now expected to realise four figures when sold
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    All U.S. Military Flights Off
    65 7 BELGRADE, July 23—A1l American military flights Into Yugoslavia were cancelled today as the result of a new Yugoslav ruling requiring Vienna-to-Belgrade plan« to fly a new course taking them over Hungarian soil and necessitating Russian clearance. This was the latest development in a series of
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    TWO EX-KINGS ARE STILL at WAR
    582 8 Neighbours, But They Don't Talk To Each Other Reuter. ALEXANDRIA, (Air Mail).— -Living only a few miles apart in this historic city founded by Alexander the Great are two exiled Kings whose mavemjnts are so carefully arranged that the re is never a chance
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    ALL-INDIA POSTAL STRIKE THREAT
    167 8 BOMBAY, July 23. The threats of call fcr a general strike of all postal workers throughout India if tht demands of the postmen and telegraphis s already on strike are not conceded, further complicated India's internal communication posi ion today. While Bombay Nationalist newspapers recorded the
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    Pope Receives La Guardia
    77 8 VATICAN CITY. July 23. The Pope today receiver! Mr. La Guardui. Director-General of UNRRA. in a 20-minute audience. Mr. La Guardia later ;.aid the audience was cordial and Useful". He declared the Pon:iff showed "knowledge of the need> of the P°P ula ti°n for aid and
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    REME WIN BY SOLITARY GOAL
    46 8 Scat if the only goal »1 the match fhe REME beat the J.i S.A. in a toccer match played at McNair Road yesterday. After a jrcall>> first half the sappers snatched a dserved victory by scoring once in the second half.
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    "Great Progress" In Palestine Talks—Attlee
    252 8 "Great Progress" In Palestine Talks —Attlee Reuter. LONDON. hi>v "3 i illj questions in the House f SOMMMU, Mr. Clemen A.tkv. Mnt Minister. tl:rclv« ed i iat :reat »T»<rr» ss" w*i made in the Anglo-American ta.ks on Palestine in London -jo i permanent soutioii of the toIMtUM p-obicm. He was
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    Five Killed In Air Crash
    75 8 NAGOYA. Japan. July 23. -U. S. sth Airforce Headquarters announced today that five U.S. Army flier- were killed and three injured when their Ca.alma flying boat crashed and sank in 60 feet of water while landing in Nagoya Bay. Eyewitne>-e s said the Catalina. which
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    REBURIAL
    46 8 YOKOHAMA, July 23. Three hundred cremated bodies of Allied war prisoners which were found In r common grave overlooking Moji are being reintered in the U.S. Army mausoleum here. The bodies were identified a> former American, British and Dutch war prisoners from Fukuoka Prison Camp.
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    EAST AND WEST SOCIETY
    39 8 The next meeting of the Eas: and West Society will take place toaay at Toc-H (Stamford Road) at 8. Mrs. E. V. Davies M A. will speak on "The Changing Status of Wcm?n in Malaya."
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    Good Weather Expected Tomorrow's Bomb Test
    227 8 Good W eather Expected Tomorrow's Bomb Test Aicard the US S. Mount McKinley, July 23.—G00d weather was forecast orol up al observers for July 25. when the first a omic ever exploded below water will subji 75 ships to tremendous pressures hither.o undreamed of. An inter-tropical frcn; la Ing off
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    ONE-DAY GAME FOR INDIANS
    70 8 LONDON. July 23.—The Indian tourists are playing a one-day fixture with the Club Cricket 2oaf sreni at Guildford on Thur-da;.. Ju'y 25, the Conference team being: R. N. Hunt. H. J. J. Malcolm. D. G. W. Fletcher, L. F. Parslow, R. G. Ellmslie. E. A. Ingram,
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    24 JAPS WILL FILL WAR CRIMES DOCK
    367 8 Cf interest to many Malayans will be the Palembang and Sungei Gurong PoW Camp trial which is due to start at the No. 7 War Crimes Courc in Anson Road before Lt. Cel. Forsythe today. The accused number 24. among whom are Capt.
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    Thousand Times More Dangerous
    275 8 I i rd the U.S S. Appalachian July 24. -Rays from the water arc expected to be a thousand t mes more dangerous from t le underwater atomic bomb than frcm an airburst. Moreover, a column of water and spray shaped like a grace"tul pine uree
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    Bevin On Changes In The East
    300 8 Reuter. LONDON, JULY 23. —THE IMPORTANCE OF ASIA IN THE SETTLEMENT OF POSTWAR WORLD WAS STRESSED BY THE BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY MR ERNEST BEVIN, AT A LUNCHEON GIVEN BY TH F ANGLO-NETHERLANDS SOCIETY IN LONDON TODAY. Th- ultimate effect on the East of what
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    Arabs Ask For UNO Help
    136 8 Reuter. NEW YORK, July 23.—The United Nat'on* Secretariat announced tcnght that Egypt has requested that the United Nations General Assembly should consiaer the demand by Egypt and other Arab countries calling en Britain to end the present Pa estinc situation and nsial a new regime.
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    Nine Fire Calls
    132 8 A police radio wagrgon on patrol summoned the Singapore Municipal fire brigade to deal with a fire which involved a quantity of tar at Dunman Read at 11.53 a.m.. yesterday. In addit on, the fire bripade had eight other calls within the last 24 hours, one of
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    War Crimes Charges
    81 8 TOXIC, July 23—Lieut.-Col. Tung Wei-kang. head of the Chinese liaison in the legal section of the Allied Headquarters here, estimated today that more than 5,000 Japanese are unplicated in war crimes in China. The crimes include mas;- xecutions in Nanking. Shanghai, Peiping Canton, Hankow and other Chinese
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    Laurel Arrives for Trial
    95 8 A.P. MANILA. July 24 J ■"President*' of the Philip] in< •> ing the Japanese Been ed by plane from Japan On Joij H to face treason trials at court. He arrived with :h. colleagues. The others were Igno Aquino, puppet Speaker of the Bouse, JOjP Vargas.
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    Seaman Held
    87 8 LONDON, July 23 —At. John Mathieson aged 23 dreas. is given as Detention Bam* His Majesty Dockyard P was charged at North Londi a yesterday with having b< and disorderly in Seven Road, Holloway North. day. He was charged with his possession three cloth two in the name
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