BOMBARDING A PARLIAMENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9124, 25 June 1908, Page 5

BOMBARDING A PARLIAMENT.

REVOLUTION IN PERSIA,

Received June 24, 10 p.m. TEHERAN, June 24. A force of cossacks and soldiers surrounded the Teheran Parliament and demanded that some persons, who3e arrest the Shah had ordered, should be handed over to them. Parliament refused to accede to the request, and some of its supporters fired intd the cossacks, killing several. The Shah then sent artillery and bombarded Parliament. REVOLUTIONARIES LOSSES. 800 CITIZENS MASSACRED. NATIONALISTS AND PRIESTS ARRESTED. Received June 25, 12.28 a.hi. LONDON, June 24. The revolutionaries in Persia lost three hundred. The losses of the troops are insignificant. The "Daily Express" states that tight hundred citizens were massacred. Th 9 "Daily Mail" states that the bombardment destroyed Parliament Hons3 and the adjacent mosque, wh6re five agitators, whose arrest the Shih had demanded, were hiding. All the prominent Nationalists, inclu.iig members of Parliament and thi chief priedts, have been arrested. WOMEN AND CHILDREN SHOT DOWN. REFORM LEADERS EXECUTED. Received June 26, 12.35 p.m. BERLTN, June 24. Teheran telegram 3 received at Berlin state that street fighting continued all day. Armel revolutionists, defenceless citizens and even woman and children were ruthlessly shot by soldiers. Many ware mutilated and tortuied. Eightaen reform leaders were arrested and put in loaded chains and taken before the Shah, wlio ordered their immediate execution.