Malaya Tribune, 31 March 1948

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  • 61 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR TifE PEOPLE Larger Sales than any Afternoon Paper In Malaya Printed Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur, Ipon Penang. Tele^rama: "Tr-bune,Singapore." Telephone: 5811 (9 lines). EICHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1948 PRICE TEN CX VTS The MALAYA TRIBUNE London Agents Messrs. Colin Turner Ltd., Talbot
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  • 214 1 KOAAAAITTEE DISSOLVED Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, Mar. 30.—The United Nations Atom Control Commit+ee, appointed to draw up an international agreement for an Atomic Energy Control Board, collapsed entirely today. One member of the committee after another declared that further discussion would be pointless in view of
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  • 72 1 An Indian labourer named Attu died of a fractured skull as a result of an assault by a compatriot in the Municipal coolie lines in Syed Alwi Road yesterday evening. A fellow labourer, who was apprehended on the spot by other labourers, was handed over to
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  • 76 1 U.P. BANGKOK, MAR. 30.—The Kuomintang headquarters in Bangkok today disclaimed any knowledge of a Chinese plot to seize power in Siam. Li Li Yeo, secretary-gen-eral of the Kuomintang Party in Siam, told Reuter: "The Kuomintang Party knows nothing about the reported Chinese plot.'' Week-end Siamese press
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  • 52 1 WASHINGTON, MAR. 3U.— The United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee which last week withdrew a report accusing Chinese leaders of inexperience and Ineptitude, today declared in a revised version that China's Nationalist Government "represents our common contest against threats to international trade .and security and against
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  • 46 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI, MAR 30. Pcl'ce arrested 17 Communist and Trade Union leaders n raids this morning on the Delhi headquarters of the Communist Party of India and on the offices ot some organisitions affiliated to the Communist-dominated all-India Trade Union Congress.—Reuter.
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  • 23 1 WASHINGTON, Mar. 30 After fjve hours' debate the Senate tonight passed by a voice vote the bill providing $463,000,000 aid to China.—
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  • 102 1 I gUgNi <:i Alh'HS, Alai. 1» St* 'it i I'H n HalrajjH Nmreĕo w*» kicked jgi i-■it' n to ĕemtk by and fans wko dis- fgrted h ith a penalty he i 4 dmrimg a pmmt* [lm May. (ci prnnlt'.rd the i ijfcu ;i Stars"
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  • 225 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Mar. 30—Henry Wallace, third toirj candidate for the Presidency, today denounc President Truman's proposals for coscrip'i'on as prt of a programme of unlimited aggression by tne United States. evidence before the mtU Ai m d Services Com Ifr Wallace accused |> Truri Ml administration
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  • 57 1 Reuter. MANILA, MAR. 30.—Adrmlal A. Boyd, Commander-in-Chief of the British Pacific Fleet, arrived in Mamla today for a brief courtesy call aboaid the cruiser HMS London which was accompanied by the destroyers, HMS Consort and HMS Alert. Courtesies of the port were extended to Admiral Boyd
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  • 59 1 SPECTATOR) VaJayo" ('up matches will *Mt on May 1. 4« o//idoj of the S A F A '.1 Me thai it is likely that petition >»(ii/ f>- run on ttenmlfommf lines during mo«om for the Tuy Lian fkk trophy. {See "Football md Views"), tot !>rocceds /ro-*i
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  • 34 1 Europeans, beiieved to gn sailors, robbed a ixi driver of his watch ton Circus last night. TV Europeans (irove off in which was later ren Uoon Teng Road, Mlskin Station.
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  • 20 1 >W Mar. 30. Signa-Kninish-Soviet pact of md friendship is this week-end, it was reliably in Moscow *%fct
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  • 31 1 \h\\ U v l, r,:i Memorial v {l 'la morning there irsal of the cereparade for tomorf? of the LegisirV v I' MaKerron the unofficial present. unoAciala were members.
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  • 64 1 LONDON, MAR. 30 The Ministry of supply announces revised buying and selling prices for Malayan tinmetal. The buying price is adjusted to £504 per ton from £500 and the selling prices to £505' from £504 both exsmelter, Penan; or Singapore. The new prices operate on and from
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  • 85 1 Batavia. Mar. 27. —A C"JrCC« has been imposed on durakarta, second city of the Indonesian Republic in Centra! Java, after another disturbance caused by the "irregJlars", alleged to be follower? of the former Republican Maj. Gen Sutomo, according to reports fdom Jogjakarta tonight. During the "mopping up"
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  • 55 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Mar. 30—The House of Representatives today approved the inclusion of Spain in the Marshall Plan by a vote of 149 to 52. The amendment on Spain was proposed yesterday by Representative Alvin Okonski, Republican, Wisconsin, who called the Franco Government the "greatest bulwark
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  • 47 1 U.P. SOMERSET, England, (Mar. 30.—Circus manager George Clarke complained today his two perform.ng sea lions were on strik e because of a sudden herring shortage. Clarke said. "They simply won't perform unless I feed them with herring. They won't eat anything' else. 1— U.P.
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  • 22 1 A Chinese was waylaid by two compatriots near the Padang last night and robbed of $74 in cash and valuables.
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  • 217 1 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, Mar. 30.— R v s s ia tonight pronounced herself opposed to a United States proposal for a temporary trusteeship over Palestine, said that there were no grounds for convening a special session of the Assembly, and declared that the Palestine Commission should continue its
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  • 308 1 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, Mar. 30—The United States Its resolution calling for an immediate tiuce in Palestine before the Security Council tonight. The resolution said: "The Security Council in exercise of its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, notes with grave
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  • 56 1 Reuter. MEXICO CITY, Mar. 30. More than 12 people are reported killed and 18 injured when a train collided uHth a crowded bus at a level crossing north of Mexico City today. The train, which was travelling at about 60 miles an hour,
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  • 64 1 Reuter. BANGKOK, MAR. 30. Siam's re'ations with Soviet Russia will be "purely diplomatic and political and will have nothing to do with ideologies," it was authoritatively learned here today. A high Foreign Office source, discounting speculations regarding SiameseSoviet relations, said: "There is nothing special about it. Our relations
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  • 40 1 ANKARA, MAR. 30.—American guns, radio equipment ieeps and other army vehicles, and a considerable amount of ammunition, comprising the second shipment of American aid to Turkey, were being unloaded today at the Turkish port of Ismid.
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  • 52 1 Reuter. PRAGUE, Mar. 30.—The Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry announced today that her United Nations delegate would not appear before the Security Council to discuss the Chilean complaint against Czechoslovakia, if summoned to do so. Czechoslovakia refused to be placed in a position of a defendant, the statement
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  • 32 1 Reuter. MANILA. Mar. 30. One American boy was killed and three girls were hurt yesterday when a landmine exploded near the army base school of Port Stotsenberg- Reuter.
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  • 153 1 Reuter. LONDON, Mar. 30.—Sir Stafford Cripps, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, next Thursday will have the paradoxical duty of announcing an alltime record budget surplus to a coun'ry striving to pvert economic disaster. With a domestic credit balance cf probably £800.000,00!» Sir Stafford Grlpps as head
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  • 73 1 BOGOTA, Mar. 30,- Official statements at the opening ot the Pan-American conference here today revealed the line-up of the 21 American nations on the colonial question. Against European possession of colonies are Argentine, Guatemala, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Chile, Paraguay and Peru. In favour of European
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  • 49 1 Reuter. BOGOTA, Mar. 30—George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, got unanimous support of the Pan-American conference here today, for a proposal that the American nations investigate the "problem of foreign inspired subversive activities directed against the institutions, peace and security of the American repub ics"—Reuter.
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  • 94 1 U.P. BANGKOK, Mar. SO. Five officials of the Royal Household Bureau have been retired, without pension, for joy ridiny on a Royal automobile without permission, it was learned today. ■It was also disclosed that 59 officials were recently discharged from the Royal Household Bureau
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  • 70 1 Reuter. SHANGHAI, Mar. 30.—Com-munist-General Nieh Yungcheng's Inner Mongolian offensive which opened a week ago with a spectacular sweep into Government territory has collapsed completely after a series of sledge hammer blows from General Fu Tso-yi's crack units, according to pro-Government despatches today. Nationalist troops are now described
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  • 30 1 Reuter. j BAGHDAD, Mar. 30 Nasrat Al Farisi, Minister of the Interior, was today appointed Iraq's Foreign Minister in succession to Dr. Hamdi Pachachi, who died on Saturday.—Reuter.
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  • 1213 2 CERTAIN NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES TERRI TORIES. CLOSED TO TRADE WITH SINGAPORE AND MA LAVA. WILL NOW GRADUALLY RETURN TO NORMAL TRADE ACCORDING TO THE DETAILS OF THE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENTS AND THE N E.I. GOVERNMENT, PUBLISHED IN SINGAPORE LAST NIGHT. The closed
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  • 451 2 (From Our Own Reporter) KUALA LUMPUR. MAR. 20. THE URGENT NEED TO REDUCE THE EXPORT DUTY ON TIN. WHICH NOW REPRESENTS 18 PERCENT OF THE NETT TIN ORE VALUE. WAS STRESSED 3.V. COL. H. S. LEE. PRESIDENT OF THE ALL-MALAYA CHINESE MINING ASSOCIATION, AT
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  • 469 2 (Tribune Staff KemaH*, BETWEEN 50,000 and 60.000 Pik'ks r, HAVE BEEN LOANED OUT TO APPPovVx, F PERSONS SINCE THE LIBERATION ST v-i li) TODIAN OF PROPERTY. MR. PAUL STOP > CONFERENCE vpaTERDAY "**V«R, AT This loan was made in order i to render the borrowers' houses
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  • 58 2 A subject ol vital iatena Ceylon Tamils in this at the C.T.A. Youth G. Friday next al 6.30 The discus.sj.jn will t: at the Ceylon Tanril Vss Hall, 11. Handy R those who aie willing part in the discussion given an opportunity to ft his views. A
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  • 33 2 Since Saturday b st presentjtive ol the G ment of inua in M J. A. Thivy. ha: with an attack not be able to keep bis <• pcintmcnts for th days.
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  • 263 3 I Tribune Staff Reporter) 0 HUNDRED EX-ROYAL AIR FORCE GROUND SONNEL FLOWN OUT FROM THE UNITED KING ARE EXPECTED TO PASS THROUGH SINGAPORE V ON THEIR WAY TO JOIN THE ROYAL NEW \NTJ AIR FORCE rHE MEN WILL BE FLOWN TO SINGAPORE
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  • 43 3 U.P. NANKING. March 30: -The Official Central News, from Tokyo, reporting on the Draper Mission to Japan. say s it indicates '*a reoriented United States policy to treat J.ipan as the most valuable country in the troubled Far East."— UP.
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  • 26 3 All flags on public buildings will be flown at half mast today, the day of the funeral of H.H. the Sultan of Perak.
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  • 78 3 Reuter. Basti (United Provinces), Mareh 30.- A runaway elephant here crashed through three villages, smashing huts and uprooting trees. When eventually he had been chained, five people were dead and two seriously injured. The mahout (driven was seated on his charge with three children when the elephant
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  • 139 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) W. C. Choy, who represented China in the Davis Cup Competition as recently as in 1946, is in Singapore. He arrived in Singapore on Monday from Hongkong on a business visit. Yesterday Choy played a few friendly tennis sets with Malayan
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  • 814 3 NEW ARRIVALS REVIEWED 'This House Against This House", by Vinrtnl Sheean (McMillan) Thi new book by Vincent which has just ar rived it Mi rs. M. Dulfakir. High Singapore, is closely re- to its notable predecessor, •en the Thunder and the Sun". As before. Mr. Sheean tombines his
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  • 294 3 SURVEYING THE RUBBER MARKET IN 1947 AI YESTERDAY'S MEETING OF THE SINGAPORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSOCIATION MR I. G SAL MOND. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN. BAUD IT WAS A YEAR REMARKABLE FOR IHE VIOLENT PRICE FLUCTUATIONS WHEN IT DROPPED FROM n PEAK OF STRAUS
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  • 119 3 (From Our Oum Reverter) KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. .to. A decision to refer tlx question of ex-patriaHon }">ii of officer* recruited oni aid* Mulatto to o Special Joint Committee of tht Federation und Singapore for consideration and report high-Ughte4 today's- deliberations of the Federal Legislative Council which sat
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  • 82 3 After thirty years' sd viein Government. Mr. A. Latlff, Senior Malay Interpreter. Supreme Court. Singapore, will be going on leave tomorrow, preparatory to retirement. Mr. Latiff joined the servic. on Mai. 1. 1918. and served in Penang and Butterworth for 19 years. He was transferee! to the
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  • 33 3 Pciping, March 30. -Tientsin police announced today that they had broken a ring of slave traffickers led by a 61-year-old woman who supplied China coast brothels with young Chinese girls.
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  • 32 3 The Food Control Rationing and Distribution Offices at the Victoria Memorial Hall will be closed tomorrow consequent on the inauguration of the Singapore Legislative Council, which meets in the Hall.
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  • 238 3 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VARIOUS FEDERATION j OF MALAYA AND SINGAPO RE INDIAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AT A MEETING HERE LAST SATURDAY AGREED TO FORM A CENT RAL BODY AND A £TAND- ING COMMITTEE FOR MALAYA TO TACKLE ALL PANMALAYAN INDIAN CHAMBERS PROBLEMS WITH THE
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  • 159 3 A MOTOR CAR OWNER. TEO CHONG KEE. WAS SENTENCED TO 22 MONTHS' RIGOROUS IMPRISONMENT BY THE FOURTH CRIMINAL DISTRICT JUDGE YESTERDAY ON TWO CHARGES OF CHEATING IN RESPECT OF TWO SUMS OF $500. It was stated in evidence that Uie accused falsely represented himself as
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  • 162 3 The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Committee has been constituted with Mr. N. Krishna Pillay as chairman, Mr. K. T. John (Hon. Secretary). Messrs. A. A. R. Annamalai Chettiar. Teja Singh, and N. Neelakantan Nair as joint Hon. Treasurers. Other members of the Committee are Dr. N. Mootathamby, Messrs.
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  • 51 3 A talk on "Islam At Thr Crosswards" will be given by Mr. Ahmed bin Ibrahim on Friday. April 2. at 7.30 p.m. at 121. Serangoon Road. All Muslims and members of the public who are interested are cordially invited to attend. The lecture will be given in
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  • 185 3 Alleged to have committed a serious offence on a twclvc-vear-old Malay girl two nights in succession, Abdul Rahman bin Samat. a middle-aged Indian Muslim, appeared before Seventh Magistrate A. G. Shears on a tentative charge of rape, yesterday. A.S.P. E. Moulc. prosecuting, said that the girl
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  • 110 3 Enrolment at the Peoples Education Association Class at Handy Road has reached a record number of 90. and many more are daily coming in. The class has been divided into two one for beginners on Tin sday and Friday and the othei for Advanced students on
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  • 736 4 Th e new government of Siam does noUappear jto be eager to pursue j opportunities ty> streng- then friendly relations I with her neighbours of Southeast) Asia, to judge from one or two recent events. The j Malay provinces in j South Siam complain I bitterly of
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  • 1618 4  -  CONDUCTED By OBSERVER Few people will disagree with me when I say that 3«> far as service frequency and congesBURDEN tion ,eco OF FARES problem 0 f transport in Singapore has now lost many of its jagged edges. If a serious problem remains, it is the
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  • 150 4 "I want you »j fear of death; fay th, makes us "**■<* religtou, fH a warrior ~ho' cause; i.e. Truth. Dean? fiend, he is the uZ* r frien.is; J* agony; he helps uu selves; he evs chances, n w h bjj sleep, a sweet reatorer h "What
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  • 112 4 For tie Brat time lor centuries, the village o| Bate bridge in Wentleydak b vfcfeout a horn blower, rbj out the winter months Ha forest horn has been Man near the old stocks <>n the village green u t 9 p.m. Ouginally it was a guide to mderers
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  • 39 4 Eighty-eight-yraß,--mas George Chapman, ol Newtown. Westbury. WIIU :ut his 21st Birthday cake. He was born on Febraarj S 1860. He gave a 21st Mrttto? party, too. and receive key of the door from family which inc'.udrs ?reat-grandsons.
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  • 158 4 KARACHI, Hydro-electric development plans now oelng considered by the West Punjab Government aim at generating 100,000 kilowatts to meet the requirements of the proposed industrial development of the province. The Rasul works, utilising the fall front the Upper Jhelum Canal to the Lower Jhe'um Canal, is
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  • 230 5 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A former ofheer attached to a military unit in Singapore has set out on a walking tour which will take him across Australia from Perth to Melbourne, a distance of 2,400 miles. He is Capt. Alexander Hewitt Mcßobbie, formerly of
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  • 52 5 A Chinese passenger died oh board the s.s. Kweiyang" as a result of a heart attack, while the ve:;sel was on its way to Singapore from Hong Kong. The Chinese was buried at sea on March 26. The Kweiyang arrived here on Monday en route
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  • 77 5 Two well-known Jewish families will be united in a wedding on Sunday, April 4, at the Maghain Aboth Synagogue, Waterloo Street at 4.45 p.m. The families are the Meyer Saul family from Seremban and the Elias Jonah family of Singapore. Elias, son of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer
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  • 63 5 Reuter. E BY. NEW 30: A police nl who returned ttei visiting M.t north <d N» h stlgate report*b Lweefl th* ithoi itie.s and i nditions ther n complaint! ■-a inst Chines-, bad ebjected tc r i' civil police fti at rritorla i pei Intendent's
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  • 57 5 A Chinese lad residing at Woodland Road was rewarded by the local Police for recovering 8 boxes, containing 8.520 rounds of 9 mm amrnuni tion, while he was cutting grass on Sunday. He reported his discovery to the Police immediately and was commended for his public
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  • 380 5 Reuter. TRIESTE Mar. 26. For ibitsnti of this which has tlos lline news daily way evenly ■I" not expec* Minted coup by Yugoslav Prelate wbik ***** ''nited States ioned here and in naval unjfs i >u1 they are WOJ riYugoslavs might ye if and when il by
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  • 168 5 Reuter and AAP. SYDNEY Mar 30. Any nolicv which involved rebuild 'ne Janan as a leading industrial nation carried with it certain risks for the future, said the former British Commonwealth representative on the Allied Council for Japan (Mr VV. Macmahon Ball) in a broad
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  • 132 5 Reuter. SHANGHAI, Mar. SO.—Traveller* in Taiwan are attracted to the town of Jihyuehtan (Sun and Moon Lake) not so much by its large hydro-electric plant as by two native princesses. The two princesses, the elder married and the younger only 17, are the daughters of Jihyuehtan's
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  • 29 5 Reuter. Nanking, March 30. China decided to participate in the International Goods Exhibition in Milan, scheduled to be held in mid-April, it was learned today. Reuter.
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  • 846 5 Mr. K. Karthigasu, of the Mails Department, Klang Post Office, after 27 years service has retired and has left for Ceylon. Miss Crodsall, daughter of the Financial Secretary, Mr. W. D. Godsall, made her first solo flight at the Kuala Lumpur Flying Club on Monday evening. Mr.
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    271 5 A group picture of the dateqales to the tith Annual District Conference of Rotary International and members of tho Inner Wheel taken last Sunday at the Lido where the final session was held. fjonjfmf, Uft to right Mrs. Houghton, Miss Jee Swee Lian. Mrs. Wodak. Mrs. 8. H. Peek. Mrs.
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  • 26 5 A Malay woman was robbed of about $10 worth of jewellery by two Chinese at Phillip Avenue, off Yeo Chu Kang, yesterday morning at 6.30 a.m.
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  • 895 5 We shall not defeat Communism by whipping up antiCommunist hysteria but by abolishing the poverty and injustice in which it breeds. By Richard Grossman, MP. for Coventry Eu.st IF there :s one thing I learned from my journey to Prague it is a hatred oi"
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  • 523 6 (From Our Own Reporter) KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 30—A decision 'o refer the question of expatriation pay for officers recruited outside Malaya to a Special Join* Committee of the Federation and Singapore for consideration and report high-lighted today's deliberations of the Federal Legislative Council, the ninehour
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  • 50 6 At the annual general meeting of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association yesterday, the following were appointed to the committee Messrs. L G. Salmond, E. G. Holiday, F. L. Watcrhouse, T. M. Clark, F. D. Harrison, K. Nisson, R. Ronton. S. W. Topson. Forrester and Forbes.
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  • 464 6 (From Our Own Reporterr IPOH, MARCH '0.--IN THE MAGNIFICENT THRONE ROOM OF THE MILLIONDOLLAR ISTANA ISKANDARIAH, WHERE TEN YEARS AGO HE WAS INSTALLED SULTAN OF PERAK WITH ALL THE POMP AND SPLENDOUR ATTENDING SUCH CEREMONIES OF AN EASTERN PRINCE, LIES THE BODIES OF SIR ABUL AZIZ. SULTAN
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  • 94 6 GIMSON 'S MESSAGE TO PERAK ROYAL FAMILY The following message was sent by H.E. the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, to the British Adviser, Perak. last Wednesday, on the death of the Sultan of Perak, H.H. Sir Aodul Aziz, K.C.M.G.. K.B.E. "Please convey to His Highness's family my deepest
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  • 246 6 ARRESTED SIX MONTHS AGO ON A TENTATIVE CHARGE OF MURDER, IGNATIUS MUTHU. A MIDDLEAGED PRINTER EMPLOYED AT RAFFLES HOTEL, WALKED OUT OF THE SEVENTH POLICE COURT A FREE HAN YESTERDAY. Muthu, who had been held in the remand prison until yesterday, left the court with
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    • 222 6 Singapore Turf Club. SUMMER MEETING 1948. Saturday 24th. Wednesaay 28th April. Saturday Ist. Wednesday sth and Saturday Bth May. 1948. ENTRIES CLOSE at 12 noon on WEDNESDAY, 14TH APRIL. 1948. LADY GULST MEMBERS. No Lady XHiest Members' Badges will be issued SWEEPS.—A $1 Unlimited Sweepstakes FOR MEMBERS ONLY will be
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    • 489 6 p. o. and SSilSr SAILINGS TO AND FROM SUM |vn M TRALIA, CHINA, ADEN, EGYPT Co\t\v\?- U UNITED KING DOM PRINCIPAL AGFA rw ISLAY, KERR CO,, LTD (fa* in HA, COLLYER Ql AY Tel: Passage 5455-1 >,;,,', Vn£2s And at 25 BEACH PENANG P. O. CO., AGENTS: KUALA 11 mpi
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  • 499 7 Football News And Views.... By SPECTATOR ACTION will not be tiaken against the two Singapore footballers who participated in the Hongkong Olympic trials, I was assured this morning by two top officials of the M.C.F.A. and the S.C.F.A. Iht main object
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  • 254 7 The Inland Club March Stableford Competition played over the week-end resulted us follows: "A" DIVISION X T. San (14) 22 12 4 34J WINNER. C. Y. Koh (16) 17 -f 14 ss 31 R. (16) 17 11 31. K. S Murray (8) 23 4 7 30.
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  • 291 7 M. F A J Ihe R A.P. Stmbawarig ana lalay FbcttnD Ife n die v. tytntng biu sccr< If S f€OJ j L.vi irn Je.iteiure al Ci> ft Jtt p- *ang y -;cr lay. the earn. •nd>: -i la .i desi d« tw. p<h anish i
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  • 28 7 Reuter. London March 30.—Sir Hugh i- <n appointed United ii representative in Pal- hsi irtei the termination of late on May 15. the fflce spokesman an- today, Renter.
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  • 126 7 Playing at the Victoria School hall on Sunday morning the Fairwind Badminton Party defeated the MacLaine Watson Badminton Party by four games to three. The following are the results the Fairwind B.P. players mentioned first: —Singles Lawrence Choo lost to Lav Teng Siah 2 —15. 5-15; Low
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  • 309 7  -  By the Sports Editor Singapore's quarter-mile star, M. K. Sundram, whose ambition is '.o go to the Olympics, will run the 440-stretch for .he Police at the R.A.F. spor's in Seletar today. Sundram will be timed for the 440 by a colleague, Inspector Thurairajah. He
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  • 103 7 Mr. J. S. de Souza, an official of the Singapore A.A.A. map be present to see M. K. Sundram, JfffO-star in action, at the Scletar sports today. Mr. de Souza informed the Tribune this morning tluit if Sundram showed good form this afternoon, his time for
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  • 70 7 Singapore beat Johor? in the lma.l of the southern section of th c Malayan Chinese Basket Ball Competition to select the Malayan team for the China Olympics by 65 points to '42 points yesterday and thus qualify to meet Penang finalists in the northern section.
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  • 46 7 The Bright Star Sports Club will stage a concert on April 10. It will take place in the open space in front of the Selangor Flats near the railway area. The concert is chiefly for the children of railway people.
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  • 67 7 Reuter. London. Mar. 30.—The following are today's football results: FIRST DIVISION Aston Villa 2. Charlton Ath 1. SECOND DIVISION Coventry 0. Plymouth Arg. O West Bromwich 1. Binning hatn ITHIRD DIVISION (North) Bradford C. 2. Halifax Town I. IRISH LEAGUE Aids 4. Derry City 1. Belfast
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  • 45 7 Playing two badmintun matches, each consisting of four singles and three doubles, during the Easter Holidays* the Avonova B. P. defeated the Prosperous B.P. "B" team by four games to three, and lost to Alsagoff B.P. "A" team by five games to two.
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  • 273 7 MAI4AY F.A. O.AMICABLE A. A. 1; A GOAL SCORED 12 MINUTES FROM THE KICKOFF GAVE THE AMICABLE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION FULL POINTS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE MALAY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION AT JALAN BESAR STADIUM YESTERDAY. A POOR CROWD WITNESSED A SCRAPPY DISPLAY IN WHICH BOTH
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  • 66 7 The eliminating conVesus at the Inter-Cervices Boxing championships will he heia at the Happy World Covered Stadium tonight. Very satisfactory entries have been received, and one ot the best, if not the best, diows of its kind is assurred jn the night of the finals on April 2,
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  • 79 7 Reuter. NEW YORK, MAR. 30. Fiank Parker and Gardner Mulloy v/ill be America's nominated players for the men's singles at Wimbledon it is learned here. They will also compete in the French and Belgian championsh.ps. Parker and Mulloy were second and fourth respectively behind Jack Kramer
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  • 60 7 The following will turn up .or the tribune Press XI in i return soccer match against the Commercial High School XI at the Telok Kurau Schor 1 ground on Sunday at 4.00 o.m. Pestana: Kasini; Munusamy: k T accb: Yuscff; Jalil. Rapan; Rajab: H. Fang: George Tan L.
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  • 435 7 (Tribune Staff Reporter) There is a great lack of promising young boxers in Singapore said Mr. F. W. Brewer. Vice-President of the Singapore Boxing Association, at the annual general meeting held at the Happy World yesterday. "IT IS ABSOLUTELY NE-\ CESSARY TO DO EVERY- j
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  • 58 7 'Ihe Merrilads Musical Association will celebrate its 24th anniversary with a dinner and dance at Katong Rest House, 107 Marine Parade on Saturday. April 3 A renggeng party and a dance orchestra will be in attendance. A&er dinner, prizes for the soccer competition will be distributed by
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  • 39 7 The Grand Nooran Opera and R a yuan Kenchaaa staged a successful "Vaudeville Night" at the Twilight Hall in the New World Amusement Park, last night. Malay drama was interspersed with songs and dances.
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  • 462 7 Weaving through defence with skilful passing and accurate shooting, Singapore played fast and thrilling basket ball to beat Johore in the final of the Southern Section of the Malayan Basket-Bail Competition to select :.he Malayan team foi the China Olympics, and thus qualify to meet
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  • 395 8 CHIANG A "POWER-CRAZY DESPOT", WHILE.... Reuter. NEW YORK, Mar. 30.—The la'i? Gen. Joseph Stilwell, wartime United Spates commander in the Far East, i n private papers published here today, denounced Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as the "power-crazy despot" of a corrupt one-party government) "supported by a Gestapo
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  • 49 8 The latest Municipal weekly health report shows an increase in deaths by tuberculosis. The number was 33 as compared t > 31 of the previous week. The total number of deaths decreased from 185 to 162. A slight increase in the infantile death rate was reported.
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  • 114 8 U.P. Hong Kong. March 30. Crown Counsel A. Lonsdale, opening extradition proceedings against Hsu Chi Cheng, former director of the Postal Bank, charged today that Hsu defrauded the Chinese Government of almost three billion (CNC $3 000.000.000) Chinese dollars through operation of three "dummy firms" which purchase
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  • 114 8 U.P. London. Marcli 30. Radio Moscow charged today that Russia had uncovered an Am-erican-directed spy ring of former German army officers operating out of Western Germany, Austria and Sweden to learn the secrets of the Soviet zone. The radio said the leader operating in the
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  • 34 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Mar. 30.— New funds for atomic weapons and research for military road work in Alaska were among the giants approved today by the House Appropriations Committee. -Reuter.
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  • 128 8 Reuter. PORT ELIZABETH, Mar. 30. J. L. Coleman, the British Empire marathon champion and record holder, who finished sixth in the 1936 Olympics, and Dennis Shore, South Africa's leading sprinter for some years, are included in South Africa's team of 11 chosen for the Olympic Games
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  • 125 8 U.P. New York, Mar. 30.—Ttairty-eight-year-old Barney Ross, former world welterweight boxing champion announced today that he has joined the George Washington Legion and the American Group, which are being organized to fight with the Jews in Palestine. Ross, who fought with the marines
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  • 133 8 Miss Eleanor Mary Hitchon became the bride of Mr. Guy Vyvyan Neubronner. Incorporated Accountant, at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday afternoon, the Rt. Rev. J L. Wilson, Bishop of Singapore and Canon R. K. S. Adams officiating a t the ceremony. Comdr. R. K. Hudson, RN, gave the
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  • 180 8 U.P. London, Mar. 30.—Miss Martha Raye last night howled and blasted her way through the London critics who had earlier predicted that her humour would be too bawdy for the English audiences. For sheer noise and vitality Miss Raye outdid all her fellow American
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  • 295 8 Follow**- handican? for Saturday's at worpkp l, I 11 "owMi'g Boy o n~ 8 1? Qnn DP'-'-totl'lO 9.0« r'onrten l S 04 Mid Winter) 7 Sdver Spear 7 in Mar Scott 70« Jacknor 7 03 HORSES: CLASS 1 DIV. 1, 6 FURLONGS Minstrel Boy 904 Kashmiri
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  • 75 8 Reuter. BERLIN, MAR. 30. The Soviet representative failed. to take last-minute action j to a call a meeting of the Allied Control Council today when the Inter-Allied Secretariat met in Berlin this morning. The Council should have met this afternoon under the chairmanship of Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky, the
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  • 208 8 Reuter. LONDON. Mar. 30.—British Government securities today suffered losses of l/Bth as a result of switching operations from these stocks into electricity supply shares. Terms of the new British electricity stock to be issued on the nationalisation of supply companies will be known after the Stock Exchange
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  • 92 8 Reuter. NEW YORK. Mar. 30.—A six-minute clash between the police and strikers occurred at the entrance of the New York Stock Exchange today the second day of the strike of Wall Street workers —when striker*rushed the police in an effort to increase the number of pickets
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  • 32 8 Reuter. Moscow, March 30. —The Finish delegation was believed here today to have reached agreement with the Soviet Government on the general lines of a future aid treaty with the Russians. —Reuter.
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  • 315 8 Reuter. KINGSTON, Mar. 30.—Thanks to a brilliant century by Everton Weekes, who substituted when George Headley was unable to play, the West Indies finished their first innings today 263 runs ahead of England in the Final Test here. The West Indians scored 490 in
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  • 56 8 The Singapore Police made a big haul of ammur.iti:n yesterday when they arrested a Javanese and live Indians at the 114 miW Bukit Timah Road. The men were alleged to have been in possession of 80 hand-grenades, 174 twoinch mortar smoke bombs, 6 three-inch mortar smoke bombs,
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  • 111 8 Reuter. Calcutta, March 30. One hundred-and-ninety-flve people had so far been placed under detention in West Bengal following the provincial government's ban on the Communist Party of India on March 26, the West Bengal Home Minister Kiran Shankar Roy said today. Addressing the Legislative Assembly,
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  • 35 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON. March 30 The House of Representatives today adopted by voice vote an amendment requiring that 50 per cent of Marshall aid cargoes be carried in United States ships.—Reuter.
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  • 31 8 After the St. Andrew's Cathedral Evensong on Sundays tea will be Lerved in the Chapter House for worshippers and friends who may nappen to be visiting the parish.
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  • 39 8 A talk in English on Mohamed Asad's "Islam at the Crosswards" will bo given by Mr. Ahmad Ibrahim on Friday at 7.30 p.m. at 12!. Herangoon Road, Singapore. All interested Muslims are cordially invited.
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  • 74 8 Four Tribune action pictures of Monday's game. Top left, Kam Thong, the Chinese 'keeper punches the ball away as a Malay forward jumps in a bid to head the ball into the net; centre, A Malay player just beats his opponent to the ball near the M.C.F.A. goalmouth; right, A
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  • 110 8 The R.A.F. Sembawang,u fly at 2.30 p.m. on April 7 Three teams will b e competing. Thry are thn s HO Sembawang. the Raf s-> vice Pohce. and th,. 2 r and 60 Squadrons. m An interesting feature of the-meet will be the h»ehlumn demonstrations L. O. Valberg,
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  • 93 8 VIENNA MAR. ft-ltae people, including a 20-ytar-old girl, were shot dead and 19 injured when a man in Russian uniform fired vtt a sub-machinegun on dancing couples and the band at an Easter dance at Husefsbe"g. near Wiener Neustadt. about 30 miles south of Venna The agency
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  • 66 8 The wedding of Po:y Lan and Mr. Tan Keng Chuan took place at the w gistrar yesterday. Miss Soh Poei J*" J only daughter ol m Mrs. Soh Yew Guan. I tended by a Bower v Margaret Tan. b recond son of Mr. l» Hong, is attached
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