The Straits Times, 22 August 1947

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    18 1 The Straits Times A/zlL^y^'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1145. EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1947. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    POUND NO LONGER CONVERTIBLE INTO DOLLARS
    1558 1 POUND NO LONGER CONVERTIBLE INTO DOLLARS Dalton's Radio Speech After Cabinet Session LONDON, Thursday. TEMPORARY suspension of the convertibility of sterling: into dollars was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dr. Hugh Dalton, in a 8.8.C. broadcast last night. The suspension came into force last night. Dr. Dalton made
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    MALAYAN WAR DAMAGE CLAIMS $1,302,000,000
    561 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE Bill for war damage and war risks insurance which individuals and companies in the Malayan Fir on and Singapore have presented to the "W'a** Damage Claims Commission amounts to $1,302,000,000/ 11 was announced today that a scheme
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    U.K. FARMERS GET BATTLE ORDERS
    81 1 LONDON, Thursday.— Britain's farmers today received their battle orders for the toughest fight they have ever had to face to step up output by £100,000,000 within four years and so ease the crushing burden of food, purchases abroad which represent more than half the country's
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    Jews Must Land Or Go To Germany
    169 1 LONDON, Thursday. BRITAIN today issued an ultimatum to 4,400 Jewish refugees aboard three British ships off southern France, ordering them to disembark by tomorrow afternoon or be transported to Germany. The refugees, who are without visas for Palestine, were intercepted by British craft
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    OVERSEAS REACTION
    180 1 FIRST reactions from spokesmen overseas to the British decision to block the dollar loan are: CANADA Some exporters will be inconvenienced but otherwise there will be no serious effect. The U.K. will still be able to pay half her adverse trade balance with Canada in dollars because she
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    SIKHS SACK TOWN OF 75,000
    131 1 JUiLUNDER, Thursday. DOLICE stood by in Jullunder I today while bands oi Sikhs waving swords devastated Muslim buildings, flred property and pillaged. The number of dead cannot yet be estimated. The burst of violence became uncontrollable as the population became cjivided into hunters and hunted.
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    Strike Decision After Police Fire Kills SHB Man, Wounds Another
    638 1 Strike Decision After Police Fire Kills SHB Man, Wounds Another AN Indian road worker at Singapore docks was shot dead and another seriously wounded by an Indian police sentry yesterday. When the news spread 3,000 stevedores and wharf labourers walked out of the Harbour Board gates, and loading and unloading
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    Attlee Report Denied
    56 1 LONDON, Thursday. The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Herbert Morrison, at a press conference yesterday, denied that Mr. Attlee was likely to resign and hand over the Premiership to Mr. Bevin. "I have only seen it in one newspaper," Mr. Morrison said, "and the writer does not know
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      New U.S. Jet-Propelled Plane Sets World Speed Record
      149 2 MURO€, CALIFORNIA, Thursday. A STUB-WINGED Navy jet-propelled D-558 Douglas Sky Streak, piloted by a veteran combat flier, roared four times over a three kilometre course at an average of 640.7 miles an hour to set a new world air speed record yesterday.
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      Orders To Vacate
      97 2 LONDON, Thursday. The War Office is to take legal action unless about 800 Army quarters are vacated by families who were allowed to occupy them during the war to ease the housing shortage. A War Office announcement today, stated: The War Department's duty is to find married
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      Gold-Mines For Japs
      91 2 TOKIO Thursday Finance Minister Takeo Kumsu told the Diet that the Japanese Government was contemplating the promotion of the sold mining industry, as part of a long-range economic plan, preliminary to Japan's eventual re-admission into world economy. He stressed that with the resumption of private foreign trade
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      Talks On Germany
      96 2 LONDON. Thu-sday. The United States Embassy last night announced that G<en. Lucius D. Caly. American occupation commander in Germany and Robert Murphy, American Ambassador in Germany, will fly to London tomorrow to participate ni three power talks on the level of German industry. They, along with Edward
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      Doleful Scheme
      116 2 WASHINGTON, Thursday Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle's Air Forc e Association dolefully recommended today a programme for getting the nations air force "psychologically prepared for unpreparedness The Association magazine Air Force says that peace-time training must be directed by members of the 19th Bombardment Group that was caught in
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      Dredgers Find Bomb
      73 2 SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday. All ships in and around Southampton docks were warned yesterday that a 1.000 pounds exploded bomb was lying within 500 yards of the docks as bomb disposal squads worked feverishly to make it harmless. The bomb was discovered yesterday when a dredger brought it up.
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      Vietnam Peace Terms
      45 2 PARIS, Thursday.— The French Prime Minister, M. Ramadier. will preside today over a cabinet meeting to consider the Frencn Government's proposed peace terms to the Vietnamese in IndoChina. M. Ramadier conferred yesterday with M. Emile Bollaert, French High Commissioner to Indo-China— Reuter.
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      Award For Hartnell
      45 2 LONDON, Thursday. Norman Hartnell. who designed Princess Elizabeth's wedding gown, announced yesterday that he had been awarded the Neiman-Marcus Award for distinguished service in the field of fashion and would leave for Dallas on Tuesday for the presentation on September 3. U.P.
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      Germans Leave Japan
      87 2 YOKOHAMA, Thursday.— The U.S. Army transport. General Black, left here yesterday with 806 German repatriates, including Alfred Kretschmerff former German general who helped plan the proposed Nazi invasion of England, Heinrich Stahmer, former German ambassador to Japan and Dr. H. Seelheim, former consulgeneral in the Tokio and
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      Radio Display
      73 2 LONDON, Thursday.— Britain's latest developments in aircraft radio equipment will be on show at a "big aviation display to be held at Redditch soon. One of the outstanding exhibits in this field will be a new compass which will be installed by a number of British civilian aircraft.
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      Vote For Catholics
      65 2 VATICAN CITY Thursday Hungarian Premier Lajos Dinnyes in a letter to Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has promised a revision of th P electorial laws, which exclude many Catholic voters Vatican sources said today. The Hungarian Primate had sent a letter to Dinnyes protesting against the "cancellation from the
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      Ship's Cook Drowned
      49 2 Ship' s Cook Drowned ABERDEEN, Thursday. In a collision yesterday near Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire in thick foe, between a motor fishing vessel and a trawler the former sank in one and half minutes. All the crew were saved except William Smith, 69, cook, of Portessie. Barffshire. who was drowned Reuter.
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      Dancing 'Unpatriotic'
      108 2 SHANGHAI, Thursday. A bitter controversy over the prospective closure of Shanghai's dancehalls as part the Government's new austerity programme was stimulated still further yesterday by Fan Chih, head of the Shanghai Kuomintang, who told reporters that dancing should be banned, not only in public places, but in private
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      Vatican Competition
      125 2 ROME, Thursday.— An international competition to replace the present wooden doors of St. Peter's with new ones made of bronze has been announced by Prince Monslgnor Giorgio di Favria, Canon of St. Peters. Full liberty of design is allowed to all those competing but the work on the
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      Interdependent
      41 2 QUITANDINHA, Brazil, Thurs. —The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Marshall, told the Inter-American conference here yesterday that Europe's economic recovery was vital to the American hemisphere. He appealed for unity among the 20 nations drafting a hemisphere defence agreement. A.P.
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      Princess' Gift
      57 2 LONDON, Thursday. One of the gifts received by Princess Margaret Rose today was her appointment as Colonel in Chief of the Highland Light Infantry. rhe Princess celebrated her birthday quietly at Balmoral. Scotland, where the Royal family is staying. Gilts and congratulatory messages for the Princess have been
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      Radio Interference
      71 2 SYDNEY, Thursday.— Sunsoots associated with auroral displays can be expected to interfere with Australian radio reception during the next year or two, says the director of Riverview Observatory in Sydney, Father D. O'Connel. He was commenting on a report that the Carter Observatory, New Zealand, had observed a
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      "Top Secrets"
      85 2 SYDNEY, Thursday.— Teams of Commonwealth Security officers will guard "top secret" documents at the Empire conference on Japanese peace terms, which begins in Canberra on Tuesday. Security officers will also form bodyguards for delegates. Nearly 100 overseas delegates and advisers are expectd to attend the conference. The conference
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    UNO Clash On Race Barriers Likely
    113 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday. South Africa's rejection of a United Nations recommendation for correction of alleged discrimination against r ationals of Indian descent will result in another bitter session in the general Assembly next month, India Dominion officials said yesterday. Indi.. was expected to take
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    WAR LOOMS AGAIN IN THE N.E.I.
    557 2 Van Mook Charges Republic With Murderous Record BATAVIA, Thursday. A DRASTIC deterioration in the Indonesian situation yesterday was the outcome of two developments: The Netherlands East Indies Lieut. GovernorGeneral, Dr. van Mook, broadcast a bitter attack on the Indonesians for their two-year record of
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    Mr. Truman Predicts Surplus
    210 2 WASHINGTON, Thursday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN, loreI casting a U.S. $4,70U,000,000 budget surplus next .june 30, yesterday issued two warnings the United States' international finance programme might trim the surplus; and American taxes would have to stay high. He said Federal spending this fiscal year would fall only
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    Thousands Killed In Amritsar, Lahore
    557 2 LAHORE, Thursday. EXTERMINATION and exchange of populations between Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan has been attended by a fury greater than all the preceeding months and has left the two cities looking like battlefields, says G. Milton Kelly, Associated Press correspondent. His dispatch from Lahore
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    4,000,000-Ton Rice Shortage In 1948
    242 2 4,000, 000-Ton Rice Shortage In 1948 WASHINGTON, Thursday. A WORLD rice shortage of 4,000,000 tons next y^-ar is predicted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The F.A.O. rice study group report puts import requirements at 6,500,000 metric tons. Available export supplies are expected to be only 2,500,000 tons
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    RECORD MONTH FOR EXPORTS
    460 3 Morrison Reveals Trade Figures LONDON, Thursday. ]^|R. Herbert Morrison, who is acting as Prime Minister during Mr. Attlce's holiday, told a press conference yesterday that Britain's July exports reached the highest value ever recorded. Unemployment was at its lowest in peace-time since reliable statistics began, employment
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    128 DIE IN CEYLON FLOODS
    93 3 COLOMBO. Thursday. Dead numbered 128, and 10,000 were estimated to be homeless in the latest check-up on Ceylon's great flood, the largest in living memory, it was announced today. In the worst affected central province more than 100 persons were reported drowned, whilh 3,000 houses
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    Fewer U.S. Goods To Singapore?
    214 3 Fewer U.S. Goods To Singapore? NO local repercussions in the exchange rate, ar c expected in Singapore, following Britain's decision to suspend the convertibility of sterling, but ther e may be further restrictions on imports from America. One commentator said that Britain would not do anything which involved the parity
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    New World Trading System
    343 3 LONDON, Thursday. "THE British Treasury order 1 halting sterling convertibility specifies that sterling may be freely spent anywhere in the world outside the dollar area, and Britain will now try to build up a new world trading system outside the dollar area, writes Sydney Gampell, Reuter's
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    MR. ATCHESON BELIEVED DEAD
    73 3 HONOLULU, Thursday.— ViceAdmiral John Hall said yesterday he believed Mr. George Atcheson, Jr., "went down with his plane" when a Hawaii-bound Flying Fortress ran out of petrol over the sea on Saturday night. The United States Navy neveitheless announced that the search for Mr. Atcheson, who
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Friday, Aug. 22, 1947. EXPENDITURE AND TAXES
    859 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Friday, Aug. 22, 1947. EXPENDITURE AND TAXES The Heasman report recommending the introduction of income tax as a matter of urgent necessity has met with a very mixed and critical reception as was only to be expected, for although people may approve of the principle of
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    The Voice Of Government
    346 4 The voice of Government this week was soothing when it told the people of Malaya, in reply to i Straits Times questions, the story of how Malaya would have no 5 direct representation at the Cans berra conference on Empire policy for the coming peace treaty
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    96 4 Dr. A. C. Jap and relatives wish to convey their heartfelt thanks to all friends who attended the funeral of the late Madam Tan Guat Tiong as well as those who paid visits, sentwrcaths and letters of condolence. Mr. Teo Yeok Soon and family beg to tender their heartfelt
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    Heasman Horizon Bounded By Income Tax?
    1136 4 Heasman Horizon Bounded By Income Tax? 'JHIS article has been written by a leading member of Singapore's financial community. It is a critical commentary of Mr. Heasman's recommendations that income tax should be introduced in this country with the least delay. The writer, who prefers to remain anonymous, says that
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      Income Tax Expert Supporting Tax Impartial ?
      410 4 Income Tax Expert Supporting Tax Impartial I DISAGREE with your leader, "An Expert On Income Tax," and agre c with Mr. Roland Braddell that Mr. Heasman's tax report must be judged objectively on its contents and not invested with any special significance because an income tax official wrote it. It
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      Public Support, If—
      111 4 Public Support, If THE public would be prepared to support income tax if it were clearly proved Malaya could noi do without it. However, there would certainly be more support for the tax than there is if the Government set a good example by (a) putting its house in order
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      Mrs. Moore's Achievement
      223 4 TWO cultural exhibitions are 1 now being held i n Singapore. One, the Inter-School Art Exhibition, has received much publicity. The other, that of British books, has received too little, of it. Yet their delight and taste are comparable. A book- lover is ail ways rather sceptical
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      Prison Warder As Rice Miller
      120 4 T HAVE eaten rice that comes 1 from the Government rice mill at Bagan Serai. I can tell you frankly that it is the worst quality rice that is being produced n this country. The rice contains a high percentage of padi; besides It is
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    'Europeans Should Blush'
    166 5 Lawyer JOHORE BAHRU, Thursday. "I HOPE when they read the 1 account of this case in the papers they will blush," said the defence counsei, Lt.Cot Mathews-Killan ,in a District Court trial hfre today, referring to the conduct of two Europeans mentioned in the case. He said
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    RUBBER DROPS QUARTER CENT
    87 5 Small sellers coming out later in the day, yesterday caused the price of rubber to decline by a > /4 of a cent for No. 1 sheet f.o.b. Closing prices for f.o.b. were ,29 cents per lb, for buyers, and 29' 4 cents for sellers, with
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    SINGAPORE DIARY
    307 5 TODAY: Indonesian Art Exhibition, 3-C Raffles Place. 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. British Books Exhibition. Victoria Memorial Hall, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Inter-School Art Exhibition, Great .World, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Dressmaking Class, Y.W.C.A., 8. Fort Canning Road, 10 a.m. and 5.5 p-n. Council Maeting, Singapore
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      Kidnapped, Escapes
      126 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday.— Chai Fook Hin, a Chinese who was kidnapped by two armed punmen along Serdang Road a few miles outside Kuala Lumpur, last evening arrived at the Sungei Besi police station early this morning after escaping from his captors. Chai. who is son of a local
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      Returned Banishee
      93 5 PENANG, Thursday— A Singapore Chinese who was banished from Malaya 17 years ago. is to stand trial at the next Penang Assizes on a charge of returning home from banishment. The man, Poh Seng Hock, was committed after a preliminary inquiry yesterday before Mr. V. E. Dawson sitting
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      Condolences
      39 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday.— The following telegram was sent by the Governor, Sir Edward Gent, to the Resident Commissioner, Perak: "Very sorry to hear of the death of Dato Panglima Kinta. Please convey my sincere condolences to his family."
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      Negligent Driver
      107 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Thursday.— Darus bin Adnam, driver of a Royal Naval lorry, was fined a total of $200 and had his driving licence suspended for three months when he was convicted by Magistrate Che All today, on two charges of causing hurt by negligent driving. Darus was on
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      Birthday Message
      52 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday.— The Governor. Sir Edward Gent, has sent the following message to the Colonial Office on th" occasion of the birthday of Princess Margaret: "Grateful if you will convey to her Royal Highness Princess Margaret best wishes on occasion of her birthday from Government and people
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      Nurse Loses $4,800 Claim For Damages
      170 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A CLAIM for $4,800 damages brought by Miss Linda Yap, a nurse at the Infant Welfare Centre, Seremban, against Mr. Liew Fook Sang, a director of the Tong Fong Omnibus Co. Ltd., for inquries and damage sustained in a car accident,
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      Party to Mr. Thivy
      43 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday.— The date of a tea party to Mr. J. A. Thlvy, arranged in his honour by the Selangor Indian Association for Saturday, has been altered to Monday at the association's premises in Taylor Road, Kuala Lumpur.
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      Tax Talk
      55 5 PENANG, Thursday. Meetings to discuss the Heasman report on income tax will be held on Tuesday by the Settlement of Penang Association and the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Penang. Both bodies are vigorous opponents of income tax. It is expected that other public bodies here may also convene
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      Pay-Out in Muar
      90 5 MUAR, Thursday.— Three hundred members of the Johore Volunteer Forces in Muar have received $28,250 as part of an advance payment made according to the Worley Report. The officer commanding, J. V. F., said that, owing to the short notice given, only those who turned up on
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      Demands Answered
      107 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday.— Negotiations between railway administrative officials and members of the worker's All-Malayan Trade Union, which began on Aug. 11, have been completed. Answers have been provided for all the 59 demands put forward by the workers. Concessions have been made on some of the demands, including
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      Six Charged
      101 5 IfUALA LUMPUR, Thursday.— Six Chinese from Sungei Pelek, a village 14 miles from Kuala Lumpur, were produced in the First Magistrate's Court today, or. individual charges ranging from gang robbery to extortion alleged to have beer, committed at the same village during May ;lid June. Among them was
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      Morphine Charges
      76 5 SIX Chinese were charged in the I second Police Court yesterday with being In a hut in Dickinson Road on Aug. 20 for the purpose of receiving morphine injections and two other Chinese were charged with using the hut for administering morphine. The six Chinese were allowed bail
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    R.A.F. To Recruit 600 Malays
    214 5 DECRUITING for the Royal Air Force Regiment, Malaya, is to begin on August 26, it is officially announced from Air Headquarters, Malaya. .Trengganu and Pahang the Three recruiting teams will leave Kuala Lumpur on August 25 to begin a tour of the whole of Malaya
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    INDIRECT LEVIES MAY BE REDUCED
    516 5 Possible Effect Of Income Tax From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. HPHE question of reducing indirect taxation if and when income tax is introduced is a matter which must be considered at the appropriate time, said responsible government authorities today. They added that it
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    Heasman Searching For Staff?
    94 5 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. One of the reasons Mr. K. B. Heasman, income tax adviser to the Governments, has gone to London, it is believed, is to recruit income tax officers for Malaya and Singapore, should the two Governments decide to adopt his
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    Census Will Cost $1,185,000
    178 5 MR. M. V. del Tufo, Superintendent of Census, said yesterday, that the cost to Government of enumerators, reporting and tabulation for census work will be $1,185,000. Preliminary enumeration will start on Aug. 24 and for the first 14 days enumerators will go around investigating. The second
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    GUARDS KILL JAP LOOTERS
    156 5 GUARDS KILL JAP LOOTERS AN Army sergeant told the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday, how at great personal risk he took part in a trap to catch Japa nese looters at the Supply Base Depot, Alexandra Road, early on the morning of Aug. 13. The sergeant, D. C.
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    MAJOR HANDLED TREASURE WORTH MILLIONS
    441 5 MAJOR HANDLED TREASURE WORTH MILLIONS From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Thursday. the British Military Administration took over the Taipingr Treasury in September 1945 the treasure that lay in the vaults included $2,000,000 Straits currency, 74 katis of sold ingots, $600,000 in mixed currency, $200,000,000 in Japanese currency and two sealed
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    Thrashing Of Barber By Police Alleged
    173 5 Thrashing Of Barber By Police Alleged From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Thursday A WITNESS told the iiukit Mertajam coroner, Mr. C. B. Danby, today that he had heard police beat an allegedly innocent man until the man cried out for mercy. The coroner is inquiring into the death of Lav
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    RUBBER STRIKE
    92 5 I(UALA LUMPUR, Thursday.— Malayan Union rubber and estate workers have decided to stage a countrywide strike on Monday as a token of protest against the "adamant attitude of the U.P.A.M." on tne question of wage increases, says the All Malayan Rubber and Estate Workers' Council today. In a
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    CHARITY SHOWS
    39 5 KUALA -LUMPUR, Thursday The Pavilion Theatre will give three charity film shows in aid of the King George V Jubilee Home on August 26. The film is Chinese, and is called "Sable Cicada" (romance of Three Kingdoms).
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    TO AWAIT ESCORT FROM JOHORE
    49 5 Sim Ah Gong was remanded in police custody for 48 hours by the Second Police magistrate yesterday to await the arrival of a police escort from Johore. Sim Ah Gong is charged with committing armed robbery at Penggerang, on July 8. Bail was refused.
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    Hundreds Of Clerks May Be Taxed
    422 6 Hundreds Of Clerks May Be Taxed APPROXIMATELY 200 government clerks and half of the Municipal junior staff are drawing salaries and allowances totalling $250 a month and above, according to estimates given yesterday. There is no record what percentage of these staffs are married though a large number of this
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    S'pore Move For War On White Slave Traffic
    297 6 S'pore Move For War On White Slave Traffic THE establishment of an Eastern Bureau, dedicated to the suppression of Fai Eastern traffic in women and children, was recommended by the international social welfare conference which was continued yesterday at the Cathay Building, Singapore. The proposal that such a bureau be
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    191 6 The undemoted newly added non-fiction and fiction works will be ready for issue on Saturday. Baker (Peter) Confession of Faith; Bullett (Gerald) cd. I Readings in English LiteratureGrant (Joan) Vague Vacation; Haldane (J. 8.5.) A Banned i Broadcast and other Essays; I Harvey (John) Gothic England, I
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    Formation Of Malayan R.S.P.C.A.
    105 6 Formation Of Malayan R.S.P.C.A. From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Thursday. MALAYA'S first Society tar the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been formed in Kuala Lumpur by 60 people, representing all communities. The Governor, Sir Edward Gent, proposed the resolution, which »as unanimously adopted, "The public conscience in tb*
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    Singapore Shipping
    79 6 VESSELS alongside the Singapore wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main Wharf: Marine Snapper (33—34), Glenartney (36—37), Cuacan (40) Bidor (41). Prometheus (42—43). West Wharf: Ikauna (I—2), Marella (6—7), Denbighshire (8 9) Agamemnon (10). Glenbeg (14). Empire Dock: Ting Sang (17 18) Kelso Victory (19—20) Lake Side (25—26),
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    NEW TIN RELEASE
    96 6 WASHINGTON, Thursday. The Combined Tin Committee, reporting that world tin supplies will meet only half the demand in the last half of this year, yesterday announced an interim allocation of 15,710 tons. This, and a first interim allocation of 11,331 tons announced on July 8, total 27,041
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    STOLE FROM S.H.B.
    38 6 For stealing four door boJBJ valued at $48. from a Harb<^er! Board on Wednesday, 30-year-oTct Tan Cheng Chui was sentenced to three months' r.i. and 12 months' police supervision in the third Police Court, yesterday.
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    Mr. & Mrs. McKerron Register As Voters
    149 6 Mr. Mrs. McKerron Register As Voters THE Officer Administering the Government, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, registered, with Mrs. McKerron, as a voter at the Dunearn Road registration office yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. McKerron were the 25th and 26th to register at that office, Mr McKerron entering soon after a
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    LONDON STOCKS
    409 7 LONDON, Wednesday. ONCE again little has transpired in stock markets outside the Kaffir section where the best prices were not fully maintained owing to considerable profit-taking but a harder tendency was noticeable at the close, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Domestic issues spent a quiet day with fresh uncertainty
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    Java White Sugar Prices Checked
    346 7 Produce Market By A Market Correspondent. THE arrival of Brazilian white sugar in Singapore has effectively checked the rising trend of Java white. Considerable quantities of Brazil white have been imported of late from Sibu by local dealers. This sugar, It is reliably learned, had
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    TIN CONSUMPTION ABOVE OUTPUT
    97 7 World tin ore production (tin content) in the first five months of 1947 is estimated by the International Tin Research »nd Development Council at 40,000 tons, corresponding to 34 per cent, of the 1947 world estimated production of 117,000 tons. Apparent consumption in the five months
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    LENDU RUBBER'S CREDIT BALANCE
    51 7 A credit balance of $6,739 on the 1946 Profit and Loss Account of the Lendu Rubber Company was carried forward. The account Included profit on the sale of investments, liquid assets in Malaya previously written off and now recovered, and unrequired reserve for Eastern liabilities written
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    SPORE SHARES
    96 7 SINGAPORE, Thursday. By Oar Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. /CHANGES in price quotations given by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association today were as follows INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alex Brick (O) 1.90 2.00 Gammons (M) 5.60 5.70 Great Eastern Life 54.00 57.00 Henry Waugh 21.25 21.75 Malayan Colls. 2.17 i 2.25
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    RUBBER
    62 7 n»e Singapore Chamber o» Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cte. per Ib. peT lb. No. 1 R.S.B. Spot loose 28% 28?« No i R.S.B fob in bales Sept. 29% 29% No. 2 R S.S fob in bales Sept. 28% 29'f» No. 3 R
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    U.S. FUTURES
    33 7 NEW YORK, Thursday. Crude rubber futures yesterday closed 15 points higher. Sales totalled 53 contracts. December 15 2/5 cents. (U.S). Number one ribbed smoked sheet 15J cents. (U.S.) nominal. A. P.
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    MERCANTILE BANK DIV.
    23 7 The London of the Mer- r Bank I a Limited has announced dividend of tttt sit. less w i ord
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    Early K.L. Selections
    92 8 H., CL 1, Div. 1, 6 F.— INVEST, Rosewell's Boy. H., Cl. 1, Div. 2, 6 F.— GRAND PRIX 11, Renoir. H., Cl. 1. Div. 3, 6 F.—TROUSERS, Fine Lady. H., Cl. 2, Div. 2, 5i F. TIN PLATE, Paramount. H., Cl. 2, Div. 3, 5J F.—
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    S.S.C. LOSE IN WATER POLO
    113 8 GHQ Far East Land Forces sprang a surprise on the Singapore Swimming Club in their water polo match at Tanjong Rhu yesterday evening, winning by four goals to three. The game was a hard fought one and the issue was in doubt until the end.
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    ISLAND CLUB
    110 8 Mrs. W. L, Rolleston has been appointed women's captain of the Island Club. In order to get up a women's handlicap list as soon as possible so that the monthly mixed four, some competitions may be started in the near future, it is hoped that all women members
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    FINAL GALLOPS FOR SELANGOR RACES
    972 8 Four Outstanding Sprints Clocked Track Notes From Our Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. IJOSEWELL'S Boy (four in 49 and three in 37 3-5 seconds), Fine Lady (three in 37 4-5 seconds), Renoir (three in 38 seconds) and Tretes (three in 38 1-5 seconds) were outstanding
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    Tomorrow's Card
    1263 8 BELOW is the card for tomorrow's races at Kuala Lumpur, subject to scratchings and order of running: Horses Class 1, Div. I—61 6 Furs. Value $2,000 110 KINO ARTHUR 6 9.04 Madam Ida Oei van Breukelen 130 WIN THE PEACE 5 904 "Lucky Syndicate" Marland 0 12 PRINCESS
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    Keep Your Eye 0n...
    180 8 INVEST: Spreadeagled a good field in Penang over six in the splendid time of 1 mm. 13 3/5 sees. Retaining her winning form. ROSEWELL'S ROY: In pinnacle of form. (.HAND PRIX II: Beat strong field in Ipoh over six on very heavy going. Doing well in
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    CAPTAINS SUM UP
    155 8 LONDON, Thursday. AFTER the final Test Alan Melville, South Africa's captain, said: "Naturally we are disappointed we have not done better, but I think we have put up a much better display than results might at first indicate. This is the first time a South African team
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    Cricket
    123 8 rE Singapore Cricket Club's first and second teams will play the Singapore Recreation Club elevens on the padang this week-end. The first teams will engage in a two-day match, play starting at 2 p.m. tomorrow and 11 a.m. on Sunday. The following have been selected to represent the S.C.C.:
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    ANOTHER WIN FOR GLOUCESTER
    63 8 LONDON. Thursday:— At Cheltenham, Gloucestershire beat Glamorgan by 29 runs, Gloucestershire 172 and 138 (Barnett 62, Muncer. right-arm leg-break, eight for 36 with a spell of three wickets in four balls). Glamorgan 156 and 125 (Goddard, right-arm off-spinner, eight for 61).— Reuter LONDON, Thursday.— Rangers beat
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    TOURISTS ALMOST WON TEST
    90 8 TOURISTS ALMOST WON TEST THE OVAL. Thursday. QOUTH Africa almost suc►3 ceeded in defeating England in the fifth Tut which ended in a draw yesterday requiring only 28 runs wher stumps were drawn. Bruce Mitchell, who carried hla score to 189 not out— his highest score in Test cricket batted
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    Scoreboard
    120 8 England— lst Inns: 427. England 2nd Inns: 325 for I dccl. S. Africa— lst Inns: 302. SOUTH AFRICA— 2nd Inning*. Dyer lbw Wright 4 Mitchell not out 189 Viljoen st. Evans b Howorth 33 Nourse b Howorth 97 Melville c Evans b Cranston 6 Dawson c Howorth b Cranston
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    M.E. vs BRINKMANN
    71 8 The team to represent the Enci neers' Department Branch of th> Singapore Municipal Services Uni i against the Brinkniann Spotts clut in a friendly badminton match tomorrow at 2 p.m. at 15. Grange Road, will be chosen from: Seah E::» Liat, Gan Puh Yew. Sin Man Choy
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    CHUNG HWA A.U.
    66 8 At the annual general meetirsr of the Chung Hwa Athletic Union. Singapore, held at 183-A. Joo Chiat Road, the following were elected office-bearers for the current year: president, Mr. Liew Chye H«e: secretary, Mr. Chia Poh Thik; treasurer, Mr. Ng Kirn Lee: auditor. Mr. Yeo Kirn Lock:
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