Malaya Tribune, 8 October 1947

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1 8 Malaya Tribune
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    60 1 The Malaya Tribune bY THE PEOPLE FQg THE PEOPLE Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper In Malaya Now printed simultaneously in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang 'Phone 5811 (Three Lines) Ml •SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1947 i PRICE TEN CENTS The Malaya Tribune London Agents: Messrs. Cohn Turner Ltd., Talbot
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    Dutch Pay $65,800 To Local Chinese
    123 1 Dutch C nsulate yeet?r i senc 5 E ton eai arj of tne C unes ImAssocia- ties paid I ,rec vessels njt«cg I >• 800 to Chop Chop Sum n Ens Tr;»d. Kjv Cheong O jues wei made out to mtrid a! a Chop
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    Communism Rears Head In India
    467 1 U.P. 7.—Evidence available here today c Communist Party is emerging as the singie factor in the Indian political here is every likelihood of the Indian Union Republic independent of the British before the e.iij of this year^ Offtetff report* from Delhi say the Ind an
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    Costly Kisses
    64 1 SHANGHAI. Oct. 7- The Chinese press today published two items of pol ce r^ws: Firs' lv, a ycurqr bethrothed couple were hrowp into a po" lice detention house for four hours for kissin? on a not soc'eserted street; secondly, youths were lodged ir< a station overnight for applauding
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    Only 15 Minutes'
    61 1 D AGO Oct. 7 A Laboui er of :he British Kiment sakl Englard 'may I arrive about 15 m r ute> in a war." fcnrj C U ben c. who H •rag the United Stages »n apport oi a plan fcr world govBtvnt, said Luropcj greatest I*
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    DECISIVE STAGE"
    19 1 nm Oct 7.—Trade Ulka in n Czech., Slovakia and v decisive stage, k N< Agency said PaHhakr
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    SHOT ON MURDER
    18 1 JRK 0 7.—Radio Italian frontier ar -d nen trvuij: :i; 3;r rder from Turkey on
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    SWISS REDS HELD
    36 1 1-- inn 7-a leader of the 1 < Rist Labour Party th Town Coun--1 as arretted last was reported in Berne toatJr,_ otbq Wrty officers were I V d U hnv o^ ll arrested.
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    SAFE IN MONASTERY
    30 1 Reuter. Oct 7 -Polish art Ok* the Ro Va Castle of r s, nt to Canada the war< are in Quebec City. tofc/HJ from re 'iable sources
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    US POPULATION UP
    55 1 U.P. N Stati n rt 7 The 2-279 ooo p r u at ion increased 1,1 historv^,u yea f~ the lar S?st r "(i. On T e C n sus Bureau 7 a '!0n 1 total po- ''*000 r »L O0O about 1 1940 Ll reDor ted
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    SOUTH AFRICA TELLS UNITED NATIONS: "HANDS OFF"
    632 1 Rejects "Meddling In Internal Affairs" U.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 7.-South Africa Sternly rejected any United Nations moddling in its internal alt'airs as tne General Assembly's Trusteeship Com mi.tee cpday resumed the debate on South West Africa wiih consideration of two resolutions recently submitted
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    DEAD WOMAN GIVES BIRTH
    117 1 U.P. KYOTO. Oct. 7.—The case jof a dead woman giving bir r h 1 to a still-born child in her cof. fir. is reported in the Japanese press. Scientists at Kyoto medical college said that it was the first incident of its kind *ince j German
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    FATALLY STABBED
    30 1 Reuter. LUCKNOW. Oct. 7 —Shaft Adhmad Kidwai. younger brother of Ragi Ahmed Kidwai. Indian Minister for i Communications, was fatally stabbed 1 at Mussoorie. United Provinces, toi day.—Reuter.
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    Palestine Partition Plan A 'Physical Monstrosity'
    310 1 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, New York, Oct. 7—Sir Zafrullah Khan told the United Nations Palestine Committee today that the oroposed oartition plan for Palestine was physically and geographically a monstrosity." He added that the plan ha: glaring inquities and was tho roughly inequitable. Palestine confronted
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    Hunger Strike
    71 1 Reuter. SHANGHAI, Oct. 6.—Over 2,000 factory workers in Hangchow. Chekiang Provincial capital about 100 miles south of Shanghai are reported to have gone on a hunger strike in protest against the discharge of seven workers. According to Chinese press reports received here today the seven workers were dismissed
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    WANTS SAAR PLEBISCITE
    32 1 Reuter. HAMBURG. Oct 7.—Herr Willi Eichler. Chairman of the German Social Democrat Party, today advocated la plebiscite ik the Saar to decide to what state it wanted to belong.—Reuter.
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    TURKEY'S QUAKE
    38 1 Reuter. THE HAGUE. Oct. 7. An "eytraordinarily severe" earthauake believed to have been rear Smyrna, Western Turkey, was rergistered by the Dutch Meteorological Institute here at 9 p.m. GMT last right, it was learned today. —Reuter.
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    CHOLERA TOLL UP
    39 1 U.P. CAIRO. Oct. 7.—Ar. official communinue reported 37 more cholerA victims djed in th? delta provinces within ihe past 24 hours, as specially-equipped planes sprayed Cairo with DDT to hp'o samp out the epidemic. —U.P. I
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    SUGAR PRICE SLUMPS
    167 1 (Tr;bune Staff Reporter). White sugar of the quality of the Java white varieties, being now quoted at $60 a picul for the best on the local market, has slumped to a new record low. Ever since world distribution of white sugar lay ir the hands of the
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    Raid Gets Pistol
    31 1 iTr.bune Staff Reporter) Raiding a house i n Amoy St early this morning detectives of the Hokkien Sub-branch. CI.D. discovered one Browning automatic pistol. No arrests wer? made.
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    Robot Flight
    58 1 U.P. LONDON. Oct. 7 —The American C-54 Skymaster. which made air history by crossing tne Atlantic without human aid, took off for Stephenville, Newfoundlard at 0605 GMT, on IW return "robot" flying. The giant four-engined transport roared off \he ruraway at Field, near Chipperham, Wiltshire, and headed with
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    SIAMESE AIR MISSION DUE HERE TODAY
    48 1 Air Marshal Luar.g Devaridhi Panluk ard members of the Royal Siamese Air mis. sion will be arriving at Changi airfield early this afternoon for a 3-day stay as the guests of the RAF, at the invitation of the Air Commander, Far East.
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    PLOT PROBE ENDS
    64 1 Reuter. PRAGUE. Oct. 7.—The i n vestigation irto the alleged Slovak plot to break up the Czechoslovak Republic and set uo an independent Slovak state has row ended, it war officially announced here today. Of the 380 people originally arrested, 237 were still detained 85 would be
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    ATTLEE ENTERTAINS
    44 1 Reuter. LONDON, Oct. 7.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attiee, today gave a luncheon ct his official residence, 10 Downing Street, in honour of the Bur. mese economic delegation now in Britain in connection with the transfer of power to Burma in January.—Reuter.
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    FOR CANCER RESEARCH
    28 1 U.P. CHICAGO, Oct. 7 —The University of Chicago announced a U555,150,000 programme to ex. pand its facilities to apply atomic resources to career research. —U.P.
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    LOCK-OUT OFF
    24 1 Reuter. ROME, Oct- 7 —The Italian Newspaper Proprietors Associa. tion called off their lock-out io" day after intervention by the Government. —Reuter.
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    JUNAGADH: PAKISTAN SAYS "NO" TO INDIA
    238 1 Reuter. KARACHI, Oct. 7. Pakistan Government said tonight that the small state of Junagadh had acceded to Pakistan voluntarily and .he Government would not recognise anybody's right to interfere with their freedom. Pakistan was replying to Indian Government's announcement that it could not accept
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    Critical Days Of India Govt.
    143 1 AN INSIDE STORY TOLD LONDON, Oct. 7.—lt can be revealed today that the Indian Government was on the verge of collapse two weeks after its birth and was saved by the formation Ol an Emergency Committee headed by GovernorGeneral Mountbatten. Communal riots spreading from Punjab
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    Bahawalpur Goes Pakistan
    66 1 Reuter. KARACHI. Oct. 7.—Bahawalpur State, one of 45 states and estates in Punjal.. has acceded to the Dominion of Pakistan, the Pakistan foreign Affairs Ministry announced ♦onight. Bounded on the southwest by Sind and an the northwest by the Indus and Sutlej Rivers, Bahawalpur State Covers an
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    Police Offer $5,000 Reward
    497 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) 'I lie Johore Bahru Police are offering a reward ol $5,000 for information leading to the arrest of the oan~ dits who held up a European planter, Mr. Archibald Nicolson, and his wife on ivionday night on the Johore Bahru—Pontian Road, with fatal
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    “STAR-QUOTES” VERONICA LAKE
    242 3 QUESTION: B y rMM ilily.' 7 .t>!<//7 (If 9P** MM4 ealI K ,ie* oi 'he in yew ~.>„ tne to disilluaion illy what in front i V horrible truth hei la me. her ishand. Don't tell you all i in balancing There's no head and My my
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    GOVT. OFFICIALS HECKLED AT HONGKONG STRIKE MEETING
    447 3 Air Mail).— j in the kdi tics Strike, aftoi parley between I•: jrei md officials ers Inst: presided I missii ncr oi B. C K. Hawkins, parties to* keir recent accept faso] nt. basii time basis »ekyard em- that thlj -.-.-v could r.i
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    HK AIRMAN IN JEEP CRASH
    62 3 HONGKONG <By A r Mail) Aircraftman Pollard, of 06/ i (R.A.F.) Unit, was admitted to the British Military Hospital recently sufferins from severe bruises ar.d slight shock. He was detained overnight. Pollard was driving jeĕp j *****0 on Tai Hang Road rear I Causeway Bay
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    The New Rents
    1005 4 There has been some misunderstanding concemi.ig the rights and obligations of tenants under the new Jaw under which i certain increases in rents are authorised, and tenants would do well to put themselves in possession of all the information available on the subject. Gone are the happy
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    MALAYANS to TALK A BOUT
    1719 4 SINGAPOREANS SPENT HONEYMOON IN FLIGHT t BORN in a village in Foochow. 1 Mr. Cheng Hui Ming. Asst. Secretary for Chinese Affairs, startt ed his career in the Government 3 the day he arrived in Singapore in 1927 and for 20 years served i in
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    Malays A nd Other Muslims
    350 4 S.r.—For four days in succession last week the local Malay daily newspaper, the "Utusan Melayu" hud commented on the revival of the Singapore Muslim Advisory Board and the appoint ment of Malays. Arabs and Indian Muslims as members to serve on it. And on Saturday.
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    OF MICE & MEN
    379 4 OF MICE MEN S 'ately; the- "53 I I asked modesty, b^^^M **g a cia; estimate vote, then Vs \to school." 1 iM 1 t CROIIWELI '.v t tion have caused v I the i was Spired even the £J«J i tooK up the Oidg^S*j3 1 that official rn.-s 111
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    Cabinet Reshuffle Shows Attlee Determined To Defy The Left
    1157 5 6 Senior 6 Junior Ministers Dismissed Reuter. 7 P M 11^ 1 Corresp< nd€nt > i mi nation tn rime Minister Attlee's deterI ing his Government' 6me left win Pressure in reform- safe Brttish Gc™rnmmTreshii°m tralSd by the whole l 7?
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    Uranium Soon From South Australia
    114 5 A.I.S MELBOURNE. Oct. 6.—Uranium production in South Australia is neanng development, according to the State Premier, Mr. Playford He declared that discoveries made at Radium Hill in the north-east part of South Australia had revealed possibilities that could not have been believed to exist when
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    TRAFFIC COP ARRESTS PICKPOCKET
    98 5 I Prom Our Own Reporter) Malacca. Oct. 7 Two youthful Chinese who picked the pockets of a Ch.nese planter from Negri Sembihin while he was waiting for a bus at a Malacca bus stand were promptly apprehended through the efforts of a traffic constable on duty
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    Jet Engines Made In Australia
    114 5 (A.I.S.). Melbourne. Oct. 6.—Production of Rolls Royce jet-engines has begun in Australia. A spokesman for the aircraft division of the Munitions Dept. said that the first Australian jetengines will be completed some time next year. Sixty o'. the engines had been ordered for the Royal
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    NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR AUSTRALIAN-MADE GOODS
    189 5 (A.I.S.) MELBOURNE. Oct. 6.-Steps I are being taker, to set up na--1 tional standards for Australian j manufactured goods wi b penali ties for infringemerts of those standards. Work has already begun on equipping national testirg laboratories and preparation of individual minimum standards. The scheme
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    Women Teachers For Japan
    84 5 (A.I.S.). Melbourne, Oct. 6. —Army Headquarters has announced in Melbourne that six civilian women school teachers will be sent soon to Japan. They will work In schools Tor children of troops of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force. Another 3 teachers will go to Japan during December.
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    Red Successes In China
    93 5 Reuter. NANKING. Oct. 7. Military observers here said today that Communists successfully attacked the Government salient in Manchuria and isolated Szepinkai I Government strong-hold midway between Changchun and Mukden and cut the Government's front in four places— Liaoyang and Haichen area south of Mukden, Chinhi to
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    CHIANG CONFERS WITH GENERALS
    107 5 PEIPING, Oct. 7 —Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek began another round confererce with too North China generals including the airforce commard In a busv schedule which left him r.o time for public appearances or press interviews. Chiang visited the western hills to nay respects before Sun Yat
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    Police Follow Up Tribune Report, Smash Armed Gang
    491 6 From Our Own Reporter Ipoh, Oct. 7.—The abductian cf a young Chines? from a well to-do local tamUy. published in the sfajaya Tribune, enabled the police, who had not been r.forrmu of ihe natter to trace two alleged members Of a gang
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    No Postal Strike
    234 6 (From Our Own Reporter). KUALA. LUMPUR. Oct. 7 The strike ot Postal and Telecommunications unitormcd staff scheduled for tomorrow morning has been deferred in order to enable a deputation from the Uniformed Stalls Union to meet the Deputy Chiet Secretary. The President of the Penang Uniformed Staffs
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    39 6 Reuter. LONDON. Oct. 7:—A licence to work a nrinc I» the 1 ack garden has l>ee" granted by the Coal Board to Branwell Arthur Pash'.cy, of Caldcr Grove, Yorkshire. Forty feet down. Pashley had foucd a three-foot six-irn-h- seam.—Route.J.
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    Britisher Gets Jail On Bank-Cheating Charge
    106 6 Frank Vandersmaght Beven, aged 47, described as a Britisher of 77. Meyer Road, Singapore, was sentenced by the First District Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks, to U months' rigorous imprisonment for attempting to cheat the National City Bank of New York here by using
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    Movie Pioneer Arrives
    180 6 Mr. Seymour R. Mayor. World Director of Sales and Distribution for Metro-Gold. wyr-Mayor's 16 mm. film, arrived in Singapore by air i rom Australia this morning. Mr. Mayer's visit to Singapore and Malaya will Include a thorough survey of this territory. Main obiect of the tour is
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    PRINTERS' UNION
    112 6 At an Executive Committee meeting of the Singapore Printers* Union held at the Union's premises (No. 34, Sit Wah Road) on Oct. 5, a sub-committee was formed to study the working conditions and the standard of living of its members. The following were elected to serve on the
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    REMEMBRANCE DAY
    26 6 His Majesty has approved of Remembrance Day being observed in this country on Sunday, November 9th. Arrar«gements will b* 1 on line of last
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    "ALL OUT" COMMUNIST OFFENSIVE
    155 6 SHANGHAI. Oct- 7. —The Ccmmur.ist North Shersi Radio 'in a broadcast today claimed I that the Red's autumn offensive I following two months rest has now reached "all out" propor. tion in two wide areas. It said the first stußc of the autumn offensive began in
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    HUNGER STRIKE
    31 6 U.P. SHANGHAI. Oct.. 7—Two-thousand employees of the Harurchow Department stores silk factories have called a hunger strike in protest again t the discharge of seven workers "without reason. I—U.P.
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    Girl (18) Gets Six Months For Perjury
    252 6 fFrom Our Own Reporter). EPOH. Oct- 7.—"The offence of perjury is far to common in this country, and you have caused a great deal of inconvenience and trouble to the Police and different persons concerned," said the Hop. Mr. Justice Cox Evans to
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    Princess Elizabeth Stamp Approved
    107 6 (A. I Melbourne. Oct. 3.—Royal assent has b<e.i given for a portrait Of Princ :ss Elizabeth to be used en a new issue o" Australian stamps. Printing of the stamp Is expected to begin sonn. The Postmaster Gtneral. Sen ator Cameron, said tha* th; design of
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    Forgery Sentence Reduced
    35 6 App« ..ring before the Singapore Court of Criminal Apoeul yesterday morning. Webster Noordin. who was sentenced to years' rigorous Imprisonment for "orgery, had his sentence reduced to t vo years rigorous imprisonment.
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    CHINA DOLLAR HITS NEW LOW
    77 6 Reuter. SHANGHAI. Oct. 7. Food stuffs, commodities and foreign and Chinese stocks and climbed to new heights today as the Chinese dollar continued its downward skid. Although the Central Bank of China surprisingly made no change in the open market rates. Chinese National currency in
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    $60 Million Canada Loan To China
    83 6 Reuter. Nanking-. Oct. 7—The Legislative Yuan this afternoon rati fled a Canadian $60,000,000 loan to China. During t:c war the Canadian Government made a gift to China ol munitions and supplies but when war terminat d the Canadian and Chinese Governments concluded agreement for
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    Detective Tells Of Gun Battle In Street
    253 6 How on hearing cries of "Robber! Robber!" two Chinese detectives jumped off a trolley-bus at the junction of Carpenter Road and South Bridge Road, and were confronted by a Chinese gunman, who whipped out his revolver and fired a shot at one of
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    SHBSA PRESENT ULTIMATUM ON BACK PAY & LIVING ALLOWANCE
    164 6 SHBSA PRESENT ULTIMATUM ON BACK PAY LIVING ALLOWANCE Tribune Staff Reporter •The Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association yesterday served notice en the Board, giving it for weeks from yesterday to settle the den relatin? to back pay and increased living allowance. Failing satisfactory reply within the stipulated period (says a
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    Selections, Card For Today's Races
    772 7 Plash and luif Club October Mooting which will hfayjwrsd by pood eoing. Punter; will todI Lat^difficulty to-dav m view of the fmt u» i ~i event competition is very strong. every Altogether 20 hers/a have been 1 scratched inciudin» v p lot fH m trainer
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    Final Selections
    55 7 v am z^s (From Our Own Reporter) Race 1- NEW ERA, Lena Dear. Race 2 KANDA. Fercltth. Race LUCK ACE, Affable. Race I—BRONZE FLASH, Evloyism. Rice S—NORTHWELL,5 NORTHWELL, Spear Mirth. Race G BLUE BOY, Fh/inn Fortress. Race 7 RED HACKLE, Tretes. Race 8 -SLIKENESS, Un'corn. Race 0 PER
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    Weights for Third Day
    228 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 7. Following arc the handicaps for four races for the third day of the Selangor Races: Horses: Class 1—1? Miles 1 3 2 Grand Fri.\ P 9.09 0 0 4 DRB 9.07 2 0 0 Kingsford 7.13 0 0 1 Jackpot 7.09 0
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    Shanghai Soccer Team Here: Plays Army Today
    345 7 C Tribune Staf. Reporter The Shanghai Combined Chinese Soccer team arrived from Bangkok yesterday at 5 p.m. by Pacific Airways plane to play nve matches In Singapore ana two in Kuala Lnmpur agaln t ihp Se &th •ft^K^SWr 8 no ta Swemb» against
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    Spore Olympic & Sports Committee
    68 7 Spore Olympic Sports Committee I A meeting of the Committee of Management of tho Singapore j Olympic and Sport* Commute" i will bn held at Ihe YMCA today ;It sl>o p.m. The meeting v.;u lecoive tiie reI port 3 of suo-comraiUtes on meotj inga witn tae iSAFA ami methods of
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    TO-DAY'S SPORTS
    22 7 SOCCER Shanghai Team vs. Aimy. Jalan Besar Stadium, 5.15 p m. HOCKEY S.R.C. Trial, Co'ours vs. Whites. Padang, 5.15 p.m.
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    World Records
    157 7 Reuter London. Oct. 6.—The Intcrnai t.onal Amatour Athletic Fsaeraj tion announced today the ae. etptance n? following world ruj ccrds: 100 yard*—o, k. Jonpert r»» 1 South Africa, y.4 seconds a- uran;.mstown. South Africa, in 1931. 10 miies-V.ljo A Beino of Finland, 49 minutes 22.2 seeondi at Helsinki,
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    H & C BADMINTON
    99 7 H C BADMINTON The following players have been chosen to represent Harrisons and Crosiield Spurts flub against the City Bonk Club in a friendly mutch consisting of th-ec singles and four doubles to be played at the Clerical Union Hall on Saturday. 11th. October 1917 at 330 p.m. sharp:—L*e Feng
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    Call-Over For Cesarewitch And Cambridgeshire
    369 7 Reuter. LONDON, Oct- G.—Cards on the Cesahewitch (to be run at Newmarket on October 15) and the Cambridgeshire Ho be run at Newmarket on Oct 29) were called over ac the Victoria Club here to-ni£ht. QUATATIONS: Cesarewitch: 100-7 Rampo"neau offered, 15-1 taken; 15-1 fire Master.
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    N. Z. Cricket Team For West Indies
    66 7 Reuter. AAP. WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, Oct. 7.- The Wellington Cricket Association arc recommending the New Zealand Cricket Council to adopt the suggestion of C. 5. Dempster, former New Zealand and Leicestershire Captain, that a New Zealand team should tour cither South Africa or
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    Commercial High School Union
    84 7 A meeting of aH those interested in the formation of a 'James Section was hen I on Sunday last at the School Premises (ggQ Joo Chiat Road. Singaoore. The following Pro-tern Committee was appointed to organise football. badminton and pingpong teams Chairman: -Mr. J. J. Abrams-,
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    PADMINTON MATCH
    90 7 The following players will represent the Old Victorians' Association against the Old Rafflesians' Association in a friendly badminton match of five singles and two doubles on Sunday. Oct 12, at 10 a.m. al. the Victoria School Hall:—Cheong Eng Leong, Chan Swee l*am. Quek Keng Chuan. Tan Peng Yam,
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    UNSC Must Ensure Respect For Cease Fire Order In Indonesia
    594 8 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, New York, Oct. 7 —India today urged the United Notions Security Council to order both parties to withdraw to their pre-conflict lines when the debate on Indonesia was resumed in the Council. Dr. P. Pillal, (Irdia), said
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    INSIDE STORY OF INDIA GOVT.
    333 8 (FROM PACE ONE) or Low they v.ti\' Lo be eairied oil*. At time wr.ii gpeeg *nu eilicie*«cy *-ie tool* ueeucd t. save UM lU.v vS -ye nr.iclu t:iert» k.tri.! i..liV O.lmJciue an.l DiKK pa hwA tlii! most exp.r.cnced Uoveramciii in the world would I x.aye
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    Regiment Went Overseas In 1922
    82 8 Reuter. SOUTHAMPTON. Oct. 7.-The 2nd Battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. which went overseas in 1P22, arrived at Southampton in the troopship Strathnaver. Twenty officers and 598 other ranks were welcomed home by Colonel C. J. Pickering, Colonel of the Regiment, who saw the
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    Lawyer Arrested
    79 8 Reuter. FRANKFURT, Oct. 7. United States zone military police last night arrested Mr. Thomas L. Allegretti, a Chicago lawyer, who was alleged to have illegally overstayed his leave in the zone so as to obtain the position of Jefence counsel for George von Schwitzier, one of the 23
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    CHINESE SOCCER TEAM TO TOUR AUSTRALIA
    107 8 (A.I.S.) MELBOURNE. Oct. 6. —Th c j Australian Soccer Counch is j regotiating to bringing a Chi- j nese team to Australia I /ear. Th.? Secretary of the I Courcil, Mr. H. R. Druery, *>aid today that it was hoped *he team would play
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    SCC HOCKEY
    44 8 The following hive been selected to rcpi-osrnt SCC vs ACS. Old Boys at hockey at th* Padang on Friday, Oct. 10, Bully-off 5 15 p.m. Barnes Pearcy and Reeves; Tabor, Elliot and Citridge; Read, Machin, Maugham, Stuart and Busbridge. Umpire Mr. Daniels.
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    Vishinsky Accuses U.S. On Greece
    628 8 U.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 7.—-Sovieo delegate Vishinsky continuing his offensive against American foreign policy to-dcy accused the United States of converting Greece into a military base for the United States. In a 35-page address Vishinsky denounced the American charges against Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania as
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    NO DRINKS...
    46 8 U.P. B*. LOUIS, Oct. 7.—The Metropolitan Church Federation, representing 500 Protestai t Churches, urged President Truman to follow up his programme for mea less and poultryle&s days, with a proclamation for drirkors to abstain from ft cohohc liquor two days weekly to save grain.—U.P.
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    Portugues Army untitled Crushed
    32 8 U.P. LONDON, fjei learned ihn T"' -fc Sa.rzar irj p or *(j «u.*ed pleaders, inciu/**! erals ard an r mv ard navy 2 and StS? 5 overflow ira
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    TAPPER'S untitled DISCOVERY
    66 8 IPOH Oct. 7 tapper on hi, e*W 1 lour.d at the TariLß tan Estate o n grue&cmr -iiscovery fl [Ct' n trench oia trJJ body of a n e 'deri v e rf *»c mar. had been some rime and theterSJ per immediately made ?l to the
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    Vice-Admirall Top
    41 8 U.P PONTIANAK. Oct J anes? Vice-Admiral d£ dashige. who was «l Pontianak. lcr war m sentenced to death hfd ary Court today Daigo wsa accused 1 caused the death by ot more than 1.500 *m ard children.— U P'""
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    129 8 If you are Thin. (Mntf Energy. Tired all the time, km Sallow Complexion, suffer frocSi ishes. Circles under the Eyea that mysterious magnetic forced you are run-down and need the■ covery of a Hollywood, Califoni, clan. This physician. In prwcrftji famous movie start, hu item
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