Malaya Tribune, 16 December 1946

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  • 52 1 The Malaya Tribune vy THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Now printed simultaneously in Singapore, Kuala L umpur, Ipoh Penang. •Phone Numbers: Editor JJJJ Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 2005 p G HT PAGES. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1946 TEN CENTS. (Eriknc MONDAY, DEC.
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  • 142 1 Reuter. JiEVt YORK. Dec. 15.—Nawao Jung, member of toe I"gation to the unitec in a bioadca-t >peecn n 'World Shortage of In its relation to Indi«' ..Id food pro>peCt> for gloomy. m India maintain th« Is a vital one and that thi tJnil i Nation- Organisation
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  • 49 1 MOre Dearer) Sugar Today une Staff Reporter) individual sugar ration for rice cards will be m 4 oz to 6 oz. or per week from today. UC of. 8 oz. weekly to eating ration card hold-> f remain unchanged. price of susar will be 20 r katty from today
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  • 25 1 untitled Dec 16.- The states Army estimate the Soviets still hold >0 Germans as prisoners f V; in Russia and her sate 1 lite countries.
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  • 234 1 (From Ou> Correspondent H. L. Hopkin) > DON. Monday.—lnterviewed to-day specially tail of the Tribune, Sir Waldron Smithers, M.P.. sked a number of questions regarding Malaya House of Commons, told me he was much conregarding conditions prevailing there and the I suffering and inconvenience
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  • 146 1 Tribune Staff Reporter) For the first time alter several months, no armed robberies were reported to kave taken place in Singapor? on Saturday and Sunday. Meanwhile, in £wo raid, »>n Sunday police trom Tanjong Pagar division, headed by Mr. L W. C. Byrde. A.S.P struck a crippling
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  • 23 1 Reuter. Gazi Mohammad. Kurdish leader who recently signed a reat" of friendship with Azerbaijan Democrats surrendered to Persian Government forces, it U reported.—Reuter.
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  • 80 1 Reuter. BOM3AY Dec. 16 -Two pc pie were kill: d in street battie> and stabbing incidents here, according to the Bombay Government's communique late last night. Stones and soda water bottles were used a weapons in thre a:ea a in Bombay where street battles took plaer. One
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  • 47 1 Reuter. LONDON. Dec 16.--India has contributed 5.000 pounds of shark oil to the "Save Europe Now" Fund, it was discloseo at a meeting held in Loduon last night. One thousand three hundred people who attended the meeting contributed £1.350 to the Fund.--Renter.
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  • 19 1 Warsaw, Dec. 16.--The Polish General Electoral Commission has divided the nation's 52 election distircts into 6.726 constituencies.
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  • 752 1 Jinnah Says "My Differences With British Are Serious" A.P. BENARES Dec. 16.—Pandit Nehru, Vice-President of the Indian Interim Government, declared here last night that "whatever form of constitution we may decide in the Constituent Assembly will become the constitution of free Indiawhether Britain
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  • 203 1 GERMANS TOLD: A.P. BERLIN, Dec. 15.—The Soviet Military Administration in Germany through its official newspaper "Taeliche Rundschau," told the German people to-day «\hat reparat ions which Russia demands of Germany in addition to equipment and products already taken represented "only partial repayment"
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  • 66 1 Reuter BRISBANE. Dec. IS.Five American Douglas passenger aeroplanes ivere piled together today when a 90-mile-an-hour gale—the worst ever recorded at Brisbane sicevt Archer Field aerodrome. The planes were in flying condition and were parked outside the hanoars of Qantas Empire Airways, who were negotiating for their
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  • 106 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A gruesome discovery was made by Mr. W. W. Neubronner of Art Undertakers yesterday when he went to visit the graves of his relatives at the old cemetery in Bukit Timah Road. In front of the Protestant Chanel within the cemetery grounds Mr. was
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  • 47 1 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 15.—Sir Waiter Monckton, who has been in India advisinc the Nizam of Hyderabad on the new Indian constitution. arrived back in London tonight by air. He ls to see the Viceroy in London before Lord Wavell's return to New Delhi.—Reuter.
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  • 349 1 Early success met England to-day when play was resumed in the second Test at Sydney. Barnes (21) and Johnson (0), the overnight not outs, added only ten runs to the overnight total of 3TI when Washbrook, who was fielding magnificently at cover, held a weak attempt
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  • 70 1 England Ist Inning* 255 AUSTRALIA. -Ist Innings. S. Barney not out 44 A. atom? o CiOnch 5 I. Jonnson c Washbrook b Edricn 7 L. Hassett not out 30 Extras 2 Total tfor 2 wkts> 88 Fall Of wkts.: 1 24; 2\ 37. BOWLING O. M. R. W.
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  • 36 1 A.P. WASHINGTON. Dec. 16. -I'm United States has begun an intensive study of the food requirements abroad to determine wh<. ther UNRRA shipments should be diverted from some countrie> to others in greater need.—A.P.
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  • 238 1 Reuter. LONDON. Dec. 15—There was no referendum as to whether the British people would like to give away India." declared Mrs. Eleonora Tennant. chairman of the "Face The Facts Association"—the movement formed at the end of the war which describes itself a s pledged
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  • 172 1 Reuter MADRID. Dec. 15— Speaking at the first promotion of officer cadets from Saragossa General Military Academy since the civil war Gen. Francisco Franco said: "We must be ready. It is not enough to love peace but we must be ready to defend it. The
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  • 89 1 A.P. POME. Dec. 15.—Luigi Ferrari, chief of the Italian Federal Police, said to-day that a warrant had been issued at Turin for the arrest of Mario Fano. Under-Secretary for the posts and Communications until June last, on a charge of swindling the Postal Administration. Ansa. the Italian
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  • 74 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Mr. A. T. Newboult. Chief Secretary of the Malayan Union and Mr. K. K. O'Connor. AttorneyGeneral, who accompanied the Governor-General Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, on his visit to England are expected to arrive in Singapore this afternoon by air. They spent about
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  • 40 1 M. A. Guibaut, the new French consul-General at Singapore, arrived this morning from Shanghai on the M.M. liner Andre Lebon. He was accompanied by his wife and child. The* Andre Lebon brought 27 other passengers for Singapore.
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  • 277 2 Reuter. SYDNEY.—A research station In the Goulburn Valley, Victoria, ls developing a new automatic irrigation project described "as revolutionary to irrigation as Jet propulsion to air navigation." The system Is operated by rotary sprays spaced at regular interval* in pipes running along the ground. Inventor of the system
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  • 414 2 LONDON. —Kenneth Alfred Biggs 's a small, neat bank clerk who wears a' black jacket and striped trousers and catches a train every evening from his branch in Slogan-street. Kensington, to the home his wife. Vivienne. run s in Totteridge. Herts. But Kenneth Alfred
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  • 314 2 A.P. Washington, Dec. 15.— guarded tour in Russian co duced threats that picturewound up with a friendly c the Soviet general and a fa unfolded in the diary of the Edwm F. Pauley, says Jack respondent. Mr. Pauley's diary of his si*« day inspection trip through
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  • 206 3 third meeting of the rnational Emergency Food .1 sub-Committee on rice ft) East Asia, held in re on Dec. 13, the rice pping programme for Janunended by the Liai(>mcer.s meeting was acipted. pmestg against the June/ mber 1946 programme were wed; in spite of the consirable
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  • 341 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) KUALA LUMPUR, TODAY.— Dato Onn bin Jaatr, President of the United Malay Nationalist Organization, interviewed by the Tribune last night refused be drawn into any discussion of the possible attitude I either the UMNO or the Malay Rulers to the 12-man
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  • 47 3 Reuter. Tokyo, Dec. 15.—Australian Army Minister, Mr. Oyril Chambers. U due to arrhre in Tokyo shortly. Prom there he will leave for the area occupied by the British Commonwealth Forces and see how the troop* will spend Ch ri st ma s. Router.
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  • 825 3 Reuter. FLUSHING, Meadow, New York, Dec. 14.—The United Nations General Assembly today passed unanimously with acclamation the disarmament resolution. The resolution calls for a general reduction of armaments with effective safeguard for those states complying and regulation of the atom bomb. In
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  • 62 3 Reuter. BATAVIA. Dec. 14. —A Dutch military communique today claimed that 80 Indonesians had been killed in "estensive clearing operation" south of Macassar (Celebes Where martial law was recently declared. The communique added that in Sumatra Indonesians had directed mortar fire against Medan airfield and shot at
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  • 309 3 Prices quoted below are for picul weight except where otherwise stated. Foodstuffs:—Yesterday*., quotations were "Meehoon": Siam No. 1 $100; No. 2 $85; No. 3 $75; Indo-China $65; Kedah $65. Rice: Siam No. 1 $100; No. 2 $90; No. 3 $75. Siam glutinous rice $100: Kedah glutinou?
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  • 294 3 $2-Bill ion Damage A.P. Washington, Dec. 14. President Truman's reparations representative, Edwin Pauley, flatly charged Russia with "major responsibility" for the "wrecks: condition" of Manchurian industry. In a formal report to the President, Pauley said the dcs- truction that accompanied Soviet confiscation and removal ,of foodstuffs
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  • 106 3 A.P. Denpasar (Bali), Dec. 14.—LWilliam Hoven, acting chairman of the Denpasar conference, expelled on Friday three Indonesian Republican journalists from Bali. Dr. Hoven said that within 24 hours of their arrival, the three offenders broke their pledge to refrain from propaganda and distributed pamphlets attacking the Dutch-Indonesia
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  • 721 3 Share quotations as at De. 13. iceording to -the Malayan Share brokers Association (Singapore) vara aa followsINDUSTRIALS Bayer Seller Alexandra Brickworks Ords. 1.80 2.00 Alexandra Brickworks Prefs. 2.90 8.10 Srit. Malaya Trustee 8c Executor Co. 8.00 1.00 .onsolidated Ti»» Smelters Ord. 22j3 24;3 4u Prels. £0/0 348/6
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  • 427 4 Continued secrecy over the agreement" worked out by the twelve man committee at Kuala Lumpur is having now its inevitable mischievous effect. The most unfortunate aspect of the long delay in making known the" results of the Kuala Lumpur negotiations is that Ihe suspicion of the
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  • 1018 4  -  (From Henry Bucklcy. Kev: tcrs Correspondent) Reuter. MADRID. Spain's loreign policy today, which is the personal policy of General Francisco Franco but is not necessarily without support in other quarters, can be described as isolationist by force and isolationist by choice. Obviously, the unpopularity abroad of the
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  • 529 4 TOKIO. —Japan's masses seem to be having a lot more trouble understanding the newly won freedom of t/ie press than do the nation's editors. Newspaper shops have been wrecked and publishers beaten because of articles that have appeared in their columns. Allied Headquarters de finition of
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  • 104 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sir,—Mention of smells tne other day oy a correspondent reminds me that i should like to add one more to the subject. Driving through Siak Street yesterday morning I was almost overcome by the vapours from the adjacent gulley in which
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  • 172 4 Sir,—lt is very interesting to read the Singapore Financial Secretary's explanation of the revaluation of Jap currency at 25% of the Straits dollar. Admitting that this valuation is made on an arbitrary basis, it is puzzling how currency value has any relationship with the standard of living. The
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  • 128 4 Sir,--I cannot understand the cry raised about "poor conditions" prevailing In camps. Compared wfth what many civilians have to put up with these days, they live like rajahs. Free food, free accommodation, free lifts, free everything and all the ordinary citizen gets is free air! It would do
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  • 155 4 Sir.—ln these days when crime is rampant throughout the country and the police are fighting a slow but winning battle against gangsterdom, it is more than a surprising to see that the authorities allow such flms as '*This Gun For Hire". "Dillinger". "The Killers", and other
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  • 419 4 WASHINGTON. -American experts predict that within five years the Japanese silk industry wil be producing 300.000 bales yearly for export and again occupying a major position in the empire's international trade. Under U.S. approval, aimed to assist the recovery of Japanese industry
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    • 63 4 EmW sM&SteS* T- 0*TrPU&. 1> Sa</! HAS APPEARED 3 TIMES THt CK TH£ fjV J on DECEMBER 13 just PRlO£ TO A CCATH IN i u THE roval FAM\lvon I TwE: E^vCh I /"IP TlME B'G BEN Struck /3 T/MES RT midnight! 166/, 'S78, Jit*1692.. Although PrrentSepls "HP < I"
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  • 26 5 Reuter. BENS, Dec. 14. Field ial Smuts, arrived at Athens airport yesterday for ree-day visit to Greece, ill be introduced to PaiI today.--Reuter.
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  • 173 5 FIRST DEMAND: SHORTER BEARDS Reuter. SYDNEY Men who impersonate Santa Claus in Melbourne stores may toon form their own trade union. Mr. John Lockhead. who has been impersonating Santa Claus at Christmas time in Melbourne for the vast seven years, is tryin a to form
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  • 155 5 A.P. MOSCOW. Dec. 15.—Russian officials today announced that some mcmbet> of the Soviet armed forces were badly in need of indoctrination in "the supeiioritics of the Socialist system.*' Other announcements resulting from the turning of a fiankly introspective eye on internal affairs, reported: One—Agricultural
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  • 118 5 The Mayfair Musical and Dramatic Association (Ai Hwa Association* will be celebrating its 12th Anniversary on Sunday, Dec 22 with a tea-party in the Association's premises at 10 o'clock in the morning. The musical bands of the Association will broadcast a number of selections from the
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  • 431 5 (Tribune StaiT Reproter) The Rex Cinema, first theatre to be built in Singapore since the liberation, will be ready to hold its first show by Christmas. With a seating capacity of 1 362, the Rex i s air-conditioned and the latest equipment in
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  • 245 5 LONDON, Dec. 16. —A rich man's second son. who has "cut off" with little more than the traditional shillings, has left a fortune estimated at about 14,000,000. This is Mr. William J. Yapp. Director of Carreras. Before he was taken ill he lived at Beech Hurst, Maywards
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  • 28 5 Beirut: Dec. 15.—Riad El Solh, former Lebanese prime Minister, has formed a new Lebanese cabinet after the resignation on Wednesday ot Saadi El Mulla's government.
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  • 83 5 A.P. PEIPING. Dec. 15.—Chinese Government military commander* got the biggest laugh thus far in the civil tear as they read a report today from the besieged Chungyang in Shensi province, that the Communut attackers were using atomic oombs. The report described the *Iplosives as 2,000 times
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  • 250 5 Reuter. Washington. Dec 13,—President Truman has signed a strongly phrased priority order In an attempt to guarantee sufficient rail transport for shipment of grain overseas, it was learned authoritatively to-day. He signed the measure last night and tne overall United States anti-famine programme
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  • 239 5 A.P. (Tom Lambert, Associated press Correspondent) TOKIO, Dec. 15.—The Red Army rules from Karafuto to Paramushiro, along the Kurile chain of stepping-stone islands running south-west from Kamchatka to Hokkaido, two repatriates from those former Japanese holding said today. The recent soviet domination of Karafuto and
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  • 123 5 Reuter. SYDNEY.—The a£64 million casn portion of the Second security Loan, which closed on November 15, was over-suu.s-cribed by at least £51 2 million, the Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley. disclosed. The cash subscribers totalled about 190 000 he said. Of the £26 million worth of 212 pe
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  • 91 5 Reuter. SHANGHAI.-The National Highway Administration has been ordered to assume the management and care of the India-China oil pipe-line built during the war by American engineers and Indian and Chinese army personnel, according to a report carried by the semiofficial United Credit Information Bureau. This
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  • 34 5 JOGJAKARTA.—BaIi an exportable rice surplus, a visiting member of the region Indonesian National Committee told Antara. Bali could also supply cattle for slaughter to Java. The island's only shortage was of clothing, he said.
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  • 175 5 TOKYO. A four-engine Japanese 'plane, built for the influential Japanese newspaper Asahi and requisitioned by the Army during the war, attempted to make a secret non-stop flight from Singapore to Berlin in 1944. an Asahi executive told Reuter. The 'plane, carrying Japanese Army
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  • 137 5 Reuter. NEW DELHI. —India has each year seventy million acres under irrigation from canals, ponds, wells —the highest irrigated acreage in the world. Without this extensive Irrigation, vast areas, particularly in the Punjab and Sind, where rainfall was between four inches and fifteen inches, would
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  • 54 5 The golden flow ol U.S. Government revenue from excess profit taxes will dry up as this year fades out. Excess profits taxes have yielded more than U. 5.535.000,000-,-000 in less than six years. Although repealed, the tax still io yielding returns because corporations are just finishing
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  • 235 6 A.P. New Delhi. Dec. 15.—The proMuslim League newspaper "Dawn" said editorially on Sun day that "Mr. Winston Churchill's realistic oration"' during the debate on India in the Housj of Commons last week should lead tile-Labour Government "to some heart searching and to dispassionate re-examinati m
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  • 87 6 A.P. London. Dec 15.—Swedish heavyweight Nlise Andersen ran through a gnaopy w trkoul i D Sunday unruffled by renewed for easts in the Briti-h. Press that he does not have a chance agains: Bruce Woodcock in their 10 rounds' bout on Tuesday nijrht "I have a great
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  • 167 6 Three principles will guide the future deliberations of the newly-formed Council of Joint Action. They are (1) Singapore to be included in a United Malaya; (2) Responsible self-government through a fully elected central legislature for the whole of Malaya, and (3) Equal citizen ship rights
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  • 99 6 Reuter. Athens. Dec 15. Five women killed and six person* wounded in a village north of Salonika when a police sergeani opened fire on a crowd gathered round the spot where an exploding mine had earlier killed one of his comrades It was officially stated In Athens
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  • 98 6 A.P. Shangha De, 15 -A search L a proceeding fof C-47 plane oi the Central Air Transport Corporation, which disappeared whi.e flying to Shanghai from Nanking on Saturday. The plant carried a crew of three and two The last contact with the plant was at 2.30
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  • 121 6 Reuter. Sydney, Air Mail). —Fresh orders for t*talisator eqirpmen* had been received, from India. Burma. Malaya, the Philippines. South Africa, and New Zealand as well a<- from Australia Itself said the Chairman of Automatic Totalizators* Ltd., Mr. John Spence. at the annual meeting in Sydney. A
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  • 97 6 A.P. Washington. Dec. 15-—Mr. Paul V. McNutt. U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, leaves for Manila on Sunday night ending his mission here which he termed successful. He is scheduled to arrive in Manila on Thursday via Indianapolis and San Francisco. Mr. McNutt ls carrying with
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  • 47 6 A.P. Washington. Dec. 15—The UJ3. Army and Navy are freeing 1,770 prisoner- for Christmas. Announcing the clemency action, the War ond Navy Departments said all those to be freed had records of Rood conduct as prisoner- and their sentences would have axpired early next year—A.P.
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  • 52 6 Reuter. Flushing Meadows, Dec. 10. By a unanimous vote the United Nations General Assent ly last night rejected the proposal by the South African Prime Minister, Field Marshal Jan Smuts, for the incorporation of the territory of South-West Africa into the Union of South
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  • 65 6 Reuter. Flushing Meadows. Dec. 15. The resolution calling for an international conference on the freedom of the press yesterday unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. The General Assembly last night decided to make the United Nations Organisation's permanent home in New York.
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  • 97 6 Reuter. Bombay. Dec. 14,--A member of the newly formed Bur- j mese coalition Government. U Saw. stated here today: "We the people of Burma, are looking forward to se -ing not only our own country, free but also 9 free United India so *hat the two
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  • 44 6 A.P. Rome. Dec. 15 —UNRRA U sending to Italy an entire penicillin factory from the U.S. Director of the UNRRA mission to Italy disclosed to-day. Italians have gone t-> the U.S.. Eneland and Canada to study penicillin nroduction —A.P.
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  • 46 6 A.P. NEW YORK. Dec 14-Cuba yesterday suggested that members of the United Nations should withdraw their ambassadors and ministers from such countries as Poland. Yugoslavia and Rumania as a logical consequence of the PeneraJ As- semblv'B recommendation that such action should be taken against Franco Spain.--AP.
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  • 435 7 FOOTBALL REVIEW Reuter. London, Dec. 14. —Gillingham, a minor League üb, provided the surprise of the second round of the competition today by beating Bristol City, Third >ion club who have lost only one home match this eaSon. the League matches the I x second
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  • 127 7 Reuter. LONDON, Dec, 14.—(From Rev diplomatic correspondent. Th. Polish statement alleging that the former Warsaw cones pondent of the Sunday Time.,, Sclby, was in touch *'lth armed bands during his sta* ir Poland caused surprise in WhiL hall said the Foreign Oi2ce kesaai today. Selby was forced
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  • 86 7 A.P. BERLIN, Dec. 14.—Lt.-Gen. Lucius D. Clay. Deputy American Military Governor, yesterday forecast an lmproyea standard of living for tne merged British and American :ones of Germany because they now have a minimum working capital of ,£22,000,000 from experts to operate with. Gen Clay told
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  • 71 7 Reuter. NANKING. Dec. 14.— Major General Powell Rooks, who will take cner the directorship of the UKRRA from Piorello LaGuardia on Dec. 81, in a telegraph to General Chou 80-lal stated: "The equitable distribution of supplies continues to be n-m objective in China* Maj. Gen.
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  • 52 7 During the Xmas Holidays, a Triangular match among the Mayflower Badminton Party (Singapore; t Liew Kwong Hon's Badminton Team (Selanfor) and Xtae Pahnttead Badminton Party (Penan?) wiU be played in Kuala Lumpur. The games will be pt»7«* in a*d <* the building of an extension th* Jubilee Home
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  • 129 7 Reuter MELBOURNE, Dec. 15.— Photo electric records support Australian batsmen's appeais against bad light in the Sydney test yesterday. Mr, B. A. Pearl, co-director of a photo finish organisation who has returned here from Sydney, stated today that he and Mr. Athol Smith, another co-direc-tor,
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  • 130 7 Reuter. Dare< Salaam. Dec. 15.—Dr. R Reusch, Superintendent of the Lutheran Missions in the Kilimanjaro area of Tanganyika, is planning lv?s fiftieth ascent to the summit of Kilimanjaro for the middle of January. Dr. Reusch. a former Cossack orticer, who is President of the East
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  • 462 7 RUGBY REVIEW Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 14.—Th ree Welsh Clubs, Cardiff, Pontypool and Neath —all unbeaten since October maintained their winning sequences in the week-end rugby matches. At Arms park Cardiff defeated their neighbours Swansea 13-8 belore a crowd of 15,000. It was a very close
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  • 150 7 LONDON. When Kenneth Allerton, of Chartham Hatch near Canterbury, then a parachutist officer, was dropped be hind the lines in Italy his life was saved by a small force "Popski's Army led by JacK Smith of Harbletown near Canterbury. Allerton paid his debt when Smith was before
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  • 430 7  -  Football Round-Hp Says ARCHIE QUICK It was un fortunate that the F.A. vs. Royal Navy match at Portsmouth had to be postponed, for I was looking forward to weighing up the respective merits of the Army and Navy opposition to the F.A. The Army
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  • 51 7 An exciting soccer match was played at the Police Training School Ground between the B team of the Buffs Regiment and the Jollllad* Athletic Union yesterday. The score wa s two an. The scorers for the Buffs were Bunting and Mossridge and for the Jollilads Suppiah and
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  • 137 7 Reuter. NEW YORK, Dec. 14-J. X amer and Pauline Betz are ranked No. 1 in the men's and women V lists respectively of the United States Lawn Tennis rankingIssued by United States Lawn Tennis Association today. Kramer captured the U.S. Men's Single> Championships this year.
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  • 117 7 A.P. Melbourne, Dec. 15.—Probablj it will be Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder of the American team, who will be playing against John Bromwich and Dinny Pails of the defending Australian squad in the singles of the Australian Davis Cup tennis matches here during Christmas.
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  • 456 7  -  (By Archie Quick London, Sunday"—Ex-Army Sergeant Tommy McGovern who won such glowing Louis when the Kennington hghtweig ent at ABA champion won an Inter-Allied Touma SZe, is the centre of a boxing controversy that is raging behind the scenes in London. The CiU
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  • 229 7 A.P. KANSAS, Dec. 14. —The war-time marriage b tween a Kansas veteran and a member of the Igorots Philippines island tribe, came to an abrupt end on Thursday with the filing of annulment papers granted by Judge C. A. Spencer in the district court
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  • 119 7 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 14.—The criticism in the Red Navy organ, Red Fleet, ot British and United States naval strategy during the war and of tactics of wartime convoy to North Russia in particular was regretted by the BtiUsh Foreign Office spokesman toda< The Red
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  • 88 7 A.P. LONDON, Dec. 15.—General E. W. Simpson, Vice-Chief of tha Imperial General Staff, has lei: Britain on Saturday for a twoweek tour of Malaya during which he will confer with local Com manders, the War Office announced on Saturday night. Accompanying General Sim
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  • 81 7 A.P. San Pedro (California), Dec. 15. The Chinese freighter Hwatung sank on Saturday, 335 miles west of here after abandonment by her crew of 29 seamen of mixed nationals, the U.S. Coast Guard reported on Saturday night. All the crew were taken aboard the destroyer escort
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  • 229 7 LONDON, British Army of the Rhine has a mystery athlete about whom officials in this country would like to learn a gn ai dealwhore. When a Combined Services Returned recently from Germany they brought back glowing accounts of one, Private Toone, of the Royal Army Pay Corps,
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  • 163 7 A.P. New York. Dec. 15—Speaking and working among big political and industrial circle* oi the U.S. to day are two representatives of Korea, who have a single purpose in mmd —complete independence of their native landThey are Kirn Dong Sung, Executive Chief
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  • 89 7 A.P. Washington, Dec 15. The International Wheat Council may decide at its mid-win ter meeting whether to call another conference on a poet-war international wheat agreement, the Council's chairman, Mr. L. A. Wheeler said, on Saturday. The Council is an advisory group of Government representatives from
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  • 292 8 A.P. Testifying at the trial of U former members of the camp aaff. Mas Hereil, a French woman, who was confined in th< camp because of her work in the French underground, said one the accused. Cainun Maria Mory. was accu>tom«.d to pour bucke's of
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  • 148 8 A.P. WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.-Tne 48-nation UNRRA Council jn Satuiday night dispersed after netting a tentative deadline for completion of its ministering 'jo the world hungry nations. Climaxing a four-day meeting, the Organisation accepted 'n i n -ignation of Director-General Piorello La Guardia and elected Major
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  • 75 8 Reuter. Shanghai. Dec. 15.—Archbishop Antonio Riseri. first Apostolic internuncio to China, who arrived here yesterday afternoon from Rome is expected to proceed to Nanking some time this week to present his credentials to generalissimo Chiang Kaishek and take up his position as Vatican Minister to China.
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  • 292 8 Reuter. TOKYO. Higheust Ol food and commodities throughout j Japan makes it impossible for Japanese families to live on the 500 yea cash limit imposed by the I Government and, as a result, 1 many of them are selling family heirlooms and curio-
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  • 50 8 A.P. HAMBURG. Dec 14 --The death rate in the Nazi-run Ka'ensbruek concentration camp for women averaged between 160 and 18() monthly In 1944 but from then on it rosr to l f > to 50 daily. Mrs Hermione Balylnl. an Austrian, testified before a military tribuna*.
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  • 258 8 Reuter. NEW YORK. Dec. 15.- Plans for the United Nations Organisation's perma nent home in New York are being pressed forward after the decision of the General Assembly late last night which settled a controversy of more than two years standing.
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  • 224 8 A.P. ißv Spencer Moosa A.P. Corr.' bhangnai. Dec 15 —Cnina is approaching Chns:mas with but UtUe prospect ol peace. bright spot in the situation Is that a comph te national split which Communists threatened in the past, has not materialised. Fighting is taking pluce .n
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  • 269 8 Reuter. Washington, Dec. 15.-—The United States Reparation Commissioner, Mr. Edwin F. Pauley, told Presidsn Truman on Saturday that the Russians may seek to force Communism on all Korea before they a?ree to withdraw their occupation troops from Korea's northern half. Reporting to the White
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  • 190 8 A.P. SHANGHAI, Dec. 14.—Dr. j Heng Liv, CNRRA's Chief Medical officer. i> flying to Washington to day in an effoit to a assist in salvaging part of what he termed "the wrecked" UNRRA medical the US. i 41.300.000 budget for medical supplier to
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  • 110 8 A.P. LO V HON. Dec. 15.--J. J. Maioney. foimer Australian Miniscei to Moscow, -..id in an editorial page article in the Sunday Dispatch on Sunday that there "hundred- of thousands of beggats in Ru-sia." Mr. Maloney -aid: "You go tj any part of Mo-cow
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  • 141 8 Fear Unrest In Greece Reuter. ATHENS. Dec 14 The South Afiican Prime Minister. General Jan Smuts, who is in Athens on a three days' visit, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies today said: "Greece's northern districts continue to be the scene of wild and increasing order and the presence of
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  • 59 8 Reuter. Karachi—Mr. Ijaz Ahmed. Director of Purchases in the Food Department of th* Government of India, said here that India expected 60 000 ton s of food grains, including barley and millets from Iraq, and had already received some deliveries. Efforts to procure more grains from
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  • 207 8 A.P. BASLE, Switzerland, 15.—Party lines were definitely broken to-day on the con troversial issue whether the Zionists should be represented at the Palestine Conference in London on Jan. 14. The General Z.onist Party and the Labour Party, the two strongest groups in th? World
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  • 309 8 A.P. LONODN, Dec. 15.—Fog blocked out large -ections of the British Isles and hung in a heavy veil over Europe's west coast. Not them France and Switzerland, on Saturday, disrupting ocean shipping and tying up overland transport. Germany, suffering it- first cold wave of the season,
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  • 71 8 Reuter. SHANGHAI. Faced with a lack of raw materials, 90 silk nlatuies ln Kiangsu and CheklangChina's greatest silk producing provinces—are threatened with an early suspension of opetatlons. The plight of these factories, which employ over 20.000 men and women, is said by Chinese circles here to be
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  • 181 8 A.P. NEW YORK, Dec. 15. -Mr. Ray fifttherton, United States Ambassador to Canada said on Saturday that he believes "foreign opinion fears that we may be selfish about tariff- and that we may suffer a bad depression at home." Mr. Atherton. in a speech
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  • 168 8 SYDNEY. An aged farmer walked cltors' office in threw six remomotts the- floor. He then walked screaming office The farmei in the office of Film im nk Queen Street H."..",\ the office about viouslyand amicabl depute about p 6 V The farm.r entered Fi
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  • 38 8 The newest untitled wood Ingenuity V hair. Before the wig- were mac hair, rmported m tral Europe When i off that .source r. supply th wlgmakers had i stock of hair on hand method of wig-making of desperation.
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  • 240 8 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 15. —The biggest Struggle ol Present British Parliamentary session is ex morrow when tho Minister of Transport. Mi Barnes, will move the second readme: of tl merit's bill to nationalise railways, road trai sp r docks. These transport facil'ties will come under
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