THE PERSIAN INSURRECTION.
PILLAGE AND MASSACRE.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN SHOT.
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St Petersburg, March 16. The "Novoe Vremya" reports that 1000 Persian horsemen and 500 tribesmen are marching on • the Persian bank of the river Araxes towards Julfa. They have pillaged and _burnt ten villages and massacred the inhabitants. Many- women carrying children on their backs were shot while attempting to swim the river to the Russian bank. " _ ' Teheran, March 16. The Yussi tribe offer to surrender.
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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12490, 17 March 1909, Page 3
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79THE PERSIAN INSURRECTION. Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12490, 17 March 1909, Page 3
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