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SINGAPORE

Treaty

Slaughter U.S.-Italian

In Palestine

two

22 More Casualtics Yesterday

Jerusalem, Feb. 2.––Twenty- were killed or persons wounded by gunmen in Pales. tine between dawn and midday; today, according to Betal re ports.

Today's toll

included four

Jews and two Arabs killed and

Washington. Feb.

United Ninten nud Italy today

alened a comprehensive treaty

k friendship.

and navigation to run for 10 years.

rmameree

The 27 articles of the pact enver the status of each other's nationals and corporations, the exploitation of minerals, freedom of furmation. nmong other Vilars,

The

replaces paet stmillar otir signed in 1871, which ended in 1937, and has yet to be ratifled by the United States Senate.-Ienter.

new

13

16 MORE

a

a. British constable winded by VIET NAMESE

sanfire near the Jaffa Gate dir the Jerusalem Old City.

Six parseunters were wounded when Jews in hotile-dress ambushed an Arab bus on the Acre-Saful road asa north Palestine.

The Arabs retaliated by ambushing a party of Jews on the Haita-Tel Aviy road, killing two,

Unknown saboteurs blew brutge

a mile of and destroyed railway track outside Tri Aviv and a large section of the tailway, track between Jaffa and Jerusalem.

A Jewish bombing squad

blew leather factory up two houses and

at Yazur, south of Jaffa,

Sources here claimed that dews,

ARRESTED

French Round-Up

Paris, Feb. 2.-The arrest of 16 Viet Nam citizens living in! France was reported today. 15 al Lyons. in southeastern France, and one at Nico, in the Riviera.

•

The arrest at Nice was that of M. to Van Trang, aged, 33, native of trying to tunnel a way out of the Sign of Avenue Georges Cle- beleaguered Jewish quarter of the tetivennt. Nis, doneribed as a mem- Old City of Jerusalem last alght, Fler of the Viet Nam delegation Ire

halted by Arab bomb throw-Franc

Were

ing rounds,

The panes of those arrested at Lyons were not disetorare.

They were desertberi as "work- Viet Namese In camps at Junter

Boon 105

OLD CITY UNDER FIRE The Arabs said the Jews were tunnelling inte the Arab quarter of Lyons and district began a the Old City near a Rabbi's house.

Heavy

and down-tools strike as firing. necompanied by expinstons. was heard in the old the arrests became known.

A report from

Jay state? Lyons

to have

City last night, and, according to an that the 15 persons arrested there official report. Arabs were bellevel had been taken away by a lorry to

opened

an unknown destination." "D wish positions.

A delegation of Viet which went to the

mortar

fire on

॥

The Jewish terrorist Stern Gant proclamation

tonight

Name

Prefecture

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1948.

ELECTIONS IN MARCH

Legislature Of Twenty-Three

CHINESE CRITICISM

London, Feb. 2.—Elections will be held in Singapore next March, the Governor- General of Malaya, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, announced today. Mr MacDonald, speak- ing at a press conference the day after the Federation of Malaya (which excludes Singa- pore) came into being, said that Singapore's now legislature would have many democratic features which would evolve steadily to- wards complete self-government.

The new constitutions were "only the beginning of a process and not the end," Mr MacDonald declared. The new Federal Government of Malaya was "very strong indeed,” he said. It would be composed of 61 unofficial representatives and 14 official Government representatives.

The unofficial member would, in the first instance, be nominated by the High Commissioner, not elected. "This is a purely temporary provision. We are pledged to introduce the elections as soon as conditions permit," he went on.

Giving details of the new cou-; Settlements of Penang and Mulacea stitution for Singapore, the were not joined in a "very close and Govenor General. stated: "There cordialderation." will be a Governor with an Ex- ecutive Council, and unler them -mportant legislature, The legislature wi BUZIVES may de

JLL CITIZENSHIP 2.The constitution admitted to citizenship people from different races who had made Malaya their Indians. European, Eurasians, Sing atese and others.

Prisoners Escape From Leave Ship

Marwich, Feb. 2.-Using fire exlinguishers and life buork as weapons. A dozen British rulli- tary prisoners broke away here today from their escorts, fought their way off the leave ship, and esenped

across the quayside to the fields beyond.

All but one were recaptured within two hours. Several of ຄາ ຕ men were injured. One Jumped into the ship's lifeboat and grabbed an axe. Another made for a concrete pill-box In front of the railway station but gave himself up after a rifle shol had been fred.

The men. who had ren brought from Austria, raided the liquor store on board the ship, came up on deck armed with from bars and brooms and knocked down à milliary police-

пал.

Five more military policemen tried to block the gangway but had to retreat before a hall of lifebuoys, fire extinguishers and lamps while the men

threw from the ship.—Reuter,'

HK Chinese Merchants May Be Boycotted

For

Reservations

Tut: 27880

Price 20 Cents

India Announces Ban On

Private Armies

GOVT. DETERMINED TO

STOP COMMUNALISM

New Delhi, Feb. 2.-Private armies will not be allowed in India nor will any organisation preaching violence or communal hatred be tolerated, the Government of India announced in a Gazette Extra- ordinary today.

Although no organisations were named, the announcement was taken as a last warning to four communal bodies-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (the militant Hindu volunteer organisation), Hindu Mahasabha (the Hindu communal organisation), Moslem National Guards and the Akali Sikh Party composed of extreme Nationalists Sikhs.

Mr Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar to protect many Innocent mun, Vallabhal, the Deputy Premier, and women and children," Maulana Abul Kalam, the Education From outside the Assembly as he Minister,

told over also

come 100,000 spoke

shouts of "Wipe Out people attending a public meeting Rashtriya Swayamsovak Sungh."- today that the Government de Router. termined to put down communalism ASSASSIN'S BULLET FOUND and lawlessness with a firm hand. New Delhi, Feb. 2-The Primo The Indian police today arrested Minister of India, Mr Jawaharlal leaders of the Rashtriya Swayam Nehru, today appealed to India's

Sangh sevak

andi the All-India millions for peace in the memory Mahasabha, while reports from many of Gandhi us devoted followers

of India parts Belfast, Northern Ireland, Gandhi"

toll of "Revenge gathered their sainted leader's Flo12 against Ifindu ex- ashes from the funeral pyre beside Feb. 2-Linen traders in Nor-tremists.

the sacred Jumna

River. thern Ireland are considering whether to

V. G. Deshpande, General Secre- priest found one boycolt Chinesetary of the Mahasabha, will be de- which Inter

sassin's bullets among the arber, merchants in Hongkong who tained for one

will be placed month for alleged cotton bag for scattering on are underselling

the violation of the Punjab Safety Act waters of the holy Ganges. in American linen market.

i

By unofficial dealings United States and local dollars, those merchants have secured cheap sterling with which they make large purchases Belfast linen houses.

from

ite was taken into custody yester- day and the Mahasabha ofice hero was sealed and pul under

armed guard after the search.

barin-the

threatening the lives of the rulers of tons to protest against the arrests, inocratic features which can evolve permanent homp-Malayans, Chinese. † 360,000 yards per month-over one-castonal processions of young people

Arab state if any progrom is insit- tuted against the Jews living Arab dates neighbouring on Pales

Jiz

then

was not received by the authorities,

The derts to roll a trike was

taken. AR Tren Nitos Danh, head of the The proclamation. Issued by the Vietnam delegation in France, was Stern Gang "High Command, said arrested on Thursday and charged

of neighbouring Arab with acts prejudicini

fine.

The rulers

the intergrily

states would be held personally of the French State, --Reuter,

-responsible-for-the-fety-of-the-

Jew

Ja their

countries.

Action would be taken if any further in- clients occurred similar to the Arab attacks on Jews at Aleppo, in Syria, -it added.

"This is

More Immigrants

stendily towards complete tr- governinen for Singapore.

"There will be 23 elected members -10 official, with 13 unofficial. Three will be. *ltered

by the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Indian Chamber of Comi- merce.

good many Chinese and Indians

Rone to Atalaya comparatively recently-in the last generation or two. Same of these, however, still regarded China and India as their real homes.

These people

sent their savings WIDE FRANCHISE back to China or India, contemplat The franchise will he

verying retiring there when their working I wide, for every

woman daya were over. Their primary jover 21 years can vote.. There is no loyalty was for their

country of Nepsin, Feb. 2.-Spezial prenission hterary or property qualification. Jorigin. serious warning," it fe 1,000 Jewish elindren to enter The only qualification is that the Under the provisions of the new

Palestine with their 2,000 "We have proved in the part there this math, in addition to the red which very

parents voter shall be a British subject-constitution, these types of people is no place we cannut reach. If the quota, is understood to

large numbers

were not to be artmitted to citizen- have been population are. rulers of neighbouring states cannot given by the High Commissioner in

ship rights. Of course, there were Naturalisation safeguard Jewish lives, they ought | Palestine.

was bring

very large numbers of Chinese and General

Alm jenny, Mr McDonald added.

indians who had been in Malaya for for Cunningham,

I believe we are going to have a considerable

time and regarded They will sail in small batches the co-operation of the people of Malaya as their country and had tomorrow morning. --Reuter.

Malaga and Singapore generally as complete loyalty to we go along the road towards the idral of self-government. Con- stitutions are hot fixed for all seives.

added.

10

Palesting."

allow the Jews to leave

(Continued on Page 4)

EDITORIAL

Sir

British Electoral Reform

TAVING initiated A measure

HA

How

41 FL-

for constitutional reform. iu- tended to curtail the House of Lords' veto powers, the British Labour Government Hounces proposals to amend the electoral system. The bill can be expected to arouse tively reactions. There will be dicharas wito wit steroly resist any attempt to re- duce the size of the Commons to climate Diarul voting: others, notably the Proportionat kepre- sentation Society, will protest that the reform dues tot go tar enough and they

will probably renew their demands for a complete re- vision of the

electoral system; many, however. will regard the as a useful, but not too drastic step forward. As far as can be ascertained from the brief cabled summaries, the Ilome Secretary intends to

ask Parila ment to endorse a bill that will abolish plural voting and reduce the composition of the Commons from 840 members to G08. Plurali- : ty voting, which permits a man

vote in

division where his

proposal as #

to

business is situated, and to vole agalus in the division in which ha lives, has long been a contentious subject, though to the surprise of the man in the street who only enjoys one

vote, an all-party committee in 1944 strongly op posed its abolition. On this score alone, the Government

can look forward to some aclil criticism

from the other side of the House when the Bill is brought forward. How

tho British electoral

far

A

of

a

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il

times."

of the were

mare

These would have equal citizen- ship rights with the Malayans them-

The new constitution was a step

It was deliberately intended that in the direction of getting n the as in all countries where Britain different racial units in Malaya to burk been responsible for govern- co-operate fellow citizens in their

ment over

11 period-there should common country and to develop a be a steady evolution of the ran government of Malayan patriotism. stitution artel amendments from he went on. time to time, so that there was in uninterrupted progress to complete

"MODEL COUNTRY"

of the 18-

in n the

Mr Nehru appeared before 1 solema session of the Dominion Parliament as Indian

Government investigators acted to stamp out a nationwide conspiracy in which, police said. Mr Nehru was marked.

(Continued on Page 4)

OC-

ATOM BOMB PROGRAMME

10

THREE-DAY HARTAL For the third day in succession, a complete

closing of shops, schools, cinemas, restaurants jand business

ეს- generally was

to Hunglong were at the

At the end of last year, shipments rved in Old and New Delhi. The

inte of streets were quiet apart from third of the direct cloth exports to carrying black flags of mourning. the United States.

The Socialist leader, Jaiprakash

the Government The linen is converted into hand- Narain, urged kereliefs and embroidered goods and treat communalism as high trenson, sent to American buyers at rates when he spoke to the public meeting, which are cutting out home-made at which Mr Nehru said: "The cholce Ulster sales.

before us is either to come to our Members_of_the_New_York_Linenseuses_or_perish.

Mass Production By "If you

ure in Trade Association have warned the

fnvour of

United States Belfast industry that the results of munalism, then say so and do not. this Hongkong entry into the Ameri- deceive me or yourselves, or above- Washington, Feb. 2.-The United in market may well be disastrous,all, that great soul, Mahatma Gandhi, States Atomic Energy Commission Linen exporters may also ask the "Those who are demanding the indicated today that its objective tu British Government for a stricter establishment of a Hindu State have to manufacture atomie bombs on a control of Hongkong exchange deal-killed the greatest of all Hindus, but mass production basis, with the pro- ing-Reuter.

let no one take revenge. because duction facilities of its factories ravenge is the very negation of what designed for a "continuous flow" of Mr Gandhi taught."

parts.

STOP PRESS

Still Digging

Com-

component

MISCHIEF AND DISTRESS

It also reports that it was working that on the development of new de-

of atomle weapons, The Commission's semi-annual re-

Signs

Mr Nehru went on to

say the communalism of the Moslem League and of the Hindu Mahasabha extremists had "done much mischief port to Congress added that "pro- and created much distress In India Aress" had been made towards die- and we cannot tolerate any longer veloping new atomic weapon

nger slens. the anti-national activities of

any

of

established police officer said that the front half should have failed to protect the of component ports.

Thin ultimate self-government was, of course, the primary object of the Malaya Constitution, Mr Mnc- Donald added.

Russia Protests To Persia Against

Moscow, Feb. 2.-The Soviet Union has sent a diplomatic

U.S. Military Mission

do-

Eroup"

Reporting that Digging began again at dawn this

the Commission Air Nehru was among the reveral was seeking to develop 31 morning in an effort to recover more

thousand

any new people

resources of atomie raw materials who today saw bodies believed buried in the Queen's Gandhi's ashes collected and placed that might exist. Inside the United Road Enst collapse last night. in a copper run with rose petals and States, the report usted four primary system

It is believed that six to ten more needs amending

According to the local Chinese, camphor, ready to be immersed in objectives of the matter of opinion. One big weak-

weapon programme: the waters of the sacred Jumma (1)the expansion bodies may still be under the debris. and Ganges rivers, where they meet facilities to effect a continuous flow Hess at present is that it permits

of production any number of M.P.s to be re-

The di

digging is being carried on at Allahabad. by the PWD. who are working under

component parts. turned on minority margins.

Mr Nehru returned from the cere-velopment of new designs, partly az | self-government. he sale.

(2) the de- On

It was also to make Malaya a the

"Criticism comes from two quar- Contluent this situation is

the danger of having the front part mouy mode: country "ot a very common of the house collapse upon them. A Assembly of his "utter shamr that we the improvement and standardisation to tell the Indian National a-result of wartime research. (8)-- avoked by

ters from the Leftwing and con- Use of the

1 second

model in these difficult times,” ballot, and In Australia

siderable sections of the Chinese 3.--The constitution eliminated by the system of pre-

community. The extreme Leftwing:

of the house was swaying pertiously greatest trensure we possessed, as it dardisailon of procedures for storage (4)-the Blan- institutions of government which ferential voting. To be

critics wholly

want self-government to- formed a firm and excellent basis and might collapse at any moment. | has been our failure in past months ami handling.Reutor. successful, however, both methods morrow, whereas the great majority from which, in due course, further require

support the Government in saying advances compulsory

could be made towards another part

the

it is wiser that it should come as electoral

self-government. machinery which England may

the result of a steady evolution. one day have to renovate, Con- servatively-minded England has

COMPROMISE NECESSARY FOURTH shy of

"The Chinese critics feel proportional repre-

that sentation. being considered too

inder the Federal Constitution, the

Answering questions, he said the radileat

Chinese community is going to be revision.

new constitution reserved questions note to Persia alleging that the Under the system

of defence and international relations activities of the United States American officers along the Soviet- ed that in recent months, American would be under-represented. Well, in a coun- constituencies

to the High Commission, created according to

try like Molnyn, with its

Persia Persion frontiers, the note divided aircraft had been "aubjecting Soviet fixed

Military Mission in many different racial communities, a con-

He thought that the main com-

its charges Into seven number of votes (about 300,000

sections, merchant shipping in the Yellow cachi)

plaint of the Chinese was that the might create "a danger to the

which, it declared, seats for each

were incom- Sen and the Sea of Japan to im- with fe

five

stitution is bound to be a compro residential test was too restrictive, borders of the Soviet Union," patible with "the positions constituency, these belog filled by

of good burtunate, Inspection from the air by There were many Chinese who had according to the Teheran corneighbourly relations proclaimed by circling over the ships, dying over Members elected by quotas from

"No one has got 100 percent of transferred preferential votes. In this way,

what they asked for. Every one Malaya but had

allegiance to respondent 11

the the Soviet-Persian treaty of February them at of Pravda,

most-top altitudes, and not been In the has had to compromise. is claimed,

would

20, 1921." Soviet Communist Party paper,

even diving on them." Vaters

be left free of

of party dictation in record. There are surge in the Chinese country for the stipulated 15 years. today.

The agency added: "The rude at- It described the Anglo-Iraqi treaty tempts of the American authoritles Jag first an alternative votes.

The language test was not very community who feel that they have

"The Soviet note, calling for "the signed by the Government of Sayid at establishing their control been asked to compromise too for.

Most Neither plural majority nor the

far-reaching.

the Chinese

elimination of the situation which| Saleh There Is n

of

English hnd n possibility freedom to abstain from voting

of the

since shipping in the Yellow Sea and the has arisen" through alleged United resigned, as being of a "slavish and Sen of Japan, for beyond territorial Chinese boycotting the Legislature." truly represents the political will

along. to get

States direction of the Persian Army colonial nature," of the people.

change not Apathy has always

waters, cat yan Constitution

be regarded only 08 been characteristic, of

three nationality, Mr MacDonald declared. and military resources, was handed.

The three Soviet notes, address-manifestations of their ulter un- tor to British vater and is as responsible

Fiscal policy

willingness was a matter for Saturday by M. Ivan Sadchikov, the ed to the United States since Janu-

reckon with

the much large consultation between the for M.P. becoming elected on

legitimate interests of the merchant Two Soviet Ambassador in Teheran, the ary 12, protest against: of unity and partnership

and Kovernments

they minority total as the plural ma-

were not

shipping of other countries." Pravda despatch said. into the Government of Malaya then bound to have the Jurity system. There is room for had existed before the war. There

same fisent polley.

1.The American plans to

The Soviet note, Tass sald, called The note. Pravda reported, gave “aļ rationalising and

In addition to the powers in re-series of facts testifying that American the Mellaha air geld near Tripoli,

attention to theso equalising the

were about nine different govern-gard to defence

"infringements the freedom of merchant ship- and International military advisers play a decisive role in British-administered Libya. ments dividing authority in the area. relations, the High Commissioner in Persia on questions concerning her

ping" and added: "The Ministry of 2-The Now this multiplicity

presence of authority would have reserve powers in cer-

of American armed forces and conduct activities warships in Italian waters. had been reluced to two.

Foreign Affairs of the

USSR ex- tain emergencies.

directed towards converting tho

pects the United States Government 3. The alleged supervision territory of Persia

into a military Russian shipping

of to issue the necessary Instructions strategic base of the United States,"

in For Eastern to the appropriate American waters by American aircraft. Declaring that fortifications were

authorities commanding them not. This Intter note, states Tasa, the to permit similar intringements. being built under tho direction of official Soviet news agency, protest- the future."-Reuter

Dat

the

are

British parliamentary voting pro- cedure, and if the reforms pro- posed by the Government capable, in some degree, of bring- ing this

about, they merit ap. proval,

mise.

their

He explained that the new Mala- Sitizing

main points:

1.-It brought measure

achieved

The nine Malay States would maintain their identity and their

did

o!

MALAYAN LEGISLATURE

or

rulers would continue to sit on their would not be discussed

The question of entry into war Thrones. These nine States and the!

in the (Continued on Page 4)

the Persian

Government

on

Jabur,

which

has

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