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r THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1952.
ANGLO-IRANIAN DECIDE TO BUILD A LITTLE
A
ABADAN" AT ADEN
Aden, Aug. 20,
The face of this steamy, suri-baked port on the southern edge of the Arab world is about to be transformed by the decision to build a "Little Abadan" here.
to
A now oll refinerý, estimated to cost about £50,000,000, is expected boost Britain's strategie dil reserves by tens of thousands of tone a year.
Forced to leave the world's largest oil refinery, at Abadan last year by the Persian Prime Minister, Dr Mohammed Moosadegh, and pursuing a policy of making good the loss by the construction of smaller unita, scattered round the world, the Anglo-Iranian Oll Company has chosen this Red Sea port for the establishment of the world's newest and most up-to-date refmery.
a
lighterage and build new wharves which wil Chaute large vessels to berth directly alongside pto- jected
new all, coaling and freightage facilties.
of
Wolves Attack
Children
The latest victim was a 10-year-old girl from the village of Mohanlalganj, near here. Her body wis found near her home, partly eaten by a hyena or wolf,
which had dragged ner from her bed at night.
Exhaustive surveys over many mechs are now nearing com- piction but the detailed scheme lias not yet been announced.
According to well-informed
But behind the bustle of the sources here, the main outlines of the new oil scheme are that dock areas, behind the apparent the relinery will be built on what surface prosperity which ship-
Lucknow, Aug. 20. is now deserted, waterless ping brings and through the
The anty and polles have waste known as Little Aden, a heat and humility of this once
been called Aden
to hunt out rock fortress, few miles west of the main barr:n
down wolves and byeNAS, another plcture, It will take about three presents port.
which have been attacking equal to to build. Work will begih squalor and misery
children years
In
suburba the the worst which the world has In a few months time and British and an American firm to offer. will be jointly responsible for the main construction.
New wealth and employment -two of this Colony's
most pressing problems will follow the declalon to refine crude oil here. Aden Government officials expect a big jump in shipping using this port and upwards 3,000 of the teeming local popu- Intion are likely to be directly
ction work. employed on
on construction For Aden, the refinery may The majority of this mass of
ore predv 'to be the biggest humanity Arabs wall prove boost in its 115 years history minant, but there are also in- British rule- period dians and Somalis-eke out a which has seen the Briton aght pitiful existence which seems to the broiling climate, the bare, be little better than that of the baking rocks and lack of water, goals which are their main cup- until today the port ranks among port. the world's top five in volume of tonnage passing through
under
annually.
month.
BUNKERING PORT
Apart from the men and women of the Royal Air Force who garrison this tiny arta ond the enormous desert control hinterland of the Protectorates and warilko with their Berce tribes, there are only about 500 Europeans among the population of well over 100,000 who swarn
like ants over this tip of Arabia.
STARK POVERTY
There is no main water-borne drainage system in Aden. There are only two rooms in the Colony which are air-conditioned. There is an acuto lack of electric power, though
a new
mnt-
Soldiers keeping watch fast night shot two full- grown wolves on the road six miles outside Lucknow.
Itcuter.
The First
Since
Roman Days
Amman, Aug. 20. Work on the first large-scale rigation scheme to be planned Jorden since Roman times is expected to begin before the end of this year.
Despite the fact that Aden last year handled 20,560,010 net tons of shipping, an overage of station is nearing 14 ships a day every day of the and thousands of the local yeur, its wealth is only compara-population Hive
In nithy, tive and its social problems are infested quarters or are without becoming more acute with every a proper roof over their heads, Houses of matting and sacking Insanitary and evil-anelling.
The scheme, which included dotted on the shore and mong of the great wealth which the jagged rooks of the granite the building of two large hydro- electric plants, is the outcome of hills which hem in the
of study
by British such a tonnage of shipping re-stress the stark housing shoringe years presents, only u comparatively
and the pove:ly of thousands. engineers and, more recently, of small proportion finds its way Yet sill, every year, thousands surveys by American irrigation Into Aden, because this istat families trek hundreds of experts.
the Yemen
least nve bunkering port.miles from principally Versols calling here are oiled attempt to smuggle themselves months in the year-and in bad and watered and on their way past the closely-guarded borders years, as much as ten months out again in an average time of of the Colony in search of work Jordan's agriculture is restricted,
and food. Reuter.
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Shipping which appears to clog the harbour here now will, in a few years, become greater, for the Port Trust au- thorities are beginning a 000,000 improvement scheme this year to dredge deeper channels for ocean-going ships, extend existing wharts to reduce
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Turkey Watches Tribes
KURDISH DANGER
Istanbul, Aug. 21. Alarmed by the unrest in Iran, Turkey is keeping an eye on the Kurdish tribes- men who live on bolit sides of the Iran-Turkish Border. Kurdish experts here sný the Communist-encouraged Kurds of Iran would attempt to set up an independent Kurd State Un central government in Teherant
showed signs of
of topplink
Something like that was tried briefly In Azerbaijan area
the
of Iran right after the last war. Aliny
Kurdish People's
Repub lle was proclaimed, only to dis Integrate when Russia withdrew its mupport after strong opposi- Lion from Iran's central govern- ment supported by the U.S.
The Kurds, descendants of the Asiatic hordes of Genghis Khan, ie nomadic mountain tribes-hardy rebels who rebel against any government fill- thority.
A Kurd. il is zald, would girdly trade his wife for a rifle.
wander He likes to
with the seasons and has an aversion to any settled life.
Best estimates any there are 2,000,000 Kurds
Turkey, in 3,000,000 in Iran and another 2,200,000 in neighbouring Iraq and Syria.
ATATURK'S
EFFORT
Turkey has made the strong- est effort to get the Kurds to settle down and live like ether people,
This drive was led by Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) in 1927 after bhother In U long series of Kurdle uprisings in castern Turkey.
Ataturk ordered large num- bers of the Kurds into Turkey's Interior, away from their fellow tribesmen in bordering.countries Many of these Kurds became farmers
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But since then, many have made their way back to their old tribal grounds to take up
RUSSIAN SUPPORT their independent outdoor life.
There are recurrent reports of arms reaching Turkish Kurdis who are spread out over a 2,000-miles streich froin Erzerum to Diyarbekir, Authorities say these reports are exaggerated, One Istanbul newspaper re-
pistols and ammunition had ported retently that thousands been smuggled into the area.
The top Kurdish leader in Turkey is Mehmet Bayazit of the farmed Kurdish Cetall family, in great He lives in Erzerum state.
Shellch Halloptu Omer is project, leader of Iran's big Kurd group. which ofins at harnessing the Because of his efforts toward waters of the River Yarmuk
mukan independent State embracing dowing along the Jordan-Syrian all Kurds he
generally border, British and American recognized as senior Kurdish planners hope to spread water chieftain. He is believed to have and moisture over more than Russian support, Including.
of sparsely cul- supply of weapons and ammuni 180,000 acres tivated land in the valley of the tor
tion, according to reliable River Jordan.
sources here. According to one These now idle acres will be rep
report, Iranian Kurds .pay for intensively irrigated, by the their arms-of World War II. construction of a canol, from a German manufacture with
yet to be built at cattle and sheep reservoir
bought from Magaril, near the Syrian border, the Turkish Kurds, southward to the Dead
The top Syrian Kurd, Mulla Farms and small-holdings will Mustafa Bertani, went 10 then,
it is hoped, take the Russia with 40 of his principal of barren salt fats and lieutenanta in 1944-Associated
Press, cos 28,000,000 dollars (app. £12,700,000) and The Police charged George take three years to complete,
British Army Deserter Questioned
Draguignan, Aug. 20.
in
A 30-year-old man, described by the Police as a deserter from the British Army in Germany, was questioned here today connection with a forest fire that may have touched off the most destructive binze in years on the
Frich Rivicta
the
scrubinted to
Sea.
Bullton, 30, of the Channel the Yarmuk scheme, which the falanda, with responsibility for Jordan Government has recently the fire last Sunday in the area accepted, is a variation of one known as Colette in nearby elaborated some years ago by Vidaubon, but refused to clarify the British engineer, Sir Mar-
of the eltarge extent
untit
doch Macdonald, to
to overcome after
they
have finished a pre- Ilminary questioning the Problems arising from the fact
of
the head waters of the paratrooper,
Jordan River itself lle in Israel Vidauban is not far from the and are subject to Jewish can- forest where bone dry pines trol--a seed of possible future burned furiously for days until political discord between the finally extinguished by the first Arabs and Jews-Reuter, thunderstorm
yesterday.
in three months
More than 100 persons were
made homeless-United Press.
Britons Appeal
London, Aug. 20.
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On March 23 Representative Estanislao Fernandez introduced
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