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The UC To Persia Aly Maher
EMBERS of the Urban
M Council on Tuesday pre-
sented an impressive array of reasons, supported by fucts and figures, to show why the Department should be permitted to enlarge its establishment, and in the main sympathy in to bo found for the proposals of the Estimates Committee.} The argument that the health and hygiene of the Colony cannot be allowed to bo jeopardised through shortage of qualified Inspec- tors and insufficiency of supervisory personnel acceptable; so too, in the
is
RESUMPTION OF OIL TALKS
A POSSIBILITY
London, Aug. 27.
Britain told Iran today that she is ready in principle to resume talks on settlement of the oil dispute provided that a satisfactory basis for negotiations can be reached quickly, authoritative sources said today.
contention that the Urban Council in st present understaffed and con- sequently gravely handi- The offer was said to have been made at a capped in carving out a meeting in Teheran today of the Counsellor of the manifold duties with maximum efficiency. The British Embassy, Mr George Middleton, and the cost of the in- United States Ambassador, Mr Loy Henderson, $1,400,000 in somewhat with the Iranian Premier, Dr Mohammed Mos startling, but it is additional sadegh. expenditure which
estimated creased
establishment --
on
between
the It was at the same time reported from Teheran Colony'a exchequer can that the Shah had exerted pressure for a settlement as meet without being embar- discussions went
Mr Middleton, Mr rassed. The taxpayer, how- Henderson and Dr. Mossadegh in a "final attempt" to ever, is entitled to his money's worth in services, end the oit dispute.
and it will be the generali
lock".
Informed
Bources
The meeting lasted three hours desire that if the increases and was closely guarded.
Once oil is flowing again the United States is said to be will- in establishment Arc Iranian Government sources Ing to lift the stop order on the approved, attention will be sold that it was a "final attempt | proposed $25,000,000 Export- concentrated on developing to end the Anglo-Iranian dead-Import Bank lean and to discuss what Mr Brook Bernacchi
the extension of additional ald revealed to meet Iran's desperate financial culla the Department's later that the Shah was anxious needs. "field work."
to get a settlement of the oll dis- question as soon as possible,
The sources intimated the Shah had recommended that that Dr Mosadegh "go cery with the proposals categorically,
Tuesday's DURING
cussion, Mr Dhun Button- jee quoted the caso of an Urbun Council taking two days leave in order to get married and returning to his office
it
ive
Threatens To
Resign
Dispute With Naguib Over Land Reform
Cairo, Aug. 27.
Aly Egyptian Premier Maher has threatened to resign over the question of land reform, it was learned from usually reliable sources
here tonight.
A
and
cleavago between Aly Maher
General Naguib, Egypt's strong man and leader
on tha speed and
of the
of the coup which ousted King Farouk,
ruthlessness
proposed
agrarian reform bill became an outright
clash
sources said.
Gamural
the
today, these
TC-
Nagulb pressed by 12-man
military junta which
helped him organise his coup, was openly known to be attempting Maher to enact agrarian
to force Premier
form immediately.
The Army regards the land reform plan as its main planit and as striking at Egypt's centuries-old social and econo- mic ills.
micilis,
to
Posed As Capt Carlsen
Dundee, Aug. 27.
Frances Joseph Bambrough, a 39-year-old wireless operator who posed as Captain Carlson of the Flying Enterprise, was sent to prison at Dundee today for two years on 15 convictions of theft and four for fraud. He admitted the thefts and fraud all over Scotland.
Bambrough registared at a Dundee hotel as Captain Carlsen and told guests he was Captain Carlsen of the Flying Enterprise.
The real Captain Kurt Carlsen, made world headlines early this year, when he refused to leave his badly disabled American freighter, the Flying Enterprise, fighting a losing battle against 'the Atlantic in an attempt to bring her into port-Reuter.
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Japan Aims To Operate Comet Fleet Within 3 Years
(From RONALD BOXALL)
Colombo, Aug. 27.
Japan's international airline company hopes
to have its own Comet fleet in operation between Tokyo and London within three years.
Seijiro Yanagita, president of Japan Airlines, fold me this today aboard the BOAC Comet on its 1,500-mile, three-and-a-half hour flight across the Indian Ocean from Rangoon to Colombo.
With Mr Yanagita was Mr Ryohey Ito, another director of Japan Airlines and chief of its planning sec- tion, and we are all guests of BOAC on the training flight for British air crews and to encourage Japanese com- petition.
The Japanese are on the way Firat post-war Japanese over- to London un board the Comet | seus air service will be between. to buy two newer Comets and Tokyo and Talpel, Formosa, other conventional-type | probably, in October. A service
BID FOR PARTY POWER
London, Aug. 27.
Six left-wing. Labour MPs, led by Mr Aneurin Bevan, tonight announced a bid to establish a powerful Bevanite group within the Labour Party's National Executive.
The six, pledged to Mr Bevan's demand for a cut in rearmament, said they were standing for election to the 27-member Executive. Voting takes place at the party conference opening on September 29.,
Four of the left-wingers, including Mr Bevan, are already members of the Executive, which meets every month to frame policy for the party, both inside and outside Parliament.
which has
The party conference will be | overshadowed by the crisis
disrupted Labour | sinco Mr Bevan and two other Ministers resigned from the
lost Labour Government in April 1951 on the ground that being economy
Was
British crippled by heavy spending on
rearmament.
But the Bevanites' efforts to change party polley within the Executive have so far failed
in the face of opposition_from Prime supporters of former Minister Clement Attlee, the party leader.
J
THE LYNMOUTH
DISASTER
26th Body Recovered
Lynmouth, Aug. 27. The 26th .body recover
』,,
If all six Bavanites are suc-ed from the wreckage of cessful, they will oust two of Lynmouth was found to- three right-wingers. These three day under silt and debris are former Foreign Secretary in the town's only butcher's Herbert, Morrison, ex-Colonial Secretary James Grimtha
shop. Mr Hugh Dalton, a former Identified as nine-year-old Chancellor of the Exchequer. Kenneth Bowen, its recovery In last year's election the leaves five persons on the miss- Bevanites succeeded in ousting ing list, the boy's brother David right-winger Emanuel Shinwell, and four women. Defence Minister in the Labour Cabinet and
and replacing him with Mrs Barbara Castle.
TOPPED FOLL
The
[official | British", and not reject any new also failed in a similar attempt breaking up large estates and i treter planes. Total value of tó San Francisco, via Honolulu, poll for the sixth year in,suc- floods cut off, electricity and the
to
most
ASACTION. URGED-
WAJ
says Mr
EMPLOYERS REFUSE PAY RISE
ers
will
power
resoluilong on the
ference
local
·
COSTLY FIRE
the
the
As the Naguib-Maher crisis Dr Abdul deepened tonight, Razzak Samhury, President of the State Council or Supreme Court, was tipped na the Army's The United States twice inter-
choice as a possible successor ful effort to mediate in the dis vened last year in an unsuccess-to Aly Maher,
Firemen were clearing tons of Dr Sanhury pute.
is believed
silt from the shop to get at o The International Bank support the Army's land reform,
large supply of rotting meat and Mr Bevan himself topped the poultry in the meat safe. But with resture for a settle limiting holdings to 200 acres | pastenger nient mounting in Iran and thened to have hammadd it into their order will be £1,500,000. will besit shortly afterwards resign and increased his vote, refrigerater had become an air- throat of a Communist coup ap-legal shape
Mr-Yanagita told me of his London, Express Service.
Even if Mr And 804 Ales on his desk Meanwhile, in
pearing even more serious than
UNEASY ALLIANCE :
Bevan's six no- less vault, Washington, balore, all hands
airilace pinna. He hopes to have
minces are elected, It is un- ace 'hopeful
Most of the perishable foods awailing atientior. Here, the State Department contirm-that the negotiating attempt. will
Veteran statesman Aly Maher delivery of his Cometa by the
likely
that they was claimed.
can capture left in shops and cafes have been handpicket by between Mr prove successful, officials said Negulb to head the Goverment was one ing the meeting
General middle of 1955. Illustration
the Executive, but such a vic-destroyed and much canned food Middleton and United Press.
One of the purposes of his of how the Henderson, Mr
Much of tory
their has been reclaimed. strengthen Dr Mossadegh, added that Mr
Britain is to try Department is understaffed. Henderson had not yet filed a
a few hours after the coup.
visit to
and
in argument. Sixty
It has been condemned after an NO COMMENT To the public it also sug report.
Observers here believed that arrange with De Havilland to their relationship had deterio-have Japanese pilots trained at
party con- inspection by experts.
of wines and Large stocks Kesta that, like
agenda-mainly fròm Informed sources in Washing-
Washington, Aug. 27. sated into "uneasy allianco" De Havilland airfields so there
spirits have also been recovered. Government offices, excess- ton said that the United States
A State Department spokes- as the Army tightened its grip will be no delay in putting the
groups support the Workers are also looking for Bevanite ideas.
underneath emphasis IA being and Britain
sales hidden man today refused to say what on the country's affairs, were urging Dr
Japanese Comets into opera- Maher has been adroftly tonal service, the British and American en- placed on the necessity and Mossadegh
Split voting may diminish the rubble. One is sold to contain Aly to accept a new
Bevanites chances of election, at least £800. importance of paper work. compromise plan to get the vast voys in Tcharan discussed at a trying to
three and a half hour confer- "revolutionate the Army's
If this is not possible there
Mestry Shinwell, Morrison, reforms with
Troops are working 24 hours a For two, or even three men, all industry going again and
be jobs for British jet
Griffiths and Dalton are monding day helping to clean
up pilots to devote proper attention keep Iran out of the Communistence with Premier Mohammed a "go slow" approach.
going-flying Japanese Ho considers that the land aircraft
London, Aug. 27. Mossadegh today.
again together with a "ginger" rubble. Heuter, until the Japanese to so many files must retard camp.
reform scheme in its present learn how.
The Shipbuilding Employ-members of Parliament led by anti-Bevan group of youthful final action on the work of States would extend additional McDermott, would say only that the new regime would com-
Under the plan the United The spokesman, Mr Michael form and at this early stage of Further Comets,
Federation today told Mr Hugh Goltskell, Inst Labour the Department's officers in the field; for one man the economie ald -to shore up Iran they met "in continuance" oi oil į plicate Egypt's already critical they prove successful."
Yanagita, will. be ordered " leaders of 200,000 shipyard Chancellor of the Exchequer. Britain task is well nigh hopeless. make some concessions to break Department bad so far received
economy and
would discussions." He said the State economic situation.
men that they would not Nevertheless, the aim the deadlock in the oil wrangle. no report from Ambassador Loy tonight to be still attempting to Maher was reported
Japan Airlines give way to union claims for The Cometa should not be to bring the One diplomat familiar with Henderson.
are buying will be a later type a "substantial" pay rise. And a formula which would clerical staff up to "such the problem
said that Britain
those in operation on Engineering employers last autisfy the Army's demands, yet
week rejected a demand for £3 dimensions that
BOAC's Far Eastern service, can might agree not to insist on the It was reported from London at the same time provide a cheerfully go about the job use of British technicians to am today that Britain and America "brake" on the more impatient They will be a series of two a week by 2,300,000 workers.
were Comets atted with four Rolis- The shipbuilders
bé. flles. Rather, every effort which Iran has taken over. In i clal assistance to Persia under Army's ruling councers of the Royce "Avon" jets. These are Heved to have of handling thousands of the great Abadan oil refinery had made a joint offer of finan- and intransigent
asked for a capable of covering greatly in- similar increase. CATTLE LANGES
creased distances without re-
Wage
claims by €00,000 General has meanwhile announced that
Mohamed Naguib fuelling.
miners and nearly 000,000 Mr Yanagita
railwaymen expects
have also been re- reclaimed land would be sown
Anglo-Japanese agreement on Jected, following the Conserva- with hardy grasses and turned
air routes to be reached very ive Government's campaign for into cattle ranges.
shartly. As soon as possible, wage restraint to help defeat The Army sponsored the re-
Japan Airlines will Ly Douglas Inflation. clamation plan since
Egypt's DC-5's
The (Skymasters) on re-
engineering and ship- Western and Eastern deserts
building employers have pro- come under the Egyptian mygular services to London.
the unions An agreement with Britain
to contact Frontier Corpa,.
will also mean that the Japanese again, and Moderate Inbour Preliminary work by water will be able to operate services leaders hope they will get a experta
from the United States to Hongkong and Singapore. compromise offer. Interior Departraent's Bureau A service between Tokyo anaments today were: 60,000 Lon- Other wage claim develop- of Land Management have
Karachi is expected to begin also shown. that some arid
some time next year.
don
busmen decided to ask the regions xan ube Improved
Japan Airlinca' long-range government's industrial court to through shallow drilling to top plans are still in the discussion adjudicate after the state- stage. However, Mr Yanagita controlled Transport Board had time head of the Du Pontastinated 250,000, acres of desert working agreement with BOAC istantier claim
Drejected says, be "hopes to reach
the
It
return, the diplomat said, Itan
the
should be made to reduce probably would agree not to bar buy oll now in storage at
which Britain would agree to Department's
paper Britons even though it would seized Abadan redit.ery-Reuter. work to the minimum insist that oil experts from some enabling the field workers other nation be in charge of to achieve quicker results. operations.
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Philadelphia, Aug. 27.
ground water, Mr Lammot Du Pont, one
It is possible to recover an industrial organisation, who land by the ahallow well techni- who will shortly have their own Britain's two state-run died at the age of 71 on que without having to dig now Comets in service between Lon-lines, British European Airways July 24, has left an estate according to Dr John don and Tokyo.""
R. Nichols, Director of the
estimated at $75 million in personal property and $825,- 000 in real estate.
United States Technical Corpora tion (Point Four), here today.
The Egyptian Army and police
NO CUT-THROAT
and British Overseas Airways, rejected a claim for more pay for 1,000 Junior officers,
A threatened strike by 100,000 was averted furniture workers when employers agreed to pay them an extra penny an hour to meet rising living costs.
In Birmingham the EngineerS overtime at the
against the sacking of 800 Even so, Mr Yanagito hopes workers on the ground that Japan Airlines and BOAC dundancy-eater.
fiba'a "formula for co-
The Japanese air routo will henceforth, jointly maintain planner sala there would be no An affidavit filed by
the public security throughout the cut-throat competition between country, spokesman from the Japan Airlines and the BOAC executor of the estate here Ministry of the Interior, un- Comet lights. International air made the estimates.
nounced,
by sald, are fixed. dures,.he
Union banned Army and police intelligence Inter-government Austin moter works in protest The will established for Mrs Du Pont a marital trust comprising services will be housed in a new price, competition about 80 per cent of the ad-93-room building fitted with the impossible. Justed
estate, and most modem telecommunications ៥០៥៧ authorises her to name the Bytom beneficiary on her death.
Mrs. Du, Pont recalves from
the bull two roldentes and all of Mr. Du Pont's personal and household effects, grav
The will sets up trust funds for two of Mr Du Pont's sons, Mr David Flott Du Pont and Mr William Harrington, Du Pont. Shares making up the trust for Mr David Du Pont are estimated to be worth $3 million at
to enable greater co- ordination in safeguarding law and order.
would
be
of re-
Since the coup d'etat Army Toya and London will shortly 95 air travel between) officers have been attached to be on a larger scale than any Train Derailed: the pubile security office at the one Comet feet is likely to be Ministry of the InteriorReuter.
Mysterious Death Of Two Men
able to handle for some time."
Traffic-sharing arrangements between BOAC and Japan Air- lines will probably be one of
Bir
12 Killed
killed
11
London, Aug. 27. Twelve people were the subjects raised when Mr and 100 injured when
meets
Miles Prague-bound
exprces train * Liverpool, Aug. 27.
Chairman of BOAC, in was derailed in Czechoslovakio Bald last night, Prague Radio Lancashire County Police are London next weelr.
présent, Those of trying to establish the identity), Wapan Airlines, meanwhile, he' radio sald, the accident
..
the other trust are catimated at of two middle aged men, both have a number of shorter, rango
dressed in seafaring clothes, plans for the time Japan joins was caused by the engine .$5,700,000; //
whose bodies were found on the International Civil Aviation driver, who "ignored" light The remainder of the estate the foreshore in the Mersey Organization United Nations signals and passed a station coo is to be hold in trust for seven catuary today.
Organisation and concludes fast,NATI chlidren by, a former 'marriage. Near one of the bodies was 'a' agreements on international air Investigations aro continuing,
routen. wrecked shrimp, bost-Reuter. Reuter
the endio added--Reuler.
Mr Bevan was nominated for re-election together with his three supporters already on the
Capetown, Aug. 27. Executive: Mrs Barbarw Castle, Damago and low in a fro Mr Tom Driberg and Mr Ian aboard the 0,827-ton British Mikardo.
liner Port Jackson, which was Also trying for Executivo extinguished after the ship put seals in the Bevanite interest Into Table Day yesterday, is ex- ore Mr Richard Crossmart, pected to to between "£30,000 foreign affairs expert, and Mr and £60,000.
The are burned in one of the Horold Wilson, who gave up his job as President of the Board of holds for nine days. Trade to resign from the Labour Government with Mr Bevan a year ago-Reuter,
It will be several days before the liner, is able to resume her · voyage to Australin,-Reuter.
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