Allies Hint at Occupation of Teheran

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Allies Hint at Occupation of Teheran

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Post by Globalization41 » 06 Oct 2005, 08:48

London, United Press, The New York Times,
Monday, September 15, 1941: Authoritative
British sources hinted today that Britain and
Russia might be forced to occupy Teheran, Iran,
as a result of reported growing popular
dissatisfaction with the autocratic regime of
Riza Shah Pahlevi. ... A spokesman refused to
say, however, whether the Shah will be
replaced. ... "The Germans in Iran have refused
to go quietly in compliance with the British and
Russian terms accepted by the Iranian
Government," he said. "They are impeding the
Iranians in every way, but British and Russian
authorities are determined to see that the job
is done speedily and thoroughly." ... "The
Iranian Government requires a great deal of
stiffening from Anglo-Soviet quarters to clear
up the situation. The Allies have no intention
of letting matters drag on indefinitely and are
insisting that the Germans be concentrated in
barracks forthwidth." ... It was understood
that the German Minister was scheduled to
leave Teheran tomorrow.

Ankara, Turkey, Special Broadcast to The
New York Times,
By Ray Brock, Monday,
September 15, 1941:
The establishment of a
new constitutional government at Teheran is
considered tonight in highest foreign diplomatic
circles here and elsewhere in the Near East to
be only a matter of days, perhaps hours. ...
Spreading revolt among the tribes of
Southwestern Iran and a rising wave of feeling
against the present regime inside and outside
the occupied zones will force the Shah's
abdication and encourage action for
reinforcement of the existing Cabinet, according
to reports tonight from Iran and diplomatic
sources here. ... While there is no official
conformation here, Budapest and Sofia reported
that actual revolution had broken out in the
southwestern provinces of Hamadan, Kashan,
Luristan, and Khudistan, and a revolt of
considerable proportions already was underway
when this correspondent traveled through parts
of these provinces a week ago. ... Axis agency
and newspaper dispatches reporting attacks by
Kurdish tribesmen on British troops in the
Kermanshah region are totally unconfirmed,
although such reports have been current at
Kermanshah and Hamadan for more than eight
days. Axis reports that tribesmen had seized
control throughout four provinces appear to be
false, for British motorized units are operating
in strength in parts of two of these provinces --
Hamadan and Luristan. ... It is believed the
British units could put down even large-scale
attacks by the insurgents, who are well
equipped with machine guns, modern rifles, and
grenades, but have no heavy armament and no
mechanized equipment. What seems more
likely, according to usually well informed
neutral military sources here, is that the Axis
is trying to capitalize the Iranian tribal revolt
against the Iranian Government and is seeking
to make it appear that the rebellion is aimed at
the British troops of occupation. ...
Unconfirmed reports from Budapest and Sofia
that Richard Dimbleby, British courier and
British Broadcasting Corporation broadcaster,
and James Holburn, correspondent of The Times
of London,
have been captured by Kurdish
insurgents near Kermanshah, appear totally
unfounded. Though the exact whereabouts of
the two Britons is unknown here tonight, it is
believed they are still in the vicinity of Teheran
and are safe. ... Mr. Dimbleby and Mr. Holburn
were attacked by Kurdish tribesmen a week ago
last night during a drive from Baghdad to
Teheran, but they escaped unharmed and
sought a British military escort at Kermanshah
the next day for the rest of the journey to
Teheran, where it is known that they arrived
safely. ... Reports abroad that the present
Iranian regime, struggling desperately to retain
power, was embarking on a reform program,
indicated to several leading diplomats here
that the internal deadlock had been broken and
that major developments in Teheran might be
expected soon.

Tokyo, Associated Press, The New York
Times,
Monday, September 15, 1941: Creation
of a body of price adjustment officers to
enforce prices fixed by the government has
been decided upon by the Ministry of Commerce
and Industry
, the Domel news agency said
today. Japan will be divided into nine police
districts for the enforcement work, which is
designed also to harmonize the distribution of
commodities to areas suffering shortages.

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Associated Press, The
New York Times,
Monday, September 15,
1941:
The tanker Standvac Manilla, due at
Santos, Brazil, Friday, radioed today: "Have 37
Netherland seamen from torpedoed ship
aboard." The rescue ship, which is of
Panamanian registry, did not report where the
survivors were picked up, the name of the
torpedoed ship, or its location. The tanker is
en route from Brazil to Trinidad. ... ... The
New York Times,
Sept. 15, 1941: The 7,500-
ton Netherland motorship Kota Nodan is listed
as missing in South American waters, where a
German raider is reported operating.

The New York Times, Monday, September 15,
1941:
The 50-foot yacht Restless Too has
been presented to the Navy by Mrs. Bessie
Warner of Rye, it was announced [Monday] by
Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commandant
of the Third Naval District. Mrs. Warner, wife
of Albert Warner, film executive, turned the
yacht over to the Navy for the customary token
payment of $1. Built in 1933, the Restless Too
is capable of a speed of 24 knots.

Berlin, By Telephone to The New York Times,
Monday, September 15, 1941: A decree signed
by the General Commissar for Internal Security
in the Hague ordered today that the appearance
of Jews on the streets of the Netherlands would
be governed by the same regulations at present
prevailing in Germany. ... Jews will be subject
to a curfew, a ban on traveling from their home
towns, and will have to wear a yellow Star of
David
on the left breasts of their clothing.

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... Globalization41.]
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Soviets Report Stubborn Battles from Black Sea to Baltic

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Post by Globalization41 » 11 Oct 2005, 08:23

Moscow, Associated Press, The New York
Times,
Tuesday, September 16, 1941: [Late
Monday, U.S. time.]
The sinking of seven
German vessels, including five troop-jammed
transports, in repulse of a Nazi landing attempt
at the Baltic island of Oesel and in a clash in
Arctic waters was announced tonight be the
Russians. ... The Soviet Information Bureau
said that four transports and a destroyer had
been sent to the bottom last Saturday by
Soviet naval, air, and shore units that smashed
German units attacking Oesel, an island off
Estonia on which the Russians left strong
forces after their withdrawal from the mainland.
The landing force was wiped out, the
communique said, and in addition to the ships
sunk, two transports and several torpedo boats
were badly damaged. ... In the Arctic, off the
Finnish port of Petsamo, a German transport
and an escort vessel were sunk by Soviet
torpedo boats, according to the Russians. ...
In the south the Red Air Force, apparently
seeking to prevent any German effort to launch
large-scale operations in the Black Sea, heavily
bombed Constanta and Sulina, on the
Rumanian coast, and Galati, Danubian oil port,
on Friday. ... The defenders of Odessa,
strongly supported by sailors of the Black Sea
Fleet, were reported to have smashed
redoubled German efforts to breach the
besieged city's defenses. ... Today's
communique reported that stubborn battles
continued all along the line. Yesterday it was
announced officially that the Germans were
losing control of occupied Russian areas by
stripping their rear garrisons to fill gaps caused
by enormous losses at the front. ... Soviet
guerrilla activity, it was declared, is
becoming so effective that skeleton Nazi forces
occupying 52 communities have been
annihilated and several German expeditions
sent to punish the raiders have been forced to
return to base with great losses. ...
Information here declared that the Soviet
forces in the northwest still were successfully
defending Leningrad's fortifications. ... Major
Gen. I. Kamera declared in the newspaper
Pravda that Russian artillery was so much the
master of the battlefield that even the
Germans were forced to admit "not only its
quantitative, but also its qualitative
superiority." ... The general, attributing recent
Red Army successes chiefly to artillery, which
he called "the god of modern warfare," said
that a three-day battle in the first week of
September had cost the Germans 4,000 men
killed and 15,000 wounded, 30 field guns, and
much ammunition.

London, Associated Press, The New York
Times,
Monday, September 15, 1941: An
immediate peril to Russia's southern flank was
discerned here today as the result of the Red
Army's withdrawal from Kremenchug, on the
eastern bank of the Dnieper River, and a
simultaneous German thrust toward Perekop, on
the Black Sea coast, where there are no natural
barriers to a Nazi push toward the River Don.
... With the Germans pressing a pincer
operations based on Gomel, to the northwest,
and Kremenchug, to the southeast, Russian
troops in the Kiev sector are in a "very
dangerous position," an authoritative source
said. ... The drive toward Perekop, 50 miles
southeast of the lower Dnieper, on the narrow
neck of land between Crimea and the Russian
mainland, was said to imperil Crimea's only rail
connections.

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... Globalization41.]


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