Malaya Tribune, 11 January 1947

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    53 1 The Malaya Tribune B y the PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Now printed simultaneously in Singapore, Kuala L umpur. Ipoh Penang. 'Phone Numbers: Editor 5813 Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 2005 fIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1947 TEN CENTS The Malaya Tribune SATURDAY,
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    VIETNAMS CALL FOR HALT IN WAR
    362 1 Ho Chin Minh Wants An Inquiry Fighting Breaks Out Again In Hanoi Reuter and U.P. SAIGON, Jan. 11. —Fresh fighting between Indochina nationalist forces and French troops has flared up in Hanoi, capital of Tonkin, northern Indo-china. A FUnch communique reports that Vietnam guns
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    'UNTRUE' SAYS ACCUSED WIFE
    382 1 untitled Tub Murder" Reuter. Ml a realistic ducetd to show in »r said to have Cecil George v.... died from 1 bath, was handed in the witness box ed h arfng to-day arg against th tnr Cornock. Ed look d on as Dr Uist, explained ma
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    Violence In Chalk Pit Murder
    103 1 Reuter. CATEKHAu, Jan. !l—When the k •!cn--..'.n Mudie, x>d 35 a E g/.th Army corporal rttm bod] w*s found in a di?uil Wol .injrham Com□m 2. was opened c tfl Caterham, Sural' was given thru bi C. itn Was asphyxia pttl -i- f who had
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    90 Routed 1,000
    50 1 Reuter. U. —A thousand Who attacked a village m with Heavy una- n battle in whicn in udirjg four Greek offi- I H 39 &ta t ranks. detachment of di f. oded the village. teriUai fled over Bulgaria, and r ar« pursuing the remiadi r. Willi i.
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    15 1 untitled 10.—The bodies Of w Indian soldiers buried i are to be transit for reburied.
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    BRTTATN PUYING 15,000 BEDROOM SUITES
    35 1 ROME, Jan. 10. The British Board of Trade mission has completed negotiations for the purchase oi 15.000 bedroom suites from northern Italian furniture firms at th«> cost of over £64"),000.
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    17 1 NEW YORK, Jan. 10. —Britain today placed her complaint again*: Albania before the United Nations Security Council.
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    BURMA WANTS FREEDOM THIS MONTH
    290 1 (From Harold Guard I London. Jan. lv.—Th Burmese delegation which arrived in London to-day led by boyish. Japanese-educated U Aung San has placed a time limit on t> demands from the British Goveminent. Aung San and his coil-agues inrend demanding the creation of a provisional
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    125 ARRESTS IN CALCUTTA
    56 1 Calcutta, Jan. 10— Twelve people were injured and 125 in--1 eluding 30 women arrested when Calcutta police today broke up minor disturbances outside Government offices during a one-day general strike of Government of India civil servants, joined by some Bengal Government servants. The police made several
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    323 1 THE HAGUE, Jan. 10.—A strong Army, Navy and Air Force to preserve Holland's integrity and enable her to fulfil her obligations as a member of the United Nations has been advocated by Dutch members or parliament. CORNWALL, lalL 10.—A forecast that unless Mr. Jmnah compromised with
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    "Let's March Forward Together": Monty Says Thanks To Russia
    193 1 Reuter. MOSCOW, Jan. 11. —Viscount Montgomery who ends his Russian visit to-day, in a statement to the Soviet press last night thanked soviet Army leaders for their hospitality and said that at their military academies he was shown everything he wanted
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    CHINESE GOVT. READY FOR PEACE TALKS WITH REDS
    543 1 U.P. NANKING, Jan. 10. —Information Minister Peng Hsueh-pei in a statement late last night said the Chinese government was ready and willing to discuss with the Chinese communists a concrete plan for cessation of hostilities and reorganization of the government so than
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    UPRISING IN W. CHINA
    111 1 U.P. SHANGHAI, Jan. 10— Report? reaching here today from Chentu indicated that a serious Uprising is going on in the remote West China province of Sikang, where bandities claimed the capture of at least four counties, including Yaan, near the S echuen border, from \\here report!
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    Malaya Census In September
    78 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) An Al.-Malayan Census will ba taken on Sept. 24. In 1931 the population was 4.395 million, and ■in 1941 5£ million. j It is expected Malaya's presen population will exceed 6-mlllion. There will be 1,000 supervisors and 12.000 enumerators, mostly i school boys
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    19 1 JERUSALEM, Jan. 10.—A huge swurm of lacusts descended on Jerusalem today, coverings streets, roofs and the walls of house.
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    PALESTINE TERRORISTS CALL TRUCE
    251 1 Reuter. JERUSALEM. Jan. 11. The Jewish terrorist organisation, IrgUn Zvai Leumi, yesterday confirmed there is a temporary trUce" wiih the British armed forces in Palestine, in letter to the Palestine Government"* public informati,.:i office. The letter was received in an envelope stamped On Hi s Majesty's
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    RAF Fight Snowstorms on Mercy Mission
    131 1 Reuter. Hamburg, Jan. 11.—Royal Air Force planes battling through snowstorms lashing the north Frisian coast yesterday parachuted about two tons of dried milk to 700 milk-starved children, marooned in an institute on ice-bound Arnrum Island, 20 miles off the west coast of Schlewig Holstein.
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    Super-Super
    74 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The army air force expects to take delivery socn of the first of a "souped up version of the B-29 Superfortress bombers, with 2,800 more horsepower, greater range, speed and bomb carrying capacity. The new plane will be known aa the B-50. It will have four
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    DUTCH SEARCH BRITISH SHIP FOR WEAPONS
    145 2 Reuter. BATAVIA, Jan. 9.—The information service of the Dutch Navy, announced today that tfte 394-ton British merchant ship Empire Mayrover has been escorted by the Dutch warship from Cheribon. northwest Java, to Semarang, a Java seaport where she will be searched tor weapons in
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    Egyptian Talks Breakdown Feared
    87 2 Reuter. CAIRO. Jan. 10.—The Egyptian Government U taking steps to prepare public opinion for a breakdown of talks for the new Anglo-Egyptian treaty, the independent newspaper Al Ahram said today Everything now depended on King Farouk. who was expected back in Cairo in a day or
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    Court Martial
    72 2 Reuter. RICHFIELD, Stafford-hire, Jan. 9.—The court martial was held here today of Corporal Robert Dean who had asked for a separate hearing when he and eight otter corporals were charged yesterday with mutiny on the allegation of leaving the uoops#idp Empress of Scotland at Liverpool a month ago
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    Suicide Leap By Young Chinese
    174 2 Dance Hostess Strangled U.P. Hongkong, Jan. 9. —A dramatis eleven-storey suicide leap tonight climaxed the murcfer and suicide of a young Chinese businessmen and a pretty dancing hostess whose strangled body was found in a hotel room 12 hours earlier. Th? Chines? leaped to his
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    SHANGHAI LIVES ON BORROWED MONEY
    126 2 HONGKONO.-—Ba nkrwpteie s whic* tire expected to occur in Shanghai before the Chinese New Year estimated by the Far Eastern Economic Review to approximate US $100,000,000', due mainly to exorbitant rates of interest being charged in the black market. The number of business failures in
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    Russians want Spitzbergen
    153 2 Reuter. New York, Jan. 10.—Russia has requested facilities from Norway for military bases on Spitzbergen Island" the New York Times reported "authoritatively" from London today. The Spitzbergen archipelago, composed of one large island and several smaller ones, lies between Norway and Greenland, and is only 540 miles
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    37 2 WARSAW, Jan. 10.—Dr. Os-car Lange, former Polish Ambassador to the United States and now a delegate to the United Nations Security Council, may be named prime minister upon his return to Warsaw from New York next month.
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    UNIFICATION TRENDS SEEN IN CHINA
    152 2 U.P. CLEVELAND. Ohio, Jan. 9.— Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador to the United States, In an interview prior to arfdressinsr the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, said today that the trend in China is toward the unification of the more moderate men of the Communist
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    Cossack Hat Far 'Monty'
    107 2 U.P. MOSCOW. January 10.—Before his departure from Moscow Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery is going to receive, as Sovkt Chief of Staff Marshal vasilevsky\ personal gift, a haiidson 14-inch high fur Cossack hat f replace his famous beret. The hat is grey karakul with an ovai top
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      313 2 NOTICE The Custodian of Property, Singapore, invites tenders for the purchase of the following: Machinery, Diesel Engines, etc j Multi Disc Magnetic separators with control Panel and ACDC converters Heavy Punch and Shears (Wm. Muir Co. Cameron Patent), Medium Steam Hammer (B. s. Massey). 120 HP. Robey Diesel Engine, 110
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      202 2 NOTICES^ f Hongkong A Shanghai Banking Corporation have pleasure in announcing the opening of an office at Brunei, British North Bon_ on Tuesday 14th Janu- i ary 1947. All description of Banking business can be under- I taken. j OP SINGAPORE NOTICE I Tenders are invited for the supply an*
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    Glut Of Luxury Goods In S'pore
    139 3 ,r l tma mne wn- j R j« an auction sale t rhich netted one t high** receipts >,rration. frantic bidde- of all naseen vietng with cne another for %ne purcha- Of bales of clothing good% and sundries. 4 huge consignment Of Q card,
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    AXIS NATIONALS AMONGST FRENCH LEGIONNAIRES
    283 3 Volunteered For Duty In Indo-China (Tribune Staff Reporter) French paratroopers and a battalion of the famous Foreign Legion were aboard the Champollion wnich called at Singapore yesterday on her way to Saigon. Most of the Legionnaires are Germans, enlisted since the end of the war,
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    SMALLPOX ON THE INCREASE
    83 3 Smallpox continues to be rampant m SingaporeThere were 14 cases for the week ending Jan. 4 with one death, compared with the previous week's figures of four cases and two deaths. The Municipal health report reveals that tuberculosis wa> also responsible for a number of deaths
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    Chinese Sculptor In Singapore
    210 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Mr. Liv Yah Fan. a graduate of the Rome Royal Accademy of Art.<, passed tkroUgd Singapore yesterday aboard the Champollion on his way to Shanghai where he hopes to establish a studio for sculpture. He has executed several studies of present-day personalities, including
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    Jap Major Gaoled For Rash Driving
    92 3 A Japanese major YamagUchi has been sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment at Klanjr for dangerous driving. Yamaguchi, commander of a battalion of Japanese surrendered personnel, recklessly drove a truck on the road near Port Swettenham, forcing another lorry to swerve away with the result
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    RAF Association
    69 3 A Singapore branch of the Royal Air Pert.- AssTl'itiCr. was formed last Monday with the Air Gflficn Commanding RAF Malaya as president, and the Air Officer Commanding RAF Base Seletsr as Vice-pre-sident. The following were elected" W/O Howard (Chairman); Mr. Cox, retd. S/Ldr. (Vice-Charrman); and Wing/ Cdr. T.
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    PLEADS GUILTY TO THEFT OF MOTORCYCLE
    61 3 Charged with the theft of a motorcycle parked in the Cathay car park, Hussein bin Haji Isthnein (23), a Malay, pleaded guilty before Second Magistrate L. C. Goh, yesterday. The motorcycle was stated to be the property of Mr. C. W. Hussein was remanded
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    20 3 Fifty-four-year-old Charlotte Love-green, of Bearton-road, Hitchin, Herts' nurse to 4.097 babies has died Not on* mother was lost in childbirth.
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    OVERWEIGHT FINE
    44 3 Gordon Howard Summers, of Old Mead Nurseries, Rustington. Sussex, was fined £2 r>s. <ss. in nine cases I at Littlehampton for Usin,; and unstamped scales and weights. Summers' got one ounce overweight when they were sold vegetables. The magistrates confiscated the scales.
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    HIGHWAY ROBBERY ALLEGED
    183 3 While Ve!layan, a bullock cart driver was giving a detailed description in a police station of how he had been robbed of $50 a few hours previously, he suddenly pointed to an Indian who was cycling past the station and identified him as the robber. Vellayan, it
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    S'PORE FOOD, PRODUCE MARKETS
    314 3 Prices quoted below are for ,>lcul weight except where otherwise stated. Fopdstuns:—Yesterday's quotitlon R were "Meehoon": Siam No- 1 $85; No. 2 $80; Indo-Chlha $70; Kedah $75. Rice: Siam No. 1 $104; No. 2 $102Rice milling: Siam $36; Glutinous rice; Siam $90; Kedah $75; Rangoon $60.
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    Experiments On Prisoners Denied By Jap Captain
    739 3 Col. Suwabe's attitude towards us was very good. On one occasion when he met a fatigue party on thgr way to work he stopped his car and ordered the sick back to camp." said Havildar-Major Ahmad Khan fourth prosecution witness, at the conclusion
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    CHARGED WITH THEFT OF 713 BAGS OF RICE
    98 3 The case in which Arumugam and Kothandan. two members of the crew of the lighter G.L.C. 86, whose trial on a charge of criminal breach of trust of the lighter and 713 bags of rice was adjourned until yesterday, wa s postponed
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    BACK TO PRE-WAR LEVELS
    79 3 U.P. HONGKONG—U.S. trade Wicn occupied Japan has Come back pre-war levels and promises to develop considerable expansion during the latter part of this yeer. U.S. exports to Japan for June. July and August of last year were valued at U.S. $16,900,000, $16,900,--000 and $20,200,000 respectively, compared
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    U.S. TO START COLLECTION OF JAP REPARATIONS
    173 3 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Jan, 9.—The United States rs determined to start the collection of reparations from Japan immediately, even wrthdnt full agreement on terms with Russia and other wartime, Allies, State War Department officials annou need in a broadcast here tonight James X Penheld.
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    Citizenship
    565 4 Dissatisfaction with the Constitutional Proposals is so general—albeit sometimes lor almost exactly opposite isons that it has become < imost invidious to select any particular aspect of the draft agreements for especial comment. Accepting, lowever, the Union Governor's invitation to ponder carefully n the citizenship proposals, here are some
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    'A YEAR OF RECOVERY'
    932 4  -  by Wickham Steed Since the New Year began I have been asked again and again to cast a kind of horoscope for 1947. If I were an astrologer I might attempt it. As I am merely an observer of world affairs, including those of Britain, I
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    Science And The Sailors
    210 4 Giant steam jet refrigerating plant is to be installed in aircraft carriers under construction for Britain's Royal Navy. It will enable messes low down in the ships and other vital comoartments to be air-conditioned. f hus promoting the health and comfort of naval personnel even in
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    THE PEOPLE'S POSTBAG Money For Housing
    324 4 j if Letters To The Editor "air,—The Governor, in a press statement, said that the Government was approaching the S.I.T with proposals tor a new housing scheme for Singapore. The Governor is also reported to be hopeful of introducing "prefabs". Government's approach to the
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    Sixty Dollar Jobs
    114 4 Sir.—lt is. ridiculous for the Singapore Municipality to offer $60 for the post of Sub-Inspec-tor of Vehicles and at the same time to demand that the applicant be well educated and of undoubted integrity." What a wage for "undoubted integrity" and "good education," especially when the nature
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    Bouquests, Not Grouses
    111 4 Sir,—Most of your letter writers have grouses to set off their chests. But here are some bouquets. First a bouquet for the authorities for releasing 10.000 000 cigarettes in tire? for Ch.nese New Year. Secondly, congratulations to the Union JacK Club for their intention to hold an
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    Paris Has New Philosophy
    602 4 PARIS (Air Mail).—A brawl in a theatre, a censored advertisement and a continuing st/eam of heated discussion in print and public debate are the latest outward and visible signs of Existentialism, the post-war philosophy which has become a household word in France. Existentialism rank s with
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    U.S. Has Long Job In Japan
    590 4 Washington.—Japan will never again be in a position to attack the United States, said Assistant Secretary for War, Mr. Howard Peterson, in a special broadcast to the three-day Cleveland Foreign Affairs Forum He declared emphatically "there simply is no more Japanese army, navy or
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      36 4 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By Ernest Hi* CffNNON-FlRE W»EN TH| *^MRNY jk> f NEW M/?/ET/E$ OF /Nsects CVLLECTED .1, BARANDA ttHESLu^ ACjfPH«,i LIVED SERGEANT 7 Ml ,T®C as» !j IN A COMA, KCPT jk SM.S^ 5
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    Responsibilities Of Self-Govt Cannot Yet Be Shouldered
    592 5 UMNO President Defends Federation Plan (Tribune special Correspondent) Alor Star, Kedah, Jan. iv.—Defending the tw >lyeI man recommendations as the best that could pos.snly "cc achieved in the circumstances, Datoh Onn, president of UMNO, addressing tot mass meeting of about 2,000 here, declared
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    Five Burned To Death in Alleged Political Crime
    57 5 c Reporter) 10. Five burned to > others crired in an unoutrage last iely snot near a believed to red with a political faction i pangkor police (i h ide net n "len who lo be implicrime. The led women and eh
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    London Trip: Local Interviews
    49 5 Reporter) ttv four candi- iday after v from a I re trip to Bri•st f the British I Si r Angus Oil- uid offer. being held at 1 i selection of preventatives, selection has al- the choice being be announce rest some time >lj Wednesday.
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    18 5 ■ation have decidParliameiitary Bill v; Id a harbour and shoeblacks and "f -alt water.
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    Johore Malays Support Council Of Action
    324 5 (Tribune Staff Reporter) natives of 17 Malay associations in Johore tat a meeting convened by the Lembaga telayu to protest against the Federation elect a committee in the state of Johore to m ndments to the Federal Constitution of Malaya, k€ >pc dies was
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    In A Few Lines
    370 5 U.P. LONDON. Jan. 9.—Tne inquest on John Brown, a watchman aged 65, found dead with head injuries at College Road. Harrow, last Sunday, opened today and was adjourned. The police said many inquiri- s have yet to be made. —Reuter. Teheran. Jan. 10.—General Ahmad Kabiri. former
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    Proposals Frustrate Hopes Of Self-Govt
    495 5 In a statement of opposition to the Constitutional Proposals for Malaya, the Pan-Malayan Labour Union suggests that the residential qualification for citizenship should be reduced to five years, and that there should be universal franchise. The Proposals frustrate all hopes in the direction of selfgovernment.*'
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    S'PORE CIVVIES ON TROOPER
    51 5 Reuter. LIVERPOOL. Jan. 10.—Before the troopship Duchess of Bedford left Mersey lor Singapore last night more than 100 male civilians returning to the Far East made official complaint? about being accommodated in troops quarters and living under troopmg conditions. None of them, however, left the ship.—
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    23 5 U.P. Rome, Jan. 9—-An Argentine Immigration Delegation has opened negotiations with the Foreign Office on plans for sending Italian workers to Argentina. .—U.P.
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    Application To Remain In Premises Rejected
    284 5 The application made by Gian Singh Co., to remain in their present premises 4 Battery Road until March 15, was refused at a meeting of the Rent Board yesterday. The original ordjpr made by the Board was for to va<. ate their premises on
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    Echo Of Radio Store Robbery
    169 5 Tan Ah Kow (59), who had been on trial for dishonestly retaining three radio receiving sets —part of th? proceeds of a robbery from a store of the Wire less Station in Thomson Road was convicted and sentenced to three months' simple imprisonment by First
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    Medical Men Meet Tomorrow
    106 5 Among the papers to be read at the Clinical and Scientific meeting of, the Alumni Association of King Edward VII College of Medicine to be held at the College premises at 10 a.m. tomorrow is one on "the effects of Vitamin Bl deficiency in Puerperium" by
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    ATTLEES' SILVER WEDDING
    34 5 LONDON. Jan. 10.—The Prime Minister and Mrs. Clement Attlee celebrated their silver wedding anniversary today, j Cabinet members gave them a 1 silver salver with each minister's signature engraved upon it.
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    Army Food For Sale
    56 5 Some more items of army surplus foodstuffs, lying in various conditions at the Army depot at Berlayer Creek, will be sold to the public on tender. The items include 150 tons of tinned salmon and pilchards, 200 tons of tinned oatmeal. 70 tons of groundnuts (unshelledi,
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    Arab Threat Of War
    443 5 U.P. JERUSALEM, Jan. 9.—The Commander-in-Chief of the Arab Underground Resistance Army NAJADA said to-day that any British attempt to implement a plan to partition Palestine would be the signal for an immediate declaration of war by his Arab forces. The Arab Leader Mohammad Nummer Hawari. Jaffa
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    Passengers Gassed
    38 5 U.P. MARSEILLES. Jan. 10 —Two hundred passengers were overcome by Chloride fumes today when a Marseille-bound train ran over barrels of chemicals which had fallen from a freight train at Calisanne. between Saint Chamin and Berre.—U.P.
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    Muriel Steinbeck At Union Jack Club
    79 5 Muriel Steinbeck, Australian star of the film, "Smithy," will make a personal appearance in "Forces Variety Quiz" at the Union Jack Club to-night. The show, which will be before a forces audience, will be broadcast from 8.30 to 9.30 p.m. in the Blue Network
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    Aroozoo Sisters Win Essay Prize
    167 5 Sisters Marie and Hedwig f Aroozoo, daughters of HeadAroozoo oi Gan Eng Seng t School, Singapore, were the proud re cipients of a cash prize ol $50 each yesterday lor writing the best essays from Singapore on the film "Henry V". Mr. J. Sharp ol
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    Y.M.C.A. MEETING
    91 5 A meeting will be held at the V.M.C.A., "A" Orchard Read. on Wednesday Jan. 15 at 5.15 p.m., at which nine Directors Will be elected for the year 1947. The nominations closed on Jan. 8 and the nominees for election are:—Mr. Theodore Doraisamy, Rev. J. T. N. Handy,
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    34 5 Budapest. Jan. 10—Archduke Joseph of Habsburg i s to be tried "in contumaciam" (for failure to obey a lawful court order) by the Budapest Peoples Court today for war crimes. His whereabouts are unknown
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    OUR FINANCIAL SECTION Industrials Continue Finn: Rubbers Remain Unchanged
    279 6 (From Our Own Correspondent) The industrial market continued to be firm with broad inquiry and prices have in most cases shown an increase. Hongkong Banks, after business at £884, were further inquired for. Wearnes were in demand and business at the
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    MENTAKAB
    37 6 The Meiltakab Rubber Company. Limited, reports a credit balance as at Jan. 31, 1946. of $134,976. It is proposed to pay directors' fees for 1941-42 $4,000: provide for replanting $35,000. leaving $95,9,76 to be carried forward.
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    SUNGEI BAGAN
    51 6 Sungei Bagan Rubber Company, Limited, directors recommend an appropriation to replanting and cultivation reserve of $29,958 and payment of $5,000 for directors' fees fn respect of the periods from July 1. 1941 to Feb. 15. 1942 and from Oct. 1945 to June 30. 1946, leaving $121,463 to go
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    Search For Black Squad Terrorists
    106 6 U.P. JERUSALEM Jan 10. -Memos rs of the King's Royal Rifle Regiment today resumed their search for members of the Irguo Zvai Leumi "Black Squad" in a business-like operation at Rishon Le Z on. The search s started before lawn In the Jewish coastal village
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    Baker Fined $5,000
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    Soccer Hits The Highlights In American Sports
    1025 7  -  (By Wall Byor*> U.P. New York.—The ci-rtnt United States WMMtt toftV son will be the most successful in thi* country's Mfctprj and American officials have far-reaching plans to build in into an important National sport. There has bsen about a »0 per cent,
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    112 7 LONDON.—The British Amateur Athletic Association schedule jujt announced indicates that next spring and summer Will be one of record activity for British track and field athletes. There are more fixI tares on the list than for many years past and competitors wfil know that every performance
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    Remnants Of Davis Cup Team Beaten
    56 7 U.P. ADELAIDE, Jan. 10. —Dfnny Pails and Colin Long won the South Australian tennis doubles championshio today, beating the United States team of Wfllis Talbert and 1 Gardnar Mulloy, 6-4, 2-6, 8-6, 1-6, 6-3. The two Americans had remained behind when tfce American Davis
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    69 7 U.P. NEW YORiC, Jam. 10 -President james Butter of the Empire City Racing Association announced today that he is flying to London to* confer with British sportsmen for the organisation if a $106,000 Empire Gold Cup to be run here next November over a mile and five
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    38 7 The TeMlfc Committee Meeting o* the Maxfli Badminton Party which sehedmed to be heWT last Strndlgy) n af> been p&stpon«J to foifwi'urw j sWJ Cl*' fOrfdeMCe H Mr. fclwntf CfJirVrtf, 4*r>-A. tFftier SeVaA*oOrY Read at 10.
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    107 7 Reuter. SYDNEY, Jan. 10.—Among the players who will participate in the Australian Tennis Singles Championships to be played at the White City Courts, Sydney, from January J7 to 37 are the following in their or&et of seeding:— Australia:—J. Bromwich, New South Wales; Dinny Pails, New South Wales;
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    411 8 Woodcock Anderson Bout Reviewed BOXING ROUND-UP London.—Second guessing is the sporting world s most luxurious failing, but it is hard not to wonder what might have happened at Harringay last Tuesday if Nesse Anderson had been instructed to slug it out with Bruce Woodcock inst'ea d of merely trying to
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    RAFFLES COLLEGE HOCKEY TEAM
    61 8 Trie follow'ng will represent the Raffles College Union against a N:gri Sembilan Hockey Association XI on Sunday, at the Police Depot ground at ThomDson Road, at 900 a.m.: Wong Tong Seng: E. W. Barker. Daiman b. Jamaluddin: S. D. Williams. E. J. Doraisamy. R. Vivekananda; G.
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    BIG RACE DATES
    48 8 Main events of the 1947 flat I racms* season in Britain are as follows: March 26: Lincolnshire Handicap; March 28: Grand National; April 30: Two Thousand Guineas; May 2: One Thousand Guineas; June 4: Derby; Oaks; June 17: Ascot stakes; June 18: Royal Hunt Cup.
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    83 8 A fast and keenly contested hockey match played at St. Michael s ground yesterday evening between G.H.Q., SFALF, and air HO.. RAF. RAF f ended in a win for the Army (2—l). During the first half Air HQ. scored through Cotcutt. GHQ. SEALF equalised
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    764 8 TROOPS STAND BY TO TAKE OVER FOOD DISTRIBUTION Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 11. —An official announcement says:"Troops will be called in to maintain food supplies and other essential services threatened by the London lorry drivers strike." Immediately after this announcement nvin not
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    China Will Respect Her Obligations
    207 8 U.P. Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 9.--Dr. Wellington Koo. Chinese ambassador to the Ui ited States, blamed :hc Yaln agreement for letting Russia into Manchuria and North Eastern Asia and cali'id thfi situation there "pregnant with possibilities of friction and discord." He said the Yalta conference, to
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    158 8 U.P. TOKIO, Jan. 10.—Japanese scientists announced today the discovery of a revolutionary method of catching fish without line, hooks, bait or net you simply call to the fish and they come of their own free will. V oshio Hinokiyama. professor of the Agricultural Imperial University, said that
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    U.S. SERVES NOTICE
    41 8 Lake Success. Jan. 10—The Unit d States to-day served notice that until Russia accepts the American plan for international Atomic energy controls, the United States will not agree to begin a general reduction o armam?ntt and national armies.
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    TOMORROW'S BOXING
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    49 8 Paris, Jan 10.—Prof. John Smertenko, Vice-President of the American League for Free Palestine, has arrived here from Rome. He travelled via Geneva. Prof. Smertenko said he intended to carry out his plans to enter Britain soon despite the Home Office statement that he would be deported.
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    Britain Nationalizing Electric Industry
    277 8 Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 10.—The British Governm nationalisation measure in 18 months providing lie ownership of electricity undertakings was to-day. It involves taking over the entire output of electiicity tiiioughout Britain. On the date to be fixed later all electricity undertakings throughout the countiv will be placed
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    66 8 U.P. ROME. Jan. 8. Assistant Foreign Minister Giusippe Brussaca disclosed today that Italian Ambassador to the United States Alberto T&rchiani would be transferred to Lonron as the first steo in a maior shakeup of the Italian diplomatic service. Brussaca said the Foreign Office had not yet decided upon
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