Malaya Tribune, 12 March 1947

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    51 1 The Malaya Tribune NY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Now printed simultaneously in Singapore Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. Phone Numbers: Editor 5813 Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 5815 EfGifl PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1947 TEN CENTS The Malaya Tribune WEDNESDAY, MAR. 12,
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    ALL-OUT WAR ON SOCIAL EVIL IN SINGAPORE
    638 1 plan submitted to government "Thousand Of Young Girls In Bondage" (Tribune Staff Reporter) The Singapore Social Welfare Department has submitted plans to the Government for full-scale war on social evil In the Colony. No details of the plan are available, but I understand
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    Soekarno Apologises To Chinese
    138 1 Reuter. B tai Mar ll —"No one the vorld regrets more than lent* at Tangerine Palemban» and Bagan Si ipY" declared Dr. Soekarno. Indonesian President, today at opening the Con- f the Ch nese Association Hua" at Solo, accordti the Indones an News r hereby apologise
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    New South Wales Pledges All-Out Aid To Britain
    98 1 Reuter. SYDNEY. Mar 11 The fc« South Wales Legislative Assemoly today unanimously P-edßed support for any meajjws designed t 0 help Great Bn!ail hi her desperate hour mi. a of the New South .es Country Party, M F. wnner. said that he
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    PLANE CRASH IN SEA OFF H.K.
    70 1 PL ANE CRASH IN SEA OFF H.K. Reuter. f *KB k°NG. M,r. U A o-.m m Seafire fighter airtf'K.vr l T Vt d to have cra^hed 11 f u 1 tsit,cHong Kon Hi,. \v a l, i no(jn. though 1(1 not conflrm the J iatr n iUer t0<Xl the P
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    Egypt Will Ask UNO To Annul British Treaty
    119 1 Reuter U.P. CAIRO. Mar. 11. The Egyptian Prime Minister, Nom-ashy Pasha, announced in the Egyptian Senate tonight that he will ask the Security Council to annul the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 193b. He was replying to criticism of his recent press statement on
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    500-Year-Old Bible Fetches £22,000
    112 1 Reuter. London. Mar. 11.—Volume one of the beautifully printed Gutenberg Bible, which is nearly 500 years' old and was bought for £600 in 1384. was >old at a London auction room today for £22.--000. It went to Maggs. a book dealer, who bought it for a
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    BIG FOUR WILL DISCUSS CHINA
    55 1 MOSCOW. Mar. 11.—Despite China's firm "no" to M. Molotov's proposal at the opening of the Conference here, the Big Four Foreign Ministers will discuss the situation at today's session. Hdwever. the discussions will be informal and the matter will not be placed on the conference
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    U.K. Protest To Yugoslavia On Seized Ships
    94 1 U.P. LONDON. Mar. 11. A Foreign I ufflce spokesman -aid today that Brii an h;.* s«.ni hi note lo the j Yugoslavia Government protectb|g against the seizure of the Italian merchant ves.-cl-. The Briti-h contention was tiiat Yugoslavia, a- party to the Italian
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    Midnight Hotter Than Midday In London
    356 1 Reuter. London, Mar. 11.—Snow in the north and floods in the south are disrupting road and rail communications throughout Britain today as temperatures swung violently from cold to mild and back to cold again. Yesterday's rapid thaw has swollen many rivers which are rising
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    Massacre Trial Is Adjourned
    127 1 Singapore, Today This I morning's proceedings in the i War Crimes Court try.ng seven i Japanese, including two Gene--1 rals, in the "Chinese Massacre" case lasted only five minutes. Following an announcement by one of the defence counsel, Mr. K. Kakuda, that the chief defence lawyer.
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    French Commandos Seize A Battery
    108 1 Reuter. Paris. Mar. 11—French naval commandos have occupied i an important strategic point on the island of Cat Ba in Ton- kin Gulf, stated a communique issued by the French Ministry In Paris today. The field battery on the Is- land which controls the mouth
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    INDIAN 'ENVOY' DISCREDITED
    91 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI. Mar. 11—The Indian named Kundan. described by the Indonesian Republican News Agency as an "envoy of the Indian Interim Government" in Indonesia, has no official status and is not authorised to speak on behalf of the Indian Government, it was teamed here today. Although
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    EUROPEAN ROBBED
    59 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A European was robbed of $170 and a wrist watch by two Chinese in. the New World Amusement Park at closing time last night. An attempted robbewy at 9 p.m. yesterday by five Chinese, one armed with a knife, was foiled when the occupants of
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    Rangoon Saved From Grave Strike Crisis
    149 1 Reuter. RANGOON Mu.. 11. Almost (ye y siiigie activity in Rangoon was on tiie of collapse today when the three major strikes which paralysed banking and bllilrje** in the city for h month we.v called off. according to U. Ba Pc Commerce member of
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    Smuggled Rice From Burma Floods S'pore
    624 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Chinese rice merchants are perturbed at Government's ostrich-like ways in tackling the rice situation in Singapore. Though free import of rice, suggested by rice merchants and the public as a solution to the shortage proDlem, Has turned down by the authorities,
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    Pearl Harbour Repels 'Attack'
    132 1 U.P. HONOLULU. Mar. 11.—Showing how an alert defence might have Lumed the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour into a crushing defeat the naval war manoeuvres ended today with a -weeping victory for the island defender- who "put out of action" two attacking carriers, the Princeton
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    18 1 WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.—The Indian Ambassador to the United State-. A-al Ali, entered hospital today for a minor operation.
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    Ex-Soldiers Drift Back To Army
    142 2 Reuter. LONDON. Max. 11.- Tne latest figures available at Lon- i don's Central Recruiting OiTice shewed an increase of 13 per j ceilt in the number of enlistments. Here are some ex- servicemen's reasons for joining up again. A 28-year-old Acton lorry dri- I ver,
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    10,000 Naval Base Workers Ask For Reply "Within Week"
    670 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The negotiations between the 'Admiralty's "io>o9o odd Asiatic employees represented by the Sirieyapore Naval Base Labour Union and the Commodore Superintendent, H.M. Dockyard, in respect of the men's demand for increased wages, backpay, etc., have reached a further
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      589 2 ENGAGEMENT Mr. LIM TEE CHOY of No. 303 River Valley Road, Singapore, and Mrs. CHIA ENG SAY (nee Madam TAN AH NEE) of No. 39 Chapel Road, Singapore, wish to announce the engagement- on the 88th February 1947 of Mr. LIM fKEE KHIANG the eldest son of Mr. LIM TEE
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    WAR OFFICE "PROGRESS OFFICER" HERE
    419 3 On Army Investigation (Tribune Staff Reporter) ■pinsppoj-e 15 handicapped by a shortage of printing materials and technical labour. Printing costs are h.ih —in fact they arc too often exorbitant. This is the opinion of Mr. O. F. Weakford. M.8.E., Progress Oilicer from the War Office,
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    PANTRY BOY'S THEFT
    239 3 When William Edward Woodruff, an American seaman of the s.s. "L,ouis McHenry Howe" was charged before Fourth Police Magistrate Ahmad bin Ibrahim yesterday, with th:ft of one bed sheet and two tablecloths belonging to the U.S. Government on M3rch 10 he said that he "wished for seme
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    Opposition Boycott G.-G. Ceremony
    41 3 Reuter. Canberra. Myr. U mem ber s ot the Australian opposition boycotted the swearing-in* today of William John McKell. former Labour Premier of New South Wales, as Governor-General of Australia tin succession of the Duke of Gloucester.—Renter
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    English Fireman Stole Army Shirt
    57 3 fireman oil imshee," David Vie- ::.<■ t? a convicted in the '•'RP v km Court yesterday f army shir u »im> tnei i 1,1 I 16 found in his 1 earched by ihe chiel offi- lor some been removed the > had been id the
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    Pamadasa Memorial Fund
    110 3 A Varfetj Pi Kramme w?U be ria Theatre the proce d> towards the pipuda&j Mrm» rial Fund. The Memorial, which will take j tension wing to pr ai ri hanage of St pran Instil n n. Malacca. intended r1 P rpetuate the mere ry I the late
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    $15,000 Bus Fire
    77 3 SUNGEI PATANI. About half a dozen passengers were njured when a transport bus caught fire shortly before noon on Tuesday while plying between T\kam Batu and Alor Star. I The loss was estimated at t $15.000. About 28 passengers pn board who were panic striken rushed ror
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    Soviet Reject U.S. Protest
    111 3 UP. WASHINGTON. Mar. 11— Soviet Russia has flatly rejected the American note, accusing the Soviets of unwarranted interference with the non-Communi t Hungarian Government. The Sovie; reply, dated Mar. was signed by the m chairman of th e Allied Control Council hi Hungary. 1,t.-Gen V. P.
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    Rangoon Strike Off
    44 3 Reuter. RANGOON, Mar. 11.— Bank cleMfs and commercial cis on strik- here i*r* resuming ,k tomorrow. 1 which has paralys .lid business activity in Ra (goon for nearly a month, wa- called eff today following a compromise settlement under Government mediation.—Reuter.
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    BUTTERWORTH WEDDING
    32 3 The wedding took place last week at the Chung Wah School, Buuerworth of Mr. Heng Choon Hum proprietor of Hoe Seng Motors and Miss Chew Choc Kool of Swatow, China.
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    Quick Action Against Unlawful Societies
    385 3 New Law For Union Mr. A. T. Newboult, Chief Secretary, addressing the Malayan Union Advisory Council referred to several amendments made in the Societies Ordinance. He said: "I should like to take this opportunity to remind Hon. Mem bers of the main features of this
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    Locks Lead To Lockup
    64 3 Pleading guilty before Magistrate Ahmad bin Ibrahim yesterday to a charge of theft of 25 padlocks valued at $125 from a store at the R.A.F. base. Seletar. at neon on Monday, Rahman bin Kasah (23), a Javanese, was sentenced to six weeks jail with hard labour.
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    Alleged Theft Of Barge
    56 3 Bail in the sum of $10,000 waroff ered to 24-year-old Abdul Hamid bin Basuni, a Boyanese in the Fourth Magistrate's I Court yesterday, when he claimed trial to baying stolen a barge worth $20,000 belonging to the Flag Officer Malayan Area on Feb. 2. The case
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    STRANGE CARGO: MINIATURE ZOO ARRIVES FROM CEYLON
    365 3 (Tribune £taff Keporter) A circus has come to town, but it is on a snipout in the Singapore roads. Sometime today the Isthmian liner 'Cape Friendship" will come alongside godowns 15 and 16 and discharge a strange cargo consisting of eight Ceylon baby
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    'Cape Friendship' Arrives
    210 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Th-; Isthmian liner 'Cape Friendship" which arrived in the Singapore Roads yesterday from I Colombo after a voyage from New York and New Orleans via Port Said and the Suez Canal carried four small craft aboard her- part of her cargo for thf Netherlands
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    Camerons To Be Stationed At Ipoh
    132 3 Th? Ist. Battaliqn of tne I Queen's Own Cameron Hlg'nlaauers, dressed in rt*. disembarked from Jhe. s.s. D.lwara at Fort swettenham last Thursday 1 The colours were brought asnoi\ by two officers umi r an escoi\ of sergeants with fixed bayonets The Camerons previous
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    New Premises For Union P.R. Dept.
    79 3 The Resident Commissioner. Seiangcr, Mr. W. A. Ward, wlil perform the opening ceremony of the new Public Relations Information Centre which has been erected in front of the Government educes in Batu Road on Thursday morning. Although the new premises are less spacious than
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    Radio Programmes For Indian Forces
    63 3 Following a meeting of the Forces Broadcasting Co-ordina-ting Committee the following alternations to the Indian programme are announced. The Indian programme will be broadcast on one frequency only; 19.84 metres, 1512 megacycles on 100 kilowatt power. It is considered that this change will imorove reception.
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    47 3 Reuter. RANGOON Mar. 11.-Another tr' n derailment third in 16 days—occurred near Dabein .station. 40 mUe s north of ftanqoon la-st night, according to press report- t;>day. The renot» ..tkl tl that ;nnKvl baurljt- attacked pa wingers and rail ftpk" J flir '«f' ,M tne fl^i«iifmcii' -Reutĕr.
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    20 3 Sir Thomas Donhill, the wellknown Australian surgeon passed through Singaore yesterday on his way from London to Svrinev by air
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    The N.E.I. Trade Issue
    516 4 The Dutch authorities may soon be wishing they had never heard of the Martin Behrman. This American ship, loaded in the port of Cheribon with rubber and other Indonesian cargo, was arrested by a Dutch destroyer and removed to Batavia. Here, after the ship's master had
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    CONGRESS TAKES A MEW STEP
    652 4  -  by P. Joseph John THE Congress acceptance of a form of Pakistan for the Punjab, to which formal expression was given for the first time in an important resolution passed by the Congress Working Committee, may well prove to be the first of a series
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    Arctic Has Two Poles
    282 4 MOSCOW.—Further support for the Russian hypothesis that the Arctic contains two magnetic poles, not one. has been advanced at a Soviet conference of Geographers in Leningrad. The "two-pole"' hypothesis wu< first advanced in 1937 by Professor B. Weinberg. The previously known singl? magnetic pole discovered on
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    ALL WEATHER FLYING COMES NEARER
    980 4 <By A. C. Monahan). Modern planes can fly through clouds. overcast and many storms: they fly with safety if no hidden mountain peak or towering building i s in their path- The great problem i s not keeping in the air in overcast weather: it
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    LIFE IN THE RUSSIAN ZONE
    253 4 LElPZlG.—Germans in the I Soviet zone live far better than J in the western zone of Germany, but they yearn for the free IfN of the western area. Everywhere the Germans complain about the Russian occupation, but when asked what is wrong th:y reply "the
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    The "Martin Berhman"
    191 4 Letter To The Editor The People's Postbag S:r.—It was under prior arrangement between America and the Republic of Indonesia that the U.S. Liberty Snip "Martin Berhman" called at Cneribon to load produce frcm American and Indonesian estates for America. The port of Ch-ribon falls within tne jurisdiction
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    Bus Traveller's Complaint
    217 4 Sir.—The S.T.C. employees' strike has made the public kneel down to private Bus drivers and conductors. Except for the Green and Toko Yat Bus Companies, private buses operating in thi s city are drive by rude drivers and managed by impertinent conductors. The behaviour of these men
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    The Ex-R. A. Gunner
    201 4 Sir, —Your correspondent J. A. 1 Donoghue, who says h:-. is a native of England. i s a very diffi- i cult person to please. He does not thank Ex-R.A. Gunner (whom he jndirectly terms a I doubtful asset) and others like him for what th:y
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    Public Opinion
    204 4 Sir.—Lately i tendency on bureaucracy and the Shi Association to insult' selves against publ?2L£S wearing three charm? their necks-ignorSS ?S public: the irresDomL the public: and lht suspicion wa r s ar sued by one up- CCX try bureaucrat that cobjJSwere ,ent to the press bySS tacts of
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    THE FIVE MINUTE MEAL
    120 4 A British firm is now BSMB» turing a radio oven, which wil cook a complete meal in flit minutes, or lesv All one has:.' do is to plac? the food to be cooked between two thin meUi plates, or electrodes, and on the "oven Although Mi
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    Shinozaki Tells Of His Efforts To Assist Chinese Population
    1692 6 2,000 Released From Camps —3,000 Were Killed At the continued hearing of the trial of seven Japanese at the War Crimes Court yesterday on a charge of being concerned in the massacre of Chinese civilian residents of Singapore, between Feb. 18
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    How Oversea Association Was Formed
    86 6 Mamoru Shinozaki, under cross-examination at the continued trial yesterday of the seven Japanc»e accused of complicity in the Singapore Chinese massacre, described the formation of the Oversea Chinese Association. This, he said, was intended fcr the protection of the Chinese, especially those detained by the
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    BUYING INQUIRY GENERAL ON QUIET SHARE MARKET
    389 6 OUR FINANCIAL SECTION The chare market generally was rather quiet yesterday and, although profit taking was more noticeable in certain industrial shares, buying inquiry was still fairly general. Wearnes were in demand around $23? cum. div. Uniteers after business at the close were
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    GOVT. ENFORCES BAN ON MID-WEEK SPORT
    384 7 May Affect 1948 Australian Tour Reuter. London, Mar. 11.—The Government today requested the secretaries of British football associations (Association Football, Rugby Football and League Football) not to hold midweek sport until the end ol the present season. The Secretary of Football Association Stanley Rous
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    Women In Sports —In Short....
    166 7 The French Cycling Federation recently called a special meeting to consider 8 racing programme for women. They waited an horu. Not a woman turned up Colour fully-jerseyed girls' teams are invading British icehockey arenas. The ftrst match took place this week between Harringay Huakies and
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    41 7 Reuter. Melbourne, Mar. 11. —Australian Test bowler Ered Freer has declined an offer to play for the Lancashire League Club cf Rawtensto.ll at, £900 annually, owing to the club's inability to provide a house for his wife and two eh ldren.—Router.
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    Hunt Meet Today
    77 7 I the F.ffing tb scd by the i Riding Club place today i i the form of a <w (i v assemble pore Turf ll ncins from a decoy laying across country I P .in at the Turf in* Hunt is Lt. Col. I Car k Er
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    Charles May Meet Lesnevitch
    56 7 U.P. CLEVELAND. Mar 11.-fßz- rr* cnaries. a Cincinatti NeI Gus Les- '.'-heavyweight k today I ring a four heavyweight Jimmj Brias, al ie same time Bhrin'fl hopes oi a i r beeight fight with Mia this Summer. loMb. entered the i i igbi to fi"? fai
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    Washbrook's Cehtury In Wellington Match
    356 7 PTIVE: Wellington resumed their first insecond day of the MCC-Wellington rhey kept the Tourists in the field a furaftei the iunch interval before they r 160, conceding a first innings advantage 16 runs. The innings lasted four hours to minutes. bowled ext ted ugly i
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    Score Board
    152 7 M.C.C. Ist INNINGS 176 WELLINGTON, Ist Innings E. Tindall c Edrich b Voce 0 V. liigley b Voce 'J J. Lamason b /ccc 0 R. Crawford b Bedser 50 J. Capstick c Bedser 19 E. Meany b Voce 13 Oakley c Evans b Edrich 9 D. Wilson b
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    Clarke Rangers Win At Cricket
    260 7 I Good bowling by Gregory de Silva and H. Rodrigues, 4 wickets for 5 runs and 5 wickets for 28 runs respectively, followed by a chanceless 39 by Maurice Wilson enabled the Singapore Clarke Rangers to defeat the Nee Soon Transit Camp by 67 runs
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    N. Z. TEAM FOR FIRST TEST
    68 7 Reuter. WELLINGTON. NEW ZEALAND, Mar. 11.-The New Zealand Te-t Team to meet England al Ch istchurch on March ?1 will be chosen from the following 12 players: 'vV. a. Hadttec (Captain), CC. Buifce, T b. Burtt, J. bowls, c. S. Dempster, R. H. Scott,
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    HOCKEY FIXTURE
    67 7 The following will represent th, Hospital Assistants and Dressers Association against the Johore Police Depot, in a friendly gam: 1 of hockey to be played on Satin day next at Johore Bahru. Jan Mustaffa. Sebns.ian John. C T. Retnam. Seva Sing, A. Shaga. an. A. Mallique. Swee Lim
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    SABA Tournament Second Round
    286 7 Nagle Yap and George de Silva provided the thrills in the Bantamweight second round elimination of the Singapore Amateur Boxing tournament held at the Happy World Stadium last night. George won the bout on a split point after a hectic three-round-battic in which both the boys
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    TO-DAY'S SPORTS
    25 7 SOCCER S.C.C. vs. Customs Sports Club, Padang,, 5,15 p.m. BOXING Singapore Amateur Boxing tournament, third day, at Happy World Stadium, at 7 p.m.
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    Normals Draw With CYMA
    248 7 In a high-scor:ng cricket match played on the Police Training School Ground on Sunday, the C.Y.M.A. (Church of Our Lady cf Lourdes) h:ld the Normal Cricket XI to a draw. Top scorers were C. A. James and Fred Campos who scored 62 runs and 34 runs
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    BADMINTON AND TABLE-TENNIS
    160 7 In a friendly game- played at the T.T.S.H. Court on Saturday last, the Hospitd Assistants and Dreseerq Association boat the Strait* Chinese Epworth League (Kampong Kapo.) in Badminton b> 3-2 <2 tie- aboruloned owing to bad light) and TableTentilf by 5-2. Results; (HAD. A. players mentioned first):—
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    CEYLON SPORTS CLUB
    115 7 The 14th annual general Meeting of the Ceylon Sport Club, was held at the Ta Tong Restaurant, Chulia Street at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday Mar. 8. The following were elected Office Bearers for 1947. President: Mr. E. M. ThampoePhillips Vice-President: Dr. T. Balasihgham, kon. Secretary: Mr. C.
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    Land Office Sports Union
    89 7 Tbe following are requested to b>fcady to pray soccer for Land Qtnce Sport* Club aftdinst MmUl HOfpital ,j»n Thuijsday, at the l&leVs ground. The transport wttl leave Land Office at 430 P Mohd. Salleh. P. Thuralsjngham, Appavo<>, Babjan. G Ranatunga. N Kanagasaba\ Mar pprnra .lamaluddm. r,
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    SCC Beaten 6-Nil By Army In League Game
    599 7 ARMY 6 S.C.C 0 After gamely staying the Army lead of the only I goal in the first half, the Singapore Cricket Ciub defence i collapsed after resumption and lost by six goals to nil in i the S.A.F.A. league fixture yesterday
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    CHINA SAYS 'NO' TO MOLOTOV'S PROPOSAL
    514 8 London Fears Soviet Aid For Chinese Reds Reuter. London, Mar. 11.—China today gave her outright "no"' to the proposal of M. Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, that the situation in China should be added to the agenda of the Moscow Conference. Foreign Minister Wang
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    BIG FRENCH POLICE SCANDAL
    89 8 PARIS. Mar. 11.—The French State police announced today that two cf Paris's best known polic:- chiefs were among the 15 person s detained for questioning while £hey investigated accusations of a big pust-war graft scandal. Tney are Armand Fournet. Divisional Commissioner of the Paris Police Fore?,
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    U.S. SILVER FOR BRITAIN
    149 8 Reuter. LONDO H, Mar. 11 —The Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Hugh Daltoii. told the House of Commons today that 1.500.000 ounces of silver being brought from the United Stales in the Queen Elizabeth was for Industrial and export purposes. Charles Taylor (Conservative* had asked n
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    EGYPT INSISTS ON FULL RIGHTS
    128 8 Reuter. CAIRO. Mar. 11—The Egyptian Government wil accept no scaling down of her sterling balances, the "Journal D'Egypto" said yesterday. The newspaper quoted Abdnl Maguid Badr Pasna. Egyptian Finance Minister, as saying with regard to the recent AngloEgyptian sterling taiks: 'T 3TPD f rd none
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    62 8 TOKIO, Mar. 11.—untitled Narikawa. one of the most hateocivihan guards at Tanacawe POW camp in Osaka and known by >cctes of American prisoners as "Gimpy" wa. sentenced to 40 years' hard labour for war crimes. He had beaten Sgt. Sillis A. Dixon with a rifle butt and then clubbe 1
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    Bevin Not Going To Cairo
    162 8 Reuter. London. Mar 11.—There are no present plans for Mr. Ernest Bevin to return home from the Moscow Conference via Cairo, a Foreign Offico spokesman in London stated this morning. He was commenting on reports which have appeared in the Egyptian press that Mr. Bevin
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    SHAN RULER FOR BURMA COUNCIL
    74 8 Reuter. RANGOON Mar. 11.—Maing Mun. on? of the Shan rulers, has been proposed as a member of the Executive Council in charge of frontier areas affairs. Bin Wa Maung. Kachin chieftain, who will be one of the two deputy councillors for frontkr areas affairs, told
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    34 8 WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.—Presicient Truman has appointed an advisory committee ot six leading industrialists to recommend the number and types of merchant vessel, which the United States should construct annually under the long ranse programme.
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    Britain's Outstanding Shortage In The Textile Industry
    467 8 Manpower Debate Reuter. London, Mar. 11. —George Isaacs, Minister of Labour, opening the second day of the three-day Parliamentary debate on Britain's "economic budget" for 1947 emphasised the i iprovement in relations between employers and employed in industry, compared with the period after
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    Capt. Bligh Starts A New Controversy
    175 8 U.P. LONDON. Mar. 11 The controversy over Capt. William Bl gh whose turbulent career in the Royal Navy was highlighted by the Mutiny of the Bounty late in the 18th century continued today—l3o years affer his death. The newest chapter in the Bligh legend
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    NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
    42 8 Reuter. NEW YORK. Mar- 11.--Selec-tive support tor a few steels, utilities, minings, oils and contain er s enabled them to reduce or eliminate losses, but elsewhere the market finished easy at or around the day's lowest levels.— Reuter
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    'Hitler Lived In Permanent Fear'
    218 8 U.P. Vienna. Mar. U.—Lodwi* Tauschite i pre-war ambassador to Berlin, testifte Schmidts treason trial today that the 193 a h J the Wehrmacht and the Reich mmated a group of German officials wrif Hitler's aggression on Austria. In three-hour appearance at me trial of the
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    Twin-Phase Move To Halt Taiwan Uprising
    249 8 U.P. NANKING Mar. 11.—The Chinese Government has launched a twin-phase policy in an effort to settle the Taiwan uprising by rushing additional divisions to the island and promising reforms within the scope of the drafted constitution, giving Taiwanese a certain degree of autonomy. The
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    LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
    191 8 Reuter. LONDON. Mar. tl.-Tfe-atmosphere of today was one of uncertainty' 2 business conducted in d 5 hearted manner. Whik atm of account dealings mm m forward in some quarter] v Z leason for these conditions t* real underlying (actor isaiS Par'iamentarv econorau few The Chancellor of the
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    Colonials Cricket Club
    158 8 The annual general meeting o: the Colonials Cricket Club laheld on Sunday, Mar I tf SI club premises "Colonden M Kuarau. The following were d office bearers for the year 194--President: Mr. A E DdU (re-electedi: Vice President: D B. Anderson 're-elected Hony. Secretary Treasurer It Arthur
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      87 8 TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT Generally Cloudy Weather report: for 24 hours from noon to-day. compiled by the R.A.F. Central Forecasting Station. *\r Command. Far East: Generally cloudy witn snort outbreaks of light rain. Isolated heavy shower* expected at times. Wind: Light variable but calm at night. Sunspt 1847 hrs. Sunrise 0640
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