PERSIAN OPPOSITION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 12, 15 January 1915, Page 5

PERSIAN OPPOSITION.

TURKS -HEL!> BACK ¥OU TEN

HOURS.

BY 400 PERSIANS

MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS

(Received Jan. 15. 8.50 a.m.) PETROGRAD, Jan. 14. Soudja-ed-Doules, formerly _ Governor of Azerbaijan, has arrived at Tiflis.

I He with 400 men fought the Turks for ten hours and defended a bridge to enable the refugees to escape. All but four of his . followers were annihilated. The staffs of the Consulates and bank's at Tabriz escaped. The Turks and Kurds massacred the Christians and refugees at Maindoab. Cossacks ambushed two companies of Turks and 120 ' gunners on the Caucasus frontier ,>and killed or <took all prisoners. They also captured nine field-guns.