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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 12, 1941,

250 GERMANS IN IRAN SURRENDERED TO ALLIES

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent in Iran)

THE FIRST BATCH OF 250 GERMANS TO❘ BE SURRENDERED TO BRITAIN AND RUSSIA UNDER THE TERMS ANNOUNCED ON WED- NESDAY IS EXPECTED TO LEAVE TEHERAN IN HEAVILY GUARDED TRAINS THIS MORN- ING.

Belgian

Valour

The authentic story of how the Belgian Army fought desperately to the last of its reserves to help save the British Army at Durkirk, was told yester- day for the first time in the official account of what happen- ed in 1939 to 1940."

Two hundred Germans who were handed"Belgium over to the British authorities will be taken to a concentration camp at Ahwaz, southern Iran.

The remaining 50, comprising WAR MUST

Germans for whom the Russians have specially asked, will go to Kasvin, nearest Russian-occupied point to Teheran.

Each day after Friday a fur ther batch of Germans will be sent to Ahwaz until all aré rounded up and they will then be shipped to India.

Germans with diplomatic immunity numbering 14 Nazis with several wives and children- as well as accredited members of the Italian, Hungarian and Ru- manian Legations will probably motor to Khanaqin, on the Iraq frontier, and thence proceed by rail through Baghdad and Turkey to their own countries.

All Not In

These decisions were taken yes- terday at a meeting between re- presentatives of the Russian Em bassy, the British Legation the Iranian Government.

and

It is not yet known whether the principal German agents will try to evade being, round-

ed up.

All

I

COME FIRST

The book, published by the Bel- gian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in London, contains a photograph of a charred German document which proves that Hitler had com- pleted by January, 1940, detailed plans for an invasion of the Low Countries.

"The capitulation occurred at the last extremity," states the re- IT WAS SUGGESTED AT cord. "The Belgian Army, hav- QUESTION TIME IN THE ing done its utmost to cover the COMMONS YESTERDAY BY British forces going to Dunkirk, MR. CHARLES AMMON did not lay down its arms until it (LABOUR) THAT THE INDIAN could continue the struggle no GOVERNMENT HAD PLACED longer."

Reuter. DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY OF AN ATTEMPT TO START AN INDIAN AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURING PLANT BY REFUSING TO RELEASE THE NECESSARY MACHINERY AND PROVIDE DOLLARS TO PUR- CHASE THE NECESSARY MATERIAL FROM THE U.S.

V

CONCESSIONS TO

CHINA

Mr.. Ammon asked whether the establishment of such an industry

Following receipt of official could be used in connection with notification from the British Em- bassy of the exemption ⚫ from the production of war potential.

of transit

of dues Mr. L. S. Amery, Secretary of payment

"Lease and Lend” State for India, replying, declined American to accept Mr. Ammon's statement goods for China through Burma and added that the resources and the granting of a subvention which the establishment of an by the British Government to automobile industry would draw the Government of Burma at the upon are fully required for the rate of ten rupees a ton in res- development of Indian war pro-nect to such goods, the Chinese duction.

Foreign Minister, Dr. Quo Tai-

In reply to a question about chi, has written, to the British such development after the war. Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark Chinese Mr. Amery said there were not Kerr, expressing the from Teheran to Isfahan and other difficulties in the way provided Government's appreciation.

centres

you

been

those who are scattered

have not brought back despite the Iranian they do not, at this moment, draw material labour and upon the Government's request that the German Legation sand cars to urgently required for war produc-

tion. Reuter.

[etch then.

of

Relieved!

It is believed a large number Germans, particularly those who have been in Iran some con- siderable time, are relieved falling in British bands rather than being sent back to Germany..

at

The trains in which the. Ger- mans will leave Teheran in order to be handed over to the British and Russians will be guarded. by armed Iranian police in every carriage and at each end, of the

Dr.

Quo also thanked Sir Archibald personally for being instrumental in bringing about the exemption-Central News.

BOHEMIA NOW SEETHING WITH UNREST

FROM NORTHERN Norway to Sicily,

train. In addition, there will be from the Channel coast to central Poland, armed police at each station on the

the prostrated peoples have begun to recover line.

their willpower and organise resistance to Germany, says the “Boston Globe.”

At Ahwaz and Kasvin the Ger- British and Russians, and the

mans will be taken over by the

Iranian Government will no lon- gor be responsible for them. Reuter.

QUIET WEDDING

Evidence of this, says the paper, flows from behind the walls of censorship in an ever-increasing volume.

It is no longer necessary to trust the assertions of Tefugees nor

maintained

the skilfully

machinery of underground agen- cles which the governments in

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EXTRA FLASH

exile have established in their uns EXTRA: READ

happy homelands.

The best testimony comes from

the Nazis who find it necessary to ALL ABOUT IT

THE WEDDING TOOK PLACE AT ST. ANDREW'S: CHURCH YESTERDAY OF MISS JEAN employ publicity in their efforts MACLEOD MATHER AND CAP to stem the rising storm. TAIN DAVID ALAN FINLAY- In the past the spread of re-

After-juggling with headlines SON MATHERS OF THE 2/14 bellion could have been attribut- PUNJAB REGIMENT.ed to the spectre of famine. An-

eight or tennews stories on Rev H A Wittenbach officiated other formidable cause of unrest the international situation, the and Mr. David Lee was at the is the tactics of robbery applied Editar of

AVENUEwherever German tros have taken over control,

organ

The bridegroom was attended by Captain R. Blair as best man, The bride wore a white emboss- ed taffeta gown cut with a tight bodice and a full flare skirt. Her tulle vell was held in place with a spray of orange blossoms and she, carried a spray of white tuber-roses,

Mrs. F. W. N. Bassett, attended the bride as matron-of-honour, The reception, held at the Punjab Mess, was largely attended.

Clearfield (PA)

scrapped them all and aformed his readers In a five- ** Bohemia Seethes column,

2-point page 1. head- Bohemia seethes and 150,000 line additional German police have been rushed into contend with World in an awful mess... arson, assassination and wrecking. In an Editor's note he listed Dour Hollandi carries on the briefly, the fast-breaking: Inter- combat with a taciturn efficiency national developments and told which has infuriated the Imported the readers: gaulelters, Belgium riots.

"If you can think of a better In Crete, civil war supplements. the guerilla warfare of the moun headline to summarise all this, let taineers in Greece)

us know,!

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