Malaya Tribune, 15 March 1948

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    59 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales than any Afternoon Paper in Malaya Printed Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur. Jpon Penang. Telegrams "Tr bune,Singapore." Telephone 5811 (9 lines). PAGES. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS The MALAYA TRIBUNE London Agents—Messrs. Colin Turner Ltd., Talbot House, 98,
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    Uneasy Lull In Holy Land
    270 1 Reuter. JERUSALEM, Mar. 14.—Intense week-end activity in tne seven capitals of the Arab League ites indicated tonight that he Arabs were planning important new moves in Palestine, while an uneasy lull pervaded 'ihe Holy Land. All icpotts from the Middle Btsl in the past 24
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    Perish In Gale
    66 1 Reuter. REYKJAVIK, Mar. 15.— Fourteen of the crew of 19 of the 358-ton trawler Opine from Hull, England, perished yester day when the snip was stranded on a rock off the west coast of Iceland, battered by a gale and swept by heavy seas. One man was
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    JOE LOUIS HAS SECRET WEAPON
    45 1 J OE LOUIS HAS SECRET WEAPON nia, world heavv■ha mpUm, has a weapon" which he <v us, ni f ns return title l lh < i Joe Walcntt. 'ah this in the fifth tn exchunve series of which will appear in '"'/"'""'v MMM of the < Tribmm
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    RUSSIA HAS NO A-BOMB
    103 1 U.P. SYDNEY, Mar. 14. —Atom scientists Professor M.L.E. Oliphant and Sir Howard Flory arrived here by plane today from Britain, and told newsmen that although the Czech situation vxis not goodthere did not appear to be any reason for war talk. Professor Oliphant said h? did
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    PALESTINE: BIG 4 FAIL?
    43 1 Lake Success, Mar. 15. The Big Four Powers are expected to report to the United Nations Security Council when it meets here today that they have not been able to work out common plan for enforcing partition of Palestine.
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    BANDITS MISSED 500,000 BAHT
    79 1 Reuter. BANGKOK, Mar. 14—Armed bandits who on Friday morning held up a Siamese passenger train proceeding from Huahin to Sungei Golok and took from the passen- gers $10,000 (Straits), missed a train carrying 500.000 baht, which was to have pass the tpot within half an hour.
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    $30 ROBBERY
    34 1 On Saturday night two Chinese broke into a house occupied by a compatriot in Guillemard Road and robbed him of $30 in cash and som.Jewellery. One man was armed with a pistol.
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    CYCLIST KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR
    45 1 A Chinese cyclist received severe head injuries as a result of being knocked down by a motor car driven by a Chinese near the third milestone, Upper Serangoon Road. yesterday afternoon. He was removed to hospital in an unconscious state.
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    NEWS BLACKOUT FOR RANGOON
    44 1 U.P. RANGOON, Mar. 14. —A joint meeting of journalists and publishers today decided to suspend publication of all newspapers in Burma for three days beginning March 17 as a protest against mob attacks on three Rangoon newspaper offices on Friday.—U.P.
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    Election Meeting
    29 1 Mr. R. C. H. Lim, Independ ent candidate for Municipal North-East Division will hold an election meeting at the Victoria Memorial Hall at 5.30 p.m., tomorrow afternoon.
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    Canadians Held
    24 1 U.P. STOCKHOLM, Mar. 14—The Canadian Olympic ice hockey team tonight drew with Sweden's National team 5-5. Period scores were 1-1. 2-0, 2-4—U.P-
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    PEOPLE WILL GO TO THE POLLS –DESPITE BOYCOTT CALL
    337 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Despite the call of an'jt-electionjs f ,s to those who had already registered to boycott f ,he first elections in the history of the Colony, the indications are that the people will go (p f ,he polls. In
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    LOW TARIFF FOR EUROPE AREA URGED
    178 1 U.P. LONDON. Mar. 14. The In- j ter national Chamber of Commerce today called for intensified efforts for trade between Eastern and Western Europe aa means of reconstructing the 1 war-devastated continent. Bu-iness leader.; from nine countries drew up the Chum bcr's report which
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    Finnish Cabinet Meets
    35 1 U.P. HELSINOI. Mar. 14- The Rrtmish Cabinet met .it 1400 G. M.T. today at the President's Palace with President Paasikivi oreciding. Discussions lasted two hoursNo. reports on the discussions were available. —U.P.
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    Maize Loan
    24 1 U.P. SOFIA. March. 14—The Yugoslav Government has siven Bulgaria 1 000 railway cars of maize as a one-year loan. Press reportannounced today.—UP.
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    Marshall Aid Nations Looking To Britain
    272 1 Reuter. PARIS, Mar. 15.—The second conference ot the 16 Marshall Plan countries was opening here today as the United States House of Represents iv'es prepared !n debate the proposed $1,326,000,000 credit for European recovery, voted by the Senate hue on Saturday night. Mr. Ernest
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    8 ARRESTED
    31 1 Heavily-armed Johore police escorted back to Johore this morning eight Chinese who were arrested by the Cantonese sub-branch of the Singapore CID in connection with a recent armed robbery.
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    Election Talk
    21 1 At 9.45 p.m. tonight, Radio Malaya will broadcast a talk on the Singapore election campaign on the Blue network.
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    NEHRU LAUNCHES SHIP—WITH A COCONUT
    381 1 Reuter. VIZAGAPATAM, MADRAS, PROVINCE, Mar. 14.— Pandit Nehru. Indian Prime Minister, today launched from the Scinda yards here the first Indian Imilt ocean going steamer, by breaking a coconut on her hull instead of the usual champagne bottle. When the Premier crashed the coconut against
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    World Hunt for War Criminals Nears End
    414 1 Reuter. THE immense task of listing and trying war criminals in Malaya and elsewhere in the world has almost come* to an end. The United Nations War Crimes Commission, after naming 40,000 persons charged with resoonsihility for crimes committed during World War Two,
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    ESCAPEES CAPTURED
    75 1 Four locally enlisted Army personnel, two Chinese and two Indians, are under detention by the Singapore Police in connection wMth a report of extortion. The four men were detained In the vicinity of the Beauty World Amusement Park 'n Bukit Timah on Saturday night and were about to
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    DEAD WOMAN IDENTIFIED
    49 1 The Chinese woman who was taken to hospital in an unconscious condition yesterday afternoon as a result of falling off a bus near Bukit Ho Swee, died at 1 a.m. today. She has been identified as Tan Siew Huay, living at an address in Tiong Bahru.
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    SKY MERCHANT IS IN S'PORE
    90 1 The Standard Vacuum Oil Company Skymaster aircraft Atlas Sky Merchant—arrived at Kallang this morning from Manila. The plane with its shown red markings over a silver body is taking ten AmertcaA bus:nessmen on a world tour. They are making a survey of the markets, and
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    CAUSING HURT CHARGE FAILS
    202 2 Kuala Lumpur, March 14 Wimalasena, a, Singhalese working in the Central Workshops, was charged before the District Judge Mr. M. Garton, with causing hurt with a knife to a young Chinese named Young Yuen Ping a coffee shopkeeper at 262, Ipoh Road, on Feb. 9. this
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    DR. PAGLAR URGES STATE LOTTERIES
    258 2 Means To Get Revenue And End Gambling Addressing his electoral constituency on Saturday, Dr. C. J. Patflar, (Independent candidate. Mun. North-Bast) expressed full support for the operation of state lotteries as a most equitable means for raising additional income to swell the Colony's depleted coffers.
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    Two Years For Abduction
    375 2 Penang. March 14.—Remarking that the three accused. Chew Chee Beng. Lee Eng Huat and Chuah Ah H n were fortunate not to be on a n *uch mere serious charge. Mr. F. Rogers in the District Court here sentenced each oi tlKm to two years' rigorous
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    YEMEN'S CAPITAL BESEIGED
    80 2 Reuter. CAIRO, Mar 14:—One-hun-dred-and-nfty 80-foot high medieval watch towers, which surrounds Sana capital of the Yemen, were the only barriers let to its defences against forces loyal to Emi r Seif El Islam Ahmed, claimant to the throne, according to latest despatches reading here today. Armed tribesmen
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    WAY OF LIFE NOW AT DEAD END
    149 2 Reuter. London. March 14. Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Profes sor ot Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University, told the Hindu Association of Europe in London today "Our I whole way of hie has reached I a dead end. It» has broken down. Even
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    RUSSIA REJECTS CHINESE NOTE
    82 2 Reuter. MOSCOW. Mai. 14:—Russia has rejected the Chinese note of Mar. 10 protesting against an alleged machine gun attack en a Chinese civil aircraft, flying from Mukden to Tsingtao on March 8. by two fighter planes with Soviet markings. The Soviet reply described the protest as
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    FRIENDSHIP TRAIN
    65 2 U.P. Frankfurt. March It. Twothousand Germans, a 40 voice schoolgirls choir and an army band stood on the damp unroofed main railway station yesterday morning to greet the city's first "friendship train" from the United States. A handful of Americans stood by too to watch Lieutenant General Clarence
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    Court Agrees With Legal Objection
    579 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar '14 Chop Sin Teck Soon of No 4 Chong Peng Street. Tanjong Mahm. were charged in the District Court. Tanjong Malim lor having failed to enter in*o their registers various rubber purchases Qji Feb. 12. 1918. Mr. S. M. Yong. counsel for
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    Opium "Showers"
    77 2 U.P. SHANGHAI. Mar. 14: China's three largest opium producing areas are still showering the finished products in Shanghai where the drug is sold for its weight in gold. In thi s cosmopolitan city itself a big international smuggling ring i s believed to be operating for the United
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    First Indian-Built Ship
    56 2 Reuter. VIZAGAPAi AM (MADRAS PROVINCE) Mar. 14:—Pandit Nehru. Indian Prime Minister, today launched from the Scincia yards here the first Indian built ship, the 8,000. ton cargo Steamer Jala Usha. Hindu priests chanted hymns from their scriptures "Invoking the aid of the Almighty and the elements for
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    Admission To Medical College
    159 2 Candidates for admission to the College of Medicine must communicate direct wftn the Principal, making use of the prescribed form o! application which may be obtainei from the Secretary or the College. The forms should tx> submitted in duplicate a nd a copy of the certificate
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    Masaryk Buried Beside Father
    144 2 U.P. PBAGUE. Mar. 14:—Jan Masaryk Foreign Minister ot Czechoslovakia was buried beside his famous father in Lan v Cemetry after millions of his countrymen had paid him tlOmag,. in a mammoth state funeral conducted by the new Communist regime. The plain black coffin of the 61
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    Textiles Head U.K. Export Drive
    208 2 Reuter. MANCHESTER, MAR. 14— Mr. Harold Wilson. Pres dent of the Board of Trade, told a meeting ol Lancashire cotton trade organisations today that Britain's export programme provided for a clothing and t-xtile export rate of £39,000 000 monthly Iby the end of 1948. This
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    NATIONAL CADET CORP
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    ROBBERS TOOK RICE
    128 3 (Tribune s *aff Reporter) ried robberies over end, gunmen took r ice rations of the part from cash and instance, a Chiliving in Changi j the seventh mile- r< hid up by three turday and robbvl in rash, two gold j r ol ear-rings and mping, the
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    Oldest Club In Hongkong
    139 3 Reuter-AAP HONGKCNG, MA.ll. U. Tlu Hongkong Club, oldest *cia] nstitution in the Co- j "toy. will hold its 100 th an- anal meeting en March 23. Jcteaily the dub 's 104 years old bul the disparity is ac M by the period 01 oecirpatlan daring tm
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    ELECTION MEETINGS
    129 3 M A H ijid. md. p.'.-n ndidatc fcr Municipa"th West, will h<;ld the j^i. owing cUction meetings •nis w,cek 1 fou I Mar 15» at 5 Owtram School—Out- Road. 16. at 5 p.m. Nelson ,r Padang. (cpposite S.H.B. UJOite Lines*. »>•'. Mar. 14. Lun- (in the Rugby Union
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    R.A.F. "EXERCISE THUNDERFLASH"
    248 3 Ml: MARSHAL SIR HUGH LLOYD. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. AIR COMMAND, FAR EAST. IS CONDUCTING AN INDOOR EXERCISE "THUNDERFLASH" AT HIS lIKAU/" ARTERS ON MARCH 18 AND 1?» TO STUDY THE COMBINED R.A.F. BOMBER COMMAND AND UNITED STATES STRATEGICAL AIR FORCES OFFENSIVE DURING THK PERIOD FROM JANUARY. 191". TO THE
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    To Stage Concert
    109 3 The Bright Star Rangers held a meeting ;i t their premises at 14 Bukit Purmai Road, Kantpong Bahru, yesterday. Jt was largely attended and ainoag other things discussed was a proposal to .stage a concert. This was -suggested by Mr. O. J. Lourdes, the Spoils Secretary, and
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    Malaya Council Inaugurated
    349 3 (Tribune Staff Reported THE MALAYA COUNCIL OF WORLD AFFAIRS. WHICH IS A UNIT OF THE ASIAN RELATIONS ORGANISATION, WAS INAUGURATED TN SINGAPORE YESTERDAY. Dr. Bhuranuddin. one of the Malayan representatives to the Inter-Asian Relations Conference in New Delhi, last March, was elected President of the Council. Addressing
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    Tribute To Wilson
    66 3 U.P. SOUTHAMPTON, Mat. 14. Eric Johnston sailed for the United States aboard the Queen Mary, yesterday. Referring fcj the film agreemen* he concluded with Britain. Johnston told newsmen, "I understand Hollywood does not like it too wre'l. They would like more financially." Johnston called Harold Wilson, "one
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    Senate Approves Marshall Plan
    207 3 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Mar. 14: The United States Senate gay? its absent to the European re- covery programme early today. The bill was passed by 68 votes to 17 after more than eleven hours' debute and at] the end of a dramatic night session- the second consccu-
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    "RADIANT JADE" TO DIE
    115 3 U.P. Pciping. March 14. f :uJl ant Jade."' convicUl of being one of the most notorious women spies for the Japanese m China during the Pacific war. today lost her last chance to escape an executioner,* bullet when the Hope* nigh court here rejected her appeal
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    FEW CIVIL SUITS
    152 3 According to the report ol the Court, the number of cases remains small, because the higher price level automatically decreases the Court's jurisdiction. As would be expected from the Housing Shortage, nearly half the actions which were contested, and all the appeals L *cept two, were landlord-tenant
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    POLICE SEARCH
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    Air Secretary Tells R.A.F. To Be Ready
    276 3 U.P. vrcwßiiAV "KEEP ON YOl X AM> L>v. rir./vr FORWCAU IN Tffi WORSENING INTERNATIONAL Vr V7uM v r VTIWB a, U>, AbnUJdon RAF Stolen: irr,„<l„ grim, it Is di//:c*' >""' ft jeJoil H» flbe near ffcfcw ntd can do. I thmk, ktohtem nn
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    WORLD RECORD, BUT IT DOESN'T COUNT
    72 3 U.P. LONG BEACK. (California» March 14:—Lloyd Laßeach who i s expected to represent Panama in the Olymp c Games, tied the world record of 9.4 seconds for the 100 yard dash hi the Charlies Paddock Memorial Dash at the Long Beach Relays. However. Head
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    False Busts And Income-Tax
    613 4 The fashionable world has been shaken to its foundations by developments in the false bust industry which bid fair to distract attention from the economic crisis—who Knows this industry's contribution to the export drive may be the salvation of the situation! The whole business is based
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    |V AS OUR REAPERS SEiH^j WHY A CHINESE ELDER X 'PRO-GOVERNMENT' B
    852 4 Sir, May I be allowed to refer to a personal matter in these columns? A friend or mine congratulated me on having written what he called a "fine letter ugainst the Government"! There's the rub! True enough I
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    SITUATION IN SARAWAK
    389 4 Sir. After the frank series of articles representing the result of your personal investigation into the state of affairs in Sarawak, it must have been rather bewildering for your readers to be confronted with an article published in your issue of Bth modestly claimin., to echo "Sarawak's
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    Political Trend In Australia
    215 4 Reuter and AAP. SYDNEY. Australian political sentiment, as measured b/ support for Federal political parties, nas remained unchant; ed since the bank nationallsition announcement last August caused a swing away fro. a labour, says Australian Public Opinion Polls in commenting on a recent Gallup Poll on
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    DEATH PARTS VETERAN TWINS
    272 4  -  (By J. W. Taylor). Only twice since they were born 87 years ago at Dartford, in Kent, has William Birchfield been without his twin brother, Henry. Different postings dur- ing the Boer War temporarily separated these two old Royal Scots veterans. And now they have been
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    APPLES, DOLLARS AND GOODWILL
    100 4 The best and the sweetest of all fruits is the English apple. The best of all English apples, say experts, is Coxs pippin. Now it is going overseas to earn dollars for us There may be fewer Coxs ror our own dessert. But let us not
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    WALKED OUT FREE
    119 4 Reuter. LONDON.—A young woman prisoner on remand inHolloway Prison. London, calmly walked out of the prison during visiting hours recently and escaped. With perfect composure, the girl approached a prison nurse and said: "I'm a visitor and I've lost mywa y. Where is the main gate?" The
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    Buddhists Object To Stamps
    142 4 Reuter. COLOMBO. The design of Indian stamps featuring Buddhas head has been subject > criticism among Buddhists here since its publication a few days back. While Buddhists of Ceyion are pleased to see the rising interest m Buddhism in India they feel date-stamping over the head
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    199 Days On Horse– Meat
    428 4 tes cost them 25 In n c o l?ar -a dozen matchea ar J ed for 13/6 d; wheTSs! diet consists} l«'v of uncooked f,orw «.T* biscuit, and one p£, £j ed water. stiff v L aln germs." lth t n**h They talked or Lob*
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    Rich Gold Strike
    69 4 Reuter. GEORGE I OWN. BHIIltiH GUIANA. Mar. 13: A ricfl gold reef was reported to have been discovered at tk mouth of the Barama rive in the northestern district Jie colony odj-ining V»n»" zueia. S. H Olzman. a miner who hi s nad considerable mining experience in
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    PK. POLICE WINNING WAR AGAINST SECRET SOCIETIES
    756 5 rp, h Mar. 14 —Although major crime has down considerably in recent months. c authorities are still waging a ceasethis ime against notorious Chinese Timely measures taken by the ive resulted in several hitherto danbeirig smashed. ctt sources ire increased the reoccupa,f eradicating
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    HK Moratorium Legislation
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    Untitled
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    Vain Challenge To China Communists
    510 5 U.P. Peiping, March 14.—Cut off from land reinforcements and dependent on air s ipplies, the Nationalist garrison of Szepingkai last week offered a vigorous, if apparently vain, challenge to the Communists who began mopping up governmentheld cities in their Manchurian rear. Standing at the junction
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    Paris Hums With Speculation
    349 5 MARSHALL PLAN CONFAB Reuter. PARIS, Mar. 14.—Delegates of 16 na ions arrived here today by road, rail and air for the Marshall plan conference which opens tomorrow to find the city bathed in sunshine and buzzing wi'h speculation on the outcome of the conference. The news
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    Mrs. and Mr. P. untitled and Mrs. Barraclough, snapped at Bukit Serene last Friday at Lord and Lady killearn's fare" • •' '• ■" well party.
    22 5 Mrs. and Mr. P. untitled and Mrs. Barraclough, snapped at Bukit Serene last Friday at Lord and Lady killearn's fare- well party.
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    RED PROBE DEMAND
    77 5 Reuter. SYDNEY, Mar. 14_Saying mat 'what happened in Czecho|S.oyakia could happen in Austraj Urn the Deputy Leader of the Australian Commonwealth Oppoj sit ion. Mr. E. J. Harrison, tonight urged a Roya! Commission to eni quire into Communist activities There was evidence of international spying activities throughout
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    LORD WAVELL AT CHINDIT REUNION
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    OUR TRADE UNIONS ON RIGHT LINES
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    190 6 U.P. PARIS, Mar. 14.—Mr. Soan Macßridge, Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs, said today Western European nations must go on wartime footing o make the Marshall plan succeed. "Th? same wartime enerey must be used against the enemies ol hunger poverty and
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    96 7 AAP. PERTH W< Urn Australia, ingdon, a left- entury for WestShcmeld Shield ored 289 for s Au-trahan touring I n>n Bradman ists began the matches before r England. The p, tsl three days. [ju r '',iii. who was seizea i en Bg, went on ling 11 tourrft
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    85 7 81 Joseph's School tefeal i the Indian As- a team by 53 run;. rickei he t..J.1. ground lirst, the School c. Aup 117 runs. J. jWa da the skipper scored 7 H: itj the Indian Assowlci. took thrtv WieNs or 17 runs. t ci
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    565 7 Reuter. (From Vernon Morgan.. LINCOLN. Mnr. 13. British flatfweing season opened today in glorious sunshine and although 33-1 outsider Commissar triumphed in the main event, the Lincolnshire Handicap backers had far better of the duel with bookmaker rival: for lour favourites and one second favourite which
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    153 8 U.P. ■mo, p ar 1 14 r The Sund V Em P l News •Cdi imv, n y R USSIa has offered Bri 'ain 2,000,00(1 r ach n "ry in exrnan g e f °r industrial It said the cfter will be discussed
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    319 8 ROME, Mar. 14.—About 25,000 women from over Italy—some carrying babies, many in mourning for sons lost in the last war, all from poorer classes—demonstrated for peace in Rome today una'jr Communist sponsorship. They listened to dozens cf Communist speeches condemning Western world
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    56 8 '.No 3elet2r cleleatocl «No <lullllacl» dv tvo 802!,. to! > lll' in 2 ol soccer 2t 8t Qearlzc'z 8,oun<z «lie !o«z dv uNe Nil 2l nalltlMt. lNo loam5 vero. ll p Lelolnr- <3onl. l3wetl. Njlo z' ?esoc.n. lavlor. Niilllern. «ill, >V2l-ren l»uler. ililno'3 SltNnmdrani XrlH.nn2iillniv. 0ll2nl. svluru82Hu.
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    41 8 U.P. 1 BELGRADE, Mar 14—Ml. K. Blum of Switzerland broke the j existing records with a 111-metre jump in the opening day of the International Skiing" "competi- tion at Planica. Slovenia. Snow conditions for the tournament were excellent. —U.P.
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    219 8 A team of swimmers to represent the Sinira. pore Chinese Swimmin* Club against the Penang Chinese Swimming: Club, at their aquatic mm tn he held in Penang during the Easter holidays was selected following a number of tryouts at th-4nool yesterday. pooi The following have
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    622 8 Reuter. LONDON, Mar. 14.—Britain's chances of winning the first international badminton trophy, the Thomas Cup. to be played- in London in the spring of next year are nil, judging from the results of tfcfc English badminton championships and reports from India and
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    68 8 n e Commercial Hign School Union defeated tne Joytul Juniors 2nd XI a' r,? C n r^S^ erday the Choon Guan English School ground by three goals to one. Kcnnv E and A. CHSTJ SCOred for the In another match, the C.H fc.U. nd XI draw
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