RUSSIANS LEAVING SPEEDILY
' ! REPORTS ON EVACUATION | | Received Thursday, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, March 27. | Travelie'rs reaching Teheran from 1 northern Persia this afternoon reported that the evacuation of Soviet troops is continuing speedily, states Reuter's Teheran correspondent, who also quotes a Persian Government spokesman as saying tiiat he has been informed by the Soviet Ernbassy tnat the Russian troops leave Kazvin in fifteen days. Earlier the Persian Director of Propaganda, Prince Fironz, said the Russians had begun the evacuation of Kazvin, wnich would be completed in tv/o or three days. The Associated Press of Great | Bntain's correspondent says that 1 foreign military observers return- j ■ ing from a flight over Kazvin re- J ported that the railyards are lined j : with piles of suppiies and equipment, including twenty-two tanks. The British Charge dAffaires in s ; Teheran told pressmen that he ] ; thought the sudden evacuation | order had caught the Russian j , General Staff unprepared, and it ! would take the five to six weeks > already specified to complete the 1 rnovement.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 March 1946, Page 5
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