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From: PERSIA. 19 41
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FROM TEHRAN TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Sir R. Bullard,
No# 606 .
27th August, 1941
D. 8.00 p.m,
R. 11^25 a.m,
8.00 p.m,
27th August, 1941
28th August, 1941
Repeated to -Foreign Simla
Nev; Delhi
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IMPORTANT .
Assuming from the nature and time of the presentation
of the communication which I was to hand in on"August 25th
that hostilities were about to begin, I had warning sent
to all British subjects early on August 25th and they
assembled quickly and without fuss either at the legation,
Tehran, or the summer legation 7 miles away. Indians are
in the town legation. Two or three British subjects
preferred to stay outside.
2. Tehran is quiet except for bread queues. Germans
are too much concerned about their own fate to stir up
trouble against Englishmen (Indians would, I think, be
safe from this in any case) and the people of Tehran are
too much scared of the Russians to let themselves be
stirred up. Nevertheless, British subjects will continue
to live at the legations on arrival. Officials of the
Imperial Bank of Persia and nucleus of the Anglo-Iranian
Oil Company continue their work. Military are requisitioning
lorries and private cars but so far no cars with Europeans
in them have been taken.
3, When hostilities seemed imminent His Majesty's
Consul at Kermanshah sent away the women and children from
there and from Hamadan. His Majesty's Consul-General,
Meshed, sent to India the ladies from Meshed, Otherwise
; the^ situation is as report ed, in mv telemra m No, 4S4- ohoumh. ,
- onsul at Bushire that a
. _ _ -, - — - informed the Consuls at
Shiraz and Isfahan in case any British subjects from there
like to take advantage of this opportunity.
Senior Naval Officer