RUSSIA AND PERSIA

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10511, 28 December 1911, Page 5

RUSSIA AND PERSIA

REPORTED MASSACRES DENIED BY THE CONSUL. ATROCITIES UPON WOUNDED. (/Received Last Might, 11 o'clock.) ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 27. An official telegram from J ulufa, Ctottis'iiil-Oeiieu-aUi, reported tibat titoe Oonisu'lMje-iitiiriai at I'auuvz protests against the iiiifaanous caifoiimniies upuui thie Russian troops',, who were treating ttfi'e 'inihabitanlts wiibh biu-moniity, notwithstanding tine atrocities upai tine Rusisdam wounded and mjutiiiufoiotu of bodies. Jttie declares tbaib amy paTtic-J-u- ini. oide'iits' of the luinoeeiifc perisiikiiig Here soi4y due to tlhe boinluardmeiu of tLe houses, viiheoce the, Rus&ltuu d©l)utJhimeu.t >was subjected to a fusii« siat.

'j.ue comanainder or tlhe detachment' removed the women and chjiioirteui im these houyos. to;.the shfcuitfeir of their toieaimpmen*,; and: thence; itey ' Were. ijohvey€tu to tovvij. by' peax-'eabl©,'iji'- . JijaiJjliiaiiitsi,' 'wbo-vw.erfe tfsiebrted .by Rus^iaw : solda©jrs:''•-' >',"'' ■ '.:' The officer commiandiing 'Viae latteawas ;KiA«ki;, Su'bs/eqeiiutly the ConsuMaeiverai infai'iiieo Jliie (jioternor Chiiief that td>e ctoaQiiiaament of the people was* a pa-e«reiquAsite to the negotia-

Won, aariing that lie would mot toilorate the presence of armed apeattaitors in Jib© streets and on. roofs. ■ H'aoairtls have been posted tiirougjh'out Taihriz, demanding tlhe imaneddr ate surrender of arms. '•: Twenty Pengaan. 5 Cossack si, under vhe Consul-General's, air© pntroHfing the Christian quairteas. The Consul-Generai sent troops to tlhe spot where a number of Ruesniaia soMers were killed. The bodies of the latter were found reduced to crimders. There were indications of some hundred corpse* that had' appareta<tly ondly been' severely wounded.