Malaya Tribune, 24 March 1947

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    53 1 The Malaya Tribune y T HE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATION AT NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Now printed simultaneously in SingaporeKuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. 'Phone Numbers: Editor 5813 Editorial 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 5815 Wgbt pages Singapore; MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1947 ~PBICE TEN CENTS. The Malaya Tribune MONDAY.
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    BRITISH GOVT. SACKS COMMUNIST EMPLOYEES
    375 1 Others Barred From Permanency Unwarranted Political Interference Alleged U.P. Mar. 23.—Mr. Leonard C. White. Secretary g vice Clerical Association, charged today M litary intelligence Branch of the War Oifice discharge of cix government clerks who communist sympathisers, and prehtrs from obtaining permanent civil ser- .<;■■
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    7th Time Told "You're To Die Tomorrow"
    142 1 U.P. ACCRA (Gold Coast). March 23 Five negroes condemned to death tor Juju ritual murder of i village chieftain, km It in prayer in th- ir death cells at James Fort today, awaiting their d scheduled f°r 8 a.m I Monday. It the
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    U.S. AND HONG KONG SUPPLIED JAPAN FOOD
    111 1 Reuter. 0 Japan imported *U7I metric tons of food the I nited States and *J M«g during January. n Mac Arthur's Headannounced, sports from the ITnited included cereals, peas, eaMj an( j miscellaneous Tn *x surplus canned food: ,r, m Hon? Kong sugar
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    At The Moscow Conference
    41 1 Radio picture from the Moscow Big 4 Conference, showing he Russan and American delegations. The Soviet Foreign Mm sier M. Moiotov is on ex'reme lef while Mr. Marshal 'U.S. Secretary of State/ is on extreme righ\ w
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    PRISONERS' STRIKE IS STILL ON
    85 1 Reuter. RANGOON* Mar. 23—The situation in Mandalay in Upper Bomi ha> improved over the 1 week-end after a *paU of law-]c--ness t according to report received here today. The priaonerV strike which has been going on for nearly a month still continue-; however and troops
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    Air Search On Ice Slopes Continues
    80 1 U.P. GRENOBLE. Mar. 23.—The body of Steven Anossi of Ne* York, victim of the recent air crash at Chateu Bernard near here, was discovered at a spot 1 near the scene of the crash, by search parties today. I The search for the bodies
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    ITALIAN WORKERS FOR ARGENTINE
    33 1 U.P. ROME, Mar. 22.—The first shioload of 850 Italian workers will leave Genoa for Buenos Aires on May 8. Five other Argentine emigrant ships will leave shortly afterwards. —U.P.
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    HALF-HOUR ATOM WAR CAN WIPE OUT MANKIND
    213 1 U.P. SAN FRANCISCO. Mar. 23.— The effects of an all-out atomic war lasting only half an hour would be felt for two or three gen: rations and eventually would wipe out the human race, according to Dr. S. Warren, wartime head of the
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    3,000 Trapped Families Rescued In Notts Floods
    176 1 Reuter. LONDON. Mar. 23 —The situation in the Fenlands around Ely where nearly 10.000 acre> are under two feet of water was today reported to be still crit'c3l by Army authorities who are righting the flood. The Dutch flood expert. M. Kalis, has
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    Sikhs Against Pakistan "Beginning Of Civil War In India"
    163 1 Reuter. Calcutta, MAT. 23— Master Tara Singh, Sikh leader, declared here today that recent happenings in the Punjab were not communal disturbances. They were the beginning of a civil war in India and because of the geographical position of the Punjab,
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    RAGPICKER WHO CLEANED UP FORTUNE
    104 1 U.P. PARIS. Mar. 23—Rumours w«.re rampant today that "Monsieur Jjseph" once a lowly ragpicker wbo cleaned up a wartime fortune by <-elhng metals to the Orrnvine hart offered to surender and provide the authorities with compromising document*. The police, who tried to trace I Joseph
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    PLANE MISSING
    55 1 Reuter. LISBON. Mar. 23. -Lisbon airport today picked up a radio menage bating that an Egyptian tvvo-engintd plane dying from Grander. Newfoundland to the Azores had lost its bearing* in the Atlantic. Portuguese search planc-s were standing by in the Azotes but had -o far been grounded by
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    "Orders To Purge 5 Sets Of People"
    300 1 Today's Massacre Trial Hearing Singapore, Mon.—After the third accused, Lt.-Col. Oishi Masayuki, had replied "I do not know" to Aye questions fired at him during his cross-examination, prosecution counsel R. C. H. Lim charged him with n gligence of duty, at the resumption
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    PUNISHMENT ASKED FOR SOONG
    95 1 U.P. NANKING. Mar. 23.—A Central Executive Committee Meeting this morning called fcr punishment tc be met-d out to •those responsible for the gold case, including T. V. Soong, T*u Yee-pei and their subordinates. The meeting asked for a thorough investigation into th? accounts of the Governmentoperated
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    U.S. SITTING ON EDGE OF VOLCANO
    129 1 U.P. LOS ANGELES, Mar. 23 Veterans of World War II were cautioned by retired Marine Corps Gen. Holland M. Smith, not to throw away their uniforms The veteran of 43 years in the marines, commenting on world affairs, said he advised "dusting them off".
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    Bombay Labour Showdown
    92 1 BOMBAY, Mar. 24—Last minute efforts by Bombay's Labour Minister. Oulzarilal Nanda. to avert the strike of Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Company workers have fail?d. At today's conference, he warned the workers that the Government would not tolerate the strike and would take str'ngent action since the
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    CNAC Executives Acquitted
    67 2 U.P. SHANGHAI. Mar. 23— The Distr ct Court here yesterday acquired Capt. Woods, Chen Hungan and Wang-tso—three CNAC operations executives of charges of manslaughter ra\sed after the crash of an airliner on January 28 near Hankow. killing 26, according to a reliable source. After a thorough investigation
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    Haji Rebukes Foreign Money Worshippers
    417 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 23.— "There win have to be a clearcut division soon as to who are Malay nationals and who are oversea Indians, oversea Chinese and oversea Europeans. We want to be friends of all and foes of none. But only
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    POLICY OF STAGNATION IN KOREA
    235 2 Far East Peace Danger Reuter. LONDON. Mar. 23. The whole peace of the Far East may be endangered by the present policy Of stagnation in Korea, declared Colonel Ben C. Limb, chairman of the Korean commission, in an in..erview here today "Russia and America, each
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    GREECE-TURKEY TRADE PACT EXTENDED
    46 2 U.P. LONDON, Mar 22-Ankara Radio *aid tonight that a trade agreement between Turkey and Greece which expired yesterday had beai extended pending the negotiation of a new one. The broadcast Turkey proposed a three-month temporary extension and ihe Greeks 45 days.— UP
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      508 2 NOTICES. SINGAPORE GOVT. SERVANTS' BACK PAY COUNCIL A mass meeting of Asiatic Government servants will be held on Monday 24th March, 1947 at 5.00 p.m. at the J.C.S.A. grounds, 60. Tcssensohn Road, at which resolutions j will be passed on the back pay question. All Asiatic Government Servants are requested
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    WEEK-END ROBBERIES
    153 3 were imported 1 W( .(k-»nd njng, at King j two Chinese G ;.,',Va.i of P«* pp d by four be Euiupean-. ;i- ved of their al S4OO elieved of a mi diciiie valued at h iW W9a stop--51 ™cc Chines at Maga- I dan morning, j Chinese v.
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    ANOTHER WEEK OF GOOD BUSINESS
    999 3 Singapore Share Market Another week of good business is recorded. Industrials led in volume with main dealings concentrated in three stocks while price movements were irregular. Dollar and Austrailian tins had amoderate tornovrr and any quotation changes were upward. More buyers operated m rubbers than
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    COPRA FIRMS ON NEWS OF INDONESIA TAX
    648 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A tax levied by ;he Indonesian authoritatives recently on copra exported from territories under their control has had a hardenntz effect on the local prices for this ;ccmmodi,y. Tnis mixed oual'ty jumped $2 to the present price of $20 a
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    SPECULATIVE SUPPORT FOR RUBBER
    165 3 Due to the expected removal of Government Buying Control in U.S.A. the market has advanced steadily throughout the week, although during the early part, sellers were not attracted and only moderate business was done- Overseas orders were not large enough to push the market, but speculative
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    TROOP P.O.s CLOSE DOWN APRIL 13
    268 3 Army Field Post Office- in South East Asia Command which have been the means of linking troops with their homelands during the war and up to the present will give their la-t service to troops on April 13. After that date all military and
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    MARKET GOSSIP
    416 3 (Tribune Financial Correspondentj The marke: is very firm in the Un and rubber sections with buyers predominating at the close. Readers will remember in marke. gcssip we em- chasizea ,hat ihe an and rubber share sections offered oppcrtuni es for investment of Capital. We consistently brought ou- this
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    He Won't Be "Piped"
    77 3 Reuter. SYDNEY, Mar. 23.—The Navy will not pipe his Excellency the Governor-General. Mr. McKell aboard warships. Mr. McKell holds no naval or military rank. A Nevy spokesman said that cny sea-gcing naval commanding officer in uniform, irrespective of rank, was entitled to the courtesy of being
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    43 3 A man ummoned at Willesden for having Do bicycle rear light said ne did not know it was compulsory, as hi had been in the Navy for six yeais. The magi-ti ate: Don't battleships have red rear lights'? i was in a submarine
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    Russia Wants Ceylon Rubber
    80 3 Reuter. COLOMBO, Mar 22—The pos J sibility of Ru>si a supplying Ceylon with much-needed textiles i exchange for the Mand's rubber i> being explored by the Ceylon Government it i- learned. It U understood Ceylon* ivI preventative hi the United King- dom. Mr. Gi C. S.
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    The Penang Protest
    493 4 The memorandum on the Malayan Constitutional Proposals forwarded to the Se- cretary of State for the Colonies by Chinese organisations in Penang and Province Wellesley can hardly fail to carry great weight. On one ground or another attempts have been made to belittle the considerable opposition which
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    THE DECLINE OF PRESTIGE
    882 4  -  by W.A. Harpur The deterioration of relations between the peoples of Malaya and the Government is profoundly disturbing to observers who have studied the trend. When one hears remarks that but for their guilt in the matter of atrocities, the Japanese were better masters than the
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    The People's Postbag The Toddy Question
    311 4 Letters To The Editor Sir—l was not surprised when I read the report of the Malayan Union Toddy Committee. Like any other Committee appointed by the Government this Toddy Committee presented a most pious recommendation for the apparent benefit of the people. The Indian
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    S.T.C. And Private Buses
    138 4 Sir.—Desp'te appeals by Mr. Ewing. manager of the S.TC.. to the strikers to work, there still seems to be no imorovement in the situation. The sooner Government takes ovei control of the S.T.C. and starts the buses running, the better it would b? for the "coni
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    "Mount Emily Swimming Pool"
    116 4 Sir.—Passing by the Mount Emily Swimming Pool the other day. I noticed (from the back of the pool) that the pool Is very much neglected as tar as cleaning and maintenance of it s prewar standard are concerned. It is about five months since the cnange
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    Muslim Relief Committee
    119 4 Sir.—As an Indian Muslim. I strongly protest against the collection of funds by an organization called the Young fndian Muslim Relief Committ-:e." Doe, not the name of this Committee imply that it represents Indian Muslims in general? We have yet to know whether those who started this
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    TRIALS OF 20,000 NAZIS ARE POSTPONED
    531 4 Trials in the British Zone of 20.000 former memb r s of the lour Nazi organisations convicted as criminal by the International Military Tribunal at I Nuremberg have been set back I for three months. The trials have b.en delayed by the administrative difficulty
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    Russia Outspends U.S. On Defence
    447 4  -  (By Lyle C. Wilson. WASHINGTON--The Soviet Union is planning to ouUpend the United Statrs two to one on its armed forces. That comparative estimate is based on the five for one exchange value of th? rouble for the dollar. That ratio may be fictitious. But
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      35 4 A WKAl t T OFTEN AS BIG AS S*Pk \XjSVlfl A GRAPEFRUIT/ J§ y T D^ 0 KILLING 60 PERSONS AND THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS— 7 f Ij\agpffia W IT WAS NEVER EXPLAINED/ °ffj 0 3
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    Strike Hits 100 U. K. Stations
    70 5 U.P. i 22 Thou ands in -uuth-i-astem :Ul eff from Lon!;t,htning strike /»(i part of the 'p< ray- .lectrified S,u* < a I 'indied stations ea-ti TO divi:am London the Th ime« valley to the •v- -hut down by a 370 engine driv- 'r.
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    Perm's Riches -No Use Made Of Them
    95 5 Reuter. Reza Pan- P; r-ia, broad- run radio today the Persian v ar declared that the m for reconstrnerel rm it Persia was not 1 o left behind. ia is vrrv rich." he said, ir no Use has been ■adi her riches. There
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    ARMS CACHE DISCOVERED
    38 5 Reuter. Mar. 22—Police and a combined search totoy fi and more than 200 rounds md r volver ammunition, oi gelignite, seven bombs and three I explosives in the dis- 'unding a Syrian orto Jerusalem.— Reuter.
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    Perak Hydro Dispute: Board's Awards
    534 5 IPOH, Sun —The Arbitration Eoard wh eh heard tne dispu.e between the F.rak River HyurcElectric Power Co.. Ltd.. and its employees announced it* awards today. The Board is divided in its decision on back pay. the majority award being no grant in respect of back
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    Second American Freighter Due In Batavia This Week
    145 5 Reuter AAP. 1 v the Flying Cloud, •DJ I.>brandsten Incorporwcw York, charterers of m Behrman. recently by the Dutch Navy Batavia where its lar cargo, loaded Cheribon. was ai-charged. Cloud carries 50 shirts from the Ml to the Indo- P -ssibly other
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    36 5 The Netherlands Consulate lh > wmmL S,n,{a l*»-e states **Z?\ln 9 l the Martin in th have no inter- „nrn,,n ratherr ther tha tj, ut carry will not lor th 'it whi Snhstih,tr car S" was removed.
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    "I Am Not A Nazi"
    143 5 Reuter. Melbourne, Mar. 23. —M ra Lerch. Jewish wife of Egon Karl Lerch. alleged S-S man who was refused permission to enter Australia after a fellow passenger had denounced him as a Nazi, aid today that sh? would "light the case" in Australia where she
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    35 5 Reuter. New Delhi, Mar. 23.—Several persons were injured today when the police fired several rounds to disperse rioters in old Delhi after a clash between Sikhs and Muslims. The Muslim League is observing "Pakistan Day."—Reuter.
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    Berlin Had 186 Food Worry Suicides
    56 5 Reuter. HAMBURG, Mar. 23.— Food anxieties caused 18«» people in Berlin to commit suicide during January and February, the Berlin Police Olice announced. The total number of suicides dnrirr; this period was 333. Love troubles caused 14 women and five men to commit suicide
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    Intellectuals 'Disappear' in Shanghai
    87 5 U.P. SHANGHAI. Mar. 23. A group including John W. Powell, son of the late J. B. Powelland. currently publisher and cdi or of the China Weekly Review, and leading Chinese L berals including Chang Haishi. has Drotested to Mayor K. W. Wu against the disappearances of
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    ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR FAR EAST
    69 5 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS. Mar. 22.— Britain proposed today that certain non-self-governing territories in Asia should be admitted as "associate members" of the proposed economic commission for Asia and Far East whose terms of reference are now being discussed by the economic committee. The Indian, French,
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    SAIGON WILL TRY VIETNAM DELEGATE
    59 5 U.P. Marseilles, Mar. 23.—Vie namese delegate in France, Duong Bach Ma who was arres ed three days ago in his Paris Hotel, left Marse.lles by ship las night for Saigon. Duong, who was brought from Paris to Marseilles yesterday, w 11 be tried in Tndo-China
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    32 5 U.P. Le Havre, Mar. 23.—A fire of an unknown origin dcs royed all but 10 i ent of 10,000 bales of cot on m a port wharehcuse here on Sa urday night.—v.P.
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    Precautions against the cold weather Mr. Peter untitled Thomas, the Cambric ge Boat Race untitled smarts a fur teat tar his duties with the • *t\ .i th« Tideway.
    28 5 Precautions against the cold weather Mr. Peter untitled Thomas, the Cambric ge Boat Race untitled smarts a fur teat tar his duties with the *t\ .i th« Tideway.
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    'HIGHEST HONOURS' ASKED FOR MUSSOLINI'S SLAYER
    128 5 U.P. ROME. Mar. 22.-The Communi-t Party organ Unit a admitted today that the my>teriou- partisan figure Colonel Valeiio who fired the -hot that killed Bonito was the 38-year old Communist, Walter Audita, and -aid the Party would demand that lie be given th. highest
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    Wonder Horse Sets Up New Record
    96 5 Reuter. MAIMI. Florida, Mar 22— T"wonder hor-e Armed, by Bull Lea out of Armful. broke the track refold to win the $25,l r Gulf Stream Handicap today. Th e victory returned Armed to the racing limelight after an eclipse resulting from a disappointing performance
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    9 Children To Die In Madrid
    91 5 Reuter. London. March 23.—Nine young I people al] 'inder 16 are now a- wa.ting ex cution in Madrid, a report presented in London to I the general meeting of the Internation Youth Council in Bri- tain declarel. The meeting appointed a deputation of five
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    'FORCET-FORGIVE' ENDS IN RIOT
    46 5 London, Mar. 22 —About 1,000 ex-Fasc sts and ex-partisans noted for more than an hour at Rome Universuy after a forget-ar.d-»forg.ve speaker had been heckled! Squadrons of police stopped the bat.le and removed ten of he njure J, but made no arres's.
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    26 5 Sir George R. No jay has resigned the chairmanship jf Berk- County Council Mi. H A. Benyon, elected in his place, is Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.
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    Indian Printers' Association
    168 5 At a meeting of the Commute? of the Singapore Indian Printers' Association. held yesterday I at No. 20 KL-ng Road, under the J chairmanship ol ttW President. I Mr. A S. Rajah, the following reshuffle in office-bearers was made: Mr. N. Nakeeran was eiected to act as
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    ALBANIAN MPs MURDERED
    80 5 Reuter. Belgrade, Mar. 23. —Tvvo memI bers of Albanian Parliament, members oi Bektashi, in'-er-naiicnal Moslem religious sect, have been murdered because of d fferences about "cer.ain reforms ihey were proposing to introduce into the sect," accordj ing to press dispa ches from j Tirana reaching here. Their
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    26 5 Reuter. BATAVIA Mar. 22,-Abdul Munim, Egyptian Consul General in Bombay, after spending one week In Indonesia, left yesterday for Singapore i n lis way to Egypt.—Reuter.
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    Another M. P. Coming Here
    157 5 Reuter. COLOMBO. Mar. 23.—Member of Parliament Vernon Bartlett, now in Colombo on three week>' visit to Ceykx* expressed the hope today that the recent eh ing e in Uniied States policy to Russia did not mean abandonment by the United States Secretary ot State Manhall
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    U.S. Rubber Workers' Strike Averted
    156 5 U.P. CLEVELAND, Mar. 23.—A nationwide strike that would have rendered idle 100,000 rubber workers was averted after an eleventh hour conference between CIO United Rubber Workers and the Big Four company officials ended in an agreement on the issue—a wage dispute. A Union spokesman said
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    LANCASTER CASUALTIES NAMED
    130 5 Reuter. I. nd £ar. 22. -The seven occupants r an RAF Lancaster which cra.-oi d into the sea about 50 m:ks north ol Ireland on Thursday night have been listed ay "kilied' 1 or 'missing, beiived killed." The remaining two occupants ;-re .-enously injured. "Missing believed killed
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    Giant 'Eye' Ready This Year-End
    81 5 NEW YORK. Mar. 22. —The Rockefelkr foundation disclosed today that a 200-inch 530-ton telescope at Mt. Palomer, California, that is expected to enable a man to neer twice farther into th? universe than heretofore, will be in operation by the end of this year. The
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    HOUSE REQUISITIONING ANGERS GERMANS
    49 5 U.P. DUSSELDORF, Mar 23-A demonstration of 350 Germans against the recent requisitioning of their homes for the British Army of Occupation families was carried out here today. The demonstrators conducted themselvc- in an orderly manner with several carrying placardwhich read "We Want Our Houses Back."—UP
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    Warning To Burma's 'No Tax' Campaigners
    148 5 Rangoon, Mar. 23. —U. Aung San, Deputy Chairman of the Inter m Government, today issued a s crn warning against "no tax campaigners in Burma. He appealed to Burmese peasantry no- to heed poih cal ag tators wbo -ried to dssuade i them from
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    Shot 1942—Died 1947
    42 5 LONDON. Mar 22. A 1942 bullet wound received in the North Africa campaign caused the death of John Hughes, 34--i year-old club secretary, of Cami bridge-street. S.W., the HamI mersmith coroner decided. Ver- diet: Death due to War Injuries.
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    RUBBER SHARES ACTIVE ON STOCK EXCHANGE
    190 5 Lon.lt ii, Mar 21. -Closing s ages of the week brought no relief in Ihe way cf improvement c- ther .is regards puces or fcntiment. Sorrx fur-her s zeable falls in British Go •ernmenl stocks brought pr ces of o-her ca.mts'ic issues down in
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    PRODUCE MARKETS
    345 6 Prices a noted beiow are per picul weight except where otherwise stated. Foodstuffs:—Yesterday's quotation* were "Meehoon": Kedah '$7C: Siam No. 1 $90: Tndo-China $70. Rice: Siam No. 1 $94: No. 2 $88: Rangoon $60. GluMnuous rice: 81am No. 1 $75: Rangoon $50 Rock 5-uga r :—s7o. 'Gula" Malacca:
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    NEHRU'S AIRPORT GREETING TO MOUNTBATTENS-Happy Symbol
    295 6 POSSIBLE ADVANCE OF 'QUIT INDIA' DATE NEW DELHI. Mar. 23.- Rear-Admiral Viscount Mountbatten, Viceroy-DesignuU. and Lady Mountbatten .found Pandit Nehru wailing to greet them when they landed at tK I yal Air Force airfield at Palam, ten miles from here, yesterday aiternoon. Pandit Nehru's
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    Mass Arrests In Russian Zone
    62 6 U.P. BERLIN, Mar. 23.—The American—licensed German newspaper Der Abend, reported today, without giving its source of information, that a new wave of unexplained "mass arrests" had been going on in key cities in the Russian zone. It said that some Berlin students had also been
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    ANOTHER LOAN-OR EAT LESS
    91 6 U.P. London. Mar. 23 —Capt. Raymond Blackburn, a Labour M P., said on Saturday night that unless Britain increased her export, considerably, she would have to either seek another loan from America in 1948 or eat less food, smoke less and accept a lowered standard oi
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    In-Law (2nd Class)
    23 6 MUNICH, Mar. Fritz Brajm, schoolteacher father of Eva Braun, who married Hitler, is to be tried as a second-class Nazi.
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    Coalition Government Plan For China
    201 6 Reuter. NANKING, Mar. 23. A twelve-point plan for the organisation of China's present one-party Government was unanimously agreed by the Kuomintang, Young China and Socialist Democratic Parties at a further closed session yesterday afternoon. Reuter learned from a reliable source today. A unified foreign policy,
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    YALTA SECRETS WILL ALL BE OUT SOON
    280 6 Reuter. LONDON Mar. 22.—The Washington decision to publish at last the full texts of the agreements reached by Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union at Yalta in February 1945 and at Potsdam in August 1945, refers to the decision to is>ue
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    Villages Inundated In Europe
    202 6 Reuter and U.P. Berlin, Mar. 23.—Many villages were flooded and people marooned on the roofs of their houses when the dyke collapsed from ice pressure on the Od:r River last night near Kuestrin. 50 mites east ol Berlin. Road and railway connections with Kuestrin have been
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    EXCITING FINISH AT SRC
    216 7 in yeen a draw Oi nan w win tarw Recreation for ti f e ated the XI by a marC [cket ma ten P.... v s-erday. fivi Minutes to re down by th< combined lubert and R. .r 15 runs mgj total of mifRINED CHANGH XI.
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    800,000 WELCOME FULLEST SOCCER DAY SINCE FEB, 1
    765 7 LONDON, Mar. 22.—1n spite of rain, high wind and thunderstorm at Stockport, about 800,000 spectators welcomed the fullest day of English League soccer since February 1. The aftermath of the wintry spell caused the Nottingham Forest game to be called off through
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    Riggs Win Two World Titles
    69 7 U.P. Philadelphia. Mar. 23.-Bobby Riggs won two world's indoor professional tennis titles when he annexed the singles crownfrom Donald Budge and teamed with Budge to defeat the top-ranking Fred Perry and Frank Kovacs for the doubles title. Riggs beat Budge in straight sets 6—l. B—6.
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    Chinese Sports Association
    113 7 The Chinee Sports Association celebrated their seventeenth anniversary yesterday at their own premises, 35, Ann Siang Foad, and the function terminated with a dinner at which over a hundred members and guests were present. At the general meeting, the following were elected officebearers for the current year:—
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    Charlton May Be Demoted With Leeds
    443 7 'Bl Archie Quick*. I rst rw N n a Club's nee depends lined it becomes 13 match v played logged that i on whether ball oi misses it. v happened at the nton-Hudd rs-'rus-ijijn were ,wo sides f) k "i future life in Di-
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    WELSHMEN SURPRISE FRENCH XV
    180 7 Reuter. PARIS, Ma> 23--Wale* kept In the runnizig for the International Rugby Union championship j hunour* with a brilliant victory I over the hitherto unbeaten French team before a capacity crowd at Colombe- Stadium here yesterday afternoon by three points to nil. A penalty goal kicked
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    RVS SUNDRAM TAKES 6 FOR 16
    405 7 Low-Scoring Game On Padang The Ceylon Sports Club was deieated by the Singapore Cricket Club by 31 runs in a two-day cricket match played on the Padang during tne week-end. Play was stopped on Saturday aft-ernoon owing to rain when the Ceylone>e. who op:ned
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    C.Y.M.A. PLAN EASTER PICNIC
    49 7 Tne Catholic Young Men i Association (Church of ''t Peter and St. Paul) plan to hold their annual picnic at Ri s on J Easter Monday, Apr. 7. and member* interested arf requited to get in touch with hop secretary on oi before Ma 30.
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    Airborne Sheep
    85 7 U.P. SHANGHAI, Mar. 23. The first airborne xhee;p in China—2s pedigree New Zealand rams and ewes— left the local airport yesterday aboard a CNRRA transport plane fcr a 1,200 mile flight to Lanchow enreute to Kansu Province. The sheep, all blueUooded Corriedale aristocrats, wer.-' brought to China as
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    'General Markos' Contacted
    205 7 U.P. Salonika. March 23.—'General Markos" Greek guerilla leader for whose evidence United Nations team of Investigators vainly journeyed through the border mountains on muleback and by foot declares he believed they were tricked" into going to the wrong place. This was stated on the return to Salonika
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    'Mr. Kho' Played Tennis For Fun
    222 7 LONEJON —Kho Sin Kie. little Chinese tennis player, who was known to Wimbledon fans as "Mr. Kho,' is dead. He was 33. Though he captained China's DavK Cup team and was twic: British hard courts singles cnampion, he regarded tennis only as a pastime.
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    Army Soccer Cup Final
    50 7 Reuter. ALDERSHOT. Mar 22— The Army Soccer Cup final oetween the Royal Engineers (Barton Stacey) and the Second Batai lion, Coldstream Guards (London) will be played on ihe Command central ground here next Wednesday. The winner wv» meet ihe BAOR, the champion.* for the Army Cup.—Reutet
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    32 7 OTTAWA, Mar. —Additionat gradation lines have had to be scratched on the thermometer at Yukon's Snag Airport, where the temperature is 114.6 degrees below freezing, a new record low for North America.
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    INTERNATIONAL PLAYER'S BIG PART IN WATERLOO'S WIN
    462 7 Home Rugby Reuter. LONDON, Mar. 22. Jack Heaton, England international centre and captain, played a big part in the success of Waterloo over St. Mary's Hospital today. Waterloo scored all the r eleven pointy in an inspired quarter hour during tn second hail
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    BOXING ROW OVER TITLE
    173 7 PARIS —A sensational meeting of the European Boxing Association was called in Paris recently and, as a result, the fight at the Pare dcs Expositions in whicn Marcel Cerdan, golden-toothed French middle-weight champion, knocked out Leon Fouquet, the Belgian champion, in two minutes six seconds, may
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    Smallpox Rages In Rangoon
    93 7 Reuter. Rangoon, Mar. 22.—The smallpox epidemic in Rangoon is expected to reach it-, peak, it is learned today from competent authorities of the Public Health Department. The present death rate In the city is 110 weekly against 70 during the corresponding period last year. Three hundred
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    Troops Patrol Rawalpindi
    63 7 Lahore March 23.—Further improvement in the communal situation wa- reported in a communique from Punjab. Troops were ordered out at Rawalpindi f"r patr"l duties and to aid i.i zarrying out searches. The situation in th. Hazara district of Northeast Frontier Province appears to have deteriorated. Troops have
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    HAPPY WORLD BADMINTON
    59 7 tmttmfw 'Will represent the Mayflower B.P. in a game oi 3 fckAffies and 2 uouoies against the Dapat B.P. of Johore on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Happy World Covered Stadium:-Wong Peng Soon. Wong Cho n g Teck, Low Scan Chuan. Seah Eng Liai. Lav Teng
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    B.B.C. OFFICIALS ACCEPTED MANY GIFTS—BUT NO CORRUPTION
    502 8 "Plug Money A Pernicious And Degrading Practice'' Inquiry Findings: "Music Director Unwise" U.P. Lcndon, Mar. 23. —Sir Valentine Holmes reported today tliat British Bi.oadcastinc Corporation officials ha ."e ficc* pted thousands ot dollars in gifts, langing from gold c^tTe'tes ca >cs to fur
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    Nazi Generals Now Cowshed Cleaners
    146 8 Reuter. LONDON. Mar. 23.—Top-rank-ing German Generals and Admirals, who "one? hoped to become pro-consuls of Hitler in the British Empire" and who once commanded thousands of men during the war are now cleaning cowsheds in farm* around their prisoner-of-war camp in Wales, report, the Sunday
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    8 8 Removing Anderson shelters in Bermeadscy has cost £3.988.
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    INDIANS FORGET BOYCOTT, WELCOME THEIR MAJESTIES
    252 8 Reuter. (From Loui- Wuiff) With the Royal Train. South Africa. Mar. 23. The boycott of the Royal visit to Durban by Indians was an almost complete failure today when an Indian gathering at Curries Field gave the King and Queen an enthusiastic welcome. Numbers
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    UNBURIED, YOGI FLIES BY CAR
    127 8 Reuter. BOMBAY, iMar. 21. —Shri Ramanand Swami, a yogi from the Himalayas fled by ear from an as embly oi 5,00 people her** toni?h. with h»s demonstration »f "samadhi" (yogic trance) left unecmnletei after the crowd has stamDeded and almost demolishnl the platform in their
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    NOBEL PRIZES FREE FROM TAXATION
    76 8 Reuter. Stockholm. Mar. 22.—Nobel prizes are to be incr.ased from £3 680 to £10.536 because the Swedish Government has exempted the prize from taxation, the Nobel Prize Foundation announced today. Th? Pope. Gandhi and Sir John Boyd Orr. British Chairman of the United Nations Food
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    Prince Regent Arrives For Big 'Chase
    98 8 U.P. LIVERPOOL. Mar. 2Y -Prince Regent, Irish favourite for next Saturday's Grand National Steeplechase, was taken into custory by the police today. I af t*r a night crossing from Emerald Isle with stable com- panions Keep Faith and Brickbat. The horse was not arrested
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    41 8 Chcodes and letters of thanks have been sen* by the Southern Railway to three employees of Catforu Greyhound Stadium, Mr. A. Peaple, Mr J Vagg. and Mr T. Jones, for their rescue work at the train crash at Catford in September.
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    US. Reveals Secrets On Greece, Turkey
    309 8 Reuter. Washington. Mar. 23. —Secret documents whi c h were put before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives in support of the Administration's programme of aid to Greece and I'urkey in resisting totalitarian coercion were made available to the
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    MARCH 31 DEADLINE
    49 8 U.P. Washington. Mar. 23. The Sena c minor ty leader. Albea Barkley. predicted hat the leglela' on o provide $400,000.000 aid to Greece and Turkey will no' be passed by Maich 31 riead--1 ne when Brl am intends ;o end its economic helo to Greece. U.P.
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    2 To 1 Support Truman Aid Plan
    52 8 U.P. NEW YORK. Mar. 23 —Americans in a ratio of two to one, favour Truman's plans to a d Greece, according: to a Gallup Pell—;he firs: sanrnle of national opinion on this issue. A smaller percentage also tori catel their anproval for aid
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    Soccer On Snow Carpet....
    38 8 MIDHTJR6T, Id* Chelsea keeptr. twists in an effort to stop the ball going into the net vCT.en Dick scored the seccna goal for Blackpool at £tamfcrd Bridge. Note the MOW blanket on the Meld.
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    29 8 Boundary of Middlesex and Surrey at points between Egham and Meworth will be altered if a Joint reque>t from the two County Councils is approved oy tne Boundary Commission.
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    Nehru Calls For New Asia Union
    433 8 NEW DELHI, March 23.—Pandit Jawanarlal N head of India's Interim Government, today called Union of Asiatic Nations to insure world peace and thai own prosperity. Standing in the shadows of crumbling walls of the 400-year-old Purana Quilla "Old Fort" the former Congress Party President
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    THE ENGLISH MUST GO-AND AMERICANS MUST NOT COME
    288 8 Greek Rebel Leader's View Reuter. SALONIKA, Iftr. 23.—"The Engli.-h mu4 go and the American mv t Wit cm, if there is to be peace in Greece." Thai urns up what General Markos, who calls himself Commando of-Chief of Uie Greek rebel army,
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      100 8 TODAY'S I WEATHER REPORT Pence's Singapore weather forecast for 24 hours from noon today, compiled by the R.A.F. Central Forecasting Station, Air Command, Far East: Long bright periods this afternoon with very scattered hewers dying cut during the evennig. Fine tonight and fair tomorrow morning. Wind: Light northerly this aftemcn.
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