DISAFFECTION IN PERSIA.
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE
:.; - : ,' ; { ; GOVERNMENT. ; ; By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright. Teheran, . May 27. The members of the Persian National Assembly, being convinced that the Government instigated the recent disorders in Tabriz, where the irregular soldiery killed 250 villagers, sent a deputation to the Shah on the subject. The Shah promised that an inquiry should be held into the matter/but the Assembly is' not satisfied with this promise, believing that the offenders are to be shielded. ,; r During the sitting at which the report of the deputation was '.consider-' ed there was much seditions ; talk, and noisy demonstrations .were indulged in against the Shah; '; '/,,
The Tabriz affair took place in February. The report of it stated that a rebellion had taken place there and that the rebels had seized the local arsenal and closed the public offices. Tabriz is a manufacturing city of 170,000 inhabitants. The massacre of which the Assembly complain.') must hate' taken place during , the suppressing the" uprising. .]'--■•.-.„■ ■. . - . • " i •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13450, 29 May 1907, Page 7
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