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.
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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-
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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.
London tool: the view that these
grave disturbances would not be
likely to upset the efforts to form a
new interim Government in India,
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