GERMANS FOMENT TROUBLE IN PERSIA.
SEDITION-MONGERING \H THE ' MEN URGED TO KILL THEIR EKGUSH OFFICERS. The Press Bureau states that documentary: evidence-has reached:the Govern ment proving that the German Consular officials intrigued to facilitate the invai sion of Persia by the Turks. - ' "" . ■ . i Herr Wassmuss, who was Consul at Shiraz, and who was recently at Cairo and Constantinople, v was in,possession of thousands of.violent and inflammatory—pamphlets, Urdu, Hindustani, Punjaubi and Sitdr, calling upon'the. I men of the Indian army to kill their officers. ■' ,' : \ :" ":':','."■ """.'_ Correspondence found in the German Legation at Bushire shows that a large consignment of arms and ammunition reached, the secretary of. the Bushire Legation, and was taken up country by officers of the gendarmerie for the Persuui "Shefc Raieoli; whowaedeeiroiw ot attacking Biwhire. tegaiion promised / to combine Eaiepli'B attack with a.German movement, already secretly araneed. which wa*deeign»tod to win. <njtr aU Persia. ;' ■\:_,\-^-;r~-^i'cz,V^77^;'.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 5
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