The Straits Budget, 27 February 1947

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    31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURYJ New Series No. 30 Singapore, Thursday, February 27th, 1947, Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or I ah.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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      63 1 The SINGAPORE FREE PRESS has the largest nett sale of any afternoon newspaper published in Malaya The Singapore Free Press is the old est established newspaper in Singapore. It recommenced publication in May last and its smart presentation of news has made an immediate appeal to the reading public. For
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  • The Straits Budget
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      The Singapore Chinese
      1003 2 —Straits Times, Feb. 20. Although Singapore is not immediately alfect d by the plan lor a new Malayan constitution which Is now belore the country, it is not possible lor us on this is*an<l to take a detached view of these proposals, for all indications point lo
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      The Chinese Citizen
      1111 2 —Straits Times, Feb. 21. In the statement issued by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce on the constitutional plan for a federal Malaya, the main criticism is directed against the proposals for the synthetic citizenship which Is an integral part of the plan and apparently also of
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      White Servants
      1152 2 Straits Times. Feb. 22. Everybody ii. this country Is heartily sick of the words BACK PAY. not excluding those wiho are demanding it. and it will be a blessed relief when this ledger is closed and we can turn our thoughts to something more constructive than the salaries
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      Out Of India In 1948
      1134 3 Strapits Times, Feb. 24. iiy Ma jest Vs Government has dally announced that India I be given tier independence i beconn a fully self-governing tion in June next year. The n:e Muster's statement to this ect in the House of Commons r Thursday came with
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      Impatience In Singapore
      997 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 25. Even while the makeshift Malayan Union is still in existence. and while a federation plan which excludes Singapore is still under consideration. Singapore itself is becoming increasingly j insistent on reconsideration of its own position in relation to I the rest of Malaya.
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      The Writing On The Wall
      1094 3 conclusion. —Straits Times- n Ominous vistas arc opening up in Great Britain which extend far beyond the present coal crisis or even beyond the “Economic Survey for 1947” which was published by the British Government last week All the ideals and objectives which won the
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    Singapore as a village on the River
    962 4  -  By TAN SOO CHYE (A point of special interest in this article is the littleknown fact that there is documentary evidence of the existence off Chinese gamhicr plantations on Singapore island before the foundation of the East India Company’s settlement in IK HI.)
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      86 4 ROBBINS: On 14th February, 1947, at Buckingham Nursing Home, Brighton, Sussex, to Rhona, (nee Collier), wife of Stanley A. Robbins, A C.I S., Kuala Lumpur, a daughter, (Rhena Doreen Collier). NORTH: On 18th February, to Aillien Dawn (nee Cameron) wife of Basil Trevor North, a son, Michael Geoffrey. FORSYTH—at
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      82 4 '1 he engagement is announced of James Alexander Donald, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Donald, Cornhill, Banflshire, Scotland, and Joan Louise McLean, elder daughter of the late Lt.-Col. F. A. McLean. M.C.. and of i.lrs. V.L. McLean, Toorak, Melbourne. The engagement is announced between George Francis Murphy,
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      MARRIAGE
      38 4 Wemyss-Browning. On February, 15th at Liverpool, England. Major V.L. Wemyss, M.C. only son of the late Mr. A H Wemyss and Mrs. AH. Wemyss, Australia, to Frances Irene, elder daughter of Mr. Mrs. Alfred Browning of Paignton.
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    WILD PIG’S NEST
    498 4 A Malayan Countryman’s Diary ONE matter which I have to find out about is the wild pig’s “nest”. Today I found two old ones at the back of the dusun around my house. They were both much smaller than one I had found previously on the estate.
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    Yamamoto rendezvous with death
    443 4 Y amamoto rendezvous with death (A Chinese reader i n pj ang, in a letter expressing 9 interest in the accounu?.i9 Battle of the Java Sea and I Battle of the Coral Sea n l lished by the Straits TinieS cently, asks what was W truth as to the death
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    19 4 DEATH JACKSON. At Croydon, Victoria, Australia, on 16th February, 1947. Claud Jackson, formerly Manager of The Borneo Company, Limited
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      4 Singapore Employer On “Labour Chaos”
      726 5 COME tax was postponed for one year because Singare was not ready for it. By ie .u.mt token trade unions culd be suspended for at ist two years. During those two years a corntent Government authority ould teach the unions’ appointrepresentatives what trade lionism
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      Relying On R.A.F.
      51 5 1HAVE a serious complaint. Daily I am following the weather predictions issued by the R.A.F. Yesterday they said: Clear night, and clear morning to follow. It has been raining most of last night, and look at the weather this morning. It simply pours MOTOR-BIKE TRAVELLER. Singapore, Feb.
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      Houses Stand Empty For Four Months
      183 5 JT is surprising to see a number of vacant bungalows, in a good state of repair, in Grove Estate. To my knowledge these bungalows have been vacant for months—they may have been vacant fpr a longer period than that. Many would-be tenants have been
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      “Internment Bounty”
      243 5 yOU do not hesitate to ask what Asiatic Government officers are claiming back pay for, but did it ever occur to you, or your predecessor in office, to ask the very same question when the European officers who were interned were paid their back pay in full? You
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      Income Tax Cut In Internment Pay
      140 5 SURELY the reason for the payment of full salaries to interned Government servants is that they were, in effect,, prisoners of war, though of a non-combatant service, and as such should receive the same treatment as PoWs in the other Services. As you point
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      Post-Occupation Reading In S.T.
      160 5 1HAVE read two very interesting articles in your paper on the battles of the Java Sea and the Coral sea. Now that you have started the story, you must finish it. It is one and a half years since the Japanese surrender, and we still haven’t
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      In Kuala Lumpur Before Breakfast
      116 5 FIE Straits Times is now on sale in Kuala Lumpur before breakfast-time on the day of publication. But a letter posted at the General Post Office In Singapore will not ordinarily be delivered in Kuala Lumpur until the third day after posting. It ls suggested
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      Back Pay In 1957
      94 5 tfOU have said that Malaya I simply cannot afford to pay even half-pay to government servants for the whole period of the occupation. You should bear in mind that it is not our intention, when demanding full back-pay, to refuse a reasonable period of time for
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    JUNIOR CLERKS WANT HOUSES
    322 6 Singapore, Feb. 2;>. DKCOMMENDATIONS on the housing of the Singa- pore Municipal junior staff are to be made to the Municipal Commissioners by the MunJpa! Services Union when the findings are reported of a special committee appointed In the Union to study the housing question. While
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    MALAY COUNCIL OFFICERS
    114 6 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fob. 24. Inche Ishak bin Haji Mohamed was elected chairman of “Pusat Tenuga Raayat,” the Pan-Malayan Malay Joint Council of Action wihich came into being as a result of the Malaya-wide meeting of representatives of the various Malay Joint councils of
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    MR.MICHAEL WRIGHT
    55 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. Mr. Michael Wright, Deputy to the Special Commissioner Lord Killearn, who has been in England for two months on consultations and leave, has arrived in Singapore to-day by air from Rangoon, where he broke his return journey for further consultations with the Oovernor of Burma
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    ASIATIC INTERNEES’ BACK PAY
    130 6 SINGAPORE. Fib. 25. ASIATIC government servants of the Singapore Government who were Interned during the J war are entitled to an advance I of internment pay i This official statement 7/as given to the Straits Times yesterday following publication of a letter of complaint. It was
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    UNKNOWN MAN FOUND DEAD
    86 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sunday.—The death of an unknown Malay, whose decomposed body was found with multiple injuries on a bombed site in Bishop Street on Jan. 31. formed the subject of a Coroner’s inquiry' held by Mr. A. M. I. Austin. After recording evidence
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    Gov.-Gen. And Wife Fly Kites
    128 6 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Feb. 24. fHE Governor* General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, and Mrs. MacDonald, who are on a visit to Perak, Wue yesterday entertained to lunch by the Sultan of Perak at Kuala Kangsar. A rehearsal for the annual kite flying competition was
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    WANT BROOKE FAMILY BACK
    154 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 22. Representatives of the Sarawak Dyak Association, the Malay National Union of Sarawak, the Young Malay Association of Sibu and the Malay Youth Movement of Sibu yesterday claimed unanimity of their movements in opposition to the Cession of Sarawak as a British Crown Colony.
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    MOB ATTACKS SHOP, KILLS MALAY
    328 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. UOW a mob of armed Chinese 11 using a funeral procession as a cover suddenly converged on and attacked an Indian coffee sl op in Joo Chiat Road, destroying the contents, killing a Malay, and injuring several others, was told in the
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    SARAWAK ASSOCIATIONS SEND MESSAGE TO P.M.
    330 6 SINGAPORE. Feb. 23. REPRESENTATIVES of f:ur Sarawak associations, meeting in Singapore yesterday, decided t„ send a message to the Prime Minister. Mr. Clement Attlee, urging the restoration of the constitution under their chosen Rajah and the immediate removal of the ban now in force
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    ARTIFICIAL LIMBS FOR TWO MEN
    105 6 TWO Singapore men who werf taken by the Japs to Wy on the “Siam-Burma Death Raj way,” where they lost a leg were urevided with artifice lurtbs at the Social Welfare W pnrtment The labourers who are at F' sent inmates of Bushev w. Home,
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    TWENTY BUSMEN CHARGED
    67 6 SINGAPORE. Feb Twenty Chinese busnif n peared in the Singapore Police .Court yesterday. 1 with attacking Hong Ah and Hussin bin Mohamed 4 n while being members of a 1 icfl lawful assembly at the m of Kee Seng Street and Taru Pagar Road on Sundaj 7.40
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    DUTCH DIVERT BURNING BRITISH SHIP
    348 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. British ship Fortune lies burning off Batavia, ib in |,een ordered to that port by the comof a Dutch destroyer. '"ti,' Fortune was diverted from Cheribon (Java), arr ived on February 8 with fire in two holds. t i fnv her to
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    GAOLED FOR BRIBE OFFER
    137 7 v .Vn !rri SlXGAP0RE Feb 21. k a *my soldier-clerks, convlcted ot aiVVrr\‘“ 0 to an Ind ian LtencVri t 0, f $500 were each i im 2 nin(> months’ rigorre K by the Singag*"- iX&y™**' Mrfi j Anthony, 22. in Pa n 0 and Ki
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    RADIO PLEA IN S’PORE BLACKOUT
    159 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. HOUSEHOLDERS in Singapore 11 were urged by radio last night to halve their consumption of electricity in order to avert a major breakdown. The appeal was made shortly after the start of a black out affecting Bukit Timah, Pasir Panjang and Tanglin
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    PEKING PROFESSOR IN SINGAPORE
    55 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. Professor Fei Hsiao Tong arrived in Singapore this morning from the United Kingdom, where he has been the guest of the British Council. Professor Fei is Professor of Socialogy in the Tsing Hua University. Peking, and is world famous for his researches into
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    Advisory Council To Be Mamed
    129 7 Industrial Disputes SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. A TRIPARTITE Labour Advisory Council will be set up in Singapore within the next few days. The Governor will announce the names of the nine Government, employer and employee members as soon as the Council is fully constituted The Council
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    FINED FOR HAVING WEAPONS
    88 7 From Our Own Correspondent PAR IT BUNTAR. Feb. 20. Noh, aged 16 and Matakip, aged 40 were fined $250 or two months’ rigorous Imprisonment and $6OO or four months hard labour respectively by Mr. Newtc-n, the District Judge when they pleaded guilty to a charge of
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    Sewerage Plan For Ipoh
    79 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Feb. 20. A FULL report for a waterborne sewerage scheme for Ipoh is to be drawn up by the Public Works Department at the request of the Kinta Town Board At today’s meeting of the Board it was decided to make
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    EXTENSION OF LABOUR RIGHTS
    261 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. AMENDMENTS to the Labour Ordinance passed in the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday provide that the right of having a labour dispute investigated by the Commissioner of Labour is not confined to Chinese labourers. Under a provision of the existing Ordinance, the right given
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    SARAWAK MALAYS LEAVE
    354 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. THE president and vice-presi-dent of the Mala National Union of Sarawak, who have been visiting Singapore, returned to Kuching yesterday. Answering allegations that the Malays wanted the restoration of the Raj because of the ‘‘privileged position” stated to have been enjoyed by Malays over
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    LT.-COL. C.T. HINDE
    58 7 The London Gazette of Jan. 23 announces that Lieut.-Col. C. T. Hinde, M.C., Intelligence Corps, has bee n mentioned in dispatche s in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the field. Lieut.-Col. Hinde has bee n a resident of Malaya tor many years, and is now
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    S’pore Faces Huge Road Repair Costs
    324 7 S’ pore Faces Huge Road Repair Costs SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. *JTIE Singapore Rural Board expects the military authorities to contribute to the repair and reconstruction of roads on the island because of the damage done to them by army vehicles. This was stated by the Chairman, Mr. C. W. A.
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    Kedah Gang Roobers Warned
    144 7 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Feb. 20. MR. Justice R. Moor sentenced a gang robber, Embee bin Ibrahim, to four years* rigorous imprisonment at Kedah Assizes yesterday but said the next gang robber convicted before him will get 20 years. The light sentence was imposed,
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    Chinese Club May Build New Pool
    358 8 SINGAPORE, Fel>. 22. CINGAPORE architects may be invited to submit designs for a modern, sea water swimming pool incorporating a diving platform, tiered seats for spectators and dressing rooms for swimmers, for the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club. The total cost of the pool may
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    STORE MEETING OF FOOD CHIEFS
    169 8 SINGAPORE, Fob, 22. The International Emergency Food Council Sub-Committee on Rice for S. E Asia, meeting at the Oflice of the Special Commissioner, Lord Killearn, yesterday, noted the report that th e situation in Rangoon had improved now that dock-workers and lightermen had returned to
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    GIAN SINGH IN COURT HEARING
    136 8 SINGAPORE. Fab. 22. Mr. Hardial Singh, a partner of Gian Singh and Company, appeared in the Singapore First District Court yesterday on a summons charge alleging wilful disobedience of an order ol the Rent Assessment Board. It was claimed that on Jan. 15 he wiltullv
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    AUTHOR COMING TO MALAYA
    92 8 From Our Staff Correspondent. Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 21.—Mr. Compton Mackenzie, the historian and novelist, who is now writing a history of India’s part in the late war, is expected to visit Malaya from March 3 to March 9 in the course of touring those centres in
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    Jap Judge Gives Evidence
    229 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. 21. IT the War Crimes Court at Changi yesterday, facts re--1 garding Military Court procedure 'in Japanese occupied Malaya were revealed by a defence witness. Maj. Kamiya Haru, who was himself one cl the three judges who convicted and sentenced certain civilian residents of
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    EXTORTION FIRE THREAT
    114 8 YOUNG Chinese who said that he attempted to extort $4O from an Indian piece-goods merchant for the purpose of going back to the N.E.I. was sentenced to 18 months’ rigorous imprisonment by the Singapore Second District Judge, Mr. T. T. Russell He was Lee Yam Seng, who
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    Fourth Rice Drop By R.A.F. In Burma
    216 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 22. ONCE again the R.A.F. is aiding the Karens in Burma in their fight against starvation. Dakota aircraft from three R.A.F. Squadrons—Nos. 48, 52 and 110—and aircraft from Air Headquarters, Burma, Communications Flight, are taking part in a large-scale rice-dropping operation
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    Quarters For Junior Staff In Singapore
    230 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. CINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners will embark this year on a housing scheme which aims ulti mately at providing houses for all the Municipal subordinate staff. The scheme was agreed to in principle before the war and plans were prepared for erecting the
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    PRISON TERMS FOR GODOWN THEFTS
    67 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 22. Five men who pleaded guilty to stealing clothing from a Singapore Harbour Board godown on Thursday, were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from four weeks to six months hard labour, by Mr. K.M Byrne in the Singapore Police Court’ yesterday. Ai
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    K.L. RESTRICTS USE OF POWER
    333 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 21 QTERN measures have been taken by the Electri i Department here against offenders of the elect city rationing system for all industries— except min* —which are now allowed the use of power for nnf eight hours a
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    V.C.O. DIES OF HEART FAILURE
    85 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. While bidding farewell to number of his colleagues were leaving for India yestera morning, a Viceroy’s ed Officer, Subedar Noor Mona med, (I.G.S.C’) attached toi install of No. 2 Indian Trgg Camp, Bukit Timah. suddeni collapsed and died from jea failure, on the
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    CHINESE ADMITS SUICIDE ATTEMPT
    67 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. A blind, aged Chinese m Lin Yan, who claimed without any friends or >' c in Singapore, pleaded 1 jj attempting suicide on J* j,,; and was bound over il >i. without surety for six m Mr. L.C. Goh. in the Second Police Court
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    M.P.s Attack S’pore Black Market
    303 9 LONDON, Feb. 20. L- Singapore housewife who “is paying approxiI* r 'itciv eight times the controlled price for half of I"! in f„«dstuffs—rice was the subject of a quesL h. the House of Commons yesterday. P n y.. j) j>. Rees-Williams (Lab., Croydon) who Malaya
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    Dolls” Made Of Pure Tin
    93 9 ft„ n (HU Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Feb. 20. Bun s and cooking utensils V made of pure tin, and kiiu: boxes” of solid teak, ft. him: in the godowns of the authorities at BangHk. ft] in and teak are two produets the prohibited list. Lately,
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    Drivers’ Dispute Settled
    194 9 I r<»m Our Own Correspondent i a Lumpur, Feb. 20. pREIARIAT transport ciiiw vho went on strike 1 iO mid resumed work fittn day after contvith Mr. J. A. 1 Union Adviser Union, have ment with the 1 the basis of a their original re ch?d on
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    VIEWS OF CHINESE CHAMBER
    289 9 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 19. IN the opinion of the Selangor 1 Chinese Chamber of Commerce, in a memorandum it has submitted to the Government the proposed Malayan ccnstitututional plan is “undemocratic” and o gainst the principles laid down in the Atlantic Charter.
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    Municipal Strike Explained
    382 9 LONDON, Feb. 20. INFORMATION about the recent Municipal strike in Singapore was asked for in the House of Commons yesterday by Mr. D. R. Rees-Williams (Lab., Croydon). He wanted to know what reports the Colonial Secretary had received from the Governor of Singapore about the origin of
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    Flood Of Luxury Goods
    209 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. SINGAPORE and the Malayan Union are today being gradually flooded with millions of dollars’ worth of goods, toys and luxuries. In Parisian perfumeries and cosmetics alone, imports totalled about half a million dollars in December. Imports of wines from France in the same
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    ACQUITTED OF ROBBERY
    98 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. Two Indians, Mannickam and Murugam, charged with armed robbery at Bukit Timah Road on Oct. 2, last year, were acquitted by a unanimous verdict of the jury at the special Singapore Assizes yesterday. According to the prosecution, the complainant slipped away while a robbery
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    COCONUT OIL
    60 9 Following are statistics supplied by Registrar of Statistics, Malayan Union, for production and stocks of coconut oil (oil mills) for December, 1946. Production: Copra Treated; 6,342 tons; coconut oil expressed, 3,249 tons; coconut cake manufactured, 2,610 tons; Stocks: coconut oil, Dec. 1, 4.716 tons, Dec. 31, 545 tons;
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    Palembang Affair ‘Was Necessary’
    487 9 Palembang Affair Was Necessary’ SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. THE testimony of the Chinese Consul General in Batavia and the Chinese Consul in Palembang was invoked yesterday on behalf of the Dutch when a deputation from Batavia spoke to the Straits Times on the recent Palembang incident. The deputation—three Dutch and one
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    SINGAPORE ASSN. ON CITIZENSHIP
    812 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. THE committee of the Singapore Association have re- commended complete rejection of the citizenship formula contained in the Constitutional Proposals for a Federation of Malaya. It says the plan is new to the country and is not understood by the people. This recommendation,
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    MYSTERY DEATH OF SHIP’S COOK
    64 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 21. The discovery of a headless skeleton at Burnt Timah by Mr. W W. Neubrcmner > n d<c. 15 was the subject of an inquiry by the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G Porter yesterday. Mr. Neubronner found the skeleton, its head live feet
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    Govt. May Provide Transport
    228 10 SINGAPORE, Fob. 21. TTIE Municipality and Government are closely watching the effects of the Singapore Traction Company strike, and if Government considers drastic action necessary to, provide the public with transport it will take that action. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, said this
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    N.E.I. NAVIGATION
    45 10 Navigational information conruing the Netherlands Indies can be obtained from the Netherlands Navy Liaison Officer, Third Floor. K.P.M. Chambers. Finlayson Green, Singapore. Masters of vessels clearing for Netherlands Indies waters are advised to call at the office of the Liaison Officer before sailing.
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    S. A. EXPLAINS NEW PROPOSALS
    326 10 0 SINGAPORE, Feb. 21. I HE Singapore Association has issued an explanation of two of the proposals contained in its memorandum on the constitutional proposals for Malaya. The two suggestions are the method of election for the Federal Legislative Council and the entire abolition of
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    Malaya’s Part In Possible Dominion
    1137 10 Malaya’ s Part I n Possible Dominion SINGAPORE, Feb. ;o DROPOSALS calculated to prepare Malaya lor jt, place in a future Dominion of British South-Ea Asia—foreseen by the authors—have been complete by the committee of the Singapore Association The committee, after considerable discussion h recommended the federation of the whole
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    ALLEGED HURT TO WIFE
    51 10 From Our Own Corrrsp nut PARIT BUNTAR. F«»br A Malay named P^ n IJII Ayoub was alleged 10 V- j eut off his wife’s ha parang after she had r massage his head, when charged here before Tm'v-'-U Abdullah with voluntary ing grevious hurt to Piah
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    DANGER-POINT ON RICE FRONT
    478 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. THE Netherlands East Indies are described as “the greatest danger-point on the whole rice front” in a report of the tenth meeting of liaison officers from South-East Asia territories, issued last nitfht from the Special Commissioner’s office. The meeting has been in progress
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    BACK PAY OFFER REJECTED
    149 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. THE president of the Junior Civil Service Association issued the following statement to the Straits Times in Singapore last night: “At an emergency me ting of the Committee (.1 lhe J.C.S.A held this evening, it was unanimously resolved to reject t he* award
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    SHOT CHINESE FOUND IN DRAIN
    150 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. A v( rdict th.it a 33 year-old Chinese lish seller, Ang Thiam Soon was louMd dead from gun shot wounds was recorded by the Singapore Coroner, Mr. w. G. Porter, at an inquiry yesterday. Ang was lound in a drain oil Chua
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    THREW AWAY AMMO.
    73 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. A Chinese, Lim H»‘c Soon, who Mmw away a bundle containing 140 rounds of ammunition on se« ng a Police constable and then bearded a bus in an attempt to hide capture, was at the special Singapore assizes yesterday sen* lenci d to three
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    Arbitrator In Power Dispute
    73 12 From Our Stall Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 19. MK J DEYVAK, CB E has been appointed ChairmtKi of the Arbitration Board which will consider matters in dispute between the Perak River HydroElectric Power Company and its Employees Union who will both nominate two members for the
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    Attack On Malays Described
    218 12 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Feb. 19. AN attack by 300 Chinese, who were stated to have descended in force with spears and torches on Malay settlements in the Bekor area of the Kuala Kangsar district, resulting in the deaths of 5G Malays, was described at
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    R.A.S.C. DRIVER FINED
    85 12 Walter Arthur Basil Hall, R.A.S.C., driver of a ten-ton military truck which was involved in a collision with a Fire Brigade engine, resulting in the death of one fireman and injuries to two others, was fined $2OO for dangerous driving by the Extra District Judge, Inche Ahmad
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    1942 EPIC Of EVACUATION
    487 12 SINGAPORE CAPTAINS GIT M.B.E. SINGAPORE, Feb. l, FOUR sea captains and a chief engineer of the S‘ Steamship Company—men who sailed the “little white ships” in pre-war days and bore the brli Japanese naval and air attacks, in 1941 and J94*> i,.... n L l awarded
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    PISTOL CHARGE
    44 12 Abdul Kadir bin Abu Bakar. 24. was remanded in custody after he was charged with attempted murder in the Singapore Second Police Court Abdul was charged with firing a pistol at Chathu, son of Kunju Kutty, in a house at Amber Road
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    REGULAR B.I. SERVICE SOON
    232 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2G. THE repatriation of ’ndians from Singapore and the Malayan Union will be helped considerably with the resumption of the British India Steam Navigation Company’s fortnightly service between the Straits, Ncgapatam and Madras next month. The Company is placing the s.s. Rajula and s.s.
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    Pay Claim A Matter Of Dignity
    182 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 20. /COMMENTING on the \Vorln Report on back pay for Volunteers, Mr. Yap Pheng Geek who was officer commanding -p (Chinese) Company. S.S.V.F. w::j the rank of captain, declared“lt is out of a sense of racial dignity that Asiatic Volunteers claim British
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    SOLDIER GAOLED ON ARMS CHARGE
    102 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2i Dennis Wilson, a driver R A S.C., who was und b illegal possession a iv. 1 Tank Road on Nov. 27 la.-: '-jr. was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment at Special Singapore As.'.' > < day. Wilson was stated to n-v.'o templed tc
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    TRIBUTE TO MR. S.K. CHETTUR
    71 12 The Indian Relief Comnn in Malaya, records its deep tude to Mr. S. K. Chet'ur. tiring Representative ot f■ emment of India in his cooperation and ass repatriating destitutes a st randed Ex-I. N A ’aen overseas persons as wen p solving problems alTc :r.:
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    POLICE ON TRAIL OFBOGUSSULTAN
    321 13 I'rom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 22. F Malayan Police are on the track of Malaya’s v l Impersonator—the Malay who has styled if variously as the “Tungku Mahkota of Deli,” of Pontianak” and also as a “special in“JS Jr Urd KUfc.nL" thin k he
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    BOY, AGED 12, ELECTROCUTED
    85 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 24. :rlc Cecil Bridgett, 12-year-old of Lt. Col. and Mrs. T. A. i, CAr was electrocuted at his at 467 Pasir Panjang Hill afternoon. has been in areVv *'c Uv months Was a ?i d n\ St Andrew’s School r r "K his weekends
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    ‘NOT CRIME TO LAND DUTIABLE GOODS’
    106 13 ()ur Correspondent r A nv r PENANG Feb. 22. t, n*, at if Was not a crime r *t jU(|,e a Mr lb B T B T ods the n the Pntt J J nnln BS. Quitu-d ll worth court, n s L (i,
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    Attempt To Paralyse Bus Traffic
    121 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. ATTEMPTS were made by intimidators to paralyse Singapore bus transport yesterday. Private bus owners have been providing skeleton services on Singapore Traction Company routes since B.T.C. tmpioytes struck work more than three weeks ago. Although the normal Sunday fleet of 140 private
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    HE STAGED SHOW FOR THE ‘DEITIES’
    72 13 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 22. A CHINESE who staged a show to entertain “not only the public but also the heavenly deities” was produced in the Butterworth court and cautioned by the magistrate, Mr. C. W. Shorland. Accused, who had failed to
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    Johore Plants More Rice
    283 13 l-rom Our Own Correspondent Johore Bahru, Feb. 23. Figures first published show that 12,318 acres are under wet padi cultivation in Johore and there are indications that a further 2,000 acres will be brought under cultivation during the course of the year. Johore, with an area
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    ROAD ACCIDENTS IN NEGRI
    45 13 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, February 23.—Seremban claimed five victims, Kuala Pilah one and Port Dickson one as a result of road accidents during January, according to police reports. There w*erc also 10 non-fatal cases in Seremban, four in Tamsame month.
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    Governor praises clerical union
    254 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 23. IT is the Government's intention to encourage healthy trade unionism” declared the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, when he opened the clubhouse of the Singapore Clerical and Administrative Workers Union in Rangoon Road, yesterday. He read a goodwill message from the
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    $4 MILLION TURNOVER
    93 13 THE British Stores Disposal Board in Singapore expect this month to be a record, with goods sold probably topping the $4,000,000 mark. The biggest single item of the month, still being negotiated, concerns shipping and though the amount involved cannot yet be revealed I am told it
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    FINED FOR CONCEALING SMALLPOX
    181 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. WITH the remark that this was a deliberate case of failing to report a case of smallpox, Mr. K. M. Byrne, the Singapore Third Police Magistrate, fined Ng Ah Tai, a ricksha-puller, $lOO or two months when Ng appeared before him on a
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    MINIATURE ZOO PLAN FOR K.L.
    135 13 From Onr Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 22. THE possibilities of opening a miniature Whipsnade zoo on the slopes of the public gardens in Kuala Lumpur are being discussed in official circles. The inspiration comes from Sir Edward Gent, the Governor of the Malayan Union,
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    GOVT. PLAN FOR BOYS HOME
    237 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 23. A PLAN for the reopening of the old Singapore Reformatory under the auspices of the Department of Social Welfare has been approved by Government. It is hoped by this scheme i; o remove from the streets many juvenile delinquents, who are responsible
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    Presentation To New Bishop
    136 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. THE Churoh of Our Lady of Lourdes at Ophir Road, was decorated yesterday and its parishioners turned out in large numbers to honour their Parish Priest. the Rt. Rev. Michael Olcomendy, D.D., who was recently appointed to the Bishopric of the Diocese of
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    DALFORCE MAN HONOURED
    135 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. THE King has approved the award of Mention in Despatches to Captain Lionel Henry Hartle-Barry, who commanded B company of Dalforce and died in the defence of Singapore. Captain Harte-Barry took up a position on the right of a machine-gun battalion near the mouth
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    War Claims Body Gets To Work
    264 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 23. THE necessary machinery for assessing war damage claims and other claims has now been set up since the appointment of the Joint Commissioners, Mr. C. 1). Ahearne and Mr. J. J. St. L. Carson at the
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    APPOINTMENTS TO MALAYA
    116 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 23. Th<' following appointments to the? Colonial Service as nursing sisters in Malaya are annmneed: Miss S. D xon. who serv' dln Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve during the war. Miss D. M. Vincent, who was in West
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    ROYAL SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE PLANS
    125 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 23. THE Singapore branch of the 1 Royal Society of St. George i.s to be reformed and a meeting i.s likely to be called later this week to discuss plans for the Society’s main celebration on Apr. 23—St. George’s Day. Belore the
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    Floating ‘League of Nations’
    64 14 Floating League of Nations’ FIFTEEN nations are repre- sented among the crew of the 7,17(»-ton Honduras ship Aristomenis which has arrived in Singapore from New York with a general cargo on board. Capt. G. Michalitsanos is a Greek, while his officers and crew hail from Spain, the United States, Honduras,
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    Chinese Chambers Unite
    164 14 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 23. FIFTY representatives of Chinese Chambers of Commerce in Malaya today resolved to unite and form a pan-Malayan body to be called the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce of Malaya. The meeting took place at the Chinese Assembly Hall, under
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    First Back Payment Request
    233 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. A LETTER to the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, was sent yesterday by the Singapore Government Servants’ Back Pay Council recommending that, as a measure of relief, the first payment mentioned in the official circular stating Government’s decision on the subject,
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    Two New Traffic Courts For S’pore
    137 14 Two additional courts are to be set up in Sineauore in the near future to deal with traffic offences. They are to be a district court and a police court and they will be situated in a court building at Sepoy Lines. mated In
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    UNION PUBLIC SERVICE TALKS
    185 14 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 A COMMITTEE has been appointed by the Governor Edward Gent, to examine the present system of rce ment, training and conditions of employment for Mu? 11 Union public services. 1 dJai The committee’s inquiries are to be made
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    FINE FOR GAMING
    61 14 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Sunday.—Ng Chan, a Chinese, was fined $2OO in the District Court by Mr. C. P. Newton for allowing his cubicle in Market Road to be used as a gaming place. Ng was also fined $25 for participating in a game of “tow
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    Tan Cheng Lock's new unity plan
    367 14 SINGAPORE* Feb. 23. IN order to make the Malayan Union conception a reality, the inclusion of Singapore in the Malayan Federation immediately is advocated by Mr. Tan Cheng Lock, C.8.E., Chairman of the Pan-Malayan Council of Joint Action, in a letter to Sir Edward
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    S’pore Ship In Kuching Collision
    83 14 trom Our Own KUCHIXG. Feb. 23 rE Empire Seagrass, of th Straits Steamship com pany, on leaving Ban Hoc wharf this morning for Sings pore, came into collision the coastal vessel Too Am brvthed alongside the Govern ment godown wharf. The contact was so heavy
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    PROFESSOR ON CULTURE
    104 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 22. Professor Fei Hsiao Torg. o the Tsing Hua University o Peking, told a press eonferene ’in Singapore yesterday that loca Chinese in Singapore and Hon Kong should co-operate with t: British in improving cultural relations between Britain am China. He hoped that the time
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    TRUST TO APPROVE ALL NEW STREETS
    89 14 SINGAPORE. F< b. SINGAPORE Munic i the Rural Board win b? eluded with private in the ban forbidding ticn of new street.s a..a lanes, the widening cl and enlarging of them v V T the approval of th Sjj Improvement Trust, if 1 instituted
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    CHINESE MOURN FEBRUARY, 1942
    47 14 SINGAPORE About 1,000 Chinese r. service in Robinson R oru day, in memory of i V C B' sacred by the Japan* ruary, 1942. The service was oraa.the families of the vie’’** held at the premises o. v;J fair Musical and Dram.' ciation.
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    New Measures To Reduce S.H.B. Congestion
    331 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 23. EMERGENCY measures which are planned to rc- duce the present congestion caused by goods piling up in Singapore Harbour Board godowns are announced in a supplement to Singapore Government Gazette, published yesterday. A Bill to be introduced into the Advisory Council
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    DEATH OF Mr. S.A. YELL IN BRITAIN
    131 16 SINGAPORE, Fob. 23. A former manager of the Ipoh branch of McAlister and Company, Mr. S. A. Yell, died in the Central Middlesex Hospital in London earlier this month, according to news just received in Malaya. Mr. Yell originally came to Malaya in
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    UNLICENSED PREMISES USED FOR RUBBER
    72 16 SINGAPORE. Feb. 23. COR storing rubber in an un- licensed premises in Seah Street, Rok Lee Kiah was fined $6O by Mr. Paul Storr in the First District Court yesterday. Mr. E. Ebert, who prosecuted, said tlhat Bok had been given several warnings to remove
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    CHILD WELFARE: SPECIAL STUDY
    84 16 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 22. CPFUIAL committees are, it is understood, now scrutinizing the law relating to children in numirous aspects, including the questions of employment, juvenile delinquency, adoption and other similar subjects There is a need for the unification of legislation and
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    $3,000 CUSTOMS CHARGE
    84 16 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 23.—An early morning raid on a sampan had a court sequel in Butterworth yesterday when four Chinese, Lim Tong Lye, Ang Hock Chuan, Lam Hock Lai and Eng Seng Sooi, were produced before Mr. C. W. Shorland on a charge of
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    PERAK GUN BATTLE
    207 16 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Feb. 23. T'WO arrests were made here yesterday after a gun battle in which one of the men arrested was seriously wounded. The shooting took place at rang, a village near Tanjong Malim. about 80 miles from Ipoh. A police party led
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    SPORE TAMBIES FORM UNION
    38 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. A Singapore Office Attendants’ Union was formed at Singapore Federation of Trade Unions headquarters yesterday. Seventeen committeemen were elected. The move is designed to organise all Singapore tambies into a union.
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    Four Malayans get decorations
    341 16 SECRET OPERATIONS F_, Tr SINGAPORE, Feb. 23. OUR Malayans who served with special Australian units in operations against the Japanese in Malaya in 1944-45 have been decorated. They are: Major George Russell Leonard, a Selangor planter, and Major Durward Sime, a Johore planter who served with
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    New Ships For Far East Run
    305 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. 1*WO useful additions to the B.I. Company’s Calcutta-Malaya-China Service will be the 9,000-ton Sangola in May, this year, and a sister ship, the Sirdhana, in August. The Sirdhana will replace a vessel of the same name which sank in the Singapore
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    FOUR DEATHS FROM SMALLPOX IN S’PORE
    70 16 VITAL statistics published for T last week in Singapore reveal that deaths from smallpox were four compared with two for the previous week. Once again tuberculosis tops the list as chief cause of mortality. Cases reported were 76 with 33 deaths, an increase of
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    Future Of Big Mine Being Considered
    357 16 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 22 THE former Japanese-owned iron mine near l)u' n 1 Trengganu, which produced about 1,000,(too f a year in exports to the Japanese before the Eastern war, is still lying idle, but a decision on future is
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    GOV.-GEN. JOINS PENANG CLUB
    125 16 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 23,-The Got ernor-General, Mr. Malcoli MacDonald, who has appli® for membership of the Inter nation Club as an orc sJ ary member with Mrs. Mart* nald as an associate memM told a large gathering at Club’s Saturday evening d ancl
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    ARMED HOLD-UP NEAR IPOH
    59 16 From Our Own Corresponds Ipoh, Feb. 23.—The not or^ area of Simpang Pulai, miles from Ipoh, on thc c a road to Kuala Lumpur. f Thursday the scene ol a J°Mi armed gang hold up, when Chinese forced their way Chinese dwelling on the road and'relieved
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    SARAWAK POLICY UNDER FIRE
    413 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. as se r tion that continuation of the present British policy in Sarawak will destroy Sarawak’s ind spontaneous loyalty to the Crown” a,u,a V. the straits Times yesterday by Moham,s. n '|'|i i,in Tua Kampong Haji Osman, general K P V -he Young
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    CHARGED WITH JEEP THEFT
    81 17 ft vounfp GAP0RE F eb. 26. SiiV'anm° al1 T as char Scd *.v:th s-m! pol:ce ypster- > Sincan; ro- V v C J b<?lon I’iscT, M r q L Tra de Union l 13 r. Garrett, on h* barton, aged S2.n«) ban in the f'‘ r
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    BACK PAY OFFER REJECTED
    168 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. Government’s 3 offer to make up the pay of non-intemees during the occupation to scales prevailing under the former British administration was rejected by an extraordinary meeting of the Singapore Municipal Services Union yesterday. Two resolutions were passed unanimously. They were: 1. Inasmuch
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    INDONESIAN APPEAL
    51 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. The Secretary of tfie Singapore Indonesian Association in an official statement yesterday said: “In view of repeated press reports of Indonesian underground movements and secret agents working against the interests of tile local authorities, the association will be glad to receive any information on these
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    Kutron Gets Two Years Gaol
    219 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. rE War Crimes trial at Changi in which two Japanese, N.C.O.’s, Tokumaru, and Taki, and a Hungarian, Josef Kutron, are charged with ill-treating several Singapore residents at the Kempeitai Headquarters in Oxley Rise in 1944, concluded yesterday when all the accused were
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    Detained Skipper Calls Dutch ‘Pirates’
    535 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. ALLEGATIONS of “piracy” against the Dutch, in the N.E.1., are made by Capt. Gilbert Kent, master of the British cargo vessel Empire Mayrover which has returned to Singapore after six weeks enforced detention in Java. The Mayrover was intercepted and detained by
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    Cathedral Wedding
    179 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 23. THE wedding took place at St. Andrew’s Cathedral yesterday, of Miss Marie Winifred Moerman, daughter of the late Capt. A. J. Moerman, and Mrs. H. E. Moerman, of Groningen and Singapore, and Lt. Dennis Sydney Hastie, R.1.A.5.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Hastie.
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    MALAY REGT. MEN TRAIN IN INDIA
    167 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. MEn of the Malay Regiment are ntrw attending specialist training courses in India with men from other formations in the Army in Malaya. 2/Lt Khalia Bin Mohd Yassin of Kampong Lenggeng Broga, Negri Sembilan, has recently returned from a company Weapons
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    BACK FROM MECCA
    25 17 Tuan Haji Mohamed Noh bin Omar, Magistrate, Batu Pahat, who went on a pilgrimage to Mecca last year, returned to Batu Pahat
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    U.N.O. Gets S’pore Protest
    95 17 TIIF. Secretary-General of the United Nations at Lake Success, New York, has acknowledged receipt of a protest by Singapore Indian unionists against the treatment of compatriots in South Africa A mass meeting of some 7,000 Indians at Farrer Park on Nov. 24, held under the auspices
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    FOX GETS THREE WINNERS
    815 18 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 22. A FEATURE oi the concluding day of the Selangor Turf Club’s meeting was the success of three of Lt. Col. T. L. Fox’s horses, which scored their maiden wins to-day, with one of them. Tricolour, paying the meeting’s
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    SELANGOR WIN STATE HOCKEY
    83 18 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 22. Selangor beat Malacca two-nil In a return State hockey mateh played on the padang this evening. Selangor started with an all-out onslaught and maintained pressure for fully IS minutes When the Malacca forwards had to fall back to
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    RAFFLES WIN
    68 18 BECAUSE o* a sporting declaration by the Police in their cricket match with the Rallies College at Thomson Road yesterday, the College won by eight wickets and 13 runs. Ratting first the Police knocked up a total of 74 runs for eight wickets. Kailasapathv took six wirkets for
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    JOHORE C.C MEETING
    173 18 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 20. Dr j. G. Lowson, the President, was in the Chair at the first meeting of the Committee oi the Johore Cricket Club held yesterday. Mr. Leslie Cheah, was elected to the Committee during the absence of Mr. A. B.
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    MALAY TEAMS WITHDRAWN
    82 18 From Our Own Correspondent. KUCHING. Feb. 24.—Teams of Malay schoolchildren who had been competing in the MacDonald Football Cup. at Kuching, have been withdrawn on the ground that “We do not w’ant Cession.” The MacDonald Cup, competed for by Kuching schools with teams under four feet six
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    R.A.F. BEAT CLUB 3 GOALS TO NIL
    564 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. TIIE R.A.F., expected to do well in the Singapore soccer league made a good start yesterday, when they beat the S.C.C. three-nil in the opening game of the tournament. The Jalan Besar pitch was not in the best condition for
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    k.L. CRICKET MEETING
    176 18 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Wednesday. jIHE ieasibility oi torming a S'langoi State Cricket Association was discussed at the meeting of the Kuala Lumpur and District Cricket Association this evening and it was agreed that the time had come for such an association to be set
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    EASY WIN FOR MEDICOS
    181 18 THE Medical College Union beat Air Ministry Directorate General Works by 56 runs in a game of cricket at Sepoy Lines M.C.U. E. Augustine b Albretch 4. Chan Yoke Sow c Chopard b Watts 13. M.C. Poopathy st. Taylor b Watts 19. M.C. Umapathy not out
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    R.V.S. SUNDRAM 7 FOR 25
    231 18 SINGAPORE. Fob. 24. IN a cricket match played at Gillman Barracks on Saturday. R.V.S. Sundram’s XI beat the Seaforth Highlanders by 17 runs. R.V.S. Sundram came off with the best bowling average for his side with seven for 25. Major Robertson hit up the highest
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    New Building For Yacht Club
    331 18 New Building F or Yacht Club PLANS for the reconstruction of the Royal Sing a p 0r v Club have been prepared, states the report ot th r which is holding its annual general meeting on Frida® 28. The report states that following the period bef war when the Club
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    BAIN SCORES 47 RUNS
    256 18 SINGAPORE. Feb 24 The captain's XI scored a dec:.' win over the vice-captain's team m :a opening match of the Singapore w creation Club's cricket season. was played on the nadang yesterday Scores were: CAPTAIN'S XI R.H Bain c Hoffman b R. Barker 4 F.M. Chopard
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    COMPANY REWARDS SATFF LOYALTY
    364 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. ■Malavu. without a doubt, the Chinese proved themselves u fit hen < of the Empire,*’ was the tribute paid in Kmcic on Sunday, when two well-known Chinese were ntcf j with tokens from the London directors of Messrs. Eainc. Watson and Co.. Ltd.,
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    VERNOR SEES EALTH OFFICE
    80 19 e Govomor OR Q E Fcb 26 Jon, accent Slr Fran klin irs, Dt^t? p m:ed by Dr- snd Dr Jr T °i f Medic al Ser,h Officer, visitpri° t n u e Chief h of Rc t at qi ed the rura l v eai
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    $2 MILLION GLASSWARE COMPANY
    116 19 of a new factory in Singapore for the production of glass containers oi all descriptions is expected to shortly and a piece ol land sited in Henderson Road has already been acquired for the purpose. A company, known rs Singapore Glass Manufacturers Company Limited, has just
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    BOLIVIA NAMES PRICE FOR TIN
    132 19 —A P. LA PAZ. BOLIVIA, Feb. 23. I'HE Minister ji Economy, Eduardo Sath/t. said on Saturday. ‘The nil'\ibl? and definite point ot view af government and milling Circles is that price of tin must be '3 cents <U.S.> a pound.” Ho termed ‘‘completely fa ;e
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    CHANDA CARGO
    62 19 S-xty-six Australian racehorses. specially imported lor the Malayan Turf, arc on b.ard the B I 1 ner Chanda which is expected to arrive in Singapore from Australian ports cn March 4. Besides a “general” and fo;d cargo oi 1,240 tons, as well as 2.000 tons of flour, there
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    GOODS AVAILABLE FROM JAPAN
    262 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. SUPREME Command Allied Powers, in Japan, have made a tentative announcement on the goods scheduled for export from Japan in the fiscal year 1948. Traders in Malaya and elsewhere can make their bids for Japanese goods. A list of goods wanted for import
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    GOV. POLICY CRITICISED
    346 19 Company Meeting SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. niSSATISFACTION with the at- titude of both the Britisn Government in negotiating arrangements for the sale of rubber, and with the Malayan Union Government for its lack ot sympathy with the rehabilitation problems on estates were expressed by Mr G. A. Potts,
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    BUSINESS NAMES ORDINANCE
    53 19 The Business Names Ordinance will be re-inforeed in Singapore from Mar. 1. Previous registers have been cancelled and businesses old and new are required to apply for regist ra'ion. New businesses must register within 14 days of opening of business. Existing firms must register before the expiration
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    Exchange Only For Necessities
    168 19 Singapore, Feb. 25. CINGAPORE is pursuing a very economical policy with the U.S. dollar exchange at her disposal. Despite Malaya’s reputation as the chief earner of dollars in the Empire, the country still reserves “hard” dollars exclusively for necessities. “We are being very economical indeed with
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    Chinese Ask For Removal Of Controls
    179 19 SINGAPORE. Feb. 25. A resolution urging the Government to remove restrictive regulations on commerce so as to promote free trade was passed at a meeting ol the newly-formed Associated Chinese Chamber jf Commerce of Malaya on Sunday •U toe Chinese Assembly Hall. A resolution
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    DINNER TO MR. MACDONALD
    71 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. About 300 will attend the dinner which the Singapore Chinese community is giving to the Governor-General. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, and Mrs. MacDonald, and the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, and Lady Gimson, at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce at 8 p.m. on Sunday. 3;
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    NEW BOARD MEMBER
    47 19 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Feb. 23.—Mr. Loh Chong Hong, a cashier of the Chartered Bank, Taiping, has been appointed to the Town Board. Larut and Matang, and will take his scat when the Board meets for the first time this year on Thursday.
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    BIG BUSINESS IN INDUSTRIALS
    920 20 W eektyMarket Iteffort (By A Special Correspondent) SINGAPORE, Feb. 22. THE high degree of activity reported in last week’s statement of business done on the Singapore share market continued unabated during the past week. Large business was written in Industrials with quotations improving throughout. Rubbers had
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    HONGKONG BANK
    35 20 The annual general meeting of the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation, will be held In Hongkong on Mar. 28, and transfer books will be closed from Mar. 10 to Mar 28, both days inclusive.
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    Questions On Looted Rubber, Tin
    208 20 --S raits Times copyright. From <>ur Own Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 20. MOKE questions will be asked in the House of Commons in the next few' weeks by members desirous of knowing about conditions in Malaya. Questions, with the dates on which they will be asked,
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    AUST. TRADE WITH MALAYA
    75 20 Imports into Australia from Malaya for December, 1946. amounted to £5tg.387,000, whicn brought the total for six months to £stg. 1,058,000. Australian exports to Malaya for December, 1946. amounted to £A1,709.000. bringing the total exports to Malaya for the last six months of 1946 to £A12.614.000.
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    DULL WEEK ON RUBBER MARKET
    224 20 SINGAPORE. Feb. 22. FOR* the second week in succession the market has been extremely dull, prices being maintained locally at just above the New York buying level, states Lewis and Peat in their weekly rubber rtports. The new buying prices received this week from the
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    LOWER RUBBER EXPORT DUTY
    209 20 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Feb 24 AN official announcement issued this niornin» exports duty of five per cent, ad valorem n/ <iuarter of a cent per pound, has been imm*? rubber. For the purpose of assessing duty the Drip i been fixed at 47%
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    CAUTION ON NEW YORK BXCHANGE
    66 20 Reuter. NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-Open returning from an extended »«d displayed much caution yesterday, by noon the market showed losses to one point m very slow trad Completely ignoring vrmness of col and grains the market sagged to: low for the day when increased p
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    RUBBER OUTPUTS
    18 20 The crop of the Ayer Mo Rubber Co., Ltd., for I month of January was 22.2031
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    685 20 SINGAPORE. Feb. 25. quotations according to the Malayan Sharebrokers Association (Singapore) today were as follows: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alexandra brickwork* Ords. 1.90 2.00 Alexandra Brickwork* Prefs 2.90 3.00 Brit Malaya Trustee A Executor Co. 8.25 9.00 >*nsoildatec Tin Smelters Ord. 21/- 23/do Prefs. 26/6 28/Eastern United Assurance
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