The Straits Times, 22 October 1946

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    20 1 The Straits Times. MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY FIf.HT PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    PRICE DROP IN BLACK MARKET
    320 1 Hit By Siam Rice Import Scheme DKK'KS of black market rice in Singapore registered a sharp drop over the week-end as a result of the announcement of the opening of a free market for one month for three per cent, of all rice sold to
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    Huge Cost Of Shipping Delays
    186 1 Huge Cost Of Shipping Delays LONDON, Monday. MR. Evelyn Walkden (Lab., Doncaster), calling for a statement about shipping delays at Singapore, told the House of Commons today that young officers who had returned stated that the cost to the nation must be in the neighbourhood of half a rnil'lon sterling
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    R.A.F. Crash At Calcutta
    81 1 Three passengers were killed and two seriously injured when an R.A.F. passenger York, carrying service personnel on the scheduled service from the United Kingdom to Singapore, crashfd near Calcutta on Sunday. Ihe aircraft hit the ground 400 yards south of the runway following the failure of
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    SITUATION IN BENGAL GRAVE
    244 1 SITUATION IN BENGAL GRAVE NEW DELHI, Monday. FE outbreak of communal warfare in one of its worst forms in East Bengal threatened yesterday to precipitate a crisis in the new Interim Government of India and possibly to incite retaliatory action in other parts of the country. At the same time
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    Future Of The Paratroopers
    94 1 A DECISION on the future of rv the 13th Parachute Battalion -255 men of which were involved in the Kluang courtmartial -has already been taken, the Straits Times understands About 150 of the original men who went on trial are to be posted to units in
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    Windsors At Ednam Lodge
    54 1 Windsors At Ednam Lodge The Duke and Duchess of Windsor phototraphed in the grounds of Edn&m Lodge in Berkshire, where they are the guests, during their stay in England, of the Earl and Countess of Dudley. It was from Kdnam Lodge that jewellery belonging to the Duchess and rings belonging
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    JAVA AGREEMENTS
    151 1 BATAVIA, Monday. THE Dutch and Indonesians will exchange prisoners of I war, political prisoners and internees, as well as considering the possibility of a general i amnesty for all acts of violence before the signing of the truce, the plenary session of th« Dutch Commission-General j 1 and
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    Singapore's Lessons For Hong Kong
    315 1 HONG KONG, Monday. CINGAPORE'S sister colony is showing considerable interest in her movement towards a greater degree of self-government. Discussing the report of the Singapore Municipal Constitution Committee, the South China Morning Post says that Hong Kong has c or.iething to learn from Singapore and
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    Bose's Death "Confirmed As Certain"
    107 1 Bose's Death "Confirmed As Certain" A VERY thorough investi gation has been conducted in Tokio, at the request of South-East Asia Command, to establish the precise de- 1 tails of the circumstances surrounding the reported death of Subhas Chandra Bose, the Indian National Army leader, according to an official statement
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    MOLOTOV SAYS DIFFICULTIES CAN BE SOLVED
    595 1 MOLOTOV SAYS DIFFICULTIES CAN BE SOLVED NEW YORK, Monday. THE Cunard-White Star Liner Queen Elizabeth docked early this morning on her maiden peacetime voyage to this country as the world's largest luxury liner. Among 2,314 passengers were many delegates to the United Nations General Assembly, including the Soviet Foreign Minister,
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    Bevin To Speak Today
    117 1 LONDON, Mon.— The British Foreign Secretary. Mr. Ernest Bevin, has drafted a new pronouncement of British policy, which he will del.vcr tomorrow at the opening of a two-day Commons debate on foreign affairs Informed officials said Mr. Bey n probably would set forth the British position
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      113 1 SCIENTtWC 1 /y QUALIFIED OPTICIAN c s (Mono otx.f»oc I POISE born of r d&£^ expensive perfume L ''&&&s* Her self-assurance springs <■> v /row Goya's HE A 1 HER' cri'y <wd intriguing \^_*S .sMf perjume in an open air mood. I I Crested in London wfare l|] \x\ ht
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    ANOTHER PURGE BY JAP GOVT. 186,000 Barred From Office
    233 2 ANOTHER PURGE BY JAP GOVT. 186,000 Barred From Office TOKIO, Monday. THE Japanese Government this morning: purged 186,000 individuals from public office but barred from the teaching profession only 331 of the 15,992 teachers and educators which it screened during the first year of the occupation. This is announced by
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    Armed Japs On Guard Duty At Sumatra Wells
    109 2 BATAVIA, Sunday. riiVE thousand armed Japa- nese soldiers, under Bri- ..^h military control, are officially acknowledged to be Kuardinj: the American-Dutch-British owned oil installations in the Palembang area of Sumatra. Their nresence was confirmed I 4v a British spokesman, after it b3d
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    EXPLOSION AT SCHACHTS GAOL
    140 2 BERLIN, Sunday. T*HREE s multaneous explosions rocked the Denazification Court Buildings n Stuttgart and Backnang, 25 milts away, and blasted a ho'.e in the sde of Stuttgart Provost Marshal's Office last night, military gov--1 emment officers reported today The officers said that only "minor damage" was
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    FIRST POPPY DAY IN MOSCOW
    103 2 LONDON— The poppy emblem of remembrance for Britain's war dead will be worn in different countries on Poppy Day, Saturday, Nov. 9. More than 45,000,000 popp'es and 55 poppy wreaths have been distributed thioughout the world. Among the world countries receiving poppies are Gibraltar, Malta,
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    U.S. CITIZENS IN RUSSIA ALLEGE SLAVE LABOUR
    140 2 WASHINGTON, Sunday. The United States Government r considering making a protest to: Russia over the alleged "slave labour" conditions enforced on I individuals claming American citizenship much on the lines of I the note sent to Yugoslavia yeji terday, sources close to the
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    TOKIO WORKERS CUT OFF POWER
    74 2 TOKIO, Mon. —Takeshi Iriye, chairman of the All-Japan Electrical Workers Union's central committee, told United Press that the committee has ordered the! workers to cut off power to factories of principal industries throughout the nation, which will be continued until the government and op?rators accept
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    Ceylon Strike
    36 2 COLOMBO, Mon-Troops BAM I been called out to meet an emcrigency arising out of the five-day old strike of more tiia;: 14 000 Ceylon transport workers which has held up movement of essential foodstuffs.—Reuter.
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    NEHRU'S TANKGUARD
    195 2 PESHAWAR. Sunday. nANDIT Jawaharlal Nehru, 1 I Vice President of the Indian Interim Government, completed his journey from the Khyber Pass to Peshawar with a heavily reinforced escort after tribesmen had stoned and fired at his convoy in the pass. Tanks were deployed as a security measure at
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    Sank At Her Berth
    40 2 ■'il that ran be seen of the car o ship Huor, anrr sne i.ud been struck amidships by the P. and O. Strathnavcr at her berth at Southampton recently. In the background is the Queen Mai?.
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    New Burst Of Fighting On Peking Railway
    251 2 PEKING, Monday. THINESE Communists have cut the Peking-Tientsin road, 57 miles south-east of Weiplng, and fighting is raging along 60 miles of the Peking-Hankow railway, south of Peking, Government authorities reported last night. The Communists, while silent concerning this new burst of warfare,
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    Japs Prepared War Industries For Five Years
    192 2 TOKIO, Monday. FIVE years before Pearl Harbour, Japan began gearing her industry for war, according to evidence presented before the War Crimes Tribunal today. This was revealed in a testimony given by Mr. John vJ. L'.ebert. 31 -year-old attorney trom Omaha, Nebraska, who
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    MOBS ATTACKING KOREA VILLAGES
    68 2 SEOUL. Mon.— A mob attackI Ing a village police station a few yards south of the border of Rus-sian-occupied North Korea yesttrday killed the chief, two policemen and two civilians, American Military Headquarters reported Several other police bodies ,n Kaijo were attacked yestrrday but without casualties.
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    RELEASE APPEAL FOR ARCHBISHOP
    90 2 SHANGHAI. Sun.— Hundreds of Russians today flocked to Shanghai's Russian orthodox St. Nicholas church to sign a petition, asking the Soviet Consul General in Shanghai to intervene with the Chin. <se authorities for the r:leass of Archbishop Victor. head of the Russian orthodox mission in China
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    EMPEROR MAKES ANOTHER TOUR
    64 2 OKAZAKI AICHI. Mon.— The Emperor Hirohito was revjrentlv received by large crowds and cries ol "banzai" as he toured three provincial cities on the opening day of his seventh public app>arance since the surrender. Children rather than adults fcrmed most of the crowds. The trip U
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    BARTER TRADE WITH SINGAPORE
    113 2 BATAVIA, Sun.- Dr. A. K. Gani, Economic Minister of the Indone- sian Republican Government, spoke at a Press conference yesterday of the flourishing barter trade between Palembang and Singapore. Dr. Gani, who is also Assistant Governor of Sumatra, stated that Republican authorities collected 40.000,000 Japanese guilders
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      143 2 SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY. Tonders are mv.ted for the following Contracts for the period Ist Januao to 30th June 1947:— 1a) Supply of British made So Ij Band and Pneumatic Tyres onu Tubes: $50. <b) Supply of Precast Concrete Culvert Pipes. $50. Tender forms and conditions oi Contract may be obtained at
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      1005 2 BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD (SINGAPORE) TENDER NOTICR. BT OBDEK OF TNfc DIRKt TUB OF DISPOSALS, rAR EASTERN ABEA (MO 8 1. The Brluch Stores Dlspoaai Ooard, Singapore, is authorised to MM Tenders for the following ur.3«TVlc^able stores'— Lot No 1- Metal Clover Ciainpr W Rods and Wing Nuts. Appr<<* 1.
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    Jap Death Railway General On Trial
    796 3 6 'Case Will Rank Second To Tokio" flF the trials in respect of war crimes said to have v been committed in the course of the war in SouthEast Asia, one, which it was claimed may rank as second only to the Tokio trial,
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    £500,000 RADIO STATION
    188 3 "•THE Voice of Britain," a vast 1 Empire short-wave radio network compassing the surface of the earth, will have a staging post" in Singapore, for which the cost of erecting the necessary installations alone will be "not less than £5000,000." The Singapore staging post will toav« counterparts
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    MR. L.H. ATKINSON
    68 3 Mr. L. H. Atkinson, who Is assistant manager of the Union Bank of Australia, Perth, and is well-known to many Malayans who spent the war years in Western Australia, is staying in Singapore for a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Harry C id. at 30, Caldecott
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    THEFT OF TENTAGE
    45 3 Sentence of two years" rigorous imprisonment was imposed by Mr. Paul Storr, the District Judge, yesterday on a Chinese, Fong Leung, on a charge of breaking into a shed of the Base Ordnance Depot at Kranji and stealing a bale of tenta^e.
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    TODAY'S MENU
    21 3 Today's menu for People's Restaurants will be: rice, roast I chicken or turkey or chicken curry, long beans, spinach.
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    Penang's Floating Village Survived War And Peace
    334 3 Penang's Floating Village Survived War And Peace From Our Own Correspondent) PENANO, Sat. l IVING in small muddy huts which jut nearly a hundred yards out to sea, Penang's floating population of sampan men and thrir families has defied for d€;.dos all attempts by man and by nature to remove
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    Sterling Areas Defined
    231 3 POUNTRIES within the sterling area are defined in an official notification gazetted yesterday. These are: United Kingdom any dominion, any other part of His Majesty's dominions, any territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League cf Nations has been accepted by H..Majesty^nd is
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    Singapore Help For Rhio Fire Victims
    278 3 Singapore Help For Rhio Fire Victims AN appeal to Singapore Chinese is shortly to be made for financial assistance for 2,000 Chinese victims of a fire which wiped out the village of Moral in one of the Rhiu islands a fortnight ago. An oil lamp which overturned and set alight
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    3 Years Gaol For Naval Man With Revolver
    174 3 DESCRIBED as a naval deserter, 21-year-old James Shanley was yesterday sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment and fined $100 by Mr. Paul Storr, the District Judge, for possession of a pistol and ammunition. It was stated that Shanley, Joined the Navy in
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    P.A. Survey Flight Will Touch At Singapore
    127 3 A 24,000-mile operational sur--1 vey flight to 10 principal cities in the Far East including Singapore, by Pan-Ameri-can World Airways has begun. The clipper Westward Ho left San Francisco at 1130 a m. yesterday for Honolulu, the first scheduled stop on the trip,
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    POST FOR JAPAN AND KOREA
    95 3 Postcards for Japan restricted to correspondence of a personal or family nature may be written in Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian or Spanish. Letters (other than official mail pertaining to repatriation) and commercial and financial communications are prohibited, states an official communique. Letters and
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      659 3 NOTICE. Tlit monthly meeting of the rnual Johore Section, JoJnre 'InnU-ri' AMcciatinn. will be held in tie Court Houae. Kluang. on Friday MokH 25th at 11 a.m. O. W. HUSBAND. Chairman. SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY. 1 1 ions are invited for recruiticiit into the Munlc pal Clerical SerIro Applicants must be not
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      1008 3 SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY. The Municipal Commissioners ot the Town of Singapore Invite applications for filling a vacant post of AssUtat.t Water Engineer. The post is in Class HI of the Senior Officers' Salary Scheme ($4OO -A »25-s6OO-A $40-$800). Applicants should have passed Sections A and B of the Associate Membership Examination
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    The Straits Times. Singapore, Tues., Oct. 22, 1946. Defence Costs In Malaya
    983 4 The Straits Times. Singapore, Tues., Oct. 22, 1946. Defence Costs In Malaya Had Malaya domi less concerned with immediate domestic problems, it is probable that the recent debate in the House of Lords on the subject of Imperial Defence would have given ris c to a great deal of controversy
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    INDIA TO CHINA
    113 4 NEW DELHI, Wednesday. On j behalf of the Government and people of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has sent greetings of goodwill to the Chinese Government and people on the occasion of the anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China. In a letter to Mr. S.
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    GUBERNATORIAL NIGHTMARE
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      Asiatic Larynx, European Twang, And Vice Versa
      256 4 IN offices, schools and other working places, Europeans are amused and even annoyed with th£ "bad English" spoken by Asiatics. They remark that we are speaking "Asiatc English" which they do not understand: they mean wrong intonati n, rhythm, and, last but not
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      More Usher folk
      146 4 {READ with distrust your report regarding the refugee.-* .rom Bagan Si Api Api. numbering a few thousands, who have come to seek shelter in Malaya. Your report stated that these flsherfolk have come "to provide a welcome addition to Malaya's depleted fishing colony." What has happened to
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      From Langkawi
      285 4 1 WRITE to you with a feeling of utter disgust a 1 Government's "Grow More Food" project, which ha? been proved a mere mockery in this island, which is stiil a part of the Malayan Union althougu it is off the coast of Kedah. Everybody knows that the
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      Bencoolen Convicts
      171 4 RECENT letters on the woru 'Kling*," have prompted' me to write the following:— The Indian penal settlemei in the Straits Settlements ohp: rated at Bencoolen in 1787. Un the transfer of Bencoolen to tl.e Dutch in 1825. those convicts were transferred to Penang, and later on convicts were
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      Courtesy On Buses
      137 4 r! is a pity that courtesy and good manners have been thrown to the winds on buses in Singapore. In buses packed to capacity one rarely sees acts of courtesy or gentlemanly behaviour on ihe part of those seated in offering their seats to the older members
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      Does Anyone Know?
      98 4 CAN anyone kindly let me knu.v the origin and author of the name MOTOR CAR? A few yeurs back a person gave me what purported to be an extract from the Daily Chronicle of Oct. 29. 1895. which I reproduce below"A name has not yet been found
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      Dangerous Streets
      57 4 THE recent robberies in the Rangoon Road area have stamped this area as dangerous. The main reason why this is a hot spot is the ex remely bad lighting at night. The Municipal auhorities should see to i i ljrhting of Dorset Road. Kampo. Java Road. Thom-on Road
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    A Malacca countryman goes to town
    393 4 A Malacca countryman goes to town (From A Correspondent) I WENT to Malacca lown with my wife and child (5 years old) on pay-day in order to purchase some articles in preparation for the Chinese festival of the 9th day of the 9th moon. As we were boarding the Lu-;
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      897 4 I'KTHER On Sunday. October 20th. Id Kathleen (nee Clark) wife of H. L fetber (C. C. Wttkefleld Co, Ltd.,> son. John Edward Clark. LIM— TAY. The marriage took pur.kn the 19th. October 1946 between Mr Lhn Chen-: Slang third son of M-. |Jm Ban Whatt and Miss Lily Tay ai.ly
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      26 4 PERFECT VISION HAPP* LIVING. Guard your only pair o! eyes Should you experience the slightest eye dtcomfort. have them examined C S. CHONQ. O D.. F.P.0.0
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    Worley Report Should Benefit Volunteers
    623 5 Worley Report Should Benefit Volunteers $2 MILLION PAID Straits Times Reporter REPRESENTATIONS made by the War Prisoners (Singapore) Association on the question of Civil Liability claims are now being considered by the Worley Commission which was appointed by the Governor of Singapore, recently, to go into the whole question of
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    7 cars' Gaol For Carrying Revolver
    162 5 7 cars' Gaol For Carrying Revolver A 21 year-old Chinese. Tan Ah Huat. was sentenced to seven years' rigorous imprisonment oy Mr Justice Thorogood at the Bngapore Assizes yesterday when he pleaded guilty to a charge >f tarrying a .38 revolver which was loaded with six rounds of live ammunition.
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    FLOUR SHORT IN PENANG
    72 5 From Our Own Correspondent j FENANG. Monday. I\UE to delay In the expected shipment of flour, resulting in insufficient storks at present, there will be no issue of flour i ration, to the Penang public for the next two ration weela It Is officially announced here.
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    S.H.B. CANTEEN
    53 5 The Singapore Harbour Board wsterday opened iUs third Peo- i I.- i Restaurant. This is located a! Keppel Harbour and can accommodate about 1.400. The building was ofTered by the j SHB authorities to the De- partrmnt of Social Welfare who bre responsible for the operation I Df
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    Paratrooper Acquitted
    95 5 /^LFRED Thomas Goodwin, a Paratrooper of the 7th Parachute Battalion, was acquitted and discharged by Mr. Justice Thorosood at the Singapore Assizes yesterday when the common jury returned a v?rdict of not guilty aßainst him on a charge jf voluntarily causing hurt in committing a robbery. Goodwin was
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    Court Martial Of RAMC Capt. Dissolved
    173 5 Court Martial Of RAMC Capt. Dissolved T"HE Field General Court Mar- tial, in Singapore, of Capt. G. R. Wadsworth, R.A.M.C, •on charges of using insubordin- j ate language to his superior officer, and also causing bodily harm to Indian Other Ranks, was d'ssoived yesterday, on the instructions of the G.0.C..
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    TRIED TO CUT HIS OWN HEAD
    58 5 A 54-yeax-old Chinese, Goh 3gng Van. who attempted to commit suicide by cutting his head with a knife was ordered to be bound over in the sum of $100 for a period of six months by Mr L. C. Goh, the second magistrateyesterday. The
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    Smallpox In Parit Buntar
    44 5 lluntarj From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sun. POLLOWING a reported out--1 break of small-pox in Parit Buntar. the Municipal health authorities today renewed their request to th-e public to avail themselves of free vaccination measures offered by the health office.
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    STAMP CLUB
    40 5 The fortnightly social meeting of the Singapore Stamp Club will be held at the Palm Coui\. CaDitol Restaurar.', at 5.30 p.m. today. An auction of stamps and a talk on the value of B.M.A. issues will b? given.
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    41 5 A canteen for students, selling meals at 10 cents to boys and at 30 cents to teachers, was opened at the Government English Preparatory School, Muar, last Sunday. Mfcals are sold thrice a day, reports th* Straits Times Correspondent in Muar.
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    war Memorial Scholarship Fund Suggested
    284 5 war Memorial Scholarship Fund Suggested INQUIRIES are being made in 1 Singapore to ascertain the lumber of children whose parnts were war victims, with a low lo setting up a special fund to give thsm relief as well as educational aid. This is one of the three recomnv. ndations for
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    BREAD 'BRAINS TRUST'
    253 5 Singapore Tests To Improve Bread NINETY loaves two from each of 45 bakeries in Singapore were tested yesterday by a cosunittee of leading bakers for colour, texture, odour, flavour and general appearance, and on their findings will depend the future allocations of flour to bakers. This test
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    LOCK JAW FOLLOWS ABORTION
    101 5 LOCK JAW FOLLOWS ABORTION T*HE Coroner recorded a finding of death caused by an act done with intent to cause m scarriage against an unknown Malay woman when he he'd an inqutst yesterday into the death of a 21 year-old Eurasian g'rl on June 8 this year. It was stated
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    OPEN VERDICT IN JEEP MYSTERY
    64 5 CONCLUDING the inquiry into the death cf an unknown Indian whos? bi was fourd near a damaged Je p at BraJdell Road on July 28. th Curonr re corded an open verdict yesterday. Mr W. G. Porter stated that it was probable that the Ind'an
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    PRICES OF IMPORTED GOODS DROP
    231 5 PRICES OF IMPORTED GOODS DROP Uv Our Chinese Correspondent Wi'l H the arrival of European and American goods in Malaya, the heyday of th 2 importers of Australian foodg is over, states the Sinrlvw Jit Poh. The paper also states thatr pr'ces of general imported goods of foreign manufacture have
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    ALLEGED GANG JOBBERY
    60 5 ALLEGED GANG JOBBERY Seventeen dunes^ w re arraigned before the F urtli Police Magistrate, Inche Anmad bin Ibrahim, yesterday on ehargea ot comm'tMn? ping robbery of severs 1 birbor instruments vahit d at $50. In B>mbt«'anc8 > mbt«'anc Pon-l on Oct 20 After the charge was explained to the pecusd.
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    Gaoled For Posing As Detective
    78 6 Gaoled For Posing As Detective From Our 6wn Correspondent TAIPING. Sun. IN English-speaking Chinese. Liew Weng Kong, alias Foo Ban S.n. was sentenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. c. P. Newton in the District Court on a charge of posing as a detective and in that character demanding
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    Prison For Killing Russian N.C.O
    59 6 Prison For Killing Russian N.C.O London (By Air Mail). Twenty-one-year-old Aircraftman Gerard Christopher Ennis, I who was acquitted at a Berlin trial of the murder of a Russian sergeant in the "Red Room' of a Berlin hotel, is to serve 18 months for manslaughter. Six months of a two-year sen-
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    Shoes For Germany
    40 6 LONDON, (By Air Mail)— Britain will send 1,000.000 pairs of shoes to the British zone of Germany, said Hamburg radio. The shoes ar« mostly for children, who will also get an ounce of chocolate every other day.
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    Gestapo Man Held In Wood
    120 6 London 'By Air Mail>— Reinhold Bruchhardt, 33, former member of the Gestapo, descno J by the police as "a dangenn;man" was captured by police and villagers at Great Horke.sl?y. Essex, after having been stalked for three hours through a thi.^k wood. Bruchhardt escaped from the
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    Ipoh Traders Want Free Importation
    199 6 Joint Petition To Union Governor From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Mon. A JOINT petition by the Chinese and Indian Cham- bers of Commerce here to Sir Edward Gent, the Governor of the Malayan Union, seeks Government approval to permit the free importation of essential consumer
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    DIAMONDS
    90 6 LONDON, Monday.— The la*t I instalment of an $18,000,000 shipment of industrial d.amonds from Montreal to the Board of Trade has arrived in England. The shipment represented the balance of a War Reserve of 12 million carats built up in Canada in 1943 to feed precision engineering industries turning
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    33 6 Mr. A. H. C. Allen, commercial manager of the Malacca offlce of the Duniop Malayan Estates Ltd., is an inmate of the Malacca General Hospital, reports the Straits i T imes Correspondent, Malacca.
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    ABOLITION OF VISAS TO FRANCE
    169 6 ABOLITION OF VISAS TO FRANCE LONDON, (By Air Mail). THE British and French Gov--1 ernments have concluded an agreement for the abolition of visas on travel between Fiance and the United Kingdom. The initiative came from Britain. Details of the scheme may take some weeks to work out, but the
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    U.S. Plans Giant Rocket Plant
    45 6 Yankton. South Dakota, Sunday Senator Chan Gurney said that the Government is planning a centre employing 36.000 for research on rocket bombs, guided missiles, faster-than-sound aircraft and atomic energy. He said a site of 50 square miles Is needed.— A.P.
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      740 6 SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. DEEPAVALI PUBLIC HOUDAY Wednesday. 2Srd OeUber. 1M«. The Company's Retail Establishments In Singapore will open from 3 am. to 10 a.m. only for the sale of Bread. Fresh Mill and loe. Note:— Fresh Milk and lee at Or- > l.ard Ro&d only. LATEX CUPS (White
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      632 6 j.aoo»iijj v. .-.ral-i a. li 13 cdvious, u> anyone giuLijplayer must not rely too much ing at the North hand, that North On a "one-over-one' response, would have been outrageously opObserve this typical case: timistic to make another bid in South dealer vi ew of South's original pass and Both
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    Singapore Shares Show Brighter Tone
    175 7 Around The Markets By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Monday. I OCAL share market was considerably brighter this < morning. In industrials, business was done in Gammons at $3.70, Fraser and Neave Ltd., at $26.50, United Engineers, Ltd., $10 and Wearne Bros, at 516.50. There were
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    JAP MACHINERY GOING TO CHINA
    154 7 SHANGHAI. Sun— China hopes to I obtain about 4.000,000 tons of machinery I and equipment from Japan in the form of reparations, it is learned. According to Mr. Wu Pan-lung, a I member of the Chinese delegation t j ithe Allied Control Council in Japan,
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    BIG TINPLATE MERGER PLAN
    124 7 LONDON— It was revealed recently •hat a new company Is to be formed la rorrv out a £40.000,000 scheme for the modernisation and development of the South Wales sheet steel and ti:iplate Industries. To ensure speed and efficiency the company will acquire plants and assets now
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    Straits Produce
    193 7 SINGAPORE, Monday. THERE wcire keen baying Inqniries for black pep??r during the week md. resultinr in increase in prices. I Latest price .'s S9S per picul. but ?rl!r-s are reiirved, sajs C'hungna" Jit Poh. No change ba> taken place in white pepp.. because of shipping difficulties for European
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    Taxation And Rand Mines
    269 7 Johannesburg.— '"If the present, trend of taxation, commodity prices and high wages is allowed to go on without a commensurate increase in output, the gold mines of the Free State may never be opened and an unprecedented expansion of South Africa's greatest national asset will be
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    PEPPER PROSPECTS ARE GOOD
    252 7 SINGAPORE, Monday. QINGAPORE market observers predict good pros pects for black pepper, statethe Chungnan Jit Poh. In pre-war days, Lambong area alone could produce no less than 45,000 piculs of black peppei annually. This important producing area was totally neplocted during the occupation and the new
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    CHINESE TRADE MISSION HEADS
    91 7 SHANGHAI, Sun.— Two o! Chinas foremost veteran diplomats, Dr. C.T.. Wang and Dr. W.W. Yen, will heau a 30-men trade delegation shortly to study commercial and Industrial developments in Great Britain and the United Stakes, according to local pres--1 reports. The delegation, which is sponsored by
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      752 7 Singapore Tides TODAY: Higrh Water: 9.35 ajn i 8 ft. 5 in 9.32 p.m. 8 ft. 9 in. TOMORROW: High Water: 10.07 a.m. 8 ft. 8 in 10.11 p.m. 9 ft. 4 in. Along The Singapore Waterfront SHIPS positions In Singapore today EMPIRE DOCK Harpalycus. awaithig berth to load are
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    Aust. XI Probables
    587 8 STRONG TEAMS TO PLAY M.C.C. AFTER the match against the South Australian Country XI, which begins today and will be completed tomorrow, the M.C.C. will have strong opposition in the two next matches against South Australia and Victoria, both of whom have announced teams with many Test
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    In Draw
    201 8 HEAVY rain which delayed play I after lunch prevented a j decision in the challenge cricket I match played at Nee Soon on Sunday between No. 1 B.T.C. and i CJRE. 162 Works. The engineers. who batted first, were all out for 70 but good bowling subdued the
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    Sembawang Win First Inter-Services Rugby
    246 8 D. N. A. S. Sembawang put vi 1 1 a very creditable performance in its first Inter-Services rugby match, by defeating R.A.F. Station Paya Lebar 21 0. on the Raffles College Ground, on Thursday. The game was quite fast, being definitely a three-quarter day; and
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    Table Tennis Events To Conclude Next Week
    242 8 rE various events of the Singapore table tennis championship of 1946 will conclude next week. The inter- club league event which started in August last aid with eight matches being played off nightly have come to the final stajre. The following ax c
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    Second Day's Weights
    216 8 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH. Mon. THERE will be a card of six races fur i the second day of Perak Tur: Club's October meeting on Saturday Hones which were condemned by the Vet on the first day have not been handicapped. Following are the weights: Horses
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    SOUVERAIN IS NOT FOR SALE
    121 8 PARIS, Sun. rOR rhe first time since vie li- beration of France the Asa Khan today attended the French races at Longchamps. One oj his first gestures was to congiati.late Mr. Francois Schmitt on the brilliant performance of his three-year-old. Souverain In the King George
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    S.C.C. RUGBY
    51 8 S.C.C. Rugby team vs. Command Pay Office today is: F. Hutchiuson; S. Johnson, J. Luff, Q. S. Taylor. D. Redmond; C. Milton, R. jaird, E. C. Tokeley, S. L. Morris, T. M. Goring, M. 3. J. Lee, J. L. McCarter, W. J. Todd, D. A. B. Hopkin. W.
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