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Singapore. Puters, called upon their supi Of the voters who register. Singapore voters will go to porters to boycott the electioned, Indians predominated with the polls for first time on because of what they believed a fair representation of Eura- March 20 and will have inadequate elected represkata-| sians and Malays but with only the choice of voting fortion of only six seats in the a sprinkling of Straits-born "atork," Porchestra conduct new Singapore Legislative Chinese who are British sub- { tér," "trumpet," "microphone,† Council of 22′ members,

"cat,"

"race horse.” "moon."

This new legislature for thei Many are believed to regrot "boxers," telophone" "ylolin" colony of Singapore faland, like now their earlier failure to re- or."lower."

the colony and its new con gister and. when electoral rolla These are the symbols which stitution, is entirely separate reopen next year, are expected the benefit of illiterate from the Federation of Malaya add their names. The next voters, appear in parenthesis made up

elections however will not be of the nine Malaya alongside the name of the 16thtes and the former Straits held for another three years. candidates, for the six seats on Settlements of

Candidates have Jasued their the Legislative Council. (Four Malnece.

lection muntfestors and, they symbols are used twice.)

little. They PEth

Penang #ind

PROFITS ÅND WAGES

Nine members of the Singa- differ but bypore Legislative Council will pose more or feas Identical re- "The Labour Government has

be "officials," nominated by the forms with drastic pruning warning that if the

government expenditure. Governor to represent minority British people do not exercise

communities or otherwise un compulsory and free primary represented interests. One enchi extention, Increased employ- volimtary restraint in relation explorive slogan which broke will be nominated by the Singa.ment of locally born govern-|

Now V

Symbols were allotted ballot and the only lady can- didste drew the microphone.

Singapore is enjoying the election campaign. The first

the long years of political in articulation was the newly formed Progressive Party's de mand: Governor, Gimson. Must Go."

and

ment officers instead of over-

prices, profits and WAL?A the

pore European, Chinese Government will introduce legis

Indian. Chambers of Con- men, improved health and Jatim probably an enabling Act,

merce.

the early to enforce limits

be returned by popular vote. giving power

The remaining six will social services, and

increase of the number of glee-. all round. Ministers admit that

ted representatives to the The left-wing parties believe tluer is what is meant by Sit Earlier fears are now fading they could

Legislative Council, win all these six | Stafford Cripps's reference to that this first faltering step to sents if they contested the elec: rather unusual election is that One strange feature of this "compdsions," if his appeal towards self-government alight tion but would have no real hoth sides in industry does not prove a one-side farce as a re- power in the majority nominat the six members will be return meet with the necessary response. Instend, the election is expert-

sult of a left-wing boycott Council,

ed from only four constituen- cies. Two are Rural West and The possibility of such a men

result of political undoulardly

ed to prove a stimulating inapathy or the heft-wing hoy-Rural East, each returning one disturbs the Government as much as it would tie, elgetoral procedure.

troduction to western democracott, only 22,911 voters regis member, while the more closely disturb industry it

tered when electoral rolls were populated divisions Municipal were cin}- Following the

4210 introduction drawn up out of a total eligible Southwest.

municipal ployed, }; would mean a big of the Singapore Election bill estimated to be about 150,000. North-east covering Singapore and complex addition tu bureau fast year, the left-wing made atic administration, and a tre-fup of the Communist Party, atendous step towards that tutali-the All-Malaya Council of Joint tarianism which the Chancellor of Action and the Malay the Exchequer bas admitted to

stire

be a likely alternative to failure

to reach general agreement.

Once more it looks as though the Government is trying to rush through

emergency

measures

A.

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner,

GROCERIES - ME!

COPR. 1947 RT NEA BENVIOR, ENG, J. 11, REIN, 3. B. PAT, OFF.

12-1

"Another thing--I'm simply lost without a glass of water at three o'clock in the morning?"

Marshall Aid Sinks To Number Four

By Clifford Hulme

Most of Singapore's Chinese itself, will each return two who number over 700,000 in a

Thus it is possible for these population of 949,000, are im-divisions to be represented by party migrant and thus excluded from a pair of candidates who dis- violently with ench 11 vote. Similarly, Malays born in the pre-war

other's politics. British.

Typical tallpiere to this un- protected Federated States do

He advised by this list of word "No." **E Alaved usual election Is that it will talking points in America to-nights running not qualify either.

CUBL the Singapore Govern day, given In order-of impor- ter," he confessed.

100 Years Ago

(From the files of the "Chinn "Mail")

had

#

agree

+

1. Bome prices,

The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, apeaking ment about $400 (£50 sterling) tance. in the Singapore Advisory ensure that one man records

his vote. Connell in mid-December, de- clared that the size of the elec-:

toral rolla demonstrated that large section of the popula- tion was not interested in the conduct of public affairs.

He is Mr. Koh Yong Sing, voter in the only registered Tas polting district in the Rural West Division.

ILIM vote will

2. Presidential candidacy."

3. Those Russians,

4. Aid for Europe.

ten

over that let

Now he's writing his war memoira, and his pen will be mightier than

his aword to the tune et £187,000.

Ike's exit has only slightly While most Amerleans thinned the fox around the approve of helping Europe, Presidential content. require a Congress boggles at the cost The long-silent Dewey has The public is not yet fully special box, a special presiding and fears the effect on home opened a Washington office and, educated in the matter of de. officer, an interpreter, a super mocratic government and revising policeman and counter- quires still some education befoil bogk of 100 ballot papers.

-Beuter-AAP, fore it can be entrusted with af

full share in the direction of Delicate

the affairs of this colony," said. Sir Franklin.

Left-wing representatives)

prices,

Some aid will be voted one. day-that is the best summing up of the vital situation which affects everyone in Britnin.

Meanwhile, ald is going to Britain, day in and out, from private sources.

Last autumn, Mra.. Varden, of Market Drayton, England, visited her Alster at Falls Church, a middlo-cinas Wash- ington suburb.

She told the pepole all

his mouth.

Staasen flits about in a plane full of typewriters and duplica tors and hunts votes in Taft territory.

All three are getting in each others' hair, and MacArthur is poised to oip in from Nippon. -

Dog-eat-dog

Democrats purr over thin Republican dog-eat-dog, but' about worry over a running mate for

reason:

against time. There justified criticism of the almust frantic haste--to say nothing of the bad timing of events--with which the Government has presented to the that might country alternatives reasonably have been calculated much earlier,

Our late Governor har Manufacturers and distributors Hawk's eye towards everthing have been given น month in from which he could raise which to prepate

proposals for revenue from the Colony. A cutting prices and profits. The pelly shopkeeper could not dis- unions--scattered, completely au- pose of a boundle of cheroots or tonomous bodies-have to be conan ounce of shutt without taking out a licence and paying a tax vinced equally quickly that wage for so doing.

denied apathy and pointed to Situation demands (including those pend- We wonder the storing of the effective one-day hartul, ing, affecting several million Gunpowder

his called by themselves and the escaped

In Burma workers and involving scores of notice. A tax to create revenue ↑ Chineac Chambern of Com- millions or pounds a year) must need not be adopted in this case, merce, last October, in protest

Rangoon, Feb; 26. be abandoned, except in

the were

Government | against the now constitutions. Representatives from Very but special cases.

providing a safe and secure which paralysed the whole of over Burma were today dis- Britoin-even If not in the Truman. Though inflation has cussing the future of the Poohoreti Young Way Locat both sides scored, each blocks As to timing it is felt that if building-for-the-keeping-of-Gun-Malaya for 24 hours.

powder, "und passing an Ordin. Many political observers, be- ples Volunteers Organisation folk wanted to help, so they the other from grappling 'with" the Government's statement

prices.. The about prices and profits had coin-ance to enforce therein its stor lieve however it would have the military section of the do- formed sharing groups, each high

age, a small charge to defray its been a wiser and more profit-minant Anti-Fascist Peoples pledged to send one fruit or whichever can prick the price cided with the White Paper on expenses would not, we think, beable course if the left-wing..had Freedom League.

clothing parcel a month, to a halloon gets the budget-battér- wages, instead of following it unwillingly paid.

contested the Singapore elec Now that the League has needy family abroad. The first ed housewife's vote. under pressure from the unions, The remedy for this evil is,

tions with their programme gained self government by parcel went to Mrs. Spender, a It's the same with tax cuts. trade-union leaders would not course, the establishment of for a united federal Malaya, peaceful means it was Bald, war widow with three children, Neve committed themselves to a Public Magazine, and the extend.

determined pursuit of their wage ing the present restriction us to conception of citizenship based the non-official armed force was of London, NW.

on a Malayan nationality and surplus to Burma'a require- keeping more than a few pounds fully elected Councils as their ments. of Chhirse powder to that of The T.U.C. General Council

platform.

In Home districts members foreign manufacture deslucrata has shown beyond doubt that it which we hope soon to see pro-,

For a time is appeared the of the force recognised this Home again, Mrs. Varden is childless and on 414 with two

Party, with six and handed in their arms. Progressive

In gathering names of deserving | children. the vided to the Colony, appreciates the gravity of

candidates, would have the only other areas they have been re- cases. Helping are Mies Trou- The Republicans offer an country's position, and is anxious

nominations but when they luctant to give up their special ton, from South-West London, even bigger carrot and would to collaborate with the Govern- If any circumstance can more closed last week, nine Indepen privilages.

her doctor sister, and Mrs. E. get the money by penny-pinch- ment, That is one thing. It is strongly than another show the dents had also submitted their There was believed to be a Cheal, of Crawley, Leadersing on forelyn uld. another to

convince individual utter ignorance, that prevails in

danger that extremists might at this end are Mrs. John 'Cra Mud le Dying. One sample: unions, over which it has no con- England as to the present condi

One of the objects of the joint the Communists rather ham (an Isle of Skye Mnc- "George Washington "Couldn't, trol, in a matter of days, that ton of Hong Kong, the election is to accustom the pep- than let their present special Gillivray) and her architect.) tell a lie. Franklin Roosevelt

found in the fact that upon the the hitherto sacrosanct principle information they have been able ple to vote, as Singaporeans and role fade out, but it was husband.

Nearly 100 Falls couldn't tell the truth, and of free bargaining in wages must to

not as members of any particu- thought. the memory of their Church groups are at work, Harry Truman can't tell the obtain from the Colonlai be abandoned.

difference." Gfthe lar race. Candidates are fair-late leader, Aung San, and the and the idea is spreading, Committee Office, the A split in the trade-union Grand Exhibition of 1851 have ly representative with seven high personal reputation of the "We felt it wasn't Christian) • Power-Cut Fears

five Chinese, movement would gravely embar-allotted no less, a

than Indians, space

Ove present Premier, Thakin Nu, to be having three meals a day Arctic weather, settling on rass the

and the 1,800 feet square for the Exhi- Malay, one European and one might keep most of them in the and a warm house and cloties

Eurasian. the au- billons | Labour Party, weaken

thority of the T.U.C., strengthen the Communists, who are trying

claims.

Government

Island.

of this

most unhappy

す

Unhappy truly, if its prosperity, -and-greatnets will be judged of to extract the maximum party by the people of England by the advantage from the situation, and show it will make t the Bald bring nearer the totalitarian Grand Exhibition. And who con Government of which Sir Staf- blame the Committee ford Cripps has given warning. mistake thus made?

•

for the

at much

names,

present coalition.—Reuter,

Food For Britain

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE neighbours.

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"

USE ALL INFORMATION

need,"

The Democrats promise to raise the personal exemption. from. £125 to 2175 (in "Britain- It's 110). So a couple would be inx free on £7 a week if

U.S., is threatening America with the same kind of winter holdup as Britain experienced

Food-and-fuel-supplies-are-in- danger, and production chiefs fear factory troubles.

Just year.

In

New York,. Mayor

while others wero in Mrs. Graham told me.

All over the US, are people thoir like the Grahams and

Though millions are feeling the price aquecze, Americana in the last 19 months have sent to Britain. alone 49,000,000 lb, of private Dwyer has been working late gift parcels. Postage cust

on emergency plans. There is talk “of' closing down einamas, $1,845,000,

theatres and other amuse- morîta. Many schools have been closed for days.011 stoves, electric heaters, over Toastmakers—anything to givá.

Had they not. heard of Land being rented in this Ultima No Recession Yet

Here was a case in which a four- Thule at £740 on aere per un-

Now Boaton, Lincolnshire, |card sult with only three cord" sup- Much of the nervousness man? Valuable land this must

port proved good enough for a slam is to get a ton of tes as a Box- aroused by the recent successive be surely, in natural productions

Whenever a defender has proved comtract. It might not have without ton Tea Party in reverse, sharp breaks in commodity prices or in manufacturing arts! It foolish enough to double your con- East's silly double, but after it South in America has subsided, and productions must be rich, or its tract when his own honours are poor should have been badly censured if White House Uproare warmth are being there is general agreement that to the holders of 'land

manufactures rare; else torry be ly placed he must play them behe had not found the way to success.

West dreided to lead his heart Q. Lively goings-opat the snapped up in the stores fere your own honours-it is what has happened so far is just rentals.

since the dummy's first-bid sult was White House!. On the south Latest score is that oil supplies: turn to thank the Fate for their a healthy selective shake-out and Reasoning fair, my friends kindness. The apponent has given called for by East's double of the portico men are punching holes are falling. is not necessarily the start of any But let us tell you, our natural you possession of information which noted that all of the slam beating is builiding a 24,000 balcony are the thing.

slam. South then went to work. He in the wall. - President Truman Fashion notorFur bootéen. all-embracing slump:

production are Granite stones can guide you in all doubtful de Few, however, dispute Mr. and Fever, the first monopolized cisions about fuar how you should material against him consisted of the outside his bedroom.

His critics say he has no to come. Truman's insistence that infla-by the Government, and the last try for your contract. Making use diamond four trumps to the

such information' in the troops

his of all

worth and four club for all of which he tion is still the great danger. His palent to

plenty of points in the long run,

decided to count Fast, who als right to "deface national economic advisers say that it will

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exports

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