Malaya Tribune, 19 March 1947

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  • 54 1 The Malaya Tribune IB y THE PEOPLE FOfl THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA p.intcd simultaneously in Singapore Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. 'Phone Numbers: Editor 5813 Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 5815 lll-.Ul l <i">' SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS! The Malaya Tribune WEDNESDAY,
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  • 142 1 Staff Reporter) II yes P d on a convoy i was being driven Una r Kif.ar be lore dawn terday and carried ;> after threat nng Iht Indian driver*. V.i stared that o! the eight Chinese i tcofc D?rt in ths I i rmed v»»-n
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  • 80 1 Reuter. New Ycrk Mar. United Nations Econ?- cial Council to-dsy Xi examination of the on reconstruction in the After lamination ol the reJS :ht C wncil will have to whether t i set uo an eco- mic comnission for the Far Mil and Russia
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  • 54 1 Reuter. ,V(; Mar, 18. The di- Chinese troops onlj «oae 33 Cani 1 f 11,0 Rf d after the Rghttag in Cen- Prince wa> con- I 'i Chinese p r e S s reports l/ h rce> were -aid to Communis line to Liuwu running fan
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  • 100 1 Reuter. SHANGHAI, Mar. 18.—The Soviet consul this ofternoon calleJ on !)r. The Kuo-lien, Director of the Shanghai office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, seeking a ruarantee for the safety of the Soviet Consul General here in view of "the mounting tide of
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  • 64 1 U.P. J BATAVIA, liar. 18 A Dutch military spoka-mun reported j today that although resistance i wa> -light In the occupation of the Inundated area- of Sour;', baya ifettiet b.\ Dutch troop-, the Dutch lc-es were Aye dca.i and 17 wounded. j The Dutch refute the Antaia
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  • 192 1 LONDON, Mar. I*.- AM governments irrespective of their politics desire to stabilise their agricultural economy, declared the British Minister of Food, Mr. John Strachey, at the International Wheat Council conference here to-day. "Few if any governments to-day are willing to allow their agriculture to be
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  • 300 1 Clerks, Technicians, Workshop Men Report For Duty: Others Stay Out (Tribune StafT Reporter) Shortly before Mr. Justice Jobling opened the public inquiry into the circumstances of the Singapore Traction strike this morning in the Supreme Court before a pig fathering
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  • 58 1 LONDON, Mar. 18—Foreign Office sources said tonight that Britain, far from Withdrawing completely from Greece af>er March 31 would continue to main'ain m'litary. .iccnpmic. legal and police there to adv se the Greek government. Furthermore, these sources said, Britain possibly may be bound Dy her guarantee
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  • 132 1 Reuter. LONDON. Mar. 18.—Anything to do with the colour bar in the R.A.F. has been so successfully eliminated, said I'nder Secretary for Air, Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas. in the House of Commons that there wero no statistics to enable him to answer the point
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  • 246 1 Reuter. RANGOON, Mar. 18 Operating in the arid heat of the Burmese jungles against cunning and well-armed bandit gangs, British, Indian and Burmese troops of the Burma Command are waging a campaign smaller but much more hazardous than the war against Japan, according to reports
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  • 168 1 LONDON. Mar. 18.—The terms of the second secret protocol said to have been concluded by the Big Three powers at Yalta in February 1945 were released by ML Moiotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, at the Moscow Conference yesterday. The authenticity of the text released by M. Moiotov
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  • 282 1 Reuter. LONDON, Mar. 18.—Mr. Attlee, Prime Minister, to* night broadcast a "Work to Survive"' message to the nation. He said the difficulties facing the nation were toa serious and challenge too immediate to allow him to in* dulge in party scores. Giving the
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  • 49 1 Paris, Mar. 18.-Jules Brevie. the Colonial Minister of the Vichy Government, and Amand Annet. the Governor of Madagascar under Brevie. will be tried by the High Court, of Justice tomorrow for their role in organizing th? resistance against British and Free French forces in the 1942 battle of Madagascar
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  • 60 1 New Mar. 18.—Rumours were circulating here today ot an increase in permitted Immigration to Palestine. The Jewish "Morning Journal" published a Jerusalem report saying it is rumoured that there would be an increase in the monthly immigration rate from 1,500 to 2 SQO. The report add'sd.
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  • 69 1 A Chinese prisoner made a -ensational escape from a police court lock-up just before noon today. The man escaped through a ventilator near the ceiling ani jumped 15 feet to the ground Two clerks attached to the court pursued him. If is not known yet whether
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  • 69 2 Reuter. MOSCOW. Mar 18—An article by the Soviet writer, Markov, in his latest is>ue of the magazine New Times entitled; 'American Poiicy in Japan" says: "Certain circles in the United States are evidently not aver>e to relacing the Allied Control In Japan by American domination. The
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  • 186 2 Drastic Cuts Likely (Tribune Staff Reporter) Singapore's gas position is very critical, and unless the strictest economy is practised, it is likely that severe rationing will have to be enforced. The Singapore Gas Engineer told the Tribune last night that gas-coal stocks are "negligible, and
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  • 57 2 U.P. NEW YORK. Mar. 18.—The American owners oi the Liberty ship, Martin Behrman, learn that, despite th-ehr protests to the Dutcn Government against the ships seizure, its cargo of rubber, sugar, quinine back, which the Dutch removed, is p£ing requisitioned for export by the Dutch Director of
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  • 57 2 Ko Lav Sal <51) and Sim Ah Heng (49) who allegedly had an automatic pistol and five rounds of ammunition at an address in Frankel Estate. East Coasf Road, appeared before Second Magistrate L. C. Goh. yesterday. The case was postponed for mention on Mar. 26 and both
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  • 244 2 At a council meeting—the first this year—of the War Department Civil Staff Association held at Fort Canning, with Mr. V. K. Nair in the chair, it was resolved to request the authorities to let the Pyke allowances have retrospective
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  • 71 2 U.P. London. Mar. 18. —The Australian Government announced to- j day that Britain will not release the liner Aquitania for carrying immigrants from Britain to Aus- I tralia because of the continued scarceity of passenger shipping i and "urgent requirements as regards India, the colonies and
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  • 59 2 Reuter. SHANGHAI. Mar. 18.—The Chinese delegation to the In-ter-Asian Relations Conference. to be held in New Delhi on March 23, intends to submit proposals covering a wide range of problems in current relations between Asatic countries. No proposals on politics wil be put forward as the conference is
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  • 58 2 Reuter. THE HAGUE. Mar. 18—L R. Peletier. head of the Dutch telegraph and telephone service in the Netherlands East Indies, disclosed today that experiments would be carried out shortly with q nsw Dutch invention for a teleprinter radio traffic. This device makes the transmitter repeat
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  • 42 2 Reuter. COLOMBO, Mar. 18.—ViceAdmiral Sir Arthur Palliser, Commander-in-Chief. East Indies Station, who has recently been visiting the Persian Gulf, arrived here today in the cruiser Glasgow on an informal i visit. He will return to his headquarters at Trincomalee i on Friday.—Reuter.
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  • 78 2 Reuter. RANGOON, Mar. 18.—Preparations are now complete for the Burma Constituent Assembly elections scheduled to take place on April 9. U. Ala Shein. the Election Commissioner said today.. The registration of candidates closed three days ago and the result of scrutiny will be announced this
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  • 75 2 RUNDSTEDT IS OLD BROKEN Reuter. LONDON, Man. 17.—01 d, broken and dejected, and walking with the aid of two sticks, 72--year-old Field Marshall Karl Rudolf Gerd yon Rundstedt arrived here tonight from Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales, where hehas been a prisoner of war for 14 month-. Rundstedj". who wa- escorted by
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  • 71 3 an lull f,h ol SttOli Gffccef )-depot on Dec. W. G. Ii n a ol f t .*d tr«j S ci Dec. uardulg [tit- n -c noises ol j broken j v. re nred tdl. of the loot" i them. each rter fell
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  • 506 3 the circumstances which led to the 1.463-ton S.S. Matang when a Tanjong Embang, Sarawak, about try 23 this year, opened in the Marine Mr Paul Srorr ores.ded, while CJI Buttei id appeared M David Mar- ited Captain WilMaster of Matang. re Capt. g.C. rot
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  • 1546 3 DEFENCE OPENS TOMORROW Ihe massacre trial reached a further stage yesterday with t he prosecution closing its case, after tendering in evidence the sworn statements of the seven accused. The defence will open tomorrow morning; at 10 o'clock. One cf the accused, in
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  • 75 3 (From Our Own Reporter) Taiping, Tuesday.—Corporal J. F. Dawn, Ryal Lincolnshire Regiment, whhe picnicking with two soldier Mends at the Taip\r,2 Waterfalls slipped and fell on the reeky slope. Dawn died bf it re the polie arrived. One Indian was arrested by the Taiping Police during
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  • 78 3 Newspapers, periddicals and' books up to 4 lbs. in weight pel racket says a -jttoi ii rinUce niay now be sent by Printed Papers post to the British and American Zcnes of Germany and to the British Secto- of Berlin. No message ?ny s° ma
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  • 117 3 The Indonesian Republican Government delegates to the Inter-Asian Relations Conference are expected to arrive in Singapore tomorrow from jarkarta Dr. Sultan Shahrir the Indonesian Premier, will he arriving on Thursday, and while he stops over here, it is learned he will be the guest
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  • 159 3 The Netherlands Indies Government Information &ci i 1 siat.s: 'An item recently peared in the Chinese Pre-1 about the forced towing < I th vessel 'Krim' by a Netherlands naval vessel nar Cherlbon (Java\ which was alleged to have resulted in the sinking
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  • 43 3 The Money Order service wittf Brunei h;»s been resumed with effect from 15 March, 1947. The maximum amount permitt d lor a single money order is $400. There ll nc Telegraph Money Order Service to and from Eru nei.
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  • 320 3 The missions ol mercy by Da kotas oi the Royal Air Force l(. villages in the hilly Karennis. east of Tcungoo. in Central Burma, have been completed with the dropping on 9 Marc: o! 27.400 lbs of rice and salt. Duiing sixteen days of
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  • 454 4 General Douglas MacArthur's proposal that the time has come to replace the military occupation of Japan by civilian control through the United Nations has come as a shock. Twelve months ago, Mac Arthur still spoke of 25 years of military occupation as necessary to make Japan safe
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  • 1379 4  -  y T.W.B. Osborn CAPETOWN.—I heard a j university 'don,' the other I day, drawing a parallel bei tween the world's ccntem- porary colossal states and the colossal prehistoric reptiles who have left their skeletons in the Karroo. He suggested that thcr? is an optimum
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  • 310 4 f Letters .To The Editor I i Sir.—It is assumed that the Singapore Teachers' Union is comprised of people who are. or who ought to be. interested in present Malayan standards o f education. Education in Malaya now. needless to say. is unsatisfactory. backward and
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  • 152 4 Sir,—Aw to your leader of Mar 17 I should l'ke to give explanation on one point that is, why we went back to work after the two weeks strike on Sept. 10th. 1946. That was on the insistent •aavlc-e of the Trade Union Adviser and the Labour
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  • 398 4 Sir.—Things are a Ull abnormal: rehab:ligation is yet to turn the corner; corruption, hooliganisin. armed robbery strikes, black-market;; and other crimes making liie and properties insecure are rampant, ana Government is at its wits' end to and the panacea to cure these evils. There tore, it seems
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  • 299 4 LONDON. There's a restless shifting of small time racketeers under way in London and ScoU land Yard is preparing for an outbreak of gangwarfare on a far larger and grimmer scale than the prewar razor slashings and beatings that characterized the "protection ramp The Yard
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  • 464 4 ißy Norman Smith). Ottawa. The large number of young Canadians wanting to migra: i to the United Spates is causmn considerable anxiety in some quarters here. Figures just publ\shed show that seme ***** young Cana dians. most of them busine s end prof ssional men,
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  • 361 5 INDONESIANS REPLY, DUTCH READY TO SIGN Reuter. Mar. 13. —The Dutch Commission-General K U.y that in consequence of the letter froni tjl delegation on Mar. 15, the Netherlands Iihs authorised them to proceed with the j Ihc Lin&gadjati agreement immediately. ha* b< 1 n ali)|
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  • 208 5 Reuter CHICAGO, Mar. 17—A Washington Ui-patch to ihe Chicago Tribune -aid today that plan> are "in blueprint stage" for the transfer of the British Government and industries to South Africa should another war break out "This staggering news nas been reported to several Senators by
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  • 140 5 Congress Warned Reuter. WASHINGTON, M?t. 18. -Heentative Bcrtand W Gearhait. waned the United i rial Soviet Riu- ,1 coy toua eyes k i key to United in tne Far North preparing to lay territory on toe md that its sale by the Czar try in
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  • 82 5 Reuter. NEW YORK. Mar. 18-The United Spates Coast Guard has reported that the wreckage of the airliner missing on a flight f.om Mcdcllin, Colombia, to San Cos tH Rica, has bevn located on Peak Medellin. The Coast Guard s.dd: "There was no evidence of
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  • 47 5 UP. MISSOULA (Montana), Mai. 17—flight were injured when the eastbound Chicago-Milkaukee and St. Paul's fast j train The Olympian struck a rock and dirt -lid,. 0 n the mainj line, overturning the engine and j two baggage cars rerailing two j passenger cars.—up.
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  • 281 5 Pvepnl Lumpur. Monaay.-Textiles arc proving an f£ l en V nduce mcnt to padi growers in Perlis who have already bartered 75,000 piculs of padi to the Union Government since December last. Padi cultivators in Perlis are now getting cloth on the barter system
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  • 106 5 (From Our Own Reporter) KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 18. Ahmad Bustaman. leader of the 10,000-strong Angkatan Pemuda Insaf (Malay Youth Organization) was bailed out at about 3 p.m. today on «j surety for $3 000 M A. B. Sidek. President of thf Malayan Motor Drivers
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  • 78 5 Reuter. LONDON. Mar 18. -Moscow radio today that the Government of the Uiu.'iim Soviet Republic has a letter from Pandit Nehru ia which on behalf cf the government and people ot India, he expressed gratitucb to the Ukrainian Government and people for support given at tne United
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  • 77 5 In January, Singapore imported from Sumatra 11.420 tons of rubber. 1,999 tons of sago flour. 122 tons of coffee. 258 tons of pepper, 2.979 tons of sawn logs of 50 cubic feet er.ch. 2 266 tons of copra and 120 tons of rattan. The February
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  • 68 5 Koh Lai Wah (26) was produe: d before the Fourth Police Magistrate yesterday on a tentative charge of being in unlawful possession of a handgrenade at the junction of Delta Road and Jervois Road on Sunday afternoon. Koh was ordered to be remanded till today when he w
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  • 77 5 A J. Cronick (21) and J. Sullivan (30). from the s.s. Portland were charged in the Tnird Magistrate's Court yesterday with theft of 21 yards of printed cloth worth $10 from a godown at the docks on March 17. or, alternatively, dishonestly retaining the 21 yards of cloth,
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  • 334 5 Sepoy Somanna (19). an 1.0.R.. who was one of those lent by the Military to the Municipality to fill in the breach caused by the recent strike of Municipal lorry drivers-was convicted on a charge of criminal breach of trust of four lorry tyres, and sentenced
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  • 60 5 The Chinese community of Indonesia recently presented a scroll in felicitation of the birth of a granddaughter to Queen Wilhelmina to the Lt.-Governor General at Batavia. The presentation was made by Mr. Ang Van Goan, chairman of the (hung Hua (hung Hui. Photos show (top): The scroll: above, the presentation
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  • 290 5 Reuter. U.P. London. Mar. 18.—The rushing flood waters of the normally placid Thames lapped at the sandbagged Hamp'on Pumping station today imperilling the drinking water—supply of 2.500, 000 Londoners. The river was still rising at W.ndsor and Maidenhead, the two worst hit flood towns west
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  • 261 5 Two Malays, Ansng bin Said and Abas Lin Utoh, I were severely burnt and rushed to Pulau Bukom hospital when together with 20 others they were rescued j yesterday from a blazing tongkang by the Shell Com- pany vessel, Rimau. The tcngkanp Chineseowned, was
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  • 168 5 Reuter. BIRMINGHAM, Mar. 18—The Conservative Birmingham in ;m editorial today, states that in the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Arthur Henderson refused, on behalf of the Government to accept any suggestion thai the outbreak of rioting in the Punjab in any way connected with the
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  • 73 5 BATAVIA. Mar 18.—Seventeen members of the crew of the American freighter, Martin Behrman, stated before the United States consul. John B. Ketctiam, on oath today that they had seen part of the Cinchona OarK from the Behrman's cargo oeing loaded on a Brit'sh Blue Funnel
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  • 30 5 U.P. BOGOTA (Columbia Mai 18 A TACA Airways plane, with five passengers and thiee crew, crashed against a mountain peak, 25 miles northwest of Modellin—U.P.
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  • 432 6 U.P. Batavia, Mar. 18. —The Indonesian Republican Government, which is now burning wood, much of it teak, in government railroads may be forced to burn rubber instead to protect the export-free teak industry if the Dutch persist in blockading Indonesian ports.
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  • 285 6 Share Market Roundup The chief feature of interest in the share market yesterday was a sharp rise in Gammons to $5.4q (buyeis) with sellers reserved on a rumour of the possibility of obtaining the Changi Aerodrome contract. Otherwise there was not much doing
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  • 74 6 The rubber market remained dull yesterday with small buying interest and sellers showed no inclination to meet the market Only small business was reported done. The S.C.C.R.A's rubber priefs at noon yesterday were: Buyers. Sellers, cts. per cts. per lb. lb. No 1 R SS. spot.
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  • 122 6 Reuter. London, Mar. 17.—The stock markets have been somewhat singularly lacking in character. Trading has been subnormal except in the case of Brazilian railways which again proved very poDular. Lack of interest and steady stream of small sales depressed the market for British Government securities which was
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  • 204 6 Reuter. SHANGHAI. Mar 18—Doubt whether such a drastic change at th: s time was feasible wa< expressed by financial and business circles her? today in commenting the Chinese Dress reports from Nanking that a proposal for the establishment of a gjld standard for Chinese
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  • 41 6 London, Mar. 17.—The Hindu Association in London at an j emergency meeting last night 1 discussed the situation in the Punjab and other centres of the communal trouble and passed a resolution condemning I the British Government's "policy of disintegration." I
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  • 324 6 Prices quoted beiow are per! plcul weight except where otherwise stated. Foodstuffs:—Yesterday's quotations were "Meehoon": Kedah $70: Siam No. 1 $90; Indo-China $70. Rice: Siam No. 1 $98; No. 2 $96: No. 3 $90; Rangoon $62. jGluUnuous rice: Slam No. 1 $75: Rangoon $50. Rock sugar:—s64.
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  • 72 6 U.P. HONOLULU, Mar. 18.—Twenty ?e*aels were sent out, to the Pacific today to join planes m tlie search for 12 >eamen missing in a lifebo.it since Wednesday, afte the tanker, Fort Dearborn, broke in two. Nineteen destio yers and the tug, Tucson, were aligned
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  • 257 6 U.P. WASHINGTON. Mar. 18.—The Combined Tin Committee reported a "marked deterioration" in the world tin supplies. The Committee which controls international tin allocations, announced new allotments of 6,785 long tons and said no more was currently available. it said the demand for tin in
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  • 77 7 I. fu i 7 Len Hut[A#D°jej n j England arrived in Australia. U*** j] trouble, he is j i part in the c. v w Zealand, n operation in a hospital 2JJ* orl the tour, the younger D Australian eric- very r, rmidable, and yfts Aa^"
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  • 86 7 SYDNEY Mar 17 Jamej Paul Gibb and Joe ~i the MCC in Australia, who did N i Zealand, -ailed j i j on lii*- Larg- were accompanied Igai man, Ferguses r Bed«e who made an to Australia I■ pia ick t but in order twin brother,
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  • 243 7 I LB With Spring still m m se, bull-fight enalready wonderpi »hal this season will have 1 them when it gets Mmraj ~t East. J are high that Mano9"ma's most popular maowr will tight this year. His aking advertising H* k ta Madrid papers
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  • 486 7  -  Lessons From The Tests Says ARCHIE QUICK LONDON.—Statistics in sport are anathema to me, but the Test Match figures having been published let me comment upon them. Their tale is there very plainly for all to see and they go to confirm an article
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  • 174 7 In a friendly badminton match consisting of 3 men's Singles, one men's Doubles and one mixed Doubles played lart Saturday at Fort Canning, the Merrid3le Youth BP. (Junior Section > defeated the District Dawns by 3 games to nil. *2 games abandoned due to heav.
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  • 38 7 Reuter. LONDON, Mar. 18.-Th e Rugby League ha* appruved of the League Club-' recommendation that an approach should be made to the Home Secretary with a view to playing evening mid-week matches—Reuter
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  • 46 7 The quarter-finals in the Y.M. CA. table tennis tournament will be played off today, com menc.ne at 5.15 p.m. Ti*s: J. Houlihan vs. Yeo Seng Kok: Kam Yew Lai vs. Teo Waj Kai; Ong Kay Ann vs. Lee Chio Long; Eugene Bong vs. Soh Tecw Keng.
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  • 80 7 U.P. BRIGHTON. Mar. 18.—American heavyweight Joe Baksi is taking it easy because of a slight cold today, but trainer Ray Arcel said: "Right now I feel Joe could lick Louis if he keeps the same physical peak he has been at taining here-" Baksi did not
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  • 65 7 The following have been invited to play cricket for the Colonials against Water Transport Coy. on Sunday at 11 a.m. at Pulau Brani W. Ratnayake, C. Collins. K. G. Albert, D. Miller. R. DcHUcm S.I A. Pel era, T. Thiyagarajah, J. A. B. Gala:joda. J. Delilkan,
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  • 65 7 The following have been invited to play cricket for Colonials against BAOCC on Saturday at i p.m. at Changi: W. Ratnayake, C. Collins, K. G. i Albert. D. Miller. R. Delilkan. S. L. A. Perera, T. Thiyagarajah. i L. S. Nathanielsz. J. A. B. Galagoda. A. F.
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  • 50 7 The following will represent the Cavenangh at Soccer against the District Dawns'* on Sunday, {at Fort Canning ground. Kickoff at 5.15 p.m. All players will meet at No. 21. Wilkie Road. O-man. Seng Gee. Berry. Ib rahmi. Lloyd. Sattar. KrishnaI samy. Govindasamv. Roland Ronnie. Arthur. Balan. S&mad. Muthia and Haron.
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  • 216 7 Calcutta. —There will be no competitive football in Calcutta —the second largest city of the British Empire and the "home" of Indian soccer—this year under the auspices of the Indian Football Association, the parent body for soccer in India. As a result, all the four divisions
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  • 550 7 Malays Recs Share Points In Thrilling Game SIX GOALS AT STADIUM S.&.C 3. MALAY F.A 3. Exciting would be too mild a term to describe yesterday's S.A.F.A. league fixture, played at Jalan Besar between the S.R.C. and the Malay F.A., which ended in a three-all draw—the first drawn game in
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  • 668 7 Reuter. LONDON, Mar. 17.—Despite Government's decision to ban mid-week sport and the threatened players' Strike, there is still tremendous interest and enthusiasm in the Football Association Cup semi-finals which take place March 29. A few days after the venues for the matches had been
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  • 240 7 Playing at the Naval Base, Seletar, H.M.S. Terror beat the Indian Association second eleven by 29 runs. Batting first the Indians were all out for 59 runs, N. Abbasbhoy being top scorer with 13 runs. H.M.S. Terror were all out for 88. R. S.
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  • 119 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Mar. 17. The nulled States Runrc mandate to be issued on me Cewrt today o. ;ercd a L: wi~, leader at tl;c UnitMarch 20 obliging Juhn L. to withdraw within five e-f Mine Workers Union, no'ice tc rm.'nating the days
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  • 287 8 Negro Fighter's Manager Protests Reuter. V J LONDON, Mar. 18,—After taking four counts in the fourth round. A1 Fhillips of London fought back to win the Empire featherweight championship at the Royal AJbert Hall here to-night by outpointing Cliff Anderson. coffee-coloured bantamweight champion of British
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  • 107 8 NEW YORK, Mar. 18.—Max Schmeling was the only man •Toe Louis ever really was mad at in life. He says so in his autobiography "My Life Story" which came off the press today, coincident with an announcement that Louis will Cefciidl his title for the 21th
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  • 46 8 U.P. ATHE> T S. Mar 17.—Conservative newspaper said today that Greek authorities arrested a 1 Bulgarian who parachuted to Greek soil last Friday. Greek authorities said that a certain Bulgarian surrendered last week and was taken to Salonika for questioning but refused further details. —U-P.
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  • 527 8 Kuala Lumpur.—The Army has loaned to the Civil Government Short Term Food Production Scheme, machinery consisting of twenty-six bill 1 dozers, eight cranes and thirty-four tractors to help them reach the maximum output in the shortest possible time. These machines were
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  • 139 8 Reuter. LONDON. Ma; 17 The Bulgarian Government ha- now informed the Biitlsh Legation in S; fta of it. -eadtnes* to convert in full the holding- of Bulgarian currency of member* if the B.iti-h mission, th- Foreign Office spokesman here stated t nigh*. Thi- deck) I iII
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  • 147 8 Reuter. RANGOON Mar 18.—PTC* pects or sending military am from Burma or India to Vietnam «Indo-Chinese Republic: n> forces were now very remote said Bo Van Nam?, iormer col nel in the Japanese-sponsored wartime Burma Defence Am v who sometime ago announced his decision
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  • 289 8 U.P. TOKIO. Mar. 18.—By a majority decision, the Allied High Court trying 26 major Japanese war crimes suspects, rejected a defence move to prove that Gen. MacArthur planned a 1939 military programme for the Philippines as part of a deience strategy to
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  • 48 8 The seven Japanese who are on trial in connect on with the massacre of Chines in Singapore untitled left 'o rah Lt.-Cen. Nsh m ii huma L ■"•r 4 a "tmura Saburo. L.-Col. Os ii Masay uki, Maj. Iyo Tomatatsu, Maj, On shi Satoro and Capt. h samatsu.
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  • 478 8 Large Su m Earmarked For Atom Research Reuter. LONDON, Mar. 18.—John Dugdale, the Financial Secretary of the Admiralty to-day presented to the Commons, the Navy estimates of £196,700,000, including an undisclosed amount for research "especially into the c fleets of the atom tomb on
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  • 116 8 U.P. LONDON, Mar. 18 —The Brlt sh Oovrenment knows nothing about the announcement in Washington that £47.000 of the Amer can loan to Britain nas oeen spent on chewing gum. The Earl of Howe rased the oues-icn of chewing gum in the House ot
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  • 44 8 Reuter. or .APGO'v. Mar. 17. —The Scottish Foo-ball Association Council has decided to extend the season until May 17 and no competition for which admission is charged will be played in Scotland except on Saturdays and recognised public holidays -Reuter.
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  • 188 8 DUNEDIN, Mar. 18. —Bert who scored 197 in Otago's first innings against the M CC. became the first New Zealanoer to hit two centuries in a match against any touring learn, when he hit another brilliant century in the match which concluded here today in a thrilling
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  • 76 8 The following w:ii represent the Indonesian Soccer XI in a football match against the B.D M.S. Pasir Panjang. at 5 15 p.m todry on the Victoria School grun-»-Dlaftar Ridswa..: Ahmad bin H. Ahmad. Ramhe bin H. Idns. 8 S Fmroen. Abdoella b n H. M. Said M
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  • 38 8 LONDON Mai 17 tish Cup s ii-Cnal today r< llotherw; 11 H Hampden P If Dun Aberdeen ma postp nd will men Dundee t T x< Park. E if Aberdeen win meet Ai Dundee, Reuter
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  • 104 8 A Li) ol tne J (Boon we re elected I DB i> I year 1947: P.it ron M Choo I Hua lvi S Geok T P Peni Kaj \1 Rang Cii Leng Pam Chua Ah K:rr.. U Peng Son?,. Chua Ye« Ch M S ih Kit
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    • 113 8 TES TODAY'S I WEATHER REPORT Fcir With Scattered Showers S'nga pore weather forecast for 24 hears from noon today, compled by the R.A.F. Central Forecasting Station, Air Command. Far Fast: During the afternoon, fair with bright intervals and scat- J 'end chewers not affecting j .Singapore city. Fine at night.
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