The Straits Times, 21 May 1947

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1X45. EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 81, 1947. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    URGENT ACTION ON INDIA
    504 1 URGENT ACTION ON INDIA Leaders May Be Asked To London LONDON, Tuesday. k CONFERENCE of Indian leaders in London in a last attempt to preserve Indian unity is one of the proposals said to have been put to Mr. Attlce by the Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten. The political correspondent of the
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    51 1 American Marines who formed a guard of honour during the visit to Istanbul early this month of a United* States Navy squadron, being inspected by the Valdi, or Governor-General, of Istanbul, Dr. Lufti Kidar With him is Vice-Admiral Bieri,, Commander-in-chief of the United States Naval Forces m the Mediterranean. A.P.
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    25 1 a lie Queen acknowledging the rhrers of welcoming crowds on the return to London of the Royal Family from their South African tour. AJ\ photo.
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    Chinese Fined $34,153
    167 1 Chinese Fined $34,153 rHE Heaviest fine recorded m a Singapore Police Court B nee the re-occupation was imp sed by the Third Police Magistrate. Mr. K. W. Byrne, ve-terday. It was a fine of $34,153, imposed on a Chinese for possession of about 2.000 pounds of dutiable Java tobacco. In
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    NO SECOND LOAN
    28 1 LONDON, Tuesday— A spokesnan of the British Treasury said yesterday that Britain had not made any overtures to the United States for another loan. A.P.
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    LAST EFFORT AT UNITY
    164 1 LAST EFFORT AT UNITY The Timts Parliamentary Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. THE Viceroy and the Cabinet 1 still believe that the Bri.ish Cabinet Mission's plan for a united India would be the best solution of India's problem, and a further effort to have this point of view accepted will undoubtedly be
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    Decorated For Bravery
    140 1 LONDON, Tuesday.— Civilians who aided the British forces during military operations m Malaya and enemy air attacks on Singapore are among those hououred for bravery by awards announced m tonight's London Gazette. Services to British prisoners of war m Malaya during the enemy occupation are also recognised.
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    300 STRIKE ON NEGRI ESTATE
    157 1 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tuesday. THREE HUNDRED Chinese labourers o n Ladang Geddes Estate, m Bahau, have stopped work following trouble on the estate on Friday last, which ended m one man being stabbed to death during a fight. At Seremban and Eahat the
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    OUTRAM GAOL OVERCROWDED
    196 1 A GOVERNMENT spokesman sad yesterday that it was uue that, owing to the prevalence of crime m Singapore, Outram Road Gaol was now overcrowed, but the prison authorities were making conditions "as satisfactory as possible m these eircum* stances." The 3uperintpn" .it O f the Gaol, Mr.
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    "BURMA UNION" PLAN
    74 1 RANGOON, Tuesday. Burma is to be proclaimed an "Independent sovereign republic* known as the "Union of Burma," according to a draft constitution submitted by U Aung San, leader of the Anti-Fascist Peoples' Freedom League, to the party convention today. Covering the entire territory hitherto within British Burma,
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    Students And Police In Clash
    174 1 Students And Police In Clash Li-riHrUiNG, luesaay. RIOTING students, demanding that the Civil War be ended, clashed today with police and gendarmes who j baried their way to the building where the PeopVs Political Council went into session. The students, defying a new law against parades and other demonstrations, assembled
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    STOP PRESS
    143 1 LONDON, Tuesday— News was received m London today that the proposed Empire International Gold Cup race, open to thoroughbreds from all parts of the world, would take place at Jamaica Park, New York, on Saturday, July 19, and not m the autumn as first planned. Reuter. LONDON, Tuesday.—
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    Rubber Will Fall Further Say U.S. Users
    536 1 Rubber Will Fall Further Say U.S. Users NEW YORK, Tuesday. THE Wall Street Journal, American financial paper, predicts that the total world rubber output both natural and synthetic— will total well over 2,000,000 tons m 1947. Manufacturers in New York said the rubber price slump since unrestricted trading resumed on
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    SERVICE PRISONERS TO GO TO U.K.
    595 2 SERVICE PRISONERS TO GO TO U.K. Message From Spore Gaol Cell M.P.s Told Of Outram Road LONDON, Tuesday. TONDITIONS under which British service personnel were serving sentences in Outram Road Prison, Singapore, were raised in the House of Commons tonight on the motion for adjournment by Mrs. E. M. Braddock,
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    U.S. Claim On Jap Assets
    242 2 U.S. Claim On Jap Assets WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THE Far Eastern Commissi.n 1 today announced a policy decision on the division of reparations shares m Japan which recognises that the United States holds first mortgage on Japanese liquid assets as lepayment for the occupation and food relief costs. The decision was
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    Gromyko On Atom Control
    147 2 Gromyko On Atom Control NEW YORK, Tuesday. Mr. Andrei Gromyko, Soviet delegate to the United Nations, defend d the Russian stand on the control of atomic energy and reduction of armaments m an address to the American-Russian Institute last n.ght. Mr Gromykc, whose speech was broadcast, emphasised that the Soviet
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    Vietnam Attack On Saigon Outskirts
    222 2 SAIGON, Tuesday. rE birthday of the Vietnamese nationalist leader, Mr. Ho Chi Minh, who was 57 yesterday, was heralded by some of his militant followers. The previous night, with guns and grenades, they attacked French military posts and patrols stationed on the outskirts of Saigon.
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    Jap Empress 'First Interview
    211 2 TOKIO, Tuesday. TMPRESS Agako, of Japan, des not think that members of the Royal Court have too much make-up. She told the Japanese press so when the subject came up dur ng her first formal interview. "I don't know why such a bel'ef should exist among
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      Ailing Patriarch Goes Back To Greece
      152 2 M* v t,.,» m. ISTANBUL, Tuesday. AXIMOS the Fifth, ailing spiritual leader of the world's 130 million members of the Creek Orthodox Chu~ch, left Istanbul last ni'ht for Greece, probably never agai;-, to return to his great religious throne. Sad'.y, Maximos bade farewell to
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      Straw berries For King
      76 2 VERONA, Italy, Tuesday.— Eight British cargo planes flew 24,000 kilograms of strawberries to England on Sunday. The cargo included a special bowl of handpicked fruit for King George. The gift was sect by th e exporters of Verona. A not* addressed to the King offered the
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      Italian Emigrants
      27 2 ROME, Tu.sday.— The first Argentine ship carryir.g Italian emigrants to their Mew homes m South America "wi> definitely i aye Genoa June 3." U P
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      Food Without Work
      64 2 LONDON, Tuesday. The British Labour Government does not subscribe to the Russian slogan, "No work, no eat." the Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey, told the Commons yestirday. Mr. Waldron Smithers (Cons) had asked why miners absent from work still received sp?cial miners' food allocations, and whether the
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      Flies To Graves
      70 2 FRANKFURT, Tuesday— W. A. C. Corporal Madge Harvey Bryant of Peterstown, West Virginia, will fly 8,000 miles from Frankfurt to Iceland an d North Africa, b" gin .ing May 30, to visit the graves of her two sons I who died m the army during the war.
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      Yugoslav Shot
      113 2 TRIESTE, Tuesday. A Yugoslav civilian who tried to cross from one zone into another while his papers were being examined, was shot -by an American soldier on the Morgan Line on Sunday. ait3T ignoring a command to halt. The military government announced, yesterday, the civilian. Anton Ivanic, was
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      Officer On Trial
      87 2 WASHINGTON. Tuesday.— Tlk> U.S. Navy announced yesterday that it was trying Lieut.-Com-mander Edward N. Little on charges of "maltreatment of fellow prisoners when he was senior officer m a Japanese prison camp. The court martial has been going on for two months behind closed doors at the
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      Monty Pleased
      93 2 GLASGOW, Tuesday.— Touri!^ the Maryhill Barracks, Glasgow, yesterday, Field Marshal Montgomery found that boots were no longer deposited on .soldiers' beds at Inspection time. Instead they were placed on chairs. Bed clothes were rolled back for airing m a position wheh renders re--aaking a simple matter of pulling
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      Returning To U.S.
      73 2 BERLIN, Tuesday. MajorGeneral Robert W. Harper, who has been Director of the American Military Government Armed Forces Division m Berlin, left by piane on Monday fcr the United States, via Japan. Gen. Harper will stop m Tokyo for conferences with American occupation officials there on the demilitarization
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      Wedemeyer Lectures
      86 2 LONDON, Tuesday. General I A. C Wedemeyer, Commander of the United States 2nd. Army, who is visiting Britain, is to give a series of lectures m connection with the Kermit Roosevelt Memorial Fund at the Staff College, Camberley. the Imperial Defence College, London, and the Roya] Military Academy.
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      17 2 Queen Mary m Ken Gardens, London. The Queen Mother will be 80 on May 26. AP. p:eture.
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      Three Sisters In Triple Wedding
      68 2 Two sisters married two brothers and a third sister married HU brothers' friend in a triple wedding at Christchurch. Southeate, London, on May 10. From left to right above, they were Pat Pepper, who married Flight. Lieut. John Gregory, D.F.C., of Grange Park; June Pepper.
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      Orchid Lover
      85 2 TUNBRIDGE, WELLS, Tuesday. It is 4.500 miles from Chatanooga, Tennessee, to this town. but Clint McDade made the trip just to see an orchid. "Where's Grace?" were his first words as he stepped from a car at the end of his long journey. Grace, or a "symbidium bodmri
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      Souvenir, Nazi Style
      69 2 FRANKFUR' f U.j -A former German Army doj.oi. max Schmidt, told the ccurt iha. ha had severed ths head ot a d aa American a.rman, boilod it In a. jam can. removed th» fle^h aau eyes from the SiCull. hid head bleached, then sent it. io ins
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      Freighter Aground
      126 2 BRISBANE. lucciv-- :uccessful efforts were made ye.tei- Gay io roll >at the 4^90-iun I freighter Inchlceith, owr.ed by tne Williamson Company cf Hon.; Kong. It went aground or Sun- day with 50 people on board, on a mangrove isia. d nar Ingham, North Queensland. None of the passengers
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      Air Traffic
      84 2 MONTREAL, Tuesday.—Mmber airlines of the International Air Transport Associate., will ask their Gov.rnments tms month to approve the orgau^ition of three large traffic co. l rences, to standardise and unity air traffic throughout th* world. The standardisa io i would include rates and tariJßi Delegates att.nding the policy
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      North African Strikes
      39 2 ALGIERS, Tuesday —I hre? thousard dockers struck work for higher wages yesterday m Algiers In Morocco, 7.000 workers of Sherifian Phosphates Offlc- mines at Khourihga wer c also on strike for higher wag s. Rev er.
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      No Roast
      102 2 LONDON, Tuesday.— The Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey, yesterday resolutely refused to grant facilities for a ram to be roasted at Kinsteignton Fair, on Whit Tuesday (May 27) m accordance with the centuries-old tradition. The custom served as a thanks offering for two springs which suddenly appeared after
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      841 2 NOTICES NOTICE The Institute of Architects of Malaya v.ish to thank all members for their kind donations of books. The library is still m dire need of many volumes end would welcome any further contributions. A.C.S. OLD BOYS Old Boys oX the Ai.glj-Chlnese School are Informed that enrolment for First
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      267 2 NOTICE MR. ERIC ADCROFT CORLESS has been authorised to sign per procuration our firm FRASER CO. ESTATE TRUST AGENCIES (1927) LIMITED. (Incorporated m the Colony of Singapore) NOTICE is hereby given that the Nineteenth Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company will be held at the Registered Office of
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    GOVT. GRANT TO SIAM PLANTERS
    48 3 From Oar Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Tuesday. THE Siamese Government has 1 sanctioned a 25.00«,»00 tical fund to proride assistance for rubber planter* m southern Siam.. The Government k planning to vet up a rubber purchasing organisation to assist planters m obtaining good prices.
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    Empire Day At S'pore Schools
    229 3 Empire Day At S'pore Schools T"HE second celebration, since I the liberation, of Empire Day, will take place in Singapore, tomorrow. All ships in the harbour will be dressed for the occasion. There will be no military parades, but all English schooLs are taking an active part by staging various
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    U.S.WILL TIDE FRANCE OVER
    114 3 PARIS, Tuesday.— America has promised to rush sufficient wheat and maize to France to tide over a possible complete bread famine m July, the French Foreign Office announced yesterday. An immediate emergency allocation of 69,000 tons of wheat and lour is mentioned. In addition, 59,000 tons
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    25 Per Cent Drop Seen In Food Prices
    371 3 25 Per Cent Drop Seen In Food Prices Downward Trend In America The Times Correspondent NEW YORK, Tuesday. DRICE movements m the United States are still much confused, but on the whole the trend is downward and the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts a drop, probably of 25 per cent,
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    AIR SERVICES SUSPENDED
    90 3 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Tuesday.— Air services between Slam and the Phillippines have been suspended because the two Governments have not reached agreement on the mutual use of airports. The Siamese Government some months ago gave permission to four Philippines air lines to use Don Muang,
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    Beecham Surprise At Concert
    265 3 LONDON, Tuesday. FIERY, temperamental Sir Thomas Beecham and his 28-year-old impressario, Haro'd Fielding, parted company yesterday after a disagreement over policy. The famous conductor refused to substitute another pianist for his ailing wife at a Mozart festival concert m Drury Lane Theatre. Sir Thomas told an
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    GERMAN BREAD CUT
    148 3 BERLIN, Tuesday. PE British and United States Military Governments last night announced that although the official ration scales for the Anglo-Unit-ed States combined zones were to remain unchanged "stocks of grain m the combined area and imports which will arrive within the next few weeks will not
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    WELFARE PLAN FOR KELANTAN
    133 3 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. j THE Social Welfare Department is at present planning a I comprehensive relief scheme whereby every district m Kelar.tan will be visited regularly every month. Cash and food will be dis.nbuted to needy widows, orphans, the blind, decrepits
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    MALAYANS ON OKINAWA SHIP
    101 3 rOTA AG^ENG, 7,4CC-tor. Outch ship which carried American troops for the attack on Okinawa exactly two years ago, arrives m Singapore today with returning Malayans The following passengers will disembark at Singapore: Mr. H.C.V.B. Barnes, Mr. C.H J Parsons. Mr. R.C. Dolbey. Mr. A Parker Smith,
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    Brazilians Betting On Eclipse
    209 3 RIO DE JANEIRO, Tuesday. pVENTY-FOUR hours before i eclipse time, the weather at observation points at Araxa and Bocaiuva, Brazil, was crystal clear and Brazilians, inveterate gamblers, were laying odds of four to one the skies would be clear for the critical four minutes of total
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    121 4 Mrs. D. Phipps wishes to thank all relatives and friends who attended the funeral of her beloved brother Adrian Alphonso Doral who passed away on May 13. Penane tapers please copy. Mrs. Silvia Cannell. now a patient after a serious operation m a London hospital, wishes to thank the
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    PERSONAL
    26 4 WILL Mr. X.A.P. fcarl formerly of 46b *-usir Panjung Hill Road, kir.dly :on act Wong Lan Son, Lan Son Co., »y Scu h Bridge, Singapore.
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    The Straits Times Singapore. Wed., May 21, 1947. The Economics Of Peace
    958 4 The Straits Times Singapore. Wed., May 21, 1947. The Economics Of Peace British foreign policy emerged from last week's Parliamentary debate quite unscathed. But tv Mr. Bevln it was a small triumph which could have given no pleasure. The failure to agree at Moscow was m everyone's mind, and It
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    TO ASK RETURN OF CHINESE
    106 4 GENEVA. Monday. THE PREPARATORY Commission of the Intemaaonal Refugee Organisation m Geneva yesterday adopted a Chinese resolution that the Governments of Malaya, Burma, the Netherlands East Indies, Indochina and the PhiliDpines, should be asked to readmit, as soon as possible, displaced persons now m China
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    HARD TIMES YET FOR BRITAIN
    69 4 DUNDEE, Tue-«~jr:— me Labour Minibtei. Mr. George Isaacs, told shipbuilding workers yesterday that Britain would iiu.e one or two more years of hard times becaute of the shortages m manpower and raw materials. He said, however, that Britain was making great strides m exports of
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    72 4 Th's unusual pi tv c of the insiJe of St. Peter's Basilica was taken on May 4, during the beatification of Aless'a Le Clerc, French nun who founded the Order of the Regular Cancnesses of St. Augustine, 300 years ago. The picture is noteworthy for the brilliant 1 ghting effec's
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      Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek And Borodin
      394 4 WITH regaid to Dato Roland Braddell's assertion that the Fath?r of the Cninese Republic, the la*e Dr. Sun Ya'.sen, sought the assistance of L he Communist leader, M chael Bcrodin, af ,er failing to .^ecure a loan from the then Goviri.or of Hong Kong, I
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      Not War-Like
      288 4 WITH reference to Dato Roland Biaddell's article m your issue of May 10, I wish tj comment on the following sentence: "Facing the entrance an a tar at^od upon uhich were effigies of Kuan Kung, the god of war. who is also a household g d I wish
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    DIFFICULTIES OF. SERVICE-MAN IN SINGAPORE
    382 4 DIFFICULTIES OF. SERVICE-MAN IN SINGAPORE nEFORE "D.S.M." withdraw the duty free concessions to which he so blithely refers, may I ask him the following question? Do you, Mr. "DSM," pay United Kingdom Income tax on your Salary? I fear, dear sir, that the answer Is going to be no, but
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    26 4 Letters si<med with a nom-de-plumt arj nat published unless the writer s ram'; and a:tdrrss are cemmunicated to the Editcr as a guarantee of good faith.
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    JAP PROSECUTOR'S DEFENCE IN PUDU GAOL TRIAL
    367 5 JAP PROSECUTOR'S DEFENCE IN PUDU GAOL TRIAL Denies Part In Death Of 640 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. TWENTY-seven-year-old Domai Tadao, the Japa- nese Public Prosecutor in Kuala Lumpur during the occupation, who is charged with four other Japanese administrators of the Pudu Gaol with the ill-treat-ment of
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    Tin Miners To Talk On Taxes
    220 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE all-Malaya Chinese Mining Association and the F.M.S. Chamber of Mines will shortly send representatives for informal talks with the Income Tax expert, Mr. R. B. Heasman. At thi s morning's meeting of the Miners' Association of
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    Singapore Waterfront
    127 5 Ships alongside the Singapore wharves yesterday igodowns m brackets; were:— Main Wharf: Kertcsono (31-32). Marine Arro* '34). Marcn 1 3*5-37). Lane Victory <38-39>, Charon (40-41). Kaju'a (42-43). West Wharf: Empire Tesville (1-2). City of Poona (4 si. Kamerlir.gh, Annes '6-7 1, S-imycrk (8-9>. Kapitan Vislab kov. Empire Soabird
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    CHINESE LEAVE FOR HOME
    89 5 THE first batch of 141 Chinese repatriates to leave Malaya for China, sailed by the Ho Hong Steamship vessel Hong Kheng yesterday for Hong Konfe. Swatow and Amoy. A second bato-h of reoatriat?s expected to sail by Die Hong Siang foi China ports on May 28.
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    MALAYA STAND MAKES HIT
    103 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LLMPUR. Monday. The Malayan Stand, at the British Industries Fair, made valuable contacts with new buyers at home and overseas, says a press release. The total recorded number o: trade enquiries was 328, from representatives of 38 different countries, most of
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    NATIONALISATION SOUGHT
    48 5 BATAVIA, Tuesday. —Sobsi£, the central organisation of the Indonesian labour movement, whose 26 unions claim 3,500.000 members m Java and Sumatra yesterday demanded the nationalisation of all vital industries ir. Indonesia, according to delayed dispatches from Malar.g. The three-day Sobsie annuri Congress closed last r.ght.— A.P.
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    Singapore Governor Leaves Today
    186 5 THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, leaves 1 for the United Kingdom this morning, by .air, from Kallang on a four months' vacation The Colonial Secretary, Mr. P A. B. McKerron. Sir Han Hoe Lim ana other unofficial members of the Singapore Advisory Council. and
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    Whipping For Union Chief
    77 5 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. THE President of the Pahau branch of the Indian Employees and workers Union was yesterday sentenced to receive six strokes of the rotan m addition to eight months imprisonment for "fining" one of the union members. The accused, R. S.
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    155 Houses Vacant In Singapore
    164 5 A TOTAL of 155 premises m Singapore were officially .ui.ed as vacant, according to figures supplied by the Singapore Municpal Assessor, covering the period up to March this year. Vacancies were highest among bungalows and compound houses, of which 61 were empty. Others vacant were:
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    ESTATELABOUR DISCUSSION
    71 5 ESTATE LABOUR DISCUSSION From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. The Commissioner for Labour, Malayan Union, has arranged that representatives of the United Planters' Association of Malaya will meet representatives of the Central Committee of the Sjlangor Estate Workers' Trade Union m his office on a date next week v,:th
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    WELL-KNOWN TAMIL DIES
    46 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday.— Mr. R. N. Thamby Thurai, President of the newly-formed All-Malaya Ceylon Associations Federation, and a well known leader of the Ceylonese Community, died suddenly this morning at his house at Ring Road from a heart attack.
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    Licensee On Whisky Charge
    378 5 Licensee On Whisky Charge CASES of whisky Were proiuced l n the Third Police' Court yesterday when the licensee of the Atomic Club, Yea Cheok Wah. was charged with storing dutiable liquor at 64 Lloyd Road, contrary to the Liquor Revenue Ordinance. Also charged were the former manager of the
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    ADMITTED TO BAR
    36 5 Mr. E. D. Shearn, the we'Jknown Kuala Lumpur lawyer, was admitted to the Singapore Bar by the Chief Justice Mr. MurrayAynsley, yesterday. The application for admission was made by Mrr H. D. Mund«ll.
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    Proposed Site For Park
    40 5 This picture snows the reclaim ed land lying between the Singapore Cenotaph and the sea, whi ch has been proposed as the site of a public park m memory of Singapore's war dead.— Straits Times picture.
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    Enquiry Into Kedah Police Shooting
    249 5 THE Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward lient, has ordered an inquiry into the police shooting on Dublin Estate on April 28, when a labourer was killed and five others wounded. The District Judge, Selangor, Mr. B. G. Smith, has been appointed to conduct
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    Indian Chamber's Building
    143 5 Indian Chamber's Building ANEW building, costing abouc $159,QC0, has be.'ii piopos?d for the Singapore md a i C hambsr of Commerce. No Bite has y.t bec n named. The building will have en up-to-date commercial library, an Exhibition Room and other necessary facilities. The Chamber's Building **und at present stands
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    32 5 From today, the Midday Blue Network transmission of the Singaoore Station of Radio Ma.aya will be broadcast on >455 and 41 metres and not m the 44 metreband used m recent weeks.
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    CREW BRINGS £3,000 MILK
    121 5 THE crew of the Burns Philp iiner Marella brought with them to Singapore nearly .€3,000 worth of Ovaltine and tinned mill;. The cargo was unloaded At Melbourne, before the shn sailed. Customs officers seized more than £3,000 worth of goods, including tyres, biscuits and soap. The
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    NIGHT SOIL COOLIE FINED
    95 5 Charged with tipping the contents of a bucket of night soil into a public drain, a Chinese labourer, Ong Kong Kah, employed by the Municipal Commissioners, appeared before Mr. K. W. Byrne m the Third Police Court. Inspector M. Sundrum, of the Town Cleansing Department, stated
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    LITTLE THEATRE PLANS
    67 5 Having concluded their run of "Androcles and the Lion" the Little Theatre Players are holding a general meeting to discuss plans. It is hoped to put a play into rehearsal immediat?ly for midJuly production, and to keep goIng concurrently a weekly playreading circle. This new club is
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    Esplanade Park Plan For S'pore
    135 5 Esplanade Park Plan For S'pore A MEMORIAL to Singapore's war dead was discussed and approved at a recent committee meeting of the Singapore Ratepayers' Association. The President, Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. produced a plan Illustrating a proposal to extend the lnve of the existing Cenotaph at the Esplanade, m such
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    SHORE FIRE AT DUTCH WARSHIP
    95 5 BATAVIA, Tui sday. JNDONES AN guns a:e repor.ed by the Netherlands Navy to have fir. d on the corvet.e Ambon yesterday from Repub ic;;n territory wi st of Ea.avia. Tine announcement says U>l Ambon was trying to intercept a vessel flying the Chinese ho* which
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    BAT GUANO FOR RICE
    99 5 From Our Own lui.-aponclent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. Th° Government of the wiaiayan Unl n is prov ding a oan of SSCOOOO f r th? c 11 ct and distiibution of bat guano o Increase rice production m Krdah. ar.d another loan of $90,000 for the purchase
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    TROOPS FOR U.K.
    49 5 The Pipe and Drum Bard it 'he Ist Battalion, the Seatorth Highlanders, will be at the quays de and will play away the troopship Strath)- 'v»r t im:;rrow wh'-'i ye leaves Singapore for the United Kingdom with troops who are going home on demobilisation or leave.
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    MINEREHABILITATED,NOW AWAITING EQUIPMENT
    505 6 Taiping Consolidated, Ltd. TAIPING Consolidated Ltd. had planned to start the Kundang Section dredge about next month but, because the position of the delivery of replacements from England was worse than the forecasts of manufacturers, it would probably be well into the second part of the year
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    DEATH OF AN EX-VOLUNTEER
    142 6 KLANG, Monday.— The funeral of Che Mohamed Arus bin Othman, staff sergeant and instructor of the F.M.S.V.F. and senior Malay teacher, who died at Telck, near Klang on May 16, took place at the Malay cemetery, Telok. Che Mohamed who was an old student of the
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    Imports Of P.I. Sugar
    297 6 PRODUCE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent SOME 5.0U4 s. rs of Philippines sugar are bco imported from Hong Kong to meet eager demand of sugar m both Uinstapore and Malaya The r.-e rcark** iru. J ;uiet yesterday. f allowiu< ihe arrival of fresh stocks from S'tm.
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    RUBBER CROPS
    23 6 Outputs for April of one 10Ilowing companies were: Henrietta Rubber Estate UO.aOOO lb. ar.d Sungei Matang Rubber Estate Ltd. 44,020 lb.
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      526 6 SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY 1.00 p.m. Radio Orchestra; 1.30 News; 1.40 Dizzy Fingers; 2.00 Close down. 8.15 p.m. News headlines and programme eummaiy; 8.20 Listener's Post; 8.30 London Radio Orchestra; 9.00 Dance Music relayed from she Mountbaf-ten Club; 9.30 News; 9.45 Preserving the Virtuoso, Pablo Casals; 10.00 Feature, Motor Oavaicade; 10.30 Quiet
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      690 6 tract by rebidding his clubs a point which South apparently overlooked. When South persisted to three no trump In the face of North's threeclub warning. North thought that his partner was much stronger than be actually was and therefore risked the redouble West, in selecting his opening lead, fingered the
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    LONDON STOCKS
    391 7 LONDON, Monday. The Stock Exchange was alm:st entirely governed by the recent Wall Street behaviour with as an additional adverse factor, the Indian situation, says Reut»r's financial correspondent. Declines, however, wene rather heavier than might have been expected. British Funds eased slightly, while Foreign Bonds followed the general
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    SHARE PRICES
    736 7 eiwuAf u^t'ii, Mey awCINOAPORE shar e quo'ations tov day. as given oj Uie Malayan Shareholders' Association, were as follows: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alex. Brick (O) 2.35 2.40 Alex. Brick (P) 3.40 3.60 B M. Itustee 8 25 9.00 Consotldated Tin Smelters (O) 22/- 23/do tP) 26/8 28/Basterc Unlteo
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    S'pore Shares Easier
    305 7 S'pore Shares Easier ALL sections of the local market had an easier tone today but there were still buyers of selective shares. Generally, there was only small business reported. There were buyers of Alexandra Brick Prefs and Ords. Smelter Ords. McAllsters and Robinsons Prefs. Fraser and Neaves were available at
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    WORLD COTTON
    44 7 WASHINGTON. Monday —The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that 1946-47 world cotton production was slightly smaller than previously estimated. The crop totalled 21.500.000 bales, compared with an earlier estimate of 22,050.000 bales. The pre-v.ai average was 31,000.000 bales pcs year. A. P.
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    RUBBER
    68 7 Tint Singapore Cnamber ot Commerce Rubbei Association's orices at noon yesterday were Cts. Cts tx»r 1b. oer Ib No. 1 R.S.S Soot loose 33% 33 No. 1 R S S fob in bales Jure 34% 34 'k No. 2 R.S S fob n bales June 33% 33 7 No.
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    FRAYED TEMPERS SPOIL S.A.F.A. LEAGUE MATCH
    577 8 FRA YED TEMPERS SPOIL S.A.F.A. LEAGUE MATCH By Our Soccer Writer CRAYED tempers, particularly on the part of players on the winning side, spoiled yesterday's S.A.F.A. League match between the Chinese Seniors and the Indian Association at Jalan Besar Stadium. The Chinese won five-nil. The main offenders were centre-half Yew
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    Selangor Meeting May Be Extended
    543 8 Topics Of The Turf- By Our Racing Correspondent THE Selangor Turf Club's June Meeting, scheduled at present for three days, may be extended to take in four days. Reccrd entries are expected. I have been informed that the Kuala Lumpur stables will be entering more
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    Army Favoured To Win Competition
    312 8 WITH 12 points from eight games, and an excellent goal average, Army are strongly favoured to wn the S.A.F.A. League competition, which has advanced into the second round. While the Malays, Chinese Seniors, S.R.C., Navy and R.A.F. are still m the running for honours, the
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    Ex-Stable Boy's 3261 Victories
    121 8 LONDON. Tuesday. Gordon Richards, who quit as an office boy at 14 to begin a turf career as a stable lad, set a world record yesterday with 3,261 victories as a jockey this time on Le Bosc Giard at Worcester. The triumph exceeded by one th
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    Sporting Fixtures, Teams, And Results
    553 8 A Cjj.c'u C mrfiitt/e Meeting \vi:l b In-11l at the residence of Mr. Edmund Yeo (Patron), Nc. 11, Lorong 26, Geylang Road, Singapore at 7.00 p.m. on May 26. The Sultan Youngsters will be selected from the following to play a friendly soccer match against
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    Six Derby Horses Backed To Win £99,000
    163 8 LONDON, Tuesday. QIX horses were backed to win £99,000 at the Victoria Club callover on the Derby tonight. Sayajirao, winner of th« Derby Trial Stakes at Lingfield last Saturday, was m verj heavy demand being backed to win £42,000 at 6—l.6 1. Tudor
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    TWO LEAD TOURNEY
    38 8 BARASSIE, Scotland, Tuesday. James Adams and Artnur Lees, returning one under par for 71, led the opening qualifying rounds m the London Daily Mail £2,500 '""Sessional golf tournament on o 6,402-yard Kiltnarnoci-: course l Monday.
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    OFFICIALS DECIDE TO FORM SPORT COUNCIL
    690 8 OFFICIALS DECIDE TO FORM SPORT COUNCIL MORE than fifty representatives from various sporting associations m Singapore yesterday decided to form a Singapore Olympic and Sporis Council. Mr. P. A. B. McKerron performed his last official act as Colonial Secretary by opening the meeting. Today he will be installed as Officer
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    MUAR CHINESE HELD TO DRAW
    72 8 MUAR, Tv ,-sday. The Muar Chinese were held to a one-all draw by the Tiuaa In a friendly soccer match at t^e Mi ar Club Padar.g yesterday. The game was scrappy, v.i h very few Lrilliant flash, j The Chir.es3 took the lead ear:y m
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    EDRICH SCORES 225 FOR MIDDLESEX
    342 8 LONDON, Tuesday. DLAYING for Middlesex against Warwickshire at Birmingham, Bill Edrich yesterday scored 225 in five hours. Middlesex bad scored the huge total of 452 for five wickets when they declared. G. L. Willatt. the Cambridge captain, was another centurion m the University's match against
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    BIG ARMY GAME TODAY
    89 8 Today's Army international soccer match between Scotland and England, at Jalan Besar Stadium, is being eagerly looked forward to by civilians as well as Servicemen. Scotland will have Henderson m goal, but England appears to have the better side at least on paper. The Scotsmen are
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      463 8 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from Page 4) (Him vkv Mr. R.N. Thamby-Thurai, M.8.E.. branch manager. United India Life Assurance Company. Kuala Lumpur, passed away peacefully following a heartfailure at 1 30 a.m. on 20.5.1947 at his residence. 148 Ring Road. Kuala Lumpur. Cremation at 5.30 p.m. yesterday at the Loke Yew
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