REVOLT OF PERSIAN GENDARMERIE
UNDER GERMAN LEADERSHIP. By Teleffranli-PMss AssoolatJon-OoDrriEht I London, November 23. Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), speaking in the House of Commons, said that the Persian gendarmerie at Shiraz (115 miles east-north-east of Bushire) had revolted under foreign officers, and made prisoner the British Consul and other British subjects. Petrograd, November 23. Teheran advices are to the effect that several hundred gendarmes and irregulars, under 'German officers, made a night attack on Hamadan (160 miles west-south-west of Teheran), garrisoned by Persians and Cossacks. The latter were forced to retire, but saved the town.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2628, 25 November 1915, Page 5
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100REVOLT OF PERSIAN GENDARMERIE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2628, 25 November 1915, Page 5
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