INTRIGUE IN PERSIA.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4019, 8 June 1920, Page 5

INTRIGUE IN PERSIA.

! ONE .ENEMY THE LESS. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) .Aus.-N.Z. Gable Association.) (Received June 8, noon.) London, June 7. It is reported that the Persian Democrats besieged the German Consulate on June 4, attempting to.get the eu-nrender of the Persian Bolsheviks who had, taken refuge there. Herr Wustrow, the Consul, refused the demands a nd turned the machineguns on the crowd. The. Democrats retaliated, ultimately compelling tJie holding of negotiations. It transpired later that Wustrow committed suicide, Wustrow was expelled from Teheran during the war period. Hβ had since "been .persistently exciting Bolsheviks and Turks against the British.