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Home My WebLink AboutThe Seaforth News, 1946-08-29, Page 6JUST WHAT HE NEEDED King George receives 38 horses from Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands at Buckingham Palace in London. Thirty of the steeds are black and destined for the household cavalry, crack regiment which supplies escorts for the Royal Fainly.. RIGHT IN DER FUEHRER'S FACE! These German women are laughing fit to kill—at none other than Charlie Chaplin burlesqueing their _ once -loved Adolf Hitler. The Chaplin film, "The Great Dictator,' was recently sprung by surprise on an audience of some 400 Berliners, who thought they were going to see "Kitty Foyle." Experiment was conducted by the information control division of American Military Government. NEW HOMES FOR SWEDEN'S FARMERS This scale model represents the type of home the Swedish farm worker will live in shortly. It was exhibited at the Swedish Agricultural Exhibition in Stockholm. Sweden is making strenuous efforts to overcome the housing shortage. BRITISH SET TO ACT OVER IRANIAN OIL FIELD STRIDES TURKEY SYRIA Tripoli/ Mediterranean ® Sea Haifal 00. eaamascus/� ,� n/ /' ✓ ' t Alexandria Scr E5T1NIETRANS '': ./5 Sae- II0RDAN Cairo, i �,; Kirkul Oaghdnd IRS, 9raq Petroleum Kre ;Ng ntiohsh &A: Amerinutch) an ; rPoduces 90,000 barrels daily 4,6 is Ajnerlcari-Arabian .(Amerioan) SAI Ku q CQ /" 4n Pq Kuwait ti/ lCuwaitsOii. Co • �rris g v (American -British) Britain shifts troops in Iraq to Iran border, warns it will move into Iran without consulting UN if British interests or lives are thought endangered SYPT' t Oil Fields -- Refineries •-•• Existing Pipelines Red Sea *Mediae Sttiltdard Od of er:6ifernia and' tlye Texas'Co produb'es35,000 tbarPers daily T RUC( AL *Mecca A R A OMAN 4g4 Domestic unrest in Iran, highlighted by two stilt m of 50,000 workers which paralyzed vital British - held oil fields for weeks, may compel Great Eri'ain to move armed forces into Iran. The British government owns over half of the Anglo-Trania•r Oil Company, whose Khuzistan wells are the largest in the T9idrle tact, producing 17,000 000 tans in 1045. Iran has protested recent dispatch of Eritiah troops from India to sout;tern Iraq and h's den;r nded withdrawal of British forces now con- centrated on Iran -Iraq border, Highlights of the News Paris Peace Conference Italy ,will ask the Conference of Paris for the right to help draw the peace treaties for Austria, ,Ger- many and Japan. The Finnish delegation was ejected from the commission and was told former enemies must pre - .sent their views in writing, unless, invited to appear. Prime Minister Ping, of Canada warned, the Conference to stop "wasting vital time" and prepare "deeent•instruments of peace with- out endangering the ' future by futile discussions." Washington has prepared a note .to Moscow rejecting Russia's pro- posal for joint Soviet -Turkish con- trol of the Dardanelles and offering for the first time to participate In the defense of the Straits. War of Nerves , An American transport plane, the second within ten days, was fired upon and forced down near the Yugoslav border while on a regular flight to Udine, Italy, The last word frons the airplane report- ed that it was a target for aircraft and anti-aircraft missiles about half way between Udine and Klagen- furt, Austria. The seriousness of relations with Yugoslavia was emphasized in the release by Washington and London of notes strongly rejecting Bel- grade's account of clashes between Yugoslav and Allied forces in Venezia Giulia. The United States charged Yugoslavia with conduct- ing a war of nerves against the British and Americans and accused Marshal Tito personally of making unfounded charges. Jet Plane in Test Flight Sgnadron Leader W. A. Water- son, Canadian -born `tnen bet of the British Royal Air Force, achieved a "true" air speed of 020 miles per hour in a test flight of the second "Star" meteor yet plane in England last week. On a similar test flight Aug. 14 Group Capt. Donaldson, Commander of the Royal Air Force high speed flight, reached 626 miles per -hour. Communists in China Mobilize Yenan called the 130,000,000 Chinese 'in Communist -dominated areas, to mass mobilization for full- scale civil war against the Chiang Kai-shek Government. It was emphasized that not only troops but also all of China's 130,- 000,000 Communistpopulation was being mobilized. The Communists are said to have 1,200,000regulars and more than 2,000,000 guerrilla fighters under arms. They control small sections of southern and eastern China, thousandsof square miles in western, central and north China and . all of northern 'Manchuria. There also are strong Communist forces along the eastern seaboard. U.S. Seamen Strike ,The National Maritime Union (C.I.O.) threw picket lines around maor United States ports on the Great Lakes, calling upon all sea- men to oin a strike aimed at tying up the American side of the lake shipping industry and .halting the flow of iron ore, coal, grain and oil. Union President Joseph Curran, estimated the union's lake strength at 4,500 and strike headquarters Ti-IAT'S NO BUOY, BOY! This life guard keeps a wary eye on an old Navy mine that washed ashore on Coney Island beach near New York City. Bathers thought at first it was an old buoy, but Navy experts took one look, said it was a mine of the type used in. New York harbor in 1941, and ordered it towed to sea and destroyed. predicted 4,000 to 6,000 other work- ers would oin ,the walkout in" sup- port of the inzaor issue, a shortened work weds, Lake Walkout Likely. The' Canadian Seamen's Union charged that the lake shipowners appeared to be hedging in regard to settling the three -month-old dis- pute with the labor organization and indicated the possibility of a new seamen's strike unless the Federal Government takes steps,to have an agreement' signed without delay. • Calcutta Riots Rioting in Calcutta subsided after four days of lootitng,. arson and murder during which. between 2,000 and. 3,000 persons were killed. London took, the view that these grave disturbances would not be likely to upset the efforts to form a new interim Government in India. THERE'S A SURPRISE awaiting you if you haven't yet tried delicious Maxwell House Coffee. It's "Radi- ant -Roasted" $tadi-ant-Roasted" to develop all the extra• flavor in the superb Maxwell House blend. MACHiNER Y NEW AND USED Of Every Description Phone EL 1271 H. W. PETRIE CO. LTD 147. Prost St W. — '1Yrruntu '"Wrc fitly a sr:r,L' -terzrzaa-tal, ow , !MACDONALDS D'J'EVER? 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