The Straits Times, 2 August 1946

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    20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY EIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1946. PRICE 10 CKN1S.
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    COMMONS QUESTIONS ON RUBBER
    704 1 Ball Says ls/2d Not Unreasonable LONDON, Thursday. MR. THOMAS REID, Labour, asked the Colonial Secretary m the House of Commons last night, on what basis it was calculated that rubber could be produced m Malaya on average plantations m the near future, with profit, at the
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    LIE THINKS UNO IS NOT DOING WELL
    161 1 NEW YORK, Thursday. THE United Nations Secre-tary-General Dr. Trygve Lie, m a summary report on the work of the UNO warned that the organization has failed to measure up to expectations and the power of veto imposes an obligation on the Big Five
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    TERRORISTS' ARMS DUMPS DISCOVERED
    244 1 JERUSALEM, Thursday. DHITISH Army authorities announced this morning the discovery of another large arms and ammunition dump in the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv as the systematic search of the city was resumed at dawn for the third successive day. The new discovery is in addition
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    UNO TO DEBATE FRANCO
    31 1 NEW YORK, Thurs.— The UNO Secretariat announce that Franco Spain and the veto question will be discussed at it? assembly which opens here on September 23.— AP.
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    SELF-RULE FOR DUTCH WEST INDIES
    89 1 WILLEMSTAD, Thursday. THE Netherlands West Indies Commission for the Autonomy of the Island Government, today returned from the Netheriandi and expressed satisfaction on the conferences with the Queen and Dutch officials. Dr. P. S. Mall, the head of tln> commission, and Cornelius Da volaar cf
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    HOW NAZIS FIXED THE ELECTIONS
    151 1 NUREMBERG, Thursday. NAZI officials used "invisible typing" to check up on voters suspected of being out of sympathy with the party, documents presented by the British prosecutors disclosed at the v/ar crimes court today. Special Ballot Papers It was shown that the Nazis made lists
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    SOMERSET 506 FOR 6 DECL.
    40 1 TAUNTON, Thurs.— ln reply to the Indians' total of 64 Somerset scored 506 for 6 wickets declared. Walford made 141 not out. In their second innings India have lost 1 wicket for 29 runs.— Reuter.
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    JAP CONSUL TELLS OF 1931
    320 1 TOKIO, Thursday. THE puppet government of Manchukuo was created solely by illegal aggression of the Japanese Army m Manchuria, which acted m defiance of the Foreign Office m Tokio, Morishima Morito former Japanese consulgeneral m New York testified m the war crimes trial. Morishima gave
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    Cartoon Aged 27 Sees Daylight
    69 1 LONDON, Thurs. THE Daly Herald reprinted today the prophetic cartoon published on May 17, 1919, m which the late Will Dyson, Herald artist, predicted the failure of the Versailles conference. The cartoon shows the 1919 "biff four," Clemenceau, Wilson, Lloyd George and Orlando, leaving the
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    'AGREEMENT POSSIBLE' —Muslims
    111 1 'AGREEMENT POSSIBLE' —Muslims BOMBAY, Thurs.— Mi. Jinnah, President of the Muslim League, said that the League was not closed to further nego- tiations with the Congress Party and the British He also confirmed that the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, was seeking j to arrange an interim govern- ment for transit to
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    JEWS TURNED FROM U.S. ZONE
    47 1 FRANKFURT, Thurs.— lt was I learned from unofficial sources today that the United States Army authorities, m order to dis- courage any mass refugee movement, had turned back from the American zone border large groups of Jews fleeing from Eastern Europe. -U.P.
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    GREEK POINT ON PROCEDURE IS AGREED BY ALL
    358 1 GREEK POINT ON PROCEDURE IS AGREED BY ALL PARIS, Thursday. WITH masterly handling which brought an expies- sion of dcHght even from his usual opponent, Australia's Dr. Evatt, the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Molotov, today extricated the rules committee of the Paris Conference from difficulties which arose from an article
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    FOOD CRISIS COMING IN AUTUMN
    363 2 Ministry Of Food Issue White Paper LONDON, Thursday. THE world food situation will "reach its most critical phase in the last weeks of the 1945-46 crop year and before the present summer crop reaches the consumer." In India and the Far-Eastern countries the most dangerous
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    3 WARSHIPS LEAVE LINE
    55 2 I*HREE of Britain's most famous battleships have become training ships for the Royal Navy They are the 21 year-eld veteran Nelson and the £10.000.000 Anson and Howe which were only completed four years ago. Anson recently arrived at Portsmouth on her return from Singapore which she
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    Emma Hitch-Hikes To Jail
    50 2 Emma HitchHikes To Jail NUREMBERG, Thursday. FOOTSORE and shabby, the once-hauphty Emma Goerin? hitch-hiked to Nuremberg: jail and pleaded tearfully to see the former Reichsmarshal "just once more." She was turned down. Lawyers told her that the regulation imposed that high Nazi defendants are segrepited for trial was inviolate. A.P.
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    BURMA BOR DID NOT DO PACK DRILL
    207 2 WESTMINSTER, Wed. MR. Freeman, Labour, Newport, asked the War Minister in the House of Commons today if he had received a report from Burma of the case of a soldier, aged 19, of the 4th Borderers Indian Division, formerly South Wales Borderers, who
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    JAP BRIDES ARE BARRED
    87 2 LONDON, Wed. LORD Nathan. Under Secretary for War, announced today that British servicemen will be permitted to marry women of any occupied enemy countrv except Japan. Permission to wed enemy women, however, will have to be in cases where reasons !or marriage are good and there
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    LORD MAYOR MOVES KING'S PAWN
    59 2 The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Charles Davis, registering the first British move at l>e LoirJon end during a recent BritishRussian chess tourraimnt conducted by radio. In Britain the match was played at the Gambit Chess Rooms, and m Russia at the House of Arts,
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    BRITONS TO GET CARS, LESS COAL
    108 2 LONDON, Wed. MORE and more cars are coming from the "factories. There is more utility furniture. Footwear is gradually mounting up to the pre-war production figure. But coal production is down and stocks are seriously diminishing. These are points from the Government's monthly digest
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    "YALTA & POTSDAM SORDID"
    270 2 "YALTA POTSDAM SORDID" WASHINGTON, Wed. SENATOR KENNETH WHERRY today urged the Senate into an angry debate on foreign policy with a charge of blundering by the U.S. State department and "aggression" by Russia. "The world is on the road to an atomic war". Senator Wherry said. In a long bitter
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    Canada's P.M. Now In Paris
    53 2 The Prim* Minister or Canada, Mr. MacKenzie King, arrived at Euston Station, Lordon, having landed from the Georgic at Liverpool, on his way to the peace conference m Pans. Mr. Mackenzie King greeted by Sir Eric Cranshaw (left), Secretary of the Government Hospitality Fund, on
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    26,000 APPLY FOR R.A.F. COMMISSIONS
    166 2 WESTMINSTER, Wednesday. IN the House of Commons today the Under Secretary 1 for Air said that since March 1944 26,000 officers have applied for permanent or extended service commissions in the Royal Air Force. Some 5,500 have not yet received replies to their applications. "We
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    V-2 GOES UP 104 MILES FROM EARTH
    266 2 V-2 GOES UP 104 MILES FROM EARTH WASHINGTON, Thursday. A CAPTURED V-2 German rocket fired by the United estates Army m a test at Whitesands, New Mexico yesterday was shot 104 miles into the air to set a new world's. record for altitude. The rocket, which was the ninth tested
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    DR. BA MAW TO GO FREE
    52 2 RANGOON, Thurs.— Dr. Ba Maw, former head of the Japa-nese-sponsored government of Burma, will be set free when he arrives here from Tokio m the near future it was officially announced here today. Dr. Ba P/aw oft Tokio for Burma tor»ay under a British
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    ESTIMATE OF N.I. RUBBER OUTPUT
    268 2 ESTIMA TE OF N.I. RUBBER OUTPUT BATAVIA, Thursday. HUTCH officials decline to estimate future rubber production in the troubled Netherlands Indies but qualified foreign authorities now say an approximate figure for the last six months of 1946 would be 45,000 to 50,000 tons. Virtually all of this would come from
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    JAPS TOOK AND SOLD FURNITURE
    79 2 HONGKONG, (Air Mail) AN application for a warrant for the return of furniture seized by the Japanese and sold to a Chinese the first of its kind was made by a British doctor in Court Here. The applicant said that during vhe occupation his house
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    22 2 Mr. < o II ma d x I brr»t?d his fiOth UHhdt) v a drive from Is Nt Av< St. Lawrence. Hri'. Tordsliire
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    USSR NAVAL COMMANDER TO SEE UK
    140 2 MOSCOW, Thursday. lDMIRAL NICOLAI KUZn NETSO. Commander-in Chief of the Russian Navy, has been invited to visit Britain. The invitation was extended by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser. former commander of the Pacfic Fleet who is On a visit to Russia. Admiral Kuznetsov was an
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    SIAM'S RICE TONNAGE
    36 2 LONDON, Wed— Mr. John Strachey, Minister of Food, told the House of Commons today. m reply to a question, that 39,200 tons of rice had been shiDneti from Siam during June 1946. Reuter.
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    1,450 Army Vehicles For Malaya
    403 3 1,450 Army Vehicles For Malaya Tin And Rubber Industries Benefit From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thurs. ANE thousand four hundred service vehicles have v been made available to the tin and rubber industries m Malaya and 50 to the Government, accordu:? to information conveyed to Capt. L. D. Gammans by
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    Remission Of School Fees
    87 3 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Thurs. A PPLICATIONS for remission of school fees by parents with more than two children studying in English schools are bring invited by the Penang Education Department In needy and other deserving on-;os, remission mav also be granted. It is Ie?rned
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    Inquiry Into Death Of Dutchman
    210 3 Inquiry Into Death Of Dutchman "THIL series oi clashes between Malays and Dutch at Geylan^ during the first week of July had its sequel in a Coroner's inquiry yesterday into the death of a Dutch soldier. Karcl Lutter, whose slashed body was found in a drain in Geylang on tne
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    Lascars Gaoled, Lose Earnings
    104 3 FIVE lascars were found guilty yesterday, and sentenced to gaol for deserting their ship, the Empire Tedessa on July 27, by the Fourth Police magistrate. They were Hoohan Dad, Karam Khan. Mohd. Allam, Khan-i-Moola, and Noor Mohamed. The first two, described as ling-leaders, were sentenced to
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    Return Passages For Po Ws Cost $100,000
    67 3 TO c^ver th<j cost of return \>as.sages to Malaya of rer triated pri.soners-of-war and civ lian internees and their families who would not under normal condit ons of employment, be provided wi»h their passages by their pm- ;>nd for passages to evaetieea ovorsras
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    Police Trace Missing Typewriters
    155 3 Police Trace Missing Typewriters THE Singapore Police have many other problems to solve besides rounding up armed robbers. One of these is to trace typewriters stolen from commercial houses. Since January last 97 typewriters, adding and calculating machines have been reported stolen. Recent cases were reported on July 26 and
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    $600,000 GRANT FOR COLLEGE
    73 3 A MEMORANDUM setting out the financial position of Raffles College and requesting an advance of $600,C00 to enable the College to re-open was tabled at a recent meeting of the Malayan Union Advisory Council Finance Committee for consideration. After discussion, the Committee recommended that the Malayan
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    Malaya's Textile Mission Not Yet In Tokio
    228 3 A RRANGEMENTS are being ri made to send a textile mission from Singapore and the Malayan Union to Japan to indicate the country's needs and types of material which may be able to ns supplied from Japan's old stocks of 100.000,000 yards of
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    BIG HAUL OF OPIUM
    95 3 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Tues. CMART work by the Kedah Cus- toms led to the biggest opium haul in Kedah when the discovery was made of 2,000 tubes of Siamese chandu. weighing approximately two kattis wrapped up in cloth and tied to the body
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    POLICE RAID ON HAWKERS
    60 3 Two picture* taken during the raid by Police on hawkers stalls on Wednesday show the demolition of hawkers stalls and other structures which had been erected without permission and which were blocking: the thoroughfare and the drains m these streets and (below) the heap of decaying
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    Malayan Union Imports To Be Speeded-Up
    237 3 TO ASSIST importers of goods for the Malayan Union, an 1 office has been opened at Kuala Lumpur, from which import licences will henceforth be issued, avoiding the delay now resulting from the necessity of submitting Malayan Union import licences to Singapore. The Comptroller
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    K.L.'s M.G.S. CELEBRATES JUBILEE
    189 3 K.L.'s M.G.S. CELEBRATES JUBILEE THE Methodist Girls School in Kuala Lumpur will soon be celebrating its golden jubilee. Behind its 50 years of life, lies a story of perseverence that has reaped its just reward. Started in 1896 by the F.M.S. Government as the Government Girls School, it was turned
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    Causing Hurt Charge
    31 3 A 22-year-old Tamil, Maniam. was found guilty of causing hurt to another Tamil, Supramaniam. and was fined $250 or three months' imprisonment, m the Fourth Police Court yesterday.
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    Gaol And Rotan For Indian Soldier
    257 3 AN Indian soldier, Pte. Akhram, attached to a Singapore transport unit, was sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment and eight strokes of the rotan at the Assizes yesterday on a charge of rape. Passing sentence, Mr. Justice Worley remarked that the facts disclosed a
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    15,000 Chicks Weekly Flown From Australia
    311 3 IMPORTATIONS of Australian day-old chicks by air to 1 Singapore have been stepped up in recent weeks, and it is expected that nearly 15,000 chickens per week will arrive regularly by Qantas flying boats, starting early next month. The chicks will be mostly White
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    Ipoh's First Public Canteen
    69 3 From Our Own Corresix>ndent IPOH, Wed. JPOH'S first public canteen will open in August, the specially appoin.ed canteen committee announce. Meals will be sold at 20 cents and the canteen will serve Malay, Chinese and Indian dishes. The following committee has charge of the public canteen
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    Suicide Of Naval Officer
    67 3 From Our Own Correspondent Penang Tues. AFTER recording evidence that the deceased had confessed I to a friend that he had domesr.ic worries, the Penanj Coroner, Mr. W. Foulsham today returned a verdict of suicide on Lieut. Commander E. H. Oatwood, officer-in-charge of Sea Transport, who
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    FOUR JAPS SENTENCED TO DEATH
    345 3 IN sentencing to death by hanging Amari. Okuda, Isamo and Yoshil, four of the accused m the Rangsang Island case, the president of the Court, Lt. Col. E. N. Blacklock. said that the Court was unanimously of the opinion that there were certain extraordinary circumstances
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    Rash Driving Charge
    59 3 A YOU'.^G Chinese, Gch Chwe: Guan, was fined $100. in default one month's r.i.. by Mr. Ahmad bin Ibrahim yesterday in the Firth Police Court for negl gent driving which resulted in a colliion with another lorry. On a second charge Goh was acquitted on a charpe
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Friday, Aug. 2, 1946. The Municipal Hustings
    985 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Friday, Aug. 2, 1946. The Municipal Hustings So we are to vote for our city fathers In future. The committee which has been drafting a new municipa constitution for Singapore has decided to recommend that the city should be divided into nine wards and that each
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    MR. BEVIN'S HOLIDAY
    69 4 LONDON, Wed. THE Foreign Office said today there was "no decision at all" on the immediate plans of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin who was Pit vented by illness from heading i he British delegation to the t'&ris peace conference. Told of a Cairo report that Mr Bevin
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    A Malayan Indian View Of The Union
    2299 4  -  S. M. SHARMA DEMOCRACY IN THE NEW MALAYA By This is a reply to Dato Roland Braddell's articles on "The Case For The Malays" from the Indian point of view. Mr. Sharma has lived for many year s in what used to be
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      Rice-Rationed Malaya, Please Note!
      268 4 EARLY this month you published a report on bread rationing m England, a cutting of which my husband has sent to me. This report is, m my mind, un- adulterated tripe, as it conveys the impression that here m England we are living pretty well. Beluve
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      'Practically Everything'
      223 4 ON behalf of the people of Britain, I feel that I must correct one of your correspondents, who remarked that "if anybody is making any sacrifices it's the Malayans!" We know that Malaya with its rubber and tin should be able to get all the rice it needs,
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      His Wife Was Right!
      256 4 •«HE People's Restaurant mayj 1 be a wonderful innovation, but it can only feed me and not my family of fourteen, whom I leave at home when I come to work. Then, speaking of food control. I used to get my wife to go to the
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    Industrial Employers To Meet Govt.
    374 5 Formation Of Union "Urgent Necessary" DISCUSSIONS will be held in Singapore shortly between Government and the various Chambers of Commerce to consider the question of forming associations or similar representative bodies to bring together employers with similar industrial or trade interests. It is felt that
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    Japs In Civilian Houses
    128 5 I'rom Our Own Correspondent London, July 23 (By Ai* Mail) CIK YValdron Smithers (Cons. Kent. Orpington div.) today in the House of Ommons asked whether the Colonial Srrretary knew that Japanese prisoners of war were occupying houses in Singapore requisitioned by the Army while British subjects
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    Flour To Be Unloaded At Penang
    182 5 Flour To Be Unloaded At Penang A EHIPimiT of 8,500 tons of Pour for the people of Malaya wil: be passing through Singapore today on board the Berwyn Victory which is proceeding direct to Penang to discharge 4,000 tons of cargo. The remaining 4,500 tons of flour will be unloaded
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    43 5 A provision of $10,000 under the sub-heading of 'accidents involving civilian Government vehicles" which will be used to cover payments m traffic accidents m which Government vehicles are involved with civilian vehicles has been made by the Malaj'an Union Advisory Council Finanre Committee.
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    Air Chief Leavss
    70 5 Air Marshal Sir George Pirie, Allied Air Commander-in-Chief. South East Asia, left by air yesterday for England where he will attend the half-yearly conference in London of Coramanders-in-Chie* and a meeting of the Imperial General Staff. He will also be received in audience by the King. During
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    Mount Emily Pool Is De-requisitioned
    265 5 ALTHOUGH the Services have derequisitioned the Mount A Emily Swimming Pool and it was handed back to the Singapore Municipal Commissioners yesterday, it will be some time before this popular pre-war rendezvous will be open to the public again. Reasons for this, according to the
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    3 Years' Gaol For Kampong Minyak Men
    178 5 3 Years' Gaol For Kampong Minyak Men POUR Chinese, Tiu Iang Gek (32), Tan Jiak Choan (33), Choa Cheng Koang (40) and Teh Gek Ti (26), arrested in consequence of the police raid on Kampong Minyak at dawn on July 4 were each sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment and
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    Fined For Having Army Clothing
    114 5 A MAN, who claimed that he was a stranger to Singapore, was convicted yesterday m the Second D-strict Court and sentensed to one month's rigorous imprisonment and a fine of $500 for being m possess on of military goods. It is alleged that on July
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    Hume Pipe Strike
    77 5 Nearly 1,000 Huaie P^pe (Far East) Company labourers who have been on strike for the past three weeks have unanimously agreed not to return to work as long as their demands are not conceded by the company. This was decided at a general meeting of the Hume
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    Labour More Amenable To Negotiation
    321 5 Labour More Amenable To Negotiation KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. WHILE lightning str.kes in vhich no previous demands were made by labourers, were common occurrences earlier in the year, they are in the minority now, accoidlng to Labour authorities in a review of the strike position in recent months. Approximately 40 cases
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    Good Progress In Rubber Small Holdings
    152 5 Good Progress In Rubber Small Holdings PONSIDER.'.ELE progress has v been made throughout Selangor in the rehabilitation of rubber areas according to a Department of Agriculture (Malayan Union) report for June this year. In the Tampin and Kembau districts of Negri Sembilan. approximately 85 per cent, tt small holdings were
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    LIVESTOCK POSITION IN THE UNION
    237 5 INTEREST m pis-r.aring m the Sitiawan District oi Perak increased during June this v- ar, the average daily export b r in; 100 picuLs liveweight, gelling at $150 per picul. states a report of the Department of Ag r icul r ure (Malayan Union). In
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    Jap Doctor On Murder Charge
    305 5 THE story of how an Indonesian labourer was used as a live exhibit for an anatomical demonstration to medical orderlies was told in the War Crimes Court before Lt.-Col. H .E. R. Smith, Major M. C. Fouracres and Major S. B. Sahay yesterday when the
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    Malayan Clerks' Meeting At K.L.
    272 5 Ma lay a n Clerks Meeting At K.L. IN the first Pan-Malayan conference of clerks ever to be held in Malaya, representatives of Clerical Unions throughout the country will discuss the creation of a Central Board. The conference will be held at Kuala Lumpur this weekend. This Central Board will
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    $250,000 For Fire Brigades
    60 5 A recommendation that pro- vision be made for the purchase of 26 fire engines costing approximately S!5 r ..000 for fire services of the Malayan Union was made by the Finance Committee of the Malayan Union Advisory Counci 1 The Committee also i|»oroved the provision of
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    More Queries On Arrested Paratroopers
    195 5 M. LONDON. ANSWERING questions on ths arrest of 263 men of the 13th Parachute Battalion of the 6th Airborne Division following an incident at a resL camp at Muar, the War Minister, Mr. Jack Lawson, stated that thorough inquiries have been made but the proceedings
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    New People's Restaurant Opened
    117 5 New People's Restaurant Opened OINGAPORES foui til public Peoples Restaurant is located in Handy Road, b?hind the Cathav Buildim This nlac was made available by the eenercms ofTir of Mr Lo :e Wan Tho as an cxprrssicn cf appreciation of the excellent wor:c done by the Social Welfare Secr?tari? f
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    26 5 The annual eenera! "i?iinp of the straits Chines? British Association. Malacca, will be held nn A"°\ 11 w^en office-bearers fr>r t^e ensuing year will be pirated.
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    SINO-INDIAN ROLE IN ASIA
    169 6 SINO-INDIAN ROLE IN ASIA OHANG HAI, Thursday.— |J China and India, with their common problems and outlook, must take the leading roles m Asia, and women of the two nations must play an important part m bringing this about, Miss Sosa Matthew, the first Indian woman head of the Y.W.C.A.
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    209 6 Britain and China Endured Equally I\R. WELLINGTON KOO, who occupied the post of Chines 3 Ambassador to Great Britain with great distinction from 1941 until July of this year, has drawn an interesting parallel between the two nations. In a broadcast m Chinese to his fellow-countrymen, which he made from
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    113 6 SHANGHAI, (By Air Mail) There will be no second mass repatriation of Germans from China, following the sailing of ar American ships carrying 1.100 Nazis and other Germ.ms back to their homeland catlv In Ju'> Of the 1.600 German? slili m Shanghai, the majority are expected
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    39 6 SHANGHAI, Thur.— An elderly Pole, A. Silvan, recuperating m the French-owned Sainte Marie Hospital here from leg injuries received m an accident, was gored to death by a bull tethered on the hospital lawn.— A. P.
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    GREAT SECRETS OF BRITAIN
    446 7 Pilotless 1,250 Miles An Hour Flying Wing By RITCHIE CALDER JONDON (By Air Mail)— Britain's war-winning secrets and peace-time plans were revealed when the leading scientists of the Ministry of Supply submitted to a whole day's interrogation recently. The disclosures included: Our plans for the indu^rial
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    117 7 Lord Parmoor Selling Estate LORD PARMCOR, elder brother of S Stafford OriJs, president of the Board of Trade, is selling his estate because of the present burden of taxation. He has already sold by auction 42 lots out of 46 at Henley onThnmes for £78.445. His mansion was the home
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    78 7 The former French licer Normandic. which was burned and capsized at a New York dock m 1942 after being taken over by the United States for troop-ci-' > ylnp, will be broken up for sc-ap. A decision to this effect 'ol'ows an announcement of a severe
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    145 7 He Has To Marry Boss's Daughter For A Job A demobilised American Naval intelligence officer, who tried to acquire a wife along:, with an advertising job. so far has neither. He inserted this advertisement m a Philadelphia advrrtising trade journal: "Wanted: .Bosss marriageable daughter. Unusually fine opportunity to liquidate the
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    128 7 CLASS B RELEASE BEHIND PLAN ALTHOUGH it was officially announced that the British Government passed its first-year demobilisation target by 36,000, there have been two failures m the release programme so far: The Class B target has not been reached by 52,000. This means that industry has gone short of
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    99 7 BERLIN, Tuesday— Nazi v.-ar loot totalling more than 1,000.003 books and 50,000 arts treasures found m th© American zone of Germany have been returned to the owners m eleven European nations. It was announced by the Military Government. Col. John H. Allen, Chief of the Military
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      735 7 Souths bidding in today's deal North's hand was a lrile coo was far less lmaginativt than it weak for a two-over-one diamond should have been, but he was response, and the distribution fortunate in the bungling defense was not right for one no truir.p. that was waged against his bad
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      INDIAN SOLDIER WINS 3 MILES
      198 8 SHOWING unproved form on his last run m the Army Athletic Meeting last month, Hay. Harpool Singh from 223 Base Ordnance Depot, with a remarkable bursts of speed, carried away the honours m the final of the three miles flat race which was run on
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      24 8 J. Sephariades, winner of the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Regatta, is unconscious m this picture, taken immediately after he had won the final.
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      Cricket On The Padang Again
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      291 8 NAVY BEAT SELETAR AIR FORCE From S?t. Slipper (Seletar) ON a hard, uneven pitcii the R.A.F. (Scletar) were beateii by two goals to one by the Royal Navy. Semhavvang, in a game of soccer played on the Naval ground on Wednesday. The game did not produce the usual high standard
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      LOUIS MAY FIGHT IN HOMETOWN
      121 8 NEW YORK Wed. FIGHT promoter Mike Jacobs is awaiting the decisions of both Joe Louis and Tami Mauriclle to his nroposal to shift September's title bout from the Yankee Stadium to Louis hometown, Detroit. It is believed that Jajobs' proposal to hold the title bout
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      TO-NIGHT'S CHARITY WRESTLING
      44 8 TO- NIGHT'S CHARITY WRESTLING L^OUR wrestlers billed to take part m 1 to-nichts charity programme at the Happy World are unable to appear as they are engaged m another promotion to-morrow. They are Ivanho. Harman. Hicks and Musket. They will be replaced by others.
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      GOLDEN BOY
      39 8 /"> OLDEN Boy, popular Singapore boxer, will meet Sgt. Penhearow at Kuala Lumpur to-nigtit m a fight described as belne; for the Malayan welti rweight title. A fortnight ago Golden Roy knorkod out Pcnlua/ow m the eighth round
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      CRICKET DATES
      35 8 r piu: R.A.F. (Changi) cricket team is nnxious for cricket fixtures acalnst Singapore civilian or Service teams, to bo played at Ch.ingl or elsewhere. For fixtures telephone I -min. No. 5001. cxt. 21
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      Changi Airmen Good Winners
      182 8 Changi Airmen Good Winners From F/Sft. PALK (Tenf»h). ADOPTING first-time tactics, R.A.F. (Changl) ran out worthy winners by two goals to nil when they met the Tengah Airmen m a game of soccer played at Tengah on Wednesday. The Changi airmen scored after ten minutes when Smith, the outside left,
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      PENANG BASKETBALL TEAM FOR S'PORE
      67 8 From Our Chinese Correspondent THE Chiang Wu Basketball team, champions of Penang, will visit Singapore this month, and will play three matches against the local teams on Aug. 12 Aug. 13 and Aug. 15, at the Happy World Stadium. The entire proceeds vtli be sent
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      73 8 THE JC.S.A. vill play the Jolly 1 Brothers Club m a friendly game of soccer on Saturday at Farrer Park (old Race Course) and the team will be selected from the following: Naldu, W. HendrofT, G. Ranatunga. E. Paglar, S. Ortega, A. K. Pillay, V. P Saram, Lim
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      61 8 KID Pancho, Malayan boxer in Australia, will meet Billy Alexander in a return fight over 12 rounds at Melbourne Stadium to-morrow night, according to information received from Manager Kow Kim Lin yesterday. Rattling Khoon, who fights in Australia under his full name, Mok Kai Khoon, will have
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      COMMISSAR WINS STEWARDS' CUP
      58 8 Goodwood Tues TOMMISSAR won the Stewards, Cup with Roy.il Charger second and Port Vista third Fifteen ran. Commissar started at 10-1, Royal Charger at 3-1 favourite and Port Vista 100-6. The winner is owned Jointly by Majors Arthur and Allen Budgett who served during the war
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      55 8 The following will represent the Y.MC.A. at Volley-Ball against the Heng Hwa Association on the Tennis ground at 5.20 p.m. today. An Tat Chu, Yow Wan Sung, Chla Kok Leong, S. A. Dural. Lim Nltt Sionsr, Wee Boon Hal (Capt.t. Tang Seek Wai. Leonard Chung, Lee Hon Ming, Au
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      318 8 TX) coincide with the August Bank Holidays, a strong card of six fights has been drawn up for Sunday's professional boxing at the Happy World stadium. Heading the bill is Jimmy Hall who. making his first appearance in the local ring,
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      Big Exodus Of S'pore Sportsmen To-day
      407 8 DUE to play two soccer matches at Kuala Lumpur this weekend, and one at Seremban on Monday, the Singapore Chinese Football Association players and officials leave Singapore tonight by train. The opposition will be the S.C.R.C. tomorrow and T.P.C.A. on Sunday and the Negri
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      S'pore Referee Says Goodbye
      80 8 SGT. T. Garrington, the popular soccer referee is leaving for England shortly. He has sent this farewell message to his friends m Singapore: "I would like to thank the total civilians and Forces football teams for giving me the privilege of refcreeing their games. "The standard
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      106 8 LONDON, Wed. rLOSE of play scores in County cricket games starting today are: At Chesterfield, Glamorganshire first innings 164 (Jones 76. Revill 3 for 13). Derbyshire first innings 129 for 4 (Eager no* out 55). At Leicester, Leicestershire 211 (Jackson 55) Gloucestershire 146 for 1 (Barnett 96).
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      FILIPINO BANTAM WINS IN U.S.
      65 8 SAN JOSE. California, Wed. OPEEDY Cabanella, topranking Manila bantamweight, knocked" out Manuel Garges of Mexico City m 2 mm. 3 sees, of the second round of thtir scheduled 10 round bout, for his second Ftrai<?ht victory since coming to the United States. Cabanella weighed 124
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      28 8 A LL Singapore Recreation Club play/v ers visiting Kuala Lumpur this week-end are reminded to be at the railway station nt 6 p.m sharp this evening
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