AN IMPRISONED CARTOONIST.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1315, 19 December 1911, Page 5

AN IMPRISONED CARTOONIST.

ROYAL ACADEMICIANS' APPEAL. By ToleeraDti-Press ABscciation-Coprrizhf London, December 17. Nineteen members of tho Koyal Academy have sent a letter to King'Alfonso of Spain, requesting clemency for Senor Sagustu, a cartoonist, now undergoing a sentence cf nine years' imprisonment for a cartoon entitled "Homage ,to i'errer" (executed as an anarchist).

PERSIA'S INTEGRITY. »- ITS MAINTENANCE GUARANTEED. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Constantinople, December 17. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has informed the Chamber that the Government is satisfied with the Russian assurances to maintain Persia's integrity, which is further secured by the AngloEussian agreement. The Government is hopeful of an early settlement. Writing of Russian complicity in organising disorders in Persia, Mr. 11. B. Lynch says in the "Daily News":—''Ever since the tune when the .Russian Colonel Liakholf bombarded the Persian Parliament House, Russian complicity with the forces • of disorder in Persia lias been established by a long chain of unanswerable evidence; and a situation has thus arisen which may any day bring us face to face with the Russian occupation of Northern Persia. Already on one pretext or.another over four thousand Russian troops have been introduced into these regions. On oiiu pretext or another every effort made by the Persian Government to put its house in order is skilfully frustrated. From Russia, Mohammed AH is let loose upon tho infant structure of constitutional government in Persia. Ho is decisively defeated by a small Government force and llees to tho districts adjoining the frontier of Russia. This victory, followed by the overthrow of tho ex-Shah's brother, S:ilar-ed-Dowleh, who has been advancing from the west at the head of a swarm of irregulars, would bo followed by tho firm establishment of constitutional government in Persia, if Persia were only given a free haud. As things are, tho ex-Shah returns from the districts adjoining the Russian frontier to keep tho pot seething until it suits the Russian Government once and for all to throw, oif tho mask."