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No. 35441

Established 1845

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1953.

US Offers To Buy Oil S

To Come From Iran

I

is unlikely that the new

Nations General Assembly which opens tomorrow will produce fruitful results relating to the Korean war. It would be nice to be able to believe that Mr Vyshin- aky and his Communist Associates intend to make a new approach to the question of an armistice, yet nothing in the Soviet Foreign Minister's demennour when the Assembly recessed before Christmas, or in Soviet propagandu since, suggests any prospect of a changed attitude, Doubtless Mr Vyshinsky will drearily repeat the old and thrend- bare allegations that only the United States by their "imperialistic. aggression" and "warmongering" preventing cessation of "And Koren. hostilities in it is noteworthy that Chou En-lni made use of Russia's Army Day to revive the charges of "brutal germ warfare" being waged by the United States in Korea. has been Some attention

are

devoted to the fact that Stalin last week received the Indian Ambassador and engaged him in a lengthy conversation, yet even United Nations observers are not disposed to consider it as n sign of Soviet willingneas to reconsider India's pro- | posals for an armistice in Korea.

THE indications are that the

Communist delegates to the General Assembly will once again attempt to use a forum the gathering us

for propaganda, particularly as this is their first oppor- tunity of directing their fire in public at the new Ameri- can Administration, Neatly timed, and not without psychological value, Is General Mark Clark's appen! to the Communists to agree to an exchange of wounded and seriously prisoners of war. The Reds, will probably continue to argue That this subject is tied up with.and.cannot be divorced. from the whole question of POW repatriation, but solely from the humane point of view they will be at a severe disadvantage when attempting to justify their attitude. But undoubtedly the Communists will direct their major, blast in the General Assembly at Presi dent Eisenhower's decisian

to

NEW ATTEMPT

TO SETTLE

DISPUTE

Teheran, Feb. 22.

The Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Fatemi, said today that the United States had offered to buy at least US$100,000,000 worth of Iranian oil if Iran accepted Britain's proposals for compensation in the Anglo-Iranian dispute.

Mr Fatemi told newsmen Iran's reply to the American and British proposals had been delayed until Premier Mohammed Mossadegh's advisers had "made a more profound study of them".

He said the Americans had offered to pay part of the $100,000,000 before delivery of the oil as "stop gap" aid to Iran if the British proposals were accepted.

The British proposal, Mr Fatemi sníd, did not specify a figure for compensation, but asked for Iranian agree- ment on the "principle" by which it would be reached. The principle was that Iran agree to refer the question of compensation to arbitration,

Photo Finish

In Austrian Elections

Conservatives Gain Majority of 1

The

Foreign Minister said Dr Mossadegli would have 20 answer to both Britain and

the United States "In the next the United States Ambassador,

two or three days”. He said

Mr Loy Henderson, submitted the United States view of the British proposal to Mossadegh at the same time he

submitted posal.

De

the American pro-

Д

Mr Fateen sald the com- pensation Issue:

Still stumbling block to agreement.

Tho Russlan Ambassador, Mr Sadehlkey, visited Mr Patoni Vienna. Feb. 23.

morning and offered The Catholic-Conservativa) financial and Soviet Red Cross People's Party won n. “photo ald finish" victory over Socialists

in

this

to vielims of the earth-

the quake which killed about 1,000 people at Toroud in the Elburz Sunday's Mountains on February 12. general elections in Austria.i Mr Sadchikov told the

Final official results announced here carly this morning were:

People's Party Sceialista Independents

must) 4.

People's Opposition

79

14

the

In the 1945 elections People's Party won 77 reats, the Socialists 07, the League of In- dependents 10, and the Left Ble

5.

Formosa, deneutralise and they can be expected to insist that this action alone renders impossible Any Korean agreement for

the the

Foreign Minister Soviet physicians in the Soviet were available.

ou

Toll In

Death Street Car Disaster Mounts To 66

Mexico City, Feb. 22. ·

Rescue workers today counted at least 66 dead and 93 injured in the fiery collision of two Wooden trolley cars jammed with picnickers and

farmers.

It was the worst transit system disaster in the history of Mexico City. The fire chief, Luis Rodriguez, said 11 victims pulled from the smouldering wreckage wore in "very critical" condition.

Proposes Denunciation

Of Pacts

now

of

Bodies

were removed from the longlod mass by frumen nod members of the Red and Green Cross, At one polico precinct alone, 48 bodies were laid out, among them those of two pregnant women.

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Reds Kill & Wound Fleeing Refugees

Berlin, Feb. 22. Communist police killed a man and wounded a woman fleeing across the border into the American sector, West Berlin police nounced today. At the same time the Red Gestapo was reported making hundreds of arrests in the Soviet zone.

an.

The shooting was the third such incident in two days.

West Berlin police said an East Berlin couple, trying to two escape to the West with truckloads of their possessions, ignored warnings to halt and dashed across the Schilling Bridge Into the American sootor late last night.

The

frod

They Went In One By One

Hamilton, Ohio, Feb. 22

Four members

of the Clemans family were sol- ed here in two hours.

Conley Clemans, aged 15, was arrested for driv- ing without a licence.

Ha un Mrs Dorothy Isaacs, who went to polles headquarters to nak about him, WHE Kaoled for drunkenness.

Conley's mother, Mre Minnie Clemans, who also went to headquarters to nak about the other two was detained, for disorder- ir conduct,

Finally, his father, WII- ilam Clemans, went along to headquarters-and arrested for failing to re- gister his car-Beuter.

THE WIIMA MOVES

police INTO

Russian sector several shots, killing friend of the couple who had

trucks, and

wounding

undertaken to drive one of the the woman. The truck with the siain driver crashed into news stand but rolled on int the American sector.

Ezat

PORT

Singapore, Feb. 23.

The China-bound Finnish tanker Wiima will move Into Singapore port today (Monday) after 12 days enforced stay outside terri- terial waters during which she encountered difficulty in getting a good supply from Singapore,

The vessel anchored 20 miles

the

The trial has been concluded in Cairo of General Hussein Sirry Amer, and Colonel El Sayed Farah. General Amer sentenced to be stripped of his rank and medals, and to

The couple also reached the life

Colonel American acctor and the Farab Was

The woman whs taken to a has charges were of desertion, In-pital. The names of the couple citing to revolt, and trafficking and their friend were not dis in

arms with Israel. General closed. Amer was the ofliser whom ex-

sector police fred en King Farouk tried to force three refugee cars which Into the presidency of the Om-crashed through the border off Singapore on orders from her cera Club at Cairo against the barriers at two points on Friday owners on February 11. vote General Namib last but did not hurl anybody. The

This put her beyond four persons in the cars askell reach of harbour craft. The few General ycar,

Amer

for political asylum. while trying to caught

escape

launches licensed to ply outside Another 1,300 refugees pour-the harbour were reluctant to go to Libya soon after the Naguib

ed into West Berlin yesterday- near.ber. many of them just one jump shen' of Wilhelm Zalsser's secret police and the Red Gestapo whose members some times wear the black uniforms plles sent to her twice from of the old Hitler 69.

not taken on any Squads of these SSD police water since her arrival hole.

Today (Monday) were reported by West Berlin

it tas will particularly learned that the Wilma active this weekend against big made hero, but it is not im

bunker and have minor repairs farmers and moperty They were said to have made mediately known if the bas hundreds of arrests along the received final orders from Her Baltic coast

from, Rostock owners to proceed to China or Stralsund

In Talds directed to remain here indefinitely. against owners of hotels and

Impending move into

coup d'elat on July 23, and has been in prison over since

London Express,

Police Fire

On, Break

Up

Meeting

Nairobi Feb. 22.

Luk Rodriguez, said "su more bodies" were expected to

A European police In- be found in the smouldering spector and six African wreckage. Grimy rescue workers constables opened fire on sad 03 persons had been treated 300 Africans holding an to broken backs. for injuries ranging from burn illegal meeting in the Fort

Hall reserve today.

ported here tonight.

́HOTELS RAIDED-

quarters

be

owners.

With 41 men aboard the Wiima undoubtedly experienced short- gas with the mangro food up- Singapore

ship chandler, The lanket has

Her

guest houses who had resisted port was a well-guarded secret government selture

of their for 24 hours. All governmen property as vacation spots for departments connected with favoured Communist Labour shipping dented knowledge et 10

throughout yesterday. were reported here:

These other police activities

unione.

A

the

It became known early today that representatives

the swoop an

Jena Zelas local agents went aboard yes optical works and the Gotha terday and completed drai ar- Car Епора In search

of rangementsAssociated Press. aboteurs who

be could Assignment of large squads of these SSD police in plainclothes to all slate stores catch any cheating clerks and in East Berlin to name any West Ber- his vota It

Liner trying to make purchases.

The SSD, which has an operate ing stalt of 0,000 officers, was said to have hired 50,000 men and

All polling in the country- women on a "piecework" basis

cloctions ended, election

officers collected the 100 to 2,000 marks ($5 to $100) for an arrest, depending on the urns to start counting. importanco of

Такя Bald that Cott- Commumist whom they have entertained by music in the trapped

eagerly or denounced.-Asso- | streets, ciated Press.

results-Reuter.

blommed for production failures. Unanimous Vote

Police headquarters here to- aight said about 100 of the crowd at Fort Hall were women. began to scatter when the police party appeared.

Washington, Fol. 22. that three Senator Bourke Hickenlooper and ten beds (Republican, Iowa) called today hospital here for a Congressional declaration

The ancient streetears crashed that the United States did not head-on at high speed on n -At-least three-Africans-were- Mr Fatem told newsmen later recognise as permanently bind- single track last night 15 miles wounded. that he thanked the Soviet gov-ing, the wartime secret agree- southwest of the city. One car The incident was one of many (Com-ernment for Its sincere and enents which President Eisen- was bringing 90 passengers from outbreaks of violence stamning brotherly feelings of sympathy, hower has accused the Sovies a plenic area. The other was from Mau Mau terrorism re- and help". United Press.

Union of infringing.

packed with workers and NOT FINAL REPLY

His proposal would turn the farmers returning to their rural present Eisenhower-sponsored homes from the city markets. Teheran, Feb. 22. resolution asking Congress to

FAILED TO STOP The reply of the Persian Pre- reject any interpretations mier, to the latest British pro-international agreements "which

Arcadio Juarez Laos, street Thus the voling for the Na posals on compensation for the have been perverted to bring

car inspector, said the

city-

In the South Nyert Reserve, 10 lonalrat (lower house of Par-Anglo-Iranian Company about the subjugation

ak Intion bound trolley spparently failed Mau Mau men disguised liament), leaves

take the form of peoples", into a denunciation of the overall would rather

falar African police and believed led to stop and wait for position practically unchanged.

secking "more clarification uch agreements.

track at the top of the long hill. by a notorious African, Dedan than agreeing lo or dissenting It was taken as trying to put Halfway down the incline the Kamath, trapped and killed a The People's Party und the trom suggestions, or eved the

Administration DIL two cars mashed into cach Kikuyu resistance group leader Socialists, which

have ruled making counter-proposals, ac⚫ record as not believing itseli | other,

before dawnA. Austria in coalition almost con cording to observers hero

to.legally bound by

The terrorist gang asked to agreements The impact almost telescoped. tinuously since the country's day. liberation in 1945, remain

made by President Franklin them and both caught fire. Most see the leader of the resistance strongest groups, though

The Promler's close all adviser, Roosevelt at Teheran and Yalta. of the passengers were trapped

group, Gutugata Gachur.

As Gachur talked to one of People's Party majority of ten "We shall give a reply but

The United States docs not in the burning cars. Dr Shayegon, told the preser

Nearby scats has been cut to one.

it recognise zay permanent Soviet residents said screams could be

the terrorists, he was shot at will not be final. Our final right to the Kuriles, the heard long after the collision, point blank rangs. reply would, of course, be with southern half of Sakhalin and Live power lines fell across the the cognisance of the Majiz.” port concessions in Manchuria., splintered wooden Corp and Terrorists ama

The pro-Goverment evening Senator Hickenlooper, who in caused the fire.

on a police party as it was re- aome time ago about the

a member of the Foreign Many of those who survivedį turning to a police post, killing malaria problem in Malaya

Both the right-wing League ever, said in a banner heading Relations Committee, said today were aboard the country-bound one African constable. and there

this strong

principle could be extended car and seated at the "United States buys $135,000,000

In Nairobi last night, a terror suspicion that the mosqul People's Opposition,

Independents and the worth of Iranian ol!!"

to Europe.

clinging to the back platform.

laxi, shot and Blog, using a bloc at

A Red Cross official, Victo: seriously wounded two Kikuyus which toes

spread

Senator Hickenlooper said he the Communists and leftist Socialists,

The paper said that the bulk

regarded disenso

becoming toat ground.

the German occupation Manuci Trueba, said the scene were

the cost of this oli would resistant to the insecticides.

Immediately be made available zone agreements as a milltary looked like "something out

Dante's Inferno"-United Press. The Director of the Ross

to Iran. The United States pact, put into effect as a part

of German surrender, and never' Institute, Dr G. MacDonald,

would also provide equipment expected to be more than tem- says that some species of

start the Abadan refinery, and materials necessary to Te-porary-Reuter. mosquitoca, house flics, and other insects, have shown varying degrees of resist- anço, but no actual record of anopholine resistance has yet appeared. He admits the possibility and says that

armistice. Everything, in fact, points to a wordy and futile conference.

Malaria Problem CONCERN Was expressed

Was

11

The League of Independents, a rightist group, Braws its sup port to a great extent from for- | mer Nazis,

of

HEAVY VOTE

the

A high percentage of electorate of 4,587,000 went to the polls, and a heavy but quia vote was recorded,

The results confirmed

pre-

paper

of

Bakhter Emrooz, how-

to

According

the Bakhter Emrooz, the proposals envisaged Britain taking 10,000,000 tons of dictions that neither of the Iranian oll during 1853 towards Coalition parties would get a part payment of compensation.

It compared the present pro-

clear Nationalrat majority of 83.posals with the Taman-Churchill Many observers had forecast proposals last year and said the

INCOMES BLASH

Opposition To Agreement

rear

OF

Floods Hit NE Australia

od

PARTY AMBUSHED

Ba they

ambushed and fired

location

in an Afraid along a street Men of the King's African Rifles rounded up 43 Kikuyus found without passes in the south of the Nyeri reserve and ahot and killed one and wound- ed three others who attempted to escape.

African. dorost guards in the Thomson's Falls are last night clashed with three terrorist ganga, -empturing three Kikuyus.

Sydney, Feb. 22. Heavy rains in floodstricken-Router. The Sudan, Trade Unions northeastern Australia have

* Khartoum, Feb. 22.

marooned scores

counter-measures will be that the coalition, which broke present suggestions were more evolved if necessary. Mean- down last December after dis- favourable to Iras than the pre-Federation, comprising 40 unions driven hundreds of people from while the Malaria Advisory | agreeing over the 1993 Budget, vious ones-Reuter, Board In Malaya, in its would be forced to take office After the break the recent annual report for again. 1961, says that the 10,400 Cabinet, unchanged, was

pointed to stay in office until hospital admissions that

after the voting. year was the first five-figure total siner the ground lost

ap-

Party numbers, six Socialists and

It consisted of eight People's

ong non-party member.

Bail

For Five Suspects

with a membership of more than their homes,

out in of families and floated a 1,008- 100,000, today came Opposition to the Sudan agreston freighter above its wharf. Teherum, Feb, 22.

was also ment signed in. Cairo carlier this Heavy loss of clock The Majlis today passed a bill month between Britain and reported today. depriving of their palaries Egypt.

The MacIntyre river bruke

Tel-Aviv, Feb. 22. side income amount to 10,000 reputed (ave no reagons for flooding homes whlie' heavy held government oMelals whose out- The Federation, which tts banks at Yetman, 300 miles

Police on Sunday released on to be dominated

by couthwest of under the Japanese was

Brisbane, today, ball the last of five suspects Rials per month (100)`n no recovered in 1947. It was

connection with the A total of 11 parties con as the government in't receivita opposition beyond saying it rain was sill falling. failure to take proper tested the elections, but the ing the minimum profit from the "deplored" the pact, but said it

bombing of the Russian legation precautions in newly-settled analler ones, as expected, talled National Iranian Company

here which led to breaking off would publish a pamphlet areas which was largely to win a single scnt.

amendment to the bill in-criticising the

of Larnell-Hussian relations. A total of 31 persone

had responsible for the higher } The inain campaign face ercasing the

been arrested after the bombing, was economie-whether a free ranking official applies to all

which the Kremlin charged was econting

advacated by civli, military and Judicial Sudan government notice of About 40 miles north the Party, or stalo

During the debate three-day general strike to begin Liamore, in an area known as of Tal-Aviv police. Polico sald of arranged "with the connivance" industry and social security, severalty Deputies argued tone on March & 14 protest against the pocket'", a party on horse- on Sunday they did uut know if advocated by the Socialists, successfully, that the bill should alleged victimisation of more back

found 110. familice any, of those questioned would would be best for the coun-apply to Majlis Deputies as well, than 500 workers in a dispute marooned by food waters, be brought to trial or when all the newest weapons.". tryRouter.

---Associated - Pross;

last month.---Reuter,

Router,

United Press.

Agures for 1951, and by the end of that year the leason

had been learned. Completo suppression is still possible provided full uso is made of

An

agreement

At Limore, on the north in count of New South Wales, Bloods drove, more than 300

Bazarles of; low; detalli «ederation also gave the prople from their homes.

and

London, Feb, 22. EVLTY voter registered Jo Mosca Stalin ward today cast for Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union. the official Soviet news agency, Tass, said tonight.

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