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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Persian Oil

AR Musnuudgh's stubborn

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Fetusi 10 accept a com-

romine

tu

nationalisation

original

ultimatum

Lo the Anglo-Iranian

Company in 1961 as

011

in

Cunt L'erma an estimated £210 mutition in oli revenuсm the last three years. It has lo the taken that country verge of economic ruin and only a miracle has kept it from falling into the nande of the Tudeh (Communist) Pany. The Persians

new

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thank their lucky stars for two things: (1) the advent uf

Premier, their Zahedi who was realistic enough to accept negotia Lion with the Western companies as the only sold- tion

the Lu dilemma and (2) the sheer

wil

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E.D.C. RESULT LIKELY THIS MONTH

- Crucial Debate

To Begin On August 24

Paris, Aug. 6.

The French Premier, Pierre Mendes-France, today made another "date with destiny" when he accepted August 24 for the beginning of a momentous debate on the European Army, which for over two years, no French Government has rodared to submit for ratification.

country's benevolence of the West to conclave the agreement un nounced on Thursday or

which WBM

America, presented a

the negotin- Lions y five of its biggest

It thus seems certain that by the end of this

od companies, is hard hit month France will have accepted, rejected or

by

a vil Hlut AL the amended the EDC treaty.

moment and its compacles.

have been cutting back,

France may then for better or worse have production for many months consented to share control of her armed forces

to check the accumulation with the governments of five other European

01

unsold stocks. Stove

Dr Mossadegh's Bri ex- hibition

the

nations, including Western Germany.

The crucial debate which may last a week, will be the Premier's toughest test since he beat his Indo-China peace deadline on July 20,

tor

In of truculence 1961 there has been a con- siderable expansion in the output of other oil fields,

Before the great debalo for August 24 would be speci- particularly in the Middle

begins, the Pem.er will meet the family a debate

or against rast. And

Anglo-

foreign ministers of the other ratiication of EDC. Iranian Company, to com-nve EDC nations (West The questioners were trying pensate itself for the loss Germany,

Italy,

Belgium, to force the Premier to show his of Abadan, built £50 Holland and Luxembourg) in hand. But he refused to give a simple yes or no answer to the mililon plant at Aden which Brussels on August 19 and 20. has just started to procORK He will

his com- question. What he said was that crude oil from the Kuwait promise proposals and will urge the Assembly would debate:

THREE- adopt Sheikhdom. But the West's that their agreement to decision to accept Zahedl's these modifications too is the oll forma was based on its sold

C

tell them

chance-1-e-getting lidh K

Partisans

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Hongkong FAMOUS DIONNE

Beaten In

Bowls

Vancouver, Aug. 0. South Africa beat Hong- kong 21-18 in a vital match today of the rink bowls competition in the British Empire and Commonwealth Gamos.

The win pat the South Africans at the head of the atandinga with six wins

It and one tla. Was Hong- kong's Arsi

defeat after six straight victories,

four Hongkang scored ahots on the 18th end to break a 14-14 deadlock and fake

ake an 18-14 lead.

It looked as if Hong- for Ita kong WAR seventh triumph but the Springboks

back well with Wilfred Randall, the skip, scoring four shots on the 21st end after Raoul da Luz, Hongkong skip, had faltered for practically the

time in the tournament,--Beater.

Came

No Hurry To Return Russian Tanker

QUIN DEAD

Emilie's Sudden Illness

North Bay, Ontario, Aug. 6.

Emilie, one of the world famous Dionne Quintuplets, died suddenly of a stroke today.

Her four sisters were deeply shaken. The Dionne Quintuplets were 20 last May.

Emilie had been spending a

month of her

| holiday with

summer school

a. new religious community of sisters at con- vent in Sainte Agathe. There was a possibility that she would have entered the convent pa a nun this autumn.

parish priest,

Fr Latranche, was with the Dionne family this afternoon, comforting the girl's grief-stricken mother.

Last

CONFUSED

Political Asylum For Stowaway

Octuplets-Hoax Bus Driver Wanted More Business

Manila, Aug. 6.

Reports of the birth of ootuplets to s Filipina miothér turned out this afternoon to be a hoax believed to have been per petested by a private bus operatori seeking

cinta-sald

to boost

director of the the miracle reported to have birth oconrred denied the birth of octuplets and even said Cisa

birth had been recteded in the hospital at the hour claimed, }

до

The police are searching for the

driver.

· Franco-Presse,

ì

London, Aug. Mitzi Gaynor

The British Home Office month another sister, announced tonight that Marie, returned from life in a Antoni Klimowicz, the convent "confused and home-Polish stowaway taken off sick," according to her brother- a Polish freighter in the

in-law.

1cs

Reuter

Thames five days ago, had of been St.

asylum.

Sprains Ankle

SEATO Boundaries Defined

Washington, Aug. 6. The United States Secre-

tary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, has proposed that Burma and the non- Communist areas of Indo- China should be included in the area to be protected by a Southeast Asian defence organisation : (SEATO) against Communist aggres- sion, it was disclosed today.

Mr Dulles made the proposal when he appeared at a private meeting of the Senate Appro- Friations Committee on July 21. His testimony was released to day. cay.

Plans for setting up SEATO. are now in progrèse between the United States and its Western and

Asian allies. A formal treaty conference is expected to be held in the Philippines early next month,

Mr Dulles told the Committee I he believed there was

a good chance of preventing a- "major northern Vietnam in Indo-China to the victininh.

granted political Practising A 'Blazing' disaster following the loss of

was taken off the 3,219-ton

Last weekend.

Dance Sequence

BUILD A DIKE

Khom stalament: it intent on her work, that the draw a line WAR Whi-rün"

ter,

No Quarantine For J. Frederick Muggs

jouth

at the 1700 personsRY HARNESADES

t

Vegas rightclubs A few armistice terma-Router, Ad strategically placed sequins 'are

She entered-the-ciolster

Servantes du Tres Sacrament last November.

The Home Office statement This was the first time any Tripel, Aug. 5.

said the Home Secretary, Sir Nicolet, David Maxwell Fyfe, had de The Nationalist Chinese have of the sisters-Emilie

Yvonne,

Annette and Celle-cided

Hollywood, Aug. 6, the to cancel

control

He said the "Allies 'should Mitzi Gaynor caused a major decided to delay the release had been away from the family limiting the period of the Pole's sensation at her atualo yester crec a "dike" axound Vietnam

ONE OF TWO SETS

stay in Bellain Russia's tanker Taupse for a longer period than eariler

day when the wriggled through and draw a defence line Kilmowicz, 20, had been the most blazing, dance oequence The Dlonnes, were one of the

which we can say that the planned mainly because the only two sets of quintuplets granted permission to remain in ever filmed and ended up in will be something to which

transgression the ho-Communists were so rude in

history to the cointry, one week after an ombralce. “by the their protests, altres learned down to medical

*** haver Lyca

will react." Foreign Affairs and the National today.

time üher

The green-eyed dancer was so hope We will be French Parliament to adopt Defence Commissions of the

birth an 'a short desire for more stable and European Army scheme, Assembly (both are hostile to Nationalist Navy while en route plots are

The Alp was seized by the

le oli suviving - quintu- ralaw Detrowesh, Po

the Diligentis af

Inèituds all of added: sprained an angle and stopped north of trantall conditions in the

to Shanghal and the Russians Argentins, now, aged 11 years. ⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Klimowicz, therefore at production on the film for the Laos and Cambodia and Viet- Middle East. Anglo-Iranian At present nobody, including BDC).

shat the Premier himself, knows 2. Any counter proposals that had dred off violent protests to The Dionnes were born" to a liberty to stay in this country remainder of the work. “ can hardly claim a triumph exactly what he will propose.

at the partition lines might be submitted 10 in the conclusion of the

the existing Atrembly. The Premier did not the United States over the lowly French Canadian farmer's in the same way as any other

matter. The Nationaliste had wife in a small cottage

Pressed in the briefest of atalion upon whose stay no time

The degred to agreement. It is to get £25 treaty with ita supranational commit himself to submitting taken full blame and left it at Calender on May 28, 1934-limit has been imposest Rous costines, Mappear to be nations themselves million compensation in ten control scheme claimed today in any counter proposals himself

wearing in, mogle version of the cipate militarily in equal instalments. In addi- the Assembly lobbies that the and here again lost the situation that-United Press.

gowns worn by Markne Dietrich way, la rendered in dubt 25 as non-committal as possible,

in Lusaa Vietnam is concerned by the tion,

Terry Moore to

the changes compensate

proposed

would

3. European problems as a company for future loss of Mendes-Franco

whole. This reply was Inter- profita Anglo-Iranian gets a relatively unimportant.

preted as meaning that the EDC They would allow the

best debate 40 per cent interest in the ofl

army to be

have to end in a showdown vote Consortium which will re-part of the French

Integrated

supranational

for or against ratification and controlled by ori organisation

thas

the Premier was leaving vil, and will receive pay international

committes

himself free to determine the ment from the

other officials whose oath of loyalty

exact nature of the debate at members of the Consortium would be given to the European

later time, probably after the for the remaining 60 per Defence Community instead of

st-nations meeting in Brussels. respective govern- cent interest. Porsia's their own

His own EDC proposals muret. ments. economic recovery\now ap-

be reatly in six days time. The OPPONENTS

EDC governments other pears assured. Initially it

Opponents of EDC Including have expressed the desire to will probably receive the Gaullets, dissident Gaullists. receive these

proposals a week American aid. Britain has certain Radicals led by Veteran ahead of the Brussels meeting lifted restrictions the statesman Edouard Herriot and

on

on August-19,--Reuter, use of sterling and Porsia 40 to 50 of the 104 Socialist therefore now enjoys the deputies are apprehensive. The benefits of the new trans-supranational character of the ferable account system. In

treaty is to them the most ob- jectionable feature. addition Persia will receive about £160 million in oil revenues in the first three years of oll operations.

develop and market Perslan

of

M. Mendes-France has refused to be drawn on his interations,

He was asked in the Assembly today whether the debate fixed

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Yangtze Still Rising

London, Aug. 0, The Yangtze River rose nearly three feet above

all

They'll Treat You Like A Man Here!

By A Staff Reporter

When chimpanzee star, J. Fred Muggs, arrives in Hongkong on Monday he will suffer no indignities as far as quarantine officials are concerned-for they see no reason why he should be locked up,

Li Colonel J. C. Rix told the China Mall last night that dogs brought in by overseas visitors were quarantined, because there was a fear of introducing rabies in the Colony,

The senior Veterinary Officer,

But not chimps,

Animals

of the monkey familly aro carried around the streets

by beggars, They hop acrosa the border whenever they feel like so why should J. Fred

time high level record at three be singled out? o'clock this afternoon and is

And after all he's British

still rising, the New China News even though he's beetme Agency stated.

| naturalised American. He was The height recorded at Wuhan born in West Africa in the the name given to the three British Cameroon has suffered neighbouring cities of Hankow, If ever a chimp Hanyung and Wuching--this

afternoon was 29.31 metres car it's been J. Frert. Ha

was

in a neti. Bold-

feet 10 inches), 0.93 metre sold, mind you for U.S.$800! (about three feet) above the record.

The three towns stand at the confluence of the Han river with the Yangtze---Reuter.

Then in Rome, only a short

MUGGS

all that kept Mitel from being banned from films for life,

"Gosh ( ái sexy. costume" Mitzi exclaimed from a

20th Century-Fox hospital bed. "I get so carried away when I'm wearing it that I hardly know what I'm doing.

"This is the second time I've torn ligaments in my

ankle while I was doing that number. And I've been working on the said no pictures could be taken contine fo: a monthUnited of Mugga with the city's monu-! Press. ments as background....

Supersonic In Level Flight

Paris, Aug, 6 A fourth French jet fighter has broken the sound barrier, this time in level flight.

The plane, a Garfaut, achieved the feat at an altitude of about 34,000 feet over Istres on Tues day, it was announced by the French Society for the Bludy. and Construction of Special Aeronautical Materials here to-

is believed that: thir 15, the The Doyly Carte Opera Com-first time in the world that a returns to its original plane has broken the sound seems to home, the Savoy Theatre, barrier with only ifat normal. know what the "3" stands for) | Strand, London, next? month propulsion powers and willout hit the headlines last year when with a full programme of any special apparatus to boost he appeared in a sponsor's Gillbert and Sullivan favourites. Ita propulsion advertisement in between' rush|--China Mail Special..

Well Muggs won't find any footling restrictions like, that here.

J. Fred (no one

films of the Coronation on American television

networki

That made London sit up and complain, Trouble seems to dog the poor chimp everywhere

Now he's on a round-the- world goodwill tour" for the American TV Industry; sent by hia employers, the National Broadcasting Company. He is expected to arrive with his co- said he was, a “ferocious beast! Whoever heard of I

own, Roy Wadron a Bud and wouldn't let him ride in a' And then the Superintendent Merineils on Monday for a short train

firmly of Fine Arts in that same piace l'visit and a quick look at us.

while ago, the Italian Railways | crated!.

unless

he

Muggs in a crate?

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