The Straits Times, 12 March 1946
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Title Section18 1946-03-12 1 The Straits Times FOUR PAGES MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER— ESTABLISHED 1845 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY MARCH 12, 1948 PRICE 19 CFNTS18 words
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495 1946-03-12 1 British Seek Increased Food For A Hied Coun tries WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.— The British Food Minister, Sir Ben Smith, in Washington to press South-East Asia's fo od demands to the Combined Food Board, has registered with the Board the British Government's protest against the demandReuter - 495 words
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Article225 1946-03-12 1 Pravda Hits Out At Ch urchill LONDON. Mar. 11:— Under the Churchill waves the gun." organ, of the Govict Communist Party, published tod.iy a quoted by laosc< w Radio in Russian on Mr j Winston Churchill's speech at i Fulton, Missouri. When one reads the spt the former Biitish PrimeReuter - 225 words
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Article137 1946-03-12 1 LONDO M r. 10 Moscow Radio, quoting the French news-;, paper, Soir, said today that j Gen. Frnn-o i? 'juyinq; armaments in Switzcr'nnrl. Th« Cc Soir stated i that the Hispano-Sulxa factory in Geneva h~.s agreed to supply Franco with 50.000 shells for 20 cannon, according137 words
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Article256 1946-03-12 1 Gen. Gcortje Marshall. U.iited States Special Ambassador to Ch'.na, is teturning to t.-e United States today to report to President Truman, according to a Chungking newspaper report Reuter. The British Foreign Se< rctary. Mr Ernest Bevin, retired as General Secretary of the Tran-port and General Workers UnionReuter - 256 words
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Article42 1946-03-12 1 NEW DELHI, Mar. 11.— The Viceroy, Lord Wavell. conferred today with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, president of the All-India Congress, on India's current food shortage and the formation of provincial minis. ries. a cording U) reliable sources. UP.UP - 42 words
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96 1946-03-12 1 WASHINGTON. Mar. 10— Mr. Winston Churchill told prominent Ameri:an Navy, Army and Air Force leaders Kith whom he had been associated luring the war that the 'effective mity of British and American mill;ary staff work Is a "precious possession which we have In common." "This unityReuter - 96 words
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Article325 1946-03-12 1 Sjahrir On "Dutch Invasion" BATAVIA, Mar. 11 ln his capacity as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Indonesian "Republican Government," Sutan SJahrir today lodged a writUn protest with the Allied Commander in the Indies, Lt.-Gen. Stopford, against the landings of Dutch troops. Sjahrir wrote: "I emphatically reiterate the standpoint ofReuter - 325 words
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Article80 1946-03-12 1 BA'.AVIA, Mar. 11.— Two separate British convoys were attacked in the Soekaboemi area last night and early this morning and Thunderbolts carrying out sweeps in the area report that both convoys, bound for Batavia. are at a standstill. The convoys were fired at from both sides of80 words
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493 1946-03-12 1 CHUNGKING, Mar. 10.—Chinese National Governmen. trcops and Yenan Communist forces are reported to be engaged in clashes in the streets of Mukden, key city of southern Manchuria, following the withdrawal of Russian forces fr .m the city. No confirmation of these reportsReuter; UP - 493 words
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270 1946-03-12 1 British Major Believed Killed In Ambush A British major is mLssLng, be- i lieved killed, a captain and two J Indian other ranks are wound d and five Indian other rants are j missing following an ambush by j Indonesian terrorists on Saturday near Tandjoeng Morawa. about nine miles south-east270 words
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Article112 1946-03-12 1 Provisional Go vt. At Hanoi PARIS. Mar. 10.— A new provisional government headed by Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Viet Minh (Indo-Chinese nationalist movement) hr.s been elected in Hanoi, northern Indo-China. by the Assembly of Viet Nam (Annam), Frcinch sources reported from Saigon tod. Bao Dai, former emperor of112 words
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Article80 1946-03-12 1 Moscow. Mar. 10 controversy as to whether or not the U.S. and Britain should share the atom secret with Russia rages, Soviet scientists are quickly working to discover it independently of their western colleagues. Brilliant physicists lik" Academicians Kapitza, Vavil JofFe are vigorously exploring cosmic rays80 words
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Article42 1946-03-12 1 CAIRO. Mar. 10. A bo-.nb in the Miami Cinema. C I during a por'ormanre of the British Him "Place One's Ovn I Sunday hoire of p.. tors ruslied to all t 1 t killed and three injure42 words
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Advertisement66 1946-03-12 1 BOVRIL Jfct will he reach i 33g With the removal of war restrictions, Bovril will ji -M B jm \sf once again be available to you as quickly as it can dM fi 8E be sent. It will be the same Bovril you always Hr enjoyed as a stimulating beverage66 words
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588 1946-03-12 2 The Stairs Singapore, Tues., March 12, 1946. Keeping OrderJap Style Rabble-rousers who have sought to establish a reign of terror in Malaya, and those peculiar individuals who can always find something to be said in defence of gang robbers. Lntimidators. and other disturbers of the peace, nearly all react in588 words
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Article716 1946-03-12 2 Mishandling Of Malayan Affairs Criticised Straits Times Corr: LONDON, Mar. 10.— The Sunday Times scathingly criticizes the d-lonial Office for mishandling Ihs Malayan affairs, which is resulting in the most awkward questions in both Houses of Parliament and a battery of complaints from former high officials of716 words
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Article83 1946-03-12 2 WASHINGTON. Mar. 10 —Sir Rarr.r. waml II ':-!:ar. head of the I fi-rt r>- i■: to W'-F'Titon and London, said the mission had completed the p tut lon of its case to tin C i \Va afci T*tv 'v ii|| fO" ttW cislon of th: ardReuter - 83 words
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Article47 1946-03-12 2 Pilot Officer D. S. Bamjee of Uic Royal Indian Air Force was klllei in a crash two miles from Chropcnham (Gloucester >on Saturday. The plane narrowly missed several houses and took of! the top-, of a number of trees before It crashed. lieuter.47 words
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627 1946-03-12 2 The local fishing industry's problems have acquired such a high priority that a special committee is sitting to deal with them. C'uuplcd with such long-term policies as the encouragement of deep-sea fishing from motur launches equipped wrth refrigerating plants and the removal of time-honoured627 words
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Article218 1946-03-12 2 /vuvisory Domini nee All peace-loving citizens of all communities in this country must h.ivv be n greatly wo.rled and cijturb:d by the recent betwe?n the Ch'n r,e and the iv'Mrys in j-omc prrts o. the r lufatry. It will be v ry sad Uuk id it th s stne218 words
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675 1946-03-12 2 Sir George Maxwell With draws Support For Union Proposals Writing from Chindies. High Salvington. Worthing, or. Feb. 10, Sir George Maxwell says: In your issue of Nov. 14, 1945. I wrote a short article in which I gave my warm support to the proposals for a Malayan Union. When I675 words
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522 1946-03-12 3 Accelerated Release Of Public Properties The task of restoring Singapore to its pre-war normalcy will be greatly accelerated towards the end of this month and throughout April when a considerable number of properties will be returned to their civilian owners. The Straits Times522 words
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Article236 1946-03-12 3 G aol For Having Penicillin Tvcenty-four-year-old Kaipal Singh, %ho pleaded guilty to a charge that en Mar. 6 ne was found in possession of 220 bottU-s of penicillin valued at $1,320 at '.ho junction of Bras Basah Road and Victoria Street, vas sentenced to two y<ars' rigorous imprisonment by Major236 words
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135 1946-03-12 3 At 9 o'clock on Thursday morning. Lieut. Kanlyuki Nakatnura, first Japaesc to be sentenced to death as a war criminal In Sooth -East Asia, will be hanged at Chanfi Gaol Nakamnra waa foand gniitj on several charfes, one of which was that he beheaded135 words
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117 1946-03-12 3 Entries For Ipoh Races On Mar. 16 Straits Times Corr IPOH. Mar. 11. As only 20 entries have been received for Saturday's races, the Ipoh meeting will, therefore, be confined to four races. The entries are: H <rm. Class one, six furlonss: Goafs Skin (10.00). Remembrance (9.11), Ballvmum (903) and117 words
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111 1946-03-12 3 Gen^iou^ terms for the revival of their life insurance policies are available to aU policy-holders of the Oriental Government Security Ufe Assurance Co., Ltd.. which has rc-cpened it branch office in Kuala Lumpur. ThO6e who have paid their premiums which fell due prior to Dec.111 words
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Article186 1946-03-12 3 Cloves Osborne Woodford, 51-year-old Eurasian draughtsman, was sentenced to death by the British Officer Court yesterday on a charge of collaboration. "I am innocent," declared Woodford on being asked if he had anything to say. Wins Commander F. A. Briggs (President) who sat with Capt.186 words
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Article109 1946-03-12 3 The museum bronze Dust mystery has been solved The bronze, discovered at Pulau Branl and sent to the Singapore Museum for preservation and identification, Is the work of the sculptor -brother of Mr. W. J. Wilcoxon, one-time managing director of the Straits Trading Company who went to England109 words
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131 1946-03-12 3 remain in the Museum. $15,640 Involved In Armed Robbery At 4.30 am yesterday, four Chinese armed with pistols forced their way Into 201 Souih Bridge Road and robbed the Inmates of Jewellery and other valuables estimated at /1 5, 640. On Sunday at 1 30 p.m. a', ths 10th mile131 words
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772 1946-03-12 3 japs To Answer For Car Nicobar Executions When Japan was plunging headlong into defeat during the middle of 1945, away on the extreme fringes of her penetration towards India, in two groups of islands in Bay of Bengal, Japanese Army and Navy men were jxcelling themselves in brutal :rimes and772 words
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Article416 1946-03-12 4 BOLTON, Mar. 10. An official statement on the worst disaster in British football history in which 33 people were I killed at liurnden Park during the FA Cup-tie between Bolton I Wanderers and Stoke City yesterday was made by the Chief I Constable of BoltonReuter - 416 words
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Article208 1946-03-12 4 Consumer Goods Arrive In Penang Straits Times Corr: PENANG, Mar. a— Braining from next week, clgaiettcs will bo dl~tributed according to lire cards to every adult in Penang. A'thoi "h the bacls of distribution lias not |ret besn announced, the first intimation of this news has already resulted in a208 words
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239 1946-03-12 4 A British Officer who. on Dec. 9. 1941, was commanding an anti-air-craft-detachment of the Hongkong and Singapore Regiment Royal Artillery at Kota Bharu aerodrome was captured by the Japanese. His arms were said to have been tied behind his back with wire for four or239 words
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113 1946-03-12 4 LONDON, Mar. 11. Moscow radio last night broadcast a commentary in English and German on what it described as a "noisy anU-Soviet campaign" in Britain and the United States. "Progressive public opinion in the Urited States and Britain," said the radio, "will not tolerateReuter - 113 words
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119 1946-03-12 4 U. K. Protest To Soviet On Manchuria LONDON, Mar. 10— The British, Joining the United States in protest over Manchuria, have delivered through the British Charge d'AfTaires in Moscow, Frank Roberts, a note to the Soviet Government protesting against the removal of Japanese plant and installations from] Manchuria. The U5.Reuter - 119 words
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Article288 1946-03-12 4 Probably before the end of this month, a court for juvenile delinquents will be established in Singapore, which will be assisted by a panel of 20 assessors 15 men and five women and a panel of medical advisers. The Salvation Army is appointing a full time288 words
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Article186 1946-03-12 4 During the years of the Japanese occupation, a large number of pre-occupaion mining leases in Malaya were not renewed and expired. Although under normai circumstances this would not have happened, in order that lessees shall not suffer on account of circumstances beyond their control, II has186 words
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