A PARLIAMENT BOMBARDED

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 158, 25 June 1908, Page 2

A PARLIAMENT BOMBARDED

HOW THEY DO THINGS IN PERSIA.

COSSACKS KILLED,

Received Juno 24, 10 p.m. Teheran, Juno 24. A force of Cossacks and soldiers sn*. rounded the Teheran Parliament and demanded some persons whose arrest the Shall ordered. Parliament refused. Some of its supporter* sent for artillery, which bombarded Parliament.

TERRIBLE STREET FRUITING

DEFENCELESS CITIZENS SJIUX

DOWN,

MANY MUTILATED AND TORTURED,

REFORM LEADERS EXECUTED.

Received June 2."), H.l.j a.m

Berlin, June 24.

leheran telegrams i-eceived in .iierlin stale that street lighting continued all. day. Armed revolutionists and defenceless citizens, even women and children, were ruthlessly shot by the soldieiys, Jlany were mutilated and tortured. Eighteen reform leaders H ere arrested. Loaded in chains, they were taken before the Shah, who ordered their immediate execution.

REVOLUTIONARIES' LOSSES.

EIGHT HUNDRED CITIZENS MURDERED.

PARLIAMENT IIOL'SE DESTROYED.

ALL NATIONALISTS ARRESTED.

Received June 2 0, 12.28 a.m. London, June 24.

The revolutionaries in Persia los three hundred. The losses of tlie troop are insignificant.

The Daily Mail states (hat bombard ment destroyed Parliament House am an adjacent niosijue, where live agitator took refuge whose aires! the Shah d< manded.

All the prominent Nationalists, inchu: ,ing members of Parliament and tli chief priests, were arrested. There was much looting.