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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1948.

-Sefton Delmer's NEWSMAP

reports today

from a country gambling on the success of a double-cross

Persia checkmates the Red King

TABRIZ

ASTARA Urmia PERSIA-

TEHERAN, OMEWHERE in Bakú, the Soviet. on the Russians great oil town Caspian, there lives a tough little Persian with a big head and a broad domed forehend like Lenin's.

TEHERAN

TO PERSIAN GELF

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

MINISIE SLOPCORNER

taking a well-earned rest at) the home of her parents.

Mrs Sloncorner, the proud mother, finds her daughter spoiled by her sudden rise to fame. But the unproud father says. "What was there to spoll?"

the

than seven months from March 24 of the current year in any case,"

The Russians evacuated in May. 1946. In December 1948 Persian troous entered Azerbaijan.

When fighting storied, the Soviets, unwilling to prejudice the oil agree- ment, ordered the Communists to show further resistance and withdraw as best they could Russia.

int

to ta

The election of the Majlis. how- ever, did not take pince until July 10:47. When at last the timo came for Ghavam to submit the oil com-

Labour

point

View

ERNEST

THURTLE, M.P.

the day of ment to rule Persin liberation is at hand"), the tension is becoming less with every day that pany to the Mailis, he did so without E. British Council, that Husbe puts off his move.

Smiling ->

In fact, I have found the Persians provocatively cock-a-hoop because they look like getting away their double-cross.

J1

with

His name is Khusrov Ruste, and ke

Internationally is

famous throughout the Middle East as the Inventor of the opening move in chers called "Ruba's gambit."

Here

Teheran for the last ten

doing very in weeks men have been anxiously waiting for what they fear may be

Busbe's most historie ambit.

have

The board on which they been watching for his move is the big map of Northern Persin and the ndjolning Soviet provinces which hung in the high-walled room of the Persian Army's Chief of Staff, General Rasinar.

On it are stuck yellow pins show- Jug Soviet Army dispositions and green pins showing Persian forces.

For Rusbe is not only a chess player. He is also

(1) A fanallen And- ruthless

Cominunist;

(2) One of the most brilliant and

ous nificers produced coururegus by the Persian Army; and (3) The man believed to have ven picked by the Russians to lead the guerilin army of Pershus, Azerbaijants, and Kurds now being trained gether with Soviel Azerbal- Janks in the Chucasos,

Waiting

to-

For the last ten weeks the Persians have been expecting the Russians to

had

In the bazaars of Teheran. I found brisk trade in street-sellers doing songsheets scurrilously lampooning

Stalin.

Kir been promised marriage by # Stalin, as a filted waver who who wanted to be rid of him and, when he turned up before the priest for the ceremony, was told the wed-

because her use her

parents ding was off had refused their consent.

Not

office, anct

brut description, I must grant the unknown troubadour, of 1946 of Per- the diplomnes during

Ahmed sin's G8-your-old Premier,

n victim of Chavam-now himself the double-cross by his political friends, removed from taking a cure in Switzerland.

In March 1946 the Russians, re- fused to honour the agreement to Instead, they got evacuate Persia. up a Communist-controlled separatist in Azerbaijan and de- Government in

ended, as the price of the evneun- of their troops from Persia,

of recognition (1) The

this tha Persian by Government Government and (2) The grant of an oil concession in Northern Persia to a joint Soviet-Persion eumpany

the Persians were to which have 49 percent of the shares

the Russians 51 percent. , with Russian gans trolu Ghavam, et on the capitul, exchanged letters into Northern Persia and launch with Soviet envoy Sadchikov agree- there the same klud of insurrection

but to negothste

order Rusbe and his men to move

with the Azerbai-

as the Macedonian leader. General Janis and also to the establishment Markus. is leaching in Northern of a joint oil company. Greece,

Mr T. Cleverley Grampound, the

iş Overcote, of Sopping Mayor gnawing his heart out in silence.

They even feared that the Soviet but everybody knows he will ask Army Itself might sweep in to back Minste to be Miss Snock in

up Rusbe, and help him to sweep out great fish drive planned for next

the regime which was tricked has month. Meanwhile Hogwasch

Soviet Government with what of asked her to piny the Spirit

Persiana themselves claim Shepherds Pie in a powerful docu-centest double-cross since the Tro- mentary called "Nutrition Lady."

jan horse. Do I make myself clear?

Neicetrical engineer writes to A tell me that in my diagram of the automatle reversing drum for the electric boring mill, the circuit- He is clamps were upside down.

The star-wheel device for re-plate starters is so close to the

that the Igner gear holst drillers on the platen are only partly whelved. Hence the upside-down look of the

radial

a cream-clamps, each of i

a screw.

the the the

But so far there has been no migh of Rusbe or the Russians.

And although Soviet broadcasters' continue to bombard Persia with

Scheming

away with it It

T

much-criticised body, has just sent me its annual report.

urging the Majlis to accept it..

On October 22. rejected it.. It was a colossal siap in the face for the Soviet Government.

But I agree with Persian optimists The Council spends, about that they will get

reasonable care in their £3,000,000 a year in developing the take

closer cultural relations be- diplomatic handling.

So

int

the new 78-year-old tween Britain and other coun- Premier. Ibrahim Hakimi, has been tries.

well. He has refused

Undoubtedly the obiective is an-American offer of an £8,750,000 loan to help Persia buy Amerlenn war

a worthy one, though opinions material which undoubtedly would make the Soviets even more appre- differ widely as to whether, in

onsive

it, the Council gets they are than

already. seeking American

and military

police good value for the money it officers are now in Persia advising spends. the Persians how to run their army and gendarmerie

of a

third

I do not belleve the Soviets wiu enter Persia themselves; it is claim- el could under the 1921 Treaty,

they which gives them the right to cater Persia if the presence Power there the United States this case-prejudices their security. Nor will they order Rusbe and his men to move in,

well aware too

that They are either course would mean war in view of the strategie importance to the Americans and ourselves of the the Per- all wells In Persia and on san Gulf.

Exploiting ...

Into that dispute I do not wish to enter here, but I must take execption to the Council's declared view that "it is out of misunderstanding that

most international friction is generated."

In that stemment, tern of typical I British Rood nature, there lurks, that a dangerous fallacy.

*

DEALLY serious

*

international

friction is generated not by mis-

understanding, but

a elagh ot

confileting interests.

or ideologies

I believe the Soviets are

10 return likely more

to

much their

it you will.

to

11:14]

all

stmitar

very

It was that sort of lush which led

the Hitler wor', normal routine of trying to exploit clash is at present causing strained the administrative incompetence, in-

corruption of Persia's relations between Soviet Russia and Justice, and

poverty unhe Western Powers,

Itter understood us

right, ruling class, and the

were not misery of the masses.

and but his ideas and ours Trade union leader Rustan young intellectuala i met, engineers, the same.

Mr Molotov, as Sovlet Russia's doctors, journalists, civil servants

are full of spokesman, understands other Union leaders,

And well, but his ideas and ours of a energy and determination.

Just settlement of Europe are poles But seeing that, under Persian they all hook eastwards to Russia.

What worried me, was that there apart. Jaw the Government could not grant

Is something in their complaints concession without the approval

Britain and Autrica. of Parliament, Ghavam got the Rus- against

ternational affairs, to understand all sians to accept the following tricky think it is urgent that we make an its head the woolly idea that, in in- effort to explain our viewpoint to

is to forgive all. clouse:-

ari ethical forma them.

1s that Doubtless agreement for the

ideologies flon of the

we to. I am convinced that Irano-Soviet Oll Com- pany,

which will be concluded later Khosrov Rushe, with the head like concept, but

hokingly unethical. the can u on waiting in In accordance with the text of this Lenin,

Caucasus unt he is bluc in jetter,

shall be submitted for up-

mny face. we do not, he even have to play his gainbil. Permite stock of Chancellor Cripps is sla's chessmen will fall in his lap.

The

barrage of threats (latest example prval to the Malls (Parliament) from Baku: "The present Govern- after it has been elected and begun operations--not later ment is the last reactionary Govern- its legislative

BOOM TIME IN CANADA

I

TORONTO.

Yel Townrend pays 6s. 9d, an hour to

the not

It the British Council is to be of real service it must get out of

be

★

THE

If it slumps,

deceives

high at present.

it will not be because he

the people with false optimism,

Again he has sounded the warn- ing note.

been made, he

Progress has

agreed, but there was still a and hard road ahead.

Marshall aid was essential,

tong

but

$1 would fail in its purpose if it in our own led to any slackenbig

which is connected with

43 5. for furlined feathered plunger by a potentiometer, with Grayson single-phase, wrought brass

F you doubt that Canada is for carpenters, Es. for bricklayers, creations that would cost £0 fis. in safting followers, decked on pull-

I could find only one native East lever slotters

design,

werk-four times as much as we of pedestal

now in the midst of its big. He says, "That is more than 419 England. gest boom, talk to Lanen- got for building the Palladium at Yorker-John Barton, whose father efforts. ench eye-bolt heing dependent on a

bill a wooden house alongside what hearing brush, បទ in the Ward-shire-born Jack Townsend, 50- Darwen"

was a mu

a mud track 40 years ago. Leonard system of weir-type din-year-old foreman builder, who. pera on a fixed blow-out. Old days in Ahahaland

יתה

Bleak talk this, and yet I think our people prefer it to more cheer- It probably cost about £250, and ful language not justilled by the is manager, squat, clear-smoking have been bought for that hard ́facts." Jack Dunham, who runs the estate

At any rate, tribute is due to the flee. rets 60 enkers and 300 letters any time before the boom, but it

new stands between brick houses man who, in peace, like Churchill buy a and chromium shops.

during the war, has the courage to daily from people reeking houses.

Us For £1.875 they can

disagreeable "hard Syndientes have offered 20 times give Colonial style porched "bungalow" with five rooms on the ground floor the original price, but John is not heavy dings."

☆ statistics and four in the basement, garage selling. sard amylogement figures shew there and lawns. is a boom bigger than a gold rush or discovery of oil.

in three

years has helped to in the cabbage patches on he outskirts of Toronto into a as big as his native boomtown Darwen. dislikes Hank returns. exports.

IT is, the headman's task to dis- pense justice to the lubabitants of an Ahaha village. The plaintiff nu the defendant both state their cuse, and if the headman

one more than the other, he has hum killed. If he dislikes them both fitensely, he has them both killed. If he likes them both very much

two other

people killed. Theft is rare, as

is there worth stenting. If a taun is

he, has

11

is re

One of his rivals to J. G. Price. who finishes a hause, in a fortnight and can offer occupation in ten to 12 weeks.

£140.-

and

did

I

this convenience

⭑ Canada has a surplus of

did SHINWELL

not, 000,000 for the first seven months of MAR this financial rear, Big income-tax suspect, enter the War Ofice et are expected in the spring with any great enthusiasm. Nor

year's cuts, which the military bigwigs at that Depart- following this

with kim exactly welconie ment avorared 20 per cent.

There were 102,000 jobs going at hosannas.

workless.

How odd, therefore, the last returns and 92,000

Sixty thousand more were at worit marriage of political this month, giving a record total of shoukl develop into a love match! 5,000,000 workers, averaging 12.3 Yet the signs are not unpromis- What that means in the lives of

At another corner Gerry Darclay Tours Work 700 British mers in-bin ordinary people is best shown m

There are 800 what is happening in East York, as a petrol station. typient of any suburb on the out- petrol stations in Toronto-one for migrants found work in October.

750

national. skirts of any mafor Canadian city,

people. The Six-foot Townsend, who has still verse of une car for seven people

Lancashire accent of 24 years is much higher in boomtown. will tell

Barclay, who serve. 500 motorists

In East York Industriasta say there is not u single business not doing a binger to the crocodiles, his nearest rela-ohms of frade than ever and that wide- tive has the right to kill them, but echt prosperity

By JAMES COOPER sparent and permanent than la the they usually kill him, and the right heydays before the first world war. descends through the next of kin to the most distant causin, and even lo aunts, when all the male relatives have disappeared. Hence the Ahaha proverb: It's a wire aunt who knows

The own ecrocolie

"Go on, Spike, you da ic; you'd be the crook of the

#north

NANCY

the Lis

BRO, Wii

overy

radius from the corner of O'Connor- week.

4s. an hour. a week at

Dividends up

Canadian

loping

The new Minister is deve-

keen interest In the varied problems of his office, and looking into things for himself.

If they have just grievances, both conomicers and men can look to him

LY

was

old

when

Dividendis from

for totalled £3,800,000 anles

be made as a champlon not to £2,000,- November, compared with you that in three years

fittery by the frowns of the Trea- each £10 000 in 1910 and £1,600,000 in 1945. a circle three-quarters of a mile in a day, pays ax men

n the summer he has had

Farmers in three prairie provinces sury or other Departments.

murt- In a troopship recently, he rreted with cries of

Good have repaid £3.500.000 in

of Average

£150 21 gates. on Because of competition frons mortgage.

and fewer The day may yet dawn stations 100 yards on either side,

Despite bad weather motorist Kets windscreens crops increased prices have raised officers and men alike will unite

in singing "Oh, what a every ૧૫: yel and oil. weched while the tanks are filled.

water, and tyres farm Income by 16.5 per cent.

East-coast fishermen are having: Manny." war bride

Mrs their best season for 40 years with ashing fleet, catching who. it Jacqueline the sardine

drive ami Donlands-road that once 100 customers an hour. heid a handful of market gardeners has muchrooned into a cotatmunity nl 35,000.

Lustcenter Is

build Tomluron,

this

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pal way

Where Joe Paston hoed entonces 18 months ago they are building to day two rival grocery shops facing t diagonally across cross-ronds.

Free enterprise is racing! to

40 right. of Salisbury-rond, Bromley, 1,000,000 In a day-nn all-time re 2-storey buildings, ench about

One crew of three men soldOMINFORM orders the attack the Kent, married a Canadian soldier.

on all fronts. The British Com- by

for season yards

17 yards, under scheduled 90

Today in one She opened a milliner's some days 2,500 hogshend

munist Party Balutes and obeys. (11) 5.

of the Hence the appearance 31- The Bank of Nova Scotla Inch of snow and nine degrees or ago and pays £o 4, a week for a £9.375. frost. men are laying bricks along me-room shuji,

nounces today a prout of £500,000, Communst candidate at the Wigan skle smudge pots-outdoor oilstoves

then last year. by-election. She was told that this was the £125,000 higher

It may that prevent mortar from freezing.

Inbour is not perturbed. Imperial

Dank profil of to open, as Canadian The wrong time

shrug its shoulders at the, docility £19 a week

women now need hoods, not hats, £300,000 was up by £35,000.

paid of British Communists before their have But in the

Mining companies Fifty yards

away Townsend in for fur winter, pervising the building of a week she made a small profit, and £450,000 this year compared with foreign masters, but it knows their candidate will be put in his proper unant-senler elnema; This should in the second week had cleared £300,000 in 1940.

Newsprint is expected to reach a place by the Wigan electors.

that have been built in five months, but overheads by the Wednesday...

Inore than this year of

And better the open enemy there are not enough men for the the rest of the week was clear record

the treacherous friend: Jons.

proft from being hate that ranged. 4,000,000 tons.

Tied Up for the Moment

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HIM

DON'T YOU DARE

I WANT YOU TO GO OVER AND INTRODUCE YOURSELF LIKE A GENTLEMAN

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