PERSIAN PRINCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 73, 26 March 1912, Page 7

PERSIAN PRINCE.

♦ ■ REFUSES TO QUIT IN EXCHANGE FOR A PENSION. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright, TEHERAN, 25th March. Salar-ed-Dowleh, uncle of the Shah, and leader of the Bakhtiari, refuse the Government's suggestion that lie should quit Persia. j n exchange for a pension. Ho demands the district of Kermanshah, in Persian Kurdistan, aa a principality. [The British and Rns*ian Ministers to-night (stated the Teheran correspondent of The Times on "the 6th of last month) made the first portion of th«ir expected communication. It states that Russia is willing, on condition that Persia will grant him a pension and his follower* an amnesty, to inform the exShan, through the Consul at Astrabad, that lie must leave Persia. I understand that <the communication has been mo«t favourably received, and that Persia is ready to accord the ex-Shah h«lf hi* original pension, which was 100,000 tomans (»16,666), and remove the bam upon Salar-od^Dowleh and Shua«e«ijultaneh and reyoko the confiscation bf their properties if they leave Persia, It appears to have been thought advisable, to make this communication imm«dlafcelyjs