UNREST IN PERSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2065, 17 December 1907, Page 3

UNREST IN PERSIA.

STREET FIGHTING IN THE CAPITAL. THREE CABINET MINISTEUS arrested. PARLIAMENT ENRAGED.

.United Press Association —Copyright (Received Dec. IC, 10p.m.) 1 TEHERAN, Dec. 16. An outbreak of fighting between Nationalists ami Royalists lias occiuiixxl. The citv is in & stntc ot sicpc. Tribal cavalry and Cossacks are parading tho palace. I'ho legations and consulates aro guarded. Tho Nationalists shelter in the Sipahsular mosque, and the reactionarms shelter in tho Gun Square. The trouble is due to the Shall s icfusal to expel reactionary chiefs intriguing against the Cabinet. I lie Ministry has resigned, apparently under compulsion, sinco the three principal (Ministers, including .Massareljnulk, the Premier, woro afterwards arrested by t-lie Shah’s order. Parliament is enraged', and lias asked tlio Shall 'his reasons for the. arrests. They resolved to sit to await an answer. . Prior to this an angry mob. demanding the immediate execution ot several soldiers for recently mu fuel - ing-two shopkeepers in a street atfray, m arched in process* tui and hi eel into the Pa.;*liaineiiitaj , y ibuiiuiugs. A DECAYING RACE.

WILL TURKEY THREATEN THE FRONTIER?

(Received Dec. 16. 10 p.m.) LONDON, Dee. 16. Tho Times depicts tlve hopeless trouble among Persians and the decomposition of the Persian State. The Cossacks were no longer in Kosakowsky’s bands, and -were in a blind struggle between reformers and reactionaries, neither of 'whom knew how to govern. It is unknown whether the Cossacks can consistently take either side. Moreover, Persia is subject to depredations from Turks. 'The Sultan will find the opportunity good for the prosecution of bis schemes of conquest on the frontier, and unless other Powers bring him to account there is no serious obstacle.