Malaya Tribune, 28 September 1948

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    59 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales than any Afternoon Paper In "Malaya Kuala Lumpnr, Ipoh d\ Penang Telegram*: "Tribune Spore." Telephone: 5811 (9 lines) LIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE London Agents Messrs. Colin Turner Ltd., Talbot House,
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    "BREAK THE BLOCKADE—AT ONCE"
    394 1 Secret Meeting Completes Big 3 Demand To U. N. RUSSIA MAY WALK OUT OF U.N.O.-BACK PAGE U.P. and Reuter. PARIS. Mon.— The three Western Powers secretly completed today their demand for "urgent" U.N. action against Russia, and will hand it to the U.S. Secretary General (Mr.
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    Russian Diplomats Spied On A-Bomb
    142 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Mon. The Hons? ot Repreoeutatives UnActivities Commitirmally charged today last Russian diplomats ori and directed Amerieaa Communist spy group; •luring the war. sent atomic bomb informn•l the Soviet Govcrn--5 mining up three weeks of searings, the Committer I that the espionage wore successful
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    SCHUMAN "DRAGGED IN"
    60 1 PAR, B Hon The French nl itor Pertinax re- the Big 3s ultimatum on Berlin, said today M Schuman had been n" by Mr. Marshall ;<n>! Mr Serin. lai ODraervative Le Monde iioubtctl whether the decision J. jefei the issue to the Nations would have result, but
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    800 OFF TO LATIN AMERICA
    25 1 U.P. NAPLES. Mon. Eight hundred Italian emigrants left for South America late on Sunday aboard the Argentine ship Tucuman. -U.P.
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    DEFENCE MINISTERS CONFER
    83 1 Reuter. PARIS, Mon.—The Defence Ministers of the rive Brussels Pact nations* met here today at the Ministry of War. The Ministers present were M. Pan! Ramadier (France), Mr.. A. V. Alexander (Britain). <»!one' Kamii de Fraitcuride (Belgium), Mr. J. W. Schok king (Holland) and M. Lambert Schaus
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    Planters Escape Ambush
    94 1 KULAI. today. Two European planters had a narrow escape from death when bandits armed with a Bren gun. Sten guns and American carbines kmbushed them about a mile from the main road about 8 p.m. yesterday. They are the assistant manager of Kulai Young Estate and the
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    S'PORE SHIP AGROUND
    57 1 The "Charles Dickens" which was delayed a few hours when it went aground off Rhio Island came into port last night. It had to wait foi the return of the tide before it could move. The "Charles Dickens" sailed from Sydney bound for Fai Eastern ports. It
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    Red Plot To Oust Siamese Govt.
    123 1 BANGKOK. Mon.- A large underground organisation is working for a communist revolution in Siam. according to reports in the Siamese press The papers claimed that this secret £ang has been recruiting large numbers of Siamese youths for communist training in China and Soviet Russia.
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    Final Respects To Mr. Chan
    48 1 Flaring the wreaths an the grave of Mr. S. J. Chan, former Legislative and Executive Councillor, who died on Sunday night and whose burial took place yesterday. In the foreground are Rev. Canon Adams, Mr. Chan's son, Chee Seng, and his daughter Mo'.'y.
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    Municipal Housing: "Favouritism"
    204 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter! The present arrangement of .I.location of Municipal quarters is giving use to *'a good deal"' of feeling of alleged favouritism. Mr A V Beniaficld. Munici- pal Welfare Officer, in his report for, last year says that there is also much dissatisfaction among the staff
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    ALL RED BUT IN NAME NAME
    40 1 Warsaw, Mon. The Polish i Socialist Party joined the j Communists in all but name at its secret rive-day session last week-end, it was revealed today by the publication of the party's official communique.
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    RAN OVER HIMSELF
    45 1 U.P. HIGH WYCOMBE, England, Mon.—Motorist Ernest Rolte ran over himself today by parking his car on a slope and walking behind it. The ear rolled backwards down the hill, pinning him under Ihe whee.'s. He was rushed to hospital with broken ribs.—U.P.
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    13 KILLED
    12 1 Merlin, mod. Thr Patmet Theatre disaster killed 13. injured 40.
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    250 Get CID Test
    65 1 Ovei 250 people were screened in a raid by the C.I.D. and uniformed police in the Kampong Bahru District at daybreak today. Of this number, eight Chinese, one Indian and one Malay were brought back to the C.I.D. for further questioning. In other laids. two Chinese
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    Govts. Study Terror Insurance
    186 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The Governments of Singapore anl the Federation of Malaya are now studying the question of a "terror insurance" for Malaya, under instructions from the Colonial Office. The chief consultants are th Secretaries for Economic Affairs and the Financial Secretaries of the respective |er--1
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    THE 'VOICE' IN 22 LANGUAGES
    68 1 U.P. WASHINGTON. Monday. The "Voice of America" today told the world how the United States blamed Russia for the failure of the FourPower negotiations on the Berlin blockade. State Department officials said that the Three-Power note to Russia and a summary of the 24.000-word I
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    Arrives
    24 1 Itrigadier M. D. Erskine, D.5.0., Commander of the Guards Brigade, arrived by air today. He Is staying with (ien. Ritchie at Flagstaff House.
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    STOP PRESS AW HAW MAY BE EXTRADITED
    153 1 Reuter. SHANGHAI, T d a jr. Major-Gen. Chiang Chingkuo, Deputy Economic Supervisor for the Shanghai area. is contemplating request to Hongkong authorities for extradition of Mr. Aw Haw. third son of "Tiger Balm" I King, Aw Boon Haw, wh«» escaped by plane to
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    MR. AW HAW DENIES
    52 1 Reuter. HONGKONG, Today. The China Mail quotes Mr. Aw Haw, son of the "Tiger Balm King" as denying alleg.1 unlawful runtnc/ dealing* against him. The paper rejn>rts that Mr. Aw has cabled Major General Chiang Ching-kuo revealing his intention of returning to Shanghai whenever requested by
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    HUSSARS ON THE MARCH
    24 1 at* The Fourth Hussars had their first route march in Singapore today. This nocture was taken at 10 a m.
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    PROBLEM POSED FOR NEW PARTY
    85 2 Malacca, Sat It la highly pioblematic whether the newlyformed Labour Party in Singapore can achieve the spirit and ideal of the Labour Movement in Britain. Mr. Tan Cheng Lock commented. It is seriously handicapped by lack of propei leadership and sound organisation on one hand,
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    GENERATORS CASE: 13th WITNESS TAKES STAND
    523 2 rriHE 13th prosecution witness gave evidence in the Ninth Police Court, yesterday, the Hth day of the joint preliminary inquiry into 10 tentative charges concerning the loss of R.A.F. trucks and generators from the airstrip at Payar Lobar. Facing the charges are five men
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    He Was Seen With A Revolver
    119 2 A Cantonese. Tong Ah Soo, who was found carrying a revolver at Smith Street on February 5 last, was sentenced to fivp years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice E. N. Taylor at the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. It was alleged that Tong was seen
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    Garden Fete To Aid Children
    67 2 Preparations are in full swing foi the Garden Fete to be held on Saturday. October 9. in Government House Grounds in aid of the Handicapped Children Fund sponsored by Lady Gimson. Vaiiety shows, wayangs, bands, novelty stalls, prizes, and other attractions will be provided. A
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    Large Attendance At Mr. Chan's Funeral
    300 2 AVER 500 persons attended the funeral of the late Mr. S. J. 0 Chan yesterday. The procession left his house at Emerald Hill Road at 4 p.m. and passed through Clemenceau Avenue. Moulmein Road, Balestier Road and Serangoon Road When thr cortege arrived at
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    Towed Here With Broken Shaft
    50 2 Disabled, with a broker tail-end shaft, the M. T. S. 14 (882 tons) was towed into Singapore harbour by the tug Gripper. The incident occurred about eight miles from Sultai. Shoals, off Singapore, when the M. T. S. 14 was returning her e from Saban.
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    A NEW RACKET IS BORN NEEDY PADI-PLANTERS 'SQUEEZED' IN N. MALAYA
    229 2 IN the northern Malay states of Kedah and Perlis today a new racket has developed. A man with a $40 capital and a little bit of imagination can cam a neat net profit of $40 or even $60 within
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    MYSTERY WRECK SIGHTED OFF E. S'PORE COAST
    106 2 Mystery shrouds the wreck of a local-type craft sighted in the China Se-i about 10 miles off the Eastern Singapore coast, last week. All that was visible were six feet of two green painted masts. There was no trace of survivors and none
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    Found With Still, Fined
    203 2 Peh Ah Wee, in whose kitchen at li 1 Mile. Chua Chu Kang Road, was found a cauldron, an empty drum and a sprout which fitted "very nicely into tho 1 hole on the side of the drum, denied that the paraphenalia was a still. She
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    "TIGER KING'S" SON FLEES FROM SHANGHAI
    203 3 Reuter. SHANGHAI, "ion. —Mr. Aw Haw, son of the famous Tiger Balm King, Mr. Aw Boon Haw. was reported tonight to have successfully escaped to Hongkong one and a half hours before his arrest was ordered by the local economic authorities for alleged unlawful
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    ARMS RING CASE: TRIAL LATER
    45 3 i i, fore the i f 2-miincn gunDutch territory t. an (flicl'il th< Ti ibune M three Bripii i are now J Pinang NFi nuing s'ieir in- \avr been n runners will the District pinang, when <■■ completed, ffl Lai said
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    MR.N&R PROMOTIONS
    21 3 ii N Smyth fj JagO, and i; st< vena have 1 i to \hc rank C< rnmanck i s
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    Malay Islanders Get A Promise
    163 3 minutes with the Colonial Secretary. Mr. P lj ron, 10 Tekon< Malay islanders left the &v:- r. t'hamb. r w.th happy assurane?. ition. villagers of s j gam] Pahang, Journeyed b Pulai Pekonj Besar, ol Singapore o 1 nmeni t»> main' t that thef are
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    Gol Drunk Sobered, Hit Police Officer
    144 3 Scott, a European the Cold Storage was found lying by road in front of at 10.56 p.m. on tni 1 hv a number of policeH. an una Me to move and brought him to here he was found i the influence of alcohol. m
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    SIX DIED ON S'PORE ROADS LAST MONTH
    200 3 Of the 545 accidents on Singapore roads in August, 473 involved civilian vehicles only. Six awere fatal; four adult cyclists, a child pedestrian and a driver were the victims. 171 were inlured. 51 seriously. Of these. 37 were adult pedestrians and 16 child
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    17 ACCIDENTS: FOUR HURT
    65 3 In the 17 accl.lents which occurred in Sing; ->ore during the last 24 hou.j. only four persons were injured. At noon yesterday, an Indian and a Malay were knocked down by a motor-cycle at 223 BOD. Alexandra Rood Four hours later, two Chinese were knocked down
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    Firm's Appeal For Godown Fails
    223 3 "AN the evidence I cannot see how the learned District Judge U could have come to any other conclusion, said Mr. Justice Jobling in the Singapore High Court yesterday in dismissing the appeal of Arathoon Sons, Ltd.. against the decision of Mr. A. W. Bellamy.
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    LABOURERS SEEK EQUAL TREATMENT
    75 3 Singapore Municipal labourer 3 want equal treatment with Municipal staff in respect of back-pay and allowances. The Municipal Labour Unions Federation has decided to ask tho City Fathers t n r interim payments similar to those made to clerical staff on August 16 and for a
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    DAYAKS IN PAHANG
    34 3 A number of Dayak trackers have arrived in Pahang. They are attached to the Malay Regiment Headquarters in Kuala Lipis. and accompany the Security Forces in the various expeditions against bandits.
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    LALLANG FIRES
    22 3 Tile Fire Brigade was sum mODed to two lallang fires yesterday morning-one at Crescent Road, the other on Mountbatten Road.
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    Jumped Overboard When Police Came
    147 3 Vw It A Malay jumped oveiboai lat the app'oach of a noiuboat. He was fished out. Abdul Hamid bin Abdullah Lembang bin Omar and six bales of tobacco leaves weighing 160 pounds, were produced in the Fourth Police Court yesterday. Abdul and Lembang were charged
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    SULTAN TO PRESIDE
    92 3 The Pahang Executive Council meets today at Kuala Lipis. Originally this meeting was to have been held at Jerantut m the New Council Chamber but for security reasons it was considered better to hold it at Kuala Lipis. His Highness the Sultan who will preside at the
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    T.G.N. PILLAI, CHIEF OF TAMIL SOCIETY
    116 3 The Tamil language in the University of Malaya must hJ.v a proiessor and not a lecturer to hold the Chair says trie influential Tamil Society of Malaya. The society has passed a resolution thanking the Malayan Governments and their select committees for giving Tamil
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    TRENGGANU SCOUTS FOR JAMBOREE
    110 3 The Trengganu Boy Scouts Association are to send three scouts to represent the State at the West Pacific Scouts Jamboree to be held in Australia in December this year. The selected Scouts are: Che Muda bin Mohamed Amin (Assistant District Commissioner). Che Abu Bakar bin Kuiub
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    BANDIT TRAINING-SCHOOL FOUND IN JUNGLE
    166 3 SEGAMAT, Monday—A Police-Military party located a largo terrorist training-school in the jungle west of Cha'ah yesterday. A school building, with writing desks, and a physical training ground, and accommodation for about 200 persons were found in the camp No contact was made with any bandit
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    Federation Round-up
    223 3 INHE latest round-up or' mw* from Malaya's warf roots r> ceived lost night says thai there have been 19 arrests In the Federation during the past 24 hours three in Perak. five in Negri Sembilan. nine in Belangor. one in Penang and one j in Kedah Perlis. JOHORE.
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    SULTAN TAKES THE HELM
    104 3 His Highness the Sultan of Trengganu. accompanied by the Mentri Besar. the British Ad;iser, the State Secretary, the X..D.C. and the Private Secrcary. visited H.M.S. Alert or. Saturday morning. The party left the old cus oms jetty by motor launch for he warship which was lying
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    20 3 The mail train was delayed for 1| hours last night due tc ■ngin« trouble midway be- Ween Nigor and Kluang.
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    ARMED MEN TAKE LORRY, CASH AND CIGARETTES
    133 3 IfUAR, Monday: Armed terrorists carrying Stcn gun.;, ifles and revolvers held tip a lorry on the Bakti Road this afternoon and decamped with the vehicle and $bt)o worth ot cigarettes. A clerk who was a passengv: m the lorry was relieved ol ;soo
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    C-G, GOVERNOR ARE EXEMPTED
    79 3 Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. Commissioner General for South East Asia, and Sir Franklin Gimson. Governor of Singapore, are exempted from the registering group of persons in Singapore. They are exempted because they are the representatives of the King here. There is no other exemption in the
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    Acting Headmaster
    26 3 Mr. E. H. Bromley. European Master, MES. ha s been appointed to act as Headmaster. Victoria School. Singapore, in of Mr. R. F. Bomford.
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    TO BE EXECUTED FOR SABOTAGE
    68 3 Reuter. SHANGHAI. Mon. Wang Shao-ho, a former employee of the American-owned Shanghai Power Company, who was iccently sentenced to oeath for sabotage by a Shanghai Special Tribunal, is scheduled to be executed today, according to Chinese reports. The execution order is said I to have
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      1519 3 Tribune CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS (EDUCATIONAL Learn Chinese in the SINGAPORE CHINESE MANDARIN SCHOOL, 122, Prinscp Street, Singapore, Telephone 6881. New Class for absr.lut beginners (Explanations in English) commencing Octobei Ist, 1948. Tuesdays Friday.--—7.15 p.m. to 8.45 p.m. Class Teacher, Prof. Liv Chiang, M.A. Ph.D. Vacancies also in utag* 20 classes (Intermediate,
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    $2 A HEAD
    190 4 THE St. Joseph's Trade School at Bukit Timah 1 is perhaps not the largest of our juvenile institutions. But in its modest way it has been doing a useful bit of work for the community. Boys, particularly orphans, who would have picked up less desirable trades in
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    NO DISCRIMINATION
    197 4 Vi r K agree with the Director In charge <>f the school that the grants given t<> the school are totally inadequate. True these boys are being trained in a nongovernmental juvenile institution, but that does not mean that the Government can disclaim any responsibility for their maintenance.
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    GUILTY CONSCIENCE?
    125 4 |S the Government in the Federation suffering from guilty conscience as regards income tax? Last year it introduced income tax on the deplorable principle of •shoot first and explain afterwards. Now, according to the report of the Malayan Association, the Federation Government is busy explaining things in a
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    ... "Several Bandit Camps Were Attacked From The Air... "
    800 4  - "Several Bandit Camps Were Attacked From The Air By HARRY FANG IN every modern war. however Mg Of small, victoiy belongs to the side with the most effective striking power. During World War ft, the [loyal Air Force saved Brtton at the most critical stage, and then took the of]
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    THE WAR THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR
    659 4 Reuter-AAP. CTANLEY Brogden, 0 Australian .journalist, who recently flew to America and then relumed io Australia in the first Convaii secured by Trans Australia Ainvays, says that travelling round the globe in six weeks and covering 29.000 miles is a chastening experience these
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    "DEFINITELY NOT FOR SALE"
    109 6 HOB ART, Australia, Mon. day. There's a wine con noisseur's dream in the cellar of Australia's oldest licensed hotel. But, the dusty bottles ate "iefinitely not for sale." On the cellar shelves of Bush Inn, Tasmania, stand Half a dozen bottles of Maraschino bottled in 1821
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    Siam's Gold In Japan: Talks Resume
    287 6 Reuter. BANGKOK, Mon.—The Siamese Government has resumed negotiations for the recovery of thirty million grammes of Siamese gold held by the Allied authorities in Japan under the enemy property regulations, it was authoritatively learned here. Preliminary talks in this >egard began last year but
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    JAP PIECEGOODS FOR DOMINIONS
    88 6 A.I.S. CANBERRA, Mon. Jap piecegocds which hay beer finished in Britain are to he shipped to the British Dominions and Colonies, according to the Journal of the Austral!- I an Associated Chambers oi Commerce. The Journal says that Bri- I tain is to import 100.000,000 j
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    RUSSIANS SEEK CHINESE NATIONALITY
    89 6 Reuter. SHANGHAI. Mon. Two well-known Russians were among many Soviet citizens who recently relinquished ..heir citizenship and announced they were applying for Chinese papers according to the North China Daily News. One of them was E. H. Nilus, who before the revolution was a member of
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    TO REPORT TO CHIANG
    41 6 Reuter. BERLIN, Mon. Genera' Huang Chi-hsiang, head of the Chinese military mission in Berlin, has left Berlin by a»r for China to report to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on the Berlin crisis and on the German problem. —Reuter.
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    SEVEN OLD MEN
    60 6 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Monday.--Seven men who sat dow n a t a reunion, dinner in Adelaide. South Australia, recently had an aggregate age of 550 years, of which 262 years hud been spent in the service of the South Australian railways. Eldest of the party was Mr. A.
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    MILLION PICULS OF SUGAR EXPECTED
    111 6 Reuter. MANILA. Monday.—A million piculs (50,000 tons) of sugar is expected from the coming season's operation of the Binalhagan-Isabela Sugar Company's rehabilitated plant. Absorbing the remnants of several neighbouring Su< r n r Centrals. Covernment owneo Binalbagan Central on the »S--land of Negros. is rated
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    REHABILITATION OF HONG FATT MINE SATISFACTORY
    171 6 The rate of progress towards rehabilitation of the Hons; Fait Mine during the third-quarter of this year was said to be satisfactory. A joint report made by the consulting engineers and the manager of the mine on Sept. 11, stated that there has however,
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    ARREST ORDERED
    54 6 U.P. SHANGHAI. Mon. Major General Chiang Ching kuo has ordered the arrest of Aw Haw. son of the millionaire Chinese industrialist and "Tiger Balm King" Aw Boon Haw, on suspicion of an attempt to smuggle over $35,--000 U.S. and 200 ounces of gold to Hong Kong by plane,
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    DEMAND FOR CANNED FOOD
    93 6 A.I.S. CANBERRA. Mon. Every effort is being made by the Federal Government tc increase supplies of tinplate from abroad and it is expected that additional exports from Britain will be coming to hand at an early date. One of the main reasons behind the Commonwealth s
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    Housing Target Reached
    55 6 Reuter. LONDON. Mon. -The Health Minister. Mr. Aneurin Bevan. announced here today that Britain's September housing figures would show that the Government had reached its first target of 750.000 new homes —set by the war-time coalition government. It is understood that this figure includes adaptions and conversions
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    COPYRIGHTS REMAIN
    50 6 Reuter. TOKIO, Mon. Gen M*cArthur's headquarters today reminded the Japanese teat proper protection had been given to copyrights owned at the time of the outbreak of the war by Allied national* and directed the government to take appropriate steps to pre vent a continuance of .-ach Violations.- -Renter.
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    PRODUCE MARKETS ROUND-UP
    124 6 In the sago flour section. Sink flour eased slightly with busiaeas passing at $17 Pepper quotations remained unchanged at the previous high levies. The following were yesterlay's ouotations SAfiO FLOUR Lingga $21. Sarawak $15 Siak $17 4 SAGO SEED: $29. FLAKE TAPIOCA: $36. TAPIOCA FLOUR (Fait): $31.
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    OIL IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA
    72 6 MELBOURNE. Monday. Oil production will begin in the Vogel-Kop areas oi Dutch New Guinea early next year, announces the Department of Commerce journal, "Overseas Trading."' The Dutch oilfields, on toe extreme northwest of Ne.v Guinea, are already employing several thousand men. the journal says. Meanwhile.
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    SHARES: QUIET
    15 6 Tiie share market yesterday was quiet but steady. There were few price alterations.
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    MISSIONARIES MISSING
    34 6 U.P. PEIPING. Mon. The tote of three American Presbyterian missionaries trapped In Tsinan was worrying their associates here today. No wok: has been heard in a week from the three missionaries. —U.P.
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    Gunmen Tied Victim To Telegraph Post
    175 6 A 64-year-old Hockchcw, who resisted when two robbers forced him to swallow a pill, was knocked on the head with the butt of a revolver and robbed of $20.50 on Sunday night at Yio Chu Kang Road. That evening he paid a visit lo
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    Dutch Unaware Of Indonesian "Tax"
    150 6 If the Indonesian Republicans want through their trade with Singapore and theii deduction on goods from Indonesia, it would i ment of Dutch sovereignty in the NEI, Mr. C NEI Trade Commissioner in Singapore told th< terday. He said, bxnvevei th representative b had no
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    Rebels Fire 2 Stations
    80 6 Reuter. RANGOON, Mon.—lnsurgents set fire today to two railway stations and destroyed a bridge in the Yamethin sector on the branch line of the Rangoon to Mandalay railway, the Government announced tonight. In the Myingyan district north of Yamethin. 20 insurgents were killed in a sevenhour
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    LANDLORDS TO BE STRIPPED
    67 6 Reuter. TOKIO. Mon. The Soc.ai Democratic Party yesterday demanded that absentee landlords be divested of every str;;. of farmland they still reta'n by the end of next /oar urn! urged relaxacion of the ing farmland laws to permit each farmer the maximum of three cho (one
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    MACAO'S FIRST TRADE FAIR
    75 6 Reuter. HONGKONG, Hon a tr* exhibition, clainie first ever held in the Port* guese Colony ol m„ ooen on Qctobei 3 m tinue for a month The exhibition will fined to products i i i tnanufactui wain hi v... h k»»ng and Canton Nearly it intending
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    RECES SHOCK CHANGI AIRMEN IN CUP
    251 7 IN two Singapore Cup matches played yesterday, tho Royal Navy and the S.R.C. won their games, knocking out the Chinese Engineering Association and R.A.F. (Changi). At Jalan Besar Stadium, the Recs played some sparkling soccer to beat Changi Airmen by five goals to one,
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    SCHOOLBOYS BEAT TEACHERS
    96 7 ....•> seen at rhooJ grotuvi II bi'M the goaui to three pening ho- tile season, i fai| and efforts to igh beaten, the j good figh: Ik Trojans to tacks ol their 3-2 at the inteb ing Price Kee for the on Lock, Ten;* n i yasin
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    HOME SOCCER FIXTURES
    288 7 Reuter. Monday. Fcitre football fixtures for October 2. FIRST DIVISION Villa v. Sheffield Utd n W. v. Arsenal. ley v Everton. lton Ath v. Bhmir gha.m L i pool v. Derby C. banter C. v. Mi fdles;ith v New.astle n North End v. Blackj ity v. Chelsea
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    NAVY WIN
    123 7 Navy beat Chinese Engineering Assn. 3-0 in a fast and thrilling Cup game yesterday. All goals were netted during the second half. Watson, cen-tre-forward, netted the first goal from a penalty. Pok Sic Weng, the Engineers' custodian, being penalised for pusring a Navy forward, who waa about to
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    Cerdan To Star In Paris Film
    80 7 U.P. NEW YORK, Mon.—Mar- < < < .'an vvi»> r»e guest of hmv.oir at the New York Boxing Writers hineheon tomorrow. Tony Zale, *oe Louis, Ike Williams and Ray Robinson are also expected to attend. Cerdan said that no tights had officially been signed
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    TESTIMONIAL FUND FOR JOE DAVIS
    227 7 Reuter. LONDON, Monday—A na- j tiona! testimonial fund for Joe Davis, for 20 years undefeated world snooker champion, has been launched in England. The committee responsible have alieady sent 3.000 letters! to bookmakers all over the country and 3.000 to billiards i halls, as well
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    CA WEIGHT LIFTERS' OFFICE BEARERS
    129 7 The Chinese Amateur Weight Lifters' Association habeen exempted from registration. Th e object of this Association is to instruct members in progressive and heavy weight lifting. The officials and committer members for the current yeaor as follows: The officials and committer members for the current
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    S'pore Badminton C'ships. Fixtures
    312 7 THE following Singapore Badminton Championships ties will be played off at the Clerical Union Hall. Rangoon Road, tomorrow at 7 p.m.: Men's Open Singles: Wong Peng Soon (Mayfloweri v. Winner of Cheong Hock Leng and Lim Yew Hook (Endeavour). Commercial House Mansfield Sports Club v. Cable
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    SHE BOYS BEATEN
    22 7 Haikwyu Spurts Culb beat 3HB Boys' Club in a Third Division League game at Geylang Stadium yesterday by one-nit.
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    Cliff Britton To Manage Everlon
    166 7 Reuter. LONDON Monaav The appointment ot Cliff Button ti manager of Kverton. tne First Division League Club, la further evidence of ihe faun which club directorat e arc placing in men who ha. 1 bn'uant playing reputations. It has been said '.hat goon players do
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    NIGHT FOOTBALL
    148 7 Reuter—AAP. SYDNEY, Mon. Night football ha* made its debut in Sydney and the promoters are essaying the formidable task of combining In it features of three widely- contrasting codes—Rugby, Soccer, and Australian j Rules. The first match, played with a round hall, and at 1 furious pace, was
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    Cup Final Venue Is Fixed
    320 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon —It has oeen decid ed that the Malaya Cup soccer final replay between Selangor and Negri Sembilan will take place on Oct. on the Victoria Institution ground here. Tho President of tho Football Association of Malaya in a statement tonight says "Under
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    Rugger Results
    44 7 Reuter. LONDON. Mon. Rugby results RUGBY UNION Warkiek 8. Glamorgan 12. Penzance and Newlyn 0 Lath 11. Pontypool 0. Abertillerv 0 RUGBY LEAGUE* Huddertfield 2. Bradford Northern 0. RUGBY LEAGUE (Yorkshire Cup> 2nd Round Featherstone Rvrs. 5. Wake field Trinity 19. Reuter.
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    JAP FLEA TO RUSSIA
    38 7 U.P. Tokio. Mon.—Four thousand representatives of families from all ports of Japan, at a mass meeting today, clamoured for the repatriation within the year, of relatives still detained in Soviet-controlled ter ritoi ies. U.P.
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    UNTRUE
    27 7 U.P. TEL AVIV. Mon. Rumours j of an unsuccessful attempt on Ihe life of Mr. David Ben Gurton (Premier of Israel) were officially denied today. —U.P.
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    Favourites For The Big Autumn Double
    192 7 LONDON, Mon—At the first ertllover on th? big autumn double races, hel.l at the Victoria Club london tonight, Woodburn was installed a clear favourite for the Cesarewitch and Explorer for the Cambridgeshire. Both wer c quoted at 100 tc 6 against. £ea Smoke and
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    Singapore Hornets
    47 7 lh<> following willrrepresent. t the Singapore Hornets at hockey against Khalsa Association tomorrow on the Khalsa gtound. St. George's Road S. Rodrigues. R. H. Barth, B Scheerder. R. S. Barth, M. Toledo. F. Noronha. P. Woodford. C. Rayney. D. N. Booth. W. Ponniah, M. Wright.
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    45 BILLION FRANC RISK
    75 7 U.P. PARIS. Mon. The United States announced today that it was placing a 45 biilion-fmno bet on the success of M. Her.ii Queuille's recently voted financial programme. Mr. David K. Brancc, F.C.A administrator for Fiance, told a press conference today that because the USA is convinced
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    MRS. H. C. REILLY
    42 7 Mrs. H. C. Reilly was described yesterday as wife of the President of the Singapore Turf Club. Mr. Reilly is a former President of the Tuif Club, the present holder of that office being Mr. A. C. Smith.
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    AIMING HIGH
    37 7 Ron* Mon. Pope Pius today .old members of the Italian Alpine Club holding its 9th congress in Rome that their drivt to reach the peaks was like the aspiiation of the human soul to God.
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    Tennis Stars In The Making
    308 7 Reuter. LONDON, Monday. THE victory of a 19-year-old Calif ornian, Richard Gonzales, in the American lawn tennis championships recently, emphasise the importance of the coachIng of juniors in* lawn tennis. While many clubs have not been idle in encour aging young players, very little has
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    Sect B. P. Score Shuttle Win
    261 7 In a luurn badminton encounter played at the HawPar Hall last Saturday night, the Sect Kirn Cheng Badminton Party defeated the Social Badminton Party by the odi game in seven. The Sect B.P. won by six games to one in the first game Results
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    SWIMMING C'SHIPS
    38 7 Entries for the Singapore 1948 Swimming and Divine, Championships, to be held on October 23. will close on Thursday. Entries should be addressee to Mr. Leong Yee Soo. Hon Secretary and Treasurer. Chinese Swimming Club. Singapore.
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    News From The Mews
    317 7 (By ALLAN LEWIS) Racegoers were treated to one of the best race finishes ever witnessed at Bukit Timah. when Jimmy was successful in race one on Saturday. Over the last half furlong, six horses struggled for stipremacy and the official margins were three short heads, and
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    "Australia Should Keep The Stars"
    331 7 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Monday, i. G. MOVES, Editor of Sporting Ufe, in a recent article, says that Australia should pay to keep her star cricketers. I Stating that the Australian I cricketers in England will bring 1 back record profits of more than £50.000. he adds
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    RUSSIA MAY QUIT U.N. OVER BERLIN
    413 8 But West Is Ready For A Walk-Out Reuter. I ONIJON, Vlon.—Diplomatic quarters in London and Washington tonight predicted a Soviet walkout of the United Nations over the taking of the Berlin dispute to the Security Council Opinion in London is divided on whether Russia
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    Rebel Govt. Flees Central Java
    185 8 BATAVIA, Mon.—Republican troops in Java, encircling ths Communist stronghold of Madiun, have reached the outskirts of WonogJri, 20 miles south of Surakarta in Central Java, the Republican Defence Ministry announced here tonight. Communist rebels ivho ha I earlier formed a nation.i iron*, government in the
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    PRISONERS ESCAPE
    49 8 Reuter. MANILA. Mon. Six Japanese, war prisoner!. awaiting war crimes trials, escaped from tin United States Army stockad. in South Manila last nigh:, tlu Army announced this morn ing. A combined search by United States and Philippines ariuv and police is being made of th. Manila area.—Reuter.
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    £9,000 for A FILLY
    114 8 Reuter. NEWMARKET, Mon. Top price of the day v.as given b; Prince Aiy Khan at the opening »f the Newmarket first Octobei yearling Bales today when h< paid 8,800 guineas for a filly T< hxan out of Estrellita. The young sire, Tehran, wo-i i war-time St.
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    PLAYED IN 10,000 SHOWS
    69 8 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. Prank Colli t, one Of Britain's leading 'ctors. died In a London hospital today aged 61. Mr. Collier made his first appearance on the stage In 1906. Uy I**3l his appearances numbered 10.000. He was once known In stage circles as "the snappiest
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    CHURCHILL'S PAINTINGS
    61 8 U.P. NEW YORK. Mon. Original j paintings oy Gen. Dwight I Eisenhower and Mr. Winston I 1 Churchill were among 106 painI ings by amateur artists famous in other fields, which were to be auctioned off today. Proceed* of the show will go to the Urban League Interracial
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    DON'T DESPAIR, SAYS CRIPPS
    72 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Mon. Sir Stafford Cripps, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked Governors of the World I3ank and Fund today not to be discouraged "or to feel that we shall forever be struggling in the coils of adversity so that no oidcrly and considered plan tor
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    Crash Demonstration At Gent Inquiry
    159 8 Reuter. LONDON. Mon. A Ministry of Civil Aviation investigation officer today manipulated two model aircraft before a court of inquiry to demonstrate his theory of the circumstances of an air crash in which Sir Edward Gent. High Commissioner for the Malayan Federation, was hilled last
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    430 TO GO ON TRIAL
    43 8 Reuter. K*l»**«tMi, Mon. A mass trial of some 430 "bandits" captured oy Ltiinese naval force* in the Chusan archipelago in the j Yangts delta will take place shortly befoir a Militar*. Court following their transportation here yesterday. Reutei.
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    Vyshinsky Says "No"
    94 8 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. The London Daily Herald today reported a statement by M. Andrei Vyshinsky, Soviet representative at the United Nations Assembly In Taris, that the Soviet I'nion \vi" not leave (he United Nations. The paper said N, Vyshinsky made this statement in hii exe'usive interview In
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    Three Huk Leaders Killed
    121 8 U.P. MANILA. Mon. Reports from central Luzon battle /ones said live Huks. including three ranking commanders, were killed In battle with special policemen in Nueva Ecija during the weekend, while in the Pamnanga Bulacan area, the 'onstabulary continued shelling of the Candaba swamps. Reporta fiom Cabanatuan
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    OPTIMISTIC
    32 8 U.P. BERLIN, Mon. The Berlin City Council. following an extraordinary meeting today, expressed the belief that the Berlin problem could still be settled by the East and the West without war.—U.P.
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    Indonesia: Dutch Objection In UN
    412 8 Reuter. PARIS, lion.— Dr. J. H. Van Royen, Dutch Ambassador to Canada, told the United Na-ions General Assembly today that Holland had not and still could not recognise the competence of the Security Council to intervene In Indonesia, although she accepted last year the services
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    LAST TRIBUTES
    61 8 La.st respects to Mr. S. J. Chan being paid by the Colonial Secretary Mr, P. A. B. McKerron, and the private secretary to the Governor, Mr. Blake. Some of the floral tributes from relatives and friends to Mr. S. J. Chun, whose <ii took place on Sunday. Funeral
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    India May Leave Commonwealth
    182 8 U.P. NEW DELHI, Mon.—lt was reliably learned today that India may break witn the British Commonwealth and declare herself a republic before the end of the year. Premier Pandit Nehru has been empowered, according to these sources, to propose a I the London Commonwealtn Contercnce in
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    Air Lift: U.S. Short Of Planes
    174 8 U.P. WIESBADEN. Mo, American aii f orC r. in If I rope are 100 planes sfan I what they n<. d to m I goal in the Berlin ,f Lieut. Gen. Curtis L today. Gen. Lesaay mtfr i I requirements at i f press
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