The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-02

Woo VIA AtO way " 4GAA dA4s gether to indicate their solidarity with britonS and Americans.
 Call the "Germanskys'
 They referred to the "Germanskys" and drew their fingers eIoquently across their threats, at the same time rolling their eyes. I tried French and Spanish on them. They merely smiled, patted my back and repeated "da"-yeS. They called me Tovarich = conrade.
 We pushed on, following a British brigadier and staff officers on their wa yto meet the Russian command at Kazvin, 90 miles west northwest of Tehran.
 We passed scores of trucks, mostly Fords of Russian make, carrying Russian troops down from Tabriz. We also passed Russian camps in which noticed tanks similar to those I saw on the Loyatst side in the Spanish Civil War. They were armed with two-pounder guns and light machine guns.
 Further ahead I saw a Russian six-inch gun drawn by tractors.
 The sixwheeled Russian trucks were dusty, having been on the road a long time. They were marked with numerals and the hammer and sickle in white.
 There were bomb holes alongside the road. had seen four Russian bombing planes earlier in the day. They had dropped leaflets near Hamadan.
 Entering recently-bombed Kaz- win I found black booted and helmeted Russian troopers direct- ing traffic in still Samaphore fashion. No 1ranian policemen were in sight. Along the brilliant ly lighted streets were many troops, most of them in trucks parked In the main streets.
 Hotel We'll Guarded
 We drove to the leading hotel to talk to the brigadier, who had just met the Russian commander. The hotel was well guarded. A short, slouch-hotted Russian sentry, shoul- dering rifle equipped with 8 stubby bayonet stood at the door and three more troopers paced stiffly back and forth a few feet away.
 Most of the Russian soldiers were short, with fair hair and blue eyes. Some Asiatic types were mixed with them. They were tough looking cos turner's, but they seemed impressed by the bearded, turbanned British Indian attendants of the British brigadier and his staff.
 As waited to see the brigadier drank beer with the British offi- cers. They said the British ad- vance had been halted about 45 miles north of JIamadan and that the Russians had agreed not to pro ceed beyond Kazvin for the moment.
 Russian tank drivers wearing dust covered blue-grey overalls and hel- mets lounged in the lobby sampling the Iranian Deer, raising their glasses in most friendly fashion to- ward the Britons. Occasionally 6 Russian stan offlcer Stomped up the creaky wooden stairs to deliver some message to the general in command.
 It was a strange sight to see the Britons and the Russians trying to make each other understand.
 After seeing the brigadier, met the British military attaclle to Iran, who had come here. He told me l might proceed to Tehran as g. civil ian but advised me I might have some difficulty getting past the Rus sian outpoStS at Kazvin and that even If I reached Tehran might be arrested and spend the night in jail, because of the curfew. He adA vised me to wait until morning but I wanted to file my story.
 went to 6 filling station for some gasoline and found 1t guarded by two Russians, their rifles at the alert, who peered suspiciously at my uni- form and fondled their guns in a most discouraging manner.
 No Gas There
 A Russian ofiicer in the old-style viSored cap, with a double Sam Browne belt over his blue-gray uni- form, appeared and advised me through my chauffeur to look for another filling station because the Iranian attendants at this one had fled and the pump keys were not available. I found another station, with a similar setting; and got gaso. line, and then proceeded on toward Tehran.
 We had not gone far before we were waved to halt by three Rus sians, one armed with a machine gun, the others with rifles, all point ed in our direction. It was a bit sticky for a moment because I could not make them understand I was an "AmerikanSky." Then . young oficer appeared, grinning, from the rear of the car and motioned his men aside. Though 1t was about 8 p. n., he greeted me with:
 Good morring."
 He briefly studied my passport and waved me on. I negotiated the re- maining 85 miles in about three hours and found no difficulty in en- tering Tehran, which was brightly lighted and patroled at every corner by. policemen, cavalrymen and in- fantrymen.
 The IranianS here, after several bombingS, were somewhat nervous at the prospect of a Russian entry. The Russians however are marking time outside the city pending formal demarkation of the Russian and British zones.
 Russia early today said in a com munique: - "In view of negotiations now proceeding at Tehran on the settlement of the conflict between the Soviet Union and Great Britain on one hand and Iran on the other, Soviet troops in Iran have been or- dered to discontinue their ad- vance.D
 I had reached Kermanshah yes- terday with a British motorized col- umn 70 miles long, in which Indian troops were predominant. The col- uan passed through Kermanshah ahA0A Nf ananaa<4NeYA aVad rauaama.,S s..a e.,