PERSIAN HORRORS.
■ SWORD AND FLAME. WOMEN AND CHILDREN MURDERED. VILLAGES BURNED. (BT TELEORATH-ritESS ASSOCIATION— COPTMGHT.) St. Petersburg, March 15. The journal "Novoo Vremya" reports that a thousand Persian horsemen and 500 tribesmen are marching along tho Persian bank of tho river Araxes (dividing for tho greater part of its length tho territories of Russia and Persia), towards Julfa, a Persian town on tho Russian frontier. They havo pillaged and burnt ten villages, and massacred the inhabitants. Many women carrying children on their backs wero shot whilo attempting to swim tho river to the Russian bank.
AN OFFER TO SURRENDER. (Rec. March 16, 9.10 p.m.) Tohcran, March 16, The Yussi tribo offer to surrender.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 458, 17 March 1909, Page 7
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113PERSIAN HORRORS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 458, 17 March 1909, Page 7
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