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CHINA A MAIL

No., 35285

Establishod 1845

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, · 1952,

PERSIAN NAZIS ATTACK 55

Trade With REDS IN TEHERAN Slain Family

China

EKING has sent a level- reply 10 the

Poned

Foreign Office notes con- cerning the decision of British firms to withdraw. from China. While no pro- mine is given to facilitate the winding-up of British trading Interests, it is to be noted that no threat of opposition to the process in held uut, The Peking Government

offers the

Peace Centre Wrecked

TEAR GAS USED

BY POLICE

Teheran, Aug. 19.

assurance that each case will be dealt with on its incrits, and that protection will be given to British companies "provided they abide by Chinese laws." In general the reply

ін moderate and satisfactory. It comes as no surprise that Peking blames the parlous state of British traders in Chinn un the strategic commodities embargo which the United Nations have applled since the Chinese Communists entered the Korean war, and to which Britain ແມ been subscriber. This is EL 11 obvious line for Peking to with equat follow. and blandness the crippling. They burnt pictures of Stalin, pro-Government and Communist restrictions and impositions on the spot where Communists groups.

The Iranian Mixed Oil Com- directed by the People's last month made a bonfire of a

mission

a motion to Government

China picture of the Shah,

approved

over com- against British and other Then they moved on to Com-submit the dispute

to arbitration and pensation

at a foreign companies,

munist newspaper offices are

wrecked the presses,

special session today. ignored.

Tonight, the arrested Nazis were relased-London Express Service.

A new force went into action in Persia today National Socialists, wearing storm-trooper uniforms, armed with daggers and clubs.

They fought Communists of the Tudeh Party They also fought in the streets of Teheran. against the Police who opened fire on both "Persian Nazis" and Communists.

Tanks were drawn up around the Shah's summer palace. About 100 people were wounded and 64 arrested. More than 50 of those held are Communists.

То

of

2

Double Deckers

OWN

ong

After two hours the troops returned to barracks, then two Nazis chanting Persian words to a German tune-marched to the Communist peace centre, wrecked it and burnt it down.

day.

were

The Mixed Oll Commission also decided to deposit 25 per cent of receipts from the sale of oil in the National Bank of Iran for the payment of AJOC claims,

The action was in fulßiment of a clause to that effect in the nine-point Oil Nationalisation Law.

་་་ GUARDED COMMENT In London

a Foreign

Office

ugo

us an

Famous Banks

To Merge

Laid To Rest

The coffins containing the murdered bodies of Sir Jack Drummond, his wife and daughter, killed while on holiday in France, are carried to their last resting place In the cemetery at Forcaegaler close to the spot where -- they were killed. All the people of this little town sent flowers, and most of its 3,000 inhabitants joined in the procession behind the coffins. London Express.

Housing Minister Sees Lynmouth Devastation

Lynmouth, Aug. 19.

The Housing and Local Government Minister, Mr Harold MacMillan, trudged ankle deep through mud and clambered over giant-boulders today to study how best the British Government can aid this seaside resort rent by a cloudburst and deluge last weekend.

the

wrecked

Ex-King's Adviser

Price 20 Cents

KOMET

THE SMALL CALCULATING MACHINE

Only HK$175

Hongkong Typewriter Exchange 9 D'Aguilar St.

Tel: 21433

Collide

Honolulu, Aur. 19,

Africans Two Planes Fined For Disobedience

USED EXCLUSIVE PART OF RAILWAY STATION

Johannesburg, Aug. 19.

Fifty-five Africans were each fined £10 sterling with the alternative of two months' gaol in two courts here today, for using part of railway stations reserved for Europeans.

Five African juveniles, who also appeared, were given five strokes with a cane from the Court Sergeant.

The Africans were arrested at Johannesburg railway station on Sunday.

Britain's

Secret

Planes To Be

Displayed

London, Aug. 20.

Counsel for the leader of the

one

| group, 20-year-old Joseph Lepile,

unemployed, contended in court that the charge was in- volid as the facilities provided at the station were different for Europeans and Africans.

A prosecution witness stated that there was no dining room,

hairdressing saloon, bar, fruli

stall or walling room in the Afri can section of the station.

A Navy pilot was killed and another rescued today after the collision of two Hellcat fighters over 1h0 barren Island of Rahoo. lawe, 150 miles southeast of here.

The naval authorities' dia not disclose the name of the dead. plot, whose badly- burned body was found la the wreckage by the crew a helicopter which land- ed near the wreckage the island.

01

The rescued pilot was picked up by a boat from the destroyer Radford, Hits injurica were not serious, United Press....

Rebels Dynamite Water Supply

Rangoon, Aug. 19. Rebels today dynamited

These facilities existed in the the pipeline supplying Ran- European section, the witness, goon's drinking water and railway policeman AP.

Cross the capital went thirsty for

Sald. Possibly more. Africans

he added.

Secrets of two new Bri-used the station than Europeans, the fifth time this year. tish jet-age planes, a super-

ture

Rangoon Corporation officials

Head Constable D, S. Du Toit sonic fighter and a minia-said notices, prohibiting Africans said the pipeline was blown up

from certain parts of the station Ave miles

south "Flying

of the main Triangle",

were prominently displayed and Gyobyu reservoir, 42 miles north were revealed today as a printed in English and Afrikaans, of Rangoon. preview to the annual Air was intended to provide

not

nry African language. Show .at

The extent of the damage was Farnsborough,

adequate facilities for Africans, Hampshire, next month.

when station reconstruction was for the scene this afternoon.

not known as, repair squads left between races Friction

corosecutions were frequent! The twin-engined DH-110, an and

Meanwhile. all-weather fighter, is the world's before the "Apartheid" regula-

authoritative first two-seat aircraft, to be an- tions were enforced...

sources said the Burma Army's nounced as

dying faster than An application for accuadds surprise monsoon offensives on sound-about 750 miles (1,200 discharge at the end of the crown rebel hideouts in different parts külometres) per hour.

case was refused.

of Burma had scored spectacular victories.

A

The De Havilland Company An Indian counsel, contended sald today the swallow-shaped that the charge was invalid, as plane had frequently flown at there was differentiation in faci-

Government forces in a con- litles

for Europeans provided supersonic speed in test flights.

and Africans.

centrated attack dislodged Co- It will be publicly demon- strated at the Show organised

Lepile was found guilty and munist rebels from their strong- Aned £10 sterling by the Society

or two holds of the British

o faw miles. south of months' hard labour Aircraft Constructors.

on the Okkan, 70 miles north of Ran- and "Apartheid" charge, Triangle",

the The "Flying

one goon. Fifty robels were killed Boulton Paul P-120, is expected pound sterling or 10 days' im- land about 1900 wounded in

edprisonment for not carrying gunbattle, frontline reports sald. at Farnborough. The "" -to-be

delta-winged plane now on pass,

magistrate,

Mr H. J. Six The trial, was taken off the secret list today and was said to have Johannes, said the railways had Government aide.

not taken

facilities away any a speed near that of sound.

The De Havilland announce for non-Europeans-they

had fact made more avaliable, ment said the DH-110, one of The law had been deliberately the main hopes of Britain's

Bouted, and he

regarded the fighter defences, is powered by two Rolls Royce Avon Jet en-matter as serious-Reuter. gine, the thrust of which was not disclosed but it is believed to be around 7,200 lbs, weight each

MOST POWERFUL

in

De Valora To See Eye Specialist

Schiphol, Aug. 19, Promier Eamon De Valera of Ireland arrived here by air today, to consult a Dutch eye specialist in Utrecht.

were

injured

on

:the

In the Bassein soctor on the west coast, 24 Karen rebels were killed in a gunbattle, an- other report said.

Government forces operating, In the Myingyan district in Central Burma dislodged Com- munists ΣΤΟΥΣ thick Jungles along the Mount Popa arca, where they have been reported to be concentrating in the past few weeks,

In upper

These are the most powerful axial

type engines now being

Burma, the rebels produced in Britain and have It was understood that he was attacked a railway station near already been installed in the to be examined this evening by Mytkyina, capital of the tribal Canberra light bomber and the Professor H. J. M. Weve, the eye Machin state, ant looted goods new four-jet Vickers Valiant specialist.-Reuter.

from the rallway yard:-Reuter.

bomber,

The DH-110 Is 52 feet (about

1 metres) long

awing span of 51 feet.

and has A

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To the Chinese Communists it is beside the point to argue that the economic TROUPS CALLED OUT embargo is of their

Teheran, Aug. 19. Heavily-armed troops making; that its removal Iles in their own hands by rushed to Teheran's main shop taking proper action

ping urea tonight after police to

had used tear gas to disperse bring about

lasting

Tudch

PATTY pro-Communist pence in Korea, and by dis- groups assembling there. playing willingness to help Earlier, police had broken up spokesman, in guarded comment, smooth out other Far East clashes between the Tudeh said that the arbitration pro- problems. There is

Party groups and elements of poan if true was a "step in the

In right direction". aspect about the Peking the "Sumka" Fascist Party nute,

No official word, however, has however, which is the shopping area. both interesting

throught Cinemas and shops closed as reached

them yet and

and it is instructive. It reveals that th: tear gas drove away the diplomatic channels

nol Tudeh members

known whether shouting anti-

Iran pro- the Chinese Communists do not wish to break all trade,

Impartial arbitrators. Shah slogang.

poses

Several weeks

Britain Further down the mala road relations with Britain. On anti-Communists set fire to the announced that

Dr. Mossadegh the contrary, the

note Tudel "peace

centre" and the had proposed to the British Am- emphasises that the Chinese cfice of the Communist news-bassador, Mr George Middleton, Government is willing to

Basoule Ayandch was that the dispute be arbitrated. develop trade with Bellain; smashed by Fascist elements. But Dr Mossadegh fatly denied he had said any such without street that moreover, by inference, it The city was accepts the British sugges-ights and traffe was diverted thing. The tion that contact be main from the shopping centre to

new proposal, if sub- stantiated, was regarded in off-

The death roll in the area had risen to thirteen today tained through the agency avoid the riots and tear gas.

in London It was officially stated earlier cial circles

when four bodies, were found in the seat Twenty-five people of a British Trade Mission

that the military would assist effort by Iran to meet reason- are still missing. Damage to roads, bridges and power and In China, Manifestly the the police if necessary in dealing able desires on the part of other public projects were estimated at £2,000,000. Peking regime has no inten-with

vulbreaks further

of Britain. tion or desire to slam the trouble,

Iran's position hos been The Devon County Surveyor Missing believed dead twenty- door against future com- The Premier, D Mohammed that the dispute was a matter reported today that in Lynmouth one

Altogether, during the day, the mercial ties with Britain, Mossadegh, reported better to- for "discussion" under the Na- 42 houses, cottages and hotels and this justifies cautious night after a two-day Alness, tionalisation Law but not for were totally destroyed, seven-Ilfracombe police recovered five

teen partially

All were and bodies from the sea. United Press. hope that in due course

has given full authority to the arbitration.

twenty more seriously damaged, believed to have been Lynmouth something approaching nor-

Police Chief, Generul Shelbani,

by victims-Reuter.. opened The relict to sleal with mal trading relations can The General had tendered his all emergencjes,

fund

by Lord Lieutenants (the become established between resignation but withdrew it after

Queen's representatives) of the the two countries.

stricken Counties reached £23,- a meeting with the Premier to-

500, including "generous" gifts from Queen Elizabeth and the OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

Duke of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Aug. 19. The Premier appointed the

Two famous

CLOTHING Scottish banks

PARCELS former Military GovernOT tinually held out as an Abadan, Major-General Toshi

Fourteen thousand parcels of example to Singapore. The Raihi, as Deputy Minister of

announced here today.

clothing which Britons can send latest phase concerns the National Defence. The foamer They are the Bank of Scot-postfree until Saturday had ar-

land founded controversy about the major Minister resigned two days ago.

as far back as rived by today.

Bank of An American Army sergeant, 1650, and the Union

Bristol's Singapore bus

Housing Department

for aerodynamic company, whose me was given as Ho- Scotland, founded in 1830.

offered 21 new houses and flats which refused to consider

research, it is atted with a The amalgamation has been for the homeless. ben, was pelted with stones as

triplano a proposal to

adjustable for trim- introduce he passed through the shopping approved by the Board of Direc

Mr MacMillan urged "all our double-deckers

ming at various speeds. itt the centre.

tors of both banks and now people at home and overens,

Cairo, Aug. 10, crowded city streets on the

Two other British jet planes, who have The Persian Mixed Oll Com-waits approval of the share-

ever enjoyed

Dr Hatez Ann, former Chief the ground that it was already mlsalon, adviser to the Premier holders, it is stated.

beauties of the Devon coast" to of ex-King Faroulc's Royal which first came out in 1947, vell of secrecy very dimeult Indeed for the and Government on all of

Scottish trading banks contribute. Tho

Cabinet, and his 30-year-old shed the final son, Amin Halez And, were to- today- the Vickers Armstrong bus conductors to handle matters, met today and is un- are unique in Britain in that they the

meletes me. We day questioned by interrogating Alter FB 1 and 78.2. crowds using

derstood to have discussed "Im still

tho tho

Sim, Chief of the Imperial Genoncers about last week's riots right

They are modifications of the single-deckers. A correspon- tion."

portant aspects of the oil ques Issue banknotes.

eral Staff, landed in a helicopter at the Kair el Dawar

Textile original Attacker, In the rest of Britain this right on Lynton car park tonight to Mills, near Alexandria.

a single- dent who claims to have

seater jet fighter with swept The Premier asked various is held solely by the Bank of tour the north Devon flood dis- travelled hundreds of times Ministries to prepare and submit England, the

Amin Hafez Aff, Chief of back wings, an official maximum bank.aster area.

(940 kilo- on the double-deckern in for his approval plans to improve Reuter.

miles the He saw considemble work al- Accounts Department at speed of 590 Kowloon writes to the the administration.

the mill, was arrested during metres) an hour and an opera ready being done by the Army.

tional celing 48,500 feet

_of_ the night after being denounced Regular and Territorial units, by one of the 20 workers on

(over 10,000 metres). Including "Z

Bomb racks were added reservists on an trial for tending tie ricts,

to nual

training, are.. erecting

as the Dr Hafez Alf flew to Calro the first model and, bridges to replace those lost in from Aloxamairia after the inter- FB-1, the Attacker is now fly-

the Prime ing with the Royal Navy as to sce Minister, Sir William, who was accom- half-hour metting, Dr. Hafez.

Aly Maher. After fighter bomber-Reuter.... panied on his tour by Gineralvan said: Moalalake Phirinyane, one of C.F. Firbank, General Officer the 12 Bamangwate tribesmen Commanding Southwestern Dis-my believe in the Innocence of on trial before the High Court triet, who is in charge of military, Kafr el Dawar and it is illogical my son, Amin. We built tho here, accused of murder,

In the disaster area, that we assistance

should attempt to acquitted and discharged' today, NEW PROPOSAL

when the Crown withdrew the told reporters: "People here can destroy it. I have confidence in Teheran, Aug. 13.

ely on the army to do Iran proposed tonight to refer case against him.

The charge

Dr Hafez Ala arose from the thing. It possibly can do bets Egyptian Justice,

12 one of the to spbitration the dispute over

It was announced at Exeter the upper compensation

death of three Basuto police- Arlo- deck ns "Peeping. Toms." Irmian Oll Compety for its men during a clash at Serowe, Headquarters tonight that the Managing Directors of the giant The

flood relief fund so for totale the bank group, which includes former

capital Kowloon seizure and nationalisation by the Bamangwato resident handsomely dealt the

Dr June 1, when the police tried £23,000,--Reuter. Minister,

to prevent a banned Kgotia with that one, too, and he Mohammed Mossadegh,

Tila is à now departure in the (tribal) meeting added, quite rightly, that

The Kgotin had been called the use of double deckers driven Tran to the brink of bank to discurs

the exiling of its would be a big stop toward rupter and which came as a chief, Seretse Khama, following the_nolution_of_Singapore's American Army sergeant was his marriage to a London girl. passongor traffic problem, stoned during rioting between |-- Reuter, 1 TA

HONGKONG is being con-

Straits Times, in reply to The

Ministry

of

of Agriculture

the head of the Singapore announced that 1,000 million Traction Company

Rials (over £10,000,000) will be who opposed two decks, showing in course of the next

three s

in the construction of

how well the double-decker dams and irrigation facilities, system functions here: One Dr Mossadegh issued decree, of the objections raised in empowering the Persian Finance Singapore, which has few Minister to claim all land noi buildings more than two under cultivation and sell it to atoreys tall, is that double-the publle for "very small sums."

Router. dockers would interfero

with the privacy of others... Shop dwellers, it WAÐ argued, would regard passengers on

Prime

to

protracted oil crisis which has

propose to amalgamate, it was

possess

central

Tribesman Is

Acquitted

Lobatsi, Bechuanaland

Aug. 10.

to

Was

on

Questioned

Sequel To Riots

and generally assist-rogation

the now construction work.

in

„Kafr el Düwor The alleged slaters, hás

trying

The P-120 is less than feet (10 metres) long and has a wing span of 33% feet (11 metres). It is powered by a Rolls Royco Nënë three-jet en- gine.

Built

Town Torrorised

By Baboons

a

Simonstown, South Africa,

Aug. 19.

terrorising this naval town by descending, from the hills to

ransack houses in search of food. Mrs Ruth Roose went into

*Military 7 y at- her kitchen to see a large baboon

CASUALTY FIGURES

Barnstaple, Aug.” 19. ed Dr Alf to explain a "steret removing her Sunday Joint and Omcial casualties in the recent visit" he made to the mills fust a box of eggs from the Icebox. doods in the Lynmouth area before the slots broke out, Nino When she tried to shop it away, issues here tonight were bodies people were killed and 23 in- the animal scowled and did nat recovered fifteen.

Jured-In the riots which wreck- | leave until it had helped itself Identified nine,

ed the mills.--Router,

to apples.ng well.-Unlted Press.

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