Malaya Tribune, 20 August 1948

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  • 67 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE v Larger Sales than any A fternoon Paper in Malaya Printing Simultancuu.du huaUi Lumpur, Ipoh <f Penang Telegrams: "Tribune S pore.'' Telephone: 5811 (9 linen) HART **a<;i;s SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS The MALAYA TRIBUNE London Agent§ Measrt
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  • 115 1 TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN LAY ANG LA YANG, Today.—A European planter was shot dead when his jeep was ambushed by insurgents while on his way to Sembrong hstate, between Layang Layang and Kengam. The planter. Mr. J. l. Boden, of Chimara Estate, was bringing a rescue
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  • 51 1 U.P. STOCKHOLM, Thurs, Nin L men were killed in a gun explosion at a secret coastal inn battery in southern Stockaolm archipelago today. Five i men were woundtd, one seI riously. The explosion occurred while a group was firing a 21-centi-netre gun. which burst with x terrific
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  • 51 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Thurs. Former State Department dlicial Alger Hiss has refused for the time being (o submi; «>,a lie (iHUcior ki connection with the House ol Re prt sentatives spy investigation, it was reported today. His accuser. Wh it takeChamber, had declared his willingness to submit to the
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  • 34 1 U.P. HAMBURG. Thursday.—The independent newspaper Die Ziet charged editorially here today that the Russians "are kidnapping" children in Rus-sian-occupied countries including Eastern Germany to train them as "fanatical followers of Communism."—U.P.
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  • 33 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Thursday. The Government of India will contribute 100,000 rupees for the relief of Arab and Jewish refugees in Palestine, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced here tonight.—Reuter.
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  • 35 1 U.P. SWANSEA. Wales, Thursday.- A cargo of 6.400 tons of scrap arrived here from Singapore today, remnants of petroleum storage tanks which bombed by the Japanese and the Allies during the war. U.P.
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  • 32 1 U.P. DIEPPE. Thursday.—A daylong schedule of Franco-Ca-ladian ceremonies wound up today the commemoration of he 6th anniversary of the commando raid by Canadian soldiers on Dieppe In August. 1942.— U.P.
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  • 32 1 Reuter. I CAIRO, Thursday. Bombconscious Calrenes were aroused from their siesta this afternoon by a big explosion caused (by dynamiting in a quarry 15 miles away behind the pyraj mlds.—Reuter.
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  • 40 1 Reuter. LONDON. Thursday—R.A.F. Corporal William Francis Powell, 25, was fined a total of £500 in Bow Stteet for evading customs duty on two cameras, camera lens and articles inj eluding seven watches and I some fountain pens.—Reuter.
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  • 18 1 U.P. HOLLYWOOD, Thursday. Greta Garbe today signed up for her long-heralded return to the screen.—U.P.
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  • 24 1 U.P. HYDERABAD. Thurs. The Government of Hyderabad today decided to place its Independence- dispute with India before the United Nations. —U.P.
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  • 109 1 Wo rld Heading For War —GBS U.P. DON, Tknrmkip.—Geoward Shaw wrote to the that the world is M f** uar, became of the "present confusion of ITntil wo clear up our poli- nu nclature, our politia oratory and journalism can to nothing but "pot callttle black" without either th< m
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  • 74 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thursday. Carrying 26 passengers and a full I' of freight and mail, the Hr.tish South American Air- ly.s Tudor IV air liner "Star Leopard" left London airport "•lay on the first scheduled Tudor flight since the "Star Tiger* 1 disaster last February. "Star Leopard"
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  • 44 1 (T.ilune Staff Reporter) Heavily armed Singapore policemen saw a special air- i craft take off safely from Kallang Airport this morning with over 38 cases of gold bullion worth millions of dollars on board. The valuable cargo is destined for Saigon.
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  • 21 1 Reuter. Paris. Aug. 19. -The French National Assembly approved the government policy in Indochina by 347 votes against IS3. -Reuter.
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  • 10 1 Reuter. DAMASCUS, Thursday. The Syrian Cabinet resigned tonight.—Reuter.
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  • 204 1 Reuter —U.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday.—The United Nations Security Council was called to a special session tonight to consider a cable from Count Folke I.ernadotte. Palestine mediator, declaring the Mtuation in Jerusalem was getting out of hand. Coun t Bernadotte cable Mr. Trygve Lie, United
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  • 53 1 M iines shot six feet into tht hi when a discarded cigaretU wd ignited escaping gas from a faulty main in Boat Quay. >.• ton lay. A fire engine extinguished fire. After cutting the pipe, the in. men plugged it and stood > until the
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  • 31 1 Reuter. PARIS, Thursday.— U Mya Beta, Burmese Minister in wis, had an emergency opc'ation following a sudden attack of appendicitis. His [ition was later reported M <!iiite satisfactory. Rev-
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  • 19 1 Reuter. KARACHI, Thursday.—Many Hvea and countless heads of have been lost by floods n west Bengal.—Reuter.
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  • 22 1 U.P. I.MINOTON. North CaThurs. A batch ol fagee Estonians fleeing from ian oppression decked !:f> r. y( sti rday.—U.P.
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  • 86 1 U.P. Los Alamos. New Mexico, Thursday.- The Atomic Energy Commission today appealed to William Green, President of the Americas Federation of Labour, to intervene and end the strike by the 3,350 AFL unionists at the atomic energy projects here. Carroll Wilson, AEC general manager, told Green: "This
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  • 21 1 Reuter. ROME, Thursday.—The Shah of Persia today laid a wreath on the Italian l.'nknown Warrior's tomb. —Reuter. J
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  • 132 1 Reuter. RANGOON, Thurs.—Government reinforcements have dispersed a strong insurgent attack on a Burmese navy patrol, it was oflicially stated here tonight. were osthmV pl(t'W"he several hundred strong Another insurgent party, who attacked Shwcbo, in Upper Burma. 50 miles north-west of Mandalay, were also dispersed Three
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  • 40 1 U.P. NAPLES. Thurs Giuseppe la Marca. Italy's first post-war Robin Hood", who was artested in early 1946, was orJered to be removed froni Procida Penitentiary today to Reggio Emilia prison for the criminally insane —U.P.
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  • 36 1 Reuter. LONDON. Thurs. Two Cztch stowaways have received permission to stay in Bnain for six months. Thej #111 be able to accept work they get permission from th t Ministry of Labour Reuter.
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  • 26 1 U.P. PRAGUE, Thurs Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky arrived in Prague from Belgpade today. He is expected to leave for Moscow tomorrow.—U.P.
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  • 99 1 U.P. LONDON, Thursday Buckingham Palace sources today deeded published reports that the Marquess of Blandford would propose to Princess Margaret on Saturday, her tsth birthday. The widely-circulated Evening Standard today frontpaged reports from the Wremcm newspaper L'Aurore that the 22-year-old Marquess of Blandford would make a proposal
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  • 36 1 Reuter. HASTINGS, Thursday. j "Freak" torrential rain fell for nearly an hour in Hastings this J afternoon flooding the centre Of the town. Flood waters carried masonry and timber work out to sea. Reuter.
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  • 40 1 Reuter. GENEVA. Thursday—Quick action to build up an inter-' national system of defence against floods in Asia and the Far East was decided on tonight by the Economic and i Social Council, reports Reuter.
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  • 28 1 U.P. PARIS, Thursday. A group of 600 Catholic pilgrims from t the United States arrived this afternoon in Paris en route to Lourdes and Rome.—U.P.
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  • 180 1 Pretty, unassuming, 24-year-old MisS Chua Sui Eng, (height 4 ft 115), has given up parties and boy friends for mathematics, and won herself a Queen's scholarship. 11. I. nUir\\mm Her mother keeps chicxem as a hobby, her brother keep.' birds, but Sui Eng just
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  • 303 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. The left-wing New Statesman and Nation stressed the need for a social change In Malaya when commenting in its current issue on the British Government's decision to send a brigade of Guards there. Other leading London weeklies also commented editorially on
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  • 215 1 U.P. LONDON, Thur*. Th. Daily Mirror today started an intensive editorial campaign, calling upon Britain to scrap her present foreign policy and Keek a "new approach fo the whole German problem hy the Four Powers." The Mirror started its cam- paign with an announcement
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  • 271 1 U.P. Reuter. RERUN, Thursday—The war" between Berlin's two German police forces—one controlled by the Russians and the other by the Western Powers —flared into a fierce gun-battle tonight in the Polsdamer Platz near the centre of the city. Four German civilians are reported killed and many
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  • 44 1 U.P. HASTINGSLJEngland, Thursday. Nfajor John Dunbu: Kelly. 79. well-known poloflayer and breeder of pok ponies and short-horn cattlt. died following a fall at hi.home, it was announced he e *,oday. He is a descendant oi Robert the Bruce.—U P.
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  • 102 1 Reuter. New York. Auy. 19 About 6.000 pet sons crowded St. Patrick's Cathedral here today it the Requiem mass for Babe Ruth, America's "king of base.ball.. who died on Monday night. Outside a crowd estimated at 50.000. waited under grep skies. Cardinal Sjicllman prmUod at the mass.
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  • 25 1 MISSING DAK FOFND The R.A.F. Dakota which wa* reported miMnlng yeftter day morning Momeuhcre Li North Malaya, tuts t. n found tuda\. > ■*-^p-
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  • 26 1 U.P. Washington. Thursday. President Truman today said that the Congressional spy hearings were an infringement of the »usic Ann ican rights, reports U.P.
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  • 33 1 U.P. BERLIN. Thursday. American ami British air forces brought 608 planes into Berlin luring the 24-hour period ending noon today, with a total of 1.230 tons of supplies.- U.P.
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  • 452 2 1 OI—tGE arrested 47 persons in a series of raid throughout the Federation yesterday. Among them was an importAnt Insurgent leader in the Yong Peng area, Johore, who w«« caught, with five other Chinese, in a Police raid on a Uonpsl at Ho
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  • 160 2 KOTA TINGGI. Thursday: —A wounded Communist, who hid in a jungle swamp, shouted "Don't kill me" when a party of Gurkhas and Police searched an area near Sungei Johore in the Kota Tinggi a tea. His plet for mercy attracted the attention of the
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  • 86 2 (Tribune Stuff Reporter) Three newly-appointed Chinese consuls for Kuala Lumpur. Malacca and Ipoh will be due in Singapore soon. The Malacca Chinese Consul. I Mr. Cheng Chia-wah. who left Hong Kong on August 18 by I ship is due here on August 24. Mr. Li Ching.
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  • 61 2 THE following is a message from the Governor-General of India to H.E.. the Governor of Singapore, in reply to the greetings sent by the latter on India's Independence Day: "PJec.se accept my rhost cordial greetings and grateful thanks for Your Excellency's friendly message and good loishes on
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  • 110 2 The Chinese community of Johore Bahru have decided to raise $1,000 monthly to defray the expenses of maintaining 30 Chinese Auxiliary Police for duties within the limits of that town. They will be trained to take over police duties when the regular police force
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  • 24 2 A Chinese woman was knocked down and k iHed by a lorry near Gate No. 3, Keppcl Road at 2.34 p.m. yesterday.
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  • 88 2 BATfJ PAH AT, Thursday: A beautiful Malay girl and an aged woman wept at the funeral of Police Constable Shariff bin Abdul Hamid which took place today. The girl was the fiance of the dead man. The woman was his mother. Shariff was
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  • 89 2 A HINDU, Ramanandah (*2B) of the Keppel Harbour Labourers' Quarters was charged at the Seventh Police Court, yesterday, for illegal possession of six rounds of .43 ammunition. It was alleged that on Aug. 8. at about 12.20 p.m., accused was stopped by two detectives at the junction
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  • 71 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Thursday.— A British 6ergeantMajer was killed In, a fatal accident involving three military vehicles a the 4i mile. Jalan Kota Tinggi. ai about 8.10 this morning. He is ASM Broughton, The impact of the collision threw Broughton off th? motor-cycle h e was
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  • 90 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Thursday, An injured police despatch ranter, carrying an important message for the Chief Polwe Officer, Johore. from Batu Pahat, rode his aamaged motor-cycle for more than 25 miles to the Johore Bahru General Hospital after meeting with an accident at about 1.10
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  • 238 2 THE WATER SUPPLY POSITION AT TANJONG KLING IS SO ACUTE THAT THE SINGAPORE RURAL BOARD HOPES THAT GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE IT PRIORITY OVER OTHER PENDING SCHEMES This was a pre-war scheme, which had to be suspended due to the outbreak of the war, but the
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  • 239 2 In view oi the present crisis in China which calls for prolonged conscription, all Oversea Chinese visiting China are requested to report to the various offices of the Overseas Affairs Commissioner immrxliatclv after their arrival in China. This is in order that they I may
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  • 52 2 A Chinese received a number of wounds in a stabbing affray in Syed Mardasah Lane (off Beach Road) yesterday afternoon. His wife who rushed out of the house for help hailed a passing police radio car. As a result of investigations a Chinese was detained in connection with
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  • 140 2 Tne Board cf Ucmmlss toners wish to iemuifj he pubiic thai certain currency notes win cease to oe r'gai tender after August 31. 'I he uctes i.i question ui-. all currency notes issued by and b. aring the name of the Government,- ol the Straits Setti<
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  • 46 2 A Police Corporal was accidentally shot in the charge room of Woodlands Police Station in the early hours of yesterday morning by another Police Constable. He was hit in the chest and di(d three hours later at the General Hospital. Johore Bahru.
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  • 33 2 By the aid of candlelight. Pr«;f sMcnck atMn ssed mem ters of th" Fntl West i3ocieti on tlie work of th* People'-. Education Association in Singapore, at the V.M.C.A. .yesterday night.
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    • 410 2 On Your Radio Today BLUE NETWORK REP NETWORK MALAY ENGLISH CHINESE INDIAN PROGRAMMES PROGRAMMES 10 From 12 noon to 2 p.m. RadiI rom tT noon to 2 p.m. Rad metrps ln thp medJ ated on 483 metres In the, medJ- um ftve band and 7200 kc/sec. urn wave band and
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  • 355 3 PC. SHARIFF BIN ABDUL H AMID, mortally Kounded in a gangster ambush, crawled into a ditch, slipped a new magazine into his Sten gun ;l „d waited to face death, it was revealed last Bight. Shariff stayed there alone until his comrades returned
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  • 105 3 The record of the Ovaltin-..--herd of pedigree Jersey cattie since May this year Inc'udc? six championships, three reserve championships. four challenge cups, three specials, 18 first prizes, 14 second prizes ten third prizes, four fourth prizes and four reserves. The herd, existing primarily in I order
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  • 123 3 ol being charged in < Hoek&KW, Leng iai ol No. 7, McPherson i charged with murlore the Seventh Police Mr R J c. Wait» it i oem raj Hospital, yesI, wa state J thut, accused j j ;r serfcMH wounds in nl3 •to
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  • 117 3 An elderly Cantonese, Mok Siew (56) of 26-17, 15 m.s. Woodlands Road, who it was alleged carried a basket containing a live hand-grenade along Woodlands Road, was brought before the Seventh Police Magistrate, Mr. R. J. C Wait, yesterday, on a charge of illegal possession of a hand-grenade.
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  • 63 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thursday. -Fatforc to send quarterly labour returns resulted in the prosecution of the manager of Batu Bclang Estate. Rompin. Bahau. He was charged for failing to send a sick labourer to the nearest hospital for medical treatment. M Tho magistrate of Kuala P. lah
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  • 84 3 Malaria, the sou-rye of the occupation period, is retreating against the )H)st-war methods of suppressive treatment. It is reported that the incidence of malaria, has not only fallen in Johore but there is also a general improvement throughout the Peninsula since the liberation. The peak periods
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  • 90 3 An S.T.C. conductor offered a detective $2 "coffee" money, gave him two cigarettes and a cup of tea in the hope that the C.I.D. man would not disturb a gambling party held in a bombed house at Mckenzie Road. Kok Kiat Seng, the accused, was charged
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  • 80 3 THREE hundred policemen, ncludtng 100 newly-trained Special Constables, will take >art in a "showing the flag" oarade at 6 a.m. tomorrow morning. They will march from the C.I.D. building, at Robinson Road, to Gate No. 2 of the Singapore Harbour Board. The parade will
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  • 31 3 SOLO. Thursday.— Six persons were injured and at least 40 pei\ cent of the "National Exposition" was lost when fire broke -out in Solo last night, according to an Antara report.
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  • 303 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thursuay.—For attempting to murder Insnector Arrifln bin Hassan, former 0.C.P.D.. Sungei Besi, and }or a pistol, a young Chinese named Wong Hing > alias Wong Hean faced his trial at the High Court, this morning. Accused together with two other Chinese arc alleged
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  • 279 3 An action to recover possession of room No. 35. of the Oranje Hotel. Singapore, filed by Klara T. Van Hicn (w) and another against Miss M. E. Castor, y school teacher, was up for hearing before the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Gor-don-Smith, in the
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  • 205 3 Unmanufactured tobacco either raw or cured, cannot be imported into India unless ac- conipanied by (i) a general cer- i tificate of freedom from injur!- ous insects and disease, and (ii) J a special certificate Of freedom from the injurious insect'Ephestia Elutella, issued by a competent
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  • 58 3 An K. A. I Dakota was reported missing since 10.90 yesterday meriting somewhere «1 North Malaya. 'It was on a flight from Kota Hahnt to A lor Star. It is presumed that it might have made a forced landing somewhere in the triangle bounded by the towns of
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  • 195 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) THE question of Self-protection Groups for the villages is teeeiving Government consideration now. Mr. C. W. A. Sennett, Chairman of the Board, made this statement at yesterday's Board meeting in answer to thr suggestion by Mr. E. Gallistan that some similar
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  • 247 4 Seven Malay student bodies are to form an organisation to improve the all round education and welfare of ytheir fellows in the Malay. English and Arabic schools. They will try to establish non-political relations with student bodies in other countries. They will fight illiteracy and encourage research in
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  • 241 4 Saving has always been encouraged as a prudent and meritorious act and as a brake on unhealthy inflation. We see that the Straits Settlement s Savings Bank has increased the maximum deposit for an ordinary account from $5,000 to $10,000. and the maximum amount which may be deposited in
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  • 318 4 Lexicographers will have to revise their definition of the term 'crisis" tor the Berlin situation has been described as "critical" for weeks, but refuses to come to a head. The situation is intolerable—as intolerable as anything which happened in the Munich days. I The Western Powers and Russia
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  • 111 4 Igor (iouzenko, former cipher clerk at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa who startled the world with his exposure of the Russian spy network in Canada, was born in 191?) in the midst of the Holshe\ik revolution. From early childhood he became inured te the hardships and
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  • 1556 4  -  BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN -III By IGOR GOUZENKO POteklm was the iirst girl 1 noticed as being differently personable than any other girl—, but always from an awed t ad miring distance until that awful day on the road to the Pioneer camp near Moscow.
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  • 663 4 The Planter, official organ o* the Incorporated Society of Planters, publishes the lollowing editorial. Despite warnings given months ago by this Society and 1 other responsible associations tlespite the happenings of the last six or seven weeks when scores of people "have been brutally
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  • 277 5 Public Not Helping, Says Price Chief (Tribune Staff Reporter) YOIJ are to blame for the present black market in condensed milk. YOU can help to stamp it out by co-opcral-ing with the Price Department officers. 'me Deputy Food and Pries Controller, Mr A D.
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  • 165 5 BtHT Reporter > n Indian cultural mission; Malaya is being planned by J rh« Education Ministry of the nnx nt of Indja, Mr. S. Kalclkar, Information Ofli I the Government of inSingnpore told the Tr, Ihe mission ifl to »,<■ part oi j pi t amnio for
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  • 95 5 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY. Figures issued recently by the Acting-Com-monwealth Statistician. Mr. S. il. Carver, show that Australia's population increased by 18.51K rioin migration in the Orst six months of this year. In that period 27,441 new settlers came to Australia, and H. 923 Australian residents left permanently.
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  • 61 5 Ihe let hnical College. Kuala Lumpur has now completed its rnolmerrt for the now session, rhere arc 219 full-time students in attendance at the Col•ge ol whom 150 are ir I residence in the College Hoste' Maxwell Road. The College 1 a lederal institution and i iws
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  • 131 5 (Tribune staff Reporter) Designs of modern airports are being studied by the Airport Committee who mean to build one of the finest airfields in the world. The Committee aims at "taking the best out of every plan". Work on the construction of the Chang!
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  • 396 5 Reuter. CANTON. Life is hard for the ordinary people in China, but nowhere is it harder than in Canton, where the cost of living has soared by some 100 per cent, in less than two months; electricity rates have gone up 250 per cent., and
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  • 420 5 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY. In the Practice court, Melbourne, recently, Mrs. Alberta Gwefl Morrison claimed that the Kyneton District Hospital, in Victoria, had mistakenly identified two baby girls and had given her the baby. She asked the Court to compel the family who had the other baby
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  • 115 5 (Tribune Staff Reporter J The question of dealing with hawker nuisance at Upper Serangoon Road-Tampenis Road junction is deferred until completion of the proposed $27,000 new market there. A special committee appointed by the Village Committee discussed the question with hawkers concerned. The Committee suggested putting up hawkers'
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  • 25 5 Mrs. E. H. Parks. Headmistress of the Kampong Baharu Girls School. Alor Star, has gone to Hongkong by air for the vacation.
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  • 77 5 PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN, candidate for re-election as President of the United States*in the national election of 1948, and Allen W. darkley, Vnitet. States Senator ftom Kentucky and candidate for Vice President, are shown with members of their families after their nomination at the Democratic Party's national com niton vi
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  • 68 5 THE MIGHTY "RRAB" NBARB COMPLETION. The huge "Brabazon V* is nearitift completion ni Ftiton, Brietol. Tin budding o/ "Brnzazau l" is the greatest undertakina uei attempted hu tht British ami aft industry and every phase of the canst notion has involved year* of reeearvh. Above is the
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  • 530 5 Reuter. SHANGHAI. Torn by factional strife, the Kuomintang (Nationalist) Party, which has been In the C hinese political saddle since the Revolution 'AH years ago, is being reorganized behind tightly closed doors in Nanking tn "heck the growing rift within (he party and to fit
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  • 544 5 New members of the Serembau Rotary Club are Mr. D. J. Shearer, Dr. J. Samuel, Mr. Got don Hinds, Mr. A. Wear and Mr. R. lies. Mr. M. E. Barrett has been appointed a* temporary Unofficial Member of the Kcdah State Executive Council and the Kedah Council
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  • 211 5 U.P. BANGKOK. —Within the next two or three years, Siam will he able to export 1.500.000 tons of -ice annually, the Ministry of Continence has announced. Despite increased production, however, the Ministry *aid that ntnrttatlofl d control of rice win probably remain in effect
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  • 111 5 BANGKOK. As a result or the findings of court astrologers. March 2. 1949, has been fixed v tho date for the coronation of King Phumiphon Aduld j, young Siamese monarch now completing his education in Switzerland. The Cabinet Council has Instructed tho Bureau of the Royal Household
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  • 405 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday.—"You attacked knowing very wed that if Mr. Downie had died you all would have been guilty of murder. You are fortunate that Mr. Downie did not die as a result of the first-aid he received immediately after the attack", said Mr.
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  • 398 6 The Soo Ho Seng secret society was mentioned in an alternative charge preferred yesterday against twelve Chinese on trial at the First District Court on f charge of being members of an illegal society. The men were originally charged -with being members of the
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  • 187 6 On Saturday, the S.R.C. I Non-Binders will play agaiiis: the Club Juniors In a Horn, i and Home match on the j padang a t 2 p.m. The follow I ing are the teams: NON-BINDERS: T Leijssiu* (Capt.). A. B. Collick. M j Ccrdetro. G. Bogaars. P.
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  • 80 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Thursj day: An alleged Cornmuni:. sympathiser wa s caught in a European compound at the third mile Ampang Road. Kuala Lumpur this morning. He was seen cycling along the road by a mobile police patrol Called upon to stop, he jumped off his bicycle and
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  • 158 6 THE Johore Council of State was scheduled to meet yesterday to consider the State Budget for 194», but because the Finance Committee had not yet completed its work on the draft estimates, the meeting was postponed to September Johore's budget had. m the past, always
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  • 135 6 Tolerance of corruption of government bus conductors' ticket racket were aVSnJ ZI m Tan Kay Haii of the Social Welfare iJSSS^T 1 *>> mg how indifference on the oart of a ny r ln matters usually hits him like a fcoomcraV ln Mr. Tan. speaking
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  • 152 6 Hitching himself to a lorry for convenience and speed, a i I cyclist. Tan Ah Chye (19) was i talked when he was run ovar by another lorry as a i result of a fall. This incident, which occutI red on August 12
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  • 130 6 NEGRI SEMBILAN tk 'lay midnight k. party, raided a uSLu\ in iho jungle sever* mil behind Gcdok Tampin and Gem* Cvn A terrorist sentry r» w v art mg of the approach of'Th'police who armed Z 5 camp just as tho last I uZ tryin n lo
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  • 61 6 The Rural Board bjr-ltf in respect of membership to Village Committees ha ke r. amended to appoint 15 nsn- bers to the Bukit Pujan, j Village Committee f or thi" year. Previously there were ontf 13 members. An Indian and a Malaria ye now been added to th
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  • 185 7 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs day .-Welsh fervour broke out in a storm of cheer mg and crowds mobbed the players when Glamorgan triumphed over Surrey at CardifT today and strengthened their championship chance. It was Glamorgan's 12th win of the season, a record for
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  • 65 7 following will represent i SCR.C. at cricket the Johore Cricket Club on lay, ;u 2 pm. in Johcre port >uv( i the Club ut pm: i.<»u, Kee P«*w <Capt). Seal: Blew, Alex 'fan. Cheaii Swee, Ga n Kee l ian. %v j j;v Chu, Chua Boon Unn. Chew
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  • 47 7 The team to represent the iouoavists Sports Club at occci agaiiMn the G.H.Q. Farelf Tanglirj on Sunday at Tanglin Barrack* ground at 5.15 p.m. is aa follows: AhpOO, Mahoon. Hendry pi Clkw BCPg< Sapce, Aziz. tVdttam, riafrsscr, Tong Seng. Kanikl, Hollah (captain*. Taib, Oman, Matnoor.
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  • 419 7  -  By "CELLULOID" THE QUALIFYING rounds of th«> various groups in the All-Singapore tabic tennis inter-club league championships concluded on Monday night at th«' Great World, before a large crowd. The results in the various groups were: Group 1, Chin Woo Athletic Association "Blue" team; Group 2,
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  • 184 7 •Superior in all departments »>f the game, the Kota Rajah Sports Club defeated the Police by five goals to nil in a Div. il League fixture ot Thompson Road yesterday. Kofi Rajah opened accounts i the fourth minute through Madon. who scored with a firsttune drive.
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  • 174 7 Reuter. At Eastbourne, Sussex vs. Somerset, Sussex 434 foi nine declared (James Lang ridge 100, Hud five for 82) Somerset 259 for three (Gimblett not out 152, Waif ord 71). At Cardiff, Glamorgan beat Surrey by an innings and 24 runs. Glamorgan 239, Surrey 50 (Clay live
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  • 77 7 Playing on a sodden and slippery field, the CYMA beat the Ist. Malay Coast Battery by four goals to three when they met in a Div. 3. League game at Geylang Stadium yesterday. A fast game was witnessed. Scorers for the C.V.M.A. were Siow Yin (2t, Henry
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  • 445 7 Tomorr ow's Race Card following are the weights for tomorrow's races at Ipoh Horses Class 3. Div. 1. 6 Furs. I j Kirra 9.00 Poiish Bride 8.13 Empire Rose 8.10 Royal Bounty 8.10 Oklahoma 8.10 Whispering Hope 8.06 Jimmy Boy X.05 Skittals cS()4 Grand Trim 8.04 i Malt Loch 8.04
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  • 94 7 The following will itjUlf ICB| the Hospital Youngsters Ist and 2nd teams at soccer against the Ist and 2nd team.; ot the Serangoon Associati »1 on Sunday at their sround at Simon Road. Kick off at 4 00 p.m. X Jcevarajah. K. Aiuntu- am. Hanon, T.
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  • 26 7 Due to the Malaya being; unable to field a team, Indians were a walk-over in a First Division League fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday.
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  • 113 7 This series of pictures from the Official Olympic Games Film. shows the disputed hand-over in the 400 metres relay final, in which this film has In-come the vital evidence. The derision Which was awarded to Oread I>rifafa, has now be n reversed and the U.&.A. Uam are
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  • 381 7 TEST CRICKET AVERAGES LONDON, Thursday. Arthur Morris. Australia's 20--year-old left-hand opening bat, topped the batting averages for this season's Test seiies with 87.00. Denis Compton had the oesi batsman's analysis on the England side with 62.44. Ray Lindwall, Australia's pa<;e bowler, easily topped the bowling
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  • 450 7 Reuter. LONDON, Thursday.- The race for the county cricket championship became even more intense as a result of the matches ended yesterday. Derbyshire and Glamorgan head the table with 148 points each, bat Derbyshire have only two games to play. whcTcas Ghi- 1 morgan have
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  • 158 7 (By ALLAN LBWIS) IPOH, Thursday--Astivei and Tne Frenchman, both winners I n the first day, were easily best j yorkers this morning when the nner grass track was open for ast work. Maltloch (Harper) also showid speed in covering three in j JB-15 sees. Prattlin did
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  • 105 7 tr;t:S' faded to Cam pletc the course in th> tnr < mile race in the Sitgoi >" Team Championship uthl^tr-s. which vias run off at Sdetor yesterday The R.A.F. WOU the f*i:ent, uith the Bimgapore rdic second. The other thn» trains did not finish. Thai
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  • 76 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter/ Chinese traders are registering for cargo space on board the ship which the Government had decided to send on a second barter trade trial run to Republican Sumatra ports. Registration closes next Tuesday. Members of the Oversea Importers and Exporters Association on Wednesday
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  • 73 8 Reuter U.P. Washington. Thurs.- President Truman declared today that American troops would never be used "as Americar troops" in Palestine. He foM press eonjtrence that United States forces I would be used on'.u through the United Nations as observers, or pomrtbty, if the United JfafrffWt
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  • 27 8 Reuter. DUBLIN. Thursday. The Untied States Olympic boxing team beat Ireland by six bouts to two in an amateur boxing international here this evening. Reuter
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  • 142 8 Reuter. GOODWOOD, Thursday. The second favourite for the St Leger. the Gaekwar of Barcda's My Babu, was surprisingly beaten in the trial stakes here this afternoon. With odds of seven to two laid on him, My Rabu was easily defeated by Marcel Boussae's Ascot Gold Vase winner,
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  • 135 8 U.P. LONDON, Thurs.—Thc Western foreign offices tonight waited expectantly for an "explosion" in Yugoslavia, which may determine the future of the excommunicated Marshal I Tito. Now that the farcical conference on the Danube is over, the critical stage in the longsmouldering Tito-Stalin row is believed
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  • 19 8 Soccer: Div. I, Tiger Sports Club vs. Amicable Athletic 'Association. Jalan Besar Stadium. Tennis: Tanglin Club Tournament.
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  • 64 8 Reuter. BRIGHTON. Sussex, Thurs--1 day. A wonderful round of L 66 in a rainstorm enabled Reg Home, the British Ryder Cup international, to share first place with Allan Dailey. the Scottish nrofessional, in the News Chronicle professional golf tournament which ended her-' today, j Each had
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  • 50 8 An anti-bandit squad is now operating in Province Wellesj ley. revealed a Penang police monthly survey ot crime for i July. This squad was started last month, and it also took part in the combined military and police operations in South Kedah in the early part of July.
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  • 485 8 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs.—Brig. Malcolm David Erskine, 44-year-old oncer of the Scots Guards, has been appointed to command the Second Guards Brigade which is due to leave Britain for ;,lalaya later this month, the War Office announced tonight. Brig. Erskine was commissioned in ivzi
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  • 57 8 The Rural Board has deferred the question i>t buying lanj at the junction of ChJUIgJ Road and Somapah Road for the purpose of erecting haw- kers' sheds. This is because th e owner i of the land in question is propping to erect shophouse.s there. In
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  • 62 8 A pita lor more formality ■I future Rural Board meetings wa.s put forward by Mr. Chin Chye Fong at yesterday's meeting o: the Board. They were a small body .and they shuuld get on with their »vo.k. he said. Chairman of the Board. Mr. c W.
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  • 106 8 Reuter. 1 xirchestei, Dorset, Tinas. The Bishop of Qeorife, ('ape Province, ICf c. Herbert (linger, today attached as undemocratic the Ne>c South African trove >,i n.i at 's proto take away the lf"nt« natives purun steals ry represe i a lion. 'It is one of the most
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  • 49 8 (tribune Staff Reporter) There were no arrests under the Emergency Regulations in Singapore yesterday, nor was there any serious crime reported. A Chinese was arrested on the allegation of being a member of a secret society, while another Chinese was arrested by the Gambling Suppression Department.
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  • 246 8 The iecent new high in Britain's cigarette famine is not likely to affect dollar producing Malaya. This was the opinion expressed by leading tobacco importers in Singapore to the Tribune today. Local distributors arc having their orders forwarded in the usual way. They described
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  • 39 8 The sloop, H.M.S. Amethyst, with two motor launches and a police launch have been patrolling the sea off the Kedah coast and Langkawi Islands, with the result that no reports of piracy were received in Penang during the month.
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  • 102 8 Reuter. BOSTON, Massachusetts, Thursday. Adrian Quist, the Australian champion. gave Australia a fine start to their Davis Cup inter-zone final against Czechoslovakia which began here today by beating the Czech second string Vladimir Cernix 6-2. 13-11. 6-0. Th"re was a stern duel in the second
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  • 82 8 The need for engineers in Malaya was stressed by Mr. J. F. Parsonage. Principal of the Technical College, in an address to Kuala Lumpur Rotanans at their weekly luncheon meeting held at the Majestic Hotel. Pointing out that although the proposed Univer-1 sity of Malaya would
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  • 224 8 'Gold' Spells End For Dud Millionaires Reuter. /.jILLIOKS of Chinese millionaires' mm lose their millions. h, 'lm><h, Reason is the introduction of m Yuan" dollar in China, which will exchnn Go:ri the old Chinese national dollar at 3 milling The new currency will have, llun io one the foreign exchange
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  • 32 8 Ann \r\ T ■ftUM Umimkt mi, 1", M c re^S^ wMe* km* l/o«,/„„. 1 N ,N*a«« men fimM S £j 1 Mb* •eetar i,j Berlin 100 L<r*™" "'"'""Mr
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  • 205 8 Th« Second round of the Island Clvb s Cokniaj cm CcmpeUUonwiUtike morrow. The tonkin. the s:artino times:— 3 p.m c. Luca. <IB, and A H. Pimp (20) vs c i Martla H4» and V R.'p,, f -r, <14>; 3.05 pm B. D 8t Chir <201 and
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  • 35 8 Reuter. ROME, Thursday lUl,an and Argentina automobile ciubs have agreed to work out rules for the holding of a mN motor racing championship, beginning next year an l WĔH in 1950— Reuter
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