The Archive · 1941

German Prefer India

Teheran, Sept. 12.

Occupying Russian troops so far have taken prisoner 50 German nationals, and soon after learning this Germans yesterday quickly acquiesced in the scheme whereby they will b interned in India.

The Hungarian and Rumanian nationals in Iran are small, and Bulgar-long have been exempted from the internment order in compliance with a Russian request.

It was questionable whether the agreement to expel Axis nationals could be possibly carried out within the stipulated week, but it was understood the first trainload of 200 Ger-tins would leave for Ahwaz on Friday. The G: rmans have turned over their firearms to the Iran police The town legations have not been formally sealed as yet, and several cars throughout the morning passed from the grounds loaded with miscellaneous property bound for lega. tion headquarters in the country. United Pres-

Nazis Ё. sous at Handing Over Zurich, Hopi 12.

The uris are furious about the delivery of Germans in Iran into Russian and British hands, according. to press reports a here.

Berlin regards' KEH Germans to Rossia as "barbarity," according to the Berlin correspondent of the "Zurich Tages-Anzéiger." It considers that the British Government is responsible, and threatens reprisals against British war prisoners and_civilians in Germany—Reuter.

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