FOOD SUPPLIES AND FIELD PIECES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13948, 1 May 1909, Page 2

FOOD SUPPLIES AND FIELD PIECES.

(Received May 1, 8.5 a.m.) . TEHEUAN, April 30. KusMan forces in Persia mini her lO.NM). A detachment with .supplies ai'd i tiold pieces has entered Tabri.". 111(1 Wiah has dismissed tho Prime Umrr-r and tho Minister for War and In- gi son both portfolios to his uncle -Vul>ossiiltaneli, an incorri"iblo reacfionr.is Uritish and Hussian Ministers li:tvo mloimc-d the Shall of their strong dis.ippi,,v r> !. ]f ,] loi( . roproM-ntations ai<- unanswored by Sunday they will bo compelled to request another audience.

[The Shah of Persia does not take ciiicjjy to the process of being benevolent Is coerced into constitutional paths by P.n^land and Russia. He kicked at > irst against their demand' that ho should promptly issue writs ior a new I ailiainent, aM»-j,ing that the revolt nii'.t lio (Miollod in Tabriz before he could lestoir the Constitution. But as tlx- icvoit broke out because he had tramped tho Constitution under foot, th" two protecting Powers persisted, and ho all unatoly -jave wax and a general election was ordered lor November iiom. Tliero \, as, of course, much jubilation o/or tins result, jliut it committed the two Powers to. a joint protectorate in fact, although not in form, ol tho l'orsian State]