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CHINA A MAIL
No., 35285
Establishod 1845
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, · 1952,
PERSIAN NAZIS ATTACK 55
Trade With REDS IN TEHERAN Slain Family
China
EKING has sent a level- reply 10 the
Poned
Foreign Office notes con- cerning the decision of British firms to withdraw. from China. While no pro- mine is given to facilitate the winding-up of British trading Interests, it is to be noted that no threat of opposition to the process in held uut, The Peking Government
offers the
Peace Centre Wrecked
TEAR GAS USED
BY POLICE
Teheran, Aug. 19.
assurance that each case will be dealt with on its incrits, and that protection will be given to British companies "provided they abide by Chinese laws." In general the reply
ін moderate and satisfactory. It comes as no surprise that Peking blames the parlous state of British traders in Chinn un the strategic commodities embargo which the United Nations have applled since the Chinese Communists entered the Korean war, and to which Britain ແມ been subscriber. This is EL 11 obvious line for Peking to with equat follow. and blandness the crippling. They burnt pictures of Stalin, pro-Government and Communist restrictions and impositions on the spot where Communists groups.
The Iranian Mixed Oil Com- directed by the People's last month made a bonfire of a
mission
a motion to Government
China picture of the Shah,
approved
over com- against British and other Then they moved on to Com-submit the dispute
to arbitration and pensation
at a foreign companies,
munist newspaper offices are
wrecked the presses,
special session today. ignored.
Tonight, the arrested Nazis were relased-London Express Service.
A new force went into action in Persia today National Socialists, wearing storm-trooper uniforms, armed with daggers and clubs.
They fought Communists of the Tudeh Party They also fought in the streets of Teheran. against the Police who opened fire on both "Persian Nazis" and Communists.
Tanks were drawn up around the Shah's summer palace. About 100 people were wounded and 64 arrested. More than 50 of those held are Communists.
То
of
2
Double Deckers
OWN
ong
After two hours the troops returned to barracks, then two Nazis chanting Persian words to a German tune-marched to the Communist peace centre, wrecked it and burnt it down.
day.
were
The Mixed Oll Commission also decided to deposit 25 per cent of receipts from the sale of oil in the National Bank of Iran for the payment of AJOC claims,
The action was in fulßiment of a clause to that effect in the nine-point Oil Nationalisation Law.
་་་ GUARDED COMMENT In London
a Foreign
Office
ugo
us an
Famous Banks
To Merge
Laid To Rest
The coffins containing the murdered bodies of Sir Jack Drummond, his wife and daughter, killed while on holiday in France, are carried to their last resting place In the cemetery at Forcaegaler close to the spot where -- they were killed. All the people of this little town sent flowers, and most of its 3,000 inhabitants joined in the procession behind the coffins. London Express.
Housing Minister Sees Lynmouth Devastation
Lynmouth, Aug. 19.
The Housing and Local Government Minister, Mr Harold MacMillan, trudged ankle deep through mud and clambered over giant-boulders today to study how best the British Government can aid this seaside resort rent by a cloudburst and deluge last weekend.
the
wrecked
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Honolulu, Aur. 19,
Africans Two Planes Fined For Disobedience
USED EXCLUSIVE PART OF RAILWAY STATION
Johannesburg, Aug. 19.
Fifty-five Africans were each fined £10 sterling with the alternative of two months' gaol in two courts here today, for using part of railway stations reserved for Europeans.
Five African juveniles, who also appeared, were given five strokes with a cane from the Court Sergeant.
The Africans were arrested at Johannesburg railway station on Sunday.
Britain's
Secret
Planes To Be
Displayed
London, Aug. 20.
Counsel for the leader of the
one
| group, 20-year-old Joseph Lepile,
unemployed, contended in court that the charge was in- volid as the facilities provided at the station were different for Europeans and Africans.
A prosecution witness stated that there was no dining room,
hairdressing saloon, bar, fruli
stall or walling room in the Afri can section of the station.
A Navy pilot was killed and another rescued today after the collision of two Hellcat fighters over 1h0 barren Island of Rahoo. lawe, 150 miles southeast of here.
The naval authorities' dia not disclose the name of the dead. plot, whose badly- burned body was found la the wreckage by the crew a helicopter which land- ed near the wreckage the island.
01
The rescued pilot was picked up by a boat from the destroyer Radford, Hits injurica were not serious, United Press....
Rebels Dynamite Water Supply
Rangoon, Aug. 19. Rebels today dynamited
These facilities existed in the the pipeline supplying Ran- European section, the witness, goon's drinking water and railway policeman AP.
Cross the capital went thirsty for
Sald. Possibly more. Africans
he added.
Secrets of two new Bri-used the station than Europeans, the fifth time this year. tish jet-age planes, a super-
ture
Rangoon Corporation officials
Head Constable D, S. Du Toit sonic fighter and a minia-said notices, prohibiting Africans said the pipeline was blown up
from certain parts of the station Ave miles
south "Flying
of the main Triangle",
were prominently displayed and Gyobyu reservoir, 42 miles north were revealed today as a printed in English and Afrikaans, of Rangoon. preview to the annual Air was intended to provide
not
nry African language. Show .at
The extent of the damage was Farnsborough,
adequate facilities for Africans, Hampshire, next month.
when station reconstruction was for the scene this afternoon.
not known as, repair squads left between races Friction
corosecutions were frequent! The twin-engined DH-110, an and
Meanwhile. all-weather fighter, is the world's before the "Apartheid" regula-
authoritative first two-seat aircraft, to be an- tions were enforced...
sources said the Burma Army's nounced as
dying faster than An application for accuadds surprise monsoon offensives on sound-about 750 miles (1,200 discharge at the end of the crown rebel hideouts in different parts külometres) per hour.
case was refused.
of Burma had scored spectacular victories.
A
The De Havilland Company An Indian counsel, contended sald today the swallow-shaped that the charge was invalid, as plane had frequently flown at there was differentiation in faci-
Government forces in a con- litles
for Europeans provided supersonic speed in test flights.
and Africans.
centrated attack dislodged Co- It will be publicly demon- strated at the Show organised
Lepile was found guilty and munist rebels from their strong- Aned £10 sterling by the Society
or two holds of the British
o faw miles. south of months' hard labour Aircraft Constructors.
on the Okkan, 70 miles north of Ran- and "Apartheid" charge, Triangle",
the The "Flying
one goon. Fifty robels were killed Boulton Paul P-120, is expected pound sterling or 10 days' im- land about 1900 wounded in
edprisonment for not carrying gunbattle, frontline reports sald. at Farnborough. The "" -to-be
delta-winged plane now on pass,
magistrate,
Mr H. J. Six The trial, was taken off the secret list today and was said to have Johannes, said the railways had Government aide.
not taken
facilities away any a speed near that of sound.
The De Havilland announce for non-Europeans-they
had fact made more avaliable, ment said the DH-110, one of The law had been deliberately the main hopes of Britain's
Bouted, and he
regarded the fighter defences, is powered by two Rolls Royce Avon Jet en-matter as serious-Reuter. gine, the thrust of which was not disclosed but it is believed to be around 7,200 lbs, weight each
MOST POWERFUL
in
De Valora To See Eye Specialist
Schiphol, Aug. 19, Promier Eamon De Valera of Ireland arrived here by air today, to consult a Dutch eye specialist in Utrecht.
were
injured
on
:the
In the Bassein soctor on the west coast, 24 Karen rebels were killed in a gunbattle, an- other report said.
Government forces operating, In the Myingyan district in Central Burma dislodged Com- munists ΣΤΟΥΣ thick Jungles along the Mount Popa arca, where they have been reported to be concentrating in the past few weeks,
In upper
These are the most powerful axial
type engines now being
Burma, the rebels produced in Britain and have It was understood that he was attacked a railway station near already been installed in the to be examined this evening by Mytkyina, capital of the tribal Canberra light bomber and the Professor H. J. M. Weve, the eye Machin state, ant looted goods new four-jet Vickers Valiant specialist.-Reuter.
from the rallway yard:-Reuter.
bomber,
The DH-110 Is 52 feet (about
1 metres) long
awing span of 51 feet.
and has A
30
To the Chinese Communists it is beside the point to argue that the economic TROUPS CALLED OUT embargo is of their
Teheran, Aug. 19. Heavily-armed troops making; that its removal Iles in their own hands by rushed to Teheran's main shop taking proper action
ping urea tonight after police to
had used tear gas to disperse bring about
lasting
Tudch
PATTY pro-Communist pence in Korea, and by dis- groups assembling there. playing willingness to help Earlier, police had broken up spokesman, in guarded comment, smooth out other Far East clashes between the Tudeh said that the arbitration pro- problems. There is
Party groups and elements of poan if true was a "step in the
In right direction". aspect about the Peking the "Sumka" Fascist Party nute,
No official word, however, has however, which is the shopping area. both interesting
throught Cinemas and shops closed as reached
them yet and
and it is instructive. It reveals that th: tear gas drove away the diplomatic channels
nol Tudeh members
known whether shouting anti-
Iran pro- the Chinese Communists do not wish to break all trade,
Impartial arbitrators. Shah slogang.
poses
Several weeks
Britain Further down the mala road relations with Britain. On anti-Communists set fire to the announced that
Dr. Mossadegh the contrary, the
note Tudel "peace
centre" and the had proposed to the British Am- emphasises that the Chinese cfice of the Communist news-bassador, Mr George Middleton, Government is willing to
Basoule Ayandch was that the dispute be arbitrated. develop trade with Bellain; smashed by Fascist elements. But Dr Mossadegh fatly denied he had said any such without street that moreover, by inference, it The city was accepts the British sugges-ights and traffe was diverted thing. The tion that contact be main from the shopping centre to
new proposal, if sub- stantiated, was regarded in off-
The death roll in the area had risen to thirteen today tained through the agency avoid the riots and tear gas.
in London It was officially stated earlier cial circles
when four bodies, were found in the seat Twenty-five people of a British Trade Mission
that the military would assist effort by Iran to meet reason- are still missing. Damage to roads, bridges and power and In China, Manifestly the the police if necessary in dealing able desires on the part of other public projects were estimated at £2,000,000. Peking regime has no inten-with
vulbreaks further
of Britain. tion or desire to slam the trouble,
Iran's position hos been The Devon County Surveyor Missing believed dead twenty- door against future com- The Premier, D Mohammed that the dispute was a matter reported today that in Lynmouth one
Altogether, during the day, the mercial ties with Britain, Mossadegh, reported better to- for "discussion" under the Na- 42 houses, cottages and hotels and this justifies cautious night after a two-day Alness, tionalisation Law but not for were totally destroyed, seven-Ilfracombe police recovered five
teen partially
All were and bodies from the sea. United Press. hope that in due course
has given full authority to the arbitration.
twenty more seriously damaged, believed to have been Lynmouth something approaching nor-
Police Chief, Generul Shelbani,
by victims-Reuter.. opened The relict to sleal with mal trading relations can The General had tendered his all emergencjes,
fund
by Lord Lieutenants (the become established between resignation but withdrew it after
Queen's representatives) of the the two countries.
stricken Counties reached £23,- a meeting with the Premier to-
500, including "generous" gifts from Queen Elizabeth and the OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
Duke of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Aug. 19. The Premier appointed the
Two famous
CLOTHING Scottish banks
PARCELS former Military GovernOT tinually held out as an Abadan, Major-General Toshi
Fourteen thousand parcels of example to Singapore. The Raihi, as Deputy Minister of
announced here today.
clothing which Britons can send latest phase concerns the National Defence. The foamer They are the Bank of Scot-postfree until Saturday had ar-
land founded controversy about the major Minister resigned two days ago.
as far back as rived by today.
Bank of An American Army sergeant, 1650, and the Union
Bristol's Singapore bus
Housing Department
for aerodynamic company, whose me was given as Ho- Scotland, founded in 1830.
offered 21 new houses and flats which refused to consider
research, it is atted with a The amalgamation has been for the homeless. ben, was pelted with stones as
triplano a proposal to
adjustable for trim- introduce he passed through the shopping approved by the Board of Direc
Mr MacMillan urged "all our double-deckers
ming at various speeds. itt the centre.
tors of both banks and now people at home and overens,
Cairo, Aug. 10, crowded city streets on the
Two other British jet planes, who have The Persian Mixed Oll Com-waits approval of the share-
ever enjoyed
Dr Hatez Ann, former Chief the ground that it was already mlsalon, adviser to the Premier holders, it is stated.
beauties of the Devon coast" to of ex-King Faroulc's Royal which first came out in 1947, vell of secrecy very dimeult Indeed for the and Government on all of
Scottish trading banks contribute. Tho
Cabinet, and his 30-year-old shed the final son, Amin Halez And, were to- today- the Vickers Armstrong bus conductors to handle matters, met today and is un- are unique in Britain in that they the
meletes me. We day questioned by interrogating Alter FB 1 and 78.2. crowds using
derstood to have discussed "Im still
tho tho
Sim, Chief of the Imperial Genoncers about last week's riots right
They are modifications of the single-deckers. A correspon- tion."
portant aspects of the oil ques Issue banknotes.
eral Staff, landed in a helicopter at the Kair el Dawar
Textile original Attacker, In the rest of Britain this right on Lynton car park tonight to Mills, near Alexandria.
a single- dent who claims to have
seater jet fighter with swept The Premier asked various is held solely by the Bank of tour the north Devon flood dis- travelled hundreds of times Ministries to prepare and submit England, the
Amin Hafez Aff, Chief of back wings, an official maximum bank.aster area.
(940 kilo- on the double-deckern in for his approval plans to improve Reuter.
miles the He saw considemble work al- Accounts Department at speed of 590 Kowloon writes to the the administration.
the mill, was arrested during metres) an hour and an opera ready being done by the Army.
tional celing 48,500 feet
_of_ the night after being denounced Regular and Territorial units, by one of the 20 workers on
(over 10,000 metres). Including "Z
Bomb racks were added reservists on an trial for tending tie ricts,
to nual
training, are.. erecting
as the Dr Hafez Alf flew to Calro the first model and, bridges to replace those lost in from Aloxamairia after the inter- FB-1, the Attacker is now fly-
the Prime ing with the Royal Navy as to sce Minister, Sir William, who was accom- half-hour metting, Dr. Hafez.
Aly Maher. After fighter bomber-Reuter.... panied on his tour by Gineralvan said: Moalalake Phirinyane, one of C.F. Firbank, General Officer the 12 Bamangwate tribesmen Commanding Southwestern Dis-my believe in the Innocence of on trial before the High Court triet, who is in charge of military, Kafr el Dawar and it is illogical my son, Amin. We built tho here, accused of murder,
In the disaster area, that we assistance
should attempt to acquitted and discharged' today, NEW PROPOSAL
when the Crown withdrew the told reporters: "People here can destroy it. I have confidence in Teheran, Aug. 13.
ely on the army to do Iran proposed tonight to refer case against him.
The charge
Dr Hafez Ala arose from the thing. It possibly can do bets Egyptian Justice,
12 one of the to spbitration the dispute over
It was announced at Exeter the upper compensation
death of three Basuto police- Arlo- deck ns "Peeping. Toms." Irmian Oll Compety for its men during a clash at Serowe, Headquarters tonight that the Managing Directors of the giant The
flood relief fund so for totale the bank group, which includes former
capital Kowloon seizure and nationalisation by the Bamangwato resident handsomely dealt the
Dr June 1, when the police tried £23,000,--Reuter. Minister,
to prevent a banned Kgotia with that one, too, and he Mohammed Mossadegh,
Tila is à now departure in the (tribal) meeting added, quite rightly, that
The Kgotin had been called the use of double deckers driven Tran to the brink of bank to discurs
the exiling of its would be a big stop toward rupter and which came as a chief, Seretse Khama, following the_nolution_of_Singapore's American Army sergeant was his marriage to a London girl. passongor traffic problem, stoned during rioting between |-- Reuter, 1 TA
HONGKONG is being con-
Straits Times, in reply to The
Ministry
of
of Agriculture
the head of the Singapore announced that 1,000 million Traction Company
Rials (over £10,000,000) will be who opposed two decks, showing in course of the next
three s
in the construction of
how well the double-decker dams and irrigation facilities, system functions here: One Dr Mossadegh issued decree, of the objections raised in empowering the Persian Finance Singapore, which has few Minister to claim all land noi buildings more than two under cultivation and sell it to atoreys tall, is that double-the publle for "very small sums."
Router. dockers would interfero
with the privacy of others... Shop dwellers, it WAÐ argued, would regard passengers on
Prime
to
protracted oil crisis which has
propose to amalgamate, it was
possess
central
Tribesman Is
Acquitted
Lobatsi, Bechuanaland
Aug. 10.
to
Was
on
Questioned
Sequel To Riots
and generally assist-rogation
the now construction work.
in
„Kafr el Düwor The alleged slaters, hás
trying
The P-120 is less than feet (10 metres) long and has a wing span of 33% feet (11 metres). It is powered by a Rolls Royco Nënë three-jet en- gine.
Built
Town Torrorised
By Baboons
a
Simonstown, South Africa,
Aug. 19.
terrorising this naval town by descending, from the hills to
ransack houses in search of food. Mrs Ruth Roose went into
*Military 7 y at- her kitchen to see a large baboon
CASUALTY FIGURES
Barnstaple, Aug.” 19. ed Dr Alf to explain a "steret removing her Sunday Joint and Omcial casualties in the recent visit" he made to the mills fust a box of eggs from the Icebox. doods in the Lynmouth area before the slots broke out, Nino When she tried to shop it away, issues here tonight were bodies people were killed and 23 in- the animal scowled and did nat recovered fifteen.
Jured-In the riots which wreck- | leave until it had helped itself Identified nine,
ed the mills.--Router,
to apples.ng well.-Unlted Press.
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