Show TRAPPED RUSS ROSS PUT TORCH TO ESTONIAN CITY London Landon Predicts Iran Collapse Within 3 Days By Associated Press Giant walls walls' of flame streaking streaking streaking streak streak- ing up over the siege-girt siege port of Tal Tallinn inn capital of of Est Estonia nia indicated Wednesday that the Russians were destroying the city and presumably getting ready for a mass attempt to escape by sea German troops were reported to have the anci ancient nt Finnish gulf town normal population more than cut off on all sides by land Dispatches from Helsinki Finland Finland Finland Fin Fin- land 50 miles across the gulf said the glow on the southern horizon above T Tallinn began Tuesday night and continued Wednesday morning Observers Observers- on on- the Finnish shore also aiso heard the thunder of artill artillery artil artil- l lery ry ry fir fire indicating that hat German siege sieg g guns ns were ere pounding the city Operations before Tallinn pro- pro cc tl Successfully su U the German high command announced adding that nazi warplanes had sunk four soviet transports and damaged four other ships in the Finnish gulf Only a few days ago the nazis said they had thwarted an at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to send supplies to the be beleaguered beleaguered be- be city sinking seven Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian ships two transports a de destroyer destroyer destroyer de- de and a flotilla leader heading heading heading head head- ing through the Gulf of Finland toward Tallinn Soviet dispatches late Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day said red army counterattacks had thrown the Germans back from the approaches to hn n undisclosed undisclosed undisclosed closed city and reported heavy battles raging in front of Leningrad Leningrad Leningrad Lenin Lenin- grad and the Black sea port of Odessa In a side phase of the bloody struggle Turkish leaders we were e reported alarmed over reports that Germany would demand the ex expulsion expulsion ex- ex of all Russian and BritIsh British British Brit Brit- ish engineers and technicians as asa asa asa a countermove to the soviet Anglo-soviet invasion of Iran under threat of i marching into Turkey from Thrace The Russians declared that nazi nad troops had fallen by by the th thousands thousands thou thou- u- u sands in being driven back from froma a city Identified only as K and said a tremendous aerial battle Continued Page Pact Four Column One f Tr Trapped Russians Set Estonian City Afire 0 Continued from from Page One for control of the skies had developed developed developed de de- de- de over Leningrad Early Collapse Predicted Other rapid-fire rapid developments crowded the international picture One One One-In In London informed the of sources predicted collapse 1 Iran's resistance within the next three days as Russian troops driving driving ing lug southward into the middle east cast oil kingdom were reported to have captured Tabriz the country's country's country's coun coun- try's second biggest city and British British Brit Brit- ish imperial forces striking northward northward northward north north- ward advanced 40 miles mUes Two Two Two-In In Berlin the German high command reported that Adolf Hitler's invasion armies had iad annihilated the Twenty-second Twenty Russian army and captured the town of Luki far behind the main Russian German-Russian line killing more than red army troops and taking prisoners Luki lies miles west of bf f Moscow land and nd miles south of Leningrad about midway between between between be be- tween Lake lImen and Capture of the town would mean that the Germans had straight straight- ened out a deep bend In their lines on the central front putting them In position for more concerted concert d drives against both Moscow and Leningrad Transmit Peace Flea Plea Three Delayed dispatches from Teheran the Iran capital reported report report- ed that the British and Russian ministers after an audience with the shah had transmitted to their governments an Iran plea for peace The shah It was said had guaranteed that virtually all allGer Ger Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans In the country would woula be I oust ousted d within I g a week I Four BritiSh reports irom from Simla India headquarters of the British command said that Iran's small army had been wiped out by the tha British men o 0 war and that Iranian Admiral had been killed in action Five Fhe Tass official soviet news agency said red army forces Invading in invading invading In- In Iran Persia from the north had captured the town of Dilman only miles northwest of Teheran the the capital This Would represent a three-day three advance advance advance ad- ad vance of miles the Russian government government government govern govern- ment newspaper said it had spoken spoken spoken ken by telephone radio-telephone with officials officials of of- within nazi besieged Odessa Odes Odes- sa and was told that plants and factories are running full blast L Strikes The Berlin report said squadrons struck heavily at soviet soviet soviet so so- viet concentrations e east st of Kiev overnight and destroyed railway networks west of M Moscow scow and andin andIn andIn in the Leningrad area In the estuary and south of Kiev the high command said the last enemy forces still resisting on the western bank of the were overcome partly part- part lv ly In to hand-to-hand fl With the fall of D last last red army foothold on the west bank of the south of Kiev observers Kiev observers In Ber- Ber confidence that Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's southern army would carry carry carry car car- ry th the fight east without halt toward the rich Donets river basin between the and the Don Such a drive would be aimed eventually at the great Russian oil reserve east of the the Black sea putting the Germans at the flank of the Caucasus front which the Russians are extending with their push down the west shores of the Caspian sea into Iran On the central centra front German bombers were said to have blown up a munitions train with a direct hit Dogfights Over Q Leningrad Extensive a aerial rial operations also were reported In the north where the Tuesday the capture of the railroad town of Luga in a tightening ring around Leningrad A A tremendous aerial battle for mastery of the skies over Leningrad Leningrad Leningrad Len Len- ingrad was reported by Moscow to have developed as the big bic city's army and militia defense stiffened ed for a last-ditch last fight against Finnish Finnish Finnish Fin Fin- nish and German drives from the north west and south A said of the German planes listed as destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de Sunday and Monday were shot down in fierce dogfights al along ng the approaches to the old capital of the czars or smashed in raids on near-by near airdromes from which the nazi attacks were sprung Defenders of the city declared that despite repeated raids nota not a bomb had fallen 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