PERSIAN UNREST.
ANOTHER REVOLUTION BREWING. By Telegraph.—Frees A&ui.—Copyright. Delhi, April 21. A message from Teheran says the whole police force struck owing to not being paid for several months. Regular troops are replacing them temporarily, but they also are disaffected for some reason. Recent reports indicate that another revolution is brewing in Persia. There ■is marked hostility to the Shah and the British. Kabul reports depict the situation in Bokhara as serious. Lately there has been widespread fighting. According to the Afghan Press, Usman Khoja. President of the Bokhara Republic ,is refuging in Afghanistan. The general situation is obscure. In connection with the disfigurement of Calcutta memorials, the police arrested a man who was about to repeat the operation. He was holding a pot of black liquid and a brush. He was well dressed, but apparently slightly deranged. He admitted former outrages. The man said he was a member of the Punjab Anarchist Society.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1922, Page 5
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154PERSIAN UNREST. Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1922, Page 5
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