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Zurich Herald, 1946-08-29, Page 6JUST WHAT F -IE NEEDED King George receives 36 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 Family. RIGHT IN DER FUEHRER'S FACE! These German women are lau;hing 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 Th s 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 STRIKES Kir k Tripoli Mediterranean Sea Haifa _ ( i itl Petroletiln (British, pmerlcan / French 11< DUtch) Y°�'`&j Prtoduoes 90,000'+ bairnels daily - y 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 Port Qi Alexandria Said •. c .t•- 'TRANS tiOiladPyj mCaKra • CO V'f 4 • ,(eNi Kuwait Oil Co �` . ~''`is �rir 1A1116110.111-Britt§it) 4 Red Sea Persian Guff hS1a1iidardOil b(Califprnia.add th'e Texas Co. prodltoes•35,(Oi) .baf`itt§ daily.. - A`r ......Oil Fields 0. ---Refineries :1:=C. .... -Refineries . Existing Pipeline bomestic unrest in frau, highiigliteil by two strilsas of 50,000 workers which paralyzed vital British - held oil fields for weeks, may compel Great Britain to move armed forces into Iran. The British government awns over half of the Anglo -Iranian Oil Company, whose Khuzistan wells are the largest in the Middle Est, producing 17,000,000 tans in 1945. Iran has protested recent dispatch of British troops from India to southern Iraq and hat cion:: idol withdrawal of British forces now tan- centrated on Iran -Iraq border. ig lig s 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 Finnishdelegation 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 "decent 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 from 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. 'y Jet Plane in Test Flight Squadron Leader W. A, Water- son, Canadian -born member 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. 026 miles per hour. Communists in China Mobilize Yellen called the 130,000,000 Chinese in Communist -dominated areas to plass 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 Communist population was being mobilized. The Communists are said to have 1,200,000 regulars and more than 2,000,000 guerrilla fighters under arms. They control small sections of southern and eastern China, thousands of 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 ] 'ational 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 THAT'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 5,000 other work.- ers would oin the walkout in sup- port of the maor issue, a shortened work week, Lake Walkout Likely The Canadian Seamen's (Jnion 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 looting, arson and murder during which between 2,000 and 3,000 persons were killed. 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