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"EXTREMELY SEVERE" NOTE TO TEHERAN ON OIL ISSUE Soviet Demand For BURMA INDEPENDENCE.

Swift Action

..

Teheran, Sept. 18)

Soviet Russia, în à second note couched in “ex- tremely severe" terms, has demanded swift action by the Persian, Parliament. without delaying tactics - on Soviet plans for a share in Persian oil.

The note, presented by the Soviet Ambassador, M. Ivan Sadtchikov, on Sept. 15, was in reply to a Persian.note refusing the Soviet demand that Persia should sign a new oil agreement without the consent of Parliament. Rusala is demanding that Persia ratify the agreement! signed in April, 1946, under which a. Joint Russo-Persian company was to be set up to exploit oll in northern Persia. This agreement was signed by the Persian Premier,„Ghavam en Sultaneh.

Tre Persian noto stated that. it was impossible to agree to the Soviet demand that Persin should sign a new oil agree- ment without the consent of Parliament.

BRITAIN HIT IN POLIO OUTBREAK

London, Sept. 19.

An outbreak of infantile paralysis of record proportions fn some localities was 171. dicated in European statistics, on haid here today.

Britain, Germany, Austria, Belglum and Sweden regmed harist hit. Brance, Italy, Czechoslovakia, the Nether lands and Denniak also re- ported cases of the diecose.-- Associated Press,"

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NEXT YEAR: SEVERING ALL TIES

London, Sept. 18.

Burma will assume her full · sovereign ~ Indepen- dence outside the British Commonwealth of Nations in January. This was made finally clear by Lord. Listowel, Secretary of State_for Burma, at a press conference in London today.

Lord Listowel, who has just re. turned to England from a good. will visit to Burma, also announc. Fed that upon Burma's assumption of independence, Britain would, appoint an. Ambassador, and would withdraw ali British troops as soon as possible after the transfer of power, "

The two countries looked for. ward to the closest possible fu- ture relations, he said,

To speed the transfer of pow. er. Britain is Introducing a bill inta Parliament at the oulset of } the new session in the latter part of October,

Lord Listowel gave the ossur. auce that this bill will be hasten. ed through both houses of Parlia. i ment to become Jaw before the end of the year.

ALLEGED

PLOT TO MURDER

DR. BENES

Prague, Sept. 18. Arrests in the alleged Slovak plot to assassin- Close Friend

ate the Czechoslovakian When the Burmese Constituent President, Dr. Edouard Assembly was set up early in the Benes, and overthrow year

constitution to prepare a

for the rountry, the Assembly, on the Czech Government, the motion of the late Generat have now reached 142 Aung San, subsequently B350- civilians and an undis- sinated, passed a resolution de closed number of sol- claring for sovereign indepen-

The political position in Teheran at the moment is that the Persian Parliament appears to be in no hurry to pass a vate pf coniklence in Ghavam es Sultaneh's new government. Without this vote, the Premier is constitutionally unable to present the bill ratifying the 1940 agreement to Parliament.

Sadichikov returned to Ing Persin that "the American Teheran on

Aug. 11 after a people will support fully your month's leave in Moscow, On freedom to make your own Aug. 28 he handed the Persian] choice. Premier a note in which Rus- "Within the next few days sin accused Persin of violating the Iranian Parliament is ex-dence outside the Cominon-diers, a communique is- the 1946 agreement, according] pected to be asked to consider wealth.

sued by the Slovak Trus- to which legislation setting up proposals concerning the dc- the proposed Russo-Persian oil velopment of one of the most pleted its work, and there is no

com- tees Office for the In- company was to be submitted important intural resources of indication of any change of mind terior disclosed today. to the Persian Parliament Iran. the Ambassador paid. by the Burmese on their future within seven months of March)

"Certain rumours and allega- relationship toward the Common-- 24, 1946.

tions have appeared concern- wealth. ing the attitude of the United The British plans are therefore States in the matter, and being based upon the assumption have been asked on numerous that Burma is leaving the Britisa Cerasions to state my Govern- family of nations, to remain a ment's position."-Reuter.

close friend.---Heuter.

U.S. Support In this atmosphere of ap- parent Persian irresolution, Mr. George Allen, United States Ambassador in Teheran, last week issued a statement saaur-

Italy Asks

A Larger Army

Gorizia, Sept. 19. Major General Giulio Erneste Cappa called to- day for revision of the peace treaty to increase Italian military strength

The Assembly has now

Armed Resistance To The Soviet

Frankfurt, Sept. 19.

The plot, discovered in Slovakla a few days ago, was "greater than first thought," the communi

que said.

previously described as including Highly.organised illegal groups,

former members of General Vlassov's "Russian Liberation Army" in Germany and many

Slovak civil servants, were divid.

ed into military and political sec-

tions,

of

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The political section spread

have got in touch with Slovak

HONGKONG-LONDON

A United States Army report said today that the

Ukrainian resistance army fighting for Ukrain-propaganda, and was alleged to ian independence was so large that units Fascists abroad.-Reuter. estimated to number 15,000 to 20,000 men had engaged Polish and Soviet Russian troops in pitched battle.

Broke The

as Allied withdrawals Record But

from the frontier left his men facing the Yugo- slavs alone.

Cappa is commander of Italian forces in north.eastern Italy.

forces to a point adequate for her population and position,"

Lost Life

The anti-Communist partisang His Fiancee

Are ormed with mortars, leht | arilllery and machine-guns no well na rifles and hand-greneder, | said the report, based partly on

Disappeared

the interrogation of 40 Ukrainian This Time

guerillas who recently fled from Poland into the American zone of Germany.

"in early June," the report said,

London, Sept. 18. Oren Crowe appealed to the "An estimated 16,000 to 20,000. Police today to find his fiancee. partisons engaged a large force of after his third trip across the Toulon, Sept. 18. Soviet-directed Polish and Soviet Atlantic to seal a wartime ro- He said in an interview at his

The master deep sea

troops in the Nowy Sacz, Zara mance with marriage. Udine headquarters that Yugo-

pone, Babia Gora and Bialo areas slav forces were greatly superior diver, Maurice Fargues, in South Poland, A force of parti. Crowe, a 37-year-old soda- "numerically to his own."

made a world record des- sans estimated at 10,000 was sur. Jerker from Salem, Massa- "Italy," he declared, "must be cent of 120 metres yes of 4,000 hended south

rounded and cut off! One group chusetts, met his sweetheart, put in position to strengthen her terday in the Mediter- Czechoslovakia to

through Nancy Havard, 81, when he the United was stationed here during ranean off nearby Cap States zone of Germany." the war. A few months ago, The peace treaty limited the Cepet, but he lost his life. The leader of the 40 guerillas he was flown to London by Italian army to 185,000. Both the

Dressed only in bathing trunks in Degrendorf said members of his though Nancy was waiting at now interned by American forces Pan-American Airways, but al- Yugoslavs and Italians brought and wearing a face mask connect- tanks into view at one contesteded with oxygen bottles on

his group came to the American zone the airport he failed to pass point on the provisional frontier backt, Fargues went over the side in what they viewed as the "com- had to be returned to the Unit- hoping to help the United States the medical examination and In an attempt to break there.

ed States. cord of 00 metres attained hereing" war with Russin, by seven divers last June. In. anti Communist underground Nancy showed up at the field British Reds dicating his position by Pghters estimated to number from last night and waited 12 hours arranged set of tugs on the line, 1,000 to 2,500 were reported en- until just before Crowe's Clip- be attained depth of 120 metres,

route to the Americot zone, per landed. This time he was Colleagues pulled him out un- which they were expected to en- admitted,, but Nancy had dis- conselous, He died in hospital last te by Sept. 21-Associated Pros. appeared.United Press, knight.

at Gorizia-Associated Press.

Take Smack

At America

London, Sept. 18.

Forgues accomplished the plunge in four minutes 25 seconds,

United States championship-United Press.

of the freedom of press came

in for

severe criticism from MORAL RIGHT TO

the Daily Worker, organ ofį. the British Communist Party, .today.

ATOM AID

Commenting on the report that the State Department re-

London, Sept. 16, - Sir Robert Reswick,' chairman of fused a visa to a correspon- dont, Pierre Courtade of L'Hu- the County of Loudon Electric Sup- ply Campiny, told a reeling tonight. manite and also that last year that Britain, should base her indur it made the Daily Worker for-trimi reconstruction on large-scale use eiga editor, Derek Kartun, walt of atomic energy supplied by the ning months for a visa to visit United States. the UNO General Assembly,

The army report said additional

Curious Reasoning Of Dr. Sun Fo

New York, Sept. 18. The Herald-Tribune in an editorial today said: "Unless a wave of insanity is sweeping the "government offices in Nanking there is not much cause for taking seriously Dr. Sun Fo's latest idea.

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"Dr. Sun, whỏ Vice President and Dr. Sun & adding, “and It. Sir Robert suggested that the Con- of China, indicated the Chinese you don't we will be ao indignant

the that we will let the bear ca UK SLEEPING BERTHS the Communist paper, denouncervative Patty, in collaboration with will ally themselves with

unitsa the

United If Dr. Sun's remark had been WELL STOCKED DAR ced the action as a "piece of industry, drew up a detailed scheme Russians

States comes to their aid in the offered by one of the less reput- for,atomising : Industry, damned cheek" adding that Held: "Great Britain, of all the current economic and political able members of the Kuomin "after all the United Nations European astions, has the moral right crisis. is not an American institution.to supply.

tang Party It would have been of plutonium, from The French people. no less than Americs, it is we who sent America "Any reasoning behind this dismissed as an absurd attempt the Americans are interested our whole team of atomic experts, notion must be of a curious brand, at blackmail. Dr. Sun is well in in its work and the fact that who put rery scrap of their bard. The point scams to be that China, tentioned, however, and it seeras its headquarters le in the Unit-won koowledge unconditionally a now seeking American aid to op. difficult to believe, he would be ed States "does not give the Press

the disposal of our allyUnited poses. Communist rebellion which ruilty of making a wholly u Stato. Department right to ex

has the sympathy of Moscow, wht sincere statement Elude from its proceedings for

duow herself into the arms of seems equally hard on the

“It' eign Journaliste who are on fessions of press freddom are the Reds if the desired astetence other hand to believe that any black books of the United thus being contradicted by its not provided.

Intelligent Nanking official takes: TIL 20311. States-police or politicans." practice, the Dally Worker""The Chinese are calling Help | seriously the notiod of an alliance

The State Department's pro- salde-United Prosa

Psave us from the Russian bear with Russia."-Unked Presą,

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