Malaya Tribune, 13 October 1947

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    59 1 The Malaya Tribune THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper In Malaya >ow printed simultaneously in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang 'Phone 5811 (Three Lines) SINGAPORE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS The Malaya Tribune London Agent*: Messrs. Colin Turner Ltd., TulLot Htm*e, St., Alas
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    Massacre By Greek Guerillas
    72 1 "L*/« r>v m ,T ht oxercame uic and n l ihitants going* to th- rescue tl mother stronger gen larmea \°tal ura Uiiea lerillas which Lit* >horex, a pari loura and p ung p >pie rftai texra th( ig !ney re{>orti ii iff* the *J e;tvC
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    RIM BATTLE FOR MUKDEN
    68 1 MGHAI 12 Twei ty tau R( ro'-p>, ncludinjg ifcrso'ian briga ics. have Mmnniti ng away at the Mukder w» 41 hour without beirg mkvatf murii headway, 1 Matrarrits despatches j are said lo eh ol 1 1 r lt loss Of mean interropfcVi wvcramert'ji life. reirforceEjJ»«
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    Princess Margaret Passes Driving Test
    32 1 •!>. Oct F:ii7.i- si hr i H !l t ended > &;•>, iry! '"hpn thny BTtlt lor cd hci 0-,«f Tf t cat George Sr. thattlw ;il !»y from tho
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    BULGARIAN CHARGE
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    Polish Consulate Bombed
    76 1 U.P. Jerusalem; Oct. 12.—Terrorists were active in Jerusalem again U night. A hand-grenade was thrown at a Br t'sh armoured car in the Jewish Rehav a quarter and a bomb xploded at Pol sh Consulate. Neither caused casualties. During the last 48 hours, guards have been placed
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    Soldiers Rob Driver
    42 1 fTribtme Stiff Reporter) A report has boCIi made to the Singapore police that six Ceylonese soldiers yesterday en gaged a taxi in town, drove up to Holland Road and there robbed the diriver of his wnstwatch and ?20 cash.
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    STOP PRESS
    102 1 Reuter. J< rusalem, Oct. 13. —Rumours that Syrian troops were now concentrating on the Jewish fronti erj of Palestine und had even crossed the border and attacked Jewish settlements :n the Gallic,, area were authoritatively denied here last night. A British Army spokesman denied that there wcr: any
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    "PALESTINE FOR ARABS WITH FORCE" SAYS EGYPT
    463 1 Jew Terrorists Rally Round Reuter U.P. v r PnS' PES 12 A spokesman for the Ministry rs> commentin on the United States advocacy of partition for Palestine, said Egypt will t?h n fu ture -.status as an independent afm> stc c by any
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    3 quakes, no casualties
    83 1 U.P. TFHERAN. Oct. 12. Earthquakes in three areas of Iran on Saturday were reported today to have resulted in no casualties. An official report said there were severe shocks at Damavand, which Is northeast of Teheran, and at the base of the Damavan mountain. Tn northeastern
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    Hanoi Assassinations
    51 1 Reuter. HANOI, Oct. 11.—The furj--ral services for Truong Dirh Tri, President of the Vietnam Administrative Committee, who was assassinated in Hanoi last week, were held here today. A reward of ***** piastres has been offered for information leading to the arrest of the as. sasslns, accordlrg to French
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    WEIGHED AGAINST SILVER
    42 1 Reuter. JAIPUR, Oct. 12.- The Maharajah and Maharani of the State of Jaipur In Rajputana were weighed against silver today to celebrate their 25th anniversary of the. Maharajah's succession to rulership. Silver vill be given to public charities. Reuter.
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    FILM STAR ON AIR JAUNT
    49 1 U.P. ATHENS. Oct. 12—Tyrone Power, flew into Athens today from Wadl Haifa after skipping Cairo during his Africa air jaunt because of a cholera epidemic. Because of hotel room shortage he was forced to stay at a small hostelry 10 miles from the capital—U.P.
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    FRONTIER PLEBISCITE
    69 1 Reuter. PARIS, Oct. 12.- About 2.000 voters were taking part today in a plebiscite on the Franco-Italian frontier to decide whether the Tenda and Briga ate" should be incorporated into Fit nee or Italy. Voting booths hi the five vllages of the mountain valey area opened early and
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    India Riots: "Corner Turned" Says Nehru
    223 1 NEW DELHI. Oct. 12. -Pandit Nehru. Prime Minister of India, said today: "I think we may definitely say we have turned the corner," referring ro the Punjab rioting. He affirmed lt was not the government's desire ,o send away a single Muslim resident of
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    22 Nations Still To Speak On Palestine
    73 1 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, New York. Oct 12. —Twenty.two natioi s, ir eluding Russia, arc still listed to spcaic in the United Nations Palestine Committee debate, which will be resumed tomorrow. Russia—the or]y b g power which has rot yet given its views to
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    EMPIRE PREFERENCE
    61 1 Reuter. AUCKLAND. Oct. 12.- Walter ter, commenting today on reports from Geneva of a con promise proNash, New Zealand Finance Minlsposa! between Britain and the United States on Empire preferences reductions said New Zealand would agree to amendments in Imperial preferences Ml the United States makes alterations In
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    RELEASED
    33 1 U.Q. JERUSALEM, Oct. 12—The Palestine Government released 18 Revisionist leaders headed by Dr. Abraham Altman, Revisionist Chief In Palestine today. They were arrestea following the hanging of two British sergeants last July.—UJ\
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    Court Staff Fight Fire
    100 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Quick action by rr embers of the court staff, at the Singapore Criminal District and Police Courts at South Bridge Road, this morning prevented a small fire from spreading. The nre occurred in the courtroom of the First District Court, when electric wiring
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    DEFENCE SCIENCE TALKS
    54 1 Reuter. LONDON. Oct. 12. British Commonwealth representatives v.ill meet here next month to discuss problems of defence science under the chairmanship i of Sir Henry Tizard. head Of the British Defence Research Poj licv Committtee. Serior scienI tists concerned with defence and j representatives of the armed
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    PAN-ASIA PEASANTS CONVENTION
    29 1 Reuter. RANGOON. Oct. 11.—A pan. Asian peasarts convention* will b« held in Rat goon "soon after the proclamation of Burma's independence," It was learned officially today.—Reuter.
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    CHOLERA VACCINE FOR EGYPT
    38 1 Reuter. TEHERAN, Oct. 12.—The Persian Ministry of Health today sent «.000 doses of cholera vaccine to Egypt Dy air and arnounced that 100.000 doses had been offered to help stem the present epidemic— Reuter.
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    DOUBTFUL STARTER
    44 1 Reuter. LONDON. Oct. 12. Noel Murless, trainer of Oros, stated today that the three.year-old who was quoted at the last callover on the Cambridgeshire at 25-1 is now a doubtful rurner for the race on Oct. 29 because of the hard going.—Reuter.
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    UN APPROVAL
    53 1 U.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 12. United states won United Nations approval of a modified proposal "taking note" of Yugoslav, Bulgarian and Albanian aid fo Greek guerillas ard calling on those ror them neighbours to abstain from such support in the future. The vote was 36 to 6 with
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    US DENIAL
    34 1 U.P. FRANKFURT, Oct. 12. Lieut.-Gen. Clarence R. Huebl er, acting Military Governor, denied today that there was any plan to withdraw American for. ces from Berlin "now or in the foreseeable future.'*—U.P.
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    SOVIET APOLOGIES
    49 1 U.P. VIENNA, Oct. 12—A Government communique tonight revealed that Chancellor Leopold Pigl received an unsigned letter from the Soviet High Command expressing "very great reover damages done by Soviet training planes in the Russian zone recently. It referred to bombings, against which Chancellor Pigl protested in Parliament.—U.P.
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    US Move to Reconvene Marshall Plan Talks
    169 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—The United States Government is to investigate the possibility of reconvening the IG-nation European conference on the Marshall plan, it is learned authoritatively- Talks with Sir Oliver FranKs (Britafn) and other members of the Paris Conference Executive Committee will begin
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    ROBOT TRAINS NOW
    148 1 Reuter. LONDON, Oct. 12.—A "dClverless" train rushirg through the English countryside at nearly 100 miles per hour, auI tomatically obeyed a normal warning signal today, applied j its own brakeg ard safely in j 1.500 yards. It was making a I test run between Reading and London
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    RECEIVED BY POPE
    34 1 U.P. CASTEL GANDOLFO, Oct.. 12Pop*? Pius received in private audience members of the General Chapter ot Missionaries of the Precious ***** With their new director. Re"— Kramer of Cincinnatti. Ohio.—U P
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    De Gaulle Says Russia Menaces World Peace
    594 1 Reuter. ALGIERS, Oct. 12-Gen. Charles DeGaulle, wartime leader of France now making a political comeback, attacked Soviet Russia "as a menace to world peace and to French security" in a speech here today. "France is menaced. There is no man of good sense
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    "STAR QUOTES"
    150 3 i I'' l A* mberiwe >\ month K6f at 3.* ,tS agO. I ft r-ve finally i, ti< »t I ng ami-dance N 1 ft i. csllc* 1 W my opinion fl s raraS tost c 'ti in all the :'i7 rhr sin •or ymt with nWe* M
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    Parted for five years, girl meets boy by accident
    178 3 mail)—-They were parted for five the other dead. And then—the sh high street. 1 was through the kindness of wupl< )ri ral Rolf J.iI Genu a war prisoner, ■II Dei rbeart, Petifc ir last m€etiH3 m n ta] in Ger- j
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    GIRL DENIES 'SPITE BURGLARY'
    206 3 LONDON. (By Air Mail) .—A girl said in court that she had l-rrken into the London home of an African who described himselj as a prince because he had made a remark about "'demanding the blood of a white Kir! for it" when his father <!-
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    PARIS METRO STRIKE
    51 3 Reuter. Paris. Oct. 11.—A deputation from all trade unions ropresentmg workers on \he Paris metro (underground) is to visit the French Ministry of Transport to demand immedirte satisfaction of claims -Or improved conditions following a strike of drivers which delayed Parisians on their way to work today.—
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    The Wedding Gift
    939 4 A public subscription is to be opened in connection with the royal wedding which Singapore, in common with other pasjts of the Empire, will celebrate in a bent ting manner. ii" the citizens oi' Singapore sudscribe a really handsome sum—it is hoped 10 raise a* least $600.000—then
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    Melbourne Wants A Pop-Eye
    110 4 AAP. SYDNEY. It is acid l hat Pop-eve fhe Bailor man, of cartoon fame. has. caused more children to eat their spinach l han all the precepts of die i. cians and persuasion of parents. If the Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Australia, could fir.d a Pop-eye
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    MALAYA DEMANDS BETTER MEDICAL FACILITIES...
    1484 4  -  y i Liallian Urmston From time to time during the period which has elapsed since the liberation criticisms have appeared in the press concerning the administration of various hospitals in Malaya. Recently these criticisms have now been extended to include the Bungsar Hospital, Kuala Lumpur.
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    A Graduate Defends Ragging
    948 4 As one who has undergone those "unpleasant" and "hurtful practices" and later indulged in "this childish ragging", the recent report that the present Principal of Raffles College has outlawed "ragging" with the threat of summary expulsion foi "any student found engaging therein or inciting thereto" cannot
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    CEMETERY FOR HONOURED CITIZENS
    74 4 Reuter. NANKING. ChJna is to have a national cemetery for citizens honoured with a state burial, according to a new aw just passed here. The Ministry »f Interior and the City Governm rut of Nanking have been asked to recommend a site. Under the law, state
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    Dragonflies Of 200 Million Years Ago
    187 4 Reuter. MOSCOW. Fossils of giant insects resembling dragon Mies, with a wingspan of three feet, have been found oy an expedition has just returned to Moscow from tho oil-bearing areas of the Urals. They were discovered in the Permian strata along the banks of
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    Letters to the Edidor
    321 4 All Men Are Brothers" Sir,-Events i„ Ind come to such a s a pte» m Malaya ca not.ee such tragic V. l sive happei irg.- A I am Interested M ed by the plight of m men who caught conflicts oi two n 2 determined faction
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    "Banishment"
    90 4 Sir,—I do not cons-at: Rarishment weapon somIp letter or I hp be<t mfars j clearing this country iiiK it safe —It uoiiid p the Government causes ot the rim<s fort nishmei t would nev the crimes—Look a country which is sup t the mother of manv ralities and the
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    PARIS OPERA DISPUTE
    47 5 The Paris f0& decided to- or. the ttlemert a dispute stage. ;> aiance of Frei ch -.vent or s r s t (k when Liised and was due jt i «twar ap. strongly 5L the return of Lifar. test with Youths no com- ias been
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    Lady Mountbatten Investigates
    59 5 mm DELHI, U Lady nitted India's of r Governor. natter, is her per- Pun. 3 likely to form the [i liar proGo verr. ju g(. lommui ique on ncy co: sideripg a Excellency tbatten or her repui jab from reliable lercy'a t complaints rece verj from he
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    Guardsman Complained About Royal Wedding Contribution
    276 5 'Crimed'for his action Reuter. LONDON, Oct. 11 1M v/^wxx by the British War Office action wili be taken Guardsman who wrote to a L CaSe 0f a Grena dier plaining against a ronfi«« P. new spaper comguardsinan should pav on« °vir r s ipulatin
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    Anglo-U.S. Tariff Agreement
    95 5 U.P. GENEVA. Oct. 11. British Empire sources said tonight •hat Britain and the Urited States had worked out a compromise to erd their long dis. pute over tariff concessions. Each would grant to the other and that a plan had been forwarded to Washington and Lor. ('on
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    JULIANA PLEADS FOR MORE NURSES FOR NEI
    90 5 Reuter. The Hague Oct. 12 -Princess Juliana. Acting Regent of the Netherlands, today broadcast an appeal to the Dutch nursing sisters and members of the mcd cal proTesston to volunteer for serv cc In Indonesia u wh r. encrmous numbers of Indonesians are
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    Labour Day March In Sydney
    80 5 A.I.S. MELBOURNE. Oct. 10—Trade Unions took part n a large procession through Sydney on Monday as part of Labour Day celebrations The procession took 40 minutes ln£ ass a ffiven Pota* and about pO.OOO people watched it passed the Town Hall. Every union featured slogans
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    S.A. Indians' Pledge
    57 5 Reuter. DURBAN, Oct. 12. A mass meeting or several thousand Indians today pledged itself to give the fullest support to the passive resistance campaign in Durban. It also recorded its implicit faith that the United Nations would take adequate measures against the Union Government to ensure the
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    UNO A US Puppet Says Pravda
    95 5 Reuter. Moscow. Oct. 12 The United Nations "no longer fits the conception of its inititors in the years of the great struggle of the peoples against Fascism: it is not what it was when establish d at San Francisco:'- the Saviet Communist newspaper Pravda
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    Cuban Example Of Goodwill
    96 5 U.P. GENEVA. Oct. 11.—Cuba has completed an agreement with the United States which "could be demonstrated to the whole world as an example of international goodwill and co-opera, tirm". Minister Sergio Clark said today. Clark, who is the head of the Cuban, delegation to second session
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    Romans Go To Polls To Elect City Council
    229 5 Reuter. ROME. Oct, 12.—The first European election since me formation of the nine-nation "little Comintern" was held today in Italy, one of the two western countries represented in the new Communist organisation (the other was France) when some three-quarters of a million
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    SHIP IN DISTRESS
    74 5 U.P. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 12 The American freighter S.S. Louis Sioss, en route from San Franrclsco to Okinawa, report, ed by urgent distress signal tof.'ay that she was in danger of breakirg in half in heavy seas off Iwo Jima. Tne first SOS call was received here
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    Last Voyage As Naval Vessel
    100 5 A.I.S. MELBOURNE, Oct 7 The "Madoora" which took part in eight major assault landings during the Pari fir War, is op hoi last voyage as B naval vessel When the Manoora reaches Sydney on Uctber 18 with service personnel from Japan, she will go w
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    WOOL PRICES HIGH
    80 5 A.I.S. MELBOURNE, Oct. 8. Top price of 54d. was obtained at the opening of the wool sales in Perth. There was a good clearance with keen competition from Brad fords, the Continent and the United States. Since the opening of the wool sales on Sept. 1. French
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    Storm Drama Related In Coroner's Court
    303 5 (From Our Own Reporter) BAG AN SERAI, Oct. 10. How they were caught n a storm when they were on their way home from fishing in the high seas r»ff Tanjong Piandang, nd how thrii boat oapsized and they were thrown into the :ea,
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    Robbed His Former Teacher
    344 5 U.P. fFrom Our Own Reporter) ipoh. Oct. ll.—For committing an armed robbery 0 n the shop or his former school-teacher, Yong Ten Fook, and 19-year-old Lav Chan were convicted and sent enced to siven and five years' r.gorous imprisonment each respectively when they appeared before the
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    WORLD HARVEST POSITION FORECASTS DISHEARTENING
    257 5 Reuter. LONDON, Oct. 11.— ExceptIrq orly Australia's wonderful harvest and possibly a few smaller exceptors elsewhere, the world harvest position at present as shown by crop reports is bad. The first official forecast of jhe United States winter wheat harvest for 1948 will rot be
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    Reds Blamed For Indo-China Murder
    87 5 Reuter. Suigon. Oct. 12.—Tran Van S An. Information Minister of the Coclfn-Chvina 'Government, today accused Communists of the assassination of Nguym Van Sam. leader of the Vietnam Unite d Nationalist Front and 9 political opponent of Dr. Ho Chi j Hinh, Commurist Resident of j
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    BURMA PM FLIES
    33 5 U.P. New York, Oct. 12. The BBC heard in New York said that the Burmese Prime Minister, accompanied by his deputy Prime Minister, left Rangoon for London by plane today.—U.P.
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    28 5 U.P. Washington, Oct. 12.—The Food and Agriculture Organization announced that Mr. Walter H. Pawley has joined its staff as a specialist in Far East agricul tural economy,—U P.
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    One More Amok Death
    140 6 'From Our Own Reporter*. Kuala Lumpur. Oct. 12. The number of casuaki as a result of a Banjarese running amok near Kajang on Thursday, is now eleven dead and nine wounded. The eleventh, death was that of a Sinhalese named Maluany from Labis, Johore. Meanwhile, the
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    Motor-Cycle Truck Has Come To S'pore
    120 6 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The motor-cycle tiuck, a motorised replica of the old goods tricycle, is now available In Singapore. Ixxading up to half a ton. capable of a speed of 2C m.p.h. and running 90 miles to the gallon, this motor-cycle truck brings for
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    Mixed Gang With Revolver Rob Indian
    57 6 A mixed Chin \se and Indian four-man gang who shared a revolver and a knife between them, robbed an Indian of cash and valuables amounting to $250, on Saturday night. The robbers were reported to have stayed for an hour in the Indian's house
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    Theft From Junk And Steamer
    48 6 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Oct. 11.— Eight bigs of sugar are alleged to have b en stolen from a junk containing 800 bags of sugar. Theft of a mooring rope valued $400 has been reported from the steamer M V. Le Estancia.
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    CHOLERA EPIDEMIC
    29 6 U.P. Cairo, Oct. 11.—The Egyptian Government has appropriated another fc.OOO.BGG tonight to tight a cholera epidemic as a communique reported 69 new deaths— the highest toll yet.—U.P.
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    Ammo Explosion on Ship at RAF Base
    309 6 Tribune Staff Reporter 1H TwentyHhree people, including the six-year-oici daughter of an RAF, NCO, were injured when an explosion occurred while crat<? s containing 20 mm cannon shells were being unloaded from a three-ton bomb tender to an LST craft moored alongside the
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    New Services By Straits Steamship
    304 6 Addressing the annual meeting of tne Straus Siear.isnip L/j. neia on Saturday, Air. H. J. V. K. Toms said, inter aiia Duiinc the past eighteen months, Jieany ad ihe Company's former runs have been resumeu, and some new runs started. At a time when all
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    Gent Sees Malaya's Wedding Gift To Princess
    235 6 A press release from Kuala lumpur yesterday stated that nt 11.30 in the morning His Excellency the Governor of the Malayan Union-. Sir Edward Gent, drove to Messrs. WhJteaway, Laidlaw's premises and spent some time admiring tne display of Malaya's wedding gifts to
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    ARRESTED IN PRISON YARD
    78 6 (From Our Own Reporicr) Penang. Otrt. 11.—A Chinese, See Mali Soon who had been taking food to his relative, a prisoner in the Penang Prisons, was produced before Mr. J. P. Blackledge charged with possession of chandu. The prosecut.on <a:'d he was seen to be smck.ng
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    U.S. Negroes Allege Discrimination
    278 6 U.P. Lake Success. Ott. 12. The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People--Negro organisation with a membership of a million and a half in the United States submitted a document to the I 'nited Nations today charging discrimination against Negroes in the United States and
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    ATOM WARFARE SACRIFICE
    68 6 U.P. New York, Oct. 11 —A top scientist today predicts that 1.000 000 persons "will lie sacrificed in atomic warfare" I efore science has a chance to apply atomic enerp-y to benefit of mankind. This expert professor, Charles D. Coryell of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said,
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    ARGENTINE FOOD FOR JAPAN
    46 6 U.P. BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 11. The ftm shipment of food that Argentina is sending to Japan through the Committee for Aid to War Devastated Countries, left today aboard an American ship to be transshipped at San Frar.ciscb. It "consisted of 50 tons.—U.P.
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    Friendly Companion Association
    199 6 At the annual general meeting of the Friendly Companion Association (Pheng Yew Sia) the following wer c elected officebearers for the year 1947-1948: Pairons: Messrs. Tan Buck Song ard Tan Cher Hua President Mr Tay Ah Mun: Vice-Presidents: Messrs. Baey Gek Seng, Lim Chiap Long, Ong Song
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    Cricketer Weds
    89 6 (From Our Own Reporter) PENANG. Oct. U-The marriage took place iast Wednesday at the Registrar of Marriages between Miss Teh Mvi Goh, the third daughter of Mr. tnd Mrs. Teh Cheok San of Bukit Mcrtajam. and Mr. Tan Ah Ec, well-known Penang cricketer and second son of Mr.
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    United Malacca May Be Forced To Close
    237 6 Under the trying difficulties unsettled conditions in the counti nised that the cost of production is rath control, said Mr Tan Chen«- Look at r»f United Malacca Rubber Est i This factor- Coupled with the present uneconomic price of the commodity has given
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    S'pore Chinese Force Great Soccer Draw
    772 7 Thrice In Arrears Against Shanghai SCI A <by FIJ,LBA CK) About 18.000 soccer SShS^J' oafisls 3 pore Chinese (S.C.KA hold th J5« touring team to a tibial? draw a dium yesterday a Uhin Besar The local Chirese were in arrears three frnes, but, fighting
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    INDIA'S FUTURE STAR BOWLER?
    187 7 Reuter. LONDON. Oct. 11. While India's cricket stars are beii g hailed with a flourish of trumpets in Australia—and rightly so—there has come to England unheralded and unsung a young Inidian cricketer who in a few years' time may be on everyone's lips, if reports reaching
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    TO DAY'S HOCKEY
    23 7 Interesting hockey is fanticipated on the Padang today when the S.RC. meet die Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Sports Club.
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    25 7 The Malaya Cup Veterans are holdup a practice match at McNair Road. off' Balesteir Road thla afternoon. Players are requested to turn up ji time.
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    FRANCE WINS BRITAIN'S BIG SEMI-CLASSIC
    259 7 Reuter. ASCOT, Berkshire. Oct. 11.— France wen Britain's big semiclassic distance event Kll \J George VI Stakes for ,he second successive year when Marcel Boussac'a St. Leger runn-crup Arbar. a s on cf Djebel. easily triumphed in. this two.mile race here this afternoon. Arbar. starting
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    Baseball Payout
    73 7 U.P. CINCINATTI. Ohio, Oct. 11. —Baseball Commissioner A. B. Chandler's offleo said today that each member cf the champion. I shiD New York Yankees t e am l ,which won the world series last vcek would receive about $5,800 >f the total gate receipts as hi? share. Members
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    ORA BADMINTON
    60 7 The following will represent the Old Rafflesians' Association against the Old Victorians' Association, at the Badminton to. day at 10 a.m. in Victoria School Hall:— Poh Kirn Yam. Chan Chim Bock, Goh Tian Chye, Seah Eng Ltet. Ong Kirn Seng, Hp Choy Klar, Lim Yew Hock. Lim Kian,
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    Arsenal Maintain Unbeaten Record
    277 7 Reuter. iir7 An t°K h 11 00 000 crcwcl Highbury toI n ?inf maintain then- unbeaten. r eco rd by beating Aston Villa by the otJy goal of the match the vnia yQOrCd by R nniC Rooke holl y disptitea by Pre M^.tf tiJ i h
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    Krian Indians In Hockey Win
    73 7 (From Our Own Reporter) BAGAN SERAI, Oct. 10.— Th e Krian Indians did well to beat the Ar.glo-Chinese School by one goal to nil in a friendly hockey match played at the padang yesterday ever.ing. Exchanges were even throughout the game and the school boy.s
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    FRENCH RACING
    67 7 Reuter. PARIS, Oct. 12.—M. H?nrl LeClere's Rigolo won the Grand Cnterium, the most important two-year-old event of the French racing season, run over one mile at Longchamp today. Ridden by j. Doyasbere, Ri go l 0 beat Drakkar by threequarters of a length with Perescope Two a length
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    WEDNESDAY'S CESAREWITCH PROSPECTS DISCUSSED
    581 7 Reuter. LONDON, Oct 11. Of all races in the British turf calender, none lends its-If letter to an at- tempted court than the Ccsare- witch Ions distance handicap run at Newmarket, which this year I takes place on a Wednesday. The '''stance of two and a
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    A WARNING & A DENIAL
    131 7 A WARNING A DENIAL Reuter. TEHERAN, Oct. 12. The repudiation of Armenians from Per sia to Soviet Armenia, over urnlcti Russia and Persia have been at odds, has bee- Ruspended because of the on< »ming wjiter weather Armenian ttfficial quarters anBounced here tods y Moscow agreed lo receive 20,000 repatriates
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    Gunman Adopts A New Ruse
    130 7 (Front Our Own Reporter* IPOH, Oct. 11.—A confidence trickster who eventually turned out to be an armed hold-up man, made good his escane after taking $15.70 from Mrs. Parthan, wife of Mr. R. A. Parthan of the P.W.D., while she was in hei house in
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    FIVE-YEAR PLAN
    69 7 Reuter. PRAGUE. Oct. 10.—A doubl. ing of the pre-war national in. come was one of the main objects of a five.year plan an nounced today by M. Klemert Gottwald, Czechoslavakia's Communist Premier The olan starts on Jan. 1, 1949. Other objects are to develop the country's economy, raise
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    FOUND HANGING
    53 7 (From Our Own Reporter) IPOH. Oct. 11.—In the early houis of Friday morning, the caretaker of a Chinese Club in Cowan Street had the shock of his life when he fount a middJe-aged Chinese hanging in the latrine. The deceased, Chong Loi, is believed to have committed suicide
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    SINGAPORE HOCKEY LEAGUE NEXT MONTH
    976 8 Many Local "Stars" Not Available Beginning a new sporting series Singapore Hockey Notes (By Firsl-Timcr) AT long last the Singapore Hockey Association has consented to run a hockey league. This decision has been eagerly awaited by both players and hockey enthusiasts for a long time-
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    PRAVDA ALLEGES DISCRIMINATION
    79 8 Reuter. Moscow. Oct. 12. Pravda mid today that "One of the Indian delegates to the United Nations vious discrimination against Inrecently had to protest at the obdians About 900 Indian citizens citizens sought employment in the United Nations Machinery. but only eight or nine were taken on.
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    Indian Cricketers' Manager Gets News Of Mother's Death
    258 8 Reuter. PERTH, Western Australia, Oct. 12.—Many messages of sympathy have arrived from all over Australia for the Indian cricketers' manager, Gupta to whom the news of his mother's death on Friday was broken by Reuters representative early this morning. The icam had
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    BOAC Flying Boat Blazes New Trail
    58 8 Reuter. SHANGHAI, Oct. 13. A Dying boat of the British Overseas Airways Corporation expected to land on the Whangpoo River, near Ivmghua airfield, on Wednesday or Thursday, it was reported today. The flying boat will Mase the trail for ex'ension to Shanghai of the
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    CONSULTATIONS WITH SIAM 5 KING
    76 8 Reuter. LONDON, Oct. 12.--Banom. voie AtihakiHi, S am's Foreign Ifiniater, arrived in London today on 111« way to JSwitzerlai d aid India from l he United States, where he has beer at" tending the Ur ited Nations Ger erai Assembly. He will spend three cays
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    CALL FOR PEACE IN VIETNAM
    128 8 Reuter. SAIGON, Oct. 12 -The CochinChinese Socialist Party comprising French and Vietnamese people —today opened a campaign for the immediate cessation of hostilities as French official sources claimed continued successes in their six-day-old offensive throughout Tonkin. In a widely distributed manifesto the Socialist Party declared
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    Might Have Been War
    80 8 Reuter. A Lahore message save; "if it had not been for the British Com-manoers-tn-Chief n the armies or Pakistan and India, war between the dominions migM not have been avoided." Chasantar Ali Khai. Pakistan Food Minister, said today. Tins minister claimed that hta own peace efforts
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    SENSATIONAL SEX SLAYING RECALLED
    229 8 U.P. TOKIO, Oct. 13 —The Public Procurator's Office has indited a Japanese author and publisher for criminal libel,, after a month-long investigation of the libel suit filed against them by a 43-year-old Geisha, who served a prison term for Japan's most sensational sex slaying. Sada Abe,
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    HAPPENINGS DISTORTED
    105 8 Reuter. Oxford. Oct Lis-.oweil, > 1 1 Burma, critici v*nat he descriUni**as ed accou; happening in T l(J^ at tod^* "The disu r i.'y, V ated acccui is h beared i n certain? fc. beer harmful Irdia and p?u,*s inflamed hi caused much teenj ai d Mat;^ d
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    Western Samoa Wants Self-Government
    287 8 U.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 12.—Three memben United Nations mission to Western Samoa hz\» 2 Kitted to the Trusteeship Council a unanim port, favouring: a considerahlv larger measure >l I self-government. They urged firstly, a "government of Western Samoa," in which New Zealand should vest certain powers
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    Death Of Veteran Gallipcli General
    106 8 LONDON. Oct. 12.-Gel Sir Ian Hamilton, vetcrat 01 campaigrs in India, Burma, Egypt and South Africa and commander ul the ill-fated Gallipoli ex. peditlon of 1915. died In. London today aged 94. Gen. Hamilton became tn rertre of one of the great controversies that grew
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