RUSSIANS REMAINING IN PERSIA

Chronicle (Levin), 4 March 1946, Page 5

RUSSIANS REMAINING IN PERSIA

VIOLATION OF TREATY Received Sunday 10.30 p.m. LONDON, March 3. D'plomatic quaxtexs m London take a serious view of Rassia's decisian to ma main troops in Persia, says the Sunday Timcs' dipiomatic corretp-naun^ x. ne sab;ejc i.3 at present bmng discussed between the Lricish and Am-llca.i ove.ni.ients, ancl prooably Moscow will be asked for an explanation. ihe correspondent dcdares tnat Russia's action is regarded as the first pen, liagrant viclacion of an intsmatlonal treaty since the end ox the War. Tiie r-ersian Qivder-Eearetary of ktats ' (Prince Firouz) who is also Director 0 1 vropagauaa, dcscr.hed the Russiah de cision to remain in parts of Persia as "a friendly gesmre to the SuUaneh administraticn. ' ' He adclcd that there was no representative of the centrai j-ovtrnmenc in Azerbaijan to acc>_p , the return of bmldings and installations frOxii the Russians, who could liot turn over these properties to the Azeroaijain Government withont recognising that Government. They, therelore, were remairing until the problem. which was purely an internal ofie, was settled. The newspaper Ettelaat's Tabriz correspondent reports that the Russian forces began the evacuation of Tabriz at 10 a.m. yesterday. Azerbaijan Demccrat troops accompanied the Russians to the city outskirts. The Moscow radio s?„ys the Persiani Covernment's announcement means: 'that the Russians will remain in Nor-j thern and Northwestern Persia, includ-| ing the troubled Azerbaijan area. Reuter's Bagdad correspondent saysj it is learned authoritatively that ail | British troops are now out of persia. I