Malaya Tribune, 22 August 1946

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  • 39 1 The Malaya Tribune TtlC IMpe, Of T, le People Of M ;l ,aya 'Phone Numbers: Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 5813 EIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. 1946.
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  • 160 1 Byrnes Reticent A.P. Aug, 22—U.S. SecreS James F. Byrnes rddg that he cou d comment on the wide'iVDrts of worsening between the United an i the Ruszan zone of Byrnes added that all on such pending the American disYugoslavia over the in 9 down of American
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  • 729 1 A HACK ON DAKOTASIMMEDIA TE ANSWER OR CASE FOR UNO COUNCIL FOURTH DIPLOMATIC NOTE IN FOUR DAYS A.P. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2h The United States Covernmen. toraght del,v rej a 48-hour note to Yugoslavia-the fourth in (our days-demanding satisfaction for the shooting down of United Sues
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  • 56 1 SQUATTERS TAKE OVER AT ARMY CAMPS-The War Office and the Minisry of Health hare decided to take no action agains: (he squatters who are momg in o former Army huts in many parts of th e country. Associated Press photo shows waiters moving furniture in o a Nisscn hut at
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  • 767 1 FUTURE* UNPREDICTABLE Reuter. (By Reuters Diplomatic Correspondent) LONDON, Aug. 21To -night's confirmation through the issue cf the Egyptian communique from Alexandria that Egypt has rejected the latest British proposals for the treaty revision is recognised by Londen observers to create a
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  • 122 1 Reuter. JERUSALEM. August 22. Ad. vance units of the First British Armour- d Division from Italy reached Jerusalem Inst nght. It is understood ;h.it th< place the Sixth Ai-rbor-i,- Dji si.-n which is now «rarrisoning Palestine. Unconfirmed reports from Tel Aviv stated that considerable
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  • 44 1 Reuter. SHANGHAI, Aug. 21:—Urgent anti-cholera measures have been started In Manchuria to check a threatened countrywide epidemic. More than 1,500 cases of cholera have occurred recently in Mukden and Changchun, the main cities of Manchuria. Five hurdred deaths are reported.—Reuter.
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  • 326 1 A.P. (By John Hightower, A.P. Diplomatic Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug 22--—The United States has launched a carefully planned diplomatic offensive against Russian exDansion in the Middle East and Asia with the rejection of the Soviet, demands for control of the Dardanelles. Leading officials yesteroav stated privately that
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  • 238 1  -  "Fed up with Intrigue"—Pridi (By n m. v, Alexander W. MacDonald, A.P. Correspondent) A.P. BANGKOK Aug. 21: —(Delayed)—Premier P r i d i nanomyong startled Siam with the announcement yesi noon cf his res gnation from the government due o opposition and intrigue which is
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  • 99 1 Reuter. BANGKOK. Aug. 21. Rumours that an attempt had been made on the life of King Phumiphon Adulet, 18-year-old ruler of Siam, were denied here in a communique from the Regency Council. The King left on Monday by air on a visit to
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  • 199 1 Reuter and A.P. NANKING, Aug. 21: While the Communist spokesman emphasised today that the Kalgan Radio I appeal for general mobilisation of more than 100,000 000 soldiers and civilians in Communist areas was "neither an official nor virtual declaration of war" the sensational call to arms
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  • 232 2  -  (By Henness, A.P. A.P.. Correspondent) TOKYO, August 21—ten years of "suffering" while in the .Japanese hands as the puppet emperor of Manchuria was given as the excuse fcr his lack of memory by Fei*r> Pu-yi, as he eulded the defence at tempts at the
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  • 564 2  -  (By William Glover, A.P. Correspondent) II J r, 1 A.P. NEW YORK Aug. 21: —A new line of medical research indicating a cure for cancer of "infinite possibilities" is being explored by Russian scientists, says Dr Edward Young, an American Surgeon, just returned from
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  • 67 2 BAGHDAD. Aug. 21.—One hundred houses and Government buildings have been destroyed by a number of earthquake shocks in Penjuin and Sulaimanyiah districts In northeast Iraq, it is reported today. The only casualty figures so far available >ho* that six persons have been killed and 14 injured.
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  • 129 2 A .P. Nanking, Aug. ll.—The ru Communists today announced establishment at Harbin 0 f the -dependent administration fJV r munist-held Manchur-a aJ they would not even dteu» •tun government for ail r>m after shooting stop.;. Un U The announcement o* a d. sional Supreme
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  • 115 2 A.P. SHANGHAI. Aug. 20.-A n ,utical party beJ* formedt and v ,11 be activated In t w o months, Carson Chang, lead.-' National Socialists, announced m Tlk- new party is to be known 5 the Social Democratic Part v. he "a-d and will form from a
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  • 214 2 (Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur Wednesday. His Excellency the Governor-in-Council has approved the increase by 100 per cent of its scale of b Vi!* Penang Harbour Board with effect from April 1, 1946. A notification to this effect will appear shortly in the Malayan Union Government
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 1023 2 NOTICES SALE BY TENDER 1. The Custodian of Property, Singapore, invites tenders for the purchase of the following particulars of which are as follows: <a) About 800 changkol handles: 30 axes; 6 tennis nets; 16 stirrup pumps; 24 lavatory brushes; 4 c/s fused bulbs; "33 pcs hurricane glasses; scrap iron;
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    • 276 2 30 platforms; 1 lot pipes, chains, iron bars and several lots furniture I broken). Situate at 32 Wallich Street. Comprising l lot tree bark, lime; 5 damaged refrigerators; 9 Fire Extinguishers; 1 lot about 30 small pieces glass: 15 Billiard Cues and several lots furniture (broken). Situate at 33 Wallich
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    • 661 2 NbtICES PASSAGES FOR CEYLONESE DESTITUTES. The Empress of Scotland which will carry Ceylonese destitute* will arrive in Singapore on the 23rd of August and will leave on or about the 26th August 1946. All Ceylonese who have been approved by the Resident Commissioner of their area for free repatriation should
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  • 125 3 r own Penang, king forward to getv Malaya and the re" said Lady Gent, r Edward Gent, shortly nival here in an in[d she was pleased to and she had an excelShe was very much :he welfare work n this country. m!< d by Si
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  • 35 3 r Own Reporter) Penang, Wednesday. g a suspicious-looking urer, the police found about 300 rounds ammunition, imples for making explosives and antity of gun powder. I man wafl arrested.
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  • 47 3 (Our Own Reporter) fcNG, Wednesday—The per- ard of His Excellency ii e Gowrnor-General, the Rt. Hon. U Mac Donald, was hoisted Residency here for the firsi t .-tvrday. The flag cartad gold crown surmounti d linn against a backoi royal blue.
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  • 403 3 t.'ll 0 (Tribune Staff Reporter) 11) Bf aWa m Commissioner, South East Asia contemplates goLorri Xi, L° ffer f ervices as mediator between the Dutch tt ™L h J" d T ?J'T n w L n take UP the threads approximately where were
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  • 196 3 Reuter. GENEVA, (By Mail):— Mr. Fiordla LaGuardia. Director-General of UNRRA, shouted, sobbed and hanged the table with his fist when he intervened tonight as the UNRRA Council was discussing displaced persons He tcld the delegates it was their intention to "throw thousands of displaced persons to the
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  • 79 3 Singapore, Thursday. Two lallang fires were reported yesterday but they were not of a serious nature. The brigade was summoned to Haig Road yesterday morning i where it was found that an old JaI panose aeroplane had been set on firej Two more calls were
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  • 118 3 Fire gutted a former Japanese ship, the "Bin:ui Maru", in SingaOCjnp on Tuesday night. H was being brought into the harbour for conversion. The Army Fire Service was summoned about 9 p.m. and a marine fire engine was immediately dispatched to the scene. The ntarboard of the
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  • 49 3 Bail of $150 was granted to Aman b. Dawood in the Third Police Court yesterday after a charge of possession of a dagger without a licence at the Hokkien Coolie Lines. Singapore Harbour Board on Tuesday night, was explained to him. The case will be mentioned on Aug. 28.
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  • 431 3 Outran Rd. Prison Trial Testifying to the ill-treatment he and several other Allied war prisoners had undergone at the Outram Road Prison during their stay there. Lt.Commander Theodor Smits. of the Royal Netherlands Navy Reserve, yesterday told the Third War Crimes Court, where
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  • 133 3 Khu Ah Leng (18) and Teh Thiam Song (21). who are at present serving prison sentences on charges of attempting to commit extortion toy threatening shop-keepers in Tanglin area that they would be troubled by secret society men if they did hot pay "protection" money, were sentenced
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  • 172 3 The Senior Officers' Co-opera-tive Credit and Investment Society, Ltd. will hold its Ninth Annual General Meeting at Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 6. Among the items on their agenda are the proposals to pay a dividend of 12 per cent, to members on
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  • 333 3 Denying that he had attempted to offer a bribe to ASP 0.0. Griffiths of the Anti-Vice and Corruption Branch of the C.I.D. at the New World Park on June 28. Scan Yoon Shen, a ccurt interpreter, made his defence in a summons case in
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  • 102 3 I Mohamed Ali bi n Hashim. a young Malay, was yesterday sentenced to three years' rieornus imprisonment and fl ned $200 i n default, three months' further imprisonment, on nharges of being in possession of a sbot-banvlled revolver and ammunition. At the previous hearing, evidence
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  • 66 3 During the past five war years Australia had canned, in all. 129.000,000 lb. of fruits and 42.000,000 lb. of fruit juices. Large quantities still remain with the Commonwealth Disposal Commission for export. Available for export also are all kinds of motor vehicles spart arts. These
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  • 355 3 Singapore Rotarians, employers of clerks and labour, yesterday at their weekly luncheon meeting heard Mr. Lim Chuan Gcok, president of the Singapore Clerical Union define the ideal employer for Singapore. His points:— J. Employers should be kind, sympathetic and approachable. 2. They should be Hilling
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  • 134 3 A.P. IPOH. Aug. 21.—A trip to the pest office has brought prospects of a small fortune to a local Chinese philatelist. The collector. Thong Mun Siew I t>u-char,ed a sheet of 100 British Military Administration 25-cent stamos for his collection. They 1 cost him their face
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  • 64 3 The Government has for disposal ceftftin materials unsuitable for clothing, viz sail cloth, dowlas, drck, brown duck, unbleached duck. Thee arc suitable for the nanufacture of shoes, hose, sails, bicvele lyres, tickings, etc., and applications, by manufacturers only. :;hould be made to Controller of Supplies. Singapore
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  • 56 3 Alleged to have caused the death of a compatriot at a house in Market Street on Aug. 2, a 2G-year-old Indian. SharifT b. Ibrahim was ordered to be remanded alter a charge of murder was explained to him in the Third Magistrate's Court vasterday. The
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 510 4 The famine in bread and the reduction to microscopic proportions in the rice ration have been seized upon by eating shops to raise prices of their dishes. Justification, lack of justification, ethics —anything can be pleaded. The fact remains that the workers' midday bowl of meehoon which last
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  • 1453 4 "Islamica" Looks Around The late Mr. H. G. Wells, whose death was announced a few days ago. was undoubtedly a great man—a great philosopher, novelis; and historian of world repute who had given us a very large number of books on philosophy, history, science and i-inagination.
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  • 432 4 Exploding Atom'c Myths I'm a ternary as y» u are of .he Ho!!y\vocd!y that ensbrioes the atomic bomb- So I <ct out to fine" some of the discoverable, facts wr.ich underlie the nauseating edeflce of myth huilt by popular imma<r i n a tor and irresponsible uuirnaKsm. The
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  • 698 4  -  Life can be so dull in a London hostel By Geraldine Storm You see them strap-hangins in the *übes and crowding oat the buses. Young, old. pert CT p]acid. w r i:h lipstick and without. Miil cns of them. Where do hey all go in the
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  • 1346 4 Pulling The Strings Behind The Literary Scene I am a ghost; a real hardworking of the rmv m world—l mean the literary world of London that is inhabited by mor.e ghosts than most people realise. In fact, I often wonder whether anyone knows of our exisence,
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  • 669 6 This year sees the centenary of the House of Dewar which had its humble beginning in 1846 when John Dewar, a middle-aged Scot opened his small wine and spirit shop in the High Street of Perth. Though the business was not large when he died
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  • 167 8 Reuter. LONDON. Aug. 20:—A West End frm which was alleged at Marylebone police court 1;o have failed to give an ex-serv c°man his jcb back afie- being ordered by the Reinstatement Tribunal was prosecuted in a caso said to be the of its kind. Roy
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  • 100 8 A.P. HANOI. Indochina. Aug. 21 President Ho Chi Minn of the Republic of Viet Nam radioed a message of congratulations from the Vietname c people to President Soekarno and i lie people of Indonesia on the occa: ion of the anniversary of IndoUi :an "independence."
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  • 809 8 Tobruk Siege Echo Reuter. LONDON, Aug. 21:—The insistence of the Australian Government led to the withdrawal of the beleaguered Australian troops in Tobruk and their replacements by fresh forces while the Germans lay at !he gates of the desert garrison, it was disclosed by Field-Marshal
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  • 120 8 Reuter. LONDON. Aug. 19.-The City Editor of "Evening Standard" write*: The announcement from New York that the United States Oovemment nav e agreed to pay the equivalent of £370 pertt v for Bolivian tin removes the last obstacle holding up negotiations between the
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  • 79 8 Reuter. London. Aug. 21. Here are the latsst results: SCOTTISH A DIVISION Celtic 2. Hearts 3; Falkirs 0 Rpngers 5; Hibernians 1. Clyde 0Kilmarnock 1. Hamilton I; Motherwell 2, Aberdeen 2; Third Lanark 1 Morton 3; Patrick Thistle 4. Queens Park 0. SCOTTISH B DIVISION—First round,: Supplementary Cup.
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  • 197 8 A.P. NEW DELHI. Aug. 22.—The opinion that a Congress-formed interim Government for India will be announced by the Viceroy, Viscount Lord Wavell, probably this week, is expressed in high Government circles as the discussions reached the name-discussion stage, writes Associated Press Correspondent Walt Mason. A reliable
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  • 379 8 t£ F 3; 1 N A S (Sembawang) 1. c L e Sin Kaporc Chinese Football Assnriatinn fully deserved their 3-1 victory over the »*nlJl T Service whom they metta S CC6r match at Jalan Bes r sSm T e a n reason for
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  • 690 8 Reuter and A.P. PARIS Aug. 22: —A spokesman of the six nonmember nations appeared before the Paris Peace Conference yesterday and let loose a barrage of charges, claims and statements demanding Italy's reparations payment—the biggest problem before the conference. Representatives of Albania, Egypt and
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  • 130 8 LONDON, Aug. 20 i woman who refused tn h-**** comrades despite the Nazi torture has been ft *L brut highest civilian honour,„ 7? *c Cross, the London G tonight. She is Mrs. OdetU Ifari, a slim, petit e member of Transport Service who Z by
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  • 126 8 Reuter. About 200 skilled Chiaea workers who laid down 1001«; al the Hum. Pip. (rar East) Co. on July la resumed duty this morning. The management have agrejj to start a canter, where wfa some meals would be available for the men
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  • 260 8 Latest County Cricket Scores Reuter. LONDON, Aug. 21:—Bowlers generally predomto?v e n on d JT? g wicket in the cou nt y cricket today. I William Edricn, chosen for the to v r of Australia, H2S?I? Wor cestershire with fast-medium bowling for Middlesex, dismissing
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