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August 26, 1941.]
RUSSIA MAKES CLEAR TO IRAN WHY INVASION BECAME A NECESSITY
LONDON, Aug. 25 (Reuter).-News of the Soviet and British decision to deal effectively with the danger which the situation in Iran presented to both Powers in their struggle against Germany was announced on the radio in "fullest detail to the Soviet people.
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It does not come as any surprise to informed observers. The measured terms of the Soviet Note handed to the Iranian Ambassador speak for themselves. They make clear. that there is no question of any aggression by the Soviet which is acting entirely in self-defence in sending, troops into Iran and bases the action on a clause in the Soviet-Iranian Treaty.
formerly exploited by
the Tenrist Government.
The Iranian Government had ports and various establishments been given three separate warn-which were
attitude ings regarding the which the Soviet Government' would be obliged to take in view of the continued activity in Iran of German agents,
Flow of Agents
the also
Friendly Intentions Further treaties between Soviet Government and Tran give proof of the constant friendly intentions
of the US.S.R. towards Iran,
During recent
Soviet years, the Government took steps to consolidate From the early part of last year, and develop the economie welfare of there was a stendy flow of these tran. Nevertheless, even in the fo agents through
and dumental treaty of 1921, It had been Turkey on their way to Iran and in foreseen that difficulties might arise in
it it beenbe recent month
In-view of the possibility that Iranian might be exploited by creasingly clear that these agents territory bave obinined considerable influener enemy elements against the U.S.S.. through the commercial enterprises jund Iran Itself, thus using Irno ter they are running or are helping
run,
The
Balkans
It is felt here that no such situation; could be allowed to brew in Iran as won produced in iraq,
PROVIDING
SUPPLY LINES
Through Iran To Russia
(BY "REUTER'O" MILITARY V,
CORRESPONDENT) LONDON, Aug. 25 (Reuter). Fritory as a base for aggression against-The immediate consequences of the British advance through Saboteurs Agents of German Fasrisin (Here Iran will be to ensure close co- The Note gives the mana uf the operation between Russia and
The USSR.
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agent and the commercial firms by | Britału in an extension of the REACTIONS
which they fire employed! have war front, and one which is The Soviet and British dreksion! nips in the bar any suela possibilty, are the But in their subversive
At the same time, the terms of tetivities is attempting to introduce geographically not dieult to Soviet Note make it very clear that into the Soviet provinces of Azeriai-
With British controls stretch- territorial and the nil restin of the Baitu
groups of salvoleurs aut terrorists, ing eastward without saying
the Soviet Union has no desigua on Iran.
were
maintain.
TO SPEECH
Rejected
Oh the other hand their activities that a continuous front with the Churchill's Accusations
zela directal et engineering a The fact that the British and Sovjet
With Russians will soon be establish- Governments are acting in concert military cup in Iran itself. will be welcomed here as further the arrival in Teheran from Iraq of ed in Iran, and so on into the practical proof of their determina- the Chief of the German Secret Ser-Caucasus-the front which will tion to act jointly in crushing Hitler's vice la fran. Comet and his assist support and strengthen Turkey ant "Mayer, and with the close plazan.
Nazi Threats. and Concesions Made
en-opevation of the German Embassy against ni Teh
Teheran, armed groups
were aggression.
Mortover, behind this new front MOSCOW, Aug. 25 (Reuter).-The formed in the frontier region with a Soviet note to the Iranian Ambassa-view to organising sabotage activities will le secure supply lines up the dor stated that all the privileges ex-in the Baku region and other dis-Red Sea and up the Persian Gulf vin Baghdad and Mosul to Turkey, tended to Russians on Iranian soil irlets. which were humiliating to Iranian German agents at various points and also into the Chuensus und south sovereignty were abrogated. Various in territory have established Russia from Basrah, Bushire and Russian enterprises in Iran were to dumps of arms and ammunitions es-Bandarappan, through Tehernt and
Taur be handed over to the Iranian Gov-peelally in the northern provinces. ernment,
By the Treaty of February 20, 1021, the Soviel Government returned to Iran the Islands along the coast of the Astrabatsk and Gorndatsk pro- vinces of Iran, and also, rallways,
Military Instruction
Nazi Intentions
If Iran had been left under Nazi
been cut.
and agents
HITLERIAN STRATEGY IN EAST
From Caucasus To Iran
LONDON, Aug. 25 (Reuter). -Hitler's strategy in the east is no secret, involving as it does a drive through the Cascasus to Tran through Afghanistan and then.on to India, it is declared in London.
It is held that Nazi prepara- tion for the occupation of Iran is identical with that of all other countrles ear-marked for Ger-
man development.
It is known that at the German Legation at Teheran, the Iranian capital, there is installed the usual corps of so-called attaches and ex- perts who are immensely busy--this time with the task of shr in- dustrialisation
2123 essentially agrarian country,
of
Iran was also the refuge of Raschid Ali following the ll-fated Iraql revolt and although he has now hit Irun, another dangerous personality remains: the Mufti of Jerusalem→→ that nee provoker of Palestine strife also travelled to Teheran and st finds sanctuary there.
Baku Oil Fields
Iran was selected by Hitler as a country which could be exploited. TOKYO, Aug. 25 (Reuter). These provinces would be of im- mense strategleat value in preparing Although obviously it is not all-an erivance into the rich nounced yet, authoritative Jap-felds and later his armies would
the groundwork anese sources here have rejected beneilt from Mr Churchill's accusations say-
compilshed by resident Nazi-Iranian representatives in any drive on Indin. ing. "Menacing whom? Japan is not menacing anybody, Japan has not menaced anything."
The offeinl Japanese reaction is not Ikely to be received at least until the text of the message is fully re- ceived. It has been reported only sketchlly so far.
This is the background of Iran, whose 15,000,000 people live in ats area three imes the size of France, a country whose climate is arid or
and
whose mouninin scini-arid ranges and deserts for Its main defence.
Iran has in the past been con- By this the Soviet Government In the neighbourhood of Minneh
wext, Mr Churchill's references to thequered from the
cast and proved the Iranian people their they had prepared over 50 tops of Influence all these supply Ines readiness to assist in the develop explosives. In the Teheran district would have been endangered and depredations of the Japanese military south, and in those times the in- ment and prosperity of Iran.
they gave military instruction to
to-day's Nazis for Iran's 00,000,000 attempt to disintegrate Japanese German residents to further their possibly before long would have faction are labelled, "Just another Vaders were not as desperate as are criminal intentions.
unity which is wholly impossible, barrels of oil which her wells pro The Nazi "tourists"
duce annually. Fifty-six German secrei service- who had over-run Iran would have dopan's actions are said to be based
Development by the Anglo-Irantan men have penetra
function for upon a solidly based national policy. Oil Company of the country's oil penetrated into a number curried out the same of big industrie the activities of the against the British Empire na hi concerns. Especial-Hitler's strategy in Russia and
resources has to-day made it ly dangerous are Krupp's agent, spy, Ariel.
parachutist and air-borne
No. 3 oil producer in the world. troopy Von Radunovich, Director of the have managed in ather thentres of German firm of Siemen's, is another war. notorious German spy, and likewise Their elimination if not their his assistant Wolff.
extermination was a vital necessity These German ngents are tram- and was one which could no longer
on the elementary rights of the be delayed.
These vital lines of supply through Tranions and with complete dis- regard of Iranian sovereigntyre the Red Sea and the Persian Gult preparing Iranian territory as a base lead back to supplies not only from for aggression against the USSR. India but also from Australia, the,
Three. Warnings
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In a word a direct link will soon pisive danger and it Imposes upon be established with the U.S.S.R. the necessity of taking allies, and that material assistance all mearures for their own security which the Russians require con now measures which it is not only their be reasonably guaranteed. right but also their duty to take for their self-defence in strict accord- ance with the Treaty of 1921.
Since German aggression on the U.S.S.R., the Soviet Government hos thrice given warning to the Iranian Government, June 26, July 19 and August 10, regarding the dangers i represented by the subversive and diversionist activities
German of agents and sples.
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SUCCESS CLAIMED
To Alienate Thailand TOKYO, Aug 25 (Reuter), Mr Churchill's speech is designed to alienate Thailand from Japan says the "Kokumin Shimbun."
The early morning papers generally follow the first reaction.
Mr Churchill is "devoid of time and sense because the ana ce and preceded the European war therefore Japan cannot be imitating
"Kokumin Hitler" adds,
The China reconstruction and the co-operative Indo-China-advance was.
Shimbun"
the
Doughty Fighters Although the Feralans are doughly their traditional courage with which Bghters they have to-day Bittle but
to oppose any panzer drive. The
Army is Iranian
around 100,000 strong and has an air force of about planes, mostly of an antiquated design. There are
ut Jeast one dozen air bases established and the construction of landing grounds. country is in general suitable for the
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by Vichy whereas it is Britain who the Russian agreed upon freely and peacefully carryine y navy concentrates on"i
out patrols in the Persian is bearing pressure on South Asia,
Lying as it does midway between adds the
paper. Official circles deny knowledge of become the centre of conjecture in the Soviet Union and India, Iran has the Japanese-American basle negotia- which only one thing is certain-- tions which are hinted at by Mr the Germans' determination to ex- Churchill although reports from Ad-ploit Iran's strategical situation and miral Nomura, Japanese Ambassador, her great natural resources. to Washington, have not been receiv- ed recently,
House-Breaker,
Gaol-Breaker Captured
Mr Hull Silent WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UP)-- LONDON. Aug 35 (Reuter). At the press conference to-day Mr Stanley Thurston, the escaped convict
Successful Espionage
German agents in Iran have been
generously supplied with Reichsbank Cordell Bull, Secretary of Stale, de- guld and their tasks of explonage and Churchill's remarks
upon Mr Corruption have met with some sue-
can hold." was arrested in London known as the "man whom ne gaol clined to cominent arding Japan-cess. There has been extensive Nuzl |to-day after 152 days' liberty, ese-United States negotiations, but infiltration and there is sound reason He had no identity card, no ration said that informal talks are proceed for assuming that their activities have book and to gas mask.
ing which do not change the 1937 met with considerable БИСССИЯ Thurston, who is 31 years of use, viewncint when it was announced amongst the officers and ranks of the escaped from the grim high-walled that the United States insisted on the Iranian Army. This is
is an achieve- prison of Dartmoor on March 23. respect of treaties and the maintenment which has gratifled Hitler. He was serving a sentence of five ance of International law by treaty last 20 years has been almost en- tran, whose development in the years' penal servitude and five years ful methods instead of forceful treaty as preventive detention passed In revisions.
tirely due to British aid, as the bulk August 1930 for house-breaking, He said that last Saturday's talk of her revenue comes from the per SHANGHAI, Aug. 25 (UP), ceny and being a habitual crimin with Admiral Nomura, the Japanese centage payment on her oil produc-
Ambassador, Japanese sources to-day saidi
was typical of the tlon, has been given every. op. Dartmoor is the fifth prison from method under which the negotiations portunity to rid herself of German that the Japanese army has sur-which he has escaped.
are being conducted,
infiltration but has failed to do so. rounded 5,000 Red army troops
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in the Wowshan mountains the border between Hopei and Shansi, after which they launch- ed an annihilating offensive.
Throughout the week thers ኬir been a Japanese offensive in the Chahar, Shansi and Hopet border re- glon against 40,000 Chinese troops in the first major offensive since the ap pointment of General Yasuji Ckamura na Commander in Chief of the Japanese forces in north Ching replacing General Toda,
High Cost Of Living
More Evidence Given Another meeting of the High Cost | of Living Committee was held in the Chambers of Mr Justice P. E. F. Cressall, the Chalmann IKL thio Supreme Court yesterday, when the following members of the Govern ment Service gave evidence. Mr Tam Kan-waland Mr Chan Tso- cheng both of the Labour Office; Mr Ho Chok-nem, Import and Export Department; Mr D. W. Luke, Public Works Department; Mr Chnu Tal,
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Medical Department; Inspectors Jen Brigade; Nurse A. Locock,
Yu and Wong Kim, Hongkong Police; and two police constables, one from this: Welhalwe! contingent, and one Contonerò.
After evidence had been given, the Committee ndjourned until next Thursday, when they will meet to consider the report
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