The Straits Times, 7 August 1946

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    20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTs.
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    BYRNES CHALLENGES MOLOTOV
    488 1 See My Words Are Printed In Russia" PARIS, Tuesday. j HE I i.itvd States Secretary of State, Mr. James F. Byrne:, and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. V. M. Mo'oiov, today clashed on the floor of the Paris e Conference Rules Committee, Mr. Byrnes cuarging the Russian
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    Indian Troops In Sumatra Clash
    50 1 Indian Troops In Sumatra Clash BATAVIA, Tues.—lndonesian reports state that five were killed m a clash at Padang, Central Sumatra, yesterday. According to the Antara agency. 300 "Chinese mercenaries" and Indian troops clashed with an Indonesian force, the Indonesians losing five killed. No report Is available yet from Allicl headquarters.—Reuter.
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    Japs Treated British "Worse Than Animals"
    246 1 Japs Treated British "Worse Than Animals" TOKIO, Tuesday. THE Japanese treated Americans, British and other civilians "worse than animals" when they imprisoned them after the Japanese occupation of Shanghai's International Settlement, Mr. J. B. Powell, an American newspaperman, said at the war crimes trial i this morning. Mr. Powell, who
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    PEASANTS REVOLT
    205 1 ROME, Tuesday. FOUR policemen and a number of peasants are reported to have been killed m fighting near Palermo, Sicily, when the peasants revolted against consigning their crops to the Government's "granaries of the people." Fighting began yesterday, when police attempted to enforce the wheat decree, according to
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    HALL MAY GO TO PALESTINE
    67 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. Mr. George Hall, Secretary for the Colonies, was mentioned today as a possible choice for the poet of Resident Minister m Palestine. This would give the Cabinet first-grade political liaison on the spot. This course, which was proposed m
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    BOMBAY STRIKE CONTINUES
    54 1 BOMBAY, Tues.—Two rival unions of telegraph workers last night decided to combine to contine the telegraphic strike which began m Bombay nearly thrfe weeks ago. Two hundred boy messengers who did not rssume work yesterday with postmen and lowergrade postal staff are joining the new union and
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    Indians Left 273 To Get
    51 1 SWANSEA, Tues.—Glamorgan, hitting out fiercely to enable an early declaration, lost five wickets for 72 runs to the Indian spinners, Mankad and Na/udu, before declaring at 237 for eight. The Indians were thus left to get 273 runs. At lunch-tine they hafl scored 136 for
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    Malaya Allotted A Bigger Rice Share
    512 1 Malaya Allotted A Bigger Rice Share THE International Emergency Food Council has recommended a 170,000-ton allotment of rice for Malaya for the second half of 1946, says a Reuter message from Washington. Other recommended allotment are 280,000 tons for China, 270,000 tons for India, 180,000 tons for Ceylon and 145,000
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    Peacemakers In Session
    42 1 >ir. James Byrnes (left), Unit, ed States Secretary of State, at the opening session of the Paris Peace Conference m the Luxembourg Pala c on July 23. Next to Mr. Byrnes sit two other members of the American delegation.
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    U.S. RUBBER DEMAND INCREASING
    169 1 U.S. RUBBER DEMAND INCREASING NEW YORK, Tuesday. THE Rubber Manufacturers' 1 Association yesterday reported that the annual consumption of rubber in the United States would approach the million- to n mark for the first time in history. Th* President, Mr. Al Viles, based the prediction on figures disclosici that rubber
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    CAMP FOR JEWS IN CYPRUS
    48 1 NICOSIA, Cyprus, Tues.-It is reported that a camp has been prepared at Famagusta for 2,000 Jews who are expected to krrivc this afternoon.. MUl.tary and ci-vii authorities say that the identity of the persons expected is "top secret,'" and refuse all details.— Reuter
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    Plan For Sterling Balances
    116 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. Arrangements for the settlement of Britain's sterling balances m sterling currency areas under the Anglo-American loan agreements are starting within three months. Malaya is not scheduled for negotiations at present, but the position is under Treasury review. Under the financial
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    JEWS ATTEMPT TO MURDER TWO OFFICERS
    324 1 JEWS ATTEMPT TO MURDER TWO OFFICERS JERUSALEM, Tuesday. IT was officially announced today that an unsuccessful attempt was made by the Stern Rang last night to murder two British officers m Jerusalem. The attempt was frustrated by the barking of dogs m the officers' garden. The two British officers are
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    Towns Wiped Out By Earthquake
    168 1 Towns Wiped Out By Earthquake MIAMI, Taesday. TWO towns on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, m the West Indies, have b^en wiped out by the earthquake and subsequent tidal waves which occurred on Sunday m the-Atlantic, according to a Pan-Amencan pilot who landed 1 ere yesterday from Ciudad
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    £1,000,000 CARGO IS DISPUTED
    401 2 Collision Of Ships Leads To Argument NEW YORK, Monday. THE American Farmer, the crippled liner-freighter which last week came into collision with a sistership, the William J. Riddle, 700 miles west of Land's End, has proceeded to England under her own steam. A dispute over £1,000,000
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    Plans For New Jap Constitution
    105 2 TOKIO, Mon.— The Jiji news agency reported today that it had learned from reliable sources that the 72-man Diet Lommittee examining the constitution had completed action on the text with minor amendments thirteen alteret'nn? m the text, three new art'clr! and one deletion and that
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    Federation Of Indo-China Supported
    130 2 Federation Of Indo-China Supported DALAT, ANNAM, Tuesday. REPRESENTATIVES of Cambodia, Cochin China, and Laos, expressed support for an Indo-Chinese Federatioa "not encroaching upon national sovereignties" at the first meeting of the Political and Constitutional Commission at the Frenchsponsored Dalat Conference. Meeting under the chairmanship of M. de la Charrlere, president
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    "Filipinos Should Help Themselves"
    83 2 WASHINGTON, Mon.— Senator Allen J. Ellender, arriving from a round-the-world trip, said today that the Filipinos would need a "lot more help" from the United States in the future, but that the VS. should "go slow" with such a:d until "such time as the Filipinos show
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    New York Stocks
    79 2 NEW YORK, Tues.— The market turned lower after holding around towards the previous close, m early slow dealings. Sales totalled 700,000 shares. Traders were inclined to hold the sideline, pending new developments at the Paris Conference, and at home, where Congressmen ar? preparing election campaigns. Chrysler, General
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    Hungary Stops Inflation And Stabs At The Black Market
    155 2 Hungary Stops Inflation And Stabs At The Black Market LONDON, Monday. THE widest inflation the world has ever seen came to an 1 end this week-end as the Hungarian pengo vanished. Hungary's economic reform, facilitated by Russia's reduction of reparations demands, got under way during the weekend's commercial lull by
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    UNO'S STAFF OF 1,500
    75 2 NEW YORK, Tues.— The United Nations Organisation announced yesterday that it had now 1,531 employees from 34 nations, with about one-third receiving net incomes between $3,000 and $11,000 annually. The organisation expects to employ a total of 2,000 by Jan. 1. 1947, and ultimately 3,000 The
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    Maladministration In Formosa Denied
    100 2 WASHINGTON, Mon.— United States economic officials who recently returned from a visit to the Far East tended to discount reports of Chinese maladministration and large-scale looting in Formosa. They said that of all the areas visited Formosa apparently had made the greatest progress toward recovery. They
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    Chinese Trained In America
    56 2 SHANGHAI, Tues.— A group of 100 Chinese technical personnel, sent to the United States last April by the .A nlstry of Economic Affairs to finish their training m electric and textile sciences and industrial management, have returned to China. They will be given assignments m various
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    Reichsbank President Hoarded Stolen Goods
    256 2 NUREMBERG, Monday. AN affidavit signed by Walter Pohl, former head of the Economic Administration Office of the S.S. Guards, which was produced by the British AttorneyGeneral in the War Crimes Court here today, showed that Walter Funk, President of the Reichsbank, knew that the bank's
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    They Dig Up 500-lb Bomb
    100 2 They Dig Up 500- lb Bomb Bomb disposal men of the RE-s digging for "Satan's little brother,' nnexploded 500-lb. German bomb at Silvertown, London, have now exposed the bom bto view after nnicn c months' digging. The bomb is stuok head first m sticky tar-impregnated shingle m a tar distiller's
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    Chinese Shoot 26 Army Traitors
    162 2 Chinese Shoot 26 Army Traitors SHANGHAI, Tuesday. rENTY-SIX members of the Chinese Army, who turned traitor during later stages of the Sino-Japanese war, faced a firing squad yesterday in the biggest mass execution in Shanghai since the Japanese occupation. Their trial took ten minutes. The group which included one woman,
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    RESETTLING THE HOMELESS
    131 2 PHILADELPHIA, Tues.— An in-ter-governmental agency spon. sored by the United Nations to supervise the resettlement of Europe's displaced persons has been suggested in a report sent to President Truman. The author of the report Is Mr. Earl O. Harrison, American mem. ber of the Inter-Governmental Committee on
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    COMMUNISTS ON U.S. AGGRESSION
    332 2 SHANGHAI, Tuesday. THE Chinese Communists, long: agitating for the withdrawal of United States Marines, today charged the Marines with new aggression in North China. The Communist Radio in Yenan accused the Marines of shelling a village 30 miles north of Tientsin on July 27. It also
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    He Kept Gold From Nazis
    120 2 NEW YORK, Mon.— Ignacy Matuszewski, the 56-year-old former Polish Cabinet member and diplomat, who nelpsd to smuggle millions of pounds in gold fr; n Warsaw ->.s the Nazi army entered the gates of the capital, died here of a heart-at-tack today. At the approach of
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    Pope Sends Mission To Buddhist Clergy
    49 2 LONDON, Tues —A Vatican broadcast said that the Pope was sending a good-will mission consisting o; two American d. ons to Japan to appeal to the Buddhist clergy to form a united front with the Catholic clergy aga nst "nationalism and immorality."- U.P.
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    Tanker Struck By Lightning
    44 2 FLORIDA, Tuesday. THREE seamen are missin? and 31 miraculously escaped, when lightning struck the tanker Homestead, car™ ins: 5.000.000 gallons of petrol and turned it into an exp!od. ing inferno. The tanker was tied up at the City Wharf.— U.P.
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    "Britain Had No Right To Move Troops"
    187 2 TEHERAN, Tue. day. DRINCE MUSSAFAR FIROUZ, Persian Minister of Labour and Propaganda, stated today that there was "not the slightest legal justification" for the de.patch of troops by Britain to the Persian Gulf port of Basra. Prince Firouz, who acts as spokesman for
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    Scientists' Atom Warning
    129 2 WASHINGTON, rues— On the eve of the first anniversary ol the Hiroshima bombing, Aug. o, s ientists and other leaders warned last n ght that mankind was not moving fast .enough m fitting institutions and attitudes to the atom c age. Mr. Day d Lilienthul, cvanman of
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      331 2 CRISEK PLANTATIONS, LIMITED. Lost Share Certificates. Applications having been made to the above Company to issue fresh certificates of title to shares as listed fcereuncicr, stated to have been lost, or dt-.t roved through enemy action, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless within one calendar month from the date hereof
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      83 2 VICTORIA THEATRE THE STAGE CLUB presents Murder Without Crime A Thriller m Three Acts. FRIDAY SATURDAY, AUGUST 9th 10th at 8.00 p.m. Tickets:— s2.oo— :i.oo 50 cents. Obtainable at Theatre Box-Office, oprn 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 2 pjn. to 4.30 r.-n Dally. DANCING At the TAVERN 7-17 Tanglin Rd.
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    Co-Operative Investments Were Saved
    561 3 Co-Operative Investments Were Saved Apprecia ble Dividends Considered Likely By A Special Correspondent INVESTMENTS, aggregating some millions of dol- lars, in local Government and Municipal loans and in other trustee securities have been saved for the thousands of members of Co-operative Societies throughout Malaya. The interest which has accrued during
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    $200 Fine For Hitting M.P.
    134 3 CESTERSON TULLY (32;, a chier officer in the Merchant Service, appeared before Mr. R. C. Hoffman in the Fourth Police Court yesterday, on a charge ol assaulting Capt. J. S. Forest of the Military Police at Tanjong Pagar Road on Aug. 5. Capt. Forest saw
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    Alleged Theft Of Aero Engines
    85 3 HAJI YUSOP BIN GOLAK (50), Abdul Hamid bin Peek Mohd. (29), Musa Ghani bin Abas (28), and Oh Eng Keng (34; were charged with the theft of lour Japanese aeroplane engines, on Aug. 4 at Yio Chu Kang Road, in the Fourth Police Court yesterday.
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    Dance Hostess As Beauty Queen
    99 3 Dance Hostess As Beauty Queen From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Taes. MISS MAY WONG, a dance hostess, was voted beauty queen at a women's beauty and perfect figure competition at the M.A.H A. Exhibition. Immediately -.tier the Governor, Sir Edward Gent, and party had left, a rival competitor created
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    Piracy Near Penang
    121 3 From Our Own Correspondent PENAN G, lues. AN early morning piracy occurred in the waters off east Jelutong. Penang. yesterday when a gang of 15 Chinese, armed with long knives, attacked an Indian junk manned by the owner and one member of t fie" crew, both of
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    Municipal Staff Rents Reduced
    286 3 Municipal Staff Rents Reduced DY a revision of a long-standing .ule, Singapore Municipal employees occupying quarters are now paying rent on the same r-asis as Government servants provided with quarters. This means a reduction in Municipal renti f-j'n eight per cent, of an employee's salary to a maximum cJ six
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    FIRE AT S.H.B.
    59 3 fwo engines from the Army rvlce answered a call from llif Singapore Harbour Board j est?rday afternoon whe-e some cr*»nty wooden cases caught firs. vn damage was rausod and the w«^ put oi:t almost imnrxli■\t 7.20 \i.v\ t.-.e Sir pore r.'"Mcio3l Fire Bricade s?rt oat av engine
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    Penang Clerks To Act On K.L. Decisions
    166 3 Penang Clerks To Act On K.L. Decisions From Our Own Correspondent PKNANG, Tues. THE Penang Clerical Union will be acting on the decisions reached over the weekend by the Pan-Malayan Clerical Union Conference and as the first step the Union will be communicating with local employers suggesting the establishment of
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    28 3 An attempt by six Indians, armed with sticks, to rob it rubber works m Yeo Chu Kang Road was frustrated by the watchmen who beat off the intruders.
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    K.L. Municipality Committee
    98 3 K.L. Municipality Committee from Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Tues. THE nomination of two members to serve on the committee to consider the establish ment of a Municipality m Kuala Lumpur took place at a special meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Town Board this morning. The election was done by
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    SINGAPORE WEDDING
    54 3 SINGAPORE WEDDING Capt. and Mrs. MAM Ol M ARMSTRONG after their wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral oa Saturday. The bride was fornrrlv Miss Dorothy Worth •f Ilford. She is a sergeant m the A.T.S. while Capt. Armstrong is m the it E.M.E. and comes from Ketwick. The honeymoon is being
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    Malayans Return From Australia
    235 3 Malayans Return From Australia CEVENTY-TWO passengers, the nujority of whom are the wives and children of Malayans, are expected to arrive in Singapore from Frem&ntle by the Charon today. Mrs. LI. Ayton, Mr. nr>d Mrs. H. C. Ballard and child, Mrs. H.C. Blythe, Mrs. A.B. Bogle, Miss A R. Bosle,
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    People's Canteen
    73 3 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Mon. A public restaurant will open m Taiping some time this week. For a trial, 1,000 cheap meals will be served daily. The introduction of the public canteen m Taiping is welcomed by all working class people here. Taiping is also receiving about
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    Corporation Of Certified Secretaries
    115 3 F£ following letter has been received from the Secretary of the Corporation of Certified Secretaries, Secretaries Hall, 28 Fitwoy Sauare, London, W. 1.: "During the unfortunate years when Malaya was occupied by the Japanese, correspondence with members and registered students resident there was Interrupted and consequently
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    SHIPPING ARRIVALS
    123 3 IN view of the increasing importance of Singapore as a world shipping centre, it is natural that the public in general should want first hand information of the arrivals and departures of vessels. The Stnuts Times, therefore, is re-introducing this daily feature to its readers: Reynst, Dutch, 2,160
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    Y.M.C.A. FUND
    122 3 rpHE folio* liig Is a further list Of 1 doaors Jo the Y.M.C.A. fund:— Dr. Hu Chee Ing $200: "Ex-Inter-nee'. B.P. de Zilva. Dr. Lau Peci Htons. Mr. Ten Hock San. East Asiatic Co., $100 each: Babcock and' Wllcox, and Mardcn Co, $t0 each; Mr. T.J.A. Green. $25:
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    17,000 Tons Of 'Useless' Coal
    334 3 By a Special Correspondent rW lying m Singapore harbour are two British ships Sam Trent and Sam Vigna, with 17,000 toi»s "coal" from Hawaii, which are not combustible. These car. goes are part of reported deal, m which the British Government purchased from th e
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    Malayan Indians Form Congress
    517 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. AFTER the adoption of the draft proposals of the interim committee for a single Indian organisation in Malaya, subject to certain amendments, the Malayan Indian Congress was inaugurated at the end of the three-day session of the Indian Conference here. More than 600
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      147 3 ncthertends Indies Shipping Organisation (Established m the Neih. East Indies) sr* ML JLINE A 3-v.eekly service between SINGAPORE and DATA VIA (Tg.' Priok) with calls at Banka and Billiton ports will be established effective from August 11 th 194 G. when the s.s. "REIJNST" gives the initial sailing. I i>i
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    French Left-Wing
    190 4 ROUEN, Mon.— Continued support by the French Communist Party of the French policy towards Germany was ple.ged on Sunday by M. Maurice Tnorez, leader of the Party. At the same time, M. Thorez, vice-president of the French cabinet, attacked th e "western bloc" proposal put fonvard by General
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 1946 Jonah And The Whale
    906 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 1946 Jonah And The Whale The melancholy catalogue compiled by "Two Browned-Off Airmen" and published m this page today has pricked the conscience of Cecil Street. This calls for some observations which are specially addressed tc Service readers and which we hope they
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
    25 4 Mrs. Au Wai Tong and family wish to thank all friends, relatives and club members for their wreaths, letters of condolence, and night visits.
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    RUBBER IN THE SINGAPORE RIVER
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    Three Planters Meet In A Kedai
    862 4 [The Singaporean, who doesn't know much about what is going on up-country nowadays, is here given the opportunity of listening m on a typical conversation m a Malayan planting district. The curtain rises on three planters Smith and Brown (those names being as good
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      Singaporeana From A Service Diary
      366 4 r think it is high time thai the greatest war criminal of all the British service man was brought for trial m Singapore at any of the numerous courts now functioning m the city. Tabulated below is a list of charges which can be brought
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      It Cuts Both Ways
      208 4 AS one of the many Servir-o men whose misfortune :t :s to be billeted m civilian property. I would like to answer the almost daily moaners :n your newspaper. The majority of us are not m Singapore because we asked to be, nor did we ask
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      Only ln The "World's"
      144 4 j pi the villages of pre.;uafcly backward India nnd war-iorn I Burma, more friendliness and unj derstandine of nretc nt-day circumstances was. and is. being shown to Allied troops than .n Singapore. The bomftaUt] o: Bin cannot be compared with that ci Bangkok. Sa gen and
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      "Tempat Larangan"
      52 4 VO'.l Ui 4 nfc Malays m F n'-apore, will any learned Malay expound the Malay meaning o. tho term "Protectei Plac?.' as the translation app^arI ing m the Sunday Times of Juiy 1211 21 was "Tem^at Laranpan which, m my opinion, means >a English. "ProhibVcd Place." UP-COINTKY MALAY.
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      116 4 PV ALBUM MfIS^VIOLIN^SOLOS J^WJ VV'tll fiano Accompaniment BASIL, Althaus. Six Mmiatures, op. 62 $1.80 BEER, Leopold. J.. Album Leaves (3rd Position) 2.00 BOHM, Carl. Violin Album (Ist and 3rd position) In Three Books 2.80 LSURMESTF.R, Willy. Dances by old Masters, arranged for Violin and Fiano. In Two Bootes «P 2.80
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      225 4 MESSRS BIRCH CLARESOH Consulting Engineers and Agents tor Engincci'.nq Supplies have pleasure m announcing that tne.v arc now m a position to act as Consulting Engir.. crs. aid undertake the design supervision ar.d maintenance, of all types of Factory and other Plant They are m a position to quote for
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    Rubber Worth $ 16½ Million Exported
    400 5 Rubber Worth 16½ Million Exported $10,000,000 Increase In General Exports DUBHEU siiil formed the bulk of Singapore's export trade during June, which totalled in value over $30,000,000 against imports of over $38,500,000. Exports showed an increase of more than $10,000,000 over May figures, imports an increase of about $8,000,000. May's
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    Murder Charge
    45 5 Rahmat bin Arshat, a Javanese, had a charge of murder of Tamsir bin Sale, on Aug. 3, at Pulau Brani. explained to him m the Fourth Police Court on Monday Rahmat was remanded m custody and the case postponed a week for mention
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    Assizes Trial For Alleged Armed Robber
    171 5 Assizes Trial For Alleged Armed Robber I IM PUI TEE, was committed to u stand trial at the next Assizes at the conclusion of the preliminary inquiry held yesterday in the Third Police Court, on a charge of armed robbery involving Jewellery valued at $1,235, belonging to Shiak Mira Shahed
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    $1,000 Fine For Exporting Textiles
    96 5 $1,000 Fine For Exporting Textiles THARGED with exporting from v Singapore cloth without a permit two Chinese were fined $1,000 each m the Second District Court yesterday. Lee Choo Lin had 2,410 yards of printed clobh and 200 pieces of sarongs valued at $2,500 at sea off Hylam Kongsi when
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    46 5 A raid by C.I.D. officers In a house m Choon Quan Street on Saturday night resulted m the discovery of a .38 revolver loaded with four shells. Wrapped In paper nenrby were two more rounds. The revolver was found m an empty tank m the bathroom.
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    No Priority For Housing Ex-PoWs And Internees
    284 5 IN the matter of domestic and business accommodation, it is the constant endeavour of the Government "to pay special attention to those cases m which special reasons for priority exist," says the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, m reply to a
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    Army Camp In The Making
    52 5 Army hutments m the Ayer Rajah road area are rapidly nearing completion. This Straits Times picture shows the mechanical apparatus being employed at the site. When the camp is completed it will house a large number of troops and ought to help relieve the housing
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    Boy (16) On Charge Of Robbery
    119 5 Boy (16) On Charge Of Robbery PLAIMING that h.- was 16 years v old, Tan Ah Bi, who was less than three feet in height, appeared in the Second Police Court yesterday as the first accused in a case of armed robbery. The other two were Soo Choo Fong, aged
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    Jap Admits He Was Present At Operation
    206 5 "A RARE occasion" was how a Japanese officer, Lt. Watanabe, described an anatomical demonstration on a humr|a subject, at a War Crimes Court yesterday and said he went to see it out of curiosity. Lt. Watana.be, his camp commander, Major Yotori and the
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    Opium Smoker Bound Over
    82 5 Opium Smoker Bound Over A 55-YEAR-OLD Chinese, Chuah Pak, who was found in possession of about five oui.ces of chandu on board a tongkang in the inner roads on Aug. 2, was ordered by Mr. Paul Storr, the District Judge, to be. bound over for six months in a sum
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    U.-S. Air Liners For Singapore Soon
    321 5 U/HEN Pan-American Airways T extends its trans-Pacific service to Singapore from Manila, Singapore's round-the-world air link will have been completed. This is now a matter of 30 to 60 days Pan-American Airways first established ite 8,000-mile Clipper service between the United States and Singapore
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    Report On Oilfields In Palent bang
    601 5 Report On Oilfields In Pa lent ba ng From Our Own Correspondent BATAVIA, Sun. THE condition of the oilfields m the Palembung dis- triet of Sumatra is sti'l deplorable, what with the ravages of war and the years of disuse and neglect. Today the political situation renders it impractical and
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    World's Richest Man Wears Untidy Dress
    575 6 World's Richest Man Wears Untidy Dress Nizam Has Appearance Of A Clerk By WALTER MASON, Associated Pres s HYDERABAD (Deccan), Tuesday— The Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, known as the richest man in the world, wears shabby clothe?, rides from palace to palace in an old car and watches his
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    WRESTLING POOL RESULTS ON 3.8.46.
    57 6 Again a hu<je number of entries for the wrestling pool were received foi Saturday 3-8-46. All contestants failed to score the All Correct Result. Only two who got the Nearest Correct Entry will receive $100 each. Sgt. Coffin of 93 I.G.H. Singapore. Mr. V. Ponniah
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    Formosa Now Seething With Discontent
    188 6 Formosa Now Seething With Discontent NANKING, Tuesday—Liberation from the Japanese has brought only disappointment and disillusionment to Formo sans. After 50 years of Japanese rule, the islanders claim that the present Chinese administration is more oppresB»ve, more ccrrupt and more inefficient. When the first o.Tlciu.s of the c Government a*.
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    U.S. ADVISER TO MINISTRY
    76 6 SHANGHAI. Tues.— Mr Richard G Darnell, American instrument and laboratory equipment specialist, has arrived in China under the State Department's cultural exchange progran.me. Mr Darnell told newspapermen that he has come to China at the request of the Chinese Government and will probably stay four to
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    Love And Exams Don't Mix
    76 6 Mrs. J. D. Stocks, principal of West field College, London, told 500 girls at Malvern College (Worcestershire) not to have love affairs if they wanted to pass examinations. She saia: "Don't have a disappointing love affair just before you sit for examinations. "You would do
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    Hankow Is Crippled
    144 6 Hankow Is Crippled HANKOW, Monday.— Although almost a year has elapsed since Japan's surrender, the big YangtS2 port of Hankow, the "Pittsburgh of China, is still a cripplied. rubble-strewn, ghost town. Rebuilding is proceeding at a snail's pace, with attention concentrated on utilities and industrial plants. The Hankow power plant
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    Bumper Rice Crop Predicted
    82 6 Bumper Rice Crop Predicted BATAVTA, Tues.— A bumper rice crop, enabling Indonesia to fulfil her offer of hatf a million ton? to India, has been predicted by the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture m a statement to the Press. The ministry added u,at the amount remaining, alter the pledge to India
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    MACAO CONSUL GOING HOME
    142 6 MACAO, 1 u.s— The Briti^a Consul here, Mr. John Pownall Reeves, "the man who Kept the flag flying is on his way home to England after four years of duty m this wartime isolated Pcrtugues; colony, 40 miles from Hong Kong. Gene-ally considered a 'res* centre,"
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    CNRRA TO SPEED UP WORK
    176 6 CNRRA TO SPEED UP WORK SHANGHAI (By Air Mail).— *J The relief and rehabilitation programme of CNRRA the Chinese counterpart of UNRRA is to be stepped up considerably through financial advances from the Govern-ment-controlled Central Bank of China. Advances are not to ex^e.*! CN580.000 ,000,000 (approximately £10,000,000) during 1946 and
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    CONTRIBUTION TO FOOD POOL
    101 6 CONTRIBUTION TO FOOD POOL SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Australia hopes to contribute some 60,000.000 bushels of wheat and 20,000, tons of polished and brown rice to the common world food pool this year. The 1945-46 crop produced 144,200,000 bushels. Home consumption requirements are about 84.000,000 bushe-ls, leaving about 60.000.000 bushels for export.
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    Embittered Lover Wants To Be Alone
    156 6 AN eccentric hermit living m a lonely farmhouse o n a Yorkshire moor threatened to shoot a reporter who tried to interview him. The hermit loaded a shotgun and aimed it at the reporter. He is George Baxter 53 who describes himself *as Lieutenan*General
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    Library For Poor
    59 6 SHANGHAI, (By Air Mail).— The poor children of Shanghai will have free libraries under a scheme sponsored by Madame Sun Yat-s^n, who is Chairman of the China Welfare Fane". Two buildings have been selected to house the books, and pupils of the city's middle and high school
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    Canton Press Now Friendly
    182 6 CANTON, Monday.— Hong Kong j has again come into prominence in Canton newspapers. Following a recent visit to th? British colony by a party of Chinese newspapermen, the Press as a whole has discarded Its former critical and seemingly inspired anti-Hong Kong attitude, particularly towards the
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      127 6 CHUNGKING Tanjong Pagar Phone 3337 4 shows daily: 1. 3.15. 6 30. 900 "SOS COAST GUARD" Ist Instalment) with Ralph Byrd Bell Lugosi Roars with thrills »n1 teems with chills! Daily: 3 p.m. 7 p.m. 9.15 p.m. Opening To-Day The Charge Of The Britlih Ittl Arr.iy m Desert Warfare! "DESERT
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      453 6 RADIO PROGRAMMES RADIO MALAYA ENGLISH 1 p.n to 2 pm (news Southern Serenade, 8.00 am. The TLt.r«, rt at 13 P- 31 ar -d 3.1c p.m to 11 pjn. Human Mind, 8.30 ajn. News Kt.ii .NtiuoKK from noon ro except on Sundays when the afternoon 7.30 p.m. Merry go round,
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    GERMANY A DRAG ON BRITAIN
    364 7 GERMANY A DRAG ON BRITAIN Costs Taxpayer £80 Million Yearly I ONDON, (By Air Mail)— Fourteen months after 11 the end of the war against Germany, the British taxpayer is facing a bill of £80,554,310 a year for the upkeep of his late adversary. This state of affairs is probably
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    Vanguard Can Beat Atom Planes
    186 7 Vanguard Can Beat Atom Planes I ONLON (By Air Mail.)— Vanu guard, Britain's new battleship, arrived at Devonport after a series of dummy attack by highaltitude heavy bomber and masthigh torpedo aircraft attacks which were designed to test her secret radar-gunnery, according to W. A. Crumley in the Daily Express.
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    Beauty Prize In Stride
    94 7 A girl, G feet 2 inches tall, has been selected as Miss Toronto (Canada) 1946 She is Irene Ayers, 21, a shapely brunette. Judges m the competition said they selected Irene Ayers because she was "the type of girl you would most like to think about.'
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    SCIENTISTS PLAN ATOM PLANE
    166 7 LONDON, (By Air Mail) U.S. scientists are trying to invent an atom-powered plane, capable of flying nonstop around the world. Stewart Alsop, of the HeraldTribune, says experiments have proved that atomic energy can be used as a source of power for aircraft. "Experiments are under control
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    Censor Does Not Agree With Dickens
    209 7 Mr. Joseph Breen, chief of Hollywoods purity code, does not quite see eye to eye with Charles Dickens. It is all over that Ola English expression "dammit," or as Charles Dickens preferred it— "demmit."' Mr. Breen, in England to advise British producers how to
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    AMERICANS WANT BRITISH CARS
    84 7 Wealthy Americans are anxious to pay over £4,000 for British luxury cars— partly through snobbery and partly becaus ft they are unable to purchase their own expensive models. There Is a waiting list for the first new Rolls Royccs and lienileys, the cheapest of which Is
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    Serviceman To Die In France
    53 7 George Dace, aged 60, a British Serviceman m the first world war, was sentenced to death at Dijon for betraying resistance workers lo the Gestapo. He lived m the atea many years and, according to evidence. gav c his neighbours the impression that he was
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    CAVALCADE OF BRITISH CARS
    100 7 LONDON, (By Air Mail).—Celebrating the manufacture of six million motor cars, the British motor trade presented a jubilee cavalcade of cars at Regents Park, before the King and Queen and a huge crowd. It was the 1946 Motor Show m miniature, but the majority of the
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    A TYPICAL SCENE IN GERMANY
    25 7 This aged German traveller has attached himself to a young family and they have given him some soup and bread.
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    Italian Cars Sweep Board In Grand Prix
    340 7 PENEVA (By Air Mail) U Britain's post-war hopes of playing a serious part m major international Grand Prix motor racing received a blow when Italian Alfa Romeo and Maserati cars, after thrilling 60 m.p.h. duels "round the houses," ran away with' the first
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    HAY HARVEST GOOD
    108 7 Most or Britain's hay harvest Is gathered and is proving much Detter m quality than the most optimistic farmers expected. South of the Trent farmers have been able to take advantage of the spell of fine weather to cut and make the orop. and thore is little
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      18 7 Culbertson Our regular bridge feature, "According to Culbertson," will appear as soon as we receive a new series.
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      821 7 SALE BY TENDER 1. The Custodian of Property, Singapore, Invites tenders for the purchase of the following particulars of which are as follows: Lot I—2 Electric motors 15 HP., AC. lying at Custodian of Property Uodown, No. 410, Havelock Koad. Lot 2 Photographic equipment at Custodian of Property Godown, No.
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      372 7 CROSSWORD No 18 ACROSS IH lH Ma l8 L U— Li— 5. "Brents the keen I I H Ell Hi fe air, and as he goes" l^9 (Goldsmith) (6), 8. Of $H P^ Ijj iH 11 LJ L_ an order of mammals containing whales (8). L J H 1 MS
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      C.A. MEET NORTHAMPTONS TO-DAY
      676 8 80 War Orphans To Benefit From Game A GAME of soccer that has been looked forward to with more than common interest will be played at Jalan Besar Stadium this afternoon when the Chinese Athletes meet the Northamptonshire Regiment. When these teams met last month the
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      V.M.C.A. SOCCER
      52 8 THE following will represent the 1 Civil Y.M.C.A. at soccer against the Army Y.M.C.A. at Thomson Road at 5.15 p.m. to-day: K. Muthucumaru; Koh Hor Khoon (Capt.), Ong Swee HockV. R. Sabapathy. Khoo S06 Thuan, Lim Chwee Chua; Ow Peck Whye, Tan Wee Eng, K. Leembruggen, Vijiaratnam. Gan
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      G. Britain's Easy Win Over France
      393 8  - G. Britain's Easy Win Over France VERNON MORGAN By White City Stadium, LONDON. Mon. TREAT BRITAIN scored a sur- prisingly easy victory over France in a track and field contest before 50,000 sh^rtclad spectators in broiling sunshine here this afternoon winning by ten events to five and 72 points to
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      Y.M.C.A. TABLE TENNIS TIES
      153 8 THE following tics -n the Y.M.CJV. table tennis championship will be played at the tennis pavilion to-day, starting at 5.15 p.m. Open Singles Championship Fung Guan Swee v Lim Theye Hoes; Toh Shu.ng Chee v Soh Teow Lim; Lav Kieng Hiong v Soh Teow Keng; J.
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      HURRICANE B. P.
      39 8 MEETING ct the members of the Hurricane Badminton Party will b- held at No llfl Rveritt Road (off X on Seng Road) Singapore, at 6.30 pin. to-morrow with a view to reviving Its sports acti' it ><■•.
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      Conda Forces Revel To Retire In Round Six
      214 8 Army, winning three of the four matches, had an easy victory over Navy m Monday's wrestling at the Great World, all the bouts were furiously contested and provided a series of thrills. Unbeaten Jeff Conda gained another fine victory, this time over
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      VICTORIA INST. BOYS WIN BY 64 RUNS
      222 8 VICTORIA INST. BOYS WIN BY 64 RUNS (Prom Our Own Corespondent, j KUALA LUMUPK, Mon. T^IE Victoria Institution cricket team added to their string of victories )v beating the Sclangor Coast Club by 64 runs. T. Arulgnan&n made 68, th best batting performance o± the match. SELANGOR COAST CLUB Thomas
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      GLAMORGAN LEAD THE INDIANS
      282 8 GLAMORGAN LEAD THE INDIANS SWANSEA, Mon. DISMISSING the IncLans for 203 runs, Glamorgan have gained a lead of 35 runs on the first innings over their opponents. In their second innings Glamorgan made a confident start and were 165 for three wickets when stumps were drawn to-day, thus being exactly
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      Lancashire On Top Against Yorks
      369 8 LONDON, Monday. IN the season's most important County cricket fixture between the leaders, Lancashire gained a big lead of 216 over Yorkshire on the first innings to-day. In their second innings Yorkshire, who at present head the tables by eight points and a match over
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