Morning Tribune, 24 July 1946

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    15 1 MORNING TRIBUNE IL. 1. NO. 73. S r -8) 10 CSNTS JjLV t 24, 1946.
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    Naval base chiefs to meet again today
    655 1 Naval base chiefs to meet again today Retrenchment To Blame? (Tribune Stall Reporter) Ths biggest strike in S ngapore's history got u ider way y sterday when th remaining 3,000 Naval Bas( d ck a d men down;-- tool3 and joined 8,000 who s n ck work on Monday. There
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    Dog Race Leads To Rioting
    164 1 LONDON, July 28: Angered by the disqualification of a dog which finished lecOnd, Mcttofl of the 30, <•()<) crowd wrecked Harringay Greyhound Stadium last night. The crowd invaded the track, B| haulted the officials and police, over turned the starting traps, nulled up the woodwork,
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    Police Open Fire
    94 1 MADRAS, India, Julv 23. Six persons were wounded today when police opened fire 10 disperse a mo\r which set fire t 0 ten handloom fac- tories at the Kurur weaving centre near Triehinopoly in South India. Three of the weaving plants were dytroyed. The troubl e began
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    CHINESE GENERAL IN BERLIN
    30 1 LONDON, July 23 Lieut-Gen. Kwei Yung-chin, head of th e Chinese military mission t Q the Alried Control Council fan Germany arrived In Berlin on Sunday.
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    WANTS INDEPENDENCE
    41 1 LONDON, July 23.— Complete independence for a united Llby a and admission to th e Arab League wag demanded in a note sent to the Leapre bv the 'National Libyan Bloc* 1 of Tripoli. Rome Radio reported lasi night.
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    LABOUR RETAINS SEAT
    38 1 KENT. July 23— Britain's Labour Government has retained a seat- i* •h e by-el cction hero, it \va s announced early this morning. The Labour majority was 1.851 as against 11,763 In the last election.
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    ITALIAN TREATY CUTS FIGHTING SERVICES
    339 1 London, July 23.— The Italian Army is to be reduced to a maximum of 250,000 men and 200 tanks under the provisions of the treaty between Italy and the Allied powers, Reuter learned today. The Italian navy will be cut to 2 battleships with main
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    DEATH TOLL REACHES 93
    1403 1 DEATH TOLL REACHES 93 Bomb Oiffra^c: Britain i<€*ly<.i~ts i\> WciNlriir^torr Gen. Cunningham Dashes Back To Jerusalem After Seeing The King Jem alem, July 23. The Palestine Government announced today that 93 person?, including 14 senior British and Palestine offiers. were killed outright under the "huge pile of debris" In the
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    Chinese Volunteers' Grievances: Full Details
    1062 2 IMPORTANT TALKS WITH i THE GOVERNOR TODAY (Tribune Staff Reporter) Grievances of Chinese Volunteers on the matcer of back-pay, pensions and the apparent lack of a definite scheme regarding financial compensation are sel out in a 57-page Memorandum drawn up by Chinese Volunteer officers and
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    MURDERED WOMAN HELD DAGGER
    130 2 MURDERED WOMAN HELD DAGGER Mystery surrounds the murder of an un dent fied Chinese woman about 50 years of age, who ivas found dead in a back lane of Geylang. In one hand she clutched a dagqer and on *ier person iv:re a purse containing $5.65, a gold ring and
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    Woman Hysterics In Court
    136 2 "I am innocent: I have never stolen anything from anybody, shouted a middle-ag?d Cantonese woman. Wu San Mooi when a charge of robbers was explained to her in thp S?cnnd Polic Court yesterday. She was told that her case vould be postponed till the end of
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    Claims Second Conviction
    91 2 Qjrclist Ismail bin Osrran WM ncrjuifted and disrhfir^od bv Mr. A Jack in the Relief Court yetterdiV ntiornin? of a rV»aro;p of havin.T in his po<s vision blr.rrlr IfMTt parts suspected to have been Umin Tlie spare par%\ claimed bv i^nihi!. vrre not returned to him. T
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    "Desire To Vindicate Loyalty Of The Local-Born Chinese"
    663 2 What Chinese Volunteers ask is that they be accorded full ngriis ana privileges as other members of ihe British Aimy wno have taken part in the war in matters of recognition, back-pay, rewards and other privileges. Tnis is the statement which appears
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    Malaya's Jungle Warfare School
    215 2 Ma lay a's Ju ng le Warfare School ILi; \l.\ LUMPUK, July 23: Bn 's latest bat< le i .-h* ol in 'He heart of the Malayan jungle M>out 20 miles- from Kuala Lumpur where I student* undergo the most strenuous forma <»f training ha- hot and cold water laid
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    $20 MILLION LOAN TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA
    81 2 PRAGUE. July 23. Thr United States and deohosknvtWa signed mi tgreemeni yesterday extending to Czochclnvikia M million U dollars credit lor purchas e of American raw cotton. The credit will be u>ed by the Czech textile mills on <h e United States Export-Import Bank, at
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    TYPHOON DEATHS
    35 2 MANILA, July 22.— The Army relayed a radio duspatch from Baguio in northern Luzon saying that la.st week's typhoon death roll has been raised to 16 with the discovery of three more bodies.
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    Second Committal To Assizes
    202 2 A Chinese, Seah Seek H»'njr, who mu committed by Magistrate. K M. Byrne on Monday for trial in th« Asiisei "ii charge of armed robbery with violence, was again produced in the Third Police Court tresterday, this time on a charge of armed robbery. Tho complainant,
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    NO DIVIDED GERMANY, SAYS U.S.
    100 2 WASHINGTON, July 23- -The U.S. State Department on Monday gave its instructions to General Joseph T. McNarney, th'3 American military commander in Germany, making it clear that the United States does not desire fl divided Germany. The instructions on which General McNarney based his proposal
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    U S ENVOY TO ITALY
    29 2 WASHINGTON. July 23. E»Kstdeni Truman hfts nominated Mr. James Dunn. United Stat<\ s Assistant Secretary of Stair. ;i> pew United States Amba>>ador to Italy
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    $150,000 GIFT TO MEDICAL COLLEGE
    251 3 $150,000 GIFT TO MEDICAL COLLEGE Mr. LU w Kwoni? Hon of Kuala Lumpur has offered to donate $150,000 to the Kins Edward VII Collej oi Medicine, Singapore, to erp buate the name of his father, Mr. Liew Wcng Clier, (he well-known banker. This offer is contained 1 1 a letter
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    $3 Pork Leads To 4 Weeks' Rigorous
    58 3 Lim Kwanu Siak (41), who chanied $3 instead of $2 for a ka.Hu of pork at Beach Road market on Monday afternoon. <> ?i fenced to four weeks' rigorctu Itnvr'sontnent by Second District Judge T(irl Thoon L'v vest rday l m wa* arrested
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    Three Japs condemned to hang
    292 3 Three Japs condemned to hang Three of the seven Japanese wl,o were on trial in the Australian War Crimes Couri on chaigsi of lntiumane treatment of British and aAustralian PoW s and thereby causing the deaths of three at the Lien Kha n Camp, in French Indo-China, between April 15,
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    CASHING FRANCS
    50 3 HoMrr; on July 16 of current li^t'nct from demonetised) notc s of th e French Franc Area should apply immediately to any Bank which is a member of the Malayan Fxchari^e Banks Association for information as to how such holdings may be encashed. Application! for encashment shouM bei
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    Palembang, Sungei Gurong PoW Camp Trial Opens Today
    349 3 Of interest to many Malayans will be the Palembane and Sungei Gurong PoW Camp trial which is due to start at the No. 7 War Crimes Court in Anson Road before Lt. Col. Forsythe today. The accused number 24, amoim whom are
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    BURMA MURDERS
    38 3 T.ONDON. Julv 23.— There were 217 murders in Burniq In the month of June the Hou So of Common* w»? Informed today. Incompleto reports from Rangoon Ktate that there orn 1.033 dtcoifles, oxcludinf? rho Mvitkvina distrirf.
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    Malayan Pensions
    101 3 A temporary increase in pennooi was notified by the Qorernmeni of India in May, 1 04 5 In view of this, the Colonial Government have also ■greed to I further increase over that previously notified, in the pensions of the pensioners of the Government of Bong Konjr and
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    RICKSHAW PULLERS WANT TO BECOME TRISHAW MEN
    230 3 RICKSHAW PULLERS WANT TO BECOME TRISHAW MEN S at! R< )ntr i .cn Holding 'he view that trUhaws an.' mor<> xtracticable than r ckshaws, officials ot the Rickshaw Association told me yesterday that 'hey arc asking for authorization to convert 3.000 rickshaw into trishaws* This was one reac\on to the
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    Dagger & Revolver Robbery
    173 3 Dagger Revolver Robbery Five Chinese Ong Tang Lirn (19), Kob Yak Chum (22), Chu Swee Lan (22), Koh Bah (20) and Too Tai Cho 25 were yesterday committed to stand their trip] at the next Assizes on charge 1 of armed robbery. At a preliminary inquiry held In the Fourth
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    Ex-Prison Superintendent Makes Defence
    210 3 He had never interrogated or beaitn tue uriKnown Chinese, neither had lie instructed h.s warders Amnad and Lee to thrash him, Mani&am Thanipathy stated in a lengthy delence in the witness box at the Singapore Arizes yesttraay. inaiiapathy was charged w*th abutment of murder and abetment
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    JAP EDUCATION REFORM BILL
    43 3 TOKIO, July 22.— An Education Reform Bill embodying the United States Education Mission's suggestion for decentralizing the Japanese school cystem is scucuuku for prcleDtatkm to the Diet tomorrow. The plan would separate the schools from the Japanese Home Ministry.
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    EGYPTIANS CONFESS
    52 3 CAIRO, July 22.— A meeting of hi«rh Government And police officials Mi the M'nistry of Interior in Cairo today, it is understood, considered taking 1 further measures against th > Misr el Fattat organisation to vhich belorped 11 Egyptians arrested today who confessed to taking part in recent
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    SENTRY COMMITTED TO ASSIZES
    92 3 SENTRY COMMITTED TO ASSIZES An Indian sentry Jamna Das (21) wiis committed to stand his trial at the next Attil s on a charge of armed robbery, at the conclusion oi preliminary inquiry held D3fore Mr. StoiT yesterday. It is alleged that on the nigni June 1 he held up
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    Jap Spies Shot Malay Policemen Allegation
    267 3 How a party of Japane <\ members of an espionage unit in Singapore, who s night asylum in Keiron ngsang, a small island on* the coast of Sumatra jome time before the surrender killed two Ma l ay policemen by shooting, was alleged at
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    The Morning Tribune WEDNESDAY. JULY 24. 1946. First Class!
    337 4 The Morning Tribune WEDNESDAY. JULY 24. 1946. First Class! The news that the Nazi Minister to Siam was re- j patriated from Singapore in first class accommodation by the Empress of Australia will not have surprised readers of the Tribune, accustomed as they are to reports of indulgent treatment towards
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    G.G. Paddies His Own Canve
    1442 4  - G.G. Paddies His Own Canve George G. Thomson |jy Public Rclaticiii Oilicer (jii a recent Broadcast) Likt a bird testing Its wings i Sunderiand plane taxied along th Johore Straits until it took ufi on its flighi. It was carrying Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. th<> Governor-General of Malaya ami his party
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    LauretTo Be Tried in Manila
    139 4 TOKYO. July 23: Jo&e P Laurel, president ol the Philippines puppel Government set up when ih, Japanese dominated those Islands, and reportedly charged with treason as result will be turned over to the ii'' w Philippine Government for trial at the request of President Manuel
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    Mexico Claims Nine Islands
    90 4 MEXICO CITY, July 13. —Mexico's claim to nine islands off the United States Pacific Coasi (i ht-in^ pre pitrod for presentation t<> Washing ton. Th» Islands Include Pnralones, ofl »San Francisco, the famous resort Island Of Santa Catalina. of! BanprO and also Santarosa* Santacruz, Santabarbara, Sannicolas
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    40 4 MOSCOW, July 22.— Gpnerallssimo Stalin. Vya^heslav Molotov. Foreign Minister and other Soviet leaders watched a colourful four-hour physical culture parade and demonstration followed by a soccer match In? afternoon on the occasion Ol the Soviet Union's Day of Physical Culture.
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    Why Grow Old?
    405 6  -  Josephine Low man B Take A Look I love my friends. They are always attractive and entertain- 1 i»ijr and they hare the most de" lightiul and welcome habit of bringing forth bright and stimulating remarks just when I am low on copy ideas. The other day
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    No Persian Protest
    135 6 London, July 22. No protest T "rom the Persian Government con erning the British warships reported to be lying off the south Persian coast has yet been received, the British Foreign Office spokesman -tated today. At the same time he denied re ports current In the last
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    BRITT'S HARROW ESCAPE
    57 6 NEWMARKET, July 22.— E Britt. tht Maharaja QaakWSZ of B da's jockey had a narrow from injury wh-n at with Fred Armstrong's team here .••.day. Britt was riding a two < i when, the girth broke throi him to the gr< und but b< to hold on
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    LUZON CLASHES
    105 6 I Manila. July 22. An end to the bloody clashes between the Hukbalahaps and Philippines MP- was forseen by a high Government official but the Manila press did not share his optimism. While Interior Secretary Jose Zolueta announced prospect I of a peaceful settlement as "fen bright" the
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    Vatican Confirms Pope's Plea
    98 6 Vatican Confirms Pope's Plea VATICAN CITY. July '2'2.— Vatt .-in authorities confirmed today that the Pope had requested the Polish Government not to cany out the death sentence on Arthur Greiser, former Gauleiter of Western Poland, found guilty of war crimes. Greiser wsj hanged in Fosnan yesterday The Nuncio. Moilsipnor
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    Phone Call To Wife Costs Month's Gaol
    80 6 Phone Call To Wife Costs Month's Gaol HAMBURG. July 23. -After rowing 20 days across the Bal- <ic in a three- foot square rubber dinghy from Germany to Denmark, a German soldier UHls arrested while telephoning u> :his Danish wfe. Albert Kruger married a Danish girl while he was with
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    Yellow River Project
    118 6 Yellow River Project Shanghai, July 22.— An agreement aimed at completing l>y December th t > fad Yellow River relocation project Involving the rcplacement of dykes dynamited daring the war was reached 011 July 22 between Communist negotiator C'hou Kn-lai and T. S. Tsiang, Director General of th«Chinese relief work.
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    LAW 'TRIAL' CLEARS CASHIE RED OFFICER
    264 6 Thirty-three-year-old John Morgan Jenkins, cashiered from the R.A.F. last November after beiny, found guilty of looting from a farmhouse in Germany, has been acquitted at a second "trial" in Lon- do a. The disciplinary committee of the Law Society refused an application on behalf
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    RAID STAGED AT WIM BLEDON
    226 6 RAID STAGED AT WIM BLEDON Baskets ol strawberries and peaches were laid out in an air-raid shelter behind the Wimbledon Food Office recently. Th'\y had been seized from barrows outside the Wimbiedon tennis ground by posse of food otlicers, watched by the police. They drove up in a Council lorry
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    A Piece Of Advice, By Shinwell
    124 6 A Piece Of Advice, By Shinwell A warning to demobbed men Who are Waiting for executive jobs or |o open shops and arc not taking productive work was given by Mr BhlnWell, Minister of Fuel and Power. "They will disc-over in due c Unfortunately. he said, "and 1 deplore it
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    Nz. Praise For India Mission
    157 6 WELLINGTON, July 22.- Mr. Water Nash, New Zealand Finance Minister, said today that whatever the final outcome of the British Cabi- S net Missions Visit to India, the Mission deserved the highest credit for the "most amazing achievement of its kind in history." Mr. Nash's
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    Simpler Visas Promised
    102 6 Simpler Visas Promised LONDON, July 23. British Foreign Bscretary Ernest Bevln i promised early action on Mnnj day towards simplifying, it' not abolishing, passports ana visas for persons who want to enter and leave the Uniud Kingdom. Speaking a' a holiday camp exhibition, Mr Bevin said he objected to all
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    Tommies Complain Of "Belsen Express "
    331 7 Tommies Complain Of "Belsen Express BRITISH OCCUPATION ZONK HQ. Air Mail) Travel L-onditions in Europe for BAOR men ar.d women are so bad tha! some soldiers are choosing to spend their leave in Ger many rather than endure the ordeal of the journ to Britain. I Officer*- complain that me
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    Lipstick Smuggler In Liner Fined £500
    167 7 Lipstick Smuggler In Liner Fined £500 A suggestion that an International organisation usinp liners' crews was smuggling silk stockings, lipstick And fountain pens into Britain from America, was made at Southampton police court by Mr. E. S. Allen, Chiei Preventive Officer. James Patrick Pallon, a teaman In the Queen Mary,
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    Cunningham Tells King
    82 7 LONDON, July 23.- IV British Cabinet announced that it has authorised a Whit 0 Paper detailing evidence which the Government said linked Jewish leaders With Palestine violence. General Sir Alan Cunningham Palestine Hteh Commissioner. Conferred with n < 1 Kinu and wm Under Mood to have given
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    Next World War...
    94 7 BOMBAY, July 22— R. S. Dange, loader, declared today on his return Inciian trade union and Communist from the International Trade Union Conference in Moscow: "The next wf,rld war will be a war between Democratic nnd anti-Democratic forces. The only question it when it v.ill break out.
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    STRIKERS RETURN
    47 7 FORT LOUIS, Mauritius, July 22. Sugar estate workeri who hav( been on itrike for tforo weeki re turned to work today pending th» decision of the arbitration board. The strike followed thr di-^ ..<■ i trade union official by the mm* Dager of Perney EsUte.— Reutei
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    Driver Gets £350 For Enticed Wife
    190 7 A lurry driver whose 41-year-old wife was enticed away by a former Ensa manager was awarded £350 I with costs at Maidstone. Walter Leonard MuHinger 51 of Marine Square, Brighton, formerly Kent area manager for Knsa, waa sued by Arthur Frederick Church, Milton Street,
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    CABINET MEETS
    206 7 LONDON. July 22.— The Chiefs of Staff were pre- S sent when the British Call- net met this morning to discuss the Palestine situ- i atton as newt from Pales- i t tine toid of the blowing up *of the British military i headquarters. i S The High
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    Inonu Govt. Accused
    88 7 ISTANBUL. July 22.— Former premier Jelal Bayar accused President Inonu's Government of exercising "severe pressure" in an effort to in- fluence the outcome of the July 21 national elections. In a bitter formal statement B;u.ir asserted that many voters were dv s ven away from the polls
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    Mme SUN Wants U.S. TO QUIT CHINA
    241 7 Mme SUN Wants U.S. TO QUIT CHINA SHANGHAI, July 23.— Madame Sun Yat-aen, widow China's revered revolutionary leader charged reactionanea with formenting war between the Tinted States and Russia and mred immediate withdrawal of American troopg and milr tary supplies from China. "The first flanii 1 of w<>rld coiifl;i^i<ition is
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    Dutch Buying Munitions From Siam?
    96 7 Dutch Buying Munitions From Siam? JOGJAKARTA, July 23.— The Indonesian News Agency Antara reported it learned from "informed circles" that the Dutch are endeavouring to strengthen their military forces in Java and Sumatra by ordering munitions through Siam~ Antara said the Dutch employed procurement through Siam as a result of
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    Police Force For U.S. Zone
    121 7 GKN. Joeepi "'Nanny, commander of the U.S. occupation son* lin Germany, today announced (according to Prankfori radio) that on July 1 the American occupation n Germany would enter an interme diate state between fall military enpation and occupation l>y police force Police troops, known as
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    Violation Charge
    75 7 TIENTSIN. July 22— Th c Chinese Communist Yenan radi o warned United otates Marine headquarters that its search in Communist territory for the seven marines kidnapped on July 13 was a violation of Chinese sovereignty. It said that unless the hunt was called off the marines must assume
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    Appeal To U.S.
    85 7 SHANGHAI. July 22.--A *?roup of Chinese headed by writer Kuo Mo-io addressed an appeal to the United States protesting what it called "American contributions t o the cMI war in China." The appeal sent to the U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes and other leaders said that
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    BRAZIER IN MALACCA
    66 7 MALACCA, July K.— Mr. J. A. Brasier. Trade Union Adviser in M;ilay;i is to address the Clerical Union in Malacca when it meets on Saturday. Current prOblemi affecting the interests of all elerieal cmplOyee* will b« presented to t lie Adviser. At the meeting two representatives will
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    40 MISSING IN CYCLONE
    28 7 ROME. July 22.— A cyclone suddenly siormed ]«> rrght through thf Romangna region oi the Adriatic coast. Forty I people are go far reported missing.
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    U.S. Attitude More Cordial To Bolivia?
    123 7 WASHINGTON, July 23.— Diplomatic officials here expert the United States to show more cordial attitude towards the new Junta Government of Bolivia, than it displayed towards the Viellarroel repime which Junta overthrew. The State Department offieials said the situation in La Paza is still
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    NEW GOVT. FOR BELGIUM?
    50 7 BRUSSELS, July 23. Belgian it likely to haw new Government within hours. Aft.-r a two-hour [on ob Monday afternoon, the liberal party decided to collaborate ir new left wing coalition gorenimeni which the Prince Regent a.-k--ed If. Paul Henri to form on Satur- day A P.
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    2,000 Casualties In Bolivian Coup
    206 8 President Hanged From Lamp Post LA PAZA, Bolivia, July 23.— Student and working j •lass insurgents were Monday controlling the Govern- j nent of Bolivia after four days of battle reported to lave cost 2,000 casualties in dead and wounded. In the fighting which ended
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    Jewish Agency Condemns "Desperadoes"
    103 8 Jewish Agency Condemns "Desperadoes" JERUSALEM, July 23.— The Jewish Agency issued a statement today condemning strongly the "gang of desperadoes" responsible for the bombexplosion at the King David Hotel, tvhich killed at least 50 persons. The Agency statement said that "the executive of the Jewish Agency and of the Jewish
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    Negroes Being Used To Suppress Registers
    138 8 Negroes Being Used To Suppress Registers BOMBAY. July 22 —The Bombay oflice of the Goa India; Congress Commit :ee stated today that the Portug-aese authorities m Ooa were using African Negro troops feo put down the passive resistance movement by the Goa Congress Committee. r ihe Goa Congress Committee i«
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    People's Party Leads
    50 8 LONDON. July 22. The Governmt at-l I PSO] U a Party has carried K> provinces and the I figures indicate a certain victory for it in at least 28 out of the remaining 47 prcv the sf Sunday's general election in y. Anka'a Radio s'atid toSight. Reuter
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    Unpredictables of the Undersea Atom Test ...
    244 8 Unpredictables of the Undersea Atom Test Aboard the U.S.S. Ap- palachian, July 23.— When the world's fifth atom bomb 1 bursts beneath Bik.ni Bay on Thursday, scientists will be able to say whether in t the future coastal cities can i i be flooded by sub-surface J J atomic detonations
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    Federal Plan For Dutch East Indies
    213 8 MALINO. Celebes, July bodying a federal plan for thB Dutch East Indies were day by delegates from the East Indie s except Java an Macassar m the Celebes. The resolu: ons w^re: First: All thr Dutch East Indies to form a single federation under
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