RUSSIA IN PERSIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 13, 28 December 1911, Page 5

RUSSIA IN PERSIA.

RUSSIA DENIES PERPETRATION OF ATROCITIIES. COUNTER-ALLEGATIONS. St. Petersburg, December 27. An official telegram from Julfa, Trans-Caucasia, reports that the Con-sul-General at Tabriz protests at the infamous calumnies upon the Russian troops, who are treating the inhabitants with humanity, notwithstanding the atrocities upon Russian wounded and the mutilation of bodies. The communication declares that any particular instances of the innocent perishing is solely due to the bombardment of the houses from whence a Russian detachment was subjected to a fusilade. The commander of a detachment removed the women and children from those houses to the shelter of an encampment, and they were thence conveyed to town by peaceable inhabitants and escorted by Russian soldiers. The officer commanding the latter was treacherously killed. Subsequently the Consul-General informed the Governor and the Clref Mullah that disarmament of the people was essential to the opening of peace negotiations, adding that he would not tolerate the presence of armed spectators in the streets and on the roofs.

Placards arc posted throughout Tabriz demanding the immediate surrender of arms.

Twenty Russian Cossacks, undei* the Consul-General’s instructions, arc patrolling the Christian quarters. The Consul-General sent troops to the spot where a number of Russian soldiers were kdlecl. The bodies of the latter were found reduced to cinders, and there were indications that some of the burned corpses had apparently been only severely wounded and burnt to death. THE PERSIAN GOVERNMENT. (Received 28, 8.5 a .pi.) Teheran, December 27. The Director of the Persian Department of the Foreign Office, interviewed, declares that Russia has convinced the Persian Government not to be associated with the anti-Russian outbreaks at Tabriz and elsewhere. The authors of the Caucasian outbreaks were principally Armenian criminals posing as political agitators. Ho adds throe thousand five hundred Russia troops are going to Tabriz.