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Oil Talks Nearing Breakdown Point
Teheran, Aug. 19.-
The Anglo-Persian oil talks were tonight considered near the break- down point after another inconclusive meeting of the delegates had broken up in confusion today, 60 minutes after it began.
The delegates met at the Shah's summer palaco outside Teheran to discuss Persia's reply-reported to be a rejection to the eight-point solution proposed by Mr Richard Stokes, the leader of the British mission and Britain's Lord Privy Seal.
Mossadeghi,
them.
They
not
ntineked the Premier
In the Majlis (Parliament) After today's meeting the almultaneously, deputies of all Persian delegates had been due pides attacked the British pro-to remain at the palace for posals and warned the Prime lunch with Mr Stokes. Instead, Minister Dr Mohammed they left immediately after the accept meeting for the Premier's house. They remained there for two hours, discussing the situation with Dr propped up on pillows in bed.
Mossadegh, who For several hours today the delegates of both sides said that there, might be a meeting later in the day. But a British om- cial spokesman sald tonight that thero
bc would
no meeting tonight.
for conducting "secret negotia
tlons" and demanded that get the Majilo io report them.
he
on
The Speaker of the Chamber ask the spict that he would Premier to make a report to a secret session of Parliament on Thursday.
DEPRESSION Today's development depress ed again the general mood from heights of optimism to the depths of depression.
The delegates broke up after today's meeting with nothing seilled and neither side even certain when and where the next session would be held.
The delegates met at the Shah's summer palace outside Teheran where Mr Stokes Is the guest of the Persian Government.
Mr Averell Harriman, Presi- dent
was
Father Of Seven Regrets
Vigo Valentia, South
Italy, Aug. 19. Luigi Prestinenal, the local barber, who is already the STANDING FIRM
father of three children and now the sire of quade born in Observers tonight sald that this remote fly-infested little both sides were standing Arm on town declared today: "I their latest respective
affers, imagined mck thing could Nelther side was willing to con- happen I would have remained code further ground.
Some observers said openly Frestinenzl is finding his in- today that the talks had broken creased family responsibilities down with neither side willing to a burden hardly bearable. "Life admit it. These sources said that was hard before," he lamented. only the continued Influence of "Now it is desperate." Mr Harriman was keeping the discussions going.
British official sources repeated Mr Stokes' declaration several days ago that "nothing has been accepted, and nothing has been rejected."
a bachelor.“
The quads, three boys and a girl, were born on Wednesday to Preslinenzl's wife, Marino. Mother and babies were stated to be doing well.
The first action that the stunned father took when the news was broken to him was to Truman's special repre- One concrete foot, however, authorities.
from ask for help
the local But, so far he has sentative, attended the session.
has emerged clearly-the Persian not received any money. He the views on the cil question have declared: "Everybody wishes me The Persian reply to
altered in any significant British proposals for settling
luck But wishes are'
hot the oil dispute was originally degree since last March, when a
In the enough. I need money urgently." "show of hands" vote due do
be published in both
-Reuter. Teheran
London tonight, then law. and
Majlis approved the nationalisa- but an official communique
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after today's meeting said: "In Mr Stokes tonight explained MUKDEN FLOODED be remote as ever today-after three unrewarding
of
cll
in
the
"Mr
view of the fact that a study his proposals to settle the and discussion upon the dispute to Persian Members
Parlament, assembled Perslan reply is Incomplete, it was mutually agreed to post-gardens of the Majlis. pone the publication,"
Usually rellable Persian sources had said, earlier that the reply contained Persia's re- jeation of Mr Stokes' proposals but listed counter-proposals on which the Persians prepared to continue the talks.
One deputy sald later: Stokes seemed very happy and very confident"
J
Miami, Florida, Aug. 19.
“large and dangerous" hurricane churned across the Caribbean Sea toward Mexico today, leaving scores of dead and thousands homeless on the battered tropical island of Jamaica.
The hurricane, 120 miles wide, bore down on the Mexican coastal states of Yucatan and Quintana Roo at a speed of about 130 miles an hour. The centre was expected to strike the high bluffs of Quintana Roo, about 1,000 miles due east of Mexico City, before midnight.
"This is now a very large and dangerous liurricane. Extreme caution is advised," said the Weather Bureau.
United Press correspondent Charles Noland, who flew to Kingston, Jamaica, to get first-hand knowledge of the terrific damage in the British West Indies island, anid death and destruction were widespread throughout the resort playground.
the downtown
An estimated 50 were killed } It was the "worst storm ever house in the poorest.sections of throughout the island, with 15 to hit the island", Bald the tho town. "escaped serious dead counted in Kingston, the British Governor, Mr Hugh damage. The streets wero capital, The Governor said Foot. He added that there were littered. Only hundreds were injured and the at least 25 deaths in the Kings street's were cleared. The bus Red Cross appealed to the outlon area.
service was restored today but side world for food, elothing
many detours were necessary and medicine, A. British frigate The Governor and a Kingston | in outlying areas.-United- le due here, rushing supplies newspaper, after scanning, re- Press. from Barbados, another Island ports coming in from all parts
in the West Indies.
of the Island, placed the death toll at 54. The island La still buzzards perched without communications but Ironically, on high points throughout the Governor said damage was con- clty as the dead were being ned principally to the South tabulated. Seventy-six
po
of
suffered
ONE MORE MYSTERY
London, Aug. 19.
Bonery, who gained freedom en port. He said the Northern
the island when the terride winds of the part of
"very light damage." storm blew down the walls the island penitentiary, were Bob Pentland, Mlami sales still at large. This was of some man and one of the first to reach concern to the authorities, who Kingston from the northern British police, pathologists, are trying to clear up and pre- part of the island, said he had called in to investigate: 10 vent looting.mobran Paka Path of Been Linda Darnell, there - the violent deaths in the past police chief, Walter night before and she was "per month, had another Sunday
mystery on their hands today! told Noland there hadfectly safe,"
so far, He
The Governor said the death Nearly all the recent cases- Major-General Henry Hodes, chief of the Allied half been little looting
with reports eight of them have been of the joint sub-committee, expressed his blunt, sentiment said one of the more pressing toll might rise
the interior, but ho planed down to murder-wore as to the Communist attitude after Sunday's 90-minute problems was finding a haven
for the hundreds of homeless from pecting the shortest yet. His statements were censored families. Five hundred persons termed it "surprisingly light", discovered at weekends,
to-
London, Aug. 18. Mukden Radio reported- night that part of the Man- churian city was under. water and more
than 40,000 people were homeless as u result of the overflowing of the The deputy indicated that he River after seven days of and his colleagues made no com- Serious damage hnd ment to Mr Stokes on the pro-done
In the arcas north posals, saying that they were Mukden, the Radlo said, awaiting a report from the oll relief was being rushed by air talks delegation.-Reuter.
and rea. Reuter.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
EA
The Persian Oil Dispute.
over
the
of
and
ARLIER optimism
even as an overseas marketing agent, prospects of the Persian Govern-
implies British political interference in Stokes' ment finding Mr Richard
Persia's internal affairs. Mr Stokes has proposals for settling the old dispute
frequently during the current negotia- acceptable has had to give way to mis-
tions given categorical assurances that givings. The Persians, apparently, have decided to dig in their toes for n there are no grounds for this apprehen- bargain that would place Britain sion. Quite frankly, he has said that
he wholly at a disadvantage. Mr Stokes,
is making 2 straightforward on the other hand, has said he will not
commercial proposition, with no political bargain on his fundamental proposals:
strings attached, and this is made that they represent the best offer he
transparently clear in his enunciation of can make. Thus a deadlock exists, and
the four principles guiding the British with it an increasing danger that the negotiations will break down. A study proposals, as well as in the eight-point plan. Behind the equivocations of Dr of Mr Stokes' eight-point plan for a
Mossadegh can be discerned
the the dispute makes settlement of sympathetic
threatening influence of the extremists appreciation of the attitude Persian
difficult, if
both in the Majlis and the newly-created not British
Persiar Oll Commission. proposals
These impossible. The
elements, quite obviously, are deter- concede so much, and seek. so little,
mined to prevent any agreement being They admit, in principle, the right of
reached, If that is possible, and the the Persian Government to nationalise
danger is that ailing Dr Mossadegh will its oil industry; they provide for the elimination in Persin of the existing not prove himself strong enough to resist their machinations. The voice Anglo-Iranian Oll Company and trans-
of Mr ference of its Persian, assets to the
Averell Harriman, President. they Government;
suggest the Truman's special envoy, has now been thrown into the discussions in support creation of a National Iranian Oil
of Mr Stokes' proposals, but whether Company to operate the industry and
It is sufficient to counteract the heavy to market oil within Persia. The only
pressure being brought to bear on the concession sought is that Britain be
Persian negotiators by nationalist permitted to market Persia's oil over-
fanatics is a matter of considerable sens on a profit-making basis. Nor is
doubt. Also difficult to assess is the this proposal prompted by avarice. Mr
Importance of the Shah in the current Stokes. has gone to considerable pains
negotiations; whether he can persuado to explain to the Persiana the intricacies
his Minister to an attitude of sweet of world marketing of oil and has fully
reasonableness, or whether he remains demonstrated the necessity of having
an uninfluential figurehead: One ray'. this operation carried out by experts who have been trained by long of hope axista; the discussions have not yet completely broken down, and the experience in the business. The Persians do not possess personnel with adequate
announcement that publication of the qualifications, whereas Britain does.
Peralan reply to the British proposals Iran would have to look for outside
has been postponed, may mean that an agroemont can yet be reached. But, the assistance in this activity and it is to be presumed that only petty political Persians must realise that there is influences are making Dr Mossadegh little, If any room, for further
concessions from Mr Stokes,' and that' and his associates hesitate to accept Mr. Stokes offer Members of the Govern
unless they are prepared to accept the ment appear to fear that any British
basic British proposals, the chances of association with Iran's Coll Industry,
a settlement are remote in the extreme."
The Koran armistice agreement seemed to
sessions of Allied and Communist shirt sleeved negotiators.
in dispatches from
Korea. But correspondents there interpreted them to mean that the meeting was fruitless. An official spokesman cau- that one agreement may lead to tioned that Gen. Hodes' re another. It said, "If this is 90 marks were
his "immediate it is to be hoped that an petual reaction," ng if to say that armis e may be in sight."- they were not..diplomatic...
Despite the sudden switch from tempered hope to sharply enhanced pessimism. the sub- committee La prepared to sk down for the fourth round:
Korsong tuble meeting in at 1 a.m. GMT Monday (10 am. Hongkong time).
As
United Press..
The
Calder,
were
being sheltered in one adding, "This was due to first
Experts were trying to de- Kingston schoolhouse alone.rate warning. Almost everyone
whether 2 woman Others were sent to the hurri on the island knew about it in termine.
found in a Nottingham wheat- cane-damaged public maternity advance."
field died a natural death. and mental hospitals.
HUNDREDS INJURED
They
believed that she was The Governor's wife, busy at a cook, Hilda Edwards, who the Red Cross centre, sald vanished, on July 30. hundreds ́ ́were Injured and thousands homeless.
Last Sunday they were busy. with the discovery of a mur Late today electricity was dered night-watchman near
HARBOUR A MESS
Noland said the harbour was a mess. Several ships had capsized, run aground or were badly damaged in the harbour
DISASTER AT of Port Royal The airport at restored in a few parts of the Manchester and a body on
STADIUM
the
Tokyo, Aug. 20. Three people were killed and 300 others injured more than when 35,000 baseball spectators
1
Wha
Gonica's rich banana crop pect to alleviate
hardest
A
WOTAN WIJ
The police are also hunting for the murderers of a middle- aged Nottingham woman and two little girls at Windsor and Bath: Arrests have been made two other child murder
schoot. headmistress-Reuter.
in
hit. Hardly a
Part of Kingston is still Welsh beach. The previous day' "collapsed city. a
without water
84-year-old of wreckage.
and no llant an huge sugar crop on the telephones are functioning. An found stabbed to death in Island was not affected, the excess of tropical fruits knocked London.
Mr Hugh Foot, said, down by the high winds i ex- the foop but
but the Governor to underscore
shortage, took a bad beating. gloomy reports, Allied troops
After hitting the island and pointed out that the food situa altacked in key sectors to strongthen thei: positions. The stampeded Sunday afternoon taking a passing swipe at the ton could become serious in
Colony of Grand Cay- werk or 80; fire broke out at the Chunlchi Brliish attacks set aft the heaviest Stadium, Nagoya City
the hurricane gained *TEXT, fighting since the armistice
The fire started in the centre steam as it rumbled across the Kingston's poor people were cases and for the killing of a talks began.
At the same
time, Red Air of the main stand and destroyed Caribbean Sea. The old pirates' the
the whole wooden stadium and stronghold of Port Royal Force sallled into Korea for the
several automobiles parked out- "pretty well written fight ide. second straight day to
map," the Governor said, furious battles with United
Police said they thought dis only six of some States jets and Premier Kim
carded cigarettes may have left standing. 11-sung, threatened to unleash
re- The most pathetic story, ac- the Chinese Air Force if the caused the blaze, Kyodo
ported.
cording tin ofcer. Captain to Noland, was that of Allies tried to "extend the war."
Godfrey Creven. His Icelandic wife, their
four-year-old and the daughter's daughter playmato were crushed by o brick wall as they ran outside The their crumbling home,
AIR BATTLE
Kim's threat, Backing up almost 50 Communist MIG-158 prowled from behind their Yalu River sanctuary on Sun.
The baseball game was called off in the last half of the third inning because of the fire-As sociated Press.
day and clashed with UN jets. Four Killed In
Chinese Communist Air
The
Force is estimated at a close to 1,000 planes, half of which perhaps are MIG-159.
Explosion
Singapore, Aug. 20,
was
off the
with 200 houses
mother was found with the two children clasped to her bosom.
KINGSTON CUT OFF
Because Kingston was cut off The seemingly cordial and
from the rest of Jamaica, in- agreeable atmosphere which
At least four of the crew of the formation on the situation else marked the first two meetings Brilish tanker Dremus were where on the Isinnd was slow of the sub-committee was als killed by an explosion aboard the to arrive. United Press Coro
Cook-flow sent yesterday. No laughter was vessel near here today.
A number of others, including through the storm
pondent JamÉN
with a crew heard from the conference room where the
delegates worked many inbourers, are missing and of Navy hurricane hunters. over maps on the round table.three men are in hospital with
"My stomach felt like United Press
cocktail,". correspondta sericus burtts,
freshly-shaken Peter Kallacher reported from
Four hours after the explosion Cook Ho said, the plane was Kacsong that the informality of firemen were still fighting derer bounced out of the hurricane's the round table talks which was fires on the bridge, amidships northeast edge after exploring the to have brought both sides and in the forecastic-Router.
violent winds Inside dieser together has only per-
mitted them to say the same Vain Effort To Save things mor: pointedly and less politely.
The armistice talks appeared to be building rapidly to a *climax.
Girls Life
saki
L Bill McGhee, acrologist from Ashland, Alabama, sald rit, was he biggest of seven hurricanes I have Town into and charted" The Oporto, Aug. 19.
was piloted by plane The nine-year-old Portuguese Ralph Bishop and Captain R. io | girl, Branca Maria Santos, · for Drouihat, commanding officer of the sub-committee fails
the Navy Hurricane Centro is reach an agreement, there is whom supplies of a previous Miami, was aboard. Other planes little chance that the full dele new drug "Varadise" were down charted the hurricane's course gation will make another effort
The unofficial "Volco of the United Nations Command, sald
I
from the United today
States, died
from San Juan, Puerto Rico girl, who had spinat United Press.
munists hav
have been ordered "one treatment, on August 8 as a lost fost chance to show whether hope of saving her fee. The
drug was pent serosa the Atlan they meant fallh
Ir a broadcast, that the Com. Was given.. varadise |
CLEANING: UP. * Kingston," Aug. 10. Full-scale clean-up operations
ith bargain heros! Pa Ocean. Ik ghswer to an' were under "way today in this
The broadenit sald en-Sur- appeal by, à Portuguese amateur tourist city, allt hooling from s day, the fact that the Comradio, operator whose broadest terrific, hurricane which left at muntate agrood so readily to the was picked up by an American louste 34 dead is and caused sub-committee proposal indicates radio amateur touter flinkage damage as high as: 26,500,000;
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