FIGHTING IN PERSIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 September 1946, Page 5

FIGHTING IN PERSIA

REBELS AND GOVERNMENT FORCES (Rec. 3.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 22. Heavy fighting is reported in South Persia between Government forces and a strong force of rebel tribesmen, says the Daily Telegraph’s Teheran correspondent. The Government is sending heavy reinforcements of motorised troops to Shiraz and Isfahan. The tribesmen gained control of some of the suburbs of Shiraz and some of the district military posts. Tribesmen in the central Persian gulf town of Ganaveh cut the communications between Teheran and Bushire and are approaching Isfahan. The Government also faces a menace in the north. Democrat troops have been reinforced along the Azerbaijan border and are in a position to threaten the depleted garrison of Teheran. Negotations between Persia and Azerbaijan again resulted in a deadlock, says Reuter’s Teheran corres-pondent.--The Persian military mission which/was sent to take over Zenjan from the Azerbaijan Democratic Party was halted at Khazvin, and is still there. The Democratics refuse to give up Zenjan. FRANCE FACES GENERAL ' STANDSTILL (Rec. 3.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 22. As a result of the spreading strikes France faces a threat of a general standstill, says the Daily Mail’s Paris correspondent. Squads of gendarmes have been transported to the FrenchBegian frontier to check the wave of smuggling, which the strike of customs officials made possible. _ . French buyers invaded Belgian village shops all the week-end, bartering for dutiable Belgian goods with scent and cameras, which are scarce in Belgium. GREAT MARITIME STRIKE ENDED (Rec. 3.5 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22. The Firemen’s, Cooks’ and Stewards’ Union voted to return to work on the same conditions as the A.F.L. maritime unions, thus ending the C. 1.0. portion of America’s greatest maritime strike. However, the leader of the A.F.L. Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, Mr. Harry Lundeberg, said he was not ordering the A.F.L. sailors to resume work until the Masters’, Mates’ and Pilots’ Unions were “satisfied.”