The Straits Times, 6 October 1946

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  • 18 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 584. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 610 1 Legal documents are being drafted <fs" Sunday Times Special Correspondent LONDON, Saturday. Till' final legal documents which will turn the Malayan Union into a federation (absorbing the former Settlements of Penang and Malacca) and create the office of High Commissioner, are being drawn up in Singapore for
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    55 1 TEST CAPTAIN 1 immond. England's Test c icket raptain looks older than Mi 43 yti in this ph IMP taken on arrival ii Perth, hut shored sparkling i mi Mith a I .iturv in Urn tourists' first match Hammond i% seen broaicastin? the yre^'in-s of the F n 1 i
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  • 236 1 Sunday Times Reporter AnuuiUiv against night letting, the Government is planning a curfew for lorries in Singapore between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. and the necessary legislation for this will by introduced shortly, said the Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson, in a statement to the Press yesterday.
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  • 123 1 PARIS Sat. ITALY will pay $325,000,000 re- jjirations to be delivered tn goods and services under the decisions of the Par» Con ?rence taken early today during the third successive allnight session. Italian reparations issueUM most bitterly ontes'ed of the Conference was finauy cvcided
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  • 141 1 T.heran, Sat. THE A rs.an Army General H.Q. today announced the fall, to armed tribesmen, of the garrison of Khazerun, 70 miles northwest of the Pers an Gulf port of Bushiro, after heavy fighting and severe casualties. The communique stated that all army buildings and stores had
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  • 76 1 Manila. Sat. p. L. Prescott, former member of Chennaulfs Flying Tigers, was kill:<i by a stray bullet and two Filipinos were wounded as a gunfight raged in the lobby of the fashionable Manila Hotel. Prescott was sitting in the lobby chatting when a jsep drew up and
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  • 49 1 The first session of the new Indonesian Cabinet, which was announced on Wednesday, will be held today, the Netherands News Agency reports. It is authoritatively learned that Cabinet meetings will in future be held at Cheribon, on the north coast of Java, which is geographically the most suitable— Reuter.
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  • 48 1 Paratrooper's wife to lead deputation Sunday Times Correspondent LONDON, Sat. MRS. JEAN SMITH. 20-year-old Manchester wife of a paratrooper sentenced in the Kluang court martial, is to lead a protest deputation to Westminster when Parliament reopens on Tuesday. There are 20,000 Manchester signatures on the petition for mercy.
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  • 315 1 Sunday Times Reporter r)D riots in Brazil will considerably delay the despatch to Malaya of 40,500 tons of rice which was Brazil's allocation for this half of the year. Food authorities in Singapore yesterday morning sent urg:nt signals to th e Ministry of Food, In London,
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  • 58 1 JETS AID AIRLINER The application of the Jet propulsion unit to multi-ensined aircraft was demonstrated at London Airport last week when Lord Winster, then Minister of Civil Aviation, wont aboard a jet-assisted Lancastrian airiiner for a flight of half-an-hour's duration over Windsor, Wokiiiff and Walton-on -Thames. The outer motors on
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  • 608 1 "MISERY AND BLOODSHED" BLACKPOOL, Sat. MR. Winston Churchill predicted today that misery and bloodshed" would strike India as a result of the British Government's decision to grant it complete independence. Addressing the Conservative Party's annual conference as its leader, who had rejected thoughts of retirement in
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  • 84 1 Income tax: investigator wanted Sunday Times Reporter THE Secretary of State for Ihe Colonies is still looking for "a suitable man" tn send to Singapore to investirate the question of income-tax. Th.' apparent lack of a suitably-qualified investigator in Britain appears to be the reason why nobody has yet arrived
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  • 44 1 Hollywood, Sat CILM star Orson Welles has filed r a $1,000,000 damage suit against the American Federation of Labour's vice-prescient, Matthew Woll, who named Welhs with Myrna Loy, Edward O. Robinson and other film s'ars, as aUoged Communists.— UP.
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  • 264 1 Acquitted Nazis have Nowhere To Go NUREMBKKG, Sat. THREE Nazi defendants 1 acquitted by the War Crimes Tribunal Schacht. former Reichsbank chief Frilzche, GoebbeLs' propaganda deputy. and von Papen are wanted for trial by the German people. Schacht and Fritsche. spirited out of prison during the night, hid from the
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  • 119 1 NUREMBERG UERMAN Go iin,' who t?nced to de?fh by the Inte national Wrr C:im?s Tribun.i 1 has filed an appeaJ Btnlrut ti death senten^?- with (he All- Control Council, a fi M mini y i before the doa'iline, brin -in« t total number of aopMla ti
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  • 29 1 BERLIN, IN American consiabulj. 1 rt patrol shot and wounded Russian soldier last nit;lit. d.i\ng a chase through tii of Beilin, th" Unit^rl 81 vost Marshal's Ofllcr announced -UP.
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  • 1669 2 SPOTLIGHT On MALAYA AND MALAYANS CLIFFORD PEER TURNS HIS CiN Police amissior.er, RoFoulger. must sometime !hat he was in the tranquil atmc*l)« i. of where tx Since thr lilM-ration, he with one the the reconstrm Xt which disgrated during the Japa>rcupati(>n and now face* crime of all kinds on a
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    • 355 2 RADIO MALAYA niary: 818 p.m. Sports Round-Up; 9.00 p.m. Calling All Sportsmen. «.30 p.m. News Headlines: 8.32 930 p.m. Music Parade: 10.15 p.m. SinaaDOre pm Muslc Por Everybody; 9.30 p.m. Two Guitars And A Piano; 10.30 p.m. News: 9.45 pm. Musical Memories; Radio Newsreel; 10.45 p.m. London KfcD NbTttOKH (Chinese
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    57 3 LOST PILOT < irey dJ lUvilland. the famous test pilot, who loot his life when his jet llMnt win?" Swallow aircraft blew up over the Thames *-stuar\ h. his watch bei.ikinr ont- of the trial runs in which the Swallow flew faster than the world *I>e<*d record of 616 mnii
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  • 79 3 ROMF. Sat. Air Force H.Q. here announced that a British plane was forced down yesterday in Yugoslavia reportedly by signals from Yugcsla nes. The said that re that there no casualties. plane was reported to >reed down r. near the Greek bord yesterday afternoon d
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  • 532 3 lengah to become new fighter base Sunday Times Reporter METEOR jet-propelled aircraft, capable of speeds of over 600 miles an hoar, will replace the Spitfire fighters in Singapore early next year, provided they prove satisfactory in tropical conditions. They will be based on Tengah aerodrome which
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  • 141 3 Sunday Times Reporter niRATES who boarded a tongkang in Johore territorial waters a ftw days ago assaulted two members of the Chinese crew who fell overboard and are now believed •Jrowned. and made off with nearly $8,000 worth of kerosene. The wujkang was travell ng from
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  • 181 3 Britain 's "Perfect WAAF" LONDON, Sat. PLIZABETH HARVEY of Oy gate, Surrey, i» Britains most perfect WAAF. Leading Aircraftwoman Harvey has been chosen as Royal Air Force recruiting poster girl from among six finalists. Miss Harvey is on the staff of the Control Commission in Germany and was Hewn to
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  • 32 3 TOKTO, Sat. The Cupreme Allied Commander has approved the loan of 105 special maintenance telephone ard telegraph trucks and trailers to the Japanese Government to service the occupation forces lines— A. P.
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  • 72 3 WASHINGTON Sat niSCUSSIONS alrced at "stop- ping Germany, Austria and Italy "Meeding the British and American taxpayer," and ttoe possibility of transferring some ot the cost to former neutral countries have been a feature of the conference this week between the British Chancellor of the
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  • 76 3 CARDIFF, Sat. AHDERS to th e value of about v £3.000.000 wer e placed at the Welsh Industries Fair held last week at Cardiff, it was announced today by the 3oard of Trade journal. The £3,000.000 includes £600,000 for export orders. One firm, which began production
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  • 41 3 TOKIO. Sat. Japan's pearl growers have formed a new association to sell to the occupation forces. Six Japanese combines which control the nations output formed the new association to get pearls from all growers and sell directly to the authorities.— A.P.
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  • 322 3 Sunday Times Reporter MANNED by a full complement of 85 British-trained Chinese officers and ratings and under the command of Lieut-Cdr. Liv Hoh-tu, a graduate of Glasgow University, Fu Po, 1,400-ton corvette of the Chinese Navy and first of Britain's 13 gift ships to China, arrived
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  • 81 3 Auxiliary air force plan Sunday Times Reporter EARLY next year, Air Command. South East Asia, will put forward for the consideration of the Malayan Governments a scheme for the establishment of an auxiliary volunteer force consisting of men from various communities. It is snrirested that the volunteers should man radar
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  • 35 3 BATAVIA, Sat. THE commander of the 23rd In- dian Division, Maj -Gen. Douglas C. Hawthorne, left Batavia for New Delh. by plane to tane up thi post of Director of Military Training.— Reuter.
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  • 502 3 Home Soccer Results LONDON. Sal. "NEWCASTLE United, who have spent £34.000 so far this season In a bid to win p;omo:l.-.n to the premier d: '-ion, reaped a big dividend today when they scored 13 goals apairet the lowly Newport County. Lcn Shackleton, En°Und insiderijrtit signed from
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  • 53 3 LOS ANGELES, Sat. AEROPLANES with wings like insects instead of the conventional anchored variety were described as a future possibility before the Society of Automotive Engineers by William Stout, a Detriot consulting engineer. Explaining his studies of flappin? wings, he said: "That's why bugs don't
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  • 57 3 LONDON, Sat. qiR DAVID KELLY, British Amtassador to Turkey, yesterday handed to the Turkish Government a memorandum setting out British view on the latest Soviet note to Ankara which proposed the revision of the present status of the Black Sea Straits, the Foreign Office
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  • 185 3 KING TO UNVEIL CENOTAPH TABLETS London, Sat. HETAILS of the service at the Cenotaph on Nov. 11 when the King will unveil a memorial 'o those w.x> died it. 1939-45 has been announced. The ceremony will be in memory of the m p n who fell in both wars. The
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  • 74 3  -  MANILA, Sat. LOUIS TARUC. long-sought peasant guerilla leader, was reported to be trapped with 10,000 of his Hukbalahaps in the Pampanga swamps between Manila and Bataan peninsula and a major battle is in progress, says th e Manila Chronic. r. The newspaper quoted the Philippines military pol.ee
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    • 99 3 TWO KILLED IN HOUSE COLLAPSE "Shortly alter 9 am. yesterday the whole interior of Nc. 31 Hoilywo >d Rad rollapaed. burying eight persons, including two-year -old baDy A Chinese woman t>f 34 waa killed togeUwr with a two-year-old boy. It is belli ved that the collapse was due to the
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  • 888 4 NEWSHOWOFCHANGI SOUVENIRS Bob Gilmore from -Air mail letter i MELBOURNE Kept. 25. |N the Flinders Street disI windows of the Aus- are crisp, h looking copies of the Sfonan Shirnbun; they are of a collection of Changi souvenirs given the AHC x-Siiitfapon-an Diggers I Ik i B i ap re
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  • 34 4 A bathing suit, ramiknickers, blouse and a neat little cap are part of the wardrobe wrtich Sydney girls are making out of parachutes which are now being auctioned by the Commonwealth Government.
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  • 646 4 BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AT 7.30 a.m. some troops of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force area gather at Kure station in high spirits. There is an extensive sprinkling of high ranking officers and even some women; white women; with straight legs, slender figures, and soft hair. We're
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  • 465 4  -  Thomas R. Henry By ATRIP to the moon through the meteoroid rain outside the earth's atmosphere always will be a perilous undertaking. The chances are that four mancarrying space ships out of each 100 launched would be destroyed by a shooting star. By the same token,
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  • 77 4 DRESSED in male cm Catherine Smith, 38. approached a Chkcgo Oour ness giving evidence her, and {jave hial Mi on the chin. With Faii^fact.on, she ed h'.m slump tcj the floor Tben the k&iu d :n ro Bench till aha aim .st Uni Judfe Gorman. and "Well,
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  • 375 5 lut needs own sites now occupied by the Army Sunday Times Reporter TIIF Singapore Improvement Trust is planning the of hundreds of new houses, as well s own land for the erection of temporary part of the Trust's contribution toxins the housing shortage in Singapore, •ration
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  • 123 5 $17 Million sent To China SmmUv Time* Reporter r SI .n Si.igaporj and th; I n s nt neaiiv htaa by way of r 'amihes in Although tliw to'al is a big on e the average remittance per head works out at wcU under $30. The ,ni ai owed to
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  • 108 5 A plea that Japanese should be judged by standards they d to and in arriving verdict the Court should rise above national boundaries. ,oV by Major T S. Bains in his final address for the dee yesterday at the trial of 42 Japanese charged with
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  • 53 5 P.C. CHARGED WITH ABSENTING HIMSELF A special constable, Ahmad Salleh bin Sabeh, was charged in a Singapore Pol/re Court day with unlawfully abs himself tn.m duty from Au?. 28 i is, Ahmad claimed trial. He was offered bail in the sum of $500 and the case was postponed for mention
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  • 48 5 Lee Kam Fook claimed trial in the Fourth Police Court to a charge of attempting to extort $3,500 from a woman Choong Ah Slew by putting her in fear of death H e was offered bail of $1,000 and the case was adjourned to Oct IL\
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  • 175 5 3<5-year-old Cantonese, Tang v Kam Choon. a Food Control clerk, was produced before* Mr. Tan Thoon Lip yesterday at the Singapore D strict Court on two charges of having corruptly received from two Chiaese sums of money as a reward for showing favour by issuing without delay
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  • 34 5 Three Javanese were yesterday charged with housebreaking and stealing $1,500 worth of household articles and jewellery belonging to Mrs. D. O'Connor at St. Thomas Walk. The case was postponed to Oct. 12.
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  • 133 5 $5 For A 'Mosquito' $10 For '829' Sunday Times Reporter CCALE models of famous ward time aircraft will shortly be flying in competitions to be organized by the Stngaoore Aeromodellers Society, which Is holding its first post-war meeting on Wednesday. The honorary secretary, Mr. Spencer Tan. says that the society
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  • 43 5 TEMPLE HILL DANCE The Governor, Sir Irannliii Gimson, Mrs. E.K. Lowndes, and the AlMed Air Comnwuidcrin- Chief, Air Marshal Sir George Pfarie, at Friday's dance in celebration of the re-opeaing of the Ah- Command Headquarters Mess at Temple Hill, ChangL Sunday Times picture.
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  • 274 5 Less Jewellery The Reasons Why Sunday Times Reporter. PENANG, Saturday. AS a result of large-scale smuggling of gold into Siam and Burma during the years of Japanese inflation, when gold went to these countries as exchange for rice, Penang women wear less jewellery today than before the war. Two other
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  • 57 5 THE Second Police Magistrate yesterday commended a Chinese, Simon On*, for arresting a Chinese who haj tried to pick his pocket. Ong was attacked by three other members of the accused's gang when he caught the pickpocket, but dealt with them* single handed. The pickpocket, Kg
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  • 104 5 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. DELIEVED to be the leader of a gang of car-strippers, Yee Man, a Chinese, was yesterday sentenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson, in connection with the discovery of a miniature arsenvi and appliances for carstripping
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  • 126 5 Sunday Times Correspondent Penang, Sat. RECONSTRUCTION and main- tenanoe of Penang's public roads and buildings have already cost the Government over $1,000,--000 in the past nine months, according to the Senior Executive Engineer, Mr. R. H. A. Johnson, who in a statement today declared that the public works
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  • 35 5 RICHARD HaUiday, a 24-year-old European, had a charge explained to him in a Singapore Police Court yesterday of stealing 300 sheets of galvanised iron valued at $1,500. from the Naval Base.
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  • 64 5 Sunday Times Correspondent Taiping, Sat. The swimming pool at the foot of picturesque Taiping Hills was transformed into a miniature fairyland last night wnert Lt.-Col. C. L. Omanivey and the officers of the 7th Indian Div. Signals gave a farewell party. All Taiping was there,
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  • 251 5 ASSN. TO REPORT ON RENTS THE Singapore Ratepayers' 1 Association has appointed a special committee to report on the question of ren*s. If, as a result of its investigations, the Committee should be inclined to initiate any move for an increase in th e rents of all or any special
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  • 72 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Sat. IN Indian youth, who had been arrested at the Penang railway pier after he had landed here from the mainland allegedly with a revolver on his perso.: created a commotion outside th: magistrate courts this mornin when he made a desperate
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  • 66 5 N.S. CHINESE PLAIS CO-OP. SOCIETY Sunday Times Correspondent SEREMBAN, Sat. IT is Intended to start a Chinese Co-op:rative Society for the ben^ut of the Chinese working classes in Seremban. A protem committee with Messrs. Choong Sin Sen and Le-e Tian Kee, both of the Town Board, Seremban, has been formed.
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  • 36 5 THE Malacca Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese community of Malacca are to b: hosts at a dinner in Malacca on Friday in honour of th** Governor-General, Mr Malcolm Mac Donald.
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  • 55 5 OASTOR Leonard Cornwell, general director of the Malayan Evangelical Mission and former Minister of Narroctn Baptist Church, West Australia, is conducting Sunday Services as follows: Lip Tat Chinese bchool (5. East Coast Road. Katong:): 10 am. "Outline Studies of the Bible"; 4 p.m. Sunday School. Yock Eng Chinese
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  • 37 5 HONOLULU. Sat. MORE than one hundred monkeys have arrived by the U.S. Navy's giant plane Mars from the Philippines en route to the mainland to be used in the fight against the infantile paralysis.—A.P.
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  • 286 5 Sunday Times Reporter A step in the rehabilitation of Singapore's colleges has been taken with the reopening on Friday of the hostel for women students in Woodstock Drive, off Orange Road. Thanks to the efforts, chiefly of Dr. G. V. Allen, principal of the King Edward
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  • 209 5 Stomach Sufferer's Tribute to Rennie Tablets Having found NM£| thai can b 3 reliod on to relieve his stomach trtubl-. Mr. Goodrich Is anxious to pass on MM good news to others. Hete Is his enthusiastic letter: "I have suffered with gastric ulcer:. and
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  • 610 6 The Straits Times SINGAPORE, OCT. 6, 1946. Cabinet Changes THERE is nothing very radical or unexpected about the creation of a British Ministry of Defence, which was announced yesterday, for the need for a single authority to co-ordinate the v,ork of the three Services departments is a logical development of
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  • 2917 6  - AXIS DISUNITY CAUSED AFRICA DEFEAT Liddell Hart ■MHHHHMMMMHMmmmmji^^^^^m^m^i^i^^--^, J *^**M*M>MM>MBMWMMaMß^^^^^^^^^. fc By Capt. world famous military historian, who tells in this report of his talks with the German generals their story of the' crushing Axis defeat at Alamein and Axis disunity wh ich cost them control of the Mediterranean. MY
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  • 456 6  -  STEFFAN ANDREWS Hy THOUSANDS o/ Europeans are again pounding on Uncle Sam's door clamouring to get into the land of jobs and opportunity. Prior to 1939. thousands poured into the country yearly. The post-war immigration drive is now 'ncreaslng *ith such speed that consulates
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  • 383 7 Work of new unit to be shown on world's screens Sunday Times iteporter MALAYA'S own film unit operating from its aptly-named "Seladang Studios" in Kuala Lumpur has achieved its first world success with a newsred »f Kuala Lumpur's Victory Day celebrations which has been accepted by Gaumont-British
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  • 38 7 A film about England's young, st prime minister, entitled "The Young Mr. Pitt," starring Robert Donat, is to be screened for Singapore s^hoolchi'dren at special matinees at 10.30 am tomorrow, and on Tuesday and Wednesday, at Catfcay Cinema.
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  • 69 7 Jeep patrols in dock area: 70 arrests Sunday Times Reporter RLAR jeep patrols aic now being carried out r« 'iCapore Harbour Board y the police who from y.steiday resumed control, taking over from the 2nd Buffs. These \>atrols were inst-luud t ati^. and sinc c then 70 have been made
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  • 59 7 THE General Clerical Association |n Singapore recently to »erve Government clerks h Id i peneral meeting at the Municipal canteen yesterday The meeting was called to comnlttee of manage rr^nt to takv over item the lnUrim committee wukli haJ reen functioning since tl.v. or^-- on was
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  • 33 7 Sunday Times "-respondent Ptnang, Sun— A Malay, Ibrahim bin Gulam Mydin. employed at the RAF. p: oe ba»? Bt Glugor, was drowned when he fell overboard from an RAF barje.
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  • 162 7 Big Jump In Crime Figures Sunday Times Reporter ARMED robbery and housebreaking in Singapore continue to increase, it is shown by the crime figures for last mont). Armed robberies rose from 73 in August to 105 in September. The increase in the number of reports, however, is believsd to be
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  • 77 7 FIGURES for crime in Johore show drops in September compared with August. Armed robberies dropped from 10 to two, simple robberies from 13 to six and murder from six to two. Housebrea kings rose—from 30 \o 37. In both murders reported in September the Johore police were
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  • 361 7 Sunday Time* Reporter "PARTLY exploratory, partly explanatory" this was I the description applied by Sir Leslie Boyce to the British Trade Mission to China, which he is leading, and which is due to leave Singapore for Hong Kong this morning. Sir Leslie, who spoke to newspaper
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  • 187 7 ROAD ACCIDENTS REACH NEW HIGH Sunday Times Reporter SOAD accidents continue to increase in Singapore and last month they touched the highest figure ever recorded During September, the Traffic Police investigated 565 cases against 512 in the previous month and in these 13 people were killed and 223 injured. Services
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  • 102 7 Committee To Draft Rules For Elections Sunday Times Reporter SIR Franklin Gimson, Governor of Singapore, will soon form a special committee to draft an ordinance covering the election of members of the new Legislative Council. This ordinance will be based on the methods employed in Trinidad. ''It may take some
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  • 129 7 Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH, Sat. WHEN the Perak Branch of the Automobile Association of Malaya called an extraordinary general meeting yesterday at the Ipoh Club. Mr. J. O. Clemetson, the chairman, call?d for a campaign for road safety. "Malaya must declare war on road accidents," he
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  • 33 7 Manila, Sat. CEVENTY-four Japanese stragglw ers professing not to know that the war was over have been rounded up by the Philippine military police In southeast Luaon.—A. P.
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  • 110 7 Moratorium on land deals may be lifted Sunday limes Reporter rE lifting of the moratoiium was discussed by the Singapore Advisory Council at its meeting last Thursday, disclosed the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, at a press conference yesterday "There was," he said, "some suggestion of a partial lifting o' the
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  • 34 7 Sunday Times Correspondent Ipoh, Saturday— A temple In Laihat Road was completely gutted yesterday by a fire which caused $30,000 worth of damage. The temple had been built to accommodate 2,000 devotees.
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  • 38 7 SINGAPORE "TYPE' heine '•hot' by members of the Malayan I i«m I nit assistant director E usoff Khan (right) and assistant cameraman Osman bin Samsudin. while apprentice Hassan bin Mat Rashid holds the "take" schedule.
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  • 295 7 PERFECT RICE SEED SAVED Sunday Times Reporter RANGOON Saturday. THANKS to the foresight of 1 a small band of Burmese Government agriculturalists and transport facilities provided by a hard-pressed R.A.F., Burma will have a good supply of first-grade top-quality seed rice for distribution to the country's rice growers in 1948.
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  • 380 7 Four million yarua ok' cloth but Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA Ll'MPl R, Saturd.iv. NEARLY four million yards of textiles have been issued throughout the Malayan I'nion through the Resident Commissioners and the Chambers of Commerce but mimic people still go naked in Perlis, unless they can get
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  • 65 7 PR refusing to sell a tin of Kl-rn at 83. Grylang Road. C. D. Anthony, the proprietor of a provision shop, was fined $200 by Mr. T. T. Russell In the Second D strict Court yesterday In his d' fence Anthony said h P required the
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  • 53 7 Sunday Times Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Sat. A rat hunt set up in response to requests from householders in Kuala Lumpur has accounted for 3,406 rats in Sentember rb« haul for September is a record and Is three times the number caught in the whole of 1937. when
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 1641 8 IyJHHIVf-i THIS WEEK FOR YOU BY STELLA Baaffiffl— What the Stars Foretell HLj*AyLI^^JJ3 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 33)— CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)— CANCER (June 23-Julj 23>— nRTM EmploTment matters, especial- 20)— Size up all possibilities Confidential matters may come Science and business ma> show ly as .hey may
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  • 915 9 ALL IN THE GAME ICELANDER TO SIGN UP AT HIGHBURY LONDON, By Air Mail. APOUVBALLfIi from Iceland is going to play for Arsenal. He is Albert (iudmundsson, of the Icelandic Sports Association team now over here meeting our leading amateur iramv <i<idmund>son, who has been studying in Scotland, wanted lo
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  • 21 9 The Punch That Won The Fight tnan connects with a right th U »as the beginning of the end for Brain.
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  • 982 9  -  MERV WILLIAM From From MERV WILLIAMS DOG tired from punching, and being punched, Boy Andre had little left but a fighting heart when he answered the gong for the ninth round against Ron Brain at Melbourne Stadium on Sept. 28. Suddenly out of the blue
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  • 136 9 MALAYAN BOXERS IN AUSTRALIA ARE HOMESICK frriun >ltrv Hiltiuuia MELBOURNE, By Air Mail SINGAPORE, and hi< wife That's all Ti;er Amun ran think of these itjra llt-'v homesick and longing << i the girl he left b< hinJ Still he MM he Mould onse back to Australia, sometirrv Pam-ho likes
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    • 92 9 NOW! Seats are Available! HOME BY Atll TO SYDNCY TO LONDON Now, air passages may be reserved by nonpriority travellers, for early departure, on the Kangaroo service to Sydney and London. Whether on business or pleasure bent you MB fly in spacious air-line comfort with full sleeping berth accommodation. Qantas
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  • PAGE OF MALAYAN SPORTS NOTES AND NEWS
    • 633 10 Sunday Times Reporter Penang, Sat. I norOML ihat wiU have a revolutionary effect on badA minton, if it is adopted, is the suggestion put forward by »<<• International Badminton Federation to limit to 24 feet ■Iffcl to which the shuttle can be hit during the course
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    • 164 10 Sunday Times Reporter MUAR, Sat. CGCCER enthusiasts were J appointed last Sunday will. the poor display of the Tangka* Youngsters Football Team whic". went down to the Muar Chines? by five goals to one at the local padang. The Youngsters shared honours with the home team
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    • 470 10 Sunday Times Reporter MALACCA, Sat. THE first inter-club tennis match since the re-otcupation war played at Klebang last Saturday on the courts of Mr. Tan Soo Chong between the Klebang Party and the Hospital Club Party and ended in an easy victory for the Klebang by
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    • 167 10 Sunday Times Reporter ALOR STAR, Sat. DUGBY has made a good start, two games having oeen played last week. In thy first the Alor Star Sunrocs had a clear victory over the Sultan Abdul Hamid College winning by four tries to nil. The scorers were
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    • 237 10 Sunday Times Reporter SEREMBAN, Sal. THE rugger season opened J^cu on Saturday with a match between a Civilian and a Military XV. Contrary to genera? expectation, the Civilians proved themselves much the better of the two md ran out easy winners by 19 points to three.
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    • 26 10 Hockey Champions The KinU Indians, 1945 league hockey champions: back row, Appuni Harrharan Siru;h, Satiapal (capt), Pcnniah, Selvanayagam, Sivalingam. front,, Anandan, Stanislaus. Thilianathan. Balasingam, Narian Singh.
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    • 286 10 Sunday Times Reporter Kuala Lumpur, Thursday. THE forthcoming Golden Jubilee of the Victoria Institution 1 brings to mind the great part played by the Institution in the development of sport in this country. Victorians' record in Malayan sports is an enviable one, the institution having turned
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    • 593 10 PERAK CRICKET WELL COST MORE Hockey HOCKEY has really got going and there is scarcely one evening when the Padang Is not engaged in one "friendly" or another. The ofneia l resuscitation of the Perak Hockey Association during the week will doubtless see the local League and State game fixed.
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    • 67 10 Sunday Times RporUr TAIPING. Sat. THE Taiping and District Bad- minton Association will oe revived shortly. A r .eetir.g of badminton enthusiasts in this town has been called for this purpose, and the venue of the meeting will be at the Ceylon Association. Taiping. at 10 am. tomorrow.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 54 10 THE BEST r^fg^BINOCULARS js> First shipment arrived »n Malaya after the War. W< Stocked. 7 X 30 A 9 X 35 I THE ROSS BINOCULARS GIVE YOU- 50°o more light. Wki if A wide field of view. I JT Perfect definition always. Stocked by NEW CHINA OPTICAL CO., 71, High
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    • 75 10 LIDO (New World Park) Daily: 3 F.M.— 7— 9.15 PJt. COLUMBIA'S ACE SERIAL! with VICTOR JORY in "THE SHADOW" (Final Chaps.) >acked with Action— with Heroes and Cowards and Gangsters, Desperate, Cold -Blooded and Reckless! More Thrills Kxritetnent! SUN (New World Park) TO-DAT: t P.M.— 9 PJt. By Special Request:
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    • 154 10 A Solution to the problem of SHORTAGE OF HOUSES Solve the problems of shortage of houses by building new factories, business premises, and dwelling-houses, and repairing the existing ones to keep thrm in food condition For building materials surh as CEMENT. NAILS. IRON-BARS. CORRUGATED-IRON SHEETS. ASBESTOS SHEETS, ROOFING KELT. TIMBERS.
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    • 88 10 SKY (Great World Park) TO-DAT: 3 F.M.— 7— 9.15 P.M. A Blood < hilling Chapter Play! -THE SHADOW" (Chaps. 1 to i with VICTOR JORY (In the role as an ace crlmlnoligist) ITS COLUMBIAS UNPARALLELED Thriller!.... loaded with T.N.T.! Every Minnie A Thrill" Every Second A Breath -Taker! THEATRE ROYAL
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  • 8 11 estcrday's Rugger ihe Singapore (Ticket Club Rugoy W
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  • 183 11 From Merv William.-. MELBOURNE, Saturday. E\TTl.J\<; Sima (9.13 3/4) failed to withstand the persist.nt npht hand of the Queenslander. Alf Wells (10.1), ;i former PoW. and was knocked out in the sixth round ."-t I Brisbane Stadium last night. rip to Dm body followed by
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  • 70 11 mi I MM UNt, Sat. AM I\N champion ra<e- bortr. Bernbol -ujh. ccorrd his [ourtn nth Mtrrrasive vktorv when i he easily *on the SM Melbourne Stake* ran over one mile at Fleming•r today. B-rnborotfh rar■M ».S lbs. The Held of 13 included Victorian champion AttW-r who.
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  • 69 11 ADELAIDE. Sat. DON Bradman's decision to accept captaincy of the Kensingto.i -icket team is considered to indicau that he will be available for blr such as inter- State games \nd against the Engl. tourists, he is satisfied about th<health and club i rm Bradmr.n
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  • 66 11 i^HOV;'ING greater speed and bstte.C «tlc;.v.ork RAF. <Faya b-at 330 Sp-cial W T. Unit by four tcoels to one in a hockey match n'.ayed at Thomson Road on Friday. Although the W.T. ln!t were the first to score thrcjeh Robinson, they vers unable to maintain
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  • 59 11 rIE foliowlne wUI represent the Rocklltes *t cricket against the TrcinMt Camp 'Nee Soon> In a wholerti.v cricket fixture today. Transport will \o*\^ the Roxr Theatre at 10 ~J) am: Anthony Lim. W Galistan. J. Gali-:t«n, L. Edwards, D. C. Swy:.; P Swyny. M Swyny V. V Sundrarr. Silva.
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  • 94 11 •HE following wUI represent the c ontle Badminton Party Bgalrrt the Maxfli Badm'nton Partr "B" in a fMendlv niatrh of five ntngle* an*] two doubles at 465-a, l r pper Sermigoon Road, today at 3 p.m. Suadl bin Haji Tahir. Masi**i bin HaU Straj. Senawi bin Haji Salleh.
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  • 440 11 SCC OPEN RUGBY SEASON WITH GOOD WIN S.C.C 19, ALFSEA 3 MAKING their first appearance as a full-side on the padang yesterday the S.C.C. Rugby side scored a clear-cut 19 points (2 goals, 3 tries) to 3 (try) victory over H. Q. ALFSEA. A slightly greasy ball made it a
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  • 126 11 U mi the addition of BUI Bowex. Yorkshire and Kirn land fast bowler, to its team of sports writers, the Singapore Free Press now offers Hs readers the moot eon\rehensive service of rports news In any Malayan newspaper. Bowes' reports on the M.C.C. tour In
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  • 512 11 New Horse Pays $91 At Penang S«nday T nes iteporter PIiNANU, Sat. 'T t HR£E new horses. Hill Queen, Ami A Well and Colour Palcii. won tneir races today. Hill Queen scoring a double for tlio meeting, while Coloui Patch iinished with a terrific burst to a. R.i the favourite
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  • 267 11 Ross Scores 54 Retired 'PHE SRC. passed the Police score of 06 runs with eight wickets In hand and went on to wlTi by a margin c( r>2 run; in a cricket t/atch played yesterday on the S R.C. gi-ound. Ross, for the Recs, retired after scoring 64 runs, while
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  • 53 11 A GENERAL meeting of the Amateur Sporting Association w'll oe he'd on S-turdey. Oct. 12. at 17. Blair Road. Singaproe. at 3 30 p.m. Will all, old and intending net* members please communicate theh new addresses to Yeo Kian Hoe. r The NaUonal Cltv Bank of New Yor*
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  • 23 11 SINHALESE ASSN. npilE Sinhalese Association wUI play a Home-and-Home cricket match at the Police Depot ground, Thomson Road, to-day, starting at 10 am.
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  • 117 11 From Norman Preston. PERTH, Saturday. SIX change* are made in the MCC team for the oneday game .at Fremantle on. Monday compared with the side nhk-h won the opening match at Northam. Hiiunond, Edrich, Hutton. Smith and Cumpton are I. ft out with I vans the
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  • 220 11 CJLE 2 16 E A M 1 \GOAL Kored slur extra time had bjen allowed enabled 177, Command Royal Engineers, to beat 16 E and M Coy. RE., by the odd goal in Uu-ee in a thrilling Victory Cup ellmma'lon round game played at Jaian Befar
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  • 104 11 SYDNEY. Sat. BILL. O'Reilly tie Aus rattan Test bowler, In an article in tlv Sydney Herald or* what bowlers the Australian captain will us: In '.ho PM Test says this Is a problem, and asks who Is going to open the attack with Llndwall. O'Reilly cays:
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  • 111 11 Sund-v TunM Reporter Penang. Sat. PLAYING their third and last match in Pen%ng the Combined Singapore .nd Kuala Lumpur Sin Wah Basket Ka" team went down by just one point In a fast and kc n!y -contested match played last night against Penang's rr.ck Slong 800 team. It was
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  • 342 11 From ("pi. Cricket THE Seletar Airmen found the'r true form again when they defeated the Changi Airmen by two goals to nil in a game played et Seletar during the week. Both teams played good, clean football and Seletar ran out the winners because they took
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    • 373 11 DOGS. DOGS. DOGS. Mr W. H. Thayer Beaufort Kennels Anzac Terrace Bassendean. Western Australia, will personally supervise n consignment of dogs to Singapore aoout December. He will select pedigree dogf for clients and has for sale beautlfu' Irish red setter pups from twenty guineas plus freight. Airedales, foxles tmooth and
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    • 23 11 TOYS, GAMES DOLLS FOR Children from 3 Months to 12 Yean old. LIMITED STOCKS AVAILABLE WHOLESALE MIUM »I APPLY FOR YOIR UQI IKI
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  • 49 12 This picture, "The Little Ships of Ceylon." by Sq Ldr. J. R. T Richardson, 1.5. T.P., H.Q, SACSEA, was judfed the best in last week's Union Jack Club exhibition of photography by members of the Services in Singapore Sq. Ldr. RicharJfon won several first prizes.
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    59 12 (apt F. H. Hum?, R A. P.I., u»u second priae in the inm|l section with "Pa.<lr Panjang Sunset.'' Rizht: "September Scenery.*' a study taken at Tyrrsall ParCMM»i won W. O J. (Jal" a s?c ond prize in the landscapes. I"! study of young Malays won a second prize for Sgt.
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