OIL CONCESSION

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25343, 26 October 1945, Page 7

OIL CONCESSION

AMERICAN COMPANY RIGHTS IN PALESTINE BIG FUTURE FOR HAIFA (Reed. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 25 American oil interests will receive an important concession in November when the High Commissioner for Palestine, Viscount Gort, will authorise the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company "to transport oil across Palestine and ship it," says the Jerusalem correspondent of the Daily Express. The company intends to build a 1200-mile 24in pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.

The Hritish-Ainerican pil pact gives equal facilities for British and American oil interests in the Middle East. The Colonial Office has sanctioned the concession to the Americans for the Palestine section and the right of shipment from Haifa. The trans-Arabian pipeline will have the capacity of 300,0 CX) barrels a day. Although British interests are not directly concerned with the transArabian pipeline, its Palestine terminal will make the British-controlled port of Haif?t one of the world's greatest oil ports. IMMIGRATION ISSUE AMERICAN ATTITUDE MUST OPEN PALESTINE (Recti. 7.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. v>s Four members of the United States,. Congress have issued a statement demanding that the United States take immediate and appropriate action on the issue of free immigration to Palestine, asserting that the "United States cannot afford to he a party to brutal unilateral breaches of faith and violation of solemn obligations." Senators Charles Tobev and Francis Myers and Messrs. Andrew Somers and Bertram! Gearhart also announced that they were members of an unofficial delegation that was going to Jxmdon soon to present their views to Mr Attlee. They were sponsors of a joint resolution before Congress urging the immediate reopening of Palestine to immigration and the ultimate establishment of Palestine as "a free independent and democratic State." It is learned from a Jewish source that 170 illegal Jewish immigrants landed safely on Monday somewhere on the Palestine coast, says the Associated

Press correspondent in Jerusalem, i While rowing-boats carried out the disembarkation from a schooner which brought the immigrants from Italy, armed members of the Jewish selfdefence organisation (Haganah) stood : guard. ! POLICE PROTECTION I ACTION WHEN ATTACKED LONDON, Oct. '24 Earl Winterton (Conservative, Hor- ; sham), stated in the House of Comj mons that he had received a letter from a number of British members of the ! Palestine police force stating that they were prevented from using lethal ! weapons when their lives were in danger from murderous attacks bv Jews. The Colonial Secretary, Mr G. H. Hall, denied that an order had been issued forbidding the use of arms. He said the police had been instructed to use great care and forbearance, but that did not- extend to returning fire if they were attacked. He promised to take up the allegations in a letter to Karl Winterton and also with Lord Gort. HOMES FOUND FOR JEWS FRANKFURT GERMANS MOVED FRANKFURT, Oct. 'M United States headquarters have announced the requisitioning of 125 houses for 1000 Jewish displaced persons. The Germans have been given three days to | get out. . J The order is in accordance with General Eisenhower's instruction that the standard of living for displaced persons should equal or be superior to that of the surrounding German population. This is being _ accomplished in Frankfurt, in spite of the acute housing shortage. Non-Nazis among the Germans forced to leave their homes will be housed in dwellings formerly occupied by known active Nazis. ROYAL GODPARENTS LONDON, Oct. 24 The King is godfather and Princess Elizabeth godmother to the three-months-old Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, who was christened in Westminster Abbey according to Orthodox rites. The Crown Prince is named Alexander after his grandfather, who was assassinated, #