Morning Tribune, 18 July 1946

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    14 1 MORNING TRIBUNE VOL. 1. NO. 63. We* Miesi ffl CE.-VT.S THURSDAY. JULY 18, 1946.
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    25,000-Million- Yen Mitsui To Dissolve
    231 1 25, 000-Million- Yen Mitsui To Dissolve TOKIO, July 17. Heads of tin Mitsui, one "f the wealthiest families In ths world and controllers through tho" Zaibatsu— before its dissolution was ordered by the Allies ol m< st of Japan's economic and Industrie power, have, it is understood hen voluntarily d
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    GENERAL'S PURCHASE OF LAND UNDER FIRE
    134 1 GENERAL'S PURCHASE OF LAND UNDER FIRE MANILA. July 17. Filipln i Indignation Is m untlng over the sale ol two Large estates to us. Brig, (i n. Erne i n B-r The two cstairs, 840,000-acro Hu >na Vista and the smaller C p inia de Tabobong. wre bought in Burt's
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    ALFSEA SCHOOL IN K.L.
    107 1 ALFSEA's number one school of I army and air training, situated on j the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. M.- lava Command headquarters, opened yesterday morning and was attei ded bv raf and Army officers drawn a^ far afield as Java and Sumatra. Air dispositions of SEAC
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    Palestine Jews Strike
    154 1 Jerusalem. July 17.— Palestine narnivsrd torlav by the Jewish Community's one day country- wide general itrlke, organised t o demonstrate its solidarity with tho (ion hunger-striking inmates of the R*fs and latrun detention ramps. Th<' stoppage began quietly at nine o'clock (local tone) this morning mcl after
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    OFFICERS ACCEPT PYKE PAYMENT 'UNDER PROTEST'
    647 1 OFFICERS ACCEPT PYKE PAYMENT 'UNDER PROTEST' (Trwvne btajj Keportcrj Officers of the Straits Settlements Legal Service, and the Straits Settlements Civil Service have protest ted against the Cost-of-Living Allowances recommended by the Pyke Committee. In accepting payment of the allowances, they signed "without prejudice and under protest". All senior members
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    Mihailovich Executed
    45 1 Mihailovich Executed Belgrade, July 17.— General Mihailovich, once acclaimed by the allied world as organizer at the Yugoslav resistance movement, died befor e a firing squad at dawn today. less than 48 hour-, after conviction on chargei of treason and collaboration Wltll th e Germans.
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    Court Martial Sentences Commander
    144 1 Court Martial Sentences Commander KIN Ml TINY Bombay, July 17. Commander F. W. K'vg, Commander of Talwar Indian Navy shore establishment ot Bombay when the rating! mutinied last February, Was today sentenced by a court martial t<> be dismissed from Dalhousie and bo "severely reprimanded. Dalhousie s a Royal Indian
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    VITTORIO MUSSOLINI ESCAPE DENIED
    59 1 ROME. July 17. The pnu office of the Bpantti Etntaaiy in Rome announced today that it VU nb!* 1 •Mo deny catecoricol'v" th o renor* that Vittori o Ifunollnl had escaped to Spain. Tho report, printed here mid abroad, had said tho former DUCe's son had
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    Communist Threat To Nanking
    196 1 Communist Threat To Nanking NANKING, July 17.— The Chinese Government today charged that 130,000 Communist troops had opened an offensive along the Yangtze river and were conducting assaults only 20 miles from Namung and 45 miles from Shanghai. The government carried th e protest to General Marshall, special American envoy,
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    "Peak" For Asiatics Too
    87 1 LONDON, July 17 Hongkont? to to remove the colour bar which j hitherto kept i'-> famou.s "Peak" exclusively reserved to wealthy white residents, according to the Daily I Mail special correspondent in Hongi kong. No Chinere ha- been allowed v> occupy a house above a certain
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    Raid On Unlicensed Hawkers Will Mean Food For Charity
    280 2 Raid On Unlicensed Hawkers Will Mean Food For Charity unounc Stag Reporter) K:u he Smith Stre and Mercian! Road day the police estroyefl about fifty. 3talls unlicensed hawkers and confiscated about seven lorry load goods. These areas were cleared of unlicensed hawkers barely six days ago, and the alls destroyed
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    PoWs, In Trains, died of suffocation
    261 2 The transportation of a draft of British and Dutch PoWs from Lien Khan PoW camp to Saigon by rail in overcrowded vans sometime in 1945, resulting in the deaths of a number of Dutchmen due to suffocation, was recalled in the Australian War Crimes
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    SARAWAK GOVERNOR APPOINTED
    87 2 His Majesty the King hat approved (he appointment of Sir Charles Am en Clark C M.G. as Governor and C.-in-C. of Sara icak. Born in 1898. and educated in Rossall School, S r Charles saw service in the Great War, and was appointed to the Colonial service
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    Police Inspector Acquitted
    82 2 Lall Behari Singh, Inspector of Tolicc, was acquitted and discharged by Major A. P. Jack in the Relief Court yesterday of charge of dishonestly having in his posession ?n December 1945, a quantity of tinned provisions which were alleged to be police rations. The charge of criminal
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    Alleged Murder With Scissors
    62 2 Alleged to tune murdered a woman with a pnir of scfosori at a house in Geylany R<>a i nv Tuesday niQht, Stmi Fook fJnmi (30) icas nrodwcd beforp Man's/rate L. C. Coh yesterdoy when a Charge of murder was explained. The rn<e uns nostponed to July
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    General Hospital Canteen Opened
    83 2 A canteen for members of the General Hospital Staff was wiied rn Tuesday. Ainoim those present at the opening was Dr. T. W Winchester, CM O. of the General Hospital The canteen will be run on Ihe lines of a general store and M opportunity affords,
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    Inspector Says He Was Abused
    268 2 A scuffle which took place In the Happy World Park on April 28 in which some Servicemen and Chines 1 civilians were said to have been involved had a sequel in the Second Police Court yesterday when two English-speaking Chinese, Anthony Chua and Choo Swee
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    Dhall Consignment
    60 2 A Urge consignment of dhall has' arrived recently and is being distributed by Government agenti to the trading community. The price at which this commodity is sold by importers to wholesalers is $15 per picul The controlled wholesale price to retailers will be $16.50 per picul and the
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    SHIP STOPPED & SEARCHED: COURT SEQUEL
    283 2 SHIP STOPPED SEARCHED: COURT SEQUEL A search for arms on a motor vessel in Singapore harbour recently resulted hi the discovers of ball cloth and jungle green battledresfl in the engine room of the vessel. The vessel was detained by the police just outside the breakwater as it was heading
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    SERVICEMEN LEAVE THE POST OFFICE
    71 2 SERVICEMEN LEAVE THE POST OFFICE Ti It any take a day or two nore before pr trike condii an be red ;it the Oeni ral where uniformed strikes resumed vvcrk yesterday. A good proportion of the unsorted mails accumulated during the btrike la understood to have ba n dealt with
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    $5-OVALTINE, $300 FINE
    139 2 Kasslm bin Adam, who described himself us a trader, was .<•• p. "Ik (i to ;> w as' riv»i\»us Imprfsonmeni and lined t total oi $:*oo. in default six weeks' lmprisonm< nt, bv Second District Judge Tun Thoon Lip. or day. Ho was convicted on a charge
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      124 2 NOTICE. Tho Ministry of Transport fcdvlse Shipping Companies that they hav* a limiUd number of small crafts ranging finm 16 to 2.000 tons prota available :or immediate charter. Application for inspection of craft should be made to the Ministry of Transport, Ocean Buildings. Colly r •Quay, Singapore. For information as
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    Mr. Bartley Looks Back On S'pore Of 38 Years Ago
    263 3 alglc visions of tl old daj ere conlured by Mr. W. Hartley's r mini c nces of Singapore 38 years ago when ho was i!^ it sp< aker at the Singapore Rotary Club yesterdi In 1908, when he first sailed
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    SERGEANT DENIES BEATING
    141 3 SERGEANT DENIES BEATING A denial that he ever betd Oopal, or even slapped him in the course of Investigations, wta made by K. Narayana amy. (x-d< tective i anf of the C.1.D., i n his defence ai the Singapore Arizes yesterday. A Japane.s e named Kawatoko did all the beating,
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    OLD TRICK EMPLOYED IN ROBBERY
    123 3 OLD TRICK EMPLOYED IN ROBBERY Singapore, Wed. Employing the old trick ol adm'j n into a house by i ression that r even u e offlc< ts •ch n r con r iband, four mt< rd a h use s'tuated ■ir the main r ad In Buki; terday de, t
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    EARTH TREMORS ROCK SWITZERLAND
    50 3 EARTH TREMORS ROCK SWITZERLAND LONDON. July it> People were rou ed from their sleep at a number of places In Switzerland earl} today, by etrth tremors, Swiss Radio reported. Later a strong tremor waa recorded estimated to haw its centre some 1.375 miles to tin- «nuth-MWt. bably in Turkey. Reuter
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    FOOD FOR WORKERS' CANTEENS
    100 3 A scheme has been dei vised to assist fill urye employers of labour who wish to set up canteens i for heir employees. T)ic I Fo';-! C< n/ro Icr will ?rwke < ertaln foodstuffs available i vmvloyers approved by the Labour Department. Each canteen must serve
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    U.S. AWARD FOR SIR KEITH PARK
    382 3 Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, G.C.8., K.8.E., M.C., D.P^.C, and Lady Pai k embarked in the Mauretania on Tuesday for England, after Sir Keith had .1 invested with the United States Legion of Merit, In the Degri e of Commander, by U.S. Military
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    Another Public Canteen To Open
    93 3 Another People's Restaurant will be opened tomorrow at 11 30 a m. in the Qu< en Si reel Boy < !lub. The 11 o "f the Club for the purpose has been agreed t<> by t)uClub*! President, Mr. Richard hua n Hoe rJin The establishment
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    AIF Malaya Nursing Scholarship Scheme
    344 3 AIF Malaya Nursing Scholarship Scheme I made by Ai tan soldiers in Chang! Gaol, Ir gratitude to the Chinese in Malaya for they were given during their imprisonment, mine to take mat. rial form. Known as the A.I.F. Malayan Nursing Scholarship, the scheme has been organised for the purpose of
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    Lascar Gaoled For Having Opium
    111 3 A 25-year old Bengali lasear Abu l Khan was sentenced to 18 months' r.i. when he was found guilty on the First District Court yesterday !of being in wrongful possession of S' \t n pounds of opium. When Revenue Officers boarded the s.s. Nevasa on
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    Occupation Transactions Should Be Legal
    50 3 Occupation Transactions Should Be Legal (Our Own Reporter) PENANG. July 15— Unless thej were carried out under duress, a l transactions durintr the Japanese occupation should bo considered lega l stated Lt.-Coi. Drake-Brockman B< the P. Wellesley Advisory Council when the que-'iop. of the va'idisuch transactions were raised b\ members.
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    PAN-MALAYAN CLERICAL CONFERENCE
    125 3 PAN- MALAYAN CLERICAL CONFERENCE Mr. Lin Chaan Geok, president of the Singapore Cferiea] Union, has received intimation from the Selangot Clerical Union to the effect that in view of the ninny problems now confronting the clerical communf^ I feeli that the time is now oppor- tune for holding a conference
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    Union Governor Sees Japs Work Food Schemes
    146 3 Union Governor Sees Japs Work Food Schemes (Our Own Reporter)* PENANG. July 16.— During a two day visit to Province Wellesley the Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, saw the food production scheme worked by Japanese pr'aoners of war. S r Edward also visited various Government departments at
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    QUEUE DISORDER IN PENANG
    62 3 iOur Own Reporter). PENANG, July 16. -Police and radii 1 patrol cars had to be call°d out to restore order among the big queue for sweetened condensed nr.lk sold at .the Singapore Cold Storage riere today. Crowds waited for noun* whii? some turned "P even ba»
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    The Morning Tribune THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1946. North Borneo
    377 4 The Morning Tribune THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1946. North Borneo A skeleton has appeared at the North Borneo kenduri. The Chartered Company having been disposed of with filthy lucre, the inhabitants were still feasting and rejoicing at their eniry into the British Empire (the aspiration of all good Asiatics) when, to
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    Britain's Brightest Hour
    926 4  -  William E. Rappard From Sv.;i/rfl,i/ul, <i kuidly word <>f |>r.iist By Everyone remembers General i Smuts's atom-bomb-like speech delivered at a time when the outcome of hostilities was already certain, but when their end still seemed far distant. In his devastating review of Eu- ropean States the
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    "Slip of the Tongue," Pleads Dr. Dawes
    193 4 "Slip of the Tongue, Pleads Dr. Dawes WASHINGTON. July 10 —Doctor Normal Dawis, historian of the arneffian Institute of Technology, said Tuesday "It was a slip of the tongue" when he said that the United States had atomic bombs thousand times more powerful than those us»>d up to now. 1!,
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    Refused OBE
    48 4 NEW YORK. July 16. Mrs. j Stephen Wise, wife Ol the Prcsi- j dent of llie American Jewish' Congress, has rejected the award of a membership of the Order, df the British Empire in protest againsi the British policy in jtine, it is learned here.-- Reuter
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    Small-Scale British Business Sales In India
    145 4 Small-Scale British Business Sales In India LONDON, July 16. Dr. Hugh Daltoiii Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the House of Commons today that it was not the Bri ish Government's polity to intervene in Bales of British business Interest in India but that such sales had been on a relatively
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    Former Cairo Minister's House Searched
    119 4 Former Cairo Minister's House Searched ALEXANDRIA. T Uly L6.— Egyptian P< lice were today watching ii tti fis I ,t Mr. Georges loi Vice-Premier and former Navy viin ist( r n ■i:•" k wartime abinei in Cairo whos<> house wu searched last nighi in .1 nationwide :<" Miti-Oommunist rrtve. M.
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    Tied-Up Ships Move Off
    66 4 Tied-Up Ships Move Off SYDNEY, July 17.- Six Dutch .-.hips tied to Australian wharves for six to 10 months by th 0 waterside workers ban on loading material that might bo used Against Indonesian Nationalists cleared Sydney and Bris bane on July 16 for the Netherlands East Indies. No doekiidc
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    TYPHOON MAY HIT CNINA COAST
    47 4 TOKIO. July 16.- The Weather Squadron reported that a typhoon oi "severe intensity" may touch the northern tip of Luzon within the next few days. Forecasters believe thai the typhoon might veer to Forma, hit the Chini coast at Hong Kong A.P.
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    32 4 WASHINGTON. July 17; Congress extended the deadline to July 22 tor the report of the committee Investigating responsibility for the Americai failure to ward off the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. A.P
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    Why Grow Old?
    515 6  -  Josephine Lowman B\ Question-time Q. "I am five feet tall and weigh 105 pounds. I love big hats and think they are becoming to me. My family If always telling me that 1 should not wear them. I do not see why, when I am not over-weight.
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    U.S. CONSCRIPTION AGE LOWERED
    45 6 WASHINGTON. July 16. President Truman today lowt red the minimum eonscription age in the United States from 20 to 19 years. Men between the ages of 19 and 29 are now eligible for conscription into the United States armed forces Reuter
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    British-Indian Withdrawal From N.E.I.
    153 6 British-India n Withdrawal From N.E.I. BATAVIA. July 15.— Brius.; an<j Indian troops have now b» i i withdrawn from the whole ot the Netherlands East [ndtes, except Java, Sumatra and Rh!o Archipelago, it was announced by the Allied Forces' Headquarters today. At the same time the Lieute-nant-Governor of the Netherlands
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    No Death Penalty For Redin
    161 6 SEATTLE. July 16.— Judge Lloyd E'ack"s closing instructions will :end •Vicolai Redin of the spionage conspiracy trial to the jury on Wednesday (July 17) with the death penalty ruled out. In a surprise announcement on Monday after the jury nad left the ITlfl not convincing
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    NEW JAPIMPERIAL ORDINANCE
    84 6 NEW JAP IMPERIAL ORDINANCE TOKYO, July 15.— An Imperuij [ordinance entailing punishment Iby prison terms or tines for Japanese violators of Allied directives went into effect. Heretofore the Japanese had no such law and violators had Ito be tried in Allied provost courts. Under the new ordinance prison terms up
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    Byrnes Sees Bright Prospects Of Peace
    324 6 Byrnes Sees Bright Prospects Of Peace WASHINGTON, July l(i.— Mr. James F. Byrnes, United States Secretary of State, broadcasting last night oil his return from the Big Four Foreign Ministers conference in Paris, said the struggle to harmonis? the views of the great powers so as to make a p
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    China Retains 22,000 Jap Technicians
    191 6 China Retains 22,000 Jap Technicians SHANGHAI, July 16.— United States army authorities, who announced Monday (July 15) that all Japanese had been repatriated from China proper, said later that this did not eount 22,000 Japanese "technicians whom the Chinese Government are retaining to help rebuild China. Authoritative non-Chinese agurces said
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    RICE SHIPMENT RECORD
    40 6 BANGKOK. July 16. -A new rocord WH set on Julv 8 when 4.620 tons of Siamese ric 0 were loaded aboard ships In a sinde day. The rice was destined for various points In s«uth-ea.s' \-.i A.P.
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    COCKFIGHTS IN ENGLAND
    104 6 LONDON, July 15- -Ind va tions that cock-fighting has revived in England have caused the Dumb Friends League to ask the Home Office for police help to slump it out. Keith Robinson, Secretary 0} the League, sa d today: "We cannot put our fingers o/j anyUiina absolutely
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    Mad Jap Doctor Humoured
    169 6 Mad Jap Doctor Humoured TOKIO. Tuly IC. —Doctors imve (onvinced Dr. Shuin»-i Okawa, '..ar j crimes defendant Who thumped the i b.;ld head of Hicleki Tojo, that he wt ighs 1,000 pounds and he is quite <; The Kyodo news service "eporttd today that Okawa "continues 10 oe (lazy. and
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    FIVE KILLED IN STRIKE CLASHES
    77 6 BAGHDAD, July 15.— Five p» <>pl<> were killed and 14 injured including six policemen In i lashes between the police and strikers from the Iraq Petroleum Company at Kirkuk today. The Strike, which started on July 3. is still going on in spite of the
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    17 Killed At Lynching
    229 7 17 Killed At Lynching TEHERAN, July 10. Seventeen per .sons w killed and 150 injured In a clash that followed the lynching of an Arab merchant during the genera] strike at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company plants in Persia. Th i British Embassy tonight issued the following bulletin: The g( nera]
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    Anti-Social Pools In South Wales?
    160 7 Anti- Social Pools In South Wales? WESTMINSTER July, 16. Asked in the Houic of Commom yesterday i( he was aware of th« adverse comment In South Wales about th<- waste of paper l>y the Littlewood and Shermani Pools who have flooded the area with circulars, Sir Staffdrd Cripps, dent of
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    Hermann Goering Steel Works Given To Austrians
    88 7 Hermann Goering Steel Works Given To Austrians VIENNA, July 16. The American occupation authorities are today handing over to the Austrian Government the great Hermann Qoering steel and armaments works at Linz in Upper Austrian. The works which flgur c In the Austrian nationalisation programme arc the ttrst of 280
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    Civil Disobedience By Jews Postponed
    74 7 JERUSALEM. July 15.— The Zionist Inner Council in Palestine after a day-long session decided to postpone for a few days its decision to order civil disobedience by Jews in Palestine. One thousand six hundred detainees at ihe camp at Rafa havdeclared they will begin a
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    BRITISH ARMY DRIVER CHARGED
    54 7 J. M. Herbert <20>, a British army truck driver appeared in th«> Fourth police Court yesterday on a charge of criminal breach of trust In respect of 19 bale? of clothing and boots valued at ?4.7."»0. Bail of $4,000 was f'ued and the cast- postponed to
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    STRIKE OFF
    26 7 TEHERAN, July 16.— The oil worken general strike ended at noon today and work started in oil factorim, Tehenm radio announced into evening.- Reuter
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    KING'S MEDAL FOR SUB-INSPECTOR
    111 7 RANGOON, July 16— Th e King's Police and Fire Services Modal has been conferred on Saw Kyamaunp. sub-inspector of th c police of Pegu district. Th t citation says Kyamaimg, showed a hic n quality of leadership and gallantry during an attack by prisoners on Daiku
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    31 7 NAIROBI, July 16.— The Aga Plhan. who was recently reverted ill with a high temperature, today intimated that he would attend a big party to bo given here tomorrow vening.— Reuter
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    These Clippies Can "Punch"
    147 7 These Clippies Can "Punch" July ousand bus conductors and drivirs shouted hetnselves hoarse with excitement watch' mg half a dozen clippie* punching tickets like a 7nan and all of them on their day off! That was the h ghspot of the London Transports sports gala at Walthamstow, London conductor* ticket
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    WHITE PAPER ON TOGOLAND
    186 7 LONDON, July 16. A British Gov- ernment White Paper Issued today states that the former British Leagu 0 of Nations mandates. Togoland and the Cameroons, should continue to be administered as a ii integral part of the Gold Coast and Nigeria respectively under the international t
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    France Honours Mr. Churchill
    77 7 PARIS, July 16.— The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Constituent Assembly today greeted Mr. Winston Churchill in the name of the French people and in a unanimous resolution expressed France's gratitude for his contribution to the common victory. Mr. Churchill, who went to Metz to keep
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    SHORTER HOURS FOR UK WORKERS
    282 7 SHORTER HOURS FOR UK WORKERS L( N, July 16. rhe war-to peace switch-over ni Britain's factories and workshops is being accomplished side by side with improvements iin working conditions demanded by organised labour for many years and which were held up at the outbreak of the war. Many employers, anxious
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    JAPS to RETURN LOOTED LATHE
    81 7 TOKIO. July 16.— Gen. Do'iglas MacArthur's civil property custodian office today ordered the Japanese Government to return the i;iant lathe seized in Hong Kong in 1942 to the British authorities. It is at present at Okayama and is lcported to be in good condition. Valued
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    VON FALKENHORST FOR TRIAL
    42 7 LONDON, July 16— The United Nation War Crimes Commission announced on Monday night that General Nicholasus von Palkenhorst. Commander-in-Chief in Norway during the German occupation, would be tried soon on charges involving the deaths of British Commandos. A.P
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    EGYPT, IRAQ TELL BRITAIN IN ADVANCE
    198 7 ANTI-COMMUNIST ACTIONS LONDON. July 16. —A Foreign Offlcc source disclosed Tuesday that the British Government had advance notice of the almost simultaneous actions levelled against communists by the governments of Egypt and Iraq. Commenting on the reports from Cairo. Baphdad. and Saudi Arabia of
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    Nip Scientist "Amazes" U.S. Experts
    153 7 Nip Scientist "Amazes" U.S. Experts WASHINGTON, July 16. --Japanese scientists know more nbout atomic energy at the time of the Hiroshima bombing than Americans believed, said Dr. Philip Morrison, an atom bomb project scientist. Ho said when he was in Hiroshima a month after the bomb was dropped, a Japanese
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    U.K. Petrol Ration Up
    34 7 LONDON. July 16- The basir petrol ration to British motorists la to be increased bv 50 nor cent., it. \va s announced in the HoiKe of Com- Reuter mons today.—
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    10,000-Mile Non-Stop Flight Planned
    103 8 10,000-Mile Non-Stop Flight Planned WASHINGTON. July 16.— U.S. Army Air Forces officers on Monday disclosed that a non-stop 10. 000-mile flight from Honolulu over the magnetic North Pole to Cairo, Egypt, is being planned for o. B-29 Superfortress. The date of the flight, which would set a world record, has
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    WHEAT FLOUR BEING RUSHED TO MALAYA
    218 8 S 9 tx>re SOS Is Answered Singapore, July 17. OVER EIGHT THOUSAND TONS OF WHEAT FLOIR ARE BEING Rl SHED TO SINGAPORE FOR DISTRIBUTION IN MALAYA. A Reuter report from London, received here this morning, stated that in response to an urgent S.O.S. from
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    GOLD AGREEMENT WILL NOT AFFECT GENERAL PRICE
    136 8 GOLD AGREEMENT WILL NOT AFFECT GENERAL PRICE LONDON. July 16. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dr. Hugh Dalton, in telling the House of Commons today of the agreement whereby the South Arican K serve Hank would sell not less than £80,000,000 worth of p<!d to the Dank of England at
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    CECILIA COLLEDGE TURNS "PRO"
    38 8 CECILIA COLLEDGE TURNS "PRO" LONDON, Jui> 16.- Ifisa Cecilia Colledgc. European and former world amateur figure akating champion has turned professional She ha s i contract to appear In an tee revi»'^ u London theatre In OctotKT. Reuter
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    No "Cut" In Ration
    76 8 In Singapore, a food offlCiai told the Tribune this morning that Singapore has enough wheat flour stock to last from two to three weeks, based on the current ration. There arc also a number of ships in Malayan ports to-day with over 8,000 tons of flour
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    43 NAZIS TO HANG
    112 8 DACHAU July 16 Po- German officers and nv p ot n ird nag a.' i vii- durin Ard i C] tetn as W44 were by the Unit (i Btat court t day to death by tiangiii i i fn< i-'i l Col. v.. im Tw« niy-two,
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    Soviet Spy Suspects Fleeing
    99 8 OTTAWA, July 17.— 1t was learned on Tuesday that two high members of the Russian emba s s y staff, accused o) directing espionage operations in Canada, leff Ottawa hurriedly following Mon d a y's publication of the government report on the Soviet spy ?ietwork. The
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    BEVIN TO LEAD U.K. DELEGATION
    55 8 LONDON. July 16. Foreign Secretary Bevin will lead the British <lip lomatic delegation to the peace conference in Paris, Reuter learns. Prime Minister Clement Attlee ii not expected to attend. The Britisu delegation is expected to consist ol two or three senior ministers and two
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    COMMONS' QUESTION ON ARREST OF PARATROOPS
    270 8 LONDON, July 16.— The arrest and detention ol 207 men of the 13th Parat roop Battalion in Malaya on May 14, 1946, was referred to by Labour member H. Austin in the House of Commons to-day when hiasked if the War Secretary was aware
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    Scientist Asks U.S. To Halt Making A-Bomb
    250 8 Scientist Asks U.S. To Halt Making A-Bomb WASHINGTON, July 16. Pierre Auger, French entitle consultant to the United Nations atomic energy commission, suggested Tuesday that the United Siates immediately halt "production of atomic bombs" as a gesture of "generosity 1 to implement this country's proposal for world control of atomic
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    Russians To Be Freed
    92 8 Russians To Be Freed LONDON. July 16. The ihrec Russians held bv the American authorities :uv to be released Hamburg Radio quoting an anno menf by United States headquarters In Germany, said tonight. The Russians, two of whom are R"d Army officers, were found oh serving American military Install) tionfl
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    Crimes In London Falling
    191 8 Crimes In London Falling LONDON, July 16 While the Country as whole is goffering from a fresh outbreak of crime, the poin ter on the graph at Scotland Yard. which records fluctu.it ions in lawlessness in London, is moving down, writes a London "Star" reporter. There has heon a teady
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    Black Market "King" Freed By Crowd
    78 8 Black Market "King" Freed By Crowd DORTMUND. July 16 !ir>o people yesterday freed the ring leader <>f black market gang hnd been arrested here l>\ two po <n. The arrested man was already in a police car when the crowd att <m1 thf policemen ;i!m) carried <>ut the rescue Police
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    Shahrir To Form New Cabinet
    53 8 j BVI \7M. i ily 16 D Shahrir. the Republic of Indonesia') P er intimated today I d bei to form h n< IK 1 H las! i i us •arlier this month when Dr i.o r d i tat n is •<, < ?n
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    279 10 PREMIER TALKS CRICKET touring tea I I'linn* lee, in morning. Tl talk wa cricket in showed the keenesl int r "His k:iuv\ U i about cur team astonisheu nu\" Mr. Gupia lold me this afternoon. "He even knew the fullest details of Hazare'.s double century yesterday. Set ing that he
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    200 10 COUNTY CRICKET LEAGUE LONDON. July 16: The folio is the Count cricket championship standing including matches ended on July 16: including t\v o points for ti,> in Ist. Innings In match lost. Reuter. CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE Lsl Innings Lt'ii i P W L D NR L D Pis Lanc.s 15 12
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    145 10 Test Flight For Constellation i LONDON, July 16.— The Air I Registration Board announce that the civil aeronautics authority of the United States has given approval for a test flight of 100 hours duration of a "Constellation" aircraft fitted with fuel injection engines. The I>< ard have advised the .Minister
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    32 10 Dr. Cheng Tien-hii, 6S-year*old !id of the Hagrue International r <»nrt, ha i been appointed riiinese Ambassador In London. He succeeds Dr. Wellington Koo, who has gone to Washington.
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    581 10 Nor than ts Fight Hard For First Victory L< July 1(3. No ...i r i in Glamorgan, but i Bel to gei 8G uith all 2nd. In Wickets intact at the Mart ol the final day they lost six wickets before knocking of! th<> runs. Four bal men were out
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    148 10 Midas Not For Eclipse Stakes LONDON, July 16 -Lord I bery's four year-old colt M. I i not had a race d to Da n 1 1 I will not run in the As<-<»t. or Pi iday Ti h a lee has kept 1 off t h and h<- will
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    358 11 Chinese Beat Recs 3-1 < ombining Letter than the I ran out winner in >•«•■ terday'i charil at Jalan .1 The hinese forward line support* ed by sound defence played very well and it wac onlj J «)<■ Souza's sound goalkeeping that kept t h«« Chin* ore wit In n
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    244 11 At a gen< ral meeting of the Rccklites Sports Party the i' oi lowing were elected <;iiice baarers for the ensuing year: Pres d< at Chew En<>; Vice President, S. Mosbsrgen; Gen. Sec, D. C. Swyny; Asst. Sec, G. Ba'akrishnan: Treasurer, A V. Pillay. Tr< usurer. Sum Poo;
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    Table Tennis
    78 11 Playing before a Fairly large err."- on Sunday last at the Chinese Swimming Clnb'i premise! «'it Amber Road, the Chinese Swimming Club defeated the United Services Team in a friendly game of table tennii by Pour games to one. Following are the results: Cbua 'Kim Hearn beat Ekstein
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    RAF driver gaoled for fatal accident
    121 11 rOur Own Reporter) PENANG, July 17. ••A cyclist has as mucn right on the road as a R.A.F. 'ruck or a handcart", remarked Lt.-Col. R. F- h. Drake-Brockman wnen he sent; net a LAC P. C. Hasleham, Headquarters RAF. Buiterwerth, to lour monihs' r.i.
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    "Tortured By Monkey"
    106 11 "Tortured By Monkey" .a. July ll]. When Shaik Mohammed f l7i i brought up before Mr. W. Foulsham in the Police cmirt yesterday on a eh urge of voluntarily COUS- ing hurt !o Fung Sic ip Honq i during the occupai on, complainant told the Court that, when he was
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    PC Gaoled For Escape of Prisoner
    159 11 Pleading that the place was wry dark at the time of the occurrence, a Malay police constable Abduliah bin Talib appeared in the Second Police Court yesterday on a sumutons, charged with negligently allowing a prisoner t<> escape while i ti custody Abdullah was
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    PoWs Didn't Complain, Says Jap Accused
    261 11 Allegations that he was r.ctiveiy concerned In the 111-treatment and execution of a British trooper :nd niso in ill treating other PnWs on the outward voyage from Tava Lo Ambon in April 1943, were denied by S Maj. Yamamoto (accused Ho. 7, In the
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    West Indies Test
    41 11 KINGSTON. July 16.— The third between Trinidad a.id Jamaica XBS drawn. Jamaica BCJ.ftJ -N8 declared, 2nd innings I'2-i or <*. Trinidad SX9 and Bl for 6. The eecond tesi was rilso rfr*-«n f J mai'M won the Qrsl Reuter
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    Japs On Reconstruction Work in North Malaya
    228 11 Japs On Reconstruction Work in North Malaya (Our Own Reporter) Penang, July 17. Japanese prisoners of war are engaged in the construction of military camps so as to facilitate the derequisitioning of civilian premises occupied by the Services, said Mr. S.N. King, Resident Commissioner, at a press conference. Japanese PoW's
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    Chinese Distress In Province
    77 11 (Our Own Reporters. PENANG. July 16— The distressed condition of Chinese settlers in Province Wdlesley was indicated by the numerous requests made by individuals at vari o u s Government departments. So far DO assistance has betn flven them. Thesß settlors were forced to cultivate foodstuffs
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    China Orders U.S. Planes
    82 11 China Orders U.S. Planes SHANGHAI. July 16—Foreshadowing; an early expansion of China's air services, both domestic and foreign, the China National Aviation Corporation has ordered from the United States 150 transport planes of the C lo and C 47 types for e&rly delivery. This is said to be the largest
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    Egypt Wants China Cotton Market
    99 11 Egypt Wants China Cotton Market SHANGHAI. July 16.— Egypt hopes to ho one of China's biggest Cutlon supplier* as a result of the efforts of the official Egyptian Cotton Mission which is now touring this country, it is learned. Before Pearl Harbour. China imported annually laijre quantities of Egyptian cotton,
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    FIRST-CLASS SOCCER REFEREE HERE
    86 11 FIRST- CLASS SOCCER REFEREE HERE Among the pas ing ts who came to Singapore bs the liauretanla' was nrst class soccer referee. He la w O A Smith, Who cam with some H.A.F n >rsonnel. He Is B member of the Engl'sM I tball Leagues Referees and i Inesemen Ass
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    World Natural Rubber Surplus Expected Next Year
    420 12 World Natural Rubber Surplus Expected Next Year London, July 17. World surplus of natural rubber within the next 'year is foreseen by informed trade sources here, if real peace returns to the NEI by the end of 1946. The Indies' production also is dependent upon improvements in supply of short
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    Military Showdown In China?
    71 12 Nanking:, July 17.— Tin* threat of a military showdown between •h« Xa'ionalist and Communist armies seemed more real with an 'ndependent report of Governmeni troops activity on North China stepped up several hundred i> t cent« while Government quarters referred to a Communiat "general offensive" which
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    New Clash In Philippines
    54 12 New Clash In Philippines Cftbanatuan, July 16.— The lull in Neuva Ecija province an Monday was shattered by an H-hour clash lx' w<' n so Philippine M.Ps. and 300 peasant guerillas. M.Ps. said six guerillas were killed and others wounded. The military reported six villages in Pampanga province have become
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    2 Stabbed To Death In Allahabad
    113 12 ALLAHABAD. July 16.— Two persons were stabbed to death and injured this eveninc; in a clash between two groups of workers near South Malaka railway station, suburb of Allahabad. Th e incident created considerable oanic in the area which is now being patrolled bv
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    US PRICE CONTROL
    30 12 Washington, Juty 16-— Tli« T' States House of Representative! haa by a large majority to send h Pi :<• ;■(>• roi B'l! to the i jressional Conf< rence Committe
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    LIGHTERMEN STILL OUT
    76 12 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Eleven-hundred Chinese lightermen who went on strike on Monday morn* iii£ arc still off the quayside pending smi cable neg^otiationa with toni^kaii^r owners on the question <>f increai ed lighterage Tonpknng- owners' meeting with the labour unionist- la^t nifrht did not bring about anticipated
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    2 Views Of Britain, By Attlee & Churchill
    363 12 2 Views Of Britain, By Attlee Churchill London, July 17.— The Prime Minister Mr. Attlee anrl Mr. Winston rhurehill, leader of the Conservative Party, are giving support to candidate! in by-electioni which art' now being foupht. Pvfr. Attlee in letter to Granvilie West, Labour candidate in Pontypool by election, says
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    Yokohama Bank Assets For Repayment?
    137 12 S50-M«llion Effort (Our Own Reporter) "Debts due to the Yokohama Specie Bank by the Oversea Chinese Association, Penang, and the assets in the hands of the Custodian of Property are to be held by him in contemplation of arrangements to be made at the conclusion
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    Animals Killed By Atom-Bomb
    83 12 BIKINI ATOLL July 17. V' Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, in charge of the atom bomb experimeni f; today that 84 per CCnl of the Rni mal.s cxpo^'ri to f l(> atomic rays" in Bikini lagoon t'"-t 16 I av?o v;erp still alive. But of 3
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    CHINESE TELEPRINTER
    113 12 CHINESE TELEPRINTER .ij.able of typing 5,400 differ* nl id< o i rate of 15 word minute, hai Been demonstrated in New York. The Hi.' hine can be used In \oukdistance teletype operations, weigh* ,-i|w -it <>! li>s, and operatei <•). 110 volts. Each ideograph is produced by hit* g four
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    Russian Cotton For Britain
    108 12 MANCHESTER, July 17. The fl»t substantial, imports of Russian COtton since the outbreak oi war bavf Arrived in th t United Kingdom. The .shipment amounted to more than 15,000 bales and Will BhoitU b e available to Lancashire spinner*. Only small isolated lot« had been received
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    Britain's Reduced Expenditure
    68 12 London, July 17. For fli<> first time in Uk- current financial yeai United Kitifrdom revenue excee* nditure. The return for the week ••l.dfd July I- howi revenue I 00 000 .i n d >dit ii. e £U.o'io,oO(i compared with Ihe i,i. vioui weeh'i M 000,000 and 1,000
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    NEW PLINTH FOR FRANCIS LIGHT STATUE
    54 12 < >ur Own Reporter) Ftoaang, Wednesday. The statue of Captain Prase i Light founder of Penang, will be rt)*erected on new plinth at the Supi Court grounds. The unveiling ceremony will be performed by Mi. W. C< Taylor, Municipal President, <>t> Aug< 11, 160th
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