TROUBLE IN PERSIA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1665, 4 February 1913, Page 7

TROUBLE IN PERSIA.

4 . SALAR;ED.DOWLEH. in 'revolt . AGAIN. By •Tcloftrash.—Prcea Assoolallon-OoDvrteht ' Teheran, February 2, Salar-ed-Dowleh, iiinclo of the Shah, has Resumed his career as a rebel. He is supported by bodies of Turcomans, and aim l ; at capturing Meshed, tho principal city of north-eastern Persia. AN ADVENTUROUS PRINCE. Salar-od-Dowlch's adventures are interesting in themselves; and they are also /characteristic of tho country over which ■ho would fain rule'in lieu of his little ■nephew. ;They remind .one of those of somo of: our own pretenders (says a recent writer in tho London "Telegraph"), but round the legend of tho Persian prince there is leS9 romance and more action. Ho has had not one Flora Mncdonald, but several, and has married them all during the post six months, as behoves a royal prince of Iran. Each of thoso young. Indies brought him as dowry the support of her fatlior, the chieftain of a clan. Last spring Salnr defeated tho Government troops, and occupied Kermanshah. But eoon after this the Government forces worsted him at Kermanshah, and drove him and his followers, into space.' After/that the triumphant army split into grouns, which quarrelled among : themselves—tho Baklitinrs falling out with the Mnjahids. Many asked to be allowed to go back' to tranquillity and the capital. And when their demands were refused they plotted hnw they might go over to the enemy by desertion; the army divided, and towards the end of July the commander of the troops, Prince Firman Firma, was left with only WO Cossacks and a few score body-soldiers. That" is'n fair snecimen( of the stuff of which Persinn soldiers are mode. If during the month that followed, Salar-ed-Dowleh had l returned to Kermanshah, ho could have taken it without. firing n s 1 " But the unhappy pretend°r could not Vinrch. JTp was even worse off than Prince Firman Firma. His own father-in-law. Davoud Khan, whoso daughter be had married for tho sake of her father's help, forsook his cau=e, and he wnndered about from post to pillar in quest of assistance.