The Straits Times, 28 August 1946

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    20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY EIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1946. PRICE ltt CENTS.
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    INTERNEES DESCRIBE SIME ROAD
    613 1 Story Of Men Thrashed In Drunken Bout TRIM tales of life in the Japanese civilian intern- ment camps in Singapore first at Changi Gaol, then at Sime Road were unfolded in the special War Crimes court in the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday at the first day
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    Detention Of U.S. Men Confirmed
    210 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. THE War Department has confirmed that three American non-commissioned officers have been detained in Yugoslavia since February, apparently as a result of "mistaken identity" in connection with the shooting of a Russian soldier. The Department disclosed this fact after Senator Knowland. Republican, of
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    DR. EVATT IN SINGAPORE
    138 1 f\R. Herbert Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs, arrived In Singapore yesterday affiarnoon on h£ way back to Australia from the Paris Peace Conference. The Governor-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, flew specially from Pcnang last evening to meet Dr. Evatt and to talk on what are
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    Okawa Sent To An Asylum
    72 1 TOKIO, Tues. Shumei Okawa, co-defendant with Tojo and other alleged plot, ters in the War Crimes Trial, has been admitted v a local insane asylum, ii was disclosed today. Okawa was it moved from court during the early stages 0/ the trial after he had
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    MOLOTOV ACCUSES AUSTRALIA
    127 1 MOLOTOV ACCUSES AUSTRALIA PARIS, Tuesday. AN Australian demand that Russia justify her claims for more than £250,000,000 reparations from five former enemy countries yesterday brought an accusation at the Peace Conference from the Soviet Foreign Commissar, Mr. Molotov, that the Australian delegation was trying to undermine the work of the
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    High Commissioner For India
    261 1 High Commissioner For India LONDON, Tuesday. AN announcement from No. 10 Downing Street last night says: "Preliminary arrangements for establishing the office of a United Kingdom High Commissioner in India are now well in hand, and a proportion of the staff will arrive in India in September under the deputy
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    THE SIME ROAD ACCUSES
    76 1 These live men began their trial in the special War Crimes court in the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday on charges t~ connection with the ill-treatment of British, Australian. Dutch Canadian and American civilian internees in Singapore. From right to left they are Capt. Sakae Susuki, one.tim«
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    Arabs Want Mufti At Conference
    241 1 LONDON, Tuesday. DOTH Jews and Arabs are presenting obstacles to the calling of a conference on Palestine, which the British Government proposes to hold with them in London on. S*pt. 9. Britain has formally invited the Jewish Agency some cf whose leaders are under detention
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    Killearn Sends Telegram To Sjahrir
    258 1 Killearn Sends Telegram To Sjahrir BATAVIA, Tuesday. I ORD Killearn, Special ComL missioner for South-East Asia, telegraphed Sutan Sjahrir, the Indonesian "Premier," at Jogjakarta tonight, expressing his regret that h^ had not met Sjahrir on this visit, because it was "urgently desirable to find a just solution for the present
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    INDIANS WIN BY ONE WICKET
    91 1 SOUTHEND, Tues.— lndia beat Essex by one wicket here today. India's second-innings scores were as follows: Mushtaq All b Bailey 7; Merchant lbw b R. Smith 181; Modi c Pearce b Taylor 65; Amarnath b P. Smith 6; Mankad b P. Smith 52; Mohamed st.
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    Large British Supplies
    111 1 LONDON, Tues.— lt is understood that British officials have informed the Combined Rubber Committee that sufficient natural rubber Is available from British sources to permit supplementary allocations for the third and fourth (quarters of 1946 to all countries wiling to apply. Since some fourth -quarter allocations have
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    "Transfer Centre"
    54 1 CALCUTTA, Tues.— The Bengal Government announced toaay that it was consider ng a pian to aid in the transfer of populations within Calcutta. A Government spokesman said a centre might be established where Muslims living in a Hindu community could exchange homes with Hindus living in Muslim communities
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    FREE RUBBER MARKET FROM JANUARY 1?
    337 1 FREE RUBBER MARKET FROM JANUARY 1? From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. DEPRESENTATIVES of rubber growers, with traders and manufacturers, are meeting Board of Trade officials this week to plan the re-opening of Mincing Lane market. This is interpreted as a sign of the British Government's desire to quit the
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    FRANCO-SIAMESE TALKS BREAKDOWN
    369 2 Paris Says No More Negotiations PARIS, Monday. FRANCE has decided to break off the negotiations which had been started with a view to bringing her dispute with Siam before The Hague Court of Justice, it is officially announced here. The American authorities, who have acted as intermediaries
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    27 2 High Mass being: sung in the ruins of St. George's Cathedral, South* ark, by 82-yeax-old Archbishop Amigo, Bishop of South, wark. The Cathedral was blitzed in 1940.
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    NO WORLD BANK DEFAULTERS
    128 2 -.VASHINGTON, Tues.— Officials of the World Bank said yesterday that advices md cated that all member nations had made their mi. .1 payments into its capital fund, or had taken authorised steps to defer making them. "None has gvven notice of noncompliance," it was stated at
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    U.S. Accepts Jurisdiction Of World Court
    288 2 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THE United States, for the 1 first time in history, has formally accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice. The acceptance was contained in a letter from President Truman to Dr. Trygve Lie. Secretary-General of the United Nations. A
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    100,000 MURDER CHARGES
    66 2 LON. H, Tues. Fifty guards c the Oranienburg concentration camp, near Berlin, will be charged with the murder oi more than 100,000 inmates belore the War Crimes '"ourt opening in Berlin this week, according to the H^: "'urg rauio. As most of the victims were Russian, there
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    Threat To Stop Pu-Yi Cross-Examination
    229 2 TOKIO, Tuesday. lIENRY Pu-yi had admitted he was a puppet and larther cross-examination was useless, the War Crimes Tribunal President, Sir William Webb, warned the defence 10day as he threatened to halt further questioning. "Witness has taken a simple stand— that he was not a
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    Ban On Military Bodies
    79 2 Ban On Military Bodies Tiics.— The British news service in Germany last r.ight reported the publication of a Allied law formally di°so'.ving and forbid- rt -ival of ail military organisations, as well as all associations serving to maintain military tradition in Germany. "Anyone contravening or attempt to contravene this 'aw
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    AMERICA EXPECTS FOOD SURPLUS
    324 2 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. FAMINE is expected to stalk the world during the coming year, but food producers and controllers in the United States are beginning to worry about possible surpluses, writes Morris J. Harris. Associated Press Correspondent. The United States Department of Agriculture is looking lor ways
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    Moscow Radio Attack On Britain
    171 2 LONDON, Monday. A FULL-SCALE attack on British policy in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, from Greece to Persia, was broadcast by Moscow radio, which charged that the British were striving for "undivided domination." In a broadcast a woman commentator, A. Byelskaya. said events "are
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    FLOOD VICTIMS RELIEF
    90 2 KHARTOUM. Tues.— The Sudan Government has opened a special credit for the relief of Nile flood victims. The water level at art oja yesterday measured 17 metres the highest ever recorded. In several parts of the city the Khartoum River Is overflowing the banks. Moghren village, lying
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    Egypt Rumour Is Denied
    61 2 CAIRO, Mon.— Ismail Sidky Pasha, Egyptian Prime MinU'^r, today denied reports circulating in Alexandria that the British Government would shortly pie. sent the Egyptian Government with a demand for the continuation of the 1936 treaty in view of the apparent failure of the present negotiations. "I
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      489 2 GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION Tenders will be received at the Director of Public Works Office, up to noon of the 31st August, 1846 for the following works: Disposal oi Dredging* from (a) Dredger 'Tembakul" Seaplane Channel and Telok Ayer Basin (b) Dredger "Todak" Seaplane Channel and Rochore River. (c) Dieager "Grab No.
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      673 2 BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD (SINGAPORE) TENDER NOTICE. 1. Tenders are Invited for the purchase of the following: 1. Ammunition Containers: a) Brass, approx. 11C.030 lbs. b) Aluminium, approx. 58.000 lbs. located at the Royal Armament Depot, H.M. Dockyard. t. Brass Scrap, approx. 103 tons located at Singapore Ammunition Depot, Kranjl.
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    Sime Road Camp Trial Opens
    1371 3 Mr. S. Harper-Ball Tells Of Rice Rations Sold In The Black Market CTOKIES of the ill-treatment of civilians in the Japanese internment camp in Singapore were unfolded in the Special War Crimes court in the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday. On trial were five Japanese Capt.
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    $2,000 Stolen By Armed Men
    127 3 $2,000 Stolen By Armed Men ENTERING a house in Boat Quay in broad daylight m Monday, four Chinese armed wlt-i pistols got away with $860 la cash and jewellery worth $1,200. The victims were Chinese. This was one of three robberies fan Singapore on Monday. In the other robberies three
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    Confucius Day
    26 3 In commemoration of the birthday of Confucius, Chinese in Singapore observed yesterday as a holiday and flew their national fla* over offices and homes.
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    Children Had To Work
    553 3 Mr. John Weekly, general manager. Krar.^t Pulal Tin Mines, Perak. who was on.; of the Block commandants of che S me Road camp said that when they shifted there it bsca.-ne more of a labou- camp. It came to a point when ev>n children of ten
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    HOW DIABETICS DIED IN CAMP
    393 3 HOW repeated pleas for insulin for three chronic diabetics who were in danger of death fell on deaf Japanese ears in Changi Gaol where Malayan civilians were interned during the Japanese occupation, was related in the special War Crimes Court in Singapore yesterday when the
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    R.A.F. Help In Ship Rescue
    131 3 R. A. F. Help In Ship Rescue SIX RAF. aircraft casiied out an intensive search over many miles of ocean for lifeboats filled with survivnrs from the merchant ship the Mount Douglas Paris, w.ica sank off the Andaman Islands last week. Ail the boats were etventu. ally located and the
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    CATHEDRAL WEDDING
    47 3 The wedding: took place on Monday evening at St. *n. drew's Cathedral, Singapore, of Mr. Dennis Franklin Col. lins. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Collins of New Delhi, and Miss Violet Partridge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. W. Partridge, of Malaya.
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    Back Pay For L.D.C.
    34 3 Approval has now been received to make advances aga'nst baci: pay to members of the Local Defence Corp-. Singapore. Registration will commence on Friday, Au?. 30, at SS.VT. Headquarters, Singapore.
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    Japanese Published British Book
    386 3 WHEN the British reoccupied Singapore in September last f year, they found 280 copies of Mr. C. F. S/mington'3 "Foresters' Manual of Dipterocarps" in the Rafflss Museum (in Jap times, it was the Syonan Habukutukan). This book was issued under the Imprint of Raffles Museum at
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    B.M.A. NUMBERS
    47 3 The public are warned that it bs an offence to drive a civilian car without any registration number or with an out of date registration number such as BMi. or W.D. numbers, states an offlc'al communique. All such numbers should be painted out at once.
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    Rural Board Meeting
    26 3 The monthly meeting of the Rural Board will be hsld on Wednesday. Sept. 11. in the Lend Oi'nce, Singapore, at 10 a.m. I
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    Looter Killed, Six Captured In Depot Raid
    132 3 QIX Chinese were sentenced to six months' Imprisonment each by the Fifth Magistrate, Mr. Eu Cheow Chye. yesterday, on charges of stealing 98 bales of tentage from a bulk reserve depot at Kranjl. The Chinese, Koh Yew. Khaw San, Llm Kheng Chwee, Lew
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    Bishop Of Ceylon Here Today
    79 3 Bishop Of Ceylon Here Today THE Bishop of Ceylon the Rt. Rev. Cecil Douglas Horsier, will arrive in Singapore today and will conduct a service at St. Andrews Cathedral this evenin? at which 50 persons will be con. firmed. On Friday he will leave for Batavla to take another Con.
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    OPIUM CARRIER SENT TO GAOL
    89 3 A 35-year-old Chinese, Yevr Ngal Nee, was sentenced to ntat) months' rigorous imprison: ::ent by Mr. Paul Storr in the First; F> Court yesterday lot poss^sen "f three pounds of opium. 1 *ie opium was found In the false be'torn of a rotan bas?:et As
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      80 3 Repairs while you wait! fcnmetliate repairs and deliveries for all makes, models fountain PENS AND TENCH S KHOO CHYE HUAI 132, Cross Street. (Corner of Club Street). STRAITS TIMES SUNDAY TIMES eta s s 1 l e d SMALL pulled 20,804 REPLIES to Box number* in the months January July.
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      156 3 ATTENTION ESTATE MANAGERS AND OTHERS Used clothln? suitable for Estate. Mining, and Timber workers and others, only limited quantities available. Price not jver two dollars per piece. Apply to: Messrs. Yon-? Cheon<» Co. 251 Orchard Ror.d Messrs. Cheah Kirn Bee Co.. 11A. Cecil Street. TANGLIN CLUB, The Club will be
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  • Obituary
    DEATHS
    149 4 TAN GUAN CHUA passed away peacefully at the age of 56 years at his residence No. 521, East Coast Road. Singapore at 10.30 a.m. on Friday 23rd August 1946. He left behind him his widow, one son C.C. TAN. one daughter-in-law, two grandchildren, two brothers. TAN CHOON CHUA and
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed, Aug. 28. 1946. Surplus Rubber Already
    908 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed, Aug. 28. 1946. Surplus Rubber Already If anyone had said, during the war, that within twelve months of the end of it Malaya v/ould be wondering how and where to sell her rubber, he would have been thought to be crazy. The assumption then was
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    Molotov Condemns Australian Plan
    137 4 PARIS, Mon. Mr. Molotov, Scviet Foreign Minister, today described the Australian amendment to the reparations clauses in the draft peace treaties as likely to undermine peace in Europe, and to disrupt relations between the Soviet Union and Rumania. The Australian delegate, Mr. J A Beasley. had
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    Jews Not Wanted
    36 4 The general council of the Pan. Cyprian Labour Federation has protested to the Governor of Ovnnis. Sir Charks Woollev. against a "permanent or temporary settlement of Jews in Cyprus'' says Reuter from Cyprus.
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    A Straits Chinese ruminates on Capt. Gammans
    780 4  - A Straits Chinese ruminates on Capt. Gammans C. Q. LEE By IN a recent issue of the Straits Times there was a tribute to Capt. L. D. Gammans by an admirer in the correspondence columns. It expressed the need in Parliament for more men like the worthy captain, "who are
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    4 4 JODOH YANG TAX BERUNTONG
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    Beware!
    117 4 Beware Beware the smiling J; paness \7ho bows his head and strokes his knees; He'll plot and murder, twist anp cheat To )luck advantage from defeat. And kill himself to save nis lace. The oriental master race. 1 wonder are we stern enough To make our terms extremely tough. We
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  • Man In The Street
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      "Sister Settlement" No Longer
      186 4 rAT'S all this grouse about withholding pigs in Johore from Singapore? Your cartoon "The Big Bad Wolf" (Aug. 17) should in reality apply to Singapore instead of the Malayan Union. It is hlg-h time that Singapore realised the great injustice that is being done in the
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      35-Cent Rush
      164 4 SINCE the rice reduction, the number of people who have their lunch in the People's Restaurant at Telok Ayer has increased immensely. The queue is so long that office workers miss their meal in many cases, having only an hour few tiffin. To make matters worse, the loitering
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    • Letter
      Not Panicking
      177 4 THOSE of us who lived 1 through the gruelling days of the Jap occupation got a pretty good taste of starvation and we are not panicking about the crisis now. Though our editor is none too optimistic in his editorials on the rice situation, I firmly believe that
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    • Letter
      Unconvinced
      52 4 reading such a lot for and aealnst Lord Killearn and the rice situation (including your editorial of Aug. 26), I just feel like tclline Lord Killearn: "Sir. you are unfit for the very responsible duties entrusted to you. Please, go back to London and save us from more hardships."
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      Insecure Pants
      90 4 IN a certain Base Ordnance De- pot on Singapore Island, the security officers have adopted a very strat.ge method of searching the employees after work. They are telling the employees to take off their pants. Are we to suffer just because someone is committing theft? They have no
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      "Hospital Blues"
      172 4 MAY I express my view on the need to give lifts to Service hospital patients who only have a few hours in which to visit Singapore during afternoons. On Grange Road on Saturday I hailed European. Asiatic, lOR and BOR driVers, none of whom would stop. Whether or
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      Serdang Planters
      57 4 WITH referer-e to the letter headed "Naw Asiatic Planters" by the correspondent who signed himself "Thirty Years A Manager." I. on behalf of all old students of the Malayan Scn<x>l of Agriculture. Serdang, wlsn to express our appreciation of the tribute paid to us in his letter. VAN
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      779 4 To Mr. ft Mrs. Boey Kok Bin, the rift of a baby daughter, on Monday, 2Cih August, 1946, at 11.45 a.m. at the Kuala Lumpur Maternity Hospital, mother and child doing well. TA:J—SEOW The engagement of Vj. TAN BAH CHKE, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Jin Choon of
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      64 4 MUSIC from OPERAS. Selections:. Bitter Sweet 1.80 Desert Song 1.80 Great Waltz 1.80 New Moon 1.80 Rose Marie 1.80 Student Prince 1.80 White Horse Inn 1.80 Complete Piano Scores: Tlu Sorcerer (Gilbert Sullivan) 4.00 Samson St Dal! La (Saint-Saens) 4.00 Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) 4.00 Complete Vocal Scores: The Scorcerer
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      7 4 OTHER LETTERS—PAGE SIX Malacca Cinema* School Broadcast*.
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      84 4 Catherine Paris Dresses, Perfume and Accessories Will open in the near future TERMITE EXTERMINATION AND PROPERTY MAINTENANCE On re-examination of properties serviced bj us, pre-war, it was found that considerably less deterioration and re-infestation by White Ants had occurred than on properties not subjected to our supervision. All our Pre-War
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    2½-Hour Meeting Follows S.T.C. Strike
    528 5 2½-Hour Meeting Follows S.T.C. Strike Company To Establish Canteen Immediately THOUSANDS of Singapore office workers had to walk or cycle home yesterday as a result of Singapore's first "rice" strike. Eight hundred Singapore Traction Company employees walked out yesterday morning after demanding, among other things, that the company should supply
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    Food Speed Up Hoped From Australia
    147 5 Food Speed Up Hoped From Australia MR. CLAUDE MASSEY, Austra. m lian Government Commissioner in Singapore, stated on arrival In Sydney that he hoped to speed up shipments of food, particularly rice and flour to South East Asia, according to the Melbourne Age of Aug. 17. He will confer with
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    THEFT OF LORRY ALLEGED
    62 5 In the Fourth Police Court yesterday, two Indians, Abdul Jalil bin Hamid, and Govinda Samy were charged with theft of a three. ton Ford truck be. longing to the Air Ministry. The truck which has been missing since March 4, is still untraced. Both the accused
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    CENTENARY OF "ROYAL"
    66 5 The Royal Insurance Company, Ltd.. celebrates its centenary in Malaya this year. It was in 1940 that the company granted a power of attorney to Boustead Schwabe and Co.. of Singapore. Today, the "Royal" are represented by successors of that firm, Boustead and Co.. Ltd. throughout Malaya.
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    Sugar Back-Log To Be Remedied
    106 5 CUGAR supplies have now been unloaded in the Malayan Union and the full amount of snrar which is due to ration card holders will be issued to them, states a com. munique from the Malayan Union Government Owing: to the fart that sapplies were brought
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    Reconversion Of P.& O. Ships
    155 5 TO be released from Government service this month for reconversion from troopships to commercial use, are two P. and O. super liners which have seen a gooc? deal of active service either as armed merchant cruisers or troopers. The vessels, are the 23,000-ton Strathaird and
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    FIRE IN GOVERNMENT HOUSE DOMAIN
    37 5 A lallang fire broke out in the grounds of Government House yesterday at about 11.30 a.m. The Singapore Fire Brigade were summoned and put the fire out I in a short time.
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    BIG SEIZURE OF RICE
    172 5 1 BOLD attempt oy Chinert to n smuggle rice into Singapore was irustrated by the vigilance of revenue officers wno disevcred a total of approximately 27 piculs of rice as it was about to be loaded into a lorry from the train at the Railway Goods
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    THE MALAYAN'S PRAYER
    11 5 THE MALAYAN'S PRA YER "Give us this day our daily tapioca
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    Counterfeit Trade Mark: $200 Fine
    120 5 Counterfeit Trade Mark: $200 Fine TOR counterfeiting the trade mark of an American cigarette lighter by imprinting it on lighters of his own manufacture, a Chinese. Chow Wong Hoi, appeared on a summons charge in the Third Police Court yesterday. Chow pleaded guilty and was fined $200 or in default
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    Alleged Attempt To Bribe Inspector
    72 5 Alleged Attempt To Bribe Inspector i INSPECTOR Rajare'.nam, In- vestigating officer at the Paya Lebar Police Station, was the principal witness at the trial yesterday of a Chinese. Ho Ah Fook, on a charge of offering a bribe to the inspector. The inspector told Mr KM. Byrne, the magistrate, that
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    20 5 The Singapore Swimming club will be open for members only on Thursday, Hari Raya Puasa, which is a public holiday.
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    Mountbatten Road A Civil Responsibility
    258 5 THE opening of Mountbatten Road to the public is now entirely the responsibility of the civil authorities since the Royal Air Force has fulfilled its agreed share in the job of restoring the road to a state of serviceability a statement from H.Q., ACSEA issued
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    Detective Tells Court How He Survived Jap Firing Squad
    504 5 yET another instance of cold-blooded Japanese brutality 1 was given in the second Singapore Assizes yesterday by a survivor of a party of detectives who were lined up on the wharves at Tanjong Pagar and machined-gunncd shortly after the occupation. The
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    APPLICATION TO ACQUIT PRIVATE
    719 5 262 Paratroopers On Trial By Our Special Correspondent KLUANG, Tuesday. PROCEEDINGS in the court martial of 262 men of the i 13th Paratroop battalion took a new turn today when the defending officer, Capt. J. F. Reilly, submitted at the close of the case for the
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      76 5 SYDNEY SINGAPORE LONDON EMPIRE SERVICES Showing the Flag —on British Wings i The "Kangaroo" Service operated Dy Q.E.A. and 8.0.A.C. gives Singapore air connections ot unparalleled speed and comfort with Sydney and London and travel time tc both Capitals can now be measured in terms of hours 38 hoars to
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    Sikh And Tamil Girl: Court Story
    549 6 Komance JJ evelops At ter Bicycle Incident From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Mon. A 22-year old English-speaking Sikh, Rattan Singh, was tried in the Taiping District Court on a charge of kidnapping a Tamil schoolgirl, Gcmburajah, from the lawful guardianship of her father, Swamy,
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    Sir Edward Visiting Ipoh
    93 6 (From Our Own Correspondent) IPOH. Tues. UTHEN Sir Edward and Lady Gent pay their official visit to Ipoli on Saturday the Governor w 11, in addition to his official rounds, meet leading members of the public at the Resident CommLss oner's garden party. At night Sir
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    Indian And Malay: Estate Charge
    71 6 (From Our Own Correspondent* MALACCA, Tues. AN Indian and a Malay were pro. duced in the magistrate's court, Malacca, yesterday and had the charge explained to them of hay ng committed gang robbery with a knife in respect of rubber rallied at $2,600 belonging to
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    KELANTAN BREVITIES
    271 6 From Our Own Correspondent KOTA BHARU. Mon DISEASE, like cholera and small-pox, travel fast, and tha ftattlp to prevent their spread requires the combined all-out efforts of the MedicaJ and Health authorities, who have the full support of the public to atnin their objectives. Kelantan Is fortunate to
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  • Straits Times Post-Bag
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      Noise, Bugs, In Malacca Cinemas
      267 6 WHENEVER a good picture is being shown in any cinema in Malacca the educated class always suffer the most, as a result of (1) 31ack-market tickets; (2) The noise made by the hooligans during the perform ance. Even the Capitol Theatre (supposed to be the
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      Kota Tinggi Smokes
      109 6 IN a small place like Kota Tinggi. almost every week cigarettes are brought by lorry, but the beauty of it -s that the very next morning, when small shopkeepers or offlc? clerks approach the apents for a few packets, they are met with, "Krani Jangan Marah. Rokok
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      Files-Off Engine Nos:
      110 6 EVERY person in possession of a car which has the engine number filed off is In posession of stolen property. All cars should be produced at the Vehicles Office for inspection of engine numbers. Those cars with engine numbers filed off should be confiscated and handed over
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      694 6 GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Tenders will be received at the Office of the Director of Public Works Singapore, ud to noon of the 31st August, 1946 for the following work: Supply and delivery of six sett of Senior Officers' Quarters furniture to the Raffies College. Singapore I.e. to supply by (say) 23rd
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    INTER-ASIAN RELATIONS CONFERENCE
    490 7 INTER-ASIAN RELATIONS CONFERENCE Pandit Nehru's Startling Declaration By DEWITT MACKENZIE, Associated Press MEW YORK, Tues.— The flaming headlines of the riots in Calcutta have tended to obscure a Bombay news dispatch which potentially is incomparably more important. This dispatch covered a statement of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the head of the
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    END IMPORT CONTROL
    88 7 BOMBAY. (By Air Mail)- The total abolition of the Indian Import Trade Control wiis uxfced by the All.lndia Impor'err Association at a meet'.n? He/i;. The Association, in a unani. mous resolution said: "Whatever justification mi#ht have existed during the war for any form of legitimate roiurol of
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    Tablets Meet Food Shortage
    87 7 BOMBAY, Tues.— At least two Indian areas are planning to distribute vitamin tablets in an effort to meet the threatened food I deficiency this year. A total 116,000,000 tablets are! scheduled for distribution in j Bombay, and the Government of I India has promised another 20,000.000
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    Trade Boycott Hits South Africa
    89 7 NEW DELHI, Tues.— The In. dian trade boycott of S >uth Africa as a reprisal for the cihetto Bill" has affected the union thus: 1. Soap rationing may have tc be introduced since lack of Indian groundnuts has in rcas. Ed the scarcity of fats
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    STATE AID TO INDIAN AVIATION
    98 7 NEW DELHI, Tuesday.—lmmediate plans for the development of civil aviation in India and of Indian overseas air services have been outlined by Sir Frederick Tymms, Director of Civil Aviation in India. The policy of the Indian Government is thct air transport should be operated by
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    Mothers-In-Law Belie Old Belief
    139 7 Mot hers-In-Law Belie Old Belief I>OMBAY, (By Air Mftfl)— Thousands of Indian postmen and telegraphists enjoy the rare blessing of having kuid and generous mothers-in-law, according to the report of Justice G.S. Rajadhyaksh, the Adjudicator who has just completed an enquiry into the demands by the postal employees for increased
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    Civil Aircraft Factory In Mysore
    132 7 Civil Aircraft Factory In Mysore NEW DELHI, Tuesday.— The Indian Standing Finance Committee, meeting here under the chairmanship of the Finance Member, Sir Eric Coates, has approved the following industrialisation plans for India, (1) The early establishment of an Eastern Technical Institution somewhere near Calcutta to provide facilities for instruction
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    Postmen May Strike Again
    112 7 Postmen May Strike Again CALCUTTA, Tuesday.— AllIndia Trade Union Congress President, Mr. Mrinal Kanti Bose, asserted that renewal of the post and telegraph strike is "inevitable" unless the Government of India resumes recognition of unions which participated in the general strike in Calcutta late in July. The Government withdrew recognition
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    Good Progress In Indian Labour Welfare
    287 7 CALCUTTA, Tuesday. Steady progress in labour welfare in India is evidenced in the activities of official and nonofficial organisations in recent weeks. The first step towards the formation of permanent townships for coal-miners is a housing scheme for the miners in Jharia and RaniganJ
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      107 7 THE STAGE CLUB—SINGAPORE. A meeting of all Technical SUIT of the Stage Club will be held in the Concert Room of the Central V.M.C.A. (S.C.C. building) on Thursday, August 29th. commencing at 8 p.m. All such members are requested to make every effort to attend. Prospective merrberj: willing to assist
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      406 7 Mansfield Co., Ltd. Incorporate*! id Singapore! BLUE FUNNEL LINE Sailing* to too from Un.tto Kinedorn Samaffarie due from U.K. SOth Anc. Samoa due trom V X 31*t Au(. Samharle (tails tor UK. 6th Sept. Menelauf sails for U.K. 10th Sept. Charon due from Fremantle 12th Sep*. Western Australia fhe shortest
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      511 7 It is a strange fact that many The combined trump ho.ding players hate, above everything made a finesse for the queen i de else ?to give the enemy a trick or sirable but as against this there tricks that clearly cannot be tak. was the difficulty of entering en away
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    All The Latest Sport News Y.M.C.A, HAVE STRONG XI No Easy Task For Seletar
    304 8 All The Latest Sport News Y.M.C.A, HAVE STRONG XI No Easy Task For Seletar WITH a six-nil victory over the useful H.M.S. Sultan team behind them, R.A.F. (Seletar) will take the field with a certain amount of confidence in their game of soccer against the Combined V.M.C.A. at Jal^n Besar
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    Amateur Athletic President
    242 8 Amateur Athletic President STOCKHOLM, Monday. T ORD BURGHLEY, former Olympic 1 hurdles champion, was today elected president of the International Amtteur Athletics Federation by general acclamation. Lord Burghler takes the place of the former president Slgfried Edstroem of Sweden, who Is relinquishing the post at his own request. According to
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    TRAVELLING ALLOWANCE INADEQUATE
    148 8 From Our Own Correspondent IPOII, Tues. AT a meeting, which decided to form a Malayan Race Horse Owners Association here on Saturday, it was stated that one matter which will be taken up with the Straits Racing: Association is what is regarded as the absolute inadequacy of
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    Untitled
    27 8 Singapore Recreation Club pla>ed a "Home and Home" cricket match on Sunday. Picture chows both teams and club mem. bers taken before the mateh Straits Times Picture.
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    Indians Not At Their Best
    106 8 BY LEARIE CONSTANTLNE oOuihiWU, Mon. "THE Indian batsmen, generally reckoned to prefer fast bowling to any other type, showed up poorly against Essex pace here today and were all out for 138, mean ng they are 165 runs behind. Everybody expected they would follow on
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    SCOREBOARD
    195 8 ESSEX— 1ST INNS. —3*3 INDIA— 1st INNS. MoshUq All b R. SmU'.i IModJ c Wilson b R. Smith II Merchant b Peter Smith U Armanalh b R. Smith Mankad e Wade b R. Smith 15 Gul Mahomed b R. Smith 11 Sohoni b R. Smith Bannerjee c Taylor b
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    YORKSHIRE WIN COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP
    273 8 LONDON, Mon. YORKSHIRE by winning their match against Sussex today made csrtain Of w nnlng the county cricket championship, their present total of 212 points being more tha n the nearest rivals can reach even by w nning the remaining games. This is the 22nd tim»
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    MALAY FOOTBALL
    43 8 The M alay Football Association will hold a general meeting at the Istana Kampone Gelam.on Sept. 1 at 2.30 pjn. The Malays are now endeavouring to get back to their pre-war football standard and will endeavour to start organiser football again.
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    Berroeta To Try Again
    88 8 LONDON, Mon. pEORGE BerroeU, Chilean U champion swimmer who had to grve up hs attempt to swim the English Charm 1 yesterday when about half a mile from shore near Dover, is to make a further attempt on Sept. 2 or Sept. 4. Berroeta, who was
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    R.A.F. Base Cricket
    36 8 Service or civilian cricket teams desiring fixtures with the RAF' 83. e Solera'- sho"'- 1 c rv f! f ih' 5 sports secretary, Sgt. Marsh, or Tel. No. 2772, "Mews" exchange extension 16.
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    WATER-POLO
    14 8 Thers will be wat?r-nclo practices at Chinese Swimming Club tomorrow at 11 a.m.
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      SPORTS SECRETARY MAKES APPEAL
      461 8 BELOW is published a letter from the Sports Secretary of the Army V.M.C.A. making an appeal to the sportsmanship of players and public alike to see that today's soccer is not marred by incidents that caused Sunday' 3 game at Jalan Besar to be abandoned in
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      Street Urchins
      208 8 Sir: The Incident witnessed at the Jalan Besar Stadium on the evening of Sunday, August 25. was very sicken ng. both to the players and spectators. The number of street urchins present during football matches is increasing. They are not really Interested in watching the game but only
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    • Letter
      Wrestling Crowds
      245 8 Sir: We have been regular attenders to the Saturday night wrestling programme at the Great World for the last nine months. We even agreed that we found t the best tw 0 hours entertainment In Singapore. This opinion is now lowering itself. For the past three Saturdays our
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