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·THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1948.

BATTLE JOINED FOR OIL

Russia Gets Initial

Secret Plan For U.N.O. World Army

New York. Apr. 7.. The Chief-of-Staff of the Uni ed Nations have been working in the last 12 days on Hecret for plans for the military enforcement of world peace should the use of force prove necessary, accord- ing to

a statement issued by UN.O. Headquarters here today.

The statement

Bald that the momiera of the Military Staff Committee which is the military Council, organ of the Security have been working out together for what is tho biggeCat Ban combined operation aver attempt ed a coordination of land, sea and air forces to be ready at the disposal of the United Nations to secure world peace."

Foothold In Iran.

Protection Of British Holdings

(By John F. Chester)

NEW YORK, APRIL 7.

EARNEST

THE BATTLE FOR IRANIAN OIL IS ON IN

WITH SOVIET RUSSIA ALL BUT GUARANTEED AN INITIAL FOOTHOLD IN THE BACK DOORWAY TO THE FABULOUSLY RICH. MIDDLE EAST PETROLEUM FIELDS, NOW DOMINATED BY BRITISH AND AM- ERICAN INTERESTS.

Mr. Shinwell's Warning To Business

Loode, Apr. 7.

the

Monty Sees Regent

London, Apr. 7.

Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery was received to day by Prince Charles, the Delgian Regent, Brussels Ra dio reported.

Str

Flugh Knatchbull Hugetson, British Ambassa dor to Belgium, accompanied the Field Marshal.~Beuter.

Getting Rid

Of The Nazis

•

Munich, Apr. 7

Mr. Emanuel Shimwell, hard-hitting British Fuel Minister, Today gave a plain warning to

business that "if they can British bot deliver the goods, the Govern-

According to the procedure laid hent will do

Mr. Shinwell stated that though down by law, all persons over 18, there was a good deal of efficiency whethor previously votted by the IRANIAN PREMIER QUAVAM'S SIGNATURE OF AN

in private enterpris AGREEMENT TO PRESENT A SOVIET OIL CONCÉS»"

there was military government or not, will: hil in the now questionairro deal of inefficiency, SION PLAN TO HIS PARLIAMENT CONFIRMED

also a gre

which has been set up by a Tri- adding:

want EARLIER REPORTS FROM INFORMED OIL QUARTERS

.00 not

bunal the

for the de-nazification of jrt tlonalise every industry THAT SUCH MOVE WAS PROBABLE. IT WAS

country at any rate not at pre-

office of the military LEARNED ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY THAT

wat. But they had better be AGENTS FOR ONE AMERICAN COMPANY NOW AT

warned. The people of his coun-government for Bavaria estimates try the in no mood to stand any that it will be the middle of this WORK IN IRAN ARE SEEKING A CONCESSION

month before the law can begin nonsence from private owership:

to function actively. although the WHICH, IF GRANTED, WOULD BUTTRESS BRITISH

He continued: "Private property

law tas nominally been effect

in HOLDINGS ALONG THE PERSIAN GULF:

must be used for the boneft of

owner ince it was signed on March 5. The British government ower the nation. The private Under Iranian law no concer-

the selection and pending an "International General Stations can be negotiated while controlling Interest in the san have his rake-off so long as 118 actual functioning had been "screening" of personnel to serve whose task it will be under the foreign troops are still on her Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Ltd. nis rake-off is not too expensive, delayed, authority of the Security Coun Oil men here took it for which now has the only operat-but this atlitude on, the part of

rding to military According cil to prevent and, if necessary, granted, however, that Quavaming conccasion in Iran and mos private enterprise that the govern as members of the Decision and ROVEITI- suppress agrossion.""

would not have signed any of its richeat proven fields. The ment must not come in and must Appeal Tribunals.

leave it to private enterprise is

iment officials, some 1,500 persons The joint secretariat

of the agreement unless plans for So- Anglo-Iranian Oil Company le

Just nongenec and bunkum,"

needed for these

gls. Big Fire military delegation viet concessions were pretty wel

hna a dominating interest in the

Mr. Shinwell. who was speaking are needed They must the Lo of

not only non-Wazis, at the annual meeting Britain, United States; Russia,

anderstood. Similarly there Iraq Petroleum Company L China

bour Party's Yorkshire Regional but "positively anti-Nazi, pre- and France-has been

persona said would be nothing to preclude which controls all oil productio statement

"There should democratic formed.

informal conversations by other in Iraq. Its interest are interm-Council, declared: Reuter.

oil acckers.

ingled with those of the Roya' be no department of public activity and professionally qualified to

expected that -1s

that the opera- Dutch Shell and together these ty, whether national or local, in enforce the law justly."

tion of the first Tribunal will be- groups hold almost 60 per cent, which labour has not got to have

a finger in the plc.

"We must of stock in Iraq petroleum.

in everythingbein in Upper Bavaria about April Cause we are the country. Reu- 15. As the Tribunals begin to

It described the committee aş

the

Iran Tackles Problem Of Revolt

Teheran, Apr. 7. It number international

one problem, occupation by Russian troops,

settled by apparently peaceful agreement, Iran has be gun preparations for a campaign

against her internal problem of

contenus

Boll.

The big question in the minds of the Interested petroleum mer here is how far the south Soviet conclusions would run. Russian interest In a Iranian Gulf port has long been an open secret Such a grant, however, wou cross the territory coveted both British and American con-

Corna.

Rich Fields The Standard Oil of New Jer-ter. sey and the Socony Vacuum interest 15 hold one-quarters does the Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, The Anglo-Iranfan Oli Company also holds half an

At least two American com-interest in the. rich Kuwait separatist movement in Azerbai-oil of New Jersey, have been Tersian Gulf. The other half panles. Sinclair and Standard fields on the opposite side of the

Jan and Kurdistan.

Iranian is owned by a subsidiary of the "With the withdrawal of Soviet entirely in its in

concessions in recent years. Gulf Oil Corporation. influence," д Iranian general Presumably their interest has

This virtually, completes the staff officer said, "we hope that problem may also be settled peace- not cooled.

present Middle East line-up with Big Rosources fully

the exception of the rich Saudi- The British government,, al-Arablan holdings by the Stan- in the only dard Oil of California and the ready intronched

Texas Company. Associated fields now producing in ran will want to protect or expand Press.

Neither British its holdings

Americam interests have ever made strong passen a northern Iranian areas, largely because of difficulty of getting its oil out to points of sale.

The Prime Minister that Azerbaijan, now ruled by robel government, can be brought back into the nationul fold by negotiations.

The general staff officer told the Associated Press that he is rh solutely certain that the Kurdish Republic movement and the Azer balian government are "closely

Tain alled, in fact,

from the came mill.

"If the departing Ruslans do not leave

orms and too many agents behind," he said, "both movements probably will end by May Associated Press.

London wearing

Apr. 7 The restriction on of military uniforms by Germans will to alrictly enforced, with offenders liable to the death sen tence, under the new Allled Or der which comes into effect on! April 18-Reuter.

not

Wallace Pratt, formerly of the Standard Oil of New Jersey and a widely recognised econo mic geologist, recently estimated

NOT SURPRISED Stamford, Conn., Apr. 7. Mrs. Edward Piers

wha

are moral-

function, they will take over the work of de-Nazification from the military government which wit maintain general supervisory capacity of German operations.

The law provides that all Ger- mans in the United States was not

offenders, categories "Mafor ufenders, lesser offenders. fel- will be divided into one of five-

lowers, and persons exonerated."

ad that her son, Lleut. E. V. Noilsin had loented a tremendous "unduly surprised" when inform cache of Japanese gold in Tokyo baynid

She told interviewers: "In his at letter he said he had found 9,000 pounds of sugar buried 40;

floor feet beneath a basement

sugar WAB The letter also said selling for $10, a pound in the Tokyo black market.Associated Press.

Kremlin Softens Its Policy In Austria

Vienna, April 6.

probable ultimate oil resources Soviet Russia, in an abrupt softening of her policy towards

In the Middle East at 180,000,. 000 barrels. This would · by, 30 per cent, of the world figure. Against this, Russin's probable resources are estimated at 110,- United 000,000,000 and the States at 100.000,000,000 barr- els. Pratt estimated,

-Router.

ZODO

Murder Of Allied Prisoners

Dachau, Apr. 7,

A former inmate of the Mathar- zen Concentration Camp. yester day disclosed from the witness stand how 9.9. guards shot to death 36 Dutch, six American and four English prisoners of war In 1944,

boners.

The witness WAB Baron Hans Karl Von Posern, Dresden born lawyer, who spent three years in HC the

camo. concentration pointed out August Blei, one of the 61 defendants in the man Atrocity trial, as the man who gave the order to shoot the uri-

Victima

whe still-lived

were kicked and besten, Von Posern Banother defendant pointed out sians claimed and, in part, octy Von Posern was Grahn, an cupied, the Red Army now is, guard who, witness said, In asking only for the 60,080 acres June 1944 beat to death tract of land which the Aus Czech, Yugoplay and Russian wo- trian government has indicated men. Von Posern estimated that a willingness to loan to the Red Grahn killed 700 people-Asso- Army; it was asserted.

ciated Press.

Austria, has withdrawn most of her demands for land in the Russian occupation zone and has indicated her desire to reach an agreement on some other disputed issues, a Government spokesman said yesterday. Instead of the 125,000 acres of farm land which the Rus

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The spokesman said that all former Jewish owned properties, which the. Germans seized after the Anschluss and which the Russians had claimed as repara- tions, are boing handed back to the Austrian government,

He added that this change in poller apparently was dictated in Moscow, since Marshal Ivan S. Kouley, the Russian comman der in Austria, hud just`return ed from the Russian capital The Russians have also indient- ed that they would like to reach an amicable agreement on th

400,000,000 the question of marks advanded to the provi- alonal Austrian government by the Russians when they cathe Press. into Vienna.

Obstacle Removed

New York, Apr, 5. Mr. Arthur Owen of Great Bri tain was appointed today assiet- ant secretary general of the Unit ed Nations in charge of economic Briton affairs. The 10-year-old

the last of the assistants nam- ed by Lie.

The United Nations also re veated that all of the five major powers and nine smaller nations advances have made substantial the organisation's bo

working capi- tal funds. France, the last major power to make payment trans- ferred $1,400,000. Ohing made further payment of $600,000 for r total of $800,000 toward her fullk advance of $1,600,000.-Associated

Secretary General Trygve

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