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IRAN

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 22, 1941.

SETTLEMENT FILLS DANGEROUS

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(By Reuter's Special Correspondent

in Teheran)

WITH THE NEW 22-YEAR-OLD SHAH, MOHAMED RIZA PAHLEVI, ON THE THRONE, AND HIS GATHERING POPULARITY, WITH UNEXPECTED · RAPIDITY THE IRANIAN PEO- PLE HAVE SET OUT TO BANISH THE MEM- ORY OF THE OLD REGIME AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

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Parliament has already set up several commissions to reform the laws and practices which one month ago none would have dared to question, and establish new ones. Perhaps the biggest question to be tackled is that of the monopolies which have grown to a point where they have practically strangled all in- dividual commercial initiative in Iran.

These monopolies brought great; profits to the country's budget, but they were disposed of in the unconstitutional fashion by ex-Shah. They also found their way into the ex-Shah's private pocket.

Another point on which Iranians are determined is that there shall be no sliding back into the ways. of the late regime in regard the supremacy

of Parliament's voice in the Government of their country.

to

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"Rubber Stamp"

Terrorised for 15 years acting as a "rubber stamp," Iran's 136 deputies are now trying

TRAGEDY

IN GREEK

ISLANDS

(By Reuter's Special Corres-

pondent In Ankara.)

THE TOBRUK STANDARD

20001

"The defence of Tobruk is one of the greatest events in human history," said Mr. Menzies in o speech yesterday in Melbourne. In his speech he rebuked profiteers, strikers, and "self-seekers."

He added: "I am passionately con- vinced that nothing short of the Tobruk standard will save us."

-Reuter.

"USE ONIONS LIKE PERFUME"

THE PREDICTION

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THAT

SOON

WITH

| HOUSEWIVES WILL

HAVE TO ' REGISTER THEIR GREENGROCERS FOR WAS Children are dying of ORANGES AND ONIONS

MADE BY MR. C. ESCOTT, hunger in the Axis-occu-AREA DISTRIBUTING OFFICER pied Greek

FOR ONIONS AND CARROTS, islands of

AT A MASS MEETING OF RE- Mytelene and Chics. The TAILERS TRADING ON SMITH- FIELD MARKET, MANCHES- The difficulty, however, is that Germans have been com-TER.

ensure that their rights, as laid down in the Constitution, shall be permanently honoured.

a considerable section of Parlia-

must rely

ment is demanding free elections pelled to abandon their Pointing out that this year we as opposed to the hitherto farcic-attempts to re-open the ally rigid voting, while deputies are determined to hold olive oil mills, many work-

as long ers fainting from the lack

of food.

their present seats as possible.

on the home-grown crop, which would fall far below the normal imports, he said the public must be persuaded to use

onions like a perfume not as a. food.

This disnute may be the pre- cursor of many others, marking Yet the spirit of the islanders If people in the North persist- Iran's progress from one of the remain undaunted. Many ated in looking on onions as food world's strongest dictatorships tempts have been made to escape instead, like the South, as a flay- towards democracy.

to the mainland.

ouring there would be just enough for one square meal, he said.

filled in

Meanwhile, with the delimita- The Germans have equipped tion of the main outlines of with searchlights and machine- Iran's political future, dangerous guns a captured British motor gaps have been

the yacht with which they nightly A Turkish firsherman, return- Anglo-Russian front which now patrol the channel between the ing from this area, reports that spreads from West Africa across Island and the Turkish coast, but he rounded one headland just in Asia and Europe to Murmansk. in spite of this the islanders con- time to see an Italian ship sink-

tinue to escane taking their wives ing and families with them..

Caucasus Defence

The defence of the Caucasus, which is the main barrier to Germany's advance towards the world's principal oil supply, is now organised in tremendous depth by Russian troops. Behind them lle, the British forcea guarding the communications along which will flow Supplies to Russia from Britain, the Empire and America.

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Arrangements for these sup- plies to Russia are already well on the way to completion, but the future stabilisation of the internal situation is: first neces- sary.

This stabilisation awaits, among other things, the disposal of the remaining Axis agents. These in clude 150 Germans, four dan- gerous Italians, the ex-Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and several supporters of Raschid Ali.“

The ex-Shah, whose future is now being discussed by the Bri- tish, Russian and Persian. Gov- ernments, is still at Isfahan," the main city of Central Tram, Two envoys, one of whom is a distant relative of the ex-Shah, have been dispatched by the Iranian Government to Isfahan to obtain from the ex-Shah a document restoring to the Iranian people some of the vast wealth he had extorted from them,

Those envoys arrived at Isfahan on Friday, but it is not yet known here whether the ex-Shahis re- sisting their demands, Reuter.

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