HUNDREDS KILLED.
RUTHLESS SLAUGHTER.
PARLIAMENT HOUSE DESTROYED.
(Received Juno 2oth, 12.2S a.m.) LONDON, June 2i. Tlio revolutionaries in Persia lost 300. Tlk> losses of tho troops wero insigniiicmt. Tho 'Daily Express" states that BCO citizens wero massacred. The '-Daily Mail" states that tho bombardment destroyed Parliament House and , the adjacent mosque, where live agitators took refuge, whoso arrest tho Shall had demanded. All the prominent Nationalists, including members of Parliament a.nd chief priests, wero arrested. There was much looting. BERLIN. June 24. Tebcran received in Beriin state that street fighting continued all day. Armed revolutionists «uid d<feneolei.* citizens and even, women and , children wero ruthlessly shot by soldiers aoid many mutilated, andi tortured. Eighteen, reform leaders wore arrested, loaded with chains, and taken before the Shah, who ordered their immediate execution.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13151, 25 June 1908, Page 7
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