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COMMENT OF THE DAY
Britain And
ANZUS
JUST why Britain's request send an observer to the
ANZUS conference
has
been rejected la anything
but clear nor is it easy to
understand why such
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decision has been made by
the United States, Australia
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TAKSHING ATTACKED BY Mossadegh's
RED
GUNBOATS
and New Zealand. Some one feel that observera reason is that if Britain be allowed to "all in"on the
; discussions, other countries would claim the Bone privilege. Lost sight of is the fact that Britain has the special interests in 'South Pacifd; moreover she
has
Ship Boarded: Two
Chinese Taken Off
BRITISH WARSHIPS GO
strong tien with TO THE RESCUE
Australia and New Zealand
as partners in the British
Commonwealth. That the
A COMMUNIST GUNBOAT AND JUNK INTERCEPTED AND
Foreign Office should feel; ARMED hurt and Homewhat
affronted is natural enough. FIRED ON THE MACAO-BOUND SS
While
Missing Submarine
has not TAKSHING (CAPT ]. B. McCAW) AT Britain
become an active assoclute 2 A.M., TODAY WHILE SHE WAS ON Fleet Is
in the Pacific Council,
is fully sympathetic to its THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE ROUTE. aims and objects. And in ABOUT 10 MILES FROM MACAO AND seeking to have an observer
at the Council meetings, she 512 MILES FROM LANTAU ISLAND.
is striving to demonstrate
that her interest in ANZUS
Mobilised
The Takshing was compelled to stop
For
is more than idle curiosity and an armed boarding party from the To suggest that her un-Communist boats went aboard and re- ollicial presence at Commeil, discussions would
-the
create an impression among the Asiatic nations that ANZUS was tainting itself with colonialism in stretch ing imagination to a point. of assurdity.
The
moved two Chinese passengers.
In reply to a distress signal, the frigate HMS Mounts Bay and the destroyer, HMS Consort, went to the rescue.
At five minutes to seven the two British ships arrived at the position given by the Takshing to And the steamer under way for Hongkong.
*
Search
Paris, Sept. 24. The whole French Medi-
terranean fleet based on Toulon has been mobilised to take part in the search
Sibylle, missing on exercises in the Mediterranean with
A West Berlin.dustcart (right) blocks the passage of a Red Army armoured car, whose occupants, hav- ing apparently lost their way, had raced across the western sectors of the city.
American military police were called out to protect the armoured car's fye man crew from the West Berliners, and to escort the car across the border into the Soviet Sector-London Express.
Three Men
48 officers and men aboard. Killed In
พลง
Jend
Both British warships were fired on by Com-for the French submarine La munist shore batteries and they returned the fire. I difficult to escape the
The Takshing, owned by the G.B. Rowe RN) were despatch- conviction that Britain's
Tai Yip Company, registered in ea to investigate. claim to be represented alHongkong and flying the British. Itonolulu has not been given ang, left Hongkong at midnight. the serious consideration by for Macao. She took the normal ANZUS which it merits. route past Green Island and Pacific Council hus when within quarter of a mile off been created for the long-Lantau, turned north to remain term purpose of establishing within British territorial waters, Thereafter she followed the collective security in the international trome route.. South Pacifle, and in the event of Australin or New At 2 ani. she was halled by Zealand being involved in a gunboat and an armed launch would un-ying the Chinese Communist Britain war, hesitatingly go to their aid, dog and told to stop. She con- tinued. on her way-The-gun- and without regard to the'
boat opened machine-gun fire
fact that she might not be and also fred one or two rounds/Sip Mel fred on them.
ал active member of ANZUS. This is well known to all three members of the Pacific Council.
Is not to
of shells. The Takshing was superficially hit astern by bullets. She stopped and was ordered by the Chinese gunboat towards be expected that London Lap Sap Mei Island. will be satisfied with
She stopped in a bay on the leaving the situation as it west slic of Lap Sup Mel Island exists. The request which and an armed guard went on has been made to ANZUS board and forcibly removed twa
men passengers, Ching Chee-guns. Wah, and Lo Tee-wah.
AC
Channel,
was done to the
of three
Explosion
› Port Arthur, Ontario,
Sept: 24. Three men were reported killed and between 15 and 20 trapped in an explosion and fire at a grain elevator here today.
-
Acheson's Strong Statement
ACCUSES RUSSIA
ing on words.
Demand Unacceptable
WANTS £49 MILLION
DOWN PAYMENT
London, Sept. 24.
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh's reported demand for a down payment by Britain of £49,000,000 'was described by authoritative ‘quar- ters tonight as "completely unacceptable”.
་་
However, in rejecting it, sources nevertheless hoped the door would not be closed against further moves toward ultimate settlement.
The Foreign Office was awaiting the text of the Iranian proposals and declined formal comment until it had studied them in close consultation with. the United States.
The claim for payment of a basis for a settlement, Fersin £49,000,000 is considered by would abide by any mutually Britain's expert as non-existent agreed upon and internationally "because no such sum is due recognised method of settle- This amount would have be- ment, the sources sald.
come due it the Iranian gov- The court should, however, ernment .had ratified the give a verdict on all issues with- British-proposed supplementary in six months of them being agreement on higher royallies referred to it. for Iranian oil, which it failed to do.
to banded
...
FIRST
CONDITION As a condition for starling the direct negotiations with
compensation
The amount, it was authorita- Lively stated, is no longer Washington, Sept. 24.
available since it has been used company, Persia would insist on £49 militon The United States Secre- to meat the heavy additional the payment of tary of State, Mr Dean expenditure incurred by the by the company.
"The sources said "while there Acheson, accused the Soviet Anglo-Iranian Oil Company as
was no ultireatum for the sever- of relations with Britain It ance Union today of dodging the result of its evacuation from
Iran. United Press. Issue of free. German elec.
was understood that a period of PERSIA'S REPLYN.
14 days would be allowed for tions in its long exchange of
Teheran, Sept: 24.Dritain to reply to the demanda. notes with the Western
The Persists Premier, Dr
The counter proposals seek to Powers on proposals for a Mohammed Mossadegh, tonight ensure that the company gets
and the British united Germany!
only for installa Mr Acheson issued a sharply American envoya kare Perla's tions left behind in Abadan worded statement denouncing reply to the Churchill-Truman and other places, the sources.
said. Mir the Soviet Government for play-proposals on the oil dispute.
George Middleton, the There would be no question He said yesterday's reply by British Charge d'Affaires, and of any other compensation after the United States, Britain and Mr Lay Henderson, the Ameri- the nationalisation in 1951.
can Ambassador, drove the
The main change in the coun- France to the Soviet Union was "another attempt to persuade Fremier's residence at 7 p.m. ter proposals cubmitted tonight and stayed there for less than was the abandonment of the to
half an hour. the Soviet Union to face up
clause seeking. to sever diplo- the one problem which must be
Persia's counter
proposals matic relations with Britain. met we.are end the present
offer four methods of settling these sources said.-Reuter. artificial division of Germany."
"That problem, he said, was to hold free elections through-counter-claims between
and the Anglo-Iranian out Germany.
Company, according to informed sources here..
These are that if the satile- ment of the Persian courts
Berlin, Sept. 24. to the unacceptable prove
West German Persia would be agency DPA reported tonight company prepared to go to The Hague an East German shepherd fled Court for settlement of claims to West Berlin last night with on the 1919 agreement (the his flock of 600 sheep.
oil original d'Arcy agreement), Taking advantage
agreement, or the damp and foggy weather inst 1949 supplementary agreement, night, the shepherd crossed the If these agreements proved city boundary into the United unacceptable to the company as States sector.-Reuter.
A French naval spokesman said: "We have the most serious apprehensions-submarine eccl- dents are always liable to to calamities." La Sibylle
off Toulon when the lust message was re-
lowed the Takshing to within
The two British gunboats fol-colved from her this morning.
The submarine falled to sur- a. diving exercise half a mile inside British waters face after
shortly before midday, the naval off Lontoo point.
spokesman said.
crew consists At 7,50 a.m., when the three The
and 45 mch. ships were about four and a half officers
La Sibylle is a craft of 715 miles inside Lantos Chinese-shore batteries-on-Laptons surface displacement with..
One body, was recovered 6001 an armament of one four-inch
anti- after the explosion gun,
29-millimetre
rocked the one
sailors were The fire was returned by the aircraft gun
and six torpede waterfront. Two
been trapped British men-of-war.
14 reparted to have tubes Her surface speed is
"The Soviet Union has been Spasmodic
Bring Insted for knots and submerged ten knots under a wall as it toppled on to
a lake froighter alongside the seeking through this whole ox- about five minutes.
DIVING OPERATION
change of notes to talk about No damage
La Sibylle was Uio last of dock.
German unity but to avold talk- four British submarines to be
The explosion ripped the roofing about a free election, which British ships and no one was hurt.
handed on loan to the off a workshop adjoining the is the only way to get unity in
over It is thought that the Com-French Navy,
he added. She left ports main section of the 8,000,000 freedom het
wants munist batteries used
Government 75 mm mouth for L'Orient, the French bushel terminal. * -
base on July 15.
talk about un eventual peaco naval is a reasonable one and the
Fre followed the explosion, treaty or about the Norih At- The Takshing returned to her
La Sibylle disappeared while
and all available Are-fighting lantic Treaty or almost any other least the members of the
At about the same time, hav-berth at the Takshing wharf on diving between the island
equipment was rushed to the. Pacific Council can do fa to ing received a signal from the Connaught Road West and the Porquerolles and Cannes, on the
matter but not elections."
The Soviet Government officer scene. give new and deeper con Takehing. HMS Mounts Bay skipper, Capt. J. B. McCaw, went Riviera const, a naval
aald. sideration to Britain's point Į (Capt A.F.P. Lewis DSC, RN) ashore to report to the authorl-
The British freighter Bayton leaned heavily, for example, on (Cdr ties.
The depth of sen at some of the Colonial Steamship Lines: the provisions of the Potsdam Police guarded the wharf and points in that aren reachas 270 was reported to have been tied Agreement
calling for the permitted no one to enter or to to 260 fathoms (1,020 to 2,280 up at the terminal loading grain restoration of Germany RS leave until now.
when the explosion occurred. feet), he added.
"unified, Independent, peace- An Admiralty spokesnun in Parla told a questioner he did A terminal on the same site loving, Democratic state."
"This is indeed our objective In Germany," The following statement was not believe the French Navy was destroyed by an explosion
Acheson said. "But what does the Soviet issued by the Government was equipped with underwater and fire in 1845 with the loss of
mcan Publie Relations
by these of the
Government televisiority in the search
type used
words?" the British
submarine Affray.
DIFFERENT MEANINGS "We have leamed in theso French Admiralty would anks
postwar years' that such words as Takshing, regularly employed
Britain for
this Joan of a
have meanings for the Soviet on the Macao ferry route, was
prove
Government should equipment
and for in
Com- the proceeding
well-
4
munist partien
everywhere. established International chan- necessary, but thought such
and request possible.
which are entirely different from nel between Hongkong
An American military team
their traditional meanings in the Масао
when she was over-
London, Sept. 24.
Bussion, English, French, Ger- hauled by a vessel which called specialising in submarine rescue work, based in Germany, 19
the. Con- Resolutions for and fired upon her to stop
man and any other longviet flying to help in the search for servative Party's annual con- "We have learned, that from a machine-gun. The vessel La Sibylle, it was learned to-
DIC ference next month show that statesmen
the word from a round stopped and
night.
Mr Winston Churchill's sup democratic exclusively for coun- Americans are expected
applaud his tries or groups. tightly run by to emphasise
porters. warmly the to
of view.
and the HMS Consort
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heavler gun was fired ahead of The either at Isires airport, government's performance. butj.clements recognising the political
order. The Master was instructed near Marseilles, or at Palyvestre deplore its allure to put authority of the Communist to proceed to the island of Lap Beld, on the coast opposite the its policy over to the public. Sup Mel, where he was brought stand of
land of Porquerolles,
"We beleiva La Sibylle
of
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Party of the Soviet Union."
"We have learned that in dependent means about the same thing
We have learned that peace,
to anchor in a bay on the west An Admirally spokesman In Several resolutions allege that side of Lap Sap Mel. A party of Paris said: "Search operations the 1,500 seat landslide to La Chineso Communist troopa
ops with the full participation of bour In Britain's municipal boarded the vessel and searched all, available pir and: naval elections last spring was dup loving means to Soviet stairemen hor. Two passengers were re forces In southern France, largely to incpt handling anything which núvances tho moved from
: the ship by the including helicopters, will con-government propaganda.
cause
of Communist pärlies -To- armed party and taken ashore, tinue throughout the night..
In the meantime two British
In a list of 188 provisiorial cognising the authority of the, Naval vessels, HMS Consont and located somewhere south of St motions published today 25 are Communist Party of the Soviet
Union," Mr Acheson "anid," HMS Mounts
Bay, had been Tropez."-Reuter,
devoted to calls for a tightening
"By the same token," It ap- despatched 10 investigate in
up of publicity methods.
pears that anything which In Tesponse to a wireless appeal
Discussion at the conference, plies, resistance to the alms of from the master and encountered
which opens at Scarborough of such Communist parties the Takshing as the was leaving
October 0, will be based on a mediately branded as wurlike of Lap Say Met.
selection of key resolutions, but aggressive intent.
Conditions in the Soviet the compressed In
Five More Reds
..
* Indicted
Washington, Sept. 24,
the views
27
The Takshing was returning to
The Ualtod States Justice Hongkong escorted by the WO Naval vessels and was in British Department today announced in- remainder wil be brought out Zone, are not such as to on- courage the belief that elections waters off South Lantau Light diciments against five more in debate.
Constitution of the Conserva- can now be, hold there under when fine was opened from Come Communist Party leaders for munist shore batteries on the alleged plotting to overthrow the tive Party is different from that conditions of freedom," Acheson east side of Lap Sap McL Fire American Goveniment by force of the Labour Opposition, whose said.
was returned. There were no
Impartial were among annual conference is the final "We would like The five': named
ike an casualties ΟΤ demarte
except the 18 second rank party leaders arbiter of the party policy. In commission to go in there. bullet holes in the Takshing rounded up last week on the the Conservative Party the give us a factual report, and from the bursts fired when the West Coast and in the Middle leader in this case Mr Churchill suggest what needs to be done was first called upon to stop. | West-Reuter,
has the final say-Reuter. (Oonick on "back pagu; ool. 1),
the
nid financial claims.
Persia
the 1933
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