... withdraw all their forces from Persia by January 1. Equipment and installations left in Persia nave been sold to the Persian Government, and to private syndicates. Mr. Ernest Bevin’s statement that the subject of Persia was discussed at Moscow, but that ...

... MOSCOW REPORT As the Persian Government repeated its assertion that the autonomy movement in Azerbaijan was Russian-inspired, Moscow radio to-day broadcast reports of executions and mass arrests in town of northern Persia which, it declared, were being ...

... terrorism, mutilation of an officer and pillaging on the part of people of doubtful character were alleged to-day by the Persian Government in a White Paper submitted to Foreign Embassies, which spoke of armecl adventurers in Azerbaizon rising against the ...

... GOVERNOR FLEES TO TEHERAN TABRIZ GARRISON SURROUNDED M. Nurteza Qualikham Bayatt, sent during the recent crisis by the Persian Government to Tabriz as Governor of the North Persian province of Azerbaijan, arrived to-day in Teheran by air from Tabriz, which ...

... border and Tabriz. At another point, Sarab, 23 policemen are reported to have been shot and their bodies mutilated. The Persian Government and local military authorities were to-day accused by Moscow radio, quoting Teheran despatches, of persecuting the ...

... certain possibilities relating' to reception areas and shipping facilities. CHILDREN’S SHOES CRIPPS WORRIED, BUT The Persian Government is seeking to placate the Russians, and Ebrahim Hakimi, the Prime Minister, by dismissing Ghulan Hussein Eptahaj, anti ...

... radio irports that the Governor of Azerb**') and killed bv two attackers 1,1 c . . of Tabriz. A few hours aft 1 the Persian Government sei' to Russia, asking for pern* 1 patch troops to the trouble 1 which has so far been rej Russians NAZIS’ PLANS TO ...

... troops would have to be sent there. All Persian allegations of Russian interference in the north were denied, and the Persian Government was accused of supporting 'officials who, it said, were responsible for disturbances in their areas. denied that the ...

... LEGITIMATE MOVE BY TEHERAN FORCES Britain has told the Moscow Government it was entirely reasonable that the Persian Government should wish to maintain order in their own territory, and legitimate that they should move their security forces about their ...

... feel able to instruct their commander in Persia not to obstruct the movement of Persian forces or to interfere with the Persian Government in the exercise of their sovereign right of maintaining order in their own territory. —Yours sincerely. Archibald Clark ...

... RUSSIANS STOP PERSIANS TROOPS ORDERED TO RETURN The Russian military authorities have stopped the two battalions of Persian Government troops sent from Teheran to restore order in the North Persian Province of Azerbaijan at Kazvin, 85 miles north-west ...

... cost Britain £1,500,000 to instal between Teheran and certain southern regions during the war, have been sold to the Persian Government for £300,000. English Locomotives for Egypt.— The English Electric Co., Ltd., is to supply 27 Diesel electric locomotives ...