THE PERSIAN TROUBLE
BRITISHERS IN CAPTIVITY By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. December 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 19. The Germans' Persian followers at Kum aro flooding the capital with messages threatening tho capital -with-inva-sion if the Shah refuses to side . with tho Turco-Germans. They, liave inter-, cepted all communications with South Persia. ' Tho Russian and British Consuls liavo loft Kurman for Bandar Abbas. The British colony at Sliiraz is still in captivity in the mountains, and there is no news of the British at Yezd. Alter a long captivity tho I British colony at Sultanabad has just arrived. Its deliverance was due to tlie confusion of the enemy in the districts bordering those where the Rus. sians are operating. Tho enemy has taken possession of the cash 'and securities of the English banks at Ispahan, Shiraz, and Yezd. OFFENSIVE REPULSED BY RUSSIAN TROOPS. (Rec. December 20, 8.5 p.m.) Petrograd, December 19. A Russian communique says: "Our Persian forces near ICuchkek, between Teheran and Hamadan, repulsed a considerable offensive.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2649, 21 December 1915, Page 7
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172THE PERSIAN TROUBLE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2649, 21 December 1915, Page 7
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