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ANGLO-PERSIAN SETTLEMENT US Wants

PROSPECT On The Alert In Paris

Zahedi Reported Seeking Solution

To The Problem

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

London, Aug. 21. General Zahedi, the

now

Persian

end of September for, u Premier, is reported to be studying means the Water Authority pointed out, records show of patching up the differences with Bri- that frequently in the past tain and settling the dispute with the there have buon

wide Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, according to

differences in annual rain-

full both below and above news from Teheran,

average. At the moment

we are still well below, and

It is believed he is trying to arrange

the prospects are that we for the sale of Persian oil on the world must consider ourselves markets by

to channels unlikely

be

fortunate if we can during

the next six weeks bring opposed by the Oil Company, in order the total figure up to redeem the country's economy from

normal. The outlook, while

at this time, most certainly demanda care and caution

It in no way calls for panic the legacy of the chaos left by Mossadegh. However, he will not embark on these ven- tures immediately for fear of wounding nation- alistic susceptibilities stages.

on the part of all users of water whether for domestic or commercial purposes.

THE other side

MORE ARRESTS.

Teheran, Aug. 21 Persia's new leaders arrested

senkor menberg

three more

it will be done by gradual

numed and some changes may take place when the Shah of Iran arrives from Baghdad.

Meanwhile, of

ources close

to

of tho picture is also not to be ignored Government's re. sponsibility in guiding and helping the public in the the ousted Mossadegh regime Zubedi sald ex-Premier Moham- observance of economy and today.

med Mossadegh had a fainting * "very in exploring every means of

The three new arreste follow spell last night and

The sources sald Mos- finding additional water. the capture of Dr Mossadegh him-11",

from Director The acting

self and three of his lleutnants sadegh may be banneti

Iran after the, Shah's return.-- Public Works made what last night, appeared to be but a half- Today, secret agents of the United Press.

new Prime Minister, General

of

hearted reference to an Fazlollah Zahedi, secured the

official publicity campaign, for

foriner

Governor-General

of and

yet this is the best method Ispahan, Kashavarz Sadr. of keeping the public's two leaders of Morandegh's attention concentrated On National Move lent Asghar problem. Let Parsa and Bagher Jalall Moosavi water

ex-Foreign Colony be plastered) with posters and signs as a Hussein Fatemi, is still officially reminder to all missing. First reports after Wed- nesday's coup said he had been

the

the

constant

The

Minister,

sections of the community or to plects" by the Teheran that water must be used crowd.-Reuter.

set

what about the island? Is it not possible that explora- tlons la Happy Valley. and

might elsewhere

CABINET MEETING

Teheran, Aug. 21.

Planned Coup D'Etat Exposed

*General Zahed! announced coup d'etat in the Saar last

yield ture, Gholamall Mey-Wes

Jahanshah

French Military Police wait with their radio- equipped jeep on the Place de la Concorde, Paris, where military trucks have replaced the buses out on strike.

London Expresa.

Surrender Terms For Mau Mau

On

Important Talks

Pacific Defence Begin Next Week

London, Aug. 21.

A high British military mission leaves for Melbourne next week to discuss with Australia and New Zealand broad defence arrangement for the Pacific and the Far East, official sources dis- closed today.

To Get The Troops

Home

New York, Aug. 21. Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, the United States delegate to the United Nations, sald today that the basic moti- vation for the American

position with regard to the political conference -- on which it has differences of allies was to bring home the American troops in

view with Britain and other

The tripartite conference, which is to start late | Korea. next week, will prepare for a full-dress meeting of the Asked whether the United

States was prepared to Chiefs of Staff of the three countries in Autumn.

End Of Strike In

Sight

The

risk over arrangements may training relations

regarding the con- eventually complement defence ferences plans of the ANZUS Pact beference with some of its allies, tween the United States, Aus- Mr Lodge told reporters that tralia and New Zealand from: one could not strain relations which Britain has been

with friends by disagreeing with kept

them. out despite her repeated at- tempts at adhesion.

The British mission, led by

The United States, did not have any satellites, he added,

Air Commode F. J. Braithe the United States was trying, to Mr Lodge told reporters that

walte, Director of Planning of

to

the Air Ministry, also includes do everything in its power

half million top representatives of the Warring home the Offee and the Admirally.

American troops in Korea. They The outlines of the project tactical success on the floor

were not concerned in winning:a are being kept secret but it is sald that considerable impor- the General Assembly nor in the tance is

placed on the move.

question of prestige or any these intangibles. The Prime Minister, Sir Wins-those

to

of

of

They had gone into this whole

sible

Paris, Aug. 21. The great French strike which at its peak involved four million men and cost the country thousands of millions of francs, almost ton. Churchill, is reported causing national paralysis have initiated the meeting in question as thoroughly as pos- and they were convinced was nearing its end today. his confidential miks with the that the line they had takery was For the first time in 17 days Australian and Now Zealand that which was most likely to telephone calls wero possible Prime Ministers during Corona- 'get' their men home. between Paris and the pro-ion woek in London.

Every government was con- VERY SECRET vinces as postal workers. be.

Sir Winston, in agreement cerned first of all with its own gan to return.

peopic.

Mr Lodge intimated that the It was hoped Paris trains and with the Australian Premier, Mr. buses would run again by to-obert Menzies, and the New United States was prepared to Zealand Premier, Mr Sidney vote now on the composition of night.

conferenco and.

did not .. Even 12

trade one of Britain's Chiefs of Staff the moderate unlonists all obey the back-to-should visit Australia and New need the recess over the week-

Zealand later this year for dis- end to think the matter over. work orders issued early today.

In answer to cussions with their

a question ha the after agreement between

said that he did not think that Government and Söeldist-and

thorities, comcials. Catholic trade

сол unions, tinued stoppages by members of Communist-led labour groups could still cause serious dia- location,

Holland, had then decided that

o Military.

So secret were the talks at this the vote in favour of Indian time that the Prime Minister participation would be as high teclined to inform the House of as 32-Reuter. Commons of their contents,

ADJOURNS

But what is believed to be bchied in & Brifalu's desire not

OTTEE

· New York, Aug. 21: The Political Committee of The Sccialist and Catholic to be left put of defence arange- the United Nations General trade unions described the results, ments involving the important Assembly, after the luncheon

today, of today's negotiations us pre- Pacific and Far East where the recess

claims to have vital interests. Monday morning Biminary agreements

Briken has strongly resented delegate was willing to speak. "The General Con

A meeting scheduled for

adjourned until

because

no

会

her exclusion by the United

to-

States from the ANZUS Pact and morrow morning was cancelled has made repeated attempts to be, and this afternoon's meeting was admitted to the Pact. She has, adjoined a few minutes after i

howevon fallet? so far.

Officials stresso today that the defence arrangements to be discussed in Melbourne do not envisage a set-up in competition

Nairobi, Aug. 21. Surrender terms will be offered the Mau Mau Labour, left out of the negotia- tions between the Government terrorist leaders next Monday, when thousands of and the other two big unions, printed leaflets will be dropped over thousands of has not yet committed itself and

contents of the agreement, square miles of Kikuyu reserve territory, theys it knows nothing of the Aberdare mountains and the Mount Kenya forests.

-In the meantime-it-has--told Usually reliable sources said here, tonight its members in the post office

the ANZUS organisation. But it was believed that the that the Governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, to stay out. and the East African Commander-in-Chief, Post office workers were eavisaged arrangements might "some co-ordination" meeting up and down the lead to General Sir George Erskine, would make the country to discuss their union with the ANZUS organisation

whereby Britain would offer in a Colony-wide campaign to be put into directives!

tually become indirectly nected with ANZUS. operation from next Monday,

Sir Winston stated

1

almed The agreements bridging the gap between both aides so that negotiations could be reopened without loss of face.

Oven-

cort-

resumed.

The Chairman announood that the list of speakers would be closed on Monday afternoon and

the list whe exhausted.--Reuter,

the vole would be taken when

Quakes Wipe Out Towns, Villages: Athens, Aug, 21. Ninety per cent of the towns recently and villages Ithaca and Zante on the islands of

on the subject of the ANZUS Cephalonia, poet that he "was greatly in were completely destroyed and hopes that perhaps larger and more than 20,000 houses are in wider arrangements" could be ruins, according to the latest

estimate here,

Saarbruecken, Aug. 21. sparingly; and a method

Herr Johannes Hoffmun, previously employed, of a

the Saar Prime Minister, mobile public address touring the congested The Prime Minister, Fazlollah said here today that Huber residential arean broadcast Zahedi, hold his first Cabinet tus Prince Zu Loewenstein.. ing slogane, advice and meeting tonight and took over leader of the "German Ac- warnings, might usefully the War and Interior Ministrice tion" Party, had planned a be exploited. The Water Irun ardves from Baghdad.

has Authority

disclosed

that he would take over the weekend.

Herr Hofman told reporters that borings are being crucial jobs of War and Interior made for water wells In

200 West for the time being" that about Minister

German the New Territories. But Dr Mahmoud Mchran was students were to have proclaim- named Minister of Education, ed the "Federal state of the of Saar" and "recaptured" some Ahmed Houssein Minister

German Saar border

The decision, to make the offer,, approval to the final details of it was understood, Was made the surrender policy. Road Engineer, Dr All villages.

The Government will at the Finance Minister,

("German Action" claims to after the authorities received Ali

time embark on

They provided for: Akcher Minister without port-represent the interests of all notes from Dedan Kimathi-the same follo,

1. The calling of the special mode, but he added that this Dr

Salch refugees from Eastern Germany. Colony's most notorious terrorist mammoth information campaign

of was "not a matter on which he consultative body-made up Minister of Health, and Hessam it demands the return to Ger- leader and other terrorists offer through the radio, nims, leaflets travelling Information

Government,

and could give directions."- United of her lost eastern terri-ing to disband their gangs and and

employers mally Bowlatabadi deputy Premier.

their activities if suitable wagons to convince the Kikuyu General Zahedi said the other tories, including those given to end

tribe that the Mau Mau is doom-unian representatives which Press. not yet [Ministers hod

been Poland by the Versailles treaty), terms were forthcoming.

drafts collective wage, agree- The Saar authorities discovered The authorities will offer tor-et.

ments, before September 30. safety and freedom

2. No sanctions the plot through leaflets con- rorists

It will promise that economic

against for capital and social Ascated in a bus taking Saar- from prosecution

grievances will be strikers. it they surender landers to a rally at Trier, West offences

tackled as soon as the emer- voluntarily

3. Consultation- with the security Gemany

gency is over. forces.

Terrorista

them- who give

The campaign, it was learned, unions on the application of the Government decrees affecting is being launched with one selves up will not be

Pin objective-to

the retiring age of public and counteract for such capital

municipal workers which spark- secuted

the sudden upsurge of rumours offences as being members of,

ed the strikes. or helping

in the Tribe planted by Mau terror gangs, of

Mau bearing arms,

agents, But

who terrorists

have

These rumours, or "Mau Mau comudited murder

5. Government intervention or other propaganda," have claimed that

India is about to "Invade East with the employers associations atrocities will still be liable to

Africa to free the oppressed aimed at the conclusion of new prosecution.

Africans from the European wage agreements-Router. yoke."

valuable results? Nothing should be allowed to stand in the way of discovering and making use of what ever below-the-ground water exists in the Colony.

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Herr Hoffman said he hoped the now West German Govern- ment after next month's elections would be interested in a sensible solution of the Saar problem.

.Support of Prince Loewenstein's "German Action" movement would not help to clear the road, he udded.--Reuter.

·

SANDERS VISITS FOREIGN OFFICE

London, Aug. 21. The British businessman, Mr Edgar Sanders, who arrived home In England yesterday after nearly four years' imprisonment

to

the

DRAMATIC SWITCH

It was understood here 10- night that this dramatic switch in policy had been under sideration by General and the Governor

of Kenya for the past month.

Erskine

Both had reached the con-

They have also alleged that Russia is in daily touch witậy tho Mau Mau lenders and would support a mass uprising with money and materiai,

Another Mau Maul-spired rumour has it that the Egyptian

4. 'A favourable study by the Government of the basic wage question.

Morocco Situation To Go Before UN

New York, Aug. 21.

Govemment "the Mau Mau of The Arab Aslan Group de- the north-will join hania with cided today to bring the situa

tion in Morocco the Africans of Kenya once

before the

In Hungary on spying charges, elusion that a surrender policy today visited the Foreign Office based on the Malayan pattern to talk with The Marquia of should be put into force. Reading, the Assistant Secretory The Governor but short his hos liberatest the Suez Canal, United Nations Security Counell of States for Foreign Affairs-holiday on the coast and dew Zone from the grip of "troperialist | immediately. France-Presse.

give } Britain."---Reuter.

to here from Mombaan

McCarthy Picks Up A New Trail

Senator Joseph McCarthy opened hearings tion which he said he expected to be "tremendously Hiss case".

:

Los Angeles, Aug, 21. hero today, in an investigas more important than the

travellers," he said, as Party members are committed to carry out capionage"..

Senator McCarthy hinted that the Atomic Energy Commission, the case would involve Soviet the Navy, Army and State De- hydrogen bomb capionage. Hepartment, so that a Comenimlet told a Press conference the Party agent would have acotes hearings would deal with alleged to all that-materia)," he said. Communist inditration of the government printing office and of strategle the stockpiling motals in the Western Stules.

The Group's Chairman, Dr Farid Zeineddine, of Syria, said the Group's decision was un4 animous.-Reuler.

Moroccan Killad By Policeman

Rabat, Aug.

A

A policeman guarding ↑ rail- way bridge in a Casablanca Yesterday Senator McCarthy miburb today shot dead. said he was not in a position to Moroccan who stabbed Him in Answer my question whether the shoulder blade. The bullet The Senator, mid he imagined gen iplos stalo, euclear secrets geneed another policeman on the the material, would include in- that led to development of the leg. formation on the hydrogen bomb, Soviet-hydrogen bánh 21, But The investigations: far Peonötrnad woʻzm trying to establish if such This was the only incident "O Government Printing primarily will members of 300-bocicup alte, hoarded reported today it the whole of

Morocca Office printe potret materjal for Communist Party, not follow | United From

Three more light earth shocks were registered last night, ono of medium intensity.—Router,

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