PERSIA'S REBELS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17273, 11 October 1921, Page 8

PERSIA'S REBELS.

A LEADER KITTiLED.

CBr CaMe—Pk« Aseocktioii—OopyrlgW.) (AuetraiiaD and N.Z. Cabla Association.) ! ' DELHI, October 8. Mohammed Taghi, leader of the Khorassan rebellion, was defeated and killed at Kucheran. The Persian GoTernment claims to have proof that he was seditiously corresponding with Afghanistan and the Bolsheviks at Tashkent. The Cosßack force sent to oppose Kutchik Khan is now nearing Resht. fit was reported from Allahabad on September 6th that the Persian Government had sent a force of Cossacks from Teheran against Mohammed Taghi, the acting governor of Meshed. Negotiations with Kiitchik Khan had up till then been abortive. He was still styling himself head of the Gilan Republic. Kutchik Khan, a notorious bandit who has defied .the Teheran Government for years, opposed General Dunsterville's advance to Baku in 1918. When the Bolsheviks commenced their propaganda in Persia, they assisted Kutchik Khan, and eventually he was set up as Soviet President of the Hepublic of Gilan. Immediately afterwards the Bolsheviks further educated Kutchik Khan in of communism by removing all the available supplies from Gilan to Russia. This proved too much for Kutchik Khan, who retired the forests . west of Resht,' where he remained in open hostility to the Bolsaeviks and to the Persian Government.]