REVOLT IN PERSIA.
REBELS AGASN VICTORIOUS.
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(Received August 12, .10.30 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, August 11. ■: Telegrams from Astrabad state that ,the ex-S3iah's adherents have captured Semnan, four days' march from Ter, heran. ? LONDON, July'2B. It is firmly believed that Persia is on the verge of a long and. bitter struggle between the present Government and the deposed Shah, who has. .'returned under bogus passports with followers estimated to number 50,000. The Government troops number 50,000, btit their loyalty.is doubted.
Tlie German Press suggest that the Shah is an impostor, and is commissioned by England and Russia to create disorder, and thus facilitate the partition of Persia between those .two Powers. 1 Germany is closely watching development's, v :
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8445, 12 August 1911, Page 5
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