1941-08-29 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 29, 1941.

"Cease Fire" Order In Iran

Now Officially Confirmed w

OCCUPATION BY TROOPS CONTINUES

KIMORE

PAMPHLETS

“WE DON'T WANT YOUR FOOD. WE WILL BRING FOOD FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT, AS WE ARE DOING IN SYRIA,”IDE- CLARES A, PAMPHLET COPIES

TOWNS AND MILITARY: STA-

TIONS IN IRAN ADDRESSED

· TO: THE IRANIAN PEOPLE.

CONFIRMATION OF THE IRAN GOVERN-OE WHICH WERE DROPPED ON MENT'S INTENTION TO CEASE HOSTILITIES CAME BY TEHERAN · RADIO YESTERDAY DECLARING THAT THE NEW PREMIER, FURUGÙI, TOLD PARLIAMENT THAT ALL ARMED FORCES HAD BEEN ORDERED TO REFRAIN EROM RESISTANCE.

"We don't want your goods but we will open your ports, for trade' as we are doing in Iraq, We come as friends armed only against the common enemy,'

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A second pamphlet, addressed to the soldiers of Iran, declares:

you is 'Peace be with you.', Let brown style. The 'And upon you be peace"."-Reuter,

Reports that Iran is ceasing military"We come and our greeting to operations have also been received from both Vichy and Berlin.

According to a despatch issued

in Berlin as from Teheran, one of the first acts of the newly-appoint- ed Prime Minister was to appear Before Parliament and announce that the order, was, being given to the Iranian 'army to cease fire in! order to avoid unnecessary blood- shed.

The operations in Iran are not only going well but are going at great speed and are not likely to last long, according to reports ar- riving in Cairo.

One feature has been the auc- cessful use of air-borne troops.

No Line Of Escape

With the Russians advancing quickly from the north it is con-

KEM AIR LINE DIRECTOR IN PRISON CAMP

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M. Plesman, man- oging director of the K.L.M., the Dutch airline, is now în prison at a camp near Scheveningen, where a number of 'other prominent Netherlan ders are 'imprisoned, says the Free Dutch newspaper

"Vrij

Nederland."—Reuter.

IRAN PREMIER'S TITLEBAUR

ANNOUNCEMENT APPROVED

(By Reuter's Diplomatic Correspondent)

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the new sidered likely that any Germans Iranian Prime Minister that Iranian troops mountain passes to Turkey wil have been ordered not to oppose the Allied

trying to escape over the difficult

be trapped.

complete success and the British]

Naval operations have been al advance in Iranian territory, and the unani- have made useful gains in ton mous approval with which his statement was

greeted, is good news.

nage.

On the political side, the situa-

stood and realised in Egypt.

Iraq also comprehends the Al- lled gosition and complete co-

There is no question of any permanent tion in Iran is thoroughly under- Allied encroachment upon Iranian indepen- dence or territorial integrity. Once the needs opération is being rendered. of the present exceptional circumstances been fully explained in a series of have been met, both the British and Russian who are greatly interested as they Governments have pledged themselves to

The Allied action in Irani has

interviews with Turkish officials

are closely affected.-Reuter.

-Phone-27775

withdraw.

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This

is not

promise an idle like German promises to gain their purpose and then be cost: aside; it represents the set- tléd policy of the two Govern- ments 'proclaimed In સ most solemn manner.

Tran realises It will not be betrayed, No doubt the, nego- tiations which will now open

with the Government of Trän will lead to a complete under- standing that will not only help

the war effort of the Allies but epell checkmate to German

Intrigues in this part of the world.

No. comparison is possible..be- tween the Allied action and the German occupation of smaller States who have been incorporat ed in the new order.

Enter As Friends Countries that Germany has occupied, either by conquest or as in the case of Rumania

a and Bulgaria, by the weakened ac quiescence of the governments have been reduced to the role of servitude...

Free apeech, free movement øvbn:free: thought fare, not tolerated;

PLEADS

NOT GUILTY

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIĹ”

SAM TITLEBAUM PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO 12 .COUNTS OF EMBEZZLING COURT PRO PERTY

WHEN HE WAS AR RAIGNED BY THE U.S. COURT IN SHANGHAI, UNDER THE

NEWLY.. APPOINTED JUDGE NELSON E, LURTON.

The case was adjourned until a lawyer is secured to défend Titlebaum.

ALLIED INTEREST IN IRAN

"It is in the ultimate in- |terests of both Britain and Russia that a strong in- dependent Iranian State should exist," says the weekly periodical Econo- mist" in its current issue.

'The "Economist”" continues: "It Is largely because such as State does not exist that the presen action has become necessary.

"Alijed policy.In the post-war period.

be ...should:d therefore directódi towards the creation of this strength and Independence,” The Economist"Turther states: "It is good news that the political “Independence and ifitegrity of Iran have been specifically recognised by the two Allies and the limited aims of the occupation commüni- cated to all Middle Eastern Gov- ernments.

"It is perhaps even better news that, as in the case of Syria, whent and other foodstuffs are being brought in the wake of the troops to repair the ravages that a war economy with a German: bias has wrought among people."-Router.

the Iranian

MME. KAMALADEVI

The charges accused the former

Vice- Madame Kamaladevi,

- the embezzling President of

'All-India Deputy Marshal of

pistols and ammunition. valued Women's Congress, who is visit

Following -the arraignment our at a dinner party given by Titlebaum was returned to Ward Madame Chiang Kai-shek yester- Road gaol, where he enters his day evening. She leaves. Chung- fourth week of captivity to-day. king to return to India to-day.--

International News Service. Central News.

approximately at US. $200. ing Chungking, was, guest of hon-

IRAN DECISION ENDORSED BY PARLIAMENT

THE IRANIAN PARLIAMENT GAVE THE GOVERNMENT AN UNANIMOUS VOTE <OF CONFIDENCE AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE STATEMENT OF PEACEFUL POLICY BY THE NEW PRIME MINISTER, FURUGHL

According to the Teheran radio, Furughi presented the new Cabinet of Ministers at an extraordinary meeting of Parliament and re- ported on the latest developments follows:-

as

and

"According to the will of his be made "clear to the world Majesty, I have been entrusted large, we declare that at this- to form a new Cabinet. I am moment when the two Govern therefore, presenting the new ments of Soviet Russia and Great Government to Parliament.

Britain have ordered certain ar- "Members of Parliament are ton to be taken, the Government well aware of the intention of his of Iran; in pursuance of the Majesty in connection with reform peace-loving polley of his Majesty, and progress OL the country issue at this moment orders to which has been set forth repeated-all armed forces of the country jy in programme by the various to refrain from any resistance so Governments to. Parliament, that the causes for bloodshed and:

"The present. Government does disturbance of security should be not feel any need, therefore, to removed and public peace present a detailed - programme of security should be assured, its policy. It is only sufficient to bring to the knowledge of mem- bers of Parliment that we shall do our utmost to maintain good relations with foreign powers, and especially our neighbours, and to a nation is anxious about present continue the improvements which developments, it is naturally ex- are the aims of his Majesty and pected that because of the com the whole nation.

plete confidence it has always had In its Government's peaceful in- They have entered as friends and already in their wake are

Partisans Of Peace been taken immediately to main- tentions, effective steps would have pouring in tons of wheat and bther necessities of which the "I have to bring to the atten- tain friendly relations with two. Axis was deliberately robbing the tion of the respective members of our great haighbouring Gov- country-Reuter.

what they know well themselves ernments (presumably Great Bri that the Government and people tain and Russia).

In the case of Syria and Iraq, the British occupation has brought liberty to the peoples and trade and growing prosperity as well as an abundance of food.".

In lean, no doubt, the Allies will confer the same benente upon the population.

The Chinese Goodwill Mission to Burma left yesterday by plane for Rangoon via Kunming-Cen tral News.

Effective Steps

"In these clrcumstances,

hen

of Iran have always been and are "Now with the advent of the partisans of peace and peaceful new Cabinet, and because of the relations with the rest of the great confidence that the nation world."

has in the present Government, Furught continued that in or that hope, will be increased. der that these intentions should Reuter..