The Archive · 1941

Evacuation of Legations

tion leaves Teheran on Tuesday The staff of the Rumanian Lega car for Tabriz whence they will pass throügh Turkey.on the way to Rumania. The German, Hungari and Bulgarian Legations leave by the same route on Wednesday. The Germans are taking with them 450 women and children, the families of men handed over to the Allied troops. The families originally elected to go with the men, so the British made special arrangements for them to be billeted with their husbands in concentration camps in India, but apparently they have now been ordered by the German Government to return to Germany.

The great number of cars required for the journey is being provided by the Iran Government, which is requisitioning them. The G "Mini ster-has given his word that the convoy will not linger on the way.

The Italians, who insisted on travelling in a separate convoy from the Germans, are expected to leave "whether Hungarian, Rumanian and Bulgarian subjects will also be repatriated.—Reutet, special represen!

British Cábinét'in'the-Far East, is expected to- arrive here-io-morrow morning from Singapore, aboard..a.military plane.

After lunch Mr. Duff-Cooper will travel to Tjipana, where he wil reet the "Governor General of the Netherlands East Indies, He will stabilization of frontiers," "according Helsi x reporte reaching here today from While the frontiers "al have been roached in the the north of Lake Ladogu to the line e aim e military rations.

of Svir River and Kanaihyesz, which connects Lake Ladoga with Lake Onega, has not been yet achieved, the E added:

ly the southern of the tio drives between the two lakes so far has been reached, The northern drive. chiefly a German manceuvre aiming directly at Petrosavodsk, still was a long way from reaching its ohiective.

Press reports from Helsinki said that many FinnisN troops were transferred from. the Karelian isthmus to the front north of Li Ladoga in order to speed up operations in this sector.—United Press.

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