Malaya Tribune, 4 May 1949

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    66 1 MALAYA Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tel: "Tribune" Spore I* mmm Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper in Malaya I Phone: 5811/9 Nine Lines. Published simultaneous!,, at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jpoh, and Penan,,. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE:
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    "MALAYA DOES NOT FULFILL OUR NEEDS"
    281 1 Reuter. -EDWARDS ties Britain was buying from Indonesia were being SainedtlS? only because Malaya could not supply them in sufflciSnL quaaUties y He added that there was no reason at ore- q sent tc Disturb he traditional pattern of trad" between Britain and Indonesia.
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    TWO GIRLS HITCH-HIKE 7,000 MILES
    124 1 Reuter. PERTH, Tues. Two English girls who have been two month* in Australia have hitch-hiked 7,000 miles, seeing tne country. They are Miss Diana Schofield. of Kent, who plans to leave for Ceylon soon to meet her mo;\ i, ami Miss Eileen Newton, of Devon,
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    BLOCKADE: HAGGLING OVER THE DATE NOW
    168 1 U.P. LONDON, Ttoes. It was iPliably reported today that tho Western I'owor,- have asked Russia to lift tho Berlin blockade next Monday in return for an agreement OB a Foreign Ministers Council meeting on May If. On the ocher henu, it was understood, Russia
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    BRADLEY CALLS FOR ACTION
    110 1 SFSFS WASHINGTON, Tues. Gen. Omar Bradley, Army Chief of Staff, said today that the North Atlantic Pact will put the Cnited States defeace frontiers **iv the heart of Europe". Bradley said future plans for delcnce of Western Europe with American assistance—he did not specihcallv mention United
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    Malaya Loan Next Week
    79 1 A.P. LONDON". Tues.—Malaya is scheduled to float next week one of the largest colonial loans ever negotiated in the I'nited Kingdom. Plans are almost completed for the Federation of Malaya to raise a loan of £8.000,000 in the London market. The money would be used for
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    Cup Team Meet The Queen
    115 1 (From Teoh Seng Khoon) LONDON, Tues.—The Malayan Thomas Cup Badminton Team today met the Koynl Family a l the British Industries Fair at Karl's Court Stu- dium, a fitting end tit I their triumphal tour be- i lore they sail for honw tomorrow on the
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    EUROPE TALKS
    58 1 Reuter. ijumjuw, iues. roreU/n Ministers of nine European countries, who are expected to ay the foundations of Europe's first Parliament—a Council of Europe— today met in conference Mere. The Foreign Ministers were those of Britain, France, Italy, Eire, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland and Luxembourg. 1 The Belgian Foreign
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    CHIANG IN TAIWAN
    34 1 Reuter. HONGKONG, Tue s Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has arrived in Foimosa, it was icliably reported here toddy. He was believed to have gone into conference with Koumintang and Government officials Immediately.—Reuter
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    One-Man Army Routs Russians
    248 1 U.P. VIENNA. Tues. A six foot four American army private ju s t released from a military hospital staged a solo invasion of a Russian officers* hotel here and attacked seven Russian officers, includimr two colonels. The soldirr. Private Edward Touhcy, 19, was released this morning
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    Shanghai Frontline REDS SWEEP ON SOUTHWARDS
    336 1 Reuter. r»ni,! 1^ 01 1 Tuesda .v —Chinese, Communists today stenueil un their 1-0 mil^ th rd fr! c to smash Government rive, rtefe cc hs fa: the rolTnsi've'n r CO UnUed '-"ever, to mark Ume wieir onensive on the great financial centre of
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    "SHOW US HOW IT'S DONE" INVITATION TO FREEMAN
    341 1 May Come In June f).\VL I reeman of the United States and Miss Aase Jaccbsen of Den* mark, men and women singles champions at the recent All England Kadminton Championships, have been invited to visit Malaya. In a cable to Mr. Lim
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    3 BEST BETS FOR TODAY
    69 1 The going for this af- tcrnoon s racing at BuJat Tiniah is described, officially, as GOOD. Best He is are: GAICHO, ROCHDALE and PAHS FLOWER. Best each wav: SLK'KNESS, ASTIVEL and FLAREPATH. Best Outsiders: SELOPIAN, GOLD STREAM, C AMELIA, ABBV KAV and BALLVMAK. A goad
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    Sir Hugh Flies Home
    85 1 Air Marshal Sit Hugh Lloyd. Commander in Chief Air Command Far East, is flying to London on Saturday to attend the conference to be held by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder, at the Aii Ministry. Sir Hugh will be accompanied by Air Commodore
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    Child Star Undergoes Operation
    104 2 Woo Kah, tho $150-a-night child star of the Cantonese Opera, has Successfully undergone an operation for tonsilitis which had threatened to ruin her voice. Her mother. Chang Ping Muei. said "I am so relieved to know that my daughter will be singing again. She says that
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    PITCHED BATTLE FOUGHT
    76 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Security forces fought a pitched battle with br.ndits when they discovered an enemy headquarters in the Batu Aranj. area yesterday. One bandit was killed and two idles, two automatics, three grenades and 46 rounds of ammunition wert recovered. The battles took p'acc al I
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    COUNCILLOR CALLS FOR RURAL VOTING
    204 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A call for Rural elections is contained in a list or questions which the Singapore Legislative Councillor. Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir has sub- mitted to Government for reply at the next Coun- j cil meeting. Inche Sardon asks if Government is
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    PASSED ON STOLEN GOODS —CHARGE
    64 2 "Ong Boon Lim, 32, yesterday aced a charge at disposing of stolen property. $7,000 worth of motor spare parts belonging to 223 B.OJD. Kranji, on April 23. He pleaded not J'.uilty and .laimed trial. Mr. M. H. MacDougal!. Fourth Police Magistrate, postponed the c ase
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    SOCIETY DISSOLVED
    36 2 Within a yeer since it was egisUred, the Singapore Casket Dealers' Association, former! by Chinese coffin dealers, has been voluntarily dissolved hecause of a decrease in the number of members and lack of fundi.
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    Chinese Wedding
    26 2 "*iiss Soh Kwai \leng was married to Mr. Chan Kee Lee at the Chinese Consu'.ate-Ge nera». This photograph was taken immediately after the wedding.
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    Big Bang On Bukit Timah Road
    114 2 Buk»t Tlmall Road w«l! be) cii si d between 10_ and \2\ i mile marks from 110 pm. until 1.40 p.m. next Tuesday when two tons of e*piOSivesi condemned us dangerous are Jetonatcd in the nearly Matidal quarry. Traffic is advised to travel, by
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    RADIO DOCTOR TONIGHT
    61 2 The Radio Doctor will answer, listeners' questions ovei the Blue Network of Radio Malaya tonight at 8 p.m. The same talk will be repeated on Tuesday. May 10. at 7.45 p.m. from the Kuala Lumpur Studios of Radio Malaya. Questions foi the Radio Doctor should be sent
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    NEW STATION
    18 2 The Rev. V. A. Chelliah. of the Anglo-Chinese School, Tangkak. is now stationed at Johore Bahru.
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    PASTOR TELLS COURT HUSBAND REFUSED AID
    121 2 A Chinese pastor told the Chief Justice. Mr. Murray-Ayns-ley, in the Singapore High Couit yesterday that when he interceded iti a matt imonial tangle during 1944 he was told by the husband to mind his own business. The pofltor was Rev. Lc»o Tian Leong,
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    MUSICAL CONTRAST
    32 2 Tonight "Mr. Tan" and "Mr. Gordon" will continue their discussion, illustrated with gramophone records, on Chinese and Western music. It will be broadcast over Radio Malaya, Singapore, at 10 p.m.
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    OMISSION OF LAW COLLEGE CRITICISED
    224 2 THE Singapore Malay daily, Utusan Melayu, in an editorial comment yesterday expressed disappointment at the non-inclusion of a Department of Law in the University of Malaya. It deplored the present tendency to lay greater emphasis on the development of cultural knowledge than on the dissemination
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    Baby Show Is Planned For June
    119 2 JiHE Chinese Y. M. C. A. will hold a Baby Show 1 In June. The main object is to improve the health of the babies of Singapore through friendly competition. Prizes will be presented to the healthiest baby on June 12. Dr. Chen Su
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    Back from Egland
    42 2 Mr. George Rasiah, a Kuahi Lumpur journalist, returned yesterday on the Carthage after studying journalism and conditions in England for a year under a scholarship awarded by the British CounH«. He worked on several British newspapers in the Provinces.
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    Bank Director Testifies In Opium Hearing
    341 2 Mr Pang Cheng Yean, a director of the Unit <' Chines Bank, was called to testify yesterday in the c&fc in which six Chines? are charged wtt* possesion of 1109 lbs of opium and tieurg concerned in its importation on January 13. In tho
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    Divorce Petition Upheld
    204 2 Ah application by Mr. George Gauron that a petition for divorced filed by hi? wife. Vivto Gladys Gauron* should not bo heard here because "it is not. in the interests of justice", was dismissed by the Chief J'stice. Mr. Murray-Aynsley. in the Singapore High Court yestetdav T
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    FILM MONTHLY FINED FOR OBSCENITY
    116 2 The editor of "Screen Circle." a Singapore monthly movie magazine printed in Chinese, was yesterday fined $500 in default of eight weeks rigorous impri- sonment for ciiculating obscene I literature. He is Chua Boon Hin. who writes for "Screen Circle" under the pen name of
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    PIGLETS HURT
    42 2 Koh Toh Long, a 34-year-old Chinese, was fined $40 in default of 21 days simple imprisonment for causing unnecessary pain and suffering to 15 I piglets by putting them in two small rattan baskets at Maxwell rtoad on May 2.
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    Welfare Dept. Aids 30 T. B. Victims
    190 2 One Case Cited THE Social Welfare Department has paid out $2,--1 408.50 to 30 victims of tuberculosis during the first week of operating the $240,000 Domiciliary Relief Scheme. nr *t case to come up for i elief was that of a Malay wii
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    FIRST L.E.P. GETS MILITARY MEDAL
    246 3 Twenty-two-year old Ismail bin Musa, a driver attached to the 52nd Company, R. A. S. C is the proudest man of his company. He is the first L. E. P. t locally enlisted personnel) to win a military decoration in the campaign against the bandits.
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    A Sergeant Sets An Example
    166 3 Sergeant T. R. Chadwtck of the Ist Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, now in the United Kingdom on compassionate grounds, set an < xample of steadiness, determination and courage and skilful leadership when he led his fiveman patrol in a skilful manocuvio against a
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    U.S. SUPPORTS FASCISTS, SAYS ROOSEVELT
    142 3 A.P. PHILADELPHIA, Tues. The United States since the end of World Wat II has spent as much money supporting "totalitarian ami fascist regimes as we have tot true democratic regimes" .-ays Elliott Roosevelt. The son of the fot mer pt esident told a meeting of
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    DISGRUNTLED
    45 3 A.P. CALCUTTA, fucs. A disgruntled paity of North Burmese Tribesmen set *ut for home yesterday after trekking to the Assam township of Ledo to the trade thiee elephants for cigarettes. Ledo merchants did not have enough smoker to swing such a big deal. A.P.
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    'Diamond' Colonel Appeals
    80 3 A.P. S.ni Francisco, Tues.—Hear ing of oral arguments in the Tokyo diamond case of Colonel Kdwaid J. Murray, scheduled for yesterday, has been postponed to May 23 by Federal Judge Michael J. Rocke. Murray was convicted of misappropriating $90,000 worth of gems from the vaults of the
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    AIRLIFT
    35 3 A.P. BERLIN, Tues. Airlift officials reported that 8.789 tons of supplies had been carried by 961 American and British flights yesterday, bringing the total flown to Berlin in ten months to 1.540,969 tons. A.P.
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    Mosquitoes Cannot Be Eradicated
    157 3 Says Dr. Busvine KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday.—Dr. J. R. Busvine. of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that the possibility of eradicating mosquitoes on a large scale in Malaya was extremely remote. Something might perhaps be done on the coastal islands, he said, but
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    BUDDHISTS PREPARE FOR FETE
    211 3 Reuter. PATNA, Bihar. Tues. Buddha Gaya. sacred to Buddhists all over the world, is makI ing pieparations for the celei bration of the greatest Buddhist Festival the anniversary of Lord Buddha's birth, attainment of enlightenment and demise. The festival, on May 12, will be inaugurated by
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    STAR FOUND
    35 3 Reuter. PARIS, Tues. Seventeen-year-old Cecilc Aubry. French film star isolated by Hoods in South Morocco since last Friday, has been found in an Aral, village after a seaich by troops and gendarmes. Reutei.
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    DEATH
    28 3 TOKYO, Tues. An American Army private with tho occupation foices in Yokohama was sentenced to doath last night for stabbing a Japanese girl to death. —Reuter. Reuter.
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    18 ARRESTED
    26 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. There have been IS arrests in the Federation in the last 24 houis eleven in Perak and] seven in Selangor. I
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    MORE CANADIANS SEE BRITISH FILMS TODAY
    603 3 TAX ADA is becoming more British-fiim minded. Statistics show that, while three years ago only three per cent of the population saw British films, 32 per cent see them today, and have gone so far as to make their own ratififs about movie stars.
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    HE SOUGHT THE HORSES TAIL
    62 3 ,)r Isaa< P r n1 of the Malarra Rotary Club, puts on the horse's tail in «omp,t.t,on in Malacca while an amused spectator looks on The lut recent.v held a combined book and photographic exhibition in aid of anU-T lim is I Maiaec,, branch of
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    More Textile Trade Sought
    226 3 i> >" >!1:. l?l!>i (7c»m- Certain types of textiles have not been permitted import into Indonesia for some months past. Foreign exchange shortage in Indonesia has guided this policy thougn Singapore was overstocked with textiles apd could sell cheap to Indonesia. Singapoie merchants have been eomplammg
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    BEST REPORTERS REWARDED
    119 3 A.P. NEW YORK. Tues. Price Day of the Baltimore Sun yesterday won the Pulitzer Prize for the best reporting on international affairs in 1948. The decision was based on a seiies of ftrii. k*9 Day wrote on India's first year of independence. A Princetown University graduate in
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    CHILDREN TO TIDY UP
    85 3 Reuter. I LONDON Tues. —Thousands oi schoolchildren from all parts of Britain will be asked to help to tidy up their home towns to impress overseas visitors to the Festival of Britain irt 1951. Mr. S.L.G. Beaufoy, an official of the Ministry of Town and Country
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    More Fresh Vegetables For S'pore
    82 3 More vegetables will now reach Singapore markets fresh. I The Customs authorities have permitted seven more vegetables to cross the Johore Causeway before six in the morning. A number of perishable vege- tables were given this privilege about two weeks ago. The Chinese Vegetable and
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    STUDENTS SHOW PAINTINGS
    62 3 Morp than 300 pieces were -shown in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce at the five-day exhibition of calligraphy ano painting sponsored by the Chung Cheng High School and which ended yesterday. The exhibition lepiesented the wor>k of over 30 students ranging from 12 to 24 yeais of
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    WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
    271 4 Warm Corner Of A Cold War This forbidding building is our of the feu places k2l Berlin where lour power co-operation between fhe Russians and the Western Allies has survived the chili of the Stockade. It is the Spa lid an prison, where the top Nazi
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    POSSIBLE LOSS OF INDIES WORRIES DUTCH
    514 5 A.P. THE HAGUE, Tuesday. I'HREE years of fighting in Indonesia and worldwide expressions of disapproval at the Dutch stand have not changed the average Hoil-mder's ba«-ic feelings on that issue. He still asserts lie and his oo\ernment are morally right. The Hollander feels strongly
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    A BRICK FOR SILENT MR. TANAKA
    204 5 Reuter— A.P. SV DNEY, Tues. g -Japanese landlord. aided I by his two sons and two j Japanese iriends, carried J B nuf an eviction order r. against an Australian tamify at a house in Wl!~ 'oiighh\, Sydney. Austra'ians refused j the -Japanese' offer
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    New 'I Do Age Limit
    84 5 U.P. NFW DELHI Tues—The Constituent Assembly r S Considering a b il to forbid marriages of boys less than 20 yean old or gifts less than 15. A committee oi Indian law matters recommended passagt ol the b'Jl known a.s the CbiH MarHage Restraint Act
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    SPAIN SEEKS LOAN
    45 5 A.P. Madrid. *?ux». Reliable eousrera reported on Monday that Spain s seeking a loan from the united states Ex-port-Imporl Baftk, Although «0 smoonl was mentioned ta the negotiation*, it wus uncertain whether Spain wants about U5n00.030.0D3 for reconstruction and rehabilitation projects—A P.
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    INDIA TO BUILD MILLION HOMES
    192 5 Reuter. "KB* hH on NEW DELHI, Tuesday. .JH£ iDciu i Government has planned to build one million bouses re iicvc countrywide housng shortage. This programme, which the Go/ernment hopes to launch immediately will be completed in ten years. Tho plan envisages the construction, on a
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    Hello, Hello
    44 5 U.P. PRAGUE. Tues.—Czechoslavakia w iu soon open te i e phone eomirninication s w ith the following countries; Alaska, Barbados. Eermuda. Costa Rica. Domi- nican Republic Guatemala. Ham. Hon.mray. Jamaica. N-carggua. Panama. Porto R'co. Salvador and Trinidad I newspapers announced, v P-
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    MONTY FOX FRANCE
    38 5 A.P. LONDON. Tues--Field Marsnal Lord Montgomery, European Western Union Military Chief, left by plane on Monday for the continent. He will v»sit France and the .Netherlands before rus return .o Britain about May 15 —A--
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    Mrs. Attlee Ordered To Hospital
    65 5 A.P. LONDON. Tues.—Mrs. Clement Attlee. wife of Britain's Prime Minister was ordered Into a hospital yesterday for two weeks "complete rest" Her secretary said that the prime Minister's wife was "very tired The secretary declined further comment excepr to say that the Doctor's said it
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    HUSH-HUSH FOR ATOM TESTS
    168 5 U.P. LONDON. Tues. Virtual wartime secrecy has been clamped down on Britain's "little Bikini" atom test <he bcmbless bombardment of *he 5,220 ton cruiser Arethusa in j the same waters where a mil-I lion Americans shoved off tor Normandy almost five years ago. The Arethusa lies
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    'PEACE' TALKS
    58 5 Delegates irom 56 nations, meeting in Paris for the World Peace Congress, heard Frederic .»oliot-<Urie open the fellist-doininated parley with a bitter attack on the United Stales. b>«iol-Curie, Prance's Communist Atomic Energy Commissioner, accused America of rearming for war to present another depression/ Listening are Fiotro Nenni (centre),
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    Crime Mounts In Gay Paris
    425 5 PARIS. Tucsj. A ';rowin<: army of trigger-happy mgstera in causing serious headache among tin 21,775 policemen Of Paris. At the Qua! des Orfevrcs, the quiet riverside home of Frances Scotland Yard, an official told nre reccytly that in the city and its suburbs one pei
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    INDIANS TOLD TO KEEP AWAY FROM RED TRAP
    271 5 Reuter /In niTTMTr LUCKNOW, Tuesday.— in India are trying to create conoitions of civil war," according to Pandit GooniQ Vallabh Pant, Premier of the United Piovinces. The U. P. Premier accused the Communists of being "agents of a foreign power" and urged
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    Lawyer Complains
    149 5 'Tokyo Rose' Trial A.P. SAN FRANCISCO, Tues. A Defence Attorney in the "Tokyo Rose" treason trial case said yesterday that the US Army in Japan is putting obstacles in the way of defence. Mrs. Iva Toguri D. Aquino is accused of making the "Tokyo Rose" broadcast during the
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    OUR ISOLATIONISTS
    522 6 THE discussion in the Singapore Municipal Commission over whether preference for Municipal jobs should be given first to Singa-pore-born applicants and then to those born in the Federation reveals the growth of an isolationist outlook which is disturbing to those concerned with the future political development of Malaya.
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    WAR CLOUDS GATHER
    2398 6  -  WAR IN MALAYA No. 4 By y Lieut. Cen. A. E. PERCIVAL SHORTLY after taking over command I was instructed to rt view the army strength required for the defence of Malaya. Before doing so 1 decided to make myself completely an fait with the problem as
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    THEY HATED IT THEN TOO
    171 7 COME time i n the reign of Elisabeth a schoolboy of BlMhuist Sussex, felt SO little like '.!cin« homework that he hid hi| books in a chimney receai at his home in Church-hill. Midhurst. Of what happened then we have no record, but it appears
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    32 7 Mrs. F. A. Clarke and her pe4 dog and eat, l»i„ and Sijueaek, reach London after a IM mile journey from their country home mi \\latertoa on her motor scooter
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    BEES DIVE-BOMB PLANE CREW
    313 7 L O N D O N, TueiJdav. A PITCHED battle in" midair between a swarm of and the cap*ain. crew, and 30 passengers in an air-liner flying from Amsterdam to London ended rrj a defeat for the byes, but with heavy cusualties on both sides The
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    POOR FISH!
    89 7 A.P. PHILAI'KLPIUA, Tues. if flak that live in glass tanks could, they probably would throw stones at people wh"> mak-ĕ potaea. So says Hairy R. Lindaman, superintendent of tlie Philadelphia Aquarium. Undaman explained: "Visitors peer into the large tanks and are disappointed we; n the fish remain passively
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    Hollywood Must Lure Women To Cinemas
    304 7 A.P. HOLLYWOOD Tuesday gETH BROWN, who has been writing best-selling books for 20 years, believes she his a way to Milve Hollywood's depression. 'Hollywood has been turning out a masculine product, she says. "If it can lure the women back into the movie theatres,
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    BOOSTS IT BY OPPOSITION
    320 7 This Bachelor Lays The Trap Two Approaches To Marriage NEW YORK U.P. A group of New Trork psychologists are running n a thriving Lonely Hearts Club, which preaches against marriage. Most such organisations make a money back guarantee that they will find you a mate but
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    STOWAWAY SWITCHED AT SEA
    243 7 CAPETOWN. Tues. Six yeara ago Norma Wiliams. an attractive coloured girl, married an English seaman in ~*apetown. They lived together for only 12 days and she neve r saw him again. Determined to find him, 2U-year-old Norma left her lyptot'9 job and, with only 10s. in
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    No Orchids For MR Blandish
    104 7 A.P. I LONDON. |fOH. Saviile Row, Mecca of men's fashions, has turned up its nose at one of the Duke 01 Edinburgh's style whims The British Flower Industry Association .had said the Duk" men more flower-conscious by wearing a fl< wer in his lapelBut. complained
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    "Start Them Off Well" Technique
    96 7 LONDON Reuter. A London bachelor registrar has plans for making registry office weddings more intimate and picasant throughout Britain Mr. A W- Brewer. President of the National Association .of Registration Officers in England a r.d Wales, always has Ins office m the Hack ney district
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    SOUR GRAPES!
    76 7 A.P. LONDON. Tues. You could not blame Brit'sh archeolofifta if their mouths watered when they unearthed the remains of seventh century dwellings outside of London's old city wall They found bones of sheep, boar.' oxen. deer, .swains, geese and pike that the old timers had fed on. Lately,
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    WHITE LOBSTER BAFFLES THE EXPERTS
    93 7 1 WEYMOUTH. Tuos. —A white lobster caught by Mr. S. I Bower, a Portland fisherman, has been fed and studied at the Ministry of Agriculture and i Fisheries laboratory. Lowestoft, where experts failed to solve j the mystery of its colour. The laboratory says there
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    SHAKESPEARE IN SIAMESE
    49 7 LONDON, Tues. Two vo'ume.s of Shakespeare's plays, written in Siamese, are to be shown In a Shakespeare exhibition to open in Southwark Central Library on May 20. They were translated by the father of the late King of Siam and were presented by Mm to Southwark.
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    200,000 R.N. AND R.M. RESER VISTS NEEDED
    312 8 Second Sea Lord lpo examine 2ll H8r,ecl8 ok WHs 2t. Lv«t< '5?tv-»l lis exer-cises Known as I'sitient win? l«e,6 Hi lir,? ollicers ok <.n<? kloval' I>l2V'. t.n6 oln<:lFl5rvn:e«: .Vlinwt.er's ok tne senior «er vnnlH »n6 s<.'lrnt.«t.s nn«1 senior c.f ,Kc? siovltl Ke»e.-Vt? <7lNs,n:l
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    Ship-To-Shore Radio On Rhine
    183 8 I CRANKFURT, Monday.—Rhine river skipping to five countries will have ship--tc shore radio seivice in operation probably by Juh this year. Government communications exI perls ol the countries using the Rhine—Belgium, Holland, France, Switzerland and Western Germany—reached a preliminary agreement to establish the service at a
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    Along The Godowns
    63 8 Kampar (45); Mawai (44); Empire Hamble (Sheers Wharf); Landbris (40/41); Asphalion (38/39); Dolius (36); sunn will, Titan (33 34); Samarinda (31 32); Orestes (17 18); Loetoeng (19/20); Trevince (25 26); Aninup.it t.\ (28); Ettrick bank (27/28); President Harding (29 30); Mangoia (16); Astyanax (14/15); Meonia (11/12); Sitsen
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    AUSSIE WOOL FOR FAR EAST
    62 8 Reuter-AAP BRISBANE, Mon. The Scindia Steam Navigation Company, the Indian shipping iirm. is to start a cargo service between Australia and India this June, the company's Brisbane agents. Wills, Gdchrist and Sanderson Proprietary Limited, stated. The service will carry wool and general cargo from Australia
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    THE ALIEN CORN
    60 8 Traffic on the Great Lakes, to the astonishment mi many, is conducted by ships large as ocean-going liners. Canada ships grain to 33 countries, and the Great Lakes route from Fort William and Port Arthur, at the western end of I.ake Superior, is (he main artery of
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    Advised Admiralty
    25 8 admiral Sir Patrirk Krind, -in-( Far Eastern Fleet, returned to Singapore by iir on Saturday, after advising the Admiralty on the Yangtze incident.
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    Voyagers — There's More Hope
    139 8 Voyagers There's More Hope (Tribune Shipping Reporter) THE 10.000-ton Bibby Line ship Dorsetshire will call at Singapore on June 3to embark passengers under civilian transport conditions for the i Ignited Kingdom. The Dorsetshire will sail on June 4. She has been transferred Horn the Australian lun. on which she has
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    Returning To Macao
    122 8 ONLY Portngneee Nova ship btrnd at Macao, thr sloop Joao Lisbon, which Ml b#OM in X)n<)(iporf uaters the hist four imjft. left to return to her bus' yesterday afternoon. Formerly known an the Infante D. Henrimte, the ĕloop warn built at the Naval Arsi in.' l I,isbi>n,
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    MAIL TIMES SCHEDULE
    131 8 Air mails are expected to arrive from Holland, Australia, New Zealand, North Borneo. 1 Labuan, Sarawak, Brunei, IndoChina, China.. Hongkong, Ma|cao, Japan, Batavia. Mcdan. Palcmbang, Sourabaya, and I Padang. 1 Latest time of posting at the G.P.O. is to the United Kingdom, Aden, Arabia, Canada, Europe, India,
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    U.S. TO STEP-UP TIN SMELTING
    318 9 U.P. WASHINGTON, Tues.—Secretary of Commerce, Charles Sawyer urged Congress to approve legislation aimed at increasing I nited States tin supplies by encouraging smelting of low-grade tin ores. The Bill would authorize the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which operates a government tin smelter at Texas, to sell
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    Rubber Industry III-rewarded
    486 9 Sin JOHN HAY. chairman of S IS BetOQft Rubber ■states. Ltd. in his statement to shan v ons to say when be reviewed the progress of the j.jMip.i ..> nC'i.i ajM the general problems >t tt.• rubber industry: .i; iM utcnyttut tin impany along the hanl road
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    World Rubber —March Figures
    93 9 The world production of natural rubber in March as announced by the Rubber Study Group was 117,500 long tons, as compared with 97,500 in February. Consumption totalled 130,000 Al against 112,500. Stocks a* Ike end of march were 700,000 as against 742,500 hi Feb. Stocks in
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    92 9 PRICES rose again iri the pepper market yesterday. Most produce markets were quiet and steady. Yesterday's prices as quoted ex-godown by the Chinese Pro duce Exchange wrcre SAGO FLOUR Lingga (13%, Sarawak $10, Siak $10 SAGO SEED: $15 TAPIOCA FLOUR Fan $19. FLAKE TAPIOCA MEDIUM PEARL $20.
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    SIAM JOINS WORLD BANK
    56 9 A.P. WASHINGTON, Tues. Siam will Ago up on Tuesday as i membt r of the World Bank and international Monetary Fund, rhese organisations approved the Siamese application for membership last year. 1 Slam may now apply for a loan, and for fund assist ance In the
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    STEEL WARNING
    69 9 A.P. HOBOKEN, Now Jersey, rues. Stockholders of United States Stool Corporation were told on Monday by ChtfrmaE Irvtng S. Olds that <*there a»-e rumours of labour dnn.rids which, if made and granted, would necessarily inert ise the cost of producing steel." He coupled this statement with warning that
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    Stagnant
    19 9 I '»nditionr, remained ■ItfMuri in Urn local share market anti there was little stimulus ottered from overseas markets.
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    Rubber Market
    84 9 THE rubber commodity market vvas fairly active yester- day. With a fair amount of business passing prices remained unchanged from yesterday. Closing prices were Buyers Sellers No. 1 June RSS 35 35% No. 2 June RSS 33% 34 No. 3 June RSS 31 32 On registered tender: July-Sept.
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    GERMAN SCRAP FOR BRITAIN
    67 9 A.P. LONDON. Tues.-* Britain imported slightly more than 1,000.000 tons of iron and steel scrap from Germany during the 12 months ended last Mar. 31. George Strauss. Minister of Supply, told the House of Commons on Monday in reply to a question fiom Communist member Phd
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    SIAM BUYS JAP RAILS
    70 9 Reuter-AAP. TORTO, Toes.—The Siamese trade m.ssion in Tokio is nego tiating to purchase between 4,000 and 5.000' tons of rails from Japan, according to trade sources here. This purchase, if carried through, wou'd be the first post-war export from Japan of this line of goods. Siam
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    AID FOR KOREA
    23 9 A.P. WASHINGTON, Tues.—The Economic Co-operation Administration on Monday grnnted Korea US$3O,OOO to buy nonmetal'ic minerals from the LTn ted States.—A.P.
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    Malaya Share Quotations
    830 9 SINGAPORE, Toes, Buyers. SeHert j *.*lhj» li r .-..0" o>..hj Pref. 287 i. 2J&9 I Orda, 'ij.fi J.B. Petrol 40 41 <j:is. n» Old, lv »i ig G Uo. ,P> O 0 Utd. A.dr i. *v.75 ti7s j federal Dispensary 6.75 7.25 i a Pref. 8.25 8.75
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    TODAY'S FORM GUIDE
    4323 10  -  Second Day Of Singapore Turf Club's Summer (Governor's Cup) Meeting o 111 piled b v ALLAN LEWIS Rare One Class 3 Div. 5 6 F. And 5 Yds. PATHFINDER 8-11 TENTH 26 3-4* K.L. 8.08 Sj Furs. (Lawler) Div. 2. Won by Port Star l mm. n
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    Selections at a Glance
    68 10 RACE ONE TOBOGGAN Pathfinder John Bun Outsider: Ahhv Kav RACE TWO SLICKNESS Norton Demartus Outsider: Rallymar. RACE THREE ROCH DALE Hunter's Call Londa Lad RACE I OCR GACCHO Polish Bride Badger RACE FIVE FANFARADE Bright House Linkshir Outsider: Camdln RACE SIX ASTIVEL Prince Eugene Race Fan
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    694 10 The Big Sweep will be run on Rec« Seven and (he Double totjson Reces Five and Ei C ht. RACE ONE 2.15 P.M. HORSESCL 8 SIV. 5-45 FURS 5 YDS. Abby Kay (Charles) 8"8 Alladin" (Hobbs* v «na \Tr* Dixie (Menzies) Sir Keith t- ix Menzies (Owner. gflreF
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    N. ZEALAND FORCE A DRAW
    407 11 First Century Of Tour Reuter. BRADFORD, Yorkshire, Tuesday. THE New Zealand touring team today made a complete recovery from their disastrous end innings start to draw the opening match of the tour against Yorkshire here. Thanks largely to a faultless century by vice-captain W. Wa!k:ce
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    C.H.S. SOCCER TEAMS
    131 11 The Commercial High School Ist ami 2nd XI defeated the Customs and the Junior Dynamos by four-nil and three goals to one. respectively, at football lasi Sunday. The following are asked to turn up for the C.H.S. on Sunday at the Choon Guan English School Ground for
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    News from the Mews
    70 11  -  By ALLAN LEWIS COLBAY. who was very sour at the barrier on Saturday last when he ran in the Class I Div. 2 race over seven furlongs, has been sent to Cameron Highlands where he will enjoy a well earned rest, at Capt. Bloxham's Ringlet propercy.
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    Pre-war Jockey
    114 11 Doug, mc pherson who was cnc of Malaya's leading riders pre-war, is cxpcctcd to ariive in Singapore on to ariive in Singapore tomorrow. Doug will start riding immediately. He has kept himself fit in Australia by uding his cwn horses on the training tracks. He also took the
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    Ken Jeffers
    47 11 KEN JEFFERS who is well known to Malaya racegoers will be leaving for Australia on Sunday next per S.S. Nieuw Holland. Ken who has not had the best of luck for some time decided that a change of scene may mean a change of luck
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    GOOD HANDICAPPING
    121 11 r*REDIT must go to S.R.A. V official handicappcr, Mr. R. Norton, for the goou job of work he did in framing the weights for the opening day of the Singapore Turf Club's Summer Meeting, on Saturday last. With the exception of the race won by Empire Rose all
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    JOLLILADS XI
    65 11 Jolhlads Xi to meet St. Andrew's School on Saturday at Woocisville at 5 15 p.m.: Ahmat. Hassan, Smad, piilai, Haniff. Gas. Ba r i. Matnoor, Krishna.samy. Sydei. Rahman, Ealahi, Taib, Basakaran, Haib Mohamed. The team to meet the 221 Vehicle Company. Johore, at Johore Bahru on Sunday; Narayana,
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    TENNIS POSTPONED
    30 11 The tiesfor tne Singapore lawn Tenni s Championships scheduled to be played on Monday and yesterday were postponed to today ano Thursday respectively, due to sodden giOUnd conditions.
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    Record Breaker
    27 11 BYKON, by uinninp over seven the first day vrben he set up si new course record has now become favourite or The iw.t\ crnor's Cup.
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    127 11 In Hollywood the Cinema Stars Rre under a nervous strain night and day. In prescribing for and treating famous actors and actresses, a California physician succeeded in combining 9 highly concentrated extracts to aid nature in steadying and strengthening the nerves, building rich red blood, stimulating energy, and in augmenting
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    Seletar Airmen Hold Rovers To Draw
    461 11 R.A.F. Seletar 1 Rovers S.C 1 DILATING far below their usual form, the iiovers Sports Club could only walk away with a one-all draw when they met R.A.F. Scietar in a Senior League game at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Conspicuousiy absent on the abnien's
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    WALCOTT TRAINS
    32 11 A.P. (iRENLOCH. NEW JERSEY. Tues.—Jersey Joe Walcoit set up <amp on Monday to begin training for his heavyweight boxing title match with Ezzard Charles in Chicago on June 22.- A.P.
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    COMPANIONS B.P. WIN 6 – 1
    132 11 COMPANIONS B.P. WIN 6 1 SEVERAL thrilling sets were seen in the badminton encounter between tho Companion Badminton Party arid the Senyum Badminton Party at the lattcr's court in Johore Bahru. The Companions took the honours by six games to one. Results (Companion BP. pla>ers mentioned first): SINGLES Roland Ng
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    MARIGOLD B. P.
    65 11 The following playeis have been selected to represent Marigold BP. against Jacques B.P. at badminton on Sunday at the Clerical Union Hall at 2 p.m.: Ng Chia Heng (Captain). Koh Keng Siang. Seah Yeak Khern, Ng Cheng Hua. Wee Ghim Tee, Lim Chin Aik. Loh Ngian Hng,
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    MCC BEAT ESSEX BY 183 RUNS
    404 11 Reuter. LONDON, Tues. The M.C.C. completely outplayed Essex today to win by 183 runs with an hour to spare. On a wicket responsive to spin Essex lost six wickets for 59 runs in under the hour after tea. Harry Howard, younger brother to the
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    ALL OUT' BID TO SMASH THE KARENS
    441 12 Heavy Fighting Flares Up in Moulmein U.P. RANGOON, Tuesday. Till*: Burma Army claimed today that it had blunted the southward drive of hard fighting Karen insurgents. The Karens—most powerful of six revolutionary groups conducting separate revolutions against Burma's Socialist Government had been pushing
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    COMMONS TO PROBE HONGKONG
    104 12 Reuter. LONDON, Tues. Prime Minister dement Attlee is expected to refer to the situation in Hongkong when he maKes a statement on China in the House of Commons on i Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison asked Mr. Leonard Ganunans, Conser- vative, to await the I*nme Minister's
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    FRENCH CONVOY ATTACKED
    64 12 Reuter. PARIS. Tues.—Vietminn Indo Chinese autonomist troops attacked a French military convoy between Dongkhe and Thatkhc, about 140 miles north of Hanoi nnd inflicted losses, an Army communique from Saigon announced today. According to the French Press Agency, French forces j escaped from a Vietminh ambush near
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    Burma To Receive Aid From Empire On Condition
    163 12 U.P. LONDON, Tuesday. DURMA'S near-bankrupt government will receive financial aid fiom Commonwealth countries on condition that it accepts conciliation in the Karen revolt. An oflicial announcement to this effect may be expected soon after South Asian and Pacific premiers return tc their
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    'DON'T FORGET INDONESIA'
    58 12 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Tues—A State Department spokeman said today thai, the spread ol Communism in South-Ea.st Asia would be less likely :i the "legitimate interests" of NationaTsts in Indochina and Indonesia were realised. He was replying to queries about press reports that the United State s was prepared
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    Russians Say 'Yes'
    133 12 A.P. BERLIN, Tues. Tne Soviet army made a friendly gesture to the British Royal Air Force today. For the first time permission was granted to an R.A.F. court of inquiry to enter the R.J sian zone to conduct an investigation at the scene of a Berlin airlift
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    FAN MAIL
    25 12 TOKYO. Tues. Genera Mac Arthur's fanmail from th< Japanese since his arrival i J«p n exceeds 400.000 letter and the flow continues undiminished.
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    U. N. Discusses Italian Colonies
    241 12 U.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday. THE uoneral Assembly's Political Commit ice neaied completion of its hearings of African colonial peoples today and prepared to plunge inco a discussion on concrete formulas for the disposal of former Italian territories. i The committee heard four of tag live
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    DUTCH CONTROL ONLY TOWNS AND ROADS
    350 12 THE WAR IN INDONESIA LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday THE United Nations Commission for Indonesia has reported that conti--1 nued guerilla fighting in a large part of the former Republican territory had limited Dutch control to "only the main towns and roads. The report dated April
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    BANK CLOSE DOORS
    61 12 A.P. COLOMBO, Tues. Police were called in on Tuesday to disperse a large crowd which gathered outside the locked doors of the Exchange Bank of India aaid Africa Ltd., Colombo, to make withdrawals. A telegram trom the head ufiiee in Bombay was posted utside the bank ordering
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    WALDEN DIES
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