Newspapers-Malaya Tribune-1945 to 1949
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National Library Board CSV catalogue of digitised Malaya Tribune newspaper articles from 1945 to 1949, with issue and page identifiers, article titles, opening text snippets, and contributors. Historians and researchers explore post-war Singapore and Malaya press coverage preserved by NLB (enquiries: [email protected]).
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This dataset is a list of digitised newspaper articles published 70 years ago or longer from the National Library, Singapore. These materials present a valuable resource on Singapore’s history, art and culture, digitised as part of an endeavour to preserve and provide better access to resources located within the library to enable users to explore and discover these resources. For enquiries, please email [email protected]
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| Newspaper title | Issue id | Issue date | Edition | Page id | Page number | Article id | Article title | Article text 1st50words | Contributor |
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| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.1 | Masthead | The Malaya Tribune THE NEWSPAPER OF THE PEOPLE OF MALAYA FOUR PAGES MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1945 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune Monday, October 15, 1945 | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.2 | EVACUEES IN INDIA RETURN BY AIR | EVACUEES IN INDIA RETURN BY AIR "CM OWN here from Bombny, an advance party of European, ChiU" A etc and Indian ex-residents of Malaya—representing the first Malayan evacuees in India and Ceylon to return to this country in a group—arrived in Singapore at noon on Saturday, to confer with B. | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.3 | SINGAPORE CHINESE IN INDIA | SINGAPORE CHINESE IN INDIA list of names of Singapore Chinese now in India, obtained through a member of the advance party of evacuees who returned to Singapore on Saturday is given below: Dr. Ang Swee Hian (.wife and child), present address, Sita Mahal, 64, Walkeswar Road, Bombay; Mrs. Lena Balrd, | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.4 | 4,000 MALAYANS WANT TO LEAVE INDIA SOON | 4,000 MALAYANS WANT TO LEAVE INDIA SOON TTTPRE are approximately 4,000 Malayan evacuees I at present in India and 400 in Ceylon. Of the number In India, about 3,700 have registered themselves with the Malayan Association of India, while approximately 200 of the evacuees in Ceylon have had themselves registered. | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.5 | Malayan Journalists, Union Suggested | Malayan Journalists, Union Suggested T HE formation of a JournaA lists' Union, suggested by Mr. O. Strangapani, Editor of the Tamil Murasu, at a dinner he gave at the G. H. Cafe on Saturday night to celebrate the Allied Victory and the restoration of the Freedom of the Press, was | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.6 | Malayan Evacuees Ask For Speeding Up Repat Plan | Malayan Evacuees Ask For Speeding Up Repat Plan IM£Y men whose presence in Malaya would greatly accelerate the return of this country to normal conditions are impatiently waiting in India and Ceylon for repatriation, "in order to get things moving in this country," declared Mr. John Laycock, well-known figure in | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.7 | KILLED BY LOCAL HOOCH | KILLED BY LOCAL HOOCH Several Sikhs and Ohirure, the first local civilians believed to have been victims of locally manufactured hooch, died In Singapore last week. Servicemen were the first victims, 20 of them having died after drinking it. The analyst's report on the nature of the poison in the | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.8 | H.K. BANKS RE-OPEN TO-DAY | H.K. BANKS RE-OPEN TO-DAY Reuter. Hongkong, Oct. 14. Hongkong banks will reopen tomorrow for domestic banking. New accounts may be ope n d and operated, but old accounts will remain blocked. In Shanghai, restoration of British and other foreign commerce and banking to normal is expected to be acelerated as | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.9 | Stamps On Sale Shortly | Stamps On Sale Shortly The first consignment of Malayan stamps has already arrived in Singapore, and is now being sorted out for distribution throughout the Peninsula. The new stamps will not be on sale until officially announced by the authorities. | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.10 | Chinese Form Committee To Collect "Atrocity" Evidence | Chinese Form Committee To Collect "Atrocity" Evidence \n available cvuiow c vi jap atrocities committed on the Chinese community of Singapore will be collected and submitted to both Hie Chinese and British Governments by a special sub-committee which will probably be set up today as a result oi a meeting | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.11 | Inquiry Into Missing S.S. Volunteers | Inquiry Into Missing S.S. Volunteers A former Malayan resident who is now in the Royal Air Force stationed in Rangoon, Wing Commander M. B. Brash, is at present conducting semi official investigations regarding S. S. Volunteers who were sent to Slam by Japs to work on their ill-starred Slam-Burma railway. | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.12 | GEN. MAO'S CHARGE AGAINST "RULING CLIQUES" | GEN. MAO'S CHARGE AGAINST "RULING CLIQUES" Reuter. Chungking Oct. 13. General Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, in a report to the seventh congress of the Party at Yenan accused the "ruling cliques of the Kuomintang" of preparing to launch a civil war in China when the Japanese | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.13 | JAPS AS VOLUNTEERS IN CHINA? | JAPS AS VOLUNTEERS IN CHINA? Reuter. (By Doon Campbell, Reuter* Special Correspondent) Chungking Oct. 13. Chief of Chinese Communist armies General Chu Teh has sent a report to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that Central Government troops in fcJhansl Province are organising two armed Japanese divisions into volunteer corps. The report was | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.14 | Role Of Chinese In Reconstructing Malaya | Role Of Chinese In Reconstructing Malaya All-out effort on the part of the Chinese community of Singapore and other parts of Malaya in thin important reconstruction period, in order to accelerate the return of this country to its pre-war prosperity, was urged by Mr Lian Ying-chow. President of the Singapore | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.15 | "PINEAPPLE KING" BACK | "PINEAPPLE KING" BACK Malaya's "Pineapple King", Mr. Lee Kong Chian, who left Singapore shortly before th* Pacific war as special Chinese representative to the rubber conference in the United States in 1941, has returned here. Mr. Lee left Madras on Oct. 8 and arrived in Singapore last Friday. | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.16 | DUTCH RUSHING REINFORCEMENTS TO N.E.I. | DUTCH RUSHING REINFORCEMENTS TO N.E.I. Nationalists Retreat To Interior BATAVIA UNDER ALLIED CONTROL WUHIN 24 hours of the '!ndu;esi<n Rebiblic's' declaration of war on the Dutch, Lirasians and An.bonesein Java, Dutch radio stationi were to-day brotdcatting teporis indicating the taking of Dutch coi nter-measures. All ibe men <»! the second | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.17 | MacArthur To Broadcast | MacArthur To Broadcast Reuter. Tokyo, Oct. 14 -General Mac Arthur will broadcast on the military phases of the occupation <>f Japan, at 11 p.m. GMT Monday, it was announced by the Fnited States Army Headquarters today Renter. | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.18 | 17,000 ON HUNGER STRIKE | 17,000 ON HUNGER STRIKE Reuter. London Oct. M Seventeen thousand inmates of the BelsenBergen camp for displac ed persons came out on a one day hunger strike, in protest against their treatment by the Military Government, according to a report from Lnneberg. Reuter. | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.19 | Hirohito's Overthrow Urged | Hirohito's Overthrow Urged Reuter. London, Oct. 14. The political correspondent of the Sunday Observer writes that Dr. H. Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs, w ho came to London for the Foreign Ministers' Conference, expects to travel shortly to Washington for the opening of the Far Eastern Advisory Council on | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.20 | IN THE FIELD AGAIN | IN THE FIELD AGAIN THE Malaya Tribune is back in the field where it had laboured for more than a quarter century in the service of the people of Malaya. With them, the Tribune too has suffered almost irreparable losses, but, thanks to the unstinted aid, material as well as | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.21 | Heavy Fighting In Saigon: British Artillery In Action | Heavy Fighting In Saigon: British Artillery In Action Reuter. London Oct. 1 Heavy fighting broke out in Saigon yesterday when British artillery went into action, supporting the French forces, who occupied the north-east sector of the city, says Michael Macdonagh, Reuters special correspondent. The nationalist forces lost 100 killed and | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.22 | Indonesian Armoury To Include Snakes! | Indonesian Armoury To Include Snakes! Reuter. Batavia, Oct. 13. Headquarters of the Indonesian Peoples Army to-day Jssued a proclamation declaring war against the Dutch, Eurasians and Ambonese in Java. The proclamation orders Indonesians to start guerilla warfare. "When the sun sets, we Indonesian people are at v/ar against the Dutch," | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.23 | LAVAL TO DIE TO-DAY | LAVAL TO DIE TO-DAY Reuter. Paris, Oct. 14. !pi ERR E Laval, ex-Premier of I Vichy France, is to die to- morrow morning. J The official decision fixing the [execution at Fort Chatillon, near Paris, was conveyed to Laval by his lawyer late this afternoon. He heared the irrevocable announcement | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.24 | 24 NAZI CHIEFS ON TRIAL | 24 NAZI CHIEFS ON TRIAL Reuter. London Oct. 14. The .trial of M chiefs of the Nazi hierarchy opens in Berlin 1 tomorrow morning. The JigMLz^-~ power will Yiold its first public session to receive the 24,000-word indictment of Rudolf Hess, who flew to Scotland in 1941 in the hope | NA |
| Malaya Tribune | maltribune19451015-1 | 15 October 1945 | 1 | maltribune19451015-1.1.1 | 4/1 | maltribune19451015-1.2.25 | "United- By Poverty" | "United- By Poverty" While the peoples of India differed in religion and language, they are united by one thing—poverty, said Ayana Deva, prominent member of Indian community, addressing the Liverpool Rotary Club. "I am repeatedly asked whether the people of India are fit to rule themselves, tend whether they could | NA |
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