ECENTLY somewhat dramatically, contact was established between the headquarters of the Russian and British forces which had entered Iran respectively from the north and the west to break up Axis fifth column activities in this land and to prevent the oilfields and strategic points from falling into Axis ds, writes Arthur S. Merton, Special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph."
Some 35 miles west of this me 30 miles south of the C town some. fifteen kilometres beyond we und a senior Russian staff officer a British flying column led by the brigadier commanding the British-Indian force operating in Central Iran la a blue-grey uniform waiting with lorries amd army cars bearing an escort, t a lonely point on the main Hamadan-Teheran road.
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