PERSIA'S DEPOSED SHAH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 161, 2 August 1909, Page 4

PERSIA'S DEPOSED SHAH.

Professor Aam'bery, the great Oriental traveller, gives the following account of the deposed Shah and of his political likings:—"One should always remember that the Persian is more astute and elever than he is given credit for. hammed Ali Mirza has a strange combination of virtues and vices. r |le did not get on well with his father. T distinctly remember bis father telling me what an excited, passionate, rpiarrel>ome fellow he was, always in trouble, and ;thvay< in need of a friend. Yet alongside tlii? part of his character one may Jind redeeming 1 ijualiti'es. such as when, by the ruse nf making the 300 men of a garrison in an Armenian lo<aiily change their uniform four times ftnd marched out a. mob bent on massacre was overawed by apparent numbers. It is also stated that it was he as Crown Prince who virtually .secured the indemnity paid to the widow of the Iveb. Ltinuec, an American missionary, murdered in Persia. The Shah has, however, only (wo eyes—one for England. the other for Russia." The deposed Shah has four sons, nanielv, (1) Itezad as Saltalle.il, (2) Pultan Ahmed .Mirza. Variahd (heir appaivni), (:\) .Mohammed Mehdi Mirza. U) .Mohammed' Mirza. There are a!-o some daughter*. According to the Constitution, the Shall must belong to (he Shiah laith. and his successor must be his eldest sou. or next male* heir in succession, u!i >- • m,oilier was a Kajnr princess. The mother of the deposed monarch was not a Kajar prin;;;id his eldest son is not heir apbecause his mother was not a Kajar piincess.