NOTE TO IRAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1941, Page 6

NOTE TO IRAN

ROUND UP OF GERMANS DEMANDED ALL TO BE INTERNED. SOME NOW WANDERING AT LARGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON. September 7. A final British-Russian Note has been presented to Iran, demanding the unconditional surrender of all Germans for internment, reports the “Sunday Times” diplomatic correspondent. Several hundred Germans have taken refuge in'the German Legation compound in Teheran, but many young Germans are wandering freely around the city, boasting that Germany will win the war.

REPORTED LAPSE REGARDING THE GERMAN LEGATION. HEADQUARTERS OF ENEMY FIFTH COLUMN. (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, September 7. When over a week ago the Iranians gave up resistance the Allies produced first a broad scheme for settlement, but by a curious lapse there was .no clear provision for speedily shutting up the German Legation, which is the headquarters of the German fifth column. Since then the Germans, who quickly recovered from their initial fright, have settled down to their normal life, driving around in high-powered cars, hanging out swastikas and also cutting a figure in business houses, in addition to ’insulting British passers-by and spreading anti-Allied rumours. Indeed they are behaving exactly as was expected by those in England who protested against the apparent respite afforded the Germans. “The Times” says that presumably the new Note is the remedy for the situation. The “Daily Telegraph's” diplomatic correspondent says the Iranian Government. is showing some hesitation in meeting the demands as regards the Germans. Reuters Teheran correspondent reports that all the important oil wells have been brought under British protection by the advance of Indian troops to Sultanabad, on the trans-Persian railway. The occupation of Sultanabad gives the British a second point of control on the most important link between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf.