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British Cabinet To Study Tense
Of Status Middle East Situation US Pours Cold
THE
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HE sentencing of
sailora British Japanese court to two and
a half years' imprisonment for robbery brings into. abarp focus the anomalous position of Commonwealth forces created by the i Japanese peace treaty. It also underscores the urgent necessity for a rapid agree- ment concerning jurisdiction over Commonwealth service- men either stationed fri Japan or there on leave
from the Korean war front. It is to be noticed that the British Foreign Office has lodged two distinct protests with the Japanese Govern ment. One is regarding Jurisdiction of Japanese courta; the other against the severity of the sentence imposed on the two sailors from HMS Belfast. Both protests are justified. The sentences are undoubtedly
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EGYPT AND IRAN Mossadegh Coronation
CRISES CAUSE ANXIETY
London, Aug. 7.
The tense situation in the Middle East, parti- cularly Egypt and Persia, will be reviewed at a Special Cabinet meeting today (Thursday) called by the Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill.
The Cabinet will consider the developments in Egypt following General Naguib's coup d'etat, and study reports from the Ambassador, Sir Ralph Stevenson on the talks he has been having in Cairo with the Egyptian Premier, Aly Maher Pasha,
Another major item for discussion will be the Commonwealth Prime Ministers conference fixed to take place in London in November.
Proposes
To "Soak
The Rich"
Teheran, Aug. 6. ~ -Persian Prime Minister Mossadegh submitted to the Cabinet tonight pro- posals for stiff. "soak the rich" taxes
as the first
step to get the nation back on its feet.
Details of the proposals— drawn up by the Premier and
his financial advisers were not
tally disclosed. It is reliably
Usually reliable sources here said a further point on the agenda is the recent offer of the Persian Pre-houses, mier, Dr Mohammed Mossadegh, to submit the oil dis- pute to arbitration, which was later withdrawn,
The meeting is expected to be the last before Minis- ters disperse for the sumnter recess, Parliament, broke up last Friday till October.
The July crises in Egypt and Persia have
whose performance in the Palo-
19 and
reported, however, that they call for a two per cent yearly tax on the value of all "im- movable"
stuch property farm bulldings estates.
The source close to the gov comment said it
expected that the tax could raise at least £18,000,000 at the legal rate of exchange a trif
trifle more than the government's
The expensen,
Whe
caused serious stine war of 1948 was under- ali proposals are obviously
anxiety In London where the Stability of the Middle East land bridge between Durope and Asia is a first rank policy
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at wealthy families who mined by a great arms scandal, control most of the land,
The target of the coup in the The new levy will apparently first instance was believed here walt until Dr Mossadegh la to be not "foreign elements" but given full powers to run thỏ the notorious
in country as he corruption
wishes for six Life with months.
public Egyptian
Farouk did but undermine the Even the abdication of King institution of the monarchy as the abdication of the Shah might well do in Persis.
Following the critical fourth week of July when crowds In which the Palace Was inevitably The only thing now standing i Teheran chased the then newly linked.
In his way is approval by Senate, Prime Minister appointed Ghayam es Sultanch into hiding
which is expected on August 9. The newspaper - Reyhan, today fa tice, worst, “anti-foreign riots
said the Shah was giving up- of the century and the Egyptian
proval to the full 1-powers. An the bill-Associated Army forced the abdication of
Press King Farouk and the resign-
PRIEST COMPLETE CONTROL
EXPELLED tion of Hilaly Pasha's Govern- The
Teheran, Aug. 6. army's control of public ment, Ministera here made
The
semi-offolni. during the critical daya
Bakhtar order fresh attempt to fathom the between July 23 and 26 was
Emrooz reported tonight that. · A deep currents now running is complete..
Communist activity British Catholic priest has been the Middle East.
from expelled this
Abadan for time was so discreet
***alleged political activities was not possible to
against the country's interests." The paper said the priest,
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question with the Persian Foreign Ministry, the paper add-
British officials
were not available for comment.
British Embassy is talking up
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Water On Defence Plan
Washington, Aug. 6.
The United States today threw cold water on
a new British plan to set up Middle East Command machinery.
Turkey is the only nation in the area ready
to participate.
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More Pay For
Farm
Pay
Hands
were
London, Aug, 0. Increases of 212 minion for Britain's : 700,-* 000 Farm workers confirmed today by the Agricultural Wages Borade:
But the National Union Articultural Workers
of
condemned the incressés...
6/ a week for men and 4/- for women urely inadequate ** ***
The union asked, the
board to nates to an in. of two pence per
botir.
The now rates, which apply from ' August 18: raiso the men workers.
to pay
minimum ́`of' the womez'in 47-hour
£5-6-5 and 24-3-5 for wook-Renter.
In a special statement, the State Department Bulgarian
said all countries in the, explosive
area should take part in the formation of an alliance.
Britain was reported yesterday as putting finishing touches on a proposal calling for creation of a Middle
Action Causes
East, organisation composed initially of the United Tension States, France, Turkey, South Africa, Australia, Now Zealand and Britain.
Hunt For
Two Men
་
In Lorry
Athens, Aug.^0.-
The State Department said, The Defence Minister. Mr however, that in "developing | Georgo Mavros, today conferred the proposed' organisation" the with the Chief of flte General United States „would expect to |Staff and other top military "consult fully with all interested leaders as continued Bulgarian States,"
possession of disputed Gamma "the opinion of the United Island dangerously threatened States:
the fundamental feature Greco-Bulgarian relations. of the proposed organisation is
There is still no official com character and Its co-operativa the opportunity it will provide munique on a Bulgarian evacua- for joining the efforts of both ton of the Laland, which is in Middle Eastern States and other the River-Evroa. The 'com- States which
was feel genuine con- munique
exported this tern for the
security of the morning after the Foreign Minis- Middle East," "sald the Depart ter, Mr Sophocles Venizelos, had night demanded that Bulgarian troops withdraw with-
"fixed time limit.”
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added. that it would "welcome" British proposals designed to give effect to the The Commander of the Third British American French- Army. Corps, General Mani-
Cu fölted in a vast hunt for mand. But Department officials day. forces
VIOLENCE
Bolioved Involved In Murder Of British Family
Lurs, Aug. 6. The police
Turkish 1931 declaration inviting) dakis, arrived at the Εντός of South-
nations of the Middle East to join | River border to take command eastern
France tonight in creating a Middle East com- of the Greek
there
to- two Frenchmen in a small saw no point in establishing Island had been Indisputably made it clear the United States Mr Venizelos said that the lorry. They are wanted for
Seven-nation
command long proved in the United Nations questioning in the savage British lines
when the whole to be Greek property,
The Island, was slaying of Sir Jack. Drum- purpose of the command was to
seized by mond and his wife and 12-draw the Middle East Into an Bulgarian troops after a short fight in which two. Greek gen- year-old daughter,;. Eliza- They indicated that the United darmes were killed and three
would States probably
were wounded.-United Press,
STUDIES REPORTS
Paris, Aug. 6. General Matthew Ridgway's
beth.
IN
in the history of crime has |GUATEMALA
to
effective defence slave.
in "
corno
The newspaper told this story high government officials, usincasman, Mr Joseph Muskat, better to wait to see if Egyp "During the time of the were wounded by gunfire in of Belfast.
was
Sur nationalisation he was recent agrarian reform laws,
arca
until
Cadets Injured
Treaty Organisation.
declined to com-
Headquarters
Grock froops under NATO arrangements are under the command of United States Ad- miral Robert Carney, General Ridgway's Deputy for Southern Colchester, Aug. 6, Europe, who has his headquar Eleven army cadets, aged from ters at Naples. 15 to 17, were injured today Admiral when the lorry
headquar Carney's in which they ters was reported to be carefully" were travelling home after a following developments follow- fortnight's training course over- ing the Athens announcement of turned near here-Reuter,
an alert.-United Press,
excessive to a point of being vicious. None will deny that the two offenders deserve and must be punished for their outrageous conduct: but the penalty must bear relationship to the offence. General MucArthur's democratisation of Japan may have won a measure of success, but there is no known evidence that it has made itself manifest in Japanese prison conditions which traditionally, are vile and far removed from those laid down minimum in Western coun- trias. Incarceration for two and
a half
years in 韭 Japanese prison would be more than a punishment; it would, in effect, be an The analysis made last June that it infliction of mental und when the Foreign Secre- assess the extent to which the
The police are under pressure up with some out of counter- physical torture to which tary. Mr Anthony Eden, re-military leaders may have had who was identified
of a horrified French public proposal. Th United States. his senior Middle East no person should be sub-called jected, however obnoxious envoys was already out of date, Teptitious Communist back Francis Blake, was given 24
opinion to track down and bring was reported to have indicated the murderer or murderers to come months ago that it ... op- month, in
with Nor does Egypt border on the ensuing his offence.
of a command · Justice as quickly as possible. proved which Mr Eden himself was communist state. The nearest
The Press here says that seldom whatever Middle Eastern States Supreme Allied Headquarters THE wider issue at stake is away from pub faundice in the the
were willing to go along, leaving carefully studied reports today
door murder appeared so wanton or the
had been for others open
to that Greek forces the question of the status covering from Jaundice in the in fact, the British Canal Zone
the -in country, the situation
to repel Bulgarian so brutal, of Commonwealth troops in Middle East proved to be more
follow suit fater on. But with alerted gurulson,
Guatemala City, Aug. 6.
soldiers from the If Communists and Nationed,
The hunt for the two French-the pudden change of
disputed govern While the United revolutionary Japan.
·Island Gamma
in the Evros Fifty people, includlag men and less stable alists in Egypt are to join forces
American Was
off by a report ment touched
Egypt States
River. forces have athan had been believed
it would and Inunch the country on
Jay a Northern Ireland officials decided
be
Greck officials at the North separate and satisfactory Britain.
campaign of violence against the
then
Atlantic hostile extremely arrangement under their
THE DIFFERENCES west, that day has yet to come. Anglo-Iranian Oil Company he a flareup of armed violence
to the iden, might reconsider own defence agreement with
He said he was held up at Fronk analysis of the new Consequently, the tendency in
head of the Catholle Japan, other United Nations | situation has led British London after the July crises in Church of Abadan and received yesterday in north and cen-pistol point by the two men on and decide to join. United ment on the reports... troops are in an invidious authorities emphasise the Egypt and Persia was to view the a from the oll company.
tral Guatemala over the lonely road near the murder Press position. Negotiations have differences between the state situations In the two countries in
Before the men could reb.him permitted to become inordinately pro- of affairs in Egypt and Persin, very different terms.
to remain in the post it was reported here today, they fled, frightened by the rather than the similarities more
In Egypt, the attempt to carry since there aro 400 Persian tracted, with the Japanese
popular out In the
One of those wounded was noise of an approaching car, out a purge of public life was Catholics in the oil field. The identified as Mr Alvaro Salguero, making little or no serious casily noted
But Mr Muskat was able to welcomed and the activities of nationalised company
went so Propaganda press
Secretary to effort to
the take the licence number of the rench an agree-
the two countries, the General Naguib were watched far as to pay him in Rials for Guntomulan
He reported it to police President, Mte lorry, ment.
most obvious superficial aspect with some sympathy in the hope the last 10 The Japanese con-
10 months.
Jacobo 'Arbenz.
at Cologne today after reading tention that United of the domestic crises was the that a more wholesome ond "But on July 10 they wrote
Fragmentary but confirmed of the Drummond murder. Nations troops
in threat to the monarch, a threat more stable period would follow.
bim In Persia, the economic dif- received by the
lotter following reports reports sald an armed G
OTHER CLUES which materialised in Egypt on culties of the Government and Japan are merely n
company re- was made against a group 01 сеп-
Pollco probed three other tinuation of the
July 26 and led to the abdica- the increasing power of Army of
the
political activities government garding his
"oficiais, advising | clues; tion of King Farouk in favour Communists have arouseti far occupation is quite unten-
against the company's interest.". [agricultural workers in the town 1. The theft about 70 miles of his infant son.
Bakhtar said able. In fact, Common-
the priest left of Coban on their rights under away from the scene, in Beau- anxieties Reuter.
after refunding the 10 months the new land reform law. vallon, near St. Tropez, of a salary. The paper did not The
authorities immediately black Citroen. The owner was alleged anti-xent an army plans to the re- cóshed, trussed and left on the activities. Associated moto town state
to evacuate
the side of the road by two sombre- Preas.
Kovernment officials.
faced men.. This
President 2. A report from another here to be the recent fink up of vlet Ambassador FUTILE DUEL benz called a special moet mutorist that a poorly-dressed was necessary. Those troops nationalist, communist, and re-expected to present his creden
ing of high government offelala, man stopped him not far from
Observers thought it might be the scene of the ore in Japan today because ligious fanatle movements.
crime a few. tials to the Queen tomorrow. pt. they are
decided to declare committed
Guatemala hours earlier, demanding a lift to The grave
Santiago, Aug. 16.0 Teheran lo
rlots of Buckingham Palace
Two Chilean Senators fought under a state of gicge. fighting in
This man said he was a believed here to the
police- Korean July 21 are
Mr Gromyko pald his first a duel wth pistols here today,
Coban is the centre of Guato-man. National call war-an undertaking which, have been organised by
on the
Brilish Foreign but no blood was shed owing to mala's richest coffee producing
Two campers, 3.
dressed in quite obviously, is in the Front and pro-communist Tudch Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, sad vlability" and the duelists res
shorts,, were seen near the spot best interests of Japan.
Party forece working together. today. The meeting lasted ten went away unreconciled.
GOVT. STATEMENT
where the Drummonds had There are many good Leftwing forces in the country
my minutes.
A Government spokesman said openly criticised the Shah reasons why the Japanese on the ground that he placed have expressed to Mr Gromyke sandidates for the Presidential group, of landowners in resent-
Eden was understood to and Salvador Allende (Socialist), the shooting was started by their little British stationwagen. stopped to spend • the night in
should show much better the pro-Western Ghavam
Earlier today police dismissed his hope that they would be election on September 4, had ment over the speeches being from the ease in Italian deserter understanding of the pur-Sultanoh in power. They have able to work together for an quarrelled violently at a meat-made by Mr Salguero and others from the French Foreign Legion, pose and needs
of the also criticised the Nationalist Improvement in Anglo-Sovie Ing of the Senate last night them to apply for appropriatlon found in a nearby town. I was to peasants and Indians, urging whose abandoned uniform: was United Nations Forces Prime Minister, Dr Mossadegh, relations-Reuter.
Reuter. in their country. The on the score of protecting the
of: portions of privately owned learned that the Italian crossed farms under the agrarian reform the border two days ago,ta law, 7.
Lurs, pleturesque te He said that Mr Salguero was village nestling in the foothills advising Indians that the
of the lond French Alps with a popula was originally yours but was tion of less than, 400, knew taken from you by the Spanish another violent and senseless and we are merely "returning it triple murder: 82 years ago." * London, Aug. 6.). ? |to you," shon shooting: was Wood-choppees brutally killed Heavy thunderstorms with torrential rain broke, in started by bystanders. 4. the wife daughter and servant several parts of Britain, tonight, interrupting radio bronded or injured in the following while he was away for the night. Five landowners were wound of farmer Joseph Bern In 1870 casts through power failure, and marooning families in disturbance and gooled, while upstairs rooms.
A baby boy survived, several others were reported DESTROYED FARMULOUSE hoading for the Mexican border. Until his death recently
Reuter
devoted his
declining months to methodically wiping out: * the Unpopular - Name mentory of the dread evening.
Cairo, Aug, 20. Stone by tone, he threw the
which flows In the
the
now
But there, in fact, the simi-
graver.
wealth troops have many larity for the moment appears GROMYKO CALLS elaborate on his
to end.
the
other commitments in the world and Commonwealth
Scen in mid-summer, Governments would cer outstanding feature of the Per
slan altuation was considered
tainly not wish to keep them
a day longer in Japan than
Shoh
reached. with Snort OF FUNDS agreement the United States proves Since Dr Mossadegh's Govern- that Japan is committed me
ment is known to be acutely
in principle to help those short af Cunds, through its who
are
ON EDEN
London, Aug. 0.
· Mr Andrel Gromyko, new So-
Senators Raul Rettig (Radical)
Thunderstorms Interrupt
BBC Radio Programmes helping her, failure to settle the oil dispute
to
with Britain, the dangón thút
he may lose his grasp on unstable and revolutionary
ion 1 situation considered here to be a real one.
and the Japanese, certainly cannot deny that the role the Commonwealth forces are playing in Korea help that country resist and
In that event, the altitude of defeat Communist aggres- the army would be of critical sions of paramount im- importance and the position of portance to the future the
Tudeh party potentially After 25 minutes the British At High Wycombe, half way security of Japan. The very strong. Persia, unlik Broadcasting Corporation's light between Oxford and London, Japanese Government has Egypt, bothers on the Soviet programme and Midland regional pollon and firemen were called no bxcuse for further Union, into which Red Army service resumed with the aid of out to help familles marooned in delaying hn agreement troose withdrew in 1940.
emergency diesel generators upstairs rooms. In Egypt, the position in mid- which will clearly state and summer was very different. The The trunk road from London blocks were forced up, causing London, wooden road also safeguard the indepen coup d'that brought about by to Oxford was worst affected by traffle diversions. dont status of British and General Naguib, the army" floods, and hundreds of cars Until a few days ago Britain other Commonwealth forces leader, expressed the pent-up were Jummed In a solid massad been gripped by a prolong- Ja Japan.
discontent of a professional csate | over a long stretch of it. | éd¡ drought, Fieutor.
assault
7
Hundreds of fathers, besieged purus into the`qulot River
today. Calro newspapers re-valley below the Council ofees throughout Egypt ported. They wanted to change yesterday's erimb. their sont names from: Farduk It is stili, not known whether to something more fashionable the Drummonds' killer made off Associated Press.
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