Show BRITISH SEIZE IRAN PORT I 7 AXIS SHIPS j Wavell's Waven s Troops I Rush Drive To Bar Sabotage I j U. U Built U.S.-Built Planes Speed Units To Guard Interior SIMLA India Aug 26 INS built American air transports transports transports trans trans- ports larger even than the giant troop carriers u used ed by the Germans in Crete Grete Tuesday flew British forces deep into Iran ran where they formed lines for the protection of British colonies in inthe inthe inthe the rich Persian oil fields As the British troops quickly formed islands of safety for thousand thousandS thousands thou thou- sands sand of Britons and their families families fam tarn hea headquarters of General Sir Archibald Wavell announced the occupation by seasoned Indian soldiers of the oil installations at Shah i near the Iraq Iran-Iraq frontier and the small Iranian town of Dispatch of the flying troops into the interior to guard British colonies in widely separated oil regions stretching for miles in the western part of the country was taken as proof the British were far better prepared for the Persian campaign th than n they were for the successful push through Iraq In one of the most dramatic Continued on Page Pege Two Column CUmz On One t PLANES SPEED MEN INTO IRAN Continued from Pane Page One episodes of the war in the middle east the British early this summer summet summer sum sum- mer met sent big air transports into airdrome near Baghdad Baghdad Bagh Bagh- Baghdad dad and evacuated British families fam Lam illes by plane But this time the British apparently apparently apparently were strong enough to dispatch dispatch dispatch dis dis- dis- dis patch a sky army to form lines and hold British protective positions positions against possible attacks until the main British front is moved into the oil regions Hint Lesson to Turks Dispatch of ot borne air-borne troops also was taken as an object lesson to Turkey which Is under strong pressure from both the allies and axis Th The British it was felt may have w wanted to impress the Turks Turk with their ability to fly troops to danger zones as well as the Germans have done ABerlin radio broadcast heard In fn London by Reuters News agency claimed R RAF A F planes raided raided raided raid raid- ed the Iranian capital of Teheran and said the British navy shelled Bandar and h hahr hr Claim Troops Seized The British said a number of German and Italian vessels most of them damaged had been captured when British forces Bandar Monday British and Indian troops the announcement stated entered Iran at three points early Monday morning nol ing Naval and air cooperation en enabled enabled en- en the landing of a force at Abadan on n the northern shore of the Persian gulf and small detachments detachments de de- detachments de- de of Indian troops alsos also s secured cured Bandar where they found two damaged German Germane e ships and three slightly damaged Italian vessels Two further German ships which had been beached were captured captured captured cap cap- with their crews Steps were taken by borne air-borne troops to give protection to British families in the employ of the Iranian Anglo-Iranian Oil company British and Indian troops including in including in- in eluding infantry and armored units advanced simultaneously into Iran from Oil installations in installations installations in- in at Shah i and the small town of were occupied without serious tion Leaflets were dropped by I It RAF A F bombers on Teheran and other towns explaining the reasons for tor the operations and stressing that Britain has no quarrel with the Iranian people and no designs on their independence or terri tern tory |