Malaya Tribune, 5 November 1948

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    57 1 The Malaya Tribune BT THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales than any Afternoon Paper in Malaya Simultaneously Ipoh Penang Telegrams: "Tribune Spore." Telephone: 5811 (9 lines) EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE London Agent* Meaara. Colin Turner Ltd., Talbot Bouae, 98, Bt.
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    "PEACE OR WAR" TALKS IN JAVA
    131 1 Hatta Meets Stikker In Vital Conference Reuter—AAP. mm VVIA 1 hiirs -Vital talks between the Dutch lonian Minister, l>r. >t«kMr and the Republican Premier, Dr. ;,loh.mmed Ratta, on Ihe future »1 Indonesia opened today at Hear the Republican capital nf Jogjakarta. 1 rs tlmught
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    Atom control: UN Ignores Soviet "No"
    206 1 p*ARIS, Thurs. —The I nited Nations General Assembly, overriding Russian objection* tonight gave overwhelming support to the Western plan for international control of atomic energy. Ignoring Soviet charges that the plan was an American plot to obtain a monopolv over atomic energy" 40 nations
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    Star Explodes
    105 1 U.P. FttANKFVRT, Thuis. A U.S. Shooting Star i> i plam crmehcd into the *trt t of G*' nusch Pmt- n-Kircht <r. Cerman ui.it-1 morts reoori fes Ba\ rria, I to* Th- wing tanks appar- uttjf i plotted while the p) i m mas over th? town. As U
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    WHO'S HOOFES
    81 1 i F!: S stsjnaa bin f < War Correspondcap and shoulder badges in November. 1941. fioin a local department store. -ented to the Army Army was going to pay tat hill •'l<v. FARELF, however, signthc War Office in Lon■n| thi> signature on th* fvrn-year-old bin. kgned G. G.
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    CHINESE START WITHDRAWAL
    22 1 v miai. m nunfiH witling the bridgehead lluiutati have begun to aboard transports, ac'"r to unineae press dearmtmxM today.
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    Freeburg mystery deepens
    172 1 IT is being alleged in Batavia that Bobby Freeburg. tne Republican Air Force's American pilot, landed somewnere outside Sumatra with 14 cases of gold and silver be- I longing to the Republic which were in his plane when he took off on his last flight on Oct.
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    CID Trap Robbers
    70 1 A POLICE patty consisting of Inspector Krishnan an i three detectives ambudh'.d three Chinese at the lutn mile. Changi Road, last night. The men were overpowered after a struggle. Searching the virrrty later, police recovered a 32 automatic pistol and 4 r C unf!s of ammunition and
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    GIRL KILLED
    27 1 I A 15-year old Chinese girl received fatal injuries when sh? was knocked aown by a motor lorry in Tras Street at 4 p.m. yesterday.
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    BUY A POPPY?
    18 1 .<.<%— r r If Laird. <>>v s pt ppy sellers, catch* sin-office uorker early thin Morning.
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    'Slim', ordered Bill — and he put wife on a water diet
    152 1 'Slim ordered Bill and he put wife on a water diet U.P. TLEVELANI). Thurs.—Mrs. Jean Childs. 20, got her divorce today, hut only after suffering tnrough eight days of water diet. The water diet. she told the divorce court, was her husband's idea. He wanted her 128 pounds reduced lo
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    RED SUSPECT ARRESTED
    49 1 One Chinese suspected of be- I ing a member of the Malayan Communist Party was arrested by the C.I.D. last night under the Emergency regulations. The total under detention to rla to is 321. CID also arrested a Chinese member of an unlawful society last night.
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    BODYGUARD ACQUITTED
    37 1 SHANGHAI. Fri —In a retrial in the district court on charges of kidnapping Li Antai, a wealthy Chinese merchant of the Philippines islands. Soo Van-lai, a former bodyguard of Li, was declared not guilty yesterday.
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    Trick Of The Trade
    90 1 U.P. SHANGHAI, Thurs. An enterprising cigarette store owner got rid of his worm-eaten cigars the other day by sending his entire family and entire staff to stand outside the shuttered shop. He also announced in a poster outside the store: "Cigars sold as long as today's
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    PICKED WRONG POCKET
    49 1 U.P. HONG KONG. Thurs. Three Chinese talking on a street corner looked like easy pickings to 18-year-old Cbu Ming. Chu blushed past and neatly extracted $30 from the breast pocket of one of the men. They were three detectives. Chu got three months' hard labour. U.P.
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    'Breast Of Tough Old Crow En Glace"
    106 1 Reuter. ABOARD PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S TRAIN. Thursday. President Truman today rejected a suggestion that those who forecast his defeat be forced to "eat crow" in public. The Washington Post sent him a teleyrum offering to arrange a dinner at which its own writers and
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    "MAN BITES DOG" AGAIN
    68 1 U.P. CANTON. Thurs.—'Man bites dog' is notybic uews in Canton. With the advent of the autumn months, dog meat is again becoming a seasonal delicacy, along with snake. It is prepared in a variety of ways and tastes much like wild duck. Snake soup and fried
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    POPPY SALES AT CAUSEWAY
    36 1 Johore Bahru. Today.— European women "raided* the Woodlands area this morning with baskets of poppies. While police searched the passengers, the poppy sellers followed up with their sales. Brisk business was reported.
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    WOMAN FALLS FROM WINDOW
    57 1 A European woman, wife of a Captain attached to FARELE, wa.s admitted to the military hospital in Alexandra Road yesterday afternoon as a result of injuries received in falling from the window of the first floor of a boarding house in Killiney Road. I Her condition
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    ROBBED BY SAILORS
    44 1 A European number of the crew of a Blue Funnel ooat reported to the police thla morn- ing that he was robbed of $7 in cash and valuables worth $20 by two American sailors in the lavatory at Cliftord Pier, i
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    "Get Out Of Negev" Order To The Jews
    265 1 OARIS, Thurs.—The United Nations Security Council tonight ordered Jewish armies to retreat from positions they won in the bloody battle of Negev last month, under threat of pos sible punishment if they failed to obey. The Security Council adopted the joint Anglo-Chinese
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    BANDITS REPELLED
    103 1 STOP PRESS SBGAM AT. Today.—Eight o...nuts iHlfft«S mto protected i lian W ing Estate in Jagor area thin morning and attacked guards with sten guns and rifles. Estate Security Officer James Mac Donald and guard* engaged raiders in 20-ininute battle and repelled them. No casualties reported. Merging, Today.
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    QUEEN HAS 'FLU
    24 1 LONDON. Thurs. The Queen is suffering from inllucnzal cold, it is learned at Buckingham Palace. She cancelled all her engagements today.
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    Buy A Poppy And Help Malayan Ex-Servicemen
    324 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) riFTY per cent this year's Poppy Day collections may be rfctauifcC. in r this country for the benefit of ex-Servicemen. Every man and woman who has served in any campaign in in? armed forces raised within the British Empire is
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    RAS JOURNAL ON MONDAY
    91 2 The Malaya Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society will publish two. numbers of Us Journal next MondaJT The first is devoted to two important papers by Mr. Justice E. N. Taylor, one on aspects of Customary Inheritance in Negri Sembilan and t ne °t nt> r
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    Selangor Clerks Form Union
    35 2 Malay members of the Selangor Junior State Clerical Service decided at their recent representative meeting in Kuala Lumpur to form a union called a "Union of Malay Clerks, Low Division, Selangor".
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    Remembrance Service At Cathedral
    186 2 Arrangements have been completed lor the Remembrance Day service in St Andrew's Cathedral next Sunday at 10 a.m. I The opening prayers will !be read by the Revd. J. D. Bartleti R N. The lesson will be read b> ix. Cul. Darby of the Salvation Army.
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    Railwaymen Ask For Better Pay
    65 2 Malayan railwaymen (health and clerical sections) have! appealed to the Joint Salariesi CorAmission Officer for better! pay scales than those recom- j mended by the Trusted Commission. The Railway Junior Officers' j Union has sent m a memorandum, asking that railwaymen be given the same
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    CHINA RUBBER EXHIBITS
    67 2 11 A trade exhibition compris-. I ing of 74 kinds of rubber goods' manufactured by twenty leadj ing factories in China, is held \n the premises of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce. These exhibits were brought here by the two representatives ;of the China Trade Mission
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    W.V.S. OVERSEAS CHIEF ARRIVES
    150 2 Lady Anne Hunlokc, W.V.S.. has arrived in Singapore. Lady Anne Hunloke is responsible at the Womens' Voluntary Services Headquarters, London, for the work of the Services Welfare Overseas Department. She is, at present, visiting member s of the W.V.S. who are working in conjunction with N.A.A.F.I/E.F.I.
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    APPOINTMENTS
    36 2 Mr. J. Macintosh, of the. Malayan Postal Service, hasj been appointed to act Deputy 1 Chief Accountant, Malayan Pastal Service. Dr. H. Scrimgeour, Malayan Medical Service, has been appointed to art 215 Chief Officer, Singapore
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    Increase In Violence
    50 2 Ciime figures for October issued by Assistant Commissioner of Police Mr. E. V. Fowler, showed an increase in armed robberies. The following aie the figures fcr September and October: murders; 2-2; armed robberies: 5—13 (an increase of eight); simple robberies: 11) 18; and house breaking :72 65.
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    SIR IBRAHIM'S SECRETARY FOR LONDON
    63 2 Caotaln Abdul Kadir Lin i Dato'Haji Moh 1. Said, private secretary to the Sultan of Johore, will be leaving for t London on 'an important business cf state* 30on, the TYftMiiK understands. He will carry vith him n "special message for someone whose identity is
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    Are British Recruits Being Screened?
    202 2 Major General C. H. Boucher, G.O.C. Malaya District was asked at the Press conference »n Kuala Lumpur yesterday: 'Are conscripts for the British Army screened for political affiliations before being sent to Malaya from the United Kingdom, or is there any plan in the future
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    CHINESE PETITION TO REMIT MORE
    128 2 Chinese petty remittance syndicates in Malaya may petition local adthorities to raise the limit fixed for amounts sent to their families n China. This will be -leaded at a meeting to be held in Singapore next week. Representatw* s from all remittance syndicate:. in the
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    70 BANISHED IN OCTOBER
    66 2 Seventy orders of banishment were made in the Federation in the month of October. The total number banished since the beginning of 1948 is now 472. Of these 355 were aliens and i eight British subjects convicted in court. The total also includes 10£ Aliens and
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    Registration
    23 2 A total of 336,720 have applied for registration to date.! Individuals who have received their- cards at the centres total i 205,733.
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    No Illegal Entries In Malaya
    56 2 An organisation of Royal J Navy, RAF, and Police has j been designed to prevent illegal entry by Chinese landing from small craft on unguarded strips of the Malayan coast. The Acting Chief Secretary of the Federation stated that there had been no known illegal
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    Armed Chinese Make Big Haul
    80 2 BATU GAJAH. Thursday. Eight aimed Chinese entered a watch-maker's shop in Tanjong Tuallang last night and stole property valued at $20,000. In the Telok Anson area, about 30 terrorists staged a dawn raid on Jong Estate and set fire to the rubber store and smokehouses.
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    Shuttling Of Witnesses Is Improper—Counsel
    263 3 Generator Case r s. H defence counsel the RAF generator case ..t the polk* l ourt objected yesterday to the "constant" recjdUne of witnesses T,v,-,.ti»n wanted to call F IX. P. O. Gibnon foV*.ef^ h Umt oi wit Of mm udt and fot- m mv
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    CHAP-JI-KEE ASSISTANT
    44 3 Lim Liang Hong, ugcd 44, A»as found guilty in the Second Police Court yesterday with xssisting in a chap-ji-kee lottery •n House No. 77. Minto Road. He was fined $1,000. half of which goes to the informer, or six week's rigorous imprisonment.
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    Scalded By Porridge
    38 3 A two-year-old boy. Lim Ah Sah, was scalded to death when a upset a pot of porridge over himself by accidentally pushing a hawker's stall, it was revealed at an inquest yester- I day. j
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    SIAM INCREASES RICE FOR EXPOR
    327 3 GREATER efforts by Siam to increase he: rice exports have dispelled some anxiety over rice suppMo* for South East Asia, it was revealed at yesterday's meetln.; in Singapore of SEA LUlsun Offi-.ers. The Siamese represent?live: announced that Slam will ex port an additional 50.000 tens
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    R.A.F. JOIN ROAD SAFETY CAMPAIGN
    130 3 The R.A.F. is joining in t'ne Road Safety Ce.mpaign organised by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents] in the U.K. For the first time, R.A.F. drives will take part in th€ j Society's National Safe Driv- j ing Competition and will be eligible
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    Threat To Witness
    107 3 A Chinese witness complained to Mr. Justice Brown in the Assize Court yesterday that he was threatened during the lunch adjournment by two Chinese. Toh Cheng Guan, the witness, said that while he and his wife were walking along the road two Chinese followed them and said
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    HAND LOOKED LIKE PISTOL
    74 3 Tan Koon Bak, a Hokkien, llegedly entered a house at 21 vmoy Street, on Nov. 1, put lis hand in his pocket to make appear like a pistol, and i jbbed the inmates *of $45 in ■ash, and $30 worth of chandu. He appeared before the
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    CALL OF THE WILD
    45 3 Another horn-tooting motoriHt was fined $lv or L 0 days' simple imprisonment yesterday. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Barry, caught Lim Tian Hock sounding his horn longer than necessary. "I was calling n friend," Lim pleaded in the Second Police Court.
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    Caustic Soda Killed Him
    47 3 A verdict of suicide by drinking caustic soda was returned by the coroner after an inquiry on Ng Ah Ngok. aged 10. wiio died in the General Hospital on October 23 shortly after being found lying in a held foaming at the mouth.
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    Blasted By Carbide
    52 3 A verdict of misadventure I vas returned following an inliiest on Ong Ah Pah. aged 16. who was killed by the blast ->f a drum of carbide which xploded while he was handl- j rg it on the evening of Octoicr 24. Cause of the explosion is
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    RECEIVED CAR SENTENCED
    63 3 An Indian ta.*:i driver. S Sithbaram. who was found guilty of dishonestly receiving i stolen motor can. was sentenced to tnree years* rigorous imprisonment by Mr Justice Brown in th e Singapore Assize Court yesterday. It was alleged that the car. which belonged to the Nev. Singapore
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    Soldier A lieges Threat
    176 3 A British soldier, Private David McCulloch of th«:! Seaforth Highlanders, accused officers of the Army 5.1.8. of having; threatened to hand him over to the civil police "who would push bamboo splinters under his fingernails" if he did not make a voluntary statement. McCulloch, who escaped
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    MRS. DUNLOP RETURNS FROM U.K.
    133 3 Mis. Dunlop. wife of the GOC Singapore District arriv!ed here yesterday on the hoopship Devonshire from I the United Kingdom. Ti a veiling with her were 174 Biitish sei vice-women, j mostly WAAF. who leaned I owi the deck railings and cheered happily as the
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    More Slave Girls In Singapore
    332 3 There are indications that the number of peo--1 pie keeping "muitsais" (girl slaves) in the Colony 's still going up. Mr. T. P F. McNeice Secretary for Social Welfare, said so at a press con erence yesterday when heexplained the details of i •ase in
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    RETURNING
    23 3 Mr. Malcom MacDoivld Commissioner-General for Soutl; East Asia, leaves England i y air today for Singapore. He is due here next Thursday
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    ASP shot robber, saved colleague
    313 3 ASP R T. COOPER saved Insp. E. H. Shears from ft stab in the back when he shot down a robber in a knifeand-gun battle which too place when si\ Malay uunmen walked into a Police trap, at a house in Kranji Road, the Several
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    BANDITS KILL, TAKE RIFLE
    38 3 TAPAH. Thurs.— Terrorists I killed a Special Constable an rj took away his i Iflo when tnev ambushed a party of three j Special Constables a fe«v nine* south of Tapah yesterday tit naon.
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    THE TRADE UNIONS
    494 4 RAJARATNAM, Tribune political writer, begins a series of three articles reviewing the Labour Report on t his page tomorrow THE report by Mr. S. S. Awbery and Mr. F. W. Dalley on Labour and Trade Union Organisation in Malaya is a thoughtul piece of work. As a
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    THE RUSSIANS DECLARE WAR ON MARCONI
    1183 4  -  From illr Mosrow propaganda mill pour stories Making in dtWredii world s< i< iilisls and t'laim ihv glory tor their disc*ovcri<v<». By Herbert B. Nichols more than a year Sosv viet "information" mills have been feeding the world a steady stream of stories aimed
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    Czech Peasants Won't Co-operate
    367 4 IN spite of 9a\rl*er catcgori- cal assurances that Czechoslovak peasants were c onfirmed in the ownc. -hip of their land, authorities here have begun talking in derind" terms about collectivisation. Observers here have noted two features in recent speeches on this subject: First, unlike the Polish
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    Riverside seenc
    16 5 IMvirahto view with St. Francis Xaviers hureh in the background. Smiles from the kampong
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    FORMOSA: CHINA 'S NEW CAPITAL
    89 5 CANTON I hurt. -Should rcatcned by, i China's will be shifted to j acci i ding to I local port quoting e to otlicial j uTClc I I The report adds that pre- ttoi y w< »rk to meet such Mingtncy is already been generally
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    Study Of Races In Burma
    54 5 1 >N. Than. Mr. ih nnus, :in anttiropoloktng in an honorary [or the British and Hortiiman Mu i enl In Rangoon r an Improvi nu'iii tt nation to enable 1 1 in the inferior study tlir> .special lea of the Bur her raei in Burrating,
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    Filipi nos Prepare For Next War
    203 5 Reuter. MANILA, Thurs. —The Philippines will no! b caught oil' balance when hostilities break out. This has been amply made clear by official quarters here, the latest beiup, an official state ment from the public information of??.* of Malacanan Palace which says: "The government
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    INDIAN ENVOY & T V A
    74 5 INDIAN ENVOY T V A WASHINGTON. Thursday. America's huge Tennessee Valley Authority irrigation and power project is to be inspect--3d by the Indian Ambassador. Sir Benegal Rama Rau, this A-eek. The Indian Embassy explained that India was in initial construction stages of similar, though smaller, works and it was the
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    CITY THAT STARTS ARGUMENTS
    745 5  -  AND STILL SLEEPS IN THE SUN ll> Derek Drabble M ALACCA has always been the most argued over of the historic cities of Malaya. It has been a bone of contention because of Its links with China, with Portugal, Holland and England. Yet few historians. 01
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    Home And Duty
    74 5 The 16.000-ron P O lintr Canton, which leaves todtta for *he United Kingdom uith a full passenger list. Sh*- in<l her sisters Carthage ani Cirfu ire units »n the P a*. O's new all-white paint polui The d*iys of black hulls and i buff superstructures appear to
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    Town Of Churches And Memories
    341 5 POUTH African and I climb *J the hill to the ruined Church of St. Paul. v\h;:h the Portuguese built and Christened Madre de Deos. Gndinho de Ercdia wrote, in "618. that there were i rnumerablc places of fmisdan worship in the Forties <»r Malacca besides
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    COMPENSATION TO RACECOURSE
    63 5 Reuter.-AAP. SYDNEY. Thurs. -Mr. Justice Mansfield, sitting in Brisbane. Queensland, award- id the Brisbane Amateur Turf Club $32 57« as compensation by th f Commonwealth fcTr mi'ltary occupa- tion of Doomben racecourse during the war. The Judge's assessment of £32.579 was in addition to £28. 000 already
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    NO TRANSPORT PROBLEM HERE
    10 5 Like Noah's Ark the Malacca cart«.
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    UN To Have World Wide Radio Service
    335 5 Lake success, ti.ui. Plans for the- establi: hi incnt by the United Nation» of a world-wide broadcasting i service are gathering momentum here. Several United Nations officials have emphasised the necessity for the organisation to have its own radio service to replace the
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    INDIAN THOMAS CUPPERS LEAVE
    884 6  -  Lewis Named Captain By George T. Rice U.P. BOMBAY, F r i.—A note of optimism will accompany India's Tnomas Cup represen tatives when they depart via Air India In ternational today (Nov. 5) from London en route to Canada for their first baptism of fire In
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    Tyersall Trounce Tang lin To Win DCRE Soccer Cup
    241 6 KEEN game of soccer was witnessed in the DC RE CUP FINAL when a strong team from Tyersall trounced the D.C.R.E. Tanglin by five froals to nil, at the Tanglin ground yesterday. Yeong was the most impressive forward on the winning
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    Sailors down SCC
    101 6 11.M.5. London beat the S.C.C. 2-nil in a hockey match played at the Padang yesterday. The first goal was scored by P/Officer Kett and the second was by Mid-shipman Scott. Both jroals were scored in the second session. In the first session, the S.C.C. pinned play in
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    Innings Win
    59 6 ROBERTSON, Thurs. ffitn t bowling by Rolana Jenkins, Worcestershire's j rightarm spinner. who j finished with a match analysis oi 10 wickets for 75 jiuns. tnabkd the M. C C. to win the second match of j their OUth Atrican tour here i today by defeating a Country
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    PUNTERS SHOULD HAVE A BETTER TIME...
    1215 7 Ihree Good Bets For Tomorrow Ii From ALLAN LEWIS KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. LIGHT events will again comprise the programme tor Saturday the concluding day of Selangor Turf Club's October-* rovember Mr. ting. Winners may be a little easier to spot than on the previous
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    Colours score runaway victory over Whites in first trial game
    489 7  -  Bv RAM PIARA Hi (l( i,, m.ih'li lit*- Colours and (lie I K < railttiiR ysUtdny I•• M»1»M t )t «Ill/Ml I i\ili:.ns I Willi lo oppose tin' CouiMued -i.w ii' I w*n'.K ruilfil in win l«.r (Clours !»v live
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    CIVILIAN XI SELECTED
    62 7 After the hockey trial on the S.R.C. Padang yesterday the [Combined Civilians team to I meet the Combined Services next Thursday on the S R.C. padang was selected as follows: Ah Chio; R. Barth, Ponnamapalam; Pennefather, Edwin Doraisamy, G. Thomas; Lian Kee, Hong Yam, A. Clarke. Coutts,
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    REME WIN
    27 7 Tin R.E.M.E. Polo t.ioum Civics heat the Toog Old Boys' Association by thiee goals to two at the Far ret Park' r yesterday, at soccer.
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    Hockey
    42 7 The following vill represent the S.R.C. at hotkey Against the Army XI tomorrow u*i the S.R.C. Padang at 5.15 p.in Schubert, Barth, NcuVonn-r, Pennefathcr, G. Clarke, Houdon. D. Ross, R Barker, A. dance, Coutts, E .Ebert. Umpire Mr. A. M. Valberg.
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    W. Indies 380 For 5
    62 7 P ATI ALA. Thursday. Two big stands 164 for the third wicket by Rae and Walcott. and 96 unfinished for the sixth by Christian! and Weekes enabled the West Indies to put on :IHO foi by close of play, giving them a lead of i«'»i
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    "Malaya's Thomas Cup Chances Bright" —Says SBA President
    579 7  -  By JOSEPH YAN "UfE are on the eve of a great historical event in sports." said Mr. Lim Chuan Geok, Pre sident of the Singapore Badminton Association and the Badminton Association of Malaya in ar exclusive interview with me lust night after
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    TRUMAN HOLDS TWO MILLION LEAD
    304 8 Soviet Still Silent On Election Result CHINA shocked AUSTRALIA jubilant SPAIN disappointed Reuter. yew YORK, Thurs. -President Harry S. Truman, who spent the night N quietly at his Missouri home town of Independence, today consolidated his dramatic triumph over Governor Thomas E Dewey P-3 the
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    Convoy Attacked Again
    119 8 KI T ANT AN. Thurs. Pandits gain attacked a Police convoy a few miles west of Gambang Police Station this morning. The sudden burst of heavy automatic tire killed two Malay policemen and wounded Malay corporal and a Sikh policeman. The Police sentry post at Senggang Estate
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    WHY WALLACE LOST
    74 8 U.P. NKV7 YOKK. Thurs.—The Daily Worker admitted today that die: Progressive Paity although ardently supported by th t communists made a poor showing. "Vote tor Wallace, it must be admitted, fell even bilow what most sober supporters including this paper expected*', the Daily Worker said, adding •Truman
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    Greater Pressure On Terrorists Promised
    287 8 MAJOR General D. Dunlop, GOC. Singapore District, in a review of the situation in Tobore at yesterday's Press Conference at Kuala Lumpur suggested that Communist propagandists amend their materials which have, in the past, aimed at a false presentation of the morale of the British
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    Bandit hit took to pine clump
    76 8 PONTJAN. Thurs. A bandit hit by Police bullets hid hi.n self among pineapple plants, v mile and a half from the main road at Jeram On oh yesterday But he did not get away. The Police found him with gunShot wounds on the skull
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    TYPHUS IN GERMANY
    61 8 U.P. KASSEL, Thurs.—A Typhus epidemic has broken out in the village of Ooettingen J near Marburg in the Ameri- can Kmc of Germany, local j health authorities announced today. jSo far eleven carses have been reported and all the j necessary steps were being I taken by
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    SHORTAGE OF FILMS
    62 8 The shortage or films for national registration is being gradually overcome. Messrs Eastman Kodak Co. has already flown rut a g:\t.j request for films sufficient for 1 300,000 negatives. More are arriving by sea this month. Mr. C. R. Howitt. Acting Chief Secretary for the Federation of
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    NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
    62 8 Reuter. Stockholm. Thurs. Professor P. M. S. Btackett, leading British physicist, was tonight awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for "his work on cosmic radiation and his development of the Wilson method." The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Profes-oi Arne Tiseliu.s of Uppsala University, Sweden,
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    WALL STREET RE-ACTION
    104 8 U.P. NEW YORK. Thurs. Wali Street Journal today saitt "if the American people act ing quite consciously and with a deep running determination have voted into oflice an administration with ieftisi policy dominated by organised labour, they nave mad, decision which will change tht social and political
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    SOFT VOICED "CON" MAN ARRESTED
    123 8 U.P. NEW YOKK. ThursPolice today arrested a soft spoken well-dressed Englishman, whom they accused of using his knowledge of world travels to fleece foreign visitors here of sums from U£ssoo to US$l,5OO weekly during the past year. The arrest of elusi\e Charles Archer Milton. 58
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    GAMBLING ARREST
    21 8 The Gambling suppression department arrested a Chinese on a charge of assisting in the management of a chap-jcc-kce lottery.
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    Mr. Biffle Had The Last Laugh
    165 8 U.P. WASHINGTON, Thurs. Leslie Piffle, Truman's old Senate crony and personal pollster, said he guessed he had the "last laujrh" on professionals. Btffle, who. it is presumed, regains his secretaryship of the Senate with the Democratic victory, donned overalls a few months ago. got
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    Promotion For Malay Officers
    90 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. Promotion of Malay Officers in the Malay Regiment to the rank of Battalion Commander or possibly higher was assured by Major-General c. H. Boucher. C..0.C. Malaya District, at yesterday's fortnightly i press conference. The General was speaking j on the progress of plans
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    It's Coffin Racket Now
    70 8 U.P. SHANGHAI, Thurs. An undertaker, suspicious that Ins customer* were rmWmg his shop to hoard elaborately P'tmted hardwood coffins, demanded that he should be allowed to new Vie bodies before rrmenmmmting a deal Moreover, he insisted on stamping on the residence certificate of the deceased m
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    Piccard Abandons Deep Sea Dive
    259 8 Reuter. PROFESSOR August- Pic- ard. 63-year--'d iSw:ssborn scientist, has ab.in-ton- ed bis plan Cor i. deep *ea j dive In which he would have made a detailed study of life on the ocean bed. The Professor and ni« assistant had planned to descend two and
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    France: Rail strike threat as coal strike ends
    196 8 Reuter. DARIS, Thurs.—The mouth-old fren<•>, 1 strike is "just about finished" will be in full production by the next week. Mr. Robert LacQfite, Mi dlistry, declared in a broadcast t. But acts of sabotage and reprisal were being committed, he said, became
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    KING TO SEE BRAMUGLIA
    30 8 U.P. LONDON. Thursday. The Argentine embassy announced today that King George would receive Foreign Minister Juam Bramugtia on Tuesday at 1230 GMT at Buckingham Palace. —U.P.
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    To jo Judgment: Army Blamed
    128 8 TOKIO, Thurs.—The Judgment of thn 11 -nation Allied tribunal which is Lying Tojo and the 24 other Japanese leaders, today Japan's army for starting the nation on the road to aggressive war. it blamed the Japanese ar;v*y for *he tie-op with Hitler and Mussolini It
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    Youngest is 60
    129 8 Reuter. London. Thursday. From the four corners of Dublin and from Zuluiand there came to London today the "last of the few'" bringing with them carefully preserved but faded yellowing photogiaphs of a forgotten war of 55 years ago. They were bemcdallcd captaina and troopers 60 of
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    WHATS ON TODAY
    55 8 Lesley M.Y.K.: Rev r Lau on "Boys and Cur tionship" 8 p.m. Y.M.C.A.: Commercial r 5.30 p.m.; Movie Circl, Z show "The Bov p.m.; Lending I.ibrar. V.W.C'.A. (Raffles <*., Malay classes 9.15 aVVr-i p.m.; Pioneers meet at fr Canning 4 p.rn VICTORIA SCHOOL H\l> Singapore Boys' L
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    CINEMAS
    164 8 CATHAY: "Secret the Door" with Joan Ear. and Michael Redgrave-lj; 4.15, 6.45 and 9.30 p.ri, PAVILION: I with Katherine Hepburn a Spencer Tracy—2, 115.61 m 9.30 p.m. REX: "Chinta (in \Uiji with Siput Sarawak and B» mai Nor—2. 4.15. 6.30 and JJp.m. ALHANMU: man" (in technicoojr c Maria Montez
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    SPORTS
    46 8 HOC KEY: SCI cal College—SCC; S.M Y.MC.A. s.rj Chan.fi v. G.H.Q Si&"' —Changi; S.CKC. Police—S.C.R C f lege v. Johorc ground; B.O.D. v.' andra. ,,..1/? TAHLE TKNM*} V 0L HALL: Chinese Y.M Selegic Rd. 5 I m rr^ BOXING Junior I —Happy World. p in
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    POPPY DAY DANCE
    35 8 ttMhni Johore p«o«" ing t j un, stances there will i^ organised bj t» JJ Kvices dub ori The dance J> be hcl.l national Club in atteadance. u> Tickets are pnc<and. KfcM
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    DEATH
    27 8 Mrs. Chua Yew Van Kuo Hn the General !l *P 4 ing. The funoM' held .'t tlK Churc.i. at which. ti ted at 1 U CremaLonuri^^^^^^l
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