THE CRISIS IN PERSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9150, 24 July 1908, Page 5

THE CRISIS IN PERSIA.

SHAH SENDS REINFORCEMENTS. Received July 23, 8.20 a.m. TEHERAN, July 22. The Shah has ordered three brigand tribes to reinforce Uakhim Pasha at Tabriz. Fierce fighting took ;• <;ic at Tabriz on Monday, and two hundred casualties were repoi ie l. Ihe present Shah, Mahomeil Ali Mirza, succeeded his father as •it in January last year, and from tho tics 1 ., .-howed that he was opposed to che new constitution, granttd sin rtlv before his father's death. .>-.'113 "f the

National Council wi-i' 1 invit--.! to the coronation or the sui.v. quei.t Durbar, but the Reform party's agitation becoming dangerous, (ho Shah formally recognised and coi;lir: i; tl the Constitution. All through the year the position was danger. us. and a strong party was formed with the object of deposing the Sultan i;; favour of his uncle. The trouble' has continued through this year, and about three weeks ago, after summoning the notables of Teheran to Baghshah, a village Outside the capital, he caused the Reform WiLleddnvleh, Ala-ed dowl .'i:, and Sardar-el-Mansur, to be arrested. He th3n appointed a notorious reactionary named Hadji-ed-dowleh Governor of Teheran. The capital had for some weeks been in a state of panic, and the Shall, foreseeing trouble, has been increasing his forces.