BEVIN’S FLAT DENIAL
NO INTERVENTION IN PERSIA AN AMERICAN’S EXPERIENCE (Recd. 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 16. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin, stated in the House of Commons that all the allegations and insinuations of the complicity of British officials in Persia in subversive activities against the Persian Government were utterly without foundation. The Persian Government had accepted the British Government’s denials and the incident was closed. According to a Teheran message, Captain Alexis Gagarin, American assistant military attache at the United States Embassy, stated that he killed two and wounded several other Borahmadi tribesmen in self-de-fence 20 miles north of Shiraz. Captain Gargarin said he was travelling . in a jeep flying the American flag when about 15 horsemen attacked him. His Persian interpreter fired into the air while Captain Gargarin drove frantically for cover. The horsemen fired and Captain Gargarin replied with 15 rounds from a carbine. He drove the tribesmen off, after which, while proceeding to Shiraz, he encountered a peasant and a truck driver who had been robbed and stripped bv the same tribesmen.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 October 1946, Page 7
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