THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 1, 1941.
Russians Uncover Evidence Of Nazi Intrigue
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent)-
WHEN INDIAN TROOPS MARCHED INTO THE SOUTHERN TOWN OF AHWAZ IMMEDI- ATELY FOLLOWING IRAN'S DECISION TO CEASE FIRE, IRANIAN SOLDIERS STOOD STIFFLY AT THE SALUTE WHILE THE POPU- LATION RAN ALONGSIDE THE INDIAN TROOPS CLAPPING AND CHEERING.
When Iranian resistance ceased the In- dians were eight miles from the town. Royal Air Force 'planes droned constantly overhead supporting their advance.
ITALIAN CONCENTRATIONS REPORTED
was
Prominence given in the Soviet press yesterday to ດ report, datelined Geneva, stating that according to informa- tion received there, Italian troops are being concentrated on the Greco - Turkish and Bulgaro-Turkish frontiers.--Reuter.
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GREATEST SALVO IN HISTORY
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Suddenly a high-powered car bearing a large white flag drove swiftly up from the direction of Ahwaz and from it stepped a high Iranian officer in full war kit.
After saluting, he asked in per- fect English to see the British Commanding Offeer. "I have orders direct from the Shah to ask for an armistice," he told the British Commander. "Our troops have already received the order to cease fire."
While the Indian troops re- mained vigilant, standing in fir- ing position, the British Com- mander with his chiefs of staff drove into Ahwaz where they were received with a salute of rolling drums and a guard of
honour.
Hostages Freed
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BIRMINGHAM DAMAGE
It can now be dis- closed that in recent air attacks
on Bir- mingham many well- known business pre- mises in the city were destroyed or badly damaged.
The civil popula- tion also suffered heavy casualties, ! three suburbs, Aston, Harbourne and Ste- chford, being consi- derably affected.
PURGE IN
THE NAZI
PARTY
Reliable information from Germany leaves no The Iranian General, Mohamed doubt that there is grave Shah Bakhti, then formally sur-
disunity within the Nazi rendered his forces. Pending set- tlement of the armistice terms it party and between the was decided on the spot tha* firstly the Indian troops should party and the army lead- enter the town, remaining on one ers, with neither side dar- 04 bank of the River Karun, while
to ing to express openly the the Iranian troops returned their barracks, secondly that points in dispute, accord- British hostages, mostly oilmen, should be released immediately, ing to an article in "The and thirdly, that Iranian prison- Daily Telegraph
North
ers should be returned.
Shortly after noon, the Indian Morning Post."
and
forces entered the town.. Line A widespread purge is now tak- upon line of armoured fighting ing place in the Nazi party and vehicles, lorries and trucks it has thus jar affected chiefly men packed with
and in the middle and lower grades Infantry motor-cyclista crossed the of the Nazi hierarchy, making it tell where the "big bridge over the Karun Into the difficult to
men" stund or whether they are concerned at all.
town.
is in north-west Iran on the main
Resht is about 20 miles south-
The split is said to cut deeper Into the Nazi regime and to be a more serious matter for Hitler than any clashes with ambitious individuals among the party
leaders.
The present internal dissension had its origin in the Russian war. Hitler is having trouble with men who from the start were against the Soviet war, or blame each other for its lack of success, or are discouraged and flagging, in their support of the party.
Soviet Progress The greatest single
Meanwhile, Zenjan, which the salvo in history was fired Soviet troops have now reached, during structural firing road to Teheran, about half-way tests on the new American between Tabriz and the capital, it was learned in Moscow yes- dreadnought
terday. Carolina" yesterday.
Nine 16-inch gun and 10 5-inch east of the Caspian port of Pahlevi guns were Ared simultaneously. which also has been entered and On the basis of achievement the which is the starting point of the ship was declared ready for
motor road leading to Teheran. battle service assigned it.
For a large part of the way
Recent rumours of a quarrel Her sister-ship, the "Wash-this road is a series of narrow between Hitler and Reich Mar- Ington," is to make a similar test bends round precipitous hillsides shal Hermann Wilhelm Goering
and long stretches have simply Three American and two Axis been blasted out of the rock. An
driver over-erithusiastic battleships have 16-inch guns. The
could easily send his car hurtling. over guns hurl armour-piercing pro- jectiles weighing more than a ton 1,000-foot drops. 25 miles. - International News Service.
shortly.
V
TOBRUK
any
show with
were doubtless based on the pre- sent purge, but there is no means of checking their truth, according to the article.
If differences
exist between
Der Fuehrer and his chief han- German Agents
chmen they probably "are due Reports from Tabriz
to army interests being involved. AMONG VICTIMS OF THE that from conversation the population in a number of PURGE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OFFICERS AND villages. In northern Iran It is OF JUNIOR learned that German agents NON-COMMISSIONED OFFI- had been feverishly busy In CERS CONDEMNED BY THE those regions especially since PARTY AS BAD NAZIS, BUT the outbreak of the fighting on DEFENDED BY THE ARMY AS
GOOD SOLDIERS. the eastern front The agents told the villagers Yesterday's Cairo G.H.Q. com that the Germans had already munique reported that Tobruk area one of our patrols occupied a number of points in Trans-Caucasia and also 'did
ACTIVITY
In the
attacked an enemy past with the
bayonet; infiloting casualties/... everything possible to work up
In the frontier area there was some exchange of artillery fire Reuter
GAYDA COUNTING
feeling against the Soviet Union.
Port officials in Pahlevi inform-:
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DISCLOSURE
During, the day there was a fair amount of enemy shell fire. One enemy air raid resulted in ed the Soviet troops that the Ger
man agents had established no change.
number of espionage nests and
ofa (SPECIAL TO "CHINA "MAIL"]" were using trade marks commercial firm and had brought The Federal Bureau of Investi- in many arms and explosives. gation in Washington yesterday The German agents also open. disclosed that the fingerprints of ly sought confidential Informa- Samuel Titlebaum, former U.S. tion and chowed the greatest Deputy Marshal in Shanghai, Interest in the strength of the now falled on an embezzlement Boviet Caspian Fleet. H charge, correspond with those of The reports add that many in- Sam Hendrikson, convleted · of terviewed Iranians state: "None grund larceny in New York in Virginia Gayda, writing in of us doubt that the Soviet Un- 1929 and a fugitive from justice Giornale d'Italia yesterday, ion, which does not break its since 1932; sold that after the Axis pustics engagements, will on this occa- Titlebaum Is charged in Shang- Russia to the Urals, the Anglo-slon fulfil its pledge to withdraw hal with the theft of guns and Saxons and Asiatics can worry the troops: from iran when the ammunition, property of the U.S. about Bolshevism."International danger arising from German ace Court. International News Ser-
News Service..
tivity has passed." —Router [vice.
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