Malaya Tribune, 14 December 1950

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    61 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tefc 'Tribune" Spore. LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 5811/3 Nine Lines Punned «muHa-.eou.ly Singapore, Kuate Lumpur, /po-k ant Penan,. 3^^— SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1950 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE, E. Maurice Glover, Malaya Mm
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    ARMED TROOPS STILL ON GUARD, BUT CITY IS BACK TO NORMAL SHOPS, OFFICES ARE OPEN \
    458 1 ARMED TROOPS STILL ON GUARD, BUT CITY IS BACK TO NORMAL SHOPS, OFFICES ARE OPEN TRAFFIC CURFEW AREA REDUCED, S.T.C. BUSES OUT ALTHOUGH large numbers of armed forces and police are still guarding I jrious parts of the city this morning, Singapore is normal again. he city this morning, and
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    European Officer Killed
    41 1 n res nlement ofE res killed and his ■ant slightly injured jtfeandlts ambushed their tin the Jasin area of Mab last niffat 5z- ts attacked a security I the Kuala Kangsar ntsterday. wounding one. mi rracuated by helicop-
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    23 1 OSLO, Wed. IE Nnnvegian Army announced last night, that btmas leave for home units Kic be restricted because of k international situation.— MS.
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    KARACHI BANNED MARIA'S PLANE
    259 1 A.P. and Reuter. KARACHI, Thursday. PAKISTAN civil aviation authorities yest3rday refused permission for the Dutch Royal Airlines (KLM) carrying Maria Bertha Hertogh from Singapore to Holland to land on its scheduled stop at Karachi The plane, however, flew from Calcutta to Bombay and then to Dharan
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    U.S. To Build More A-Plants
    129 1 A.P. WASHINGTON, Today. U.S. Senator Brien MacMahon (Democrat, Connecticut) told the Senate yesterday the Government is planning to build huge new atomic energy plants. Sen. McMahon gave no details, but his use of the word "plants" indicated there will be new facilities in addition to
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    HALF MILLION REFUGEES
    26 1 Reuter-AAP. SEOUL, Today.—The South Korean Government estimated today thata half a million North Korean refugees had already fled south of the 38th Parallel.—Reuter-AAP.
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    Reds Close In On Escape Beachhead
    333 1 A.P. TOKIO, Today. COME 60,000 Allied troops were streaming across H ingnam's docks and beaches Wednesday into evacuation ships ending their fightme witndrawal from Northeast Korea. Their destination was secret. Massed Chinese Red troops—possibly 80,000— pressed threateningly against the tiny escape beachhead, 130 miles
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    DR. MARY TAN "IMPROVING"
    37 1 Tribune Staff Reporter DR. Mary Tan. the Municipal Lady Health Officer who is in Middleton Hospital with Polio, was reported this morning to be "improving". She is however rtill on the danger list.
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    THREATENED MacA
    31 1 A.P. AOMORI, JAPAN, Today.— Captain N John Caldwell, of the U.S. Army counterintelligence corps, said yesterday two Japanese reserve policemen Ktri held for making theats against General Douglas MacArthur.—A.P.
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    S.T.C. Hut Gutted
    30 1 A Singapore Traction Company starter's hut at Upper Serangoon Road was completely burnt last night during the curfew hours. Only the charred framework of the hut remains.
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    TO HANG
    41 1 A.P. QUEBEC, Today.—Genereau j Ruest, 54, crippled watchmaker, was today sentenced to be hanged for "dcliberataely j helping" jeweller J. Albert Guay to make the time-bomb for the plane plot to murder j Guay's wife in September, 1949.—A.P. I
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    BIG PRICE
    32 1 Reuter. BONN, Today.—The Allies have named 500,000,000 marks as the price West Germany will have to pay this financial year for Allied troop reinforcements, a German official said here today—Reuter.
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    AID TO MALAYA
    160 1 Reuter. LONDON, Today. miOXIAL Secretary James Griffiths said yesterhis recent talks with Sir Henry Gurney High Commissioner for Malaya, and General Sir Harold Briggs, Director of Operations, were concerned genially with speeding up operations against Communist terrorists in Malaya. in particular they discussed measures which rniaht be
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    It's Going To Be "H(e)aven" Now
    199 1 WORLD'S DRIEST LIQUOR NO HANGOVER A.P. MILAN, Today. r'ALY is about to start tempting the world's palate with "the driest liquor ever produced"—a cross between whisky and cognac that win be called "Haven." It has been distilled since, early this year, but will not
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    NO MORE TROOPS FOR MALAYA
    443 1 Reuter. LONDON, Today. DRITAIN is not sending any more troops toMalaya X at present, Colonial Secretary James Griffiths, told the House of Commons yesterday Labour Member James Harrison had sending "all necessary military assistance available in view of the lack of substantial improvement m the
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    Fewer U.S. Cars Go Abroad
    100 1 A.P. DETROIT. Thurs. AMERICAN automobile makers say they see little i prospect of increasing experts of their cars in the near future. Exports are still on the downgrade. Before the last war. when American dolors were fairly I abundant abroad, the US. I industry sold
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    This Giddy Whirl
    225 2 .-Prices Up So Put COL Up Too JOHORE BAHRIT. Wed. ITNGKU Aziz bin A. Hamtd U representative of the Johore Civil Service Association on the State Council today called for an immediate rise in keeping with the recent upward trend of prices in the cost of living
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    P.I. Supports Ceasefire Resolution
    145 2 U.P. MANILA. Wed. President Elpidio Quirino sent instructions to Foreign Secretary Carlos P- Romulo at La«c Success tc clarify the Philippines position regarding the 13-nation call for a ceasefire in Korea. It was reported, without confirmation, that Quirino instructed Romulo to support a ceasefire resolution, but
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    THE AFTERMATH —DUST AND DEBRIS
    28 2 A military crane clearing th.- d I rH at North Brdige Road. The scene at the motion of North Brid-e Ro?d »n«1 Street.
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    Riots Have Proved People "Immature"
    273 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday. MR H E MacKenzie Johore Stat/e Councillor said today' that the two-day orgy of rtottojf m Singapore where the Lenitive Council had a majority of elected men proved how immature and backward the people still were to exercise the right of vote.
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    NO HIGH COURT
    50 2 THERE WM no sitting of the High Court yesterday. Magistrates Court appeals fixed for heanng before the Chief Justice were adjourned until Friday. Trials fixed for heanng in the Assize Court were also adjourned until Friday morning. Work at the Registry is being carried on as usual.
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    FERRY CLOSED
    12 2 The Dungun Ferry in Trengganu has been closed from Monday.
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    Johnson Bashed Up, In Hospital
    118 2 MR. Pat Johnson, Municipal Commissioner, was found unconscious at 12.30 on Monday night in Tanjong Katong drain. He is now in the General Hos P»tal. As he could not give his correct name he was admitted under the name of 'Tent". It was only yesterday
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    Fast Move Kills Fire In Godown
    123 2 PROMPT action by Harbour Board employees averted what might have been a serious outbreak of fire at a Harbour Bo >rd eodown yesterday afternoon. Shortly after the luncheon break, smoke was seen rising from the centre of a pile of bales, crates and packages
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    RIOTS CHANGE STASSEN'S PLANS
    51 2 Mr. Harold Stassen, president of the Pennsylvania University and former ReI publican candidate for United States presidentship, arrived here yesterday. Mr. Stassen is on a Far Eastern tour. Because of the riot Mr. Stassen is not stopping in the I city and left for Jakarta yesterday
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    X'MAS GIFTS
    43 2 MALACCA, Tues. THE Malacca Welfare Committee has given $825 as a Christmas gift to Welferc Home, the St. Francis Institution, the Sacred Heart Conven\ the French Convent, Portuguese Settlement and the Salvation Army, Working Centre; Shellabear Hall, and the j Y.W.OA,
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    INDIAN HELD
    48 2 1 22-year-old Indian Karup h i* Perumal pleaded mx !in the Second Police Co» s > c nerir.y, to mlaapproprl'">r b b syc!c worth $70/- belong>.T to Low Ah Poh at New Bridge iload on Nov. 1. He was re- manded until December 20 for i sentence.
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    CHARON KIDS OFF BY AIR
    141 2 PORTY-FOUR school children, who because of the riots have b3?n unable to leave the Charon since their arrival from Australia on Tuesday, were taken from the ship to Kallang airport by a special launch and flown to their homes in Kuala Lumpur, loon, and Penang
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    TRUMAN ON THE AIR THIS WEEK-END
    87 2 A.P. WASHINGTON, Wed—President Truman Is to address the nation by radio on Friday or Saturday on the world situation and the home front steps he believes necessary as a result of the war threat. White House sources said yesterday. The President will consult Cabinet
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    Concert Off
    27 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. BECAUSE of the curfew in Singapore, tomorrow.-? concert arranged by the Local Indian Congress for the Johore Welfare Week has been postponed.
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    Colin – So Near And Yet So Far
    118 2 Colin So Near And Yet So Far WATCHING his companions forlornly from the rail as they embarked on the launch, Kerisi, for Kallang, was Colin Attias aged 16, of Haig Road, Singapore. Though his home is only a few miles from where the Charon is berthed, Colin has not been
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    Proposal Withdrawn
    54 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. CAPTAIN Hussein's motion which called for adoption of the Report of the Select Committee on the question of electing Council members by 1952 was withdrawn after the State Secretary hed asked for more time to study the motion in the light of the Johore Constitution
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    DEPT. HEAD SNUBBED US -CAPT. ONN
    296 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. CAPTAIN Hussein bin Onn hit out at today s meeting of the Johore State Council at the manner in which the Estimates were presented to 11 Council. As a member of t ie Finance Committee he said [13 had his responsibilities
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    Reds May Exploit The Riots
    147 2 Mentri Besar JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. rrAN Syed Abdul Kadir bin Muhammad. acting Mentri Besar of Johore today said that the Communists exploit the riots in Singapore to disorganise the Johore Government. Speaking at the Johore Council meeting he said that the rayats were living in
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    Police On Mercy Mission Marooned Children Are Safe
    128 2 MAROONED for three days in their house at the sixth mile East Coast Road because their parents were caught in town by the rioting on Monday were three Eurasian children who are now safe with their parents. They are Colin his brother
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    More Mutton
    23 2 THE Charon, which called at Singapore a few days ago, brought from Australia 2,000 sheep and about 1,700 tons of cargo
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    KATHI LEADS MOSQUE RAID
    467 2 Plain Clothes Men Hold 20 Malays, Find Arms Cock THE Chief Kathi of Singxpore yesterday led a number of plain clothes policemen into the Sultan Mesjid and arrested twenty Malay youths. They also found a cache of arms and ammunition, stones, steel spikes and broken bottles.
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    FOR AUCTION
    41 2 MALACCA, Tues. A fairly-large model of a modern house with outhouses and fence, the work of two Malay detainees, has been presented to the Malacca Settlement Youth Council to help swell the Council s funds. It will be auctioned
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    untitled Kill Man, Hurt Another
    150 2 KUALA LUMPUR.^, A gang of bandits lIleC I Chinese and wounded M» ther in the Kuala fctag District. They called at victims' houses, shot one«J hit the second on the head m a hammer. There was an between bandits and JJWJ forces in the Batui
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    U.K. CONTROL IN JERUSALEM URGED
    41 2 A.P. MS! fSS5*Bi Britain and the I plan to P* acc temp orsry Britain'" termed the S£ constructive effort the deadlock over whilst ooth he anc can delegate, <**£**1 gian Pl a fa solute political Committer
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    'DON'T APPEASE CHINA REDS' FAR EAST SAYS
    793 3 U.P. TOKIO, Wednesday, •\TTED Press survey of Far East nations showed that the majority of the people in this f the world strongly oppose any appeasement Chinese Communists. 0 Thp survey was conducted by the United Press Vis in New Delhi, Bombay, Singapore,
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    French Premier May Meet Truman
    160 3 UP. PARIS. Wed. «EMIER Rene Pleven may London again this «tk for conferences with prim, Minister Attlee to Washington president Trusources said. said that the pn mier was anxiouJ i m eet the President peri ra i; y but there were no the moment Washington
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    DON'T ADMIT REDS INTO U.N., SAY YANKS
    59 3 U.P. Flushing Meadows. Wed. AMERICANS picketed the ince of the United Nates General Assembly hall kterday. demanding that 6f United Nations reject the >n of Communist the world organizafte pickets paraded at the v entrance a few is away from the PJfmbly building.
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    LOUDEST VOICE NOW SILENT
    54 3 Reuter feowbridge, England, Wed. Purnoii. 80, who once PJjfcd to have the loudest in England, has died. d says Purncll, a 2" Wa >' worker, could be heard J? m when shouting rations, when a mile from *J he would call: Mother im knocking off r,
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    Acheson For West Defence Talks
    143 3 U.P. WASHINGTON. Wed. SECRETARY of State Dean Acheson is expected to fly to Belgium early next week to attend a special meeting of the Atlantic Pact Foreign Ministers, called to discuss Western European defences. The sources said the principal reasons for the conference are to
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    Seagrave In Rangoon Court Again
    96 3 A.P. RANGOON. Wed.—Dr. Gordon Seagrave. American physician on trial for treason, denied yesterday he was disloyal to the Burmese Government and laid responsibility for events leading to his arrest to false reports by a Shan State chieftain. Speaking in his own behalf, for the first
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    ***** OF BUCHENWALD'S INSANITY IS SHAMMED
    135 3 U.P. Augsburg, Germany, Wed. —Use Kocn, redhaired beast j of Buchenw-ild" was accused by a psychiatrist yesterday of t ••shamming insanity" in an 1 attempt to evade responsibility for th° murder and sadistic atrocities in the infamous Nazi Buchenwald concentration cantp. i The court
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    NAVY SAVES DRIFTING N. KOREAN REFUGEES
    99 3 Reuter. TOKIO. Wed. I A United States Navy ship rescued 103 North Korean refugees, nearly half of them women and children, from an unseaworthy junk with tattered sails yesterday, in th? Sea of Japan near the 39th Parallel. The refugees stated today they had
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    Mopplng-Up
    17 3 A R.E.M.E. crane, guarded by police and troop*, dear s the debris opposite the Sultan Mosque.
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    Million Refugees Resettled
    174 3 ReuterAAP. HONGKONG. Wed. NEARLY 1.000.000 displaced persons, including 13,000 from the Far East, have been resettled in homes through the assistance of the International Refugee Organisation, according to Sir Arthur Rucker. Deputy Director of the IRO. Sir Arthur Rucker and Mr. P. Jacobsen. Director of Operations, are
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    Azurin To Fight Huk Rebels
    139 3 U.P. MANILA, Wed. COLONEL Mariano Azurin, former Commander of the Philippine 10th Battalion combat team, fighting with the United Nations forces in Korea, will be given command of another combat team fighting Huk rebels on the 1 home front, the President's I office announced. 1
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    JAP FINDS 100-YEAR OLD TREASURE
    83 3 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO, Wed. Thirtys /en-year-old Atsushi Aoyagl, a resident of Yokohama dug out a century-old buried treasure from his backyard on Sunday, according to Japanese papers today. When Aoyagi pushed a spade into the ground to prepare the foundation for a shed, he struck an
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    Lhasa Drive Bogged
    113 3 A.P. HONGKONG, Wed. CHINESE Communist troops appear to be bogged clown in their drive to capture Lhasa, capital of Tibet. An official Sino Red dispatch from Sikang—Tibet front yesterday pin-pointed the Red forces as still 300 miles from Lhasa and 230 miles from Sikang-Tibet border. The dispatch
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    DEALER IGNORED RUBBER LAW
    477 3 MALACCA, Wednesday. THERE is considerable laxity all over the country by rubber dealers over the provisions of Section thirteen of the Rubber Dealers Ordinance and the object of the present prosecution is to bring home to them the necessity of observing them, said Mr. R. H.
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    DRUNKENNESS IS OUT OF FASHION
    108 3 Reuter. I LONDON, Wednesday. DRUNKENNESS is out of fa- Bhion in Britain. Only 1.775 men were taken to prison in 1948 for having had a glass too much .compared with 37,033 in 1913. The latest report of the British Commissioners of Prisons published today shows
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    Decoration For Korea Forces
    95 3 A.P. NEW YORK. Wed. Forces in Korea were voted a special decoration yesterday by the General Assembly in a plenary meeting. The vote was 38 to five, with two abstentions, for the award of a distinguishing insignia for personnel participating in Korea in defence of the
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    WHO SHOULD REPRESENT CHINA?
    76 3 Reuter. Flushing Meadows. Wed. THE United Nations General Assembly yesterday appointed a special sevennation committee to make concrete recommendations on what regime is to take up China's seat in the United Nations. It approves the nominations of Assembly President Nasrollah Entezam the representatives of Canada. Equador.
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    PROTEST ON SUEZ
    63 3 A.P. CAIRO. Wed.—Denmark yesterday handed Egypt a note protesting against current i Egyptian restrictions on tankers sailing through the Suez Canal. I Similar protests have been j made by Britain, the United i States, France and Norway. I The restrictions were imposed at the outbreak of the
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    BIG AIR ATTACK IN N. KOREA
    246 3 U.P. TOKIO, Wednesday. fOOD flying weather sent scores of United Nations fighters and bombers swarming over North Korea today to continue the massive serial attack in an effort to hamper the movement of troops and supplies by Chinese Communists. 8.265. of the Third Bomb
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    SUNFLOWER SEEDS
    45 3 SUNFLOWER seeds may become an important source i of edible oil for margarines, salad dressings, lard substitutes, and other products, I American scientists report. I The oil makes up about 30 per cent of the total weight of certain kinds of sunflower seeds.
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    THE LESSON
    582 4 few days. in his broadcast speer-h last night hehasset out in clear detail the events since Monday when ttie rioting began, to the time when the tide turned. Mr. Blythe openly admits that Police.resources became inadequate when the' rioters broke up into small groups and maoe scattered simultaneous
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    THE RIOTS IN SINGAPORE
    837 4  -  by W. L. BLYTHE Colonial Secretary, Singapore. In a Radio Malaya broadcast Last night. WHEN I broadcast last night I promised you a fuller statement on the course of the riots in Singapore. It is still too early to give the complete picture I would like
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    NO CHANCE OF TITOISM IN COMMUNIST CHINA
    759 4 UP. HONGKONG. AN analysis of reports from Communist China indicates there is little reason to hope for the rise of a form of Titoism, according to observers here. These reports indicate that the Peking regime is in full accord with the principles of
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    KNIGHTS OF MALTA
    478 4 A.P. ROME. KNIGHTS of Maltm. whose crusading predecessors wielded swords to guard Chris- tian shrines of the Holy Land, i today devote themselves to the peaceful task of aiding the sick and needy. Their activities, though little known by the public in general, have been extensive. During
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    CHINESE REDS ARE TOUGH
    410 4 A.P. THE Chinese Communist soldier who has been added to the Korean picture, is a good soldier. In some way? a great soldier but he has not been tested much against good mechanized forces and has not been through the crucible of a losing battle. So
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    Brolly Is Over 200 Years Old
    378 4 KEEN historians have just served that this HiT* modern umbrella-the J» ned by men and used nrim., to keep off the rain Women, however, had feather parasols lone Jff and even a crude, dJnwS of umbrella, but men n 'kZ had always disdained thY
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    U.S. Steps Up Draft Calls
    111 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. *rmy yesterday stepped fZm draft calls for January K.hruary to 80.000 men grease of 70 000 cnnal oal for the asKed n rt reason for boosting the face of the jSmng international situ*. t new rail brought the total quests for inductees up
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    BIG FOUR MEET IMMINENT
    75 5 AP. 'CIS. Wed—The French Lffien Minister Robert Schukr told the National Assembly r i net;ting of the Bi? Four \tos&i, the United States. t:-:n and France—is "immiy t»dtKom the German rets unent problem. [1 .aid it in reply to a ppuon from pro-Communist rt Chambrun. who
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    BRITISH EXPORTS BREAK ALL RECORDS
    193 5 Reuter. dritaik'c a, u LONDON, Thursday.. s export trade broke new records last month reaching a provisional figure of £211,900,000, Mr. Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade announced today. *oz a Tiiis was £9,700,000 over the previous highest figures in October and £35,000,000
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    U.K. CUTS MEAT RATION
    106 5 A.P. LONDON. Thurs. The Bri. tish Government Wednesday announced a cut of 3.1/3 per cent, in Britain's already slim meat ration. Confirming the collapse of negotiations to obtain further meat shipments from Argentina, Food Minister Maurice Webb told the House of Commons the cut becomes effective
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    Indo-China Facing Disaster
    112 5 U.P. HANOI. Indo-China. Wed.— French officers said forces of democracy are due for a disaster in Indo-China as the United Nations withdraw in North Korea. French commanders battling the Indo-Chinese Communists said the loss of Tonkin province on the Chinese Communist border, to Com-munist-led Ho Chi Minh's
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    LONDON TIN STEADY
    82 5 U.P. LONDON, Wed. The tin market was steady this morning with spot closing £10 up at £1,140 per ton and three months {2% easier at £987 ft. There was no business in spot tin but 65 tons of three months metal changed hands at £990. The noon
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    M-Aid To Be Blocked
    224 5 U.P. LONDON. Today. BRITAIN announced yesterday that Marshall Plan aid from the United States will be suspended effective on Janaury 1. The announcement was made in the Commons by Chancellor of the Exequer Hugh Gaitskell. It meant that Britain was the first Western European nation to
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    MORE TALKS ON NEW GUINEA
    56 5 A.P. j THE HAGUE. Thurs.—After the Eighth Dutch-Indonesian conference on New Guinea yesterday a communique was issued merely announcing that discussions will be continued to- day. Today's meeting was attended by the three Dutch delegates and Indonesia's Dr. Mohammed Ruhm, Foreign Minis- tcr and Dr.
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    FAMOUS CANADIAN TROOPS FOR KOREA
    223 5 U.P. TOKIO, Wednesday, f ANADA began throwing the cream of her fighting strength into the battle for Korea late this afternoon when the Second Battalion of the famous Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry docked at a Japanese port. The Canucks were the first of five
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    TIMEBOMB KILLER TO DIE
    156 5 Reuter. QUEBEC, Thurs. GENEREUX Ruest. 54-year-old crippled watchmaker, was found guilty of murder here today for his part in the time-bomb airline disaster which killed 23 passengers. He was sentenced to be hanged on March 16. J. Albert Guay, Quebec Je- i weller has already been
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    BRITAIN UNEASY ON A-BOMB TALKS
    282 5 Reuter. LONDON, Wednesday. SEVERAL British newspapers today expressed continued uneasiness at the lack of precise agreement between Mr. Attlee and President Truman on the future use of the atom bomb. The Conservative Daily Mail said: "At the moment the use or non-use of the bomb
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    AIR INDIA PLANE MISSING WITH 20 ON BOARD
    81 5 Reuter. TRIVANDRUM. South India. Wed. AN Air India plane carrying 16 passengers and a crew of four was reported missing today on a flight from Madras to Trlvandrum on the southwest coast of India. The aircraft was reported five hours overdue at
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    U.S. AWARDS FOR TOMMIES
    65 5 AP. TOKIO. Wed.—The first awards of the American guished Service Order to British soldiers in Korea were given to Lieutenant-Colonal Andrewman, of Lincoln Thach. Burnham. Buckinghamshire, Commander of the First Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment; Lt.-Col. George Leslie Neilson. 58, of Spulaw Bank Road. Colinton, Edinburgh,
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    HONGKONG EXCHANGE
    31 5 U.P. HONGKONG. Wed. Tho following were today's official closing prices on the Hongkong Money Exchange: HK56..20/6.23 per U.S. dollar. HK515.30 per pound sterling. HK5302.5 per tael of gold.— U.P.
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    Kennedy Says: Get Out Of Korea
    375 5 U P. Charlottesville, Virginia, Wednesday. JOSEPH Kennedy. former Ambassador to Britain, declared last night that American foreign policy is "suicidal" and said the United States should "get out of Korea". Speaking before the student legal forum of the University of Virginia, Kennedy predicted that
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    TRUMAN GETS OKAY FOR BIG BUILD-UP
    73 5 A.P. WASHINGTON. Thurs. US Senator Kenneth Wherry. Republican. Nebraska said after a two-hour White House conference of Congressional leaders yesterday that Pre? 1 dent Truman wants to hold two or three more conferences before deciding about proclaiming a national emergency. Republican and Congressional leaders
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    MANILA IS DOG-GONE
    76 5 Reuter. MANILA. Today. MANILA has a problem—dog shortage. And they are blaming Import Control for this. Medical college are asking housewives: In there a mongrel in the house? If so, they want to get it off their hands. They city's solitary wagon for catching stray dogs has
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    THREE ADMIT TYRE THEFT
    80 5 WIVE CHINESE were charged r In the Second Police Court yesterday with stealing I a motor car tyre and rim belonging to Mr. J. D. Joseph at Orchard Road on Dec. 12. Three of them, Tan Ah Wang, Tan Boon Hong, and Kong Ah Mcc, pleaded
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    Big Rise In World Output And Use Of Rubber
    238 6 STUDY GROUP REPORTS- SUBSTANTIAL increases, both in worm proaucuon and consumption of natural rubber were^ made during October according to the finding of the Rubber Study Group Secretariats. The output was 180,000 tons, or 15,000 tons above the September level and
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    Along The Godowns
    53 6 In Port: Fernsea (44), Stanvac Meifoo (Sheers), Carhtage (42/43). Taluei (40/ 41) Orestes (38/39). Sirdhana (36/37) Charon (33/34), Devonshire (31/32), Benalder (17 /18). Katong (21/22), Falaise (23/24) Eumaeus (25/26), Burnside (27/28). Polydorus (29/30), Perseus (15/16). Glenartney (13/14), Somali (11), Bentong (8/9> Malacca (6/7), Agulhas (CP.), Bali (4/5),
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    RUBBER NOMINAL
    114 6 A.P. The rubber commodity market was nominal yesterday after a little business had been done in the morn ng at 157 cents for ianuarv. Nominal prices in cents per nound were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 RSS f.o.b. Jan. 157 158 No. 2 RSS f.o.b. Jan. 152 153 No
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    THAI-JAP TRADE TALKS
    72 6 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO, Wed. The Thailand and Japan trade conference will open on Thursday, Mac Arthur's headquarters announced today. The purpose of the conference is to explore possibilities for facilitating trade under the present agreement, and to negotiate a new trade plan for the calendar year 1951. Mac
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    U.S. STEEL OUTPUT RISES
    71 6 AP. LONDON, Wed.—The British Iron and Steel Federation announced yesterday that November steel production reached the highest rate in Britain's history. It said November production was at an annual rate of 17,147,000 tons last March. The Federation said more market orders for steel have increased sharply
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    Manila Call To Nationalise Trade In Foreign Hands
    319 6 A.P MANILA, Wednesday. NATIONALISATION of trade and commerce in the Philiopines— presently largely in the hands of aliens—was advocated twice yesterday by Filipino sources. The Philippines Senate passed a resolution condemning the decision of a trial court which ordered that old firms
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    FLYING SAUCERS AGAIN
    72 6 Reuter. ROME, Wed. SEVERAL Italian Air Force officers claimed to have seen a"flying saucer" over the Bay of Naples last night, according to press reports here today. One of them Capt. Alfred Stella was reported by Momento Sera as saying that at 7 p.m., he saw a
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    CANADIAN $
    50 6 CANADIAN I i 1 The Malayan Exchange Banks i I Association announced yesterI day the following new rates for the Canadian dollar: Buying T.T. 34 5/8 Air Mail O.D. 34 3/4 90 d/st. 35. Selling T.T./0./D. 34 5/16 ready Selling T.T. O.D. 53 5/8. Buving—T.T. 53 1/8 O.D. I 53*1/16-
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    Nepal Rebels Take Town
    70 6 NEW DELHI, Wed. Nepalese rebels have captured the nation's biggest industrial town of Biratnagar. and hold the whole city except for the Governor's residence, it was reported yesterday. The insurgents made a surprise dawn attack on the town on Sunday, dispatches arriving here said Four hundred
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    N. YORK TIN
    25 6 NEW YORK. Wed. Tin futures closed 400 points lower in New York yesterday. Sales totalled one contract. Offers were May 126.00 bid.—
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    BRITISH COAL BOARD MEETS BIG LOSSES
    161 6 Reuter. LONDON, Wed. THE National Coal Board announced today that It lost £460.524 sterling during the third quarter of this year. After a big loss during the first year of state-ownership of the mine the Board reported profits in 1948 and 1949 and during
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    London Stock Market
    139 6 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. veuieu firmness was widespread in the London Stock Exchange today at the start of the new account- Small buying created many gains in British funds, industrials, oils and minings and undertone was cheerful whilst awaiting developments in the international situation. Advances in funds were
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    VIKING ROCKET RECORD ATTEMPT FAILS IN
    204 6 Reuter. V. hite Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, Wed.—The sixth Viking rocket to be fired by the United States Navy fizzled out today when an attempt was made to beat the world altitude record of 114 miles for a onestage rocket. The 50-foot-long Viking
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    AUSTRIA WIN SOCCER MATCH AGAINST SCOTLAND
    360 7 Vienna Crazy Over News Of 1-0 Victory Reuter. A.P. GLASGOW, Wednesday. AUSTRIA maintained their unbeaten record A against Scotland when they won the international soccer match at Hampden Park here this afternoon by one goal to nil. The goal was scored by the outside
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    SCOTTISH F.A. CUP DRAW
    116 7 LONDON, Today. j rE Scottish Cup first round draw made yesterday are as follows: Dunfermline Ath. v. Clyde. Dumbarton v. St. Johnstone; Peterhead v. Motherwell. East Stirling v Kilmarnock; Hamilton Academicals v. Elgin City; Albion Rovers v. Stenhousemuin: St. Mirren v. Hibernian; Rangers v. Queen of
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    NEW AUSTRALIAN HIGH JUMP HOPE
    61 7 Reuter— AAP. PERTH. Today—New high jumping hope of Western Aus- tralia is 14-year-old WIAKj bald who is being coached by Olympic champion John Winter's mentor, Jerry Hairc The boy recently cleared o feet 7*s inches which bettered Winter s record at the same are being
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    ASIAN TENNIS RESULTS
    47 7 AP. KARACHI. Wednesday. JAROSLAV Drobny, of Egypt, won the Asian Lawn Tennis Championship yesterday by defeating Fred K-ovaleski, of De trnlt 6—3, 4—6, 6—4, O —4Dorothy' Head, of California caDtured the women title by defeatTVg Joy Mottram, of England, 4—6, 6—2, 6 3. AP.
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    DRASTIC CHANGE
    36 7 A.P. ST. FLORIMAJOR League club baseball owner, in the U.SI drama, tically and unanimously voted yesterday to find and elect a X High Commissioner of baseball to replace A- B(H T r y took
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    BOUSSAC REVEALS RACING SUCCESS
    264 7 BLENDING OF THE BEST STOCK AVAILABLE A P. YORK, England, Wednesday. rvrHM \N Ma reel Boussac, Europe's leading Phorse owner and breeder, told British turfHct nizht the secret of his success was the of the best stock he could find. English Sine, he said, is always
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    Australia's And Test XI Selected
    77 7 a« JUDE, Wed— AustraR for the second Test *£n tonight but will unttl toZunw of the players 5 by elector? Sir Donald j. Ryder and E. A. Toast first be submitted Z l3 members of the AusLcßoard of Control for apZ The match begins in
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    ASIAN TENNIS SURPRISE
    31 7 KARACHI, Today. v doubles finals of fci astaa La*'" Tennis BMOOShip. Mr. and Mrs. defeated B»v Droby I Egypt i and Anderson (L.S.) A-ent to the British -rotations
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    SPORTS BRIEFS
    336 7 U.P. V disturbances in Singapore, all local boxing, wrestlnlg and Dther sports are cancelled until further notice. KUALA Lumpur's Victoria Institution on a South Malaya sports tour trounced the Johore English College by eight goals to nil in a hockey game played at the J. E. ground Johore
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    TEST CRICKET 'REST' SUGGESTED
    109 7 Reuter. BOMBAY, Today.—George Duckworth, manager of the Commonwealth Cricket touring team, suggested here a day of rest during five-day Tests. The no-play-on-Sunday tradition is not observed in India. Five day tests". Duckworth said, "entail a terrific strain even for t'no fittest cricketers He was speaking f-t
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    BOARDROOM TREASURES
    387 7  -  (By ARCHIE QUICK) Tt S y remaS m coutSs W in „J*T t," r m is completely surrounded by photographs of players who, Cl°ub!VXthpe is no y In footbaU with a finer record. The formidable list covers a period from the days of the great Steve Bloomer and
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    Waiting List Keys Up The "Regulars"
    459 7  -  LUCKY THE SOCCER CLUB WITH GOOD SATISFIED RESERVES (By ARCHIE QUICK) UCKY the club with satisfied reserves. Relegation to the second team generally means frustration and a demand for a transfer. Taylor, of Newcastle United, is a current and outstanding example. He has asked
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    F. A. CUP RESULTS
    57 7 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. FA CUP ROUND REPLAYS: Bradford 0 Millwall L Plymouth Argyle 3 Crewe Alexandra 0. Gilllngham 1 Bristol Rovers 1 (after extra time). In the F.A. Cup third round now, Plymouth Argyle will meet Wolverhampton Wanderers at Plymouth and Millwall play another London club,
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    INTRODUCING WOOLLOONGABBA
    86 7 Reuter—AAP. BRISBANE, Today.—Brisbane crick-it ground where the M.C.C.'s team lost the first test on a wet wicket is called Woolloongabba. No one seems to know exactly what this means. A museum enihnologist said it was an aboriginal word and the first part meant "plenty" but he hadn't a
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    Improved Sparkling Batting By M.C.C. In Drawn Match
    796 7  -  Centuries By Sheppard, Close In Second Innings (By BEGINALD HAYTER) Reuter—AAP. CANBERRA, Wednesday. HAVID Sheppard and Brian Close each made an unbeaten contury for the MCC against ew South Wales Southern District here today putting on 179 for the unfinished fourth wicket
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    FIVE-TWO VICTORY FOR MUNICIPAL ENBINEERS DEPT.
    126 7 MUNICIPAL Engineers Department defeated Monks Hill Badminton Party by five games to two in a friendly badminton fixture played at the Government Trade School hall. The results are as follows (Municipal players mentioned first): SINGLES: Seah Eng Liat beat Goh Tiang Seng 15-2, 15-6;
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    SINGAPORE BUSINESS HOUSES FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
    114 7 AT a recent meeting of representatives of the Business Houses Sports Clubs in Singapore, it was agreed that a Singapore Business Houses Football Association be formed for the promotion of Football competitions amongst the various Singapore Business Houses. An Interim Committee was formed to draft
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    ALL-BLUES MATCH OFF
    39 7 I The rugby match between the I Singapore All-Blues and the Selangor All-Blues scheduled for play at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday has been cancelled indefinitely. An announcemcnt will be made when I the date is fixed.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    32 7 Mrs. D. B. Murray thanks all friends for their Kind messages of sympathy and the lovely flowers. She hopes to write them personally in due course. Sri Cading Estate, Batu Pahat.
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    TRUMANPLANS RAPID BOOST OF U.S MIGHT
    98 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, Today. PRESIDENT Truman yesterday told Congressional r leaders of plans for a "very rapid increase" of U.S. military strength—an<J lie won backing from the Republicans present. They agreed that the U.S. is confronted witn a dangerous emergency. The White House, in a
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    RHEE ASKS FOR ARMS AID
    113 8 A.P. WASHINGTON. Today.—The South Korean Republic has formally asked the United States to provide arms and ammunition for at least .1.000,--000 of the nation's young men. There are more than 2.000.000 South Korean men of military age, and President Syngman Rhee maintains that if they
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    Hull Visits Acheson
    70 8 U.P. WASHINGTON. Wed. FORMER Secretary of State Cordell Hull, paid a surprise visit on Secretary of State. Dean Acheson. today. The two men spent 15 minutes discussing the troubled state of world affairs. It was Hull's third visit on Acheson in the past two weeks. It was
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    DINOSAUR EGGS FOUND IN AFRICA
    92 8 A.P. DAR-ES-SOLAAM. TANGANYIKA, Wed.—What may prove to be the first Dinosaur eggs ever to be found in Africa have been discovered in Southwest Tanganyika by a Government geologist. The mysterious remains are thought locally to be the eggs of the prehistoric monster, but have been
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    The 'Witch' Collapses In Court
    151 8 A.P. AUGSBURG. Germany, Today. ILSE KOCH, "witch" of Buechenwald prison camp during Hitler's Nazi regime in Germany, collapsed sobbing hysterically yesterday and the court ordered her taken to an ante-room for a medical examination. The 43-year-old defendant Is being tried on charges of murder of
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    BLOOD BANK
    15 8 Group A—36 Bottles, Group B—s Bottles, Group AB—3 Bottles, Group O—2B Bottles, Donors—ss.
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    Death For Peace Offences
    75 8 A.P. BERLIN, Today. East Germany's Parliament approved yesterday the first reading of a Communist law punishing "offenders against peace" with death. The law's preamble says "the aggressive policy of the imperialistic governments of the USA, Great Brifain and France threatens to entangle the German people in
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    Reds Revolt Against Leaders
    82 8 A.P. COLOMBO, Wed. The ran and hie of Ceylon Communist party are rebelling against the party's decision to suspend eignt members for "disruptive activities". Angry members stormed party headquarters in Colombo I and protested against "unfair, undemocratic and bureaucratic I decisions". In a written protest, the
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    Communists Executed
    79 8 AP. TAIPEI, Wed. Six alleged Communists were executed yesterday in Taipei, bringing the number put to death in Formosa since the end of November probably to somewhere in the 80s. The six men were stated to have joined the Communist underground in February in central Formosa. They were
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    STASSEN WON'T DISCUSS MacA
    305 8 U.P. SINGAPORE, Wednesday. Mr. Harold Stassen, President of the Pennsylvania University, arrived in Singapore shortly after noon by KLM from Djakarta on his "look and listen" world tour. Accompanying him was Mr. Robert E. Mattesen. Both are members of the Republican Party. He was met at
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    TIN CONSUMPTION
    40 8 A.P. WASHINGTON. Thurs —The U.S. National Production Authority said it is contemplating a 25 per cent, reduction in the r mount cf tin used for civilian purposes which come mostly from Far Eastern areas thrcatt. ened by Communism.—A.P.
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    PRESIDENT TRUMAN GREETS ATTLEE
    51 8 i» .I p. im Minister Clement R Attlee (risht), is erected here by President Harry SlSm.??? hba^"a| C lr«"ashin S t. n for U.ks aimed a, finding common poluy in the world crisis and avertine the threat ot a world war. A. F. rhoto. A. P.
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    U.S. ADAMANT ON ITS ASIA POLICY
    212 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Today. DIPLOMATIC authorities said yesterday that the Indian government has v failed in its initial attempts to persuade the V liicd States to agree to Communist China's demand for political conce ;sions in the Far East in return for a peaceful settlement
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    Big Defence Spending
    31 8 A.P. PARIS. Today. Premier Rene Pleven of the Middle-of-the road Government announced yesterday it would stake its future on Parliamentary approval of a 500.000.000,000 francs (£500,000,000) Defence budget.—A.P.
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    HURT BY GRENADE
    47 8 A.P. SAIGON. Today. Nguyen Phuoc Hau. political councillor of the Political-religious sect. Hoa Hao, and his four children were slightly injured last night when terrorists of the Com-munist-led Nationalist movement hurled two grenades and fired pistol shots into a room of his home. —A.P.
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    WEST REPLY SOON
    30 8 WASHINGTON. Today The joint British-French-American reply to Russia's suggestion for a "Big Four" meeting on Germany will probr.hly be made this week, the State Department announced yesterday.
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    HE RAN A SCHOOL FOR BURGLARS
    128 8 A.P. NEW YORK, Today. DOLICE arrested Louis Mainiari, 56, and closed r down what they said was a school for burglars in Lower Manhattan. Detectives said Mainiari has long held regular classes in all the arts of burglary and his pupils ranged from youths
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    SOUTH LEADER ASSASSINATED
    50 8 U.P. SEOUL. Wert.—Men dressed in South Korean uniforms shot to death the Secretary of the Korean National Assembly on Monday night in what was believed to be Seoul's first Communist fifth column assassination since the city's liberation. The name of the dead man was not made public—U.P.
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    VISHINSKY REJECTS CEASE-FIRE
    176 8 A.P. LAKE SUCCESS. Tod-T DUSSIA yesterday rejected an Asian-Arab ni v for a Korean cease-fire on the ground tW 1? United States and Britain would use a trC prepare their forces for a new attack. The Soviet position was laid before the sembly's Political Committee by Deputy
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    U.K. Navy To Maintain Ceylon Base
    161 8 Reuter. LONDON, Today—The future of Trincomalee, in Ceylon, as a naval base for the British Navy was the subject of question in the House of Commons today. Mr. William Deedes. Conservative, asked if the Admiralty would make a statement about the future of the
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    ARGENTINA JOINS F A O
    24 8 MONTE VIDEO. WedARGENTINA is to join the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation. Agriculture Minister Carlos Emery announced yesterday.
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    MacARTHUR ORDERS CONSCRIPTION?
    132 8 A.P. MOSCOW, Today. PRAVDA published a Tass dispatch from Shanghai today that according to information received there from Tokio, General Mac Arthur has ordered the Japanese Government to prepare a universal conscription law. It said that by the end of October the Japanese Foreign Ministry had presented
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    Mt. Etna Still Spits Lava
    156 8 CATANIA. Todsv fiRATER3on Mount still erupting Yesterday b! some lav had greatly reduced speed at others stopped, giving hoot t! thro? threatened village? The villages. MUo, R lnaj> and Fornaxzo. seemed donZ a few day.- ago. While hnnging miser; hardship to thousands of sants living
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    PAY INCREASES
    34 8 Reuter. creases tor h n*** today ended one j serious wage «W™* aC c# war. The mon s loaa cd £6 sterling for adult skilled worKe £5 sterling rninim"*£ skilled workers.— «w
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