Malaya Tribune, 15 January 1947

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  • 53 1 The Malaya Tribune £V THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Now printed simultaneously i n Singapore, Kuala L umpur. Ipoh Penang. Phone Numbers: Editor 5813 Editorial.. 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 2005 EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1947 TEN CENTS The Malaya Tribune WEDNESDAY,
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  • 655 1 Regular War Over 5,000 Square Miles Rebels Set Up Own Govern ment, Laws Reuter. Rangoon, Jan. 15. —A state of "rebellion*' spreading in Yamethin district in th.' central plains of Burma, midway between Rangoon and Mandalay, was disclosed here by Ba Pc, Senior member of Burma's
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  • 125 1 <■ believed by the tin I b« members *»f probably uie Ong ol extortioners Bil fOP re Were ijghi PnHtwlisj a I >)ce Oi t'l-lr headr lo ita victims as believed to have f I...... anda of dollars and shvpkeopo°t*s. are iitv asking vicpaid a
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  • 5 1 untitled Jan. 14.-Vincent 'Vl'di re-elected
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  • 23 1 Special Tribune pictures of the da ma a c in Palemoang caused by shelling and looting see story on page 3.
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  • 222 1 Reuter. sa, Kenya, Jan 14. —The strike of K>ur which demands higher wages and ininditions shows no signs of breaking, and ers, Government officials and numerous Eu.lunteered iO unload the 27.000 ton While near rgic, when she doCfced this morning. ng :s. die Ship* and
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  • 47 1 Reuter. lan 14. —Rescue squads (led in reaching fourteen trapped by explonge shale pit. West Midlothian. All were found h di have been brought apparently died from a lew minutes after the 00 rescuers and firemen for I. hours and decthc it face.—Reuter
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  • 94 1 CHELMSFORD, Jan. 14—A verdict of accidental death was recorded at Chelmsford inquest today on Reginalri Kenneth*"" Alan Ellmore, aged 12 of Bruce Grove, Chelsford, who wa s shot through the heart ov a .410 sports gun. Ellmore was stated to have killed when he
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  • 28 1 A o!ecc of land in Holland Read o.co-L"* Queen Astrid Park of 45 acres, has just been sold 1„ Mr. Pan Chin Tan for $389,970".
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  • 144 1 CAIRO, Jan. 15 —The Ninth Brigade of the Third Division has arrived in Jerusalem from Egypt, boosting British strength in the Holy Land to 100,000. British Middle East Headquarters said the brigade began moving into Palestine in December and the remainder of the Third
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  • 130 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) About 200 representatives of 85 labour unions in Singapore last night listened to an outline of the Federal Constitutional proposals in the Chinese, Malay and Tamil languages, at the premises of the Singapore Federation of Ttade Unions, Speeches on how these pronopals would
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  • 62 1 Reuter. HAMBURG, Jan. 14.—Thirty petsons—lS men, nine women and three small children —are medically certified to have died of ccld in Hamburg, it is officially announced. Most of the adults who died were aged and most of them died in their own homes. Over 100 persons
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  • 163 1 HANOI, Jan. H.—French military headquarters in Hanoi tonight report that considerable assistance is being to Vietnam troops by the Japanese. The communique says bodies of 50 Japanese have been recovered since the rising broke out on Dec. 19. It is also reported that several Japanese
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  • 95 1 Reuter. LONDON, Jan- 14. The heart of a man undergoing a long operation stopped twice I and was restarted before it failed the third and last time. This was stated at an inquest at Saint pancras today on Al- bert Henry Beaupac, 66 of Victoria
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  • 39 1 Mr. Tan Kah Kee has been invited by the Malayan Indian Congress to be a member of the Malayan delegation to the InterAsian Relations Conference to be held in New Delhi in MarchApril this year.
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  • 30 1 Reuter. BRUSSELS, Jan. 14— All Belgian universities will shortly join in setting up an institute for atomic research, Paul de Groote, Belgian Minister of Natioral Re-equipment, announced today.—Reuter.
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  • 334 1 "Colonies must go." said Dr. Haden Guest, Labour M.P. for Islington and well-known member of the Fabian Society, in a broadcast from Radio Malaya last night. "I hope it will soon be recognised that what all colonial areas need is the recognition that they are entitled to
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  • 67 1 U.P. PREBLA. Mexico. Jan. 14.—A Mexxan army C6O transport plane crashed at the municipal airport here today killing ail th 1 22 aboard. The victims were four erex r and 18 officers and men of the Mexican army. The plane had just taken off when
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  • 176 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A general meeting of the representatives of the seven Municipal Lobour Unions last night decided to discontinue further; discussions with the Municipality on the seven-point demands recently made. A meeting of 500 mandores i representing over 6,400 Municipal workers will, tonight,
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  • 19 1 The Duke of Gloucester has been delayed and is now expected to arrive in Singapore on Friday.
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  • 28 1 ASH, Jan. 14.—Rev. John Alexander Hutton. editor of the British Weekly from 1925 to 1946 died today at his home at Ash, Canterbury. He is 78.
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  • 24 1 LONDON, Jan. 14—A new ship Dumra" has passed through trials and is due for Pacific and oriental service between Bombay and Persian gulf ports.
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    • 41 1 The Ideal Gifts for the Seasons I KRIS BRAND PEWTER Beer Mugs, Tea Services, jCigarette Sets, Powder Bowls and Flower Vases Etc. (Distributing Agents Season Trading Co. 57 High St., Singapore. 'a winner every time FAMOUS VIRCINIA CIGARETTES Made in England
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  • 80 2 Reuter. JERUSALEM. Jan. 13 —The Palestine Arab Higher Commit tee today called on the Palestine Government to take "drastic and sneedy measures—similar ti those used against Arab; during 1938-9—to eradicate Jewish terrorism in Palestine." In a resolution the committee emphasised the gravity of the critical
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  • 110 2 PENANG.—Tbe wcrk the Penang Marine police will be facilitated in tbe near future when Jaeir "tteet" is augmented by two fast outboard motor-boats which are becog constructed at the PHB dockyard in Butterwortn. Similarly, tbe Butterworth police will be provided with a launch shortly to enable
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  • 51 2 U.P. OSLO, Jan. 13. The Storting (Parliament) will bo opened formally at noon GMT tomorrow with an address by King Haakon and it I Was generally expected that the J legislators would be informed izn- mediately of the Spitsbergen quesj tio*n <l|y Foreign Minister Halyard I
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    • 503 2 i TRIBUTE PRE-PAID CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Casual Advertisements: Wanted, Personal, Situations Vacant, Situations Wanted, For Sale, etc. at $3.00 per insertion of 20 words. 15 cts. for every) j additional word. Public Notices Announcement: $4 00 per single column) Inch per insertion. j Domestic Occurrences: Death, Engagement, Mar riage, Birth Notices,
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    • 663 2 NOTICES. CHINESE NEW YEARCRACKER FIRING I Order issued by the Commissioner of Police, Singapore, under Section 6 (1) of the Minor Offences Ordinance as to the letting off of fireworks in celebration of Chinese New Year. The Commissioner of Police. Singapore, in exercise of the powers conferred on him, hereby
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    • 296 2 NOTICES. Re nHQF |Hg 4IIMAD ?lso known as YUSOF SIN HAJI MOHAMED also known as YUSOF BIN HAJI AHMAD deceased. All creditors and other persons having any claims against the estate of the abovenamed deceased, late of No. 61, Kampong Siglap, Singapore, who died in Singapore on the 20th day
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    • 620 2 I SHIPPING SILVER LINE KERR STEAMSHIP CO. INC. NEW YORK GENERAL AGENTS SAILINGS To Halifax and New York M.V. "DERWENTHALL" Singapore early February. Agents* HADDEN COMPANY. LIMITED. Chartered Bank Chambers Phone Nos. are:-. 7052, 6802. HOLLAND EAST I ASIA LINE m.v. "PHILAI/' loading first half February for PORT SAID/ANTWERP HOLLAND
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    • 531 2 SHIPPING 1 MANSFIELD ft CO, LTD. (Incorporated 1n Singapore» BLUE FUNNEL LINE Sailings to and from UNITED KINGDOM Priam from U.K For Hong Kong, Shanghai and Kobe In Port Samavon from U.K. ror Hongkong. Shanghai r Port Tarakan due from U.3.A. H Jan. Rondo due from USA. 17 Jan 'Rhesus
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  • 393 3 MISSION TO ORGANISE RELIEF IN SINGAPORE Qver 5,000 Chinese in Palembang (Sumatra) are now homeless and facing starvation as a result of the recent Dutch-Indonesian conflict there in which an estimated 1,000 Chinese were killed, wounded or missing and in which Chinese losses
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  • 74 3 It is understood the Smgapoie Chinese Chamber oj Commerce is calling a meeting to consider the >eque*i of the Palembang branch of the Chamber to organise a protest meeting againtt the "outrage" to the Chinese in Palembang. Mr. Lee Kong Chian, President of the Singapore
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  • 317 3 Prices quoted below are for picul weight except wher? otherwise statedFoodstuffs:—Yesterday's quotation s were "'Meehoon": &iam No. 1 $85: No. 2 $80: Indo- China $70 Kedah $75. Rice: Siam No. 1 $104; No. 2 $102. Rice milling: Siam $36; Glutinuous rice; Siam $90; Kedah $76: Rangoon
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  • 70 3 Chan Van (39) and Tang Peng Kwang (18) claimed trial in the Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday to charge of theft of 98 tins of mepacrine tablrts. valued at $2,842 on Monday morning. The first accused, also claimed trial to an alternative charge of dishonestly retaining stolen property,
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  • 55 3 A fin? ot $1,000 each was impcsM on Ng Ah Lan and Tan Sii Ngoh. two Chinese women, in the Third Magistrate's Court yesterday, when they were convicted for the poss?ssion of 1($ gallons of illicit samsu each, at a house in Fisher SJtrpet.
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  • 52 3 WARSAW, Jan 13.—Victor GrosZ. Foreign Office press spokesman said today that Poland will reply within a day or two to the two American notes protesting that Poland had failed to arrange free and unientered elections as promised at Yalta and Potsdam The elections will be held next,
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  • 195 3 Said to have been caught redhanded with a revoiver IT his trous;r 'pocket, a Chinese. K%o Wan who was stopped by a Police atrol in Kitchener Road after miclnight on Oct. 3 last y-ar had 4 charge of arms explained to him when he
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  • 565 3 WAR CRIMES TRIAL "The term PoW as applied to these men carried with it an inferiority complex and we thought it was better in their own interest to regard them as labourers." declared Col. Suwabe Masato, the first accused, in the War Crimes Court
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  • 351 3 Twelve passengers were marred, six ot th< m seriously, when the 8,735-ton American President Liner "Marino Adder" caught the ftgt blast of a powerful three-day Pacific storm whe n on rcut'3 to Hongkong, her first port of call. The full s LOr y 0
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  • 191 3 Ipoh. Tues-—Mr. Lav Pak Khuen. J.P.. member of th Sup ervisory Advisory Board of tne Chinese National Government, and leading member of th- 1 Chi nese community in Perak, re tutted by air on Sunday from China whither he went three months ago on
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  • 97 3 MALACCA. —There has bee:i a steady fall in the price of textiles in Malacca since the fj ivernment released cloth to the pUDUc ihroueh government channel a. Durir.g vie last few weeks the Land Office h?-s been retailing cloth to rural duellers at controlled rates on
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  • 47 3 U.P. RDMB Jan. 13. —American Catholic war veterans in iteiy today have protested to th i Italian authorities aga'Ust the anti-cler.cal prc»s campaign now current here, describing it as "contrary to the democratic principles and an offence to American chaplains and soldiers In Italy."—U.P.
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  • 99 3 U.P. Nanking, Jan. J4.—Radio Yenan brouueast a lengthy Emacipation Daily editorial to-day charging that 3.300 Chinese hau been killed or wounded in over 3 800 case; of misconduct, assault, rape, roboery, recKless driving and homicide by United States servicemen in the past 15 months. Radio
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  • 18 3 The Penang Flying Club may resume its activities again if compensation for lost aircraft is obtained from Government.
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  • 184 3 A holt cut in the wire fence of the Naafi compound, Beach Road, on the side facing the sea large enough for a person to crawl through »nd two people carrying in-ide t&e compound wiih a third person receiving the cases through the hole in
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    • 381 3 STOP PRESS! A w,i been back in on account of >v mess up-country. "Jf therefore Z<* hold of upon the lathe did often about tigers, If they have anyto do wHJi those he had 2.| to yesterday. that they have wing- «to me they even Yen know, they > is
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    • 225 3 m FLINTER S. CRINBERC Wholesalers retail in Diamonds jfe* cilery also Cold Cigarette Cases in 9 and 13-c t. Gold pj 67, Stamford Road LU Court Building Telephone 7923. I F i ii ii ——_———————i—.-»^l—> I OLD SCOTCH s I'lß society PM.;; pTJSI WHISKY. JMaif ISQS s ANDERSON 6 SHAW
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  • 412 4 American analysis of the change at the State Department still amounts to little more than an admission of ignorance. There is a feeling that the personality of General Marshall, together with his experience of China, will load to some revision of American policy in Asia, an
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  • 966 4  -  by Ernest Atkinson Late this month, Britain's House of Common s is to debate what is being called the British nation s economic budget. Some call it the "manpower budget." That variant of the name recognises the fact that the ultimate governing factor now in Britain's industrial
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  • 419 4 Dreams of luxury air travel fostered by the world's aircraft designers for years, and which war forced into the background, are now beginning to materialise. The latest aircraft to be put into service with British Overseas AirWays embody the most up-to-date advances in the sphere
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  • 488 4 PARIS.-The Bbftte Palace, official residence of the President of the French Republic, is ready for its first occupant since President Albert Lebrun left it as the Germans marched into Paris In tne early summer of 1940. Who the new occupant will be is not yet known.
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  • 113 4 HONG KONG.-Smuggling in South Chin| has reached such a high state of efficiency that tne smugglers are even able tc proVide "insurance" for the protection of their clients' cargoes. The usual method, is for the smuggling operatives to pay over to the shipper—in either Hong Kong or
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  • 872 4  -  PROFILES By "RHYNE" A Lieutenant (acting Captain) in World War I. a Major in the Malayan Volunteer Force and a Flight-Lieutenant in the Royal Australian Air Force in World War 11. a Lieutenant-Colonel in the B.M.A. when h returned to Malaya, and now plain Mr."
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  • 92 4 COLOMBO.—The Ceylon Government has been directly suo siding foodstuffs to the extent of over Rs. 77 million in order to lower the cost of living in the Island. The highest subsidy is in respect of rice totalling Rs. 58,250,--000 a year and next in order comes
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 45 4 STRANGE AS JT SEEMS By Eme«f Hi* fe<» IW>| <»«*«•'» on actable <&%&o a J UNOPENED J FOR 105 YEARS f CONTAINED A SHEET OF STAMPS, ABOUT A DOLLAR'S <5 W > M WORTH ORIGINALLY, |r$ ]*"f~i Am WHAT KIND OF PUPP?£$ HAVE J Bulls and CJ^Ii
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  • 860 5  -  by OSWALD HENRY YESTERDAY, I paid a visit to Tanglin Barracks. The 'target" was the signals section, commanded by Major Jams Ray I was to be given the opportunity of seeing how the Army Signals Section at HQ SEALF worked.
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  • 36 5 Mr. Lee Cheng Hai, managing partner of Union Typewriter Co., Chulla Street, was married last Sunday to Miss Lam Fong Peng. After the wedding, a dinner was held at Tai Tong Restaurant. Happy World.
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  • 54 5 i harges, one of m d robbery and kidnapping, were bin inese, in the r int. yesterday, ed that Man;umed robbery t an address in at 12.30 p.m. on :i gunmen relieved $050 in cash and dnapped a man reongßeng. remanded in police 24 hours ond the case
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  • 37 5 one-old member of J Army Service Corps roeuted on Monday dying shortly afteraccident occurred at the only witnesses being I Japanese PoWs who a- yet been interrogatvictlxn died as he was to the British General Hospital.
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  • 386 5 "SLOW DEATH" THREAT Raquiza, an elderly Japanese woman living at tier Road, who was stated to have received a irom Premier Tojo 'for services rendered', o was alleged to have threatened the family of ria dc Leon (85) with handing them over to
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  • 444 5 Indians from Java. Sumatra Borneo and Hong Kong now passing through Singapore on their way to India, report vast improvement in the condition of their compatriots there, most of whom were in a very bad way only a year ago. The improvement
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  • 84 5 An Indian youth. Manikam. who wa: charged at the Singapore Assizes yesterday with committing arrmd robbery in Bouna Vista Road in August last, pleaded guilty. At the time of the offence, Manikam was 3a:u to have been in the company of three others and the
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  • 151 5 U.P. Tokio, Jan. 14.—The Nuremberg and Tokio war trials were linked to-day wnen evidence was introduced here to show that Kibbentrop had discussed with Hiroihi O&nirria. a submarine po-icy Involving murdering oi survivors oi torpedoed allied ships. An interrogation of the former Japanese wartime Ambassador
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  • 53 5 Reuter. Moscow, Jan. 14.—Japanese language newspapers have begun publication in the state of S'ao Laola and Brazil, says a report from Rio De Janeiro quoted hy Mosco Radio. They conduct Fascist propaganda and try openly to stir up pugnacious nationalistic spirit in the local Japanese colonists, it
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  • 287 5 An innocent-looking wicker basket containing seven brand new Browning revolvers, revolver magazines and other accessories together with two Army manuals dealing extensively with all types of small-arms was produced at the Assize Court yesterday when a youthful Indonesian was tried for unlawful
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  • 319 5 How Ong Kirn Swee, a firewood dealer, who had allegedly been negotiating for a quantity of opium with several others including John Song, a detective, was handed three cases containing M. B. "693" pills by Indian soldiers at a camp in Pasir Panjang,
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  • 152 5 (Tribune Siajj Reporter) Kuaia Lumpur, Tues. —Close on tne heeis ol UMNO s decision to accept the new constitutional proposals in principle, the Malay Nationalist Party have issued a statement oeclaring that the proposals cannot be accepted by MNP tor the ioliowing reasons: Firstly, the proposals
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  • 146 5 Reuter. Warsaw. Jan. 14.—Sentence of death was passed by a military court to-day on Count Xavier Grocholski and two co-defend-ants on charges of spying against the Polish state for a foreign country. A girl defendant for whom the prosecutor asked life imprisonment, was given ten
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  • 42 5 U.P. Peiping. Jan. 14.-January 20 appeared to-day to he th* 1 most probable date for the opening of the American Marine court martial to try th? case of alleged rape of the Chinese collegian by a Marine enlisted man.—UP.
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    • 4 5 mV MIANG HUAT UP/^^T
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    • 50 5 SEACON LTD.] Civil Engineers Contractors Contractors to War Department, Admiralty, Air Ministry, Harbour Board etc. As from 15th January, 1947, our new address will be No. 4 Ist FLOOR, MEYER CHAMBERS. Civil. Structural and Road works of all descriptions undertaken. Estimates given at competitive figures Telephone 2905 P.O. Box 566
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  • 581 6 Reuter. DAMASCUS. Tile hangmen'« noose has brought to an end one of the strangest careers in modern Syrian history—the tyrannical rule of a self-proclaimed "god" who ruled for 23 years in wild mountainous country stretching almcst to the sea coast of north-west Syria. Suleiman Murshid. I
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  • 145 6 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 —Tne United States will export 1.204.000 tons ol grain and flour in February—the largest monthly tonnage sine? the beginning of the 1946-1947 season. "With unshipiied balances of grain and flour from preceding months. February shipments of grain ana gram products
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  • 118 6 U.P. Nanking, Jan. 14.—Lieutenant General Eugene Reybold. formerly chief engineer in the United States army, returning from an inspection of the Yellow River, said today that he has a definite plan for ending floods, if effectively prosecuted. He said that de would submit a j preliminary report
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  • 182 6 Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 13.—Prime Ddinifcter Clement Attlee and Mrs. Ati.ee tonight haded the distinguished list ol guests at a recent'on given by the Government at Lancaster House —official hospitality headquarters---tor thj Burmese political leaders now in London for self-govern-mfint talks. Guests were received by the Secretary
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  • 107 6 LAKE SUCCESS New York. Jan. 13. The spokesman of the S'ovirt United Nations delegation today refused to comment on Britain's complaint against Albania which L scheduled to come before the Security Council soon. He added: The Sovie: visw point will be stated when the time comes" It
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  • 58 6 Reuter. JPROSAUBC, inn. 13. ,arr*ul j R»Xoiai Vuc-Cli.L'-naii of the Pal-line Arab Higher Committee, today toid Si Henry Gun; or. CliiCe. Admin ideriiu, the Palestine Government of the Higher Com- f mittee's aceptance of tne British Government's invitation to attend j the London eontei#:ice on Palestine opening on
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  • 357 7 Amateurism Problem U.P. London, Jan. 14. Russia has made the initial move in what, from this distance, loofcs likt- the first leal eflort to show the world that the Soviet idea of amateurism is not so different after all, cables Robert MusoL United Press correspondent.
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  • 87 7 Tne following have been invited to play football for tbe Rocklites' Spoils Party aaginst the Royal Air Force. Base Headquarters (Umo on Saturday at their giound at 5 p.m.: K. Muthucumaru, Cheow Hin. C. Thuraisingam. N. K. Sabai, C. Humphries, Charlie Tay. Lee Keng Leng. D. C. Swyny.
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  • 31 7 A.P. Jsa. 13. —HaroiO duced a rosoluiUViftc tiic lnter.':.*»- Committee to hold Btpii f— in tne a <• ;h cepts the lngblood .said that bid fof the and Loi Anire-
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  • 53 7 v meeting held following were bearers of the -ion for the ensuing year: -Dr. A. A- Sandos- P resident A,K. Hon Gen. Secy.--.X Penayah Social Secy.--Wazir arear—DJL Samy; Representative R.S. Hockey P. :--S.R.P. Naidu; -Dr. A.C. Sinha: Rugby A. Karim; Athletic M. Indoor Games—S Soppiah; Committee Members--j.M D
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  • 20 7 Thi new Court at No. IT7B eady for practices rday. Practice days will be Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Holidays.
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  • 340 7 j LONDON, Jan. 14. —A good deal !of Controversy has been aroused in j Sheffield by the transfer of Edmund I Shimwell, Sheffield United's back to Blackpool. Shimwe!l f a player mi outstauun.^ ability. left the United because of I the old standing rule that
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  • 45 7 The following will represent 'die Colonials C. C. in their one-day cricket match against H. M S. "Sultan", at Blakan Mati: Katnayke. Albert. H. S. Gunatilike, Miller, A. E. Delikan ((apt.), A. Fernando, Phillips. Seneveratne, C. Delikan, J. Delikan, Va n Ryke, Kennedy.
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  • 40 7 A meeting of the Government Pensioners' Association, Singa pore, will be held at Mercantile Institute, Queen Street, at 4 p.m. on the Feb., to discuss the grant of H.C.L. allowance to the pensioners, and other existing grievances.
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  • 29 7 INTERNATIONAL CHESS CONFERENCE. A scene during the first round of the Hastings (Sussex) International Christmas Conference. Those taking part include players from Holland, France. Canada, Iceland and Great Britain.
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  • 95 7 U.P. SHANGHAI, Jan. 13.—China's two lirlillefl —the China National Aviation Corp. and the Central Air Transport Corp.—resumed pa senger service today following the sevenCay grounding ordered by the Ministry of Communications as a result Of four crashes taking a to of 113. Civil Aeronautics Administration director,
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  • 66 7 LONDON. Jan. 13.—Aided by two full moons in January at.d February, longer hoars <>f daylight, >. f h! greater economies by householders and fairly drastic alterations in the allocations cf coal to industry, Britain expects to squeeze through her acute coal shortage by Monday, February 24. This
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  • 20 7 The Rev. J. W. A. Kadirgamar has been inducted a? the new pastor of the Kuala Lumpur Methodist Tamil Church.
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  • 312 7 Stating tint he considered, •the case on? of the worst of manslaughter to come within his experience. Mr. Justice T. A. Brown yesterday sentenced a former Malay private, Mohamad Zin bin Abdui Kadir, to two years' hard labour for committing a rash act whicii
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  • 91 7 U.P. WASHINGTON. Jan. 13.—The Reconstruction Finance Corporation nmvutnoprl today thai the t/mtert Stales CbmneteftaJ Corpoi itlon has completed arrangements Id tĕH apptpafMaatel y 43.rr00.U00 yardo ol Japantr-e tl n piece goods valued a* '•bout SIO.OOOOOO to the. Far Eastern governments. Of this, about 40 million
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  • 230 7 Reuter. BOMBAY, Jan. 14. —Detectives in Bombay and Delhi made simultaneous swoops on offices of Indian Communist organisations and house sot Communist leaders early today. In Now Delhi, offices and homes of Commurihjt leaders were searched and flies and d»c«ireiits taken iway. In Bombay, the editor
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  • 576 7 Mutiny Court Martial All act of insubordination on the part of the Indian gunners stationed at Christmas Island when they refused to salute their commander, Captain Williams, at a parade held a few days before the shooting incident on the night of March 10,
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  • 146 7 Women Die On Guillotine Manila. Jan. 14.—Red hot lava j pouring from Mount Mayon in j Central Luzon threatens the destructions of thousands of homes 1 in the surrounding Philippine countryside. Five vilages were evacuated during the night and this mornj ing with smokje rising over
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  • 41 7 Reuter. Berlin Jtn. 14.—Hilde Worn irk 47-year-old Gernwrrr -flaei .%oman I doctor, and nurse Helene WieczoreK were guillotined here today for the rrlurder of 600 patients at a sanatorium for mental incurable? in Eastern i Germany. —Reuter.
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  • 668 8 Reuter. London Jan. 14. —The British Foreign Secretary, Mi Bevin, declared today he Hoped that before the meeting of the Foreign Ministers in Moscow it would be poss'ble to evolve a treaty with Austria which would not handicap her economically in
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  • 128 8 U.P. RENO, NEVADA, Jan. 13.The eye of an executed murder t-r has enabled a young Catholic priest to see with both t i/t s for the first time in ten years. Barely 36 hours after the surgeon had drained the useless' vitreous from the priest s
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  • 99 8 U.P. FRANKFURT, Jan. 13. Major D. F. Wat on, testifying »r, the trial of hi) former room-ante Oel. Jack Dinar.t for alleßtd theft of the Kronberg jewels, refused to ineen tify a Utter written by a woman acquaintance ia Belfast (Ireland 1 describing how he had
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  • 334 8 Reuter. Londcn, Jan. 14.—Tne great transport gu'ihe which h kS tied up London food supplies for more tha p. a week moved rapidly to a climax today. On one hand doc«e.s, slaughtermen and provincial a ivers joined 25,00 m alreafly on strike and
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  • 91 8 Reuter. SHANGHAI, Jan. 14.—After one week investigation into the cause of recent air crashes here, the Director of the Civil Acronauties Board, Col. Tai An-kuo, returned to Nanking this morning. In a statement to pre>smen Col. Tai An-kuo admitted that the weather standard maintained, by th<two
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  • 191 8 KUALA LUMPUR:—The population of the Malayan Union capital has increased almost thre'o fold since 1941. The official estimate puts the figure at 200,000, but the real population of Kuala Lumpur is believed by many observers to be around 350,000, against a pi'3-War population
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  • 82 8 Forty minutes after a report had been made by an Indian shopkeeper who retailsd Government rations, that his shop had been burgled and about 13.000 rationed cigarettes had been stol,n. a constable on rounds stepped n Chinese in a trfshaw and found that he
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  • 27 8 Picture shoves a group of French judga. and lawyers who took part in the recent trial of Japanese war criminals in Jndo-Chma.
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  • 419 8 London, Jan. 14.-—Thoso members ot General Anders' Polish Army who are laking courses in Malaj at the School of Oriental and African Studies in Loud: n me doing so entirely on their own initiative, Colokol Kwiatkowski of the Polish Corps, told Reuter today. The
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  • 127 8 IPOH. —The question of improving the terms ot service of the Police has b en receiving active consideration and a revised salary scheme both for the Asiatic Inspectors and members of th rank and file has been preparedThirty additional appointments of Asiatic Inspectors have been
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  • 67 8 U.P. WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.—The Supreme Court denied tor the second t me hearing to 219 Javanese seamen orrLred to oe deported irom the United States after jumping ship- in United States ports and se:king political reruge herr. They claimed that the r lives were in danger
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  • 252 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) With two members of her crew wounded ai gaping hole in the captain's cabin wall, the Coombar arrived from Palembang yesterday m The damage was suffered when the Coombar herself suddenly caught in crossfire between a Dutch gunboat on the
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  • 221 8 Reuter. I PARIS. Jan 14—A warning that Germany with a growing population, had three-quarters ot ncr industry intact 18 months I after the end of the war was i given by the 74-year-cld Com--1 mtinist. Marcel Cachin, presiding I over the opening meeting of the French
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  • 185 8 IPOH.—A fie oi $1,500, la de- fault six months rigorous imprisonment, was importd on Au Yeong i Sv.o, manager of Messrs. Lai Wah I ar.d Co., of Hugh Low Street, local j silk and clcth merchant, when he I appeared in the Police Court on a
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  • 80 8 PENANG.—More than thirty motor traffic r ffenders wero call j ed up to the Third Court. Among i the cases was one which involved the Governor Gen ral's car i which allegedly collided with a I jeep at a high speed. The G.G.? j car was
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  • 23 8 Issues of Victory untitled certificates up to January it the Malayan Union to I3 "JJ $330,178.50, while in SingtF the total was $253,395.
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