RELIGIOUS FEUD.
Per United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph— Copyright -■"'.,". LONDON, Aug. 2. A; critical situation exists in Persia owing to an agitation by the Mohammedan, priests. A tribe has revolted in the Shiraz district, and 3200 Babis have been expelled from the city of Ispahan owing to apprehension of further trouble. " (The .Persian priesthood of the Mahomedan faith are a powerful body, and work steadily against all progress and reform. The orthodox Armenians form two dioceses, each under its own bishop, and there are also a few hundred Roman Catholic Armenians'.- In cities where Europeans reside wide tolerance is exercised to members of all faiths other than M&homedan, but in other places oppression- and cruelty are not unknown.) :
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Southland Times, Issue 19115, 4 August 1903, Page 3
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119RELIGIOUS FEUD. Southland Times, Issue 19115, 4 August 1903, Page 3
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