TROUBLE IN PERSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2226, 25 June 1908, Page 3

TROUBLE IN PERSIA.

REVOLUTIONARIES AND THE SHAH. TEHERAN PARLIAMENT BOMBARDED. GREAT MASSACRE REPORTED. United Press Association. Copyright (Received June 24, 10 p.m.) TEHERAN, Juno 24. A force of Cossacks and soldiers surrounded tho Teheran Parliament and demanded some of tho porsons whose arrest tho Shah had ordered. The Parliament refused, and some of its supporters fired at tho Cossacks, killing several. The Shah sent artillery and bombarded tho Parliament. (Received Juno 25, 12.23 a.m.) LONDON, Juno 24. The revolutionaries in Persia lost 200. The losses of tho (troops were insignificant. The. “Daily Express” states that SOO citizens were massacred. „■ The “Mail” states that the bombardment destroyed Parliament House and an adjacent mosque, whore five agitators took refuge, whoso arrest the Shah had demanded. All prominent Nationalists, including the members of Parliament and the chief priests, have been arrested. There was much looting. ATROCITY OF SOLDIERS.

WOMEN AND CHILDREN MUTILATED. United Press Association. Copyright a (Received June ‘25, 12.45 a.m.) BERLIN, Juno 24. Teheran telegrams received, at Berlin state the street fighting was continued all day by the armed revolutionists. / _ . Defenceless citizens, ami even women and children, were ruthlessly shot by the soldiers. Many were mutilated and tortured. Eighteen of the reform leaders arrested were loaded with chains nnd •taken before the Shah, who ordered their immediate execution.