IRANIANS CORRUPTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1941, Page 6

IRANIANS CORRUPTED

-<? INFLUENCE OF NAZI AGENTS ROUNDING UP OF GERMANS IN TEHERAN. PROBLEM SOMEWHAT COMPLICATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12,25 p.m.) LONDON, September 11. The problem of rounding up andiexpelling the German Fifth Column from Iran will be complicated, says the “Daily Mail’s” Teheran correspondent. Their work of corrupting certain official and army officers has gone deep and many key positions in the country arc still filled by Iranians, trained and prepared by Germans, to carry on for them. The Russians, according to reliable reports, are applying realistic methods with a result that 1,100 of 2,000 Germans in Iran failed to reach Teheran. It is believed that they were caught in Soviet occupied provinces and already are en route to Siberia. Those in Teheran, whose names are on the Anglo-Soviet “blacklist” will be handed over for internment. The British authorities already have arranged to send 225 of them to India. It is reported from a reliable source that on the day of the Anglo-Soviet invasions the Shah, who has become a medieval tyrant, thrashed the War Minister in the presence of the rest of the Cabinet and later had him shot out of hand.