GERMAN ARSENAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 6

GERMAN ARSENAL

FOUND IN IRANIAN TOWN INTRODUCTION OF TANKS & ARMS. HITLER TO BECOME MOSLEM. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, August 29. ’ A huge German arsenal was found in the Iranian town of Julfa, which is one of the points of the Russian entry into Iran, reports the Moscow “Red Star.” An Iranian officer stated that a camouflaged German tank column recently arrived at Tabriz. The roads leading to Tabriz during the last two months have been choked with German lorries, laden with arms, ammunition and dismantled planes. The Germans are reported to be spreading a rumour that Hitler has become a Moslem (recalling similar propaganda about the Kaiser in the last war). AIRBORNE TROOPS BRITISH OPERATIONS IN IRAN. LARGEST YET UNDERTAKEN. (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON. August 29. The landing of airborne troops in Iran was the largest operation of its kind the R.A.F. has ever undertaken, says the Associated Press of Great Britain's Cairo correspondent. The operation was a complete success. Several battalions were carried by planes from Iraq. NAZI REFUGEES ARRIVAL AT TURKISH FRONTIER. (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, August 29. The Vichy News Agency’s Ankara correspondent says all the German residents in Iran have reached the Turkish frontier. Sixty German refugees from Iran have arrived at Ankara, penniless and without luggage.