STREET FIGHTING IN TEHERAN.
BUTHLESS SLAUGHTER BY SOLDIERS. ' * ■ EIGHTEEN REFORM LEADERS EXECUTED. (Received June 25, 12 r ls a.m.) BERLIN, June 24. Teheran telegrams received at Berlin state that street fighting continued all day. Armed revolutionists and defenceless citizens, even women and children, were ruthlessly shot by the soldiers, and many were mutilated and tortured. Eighteen reform leaders were arrested, / loaded with chains and taken before the Shah, who ordered their immediate execution.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9271, 25 June 1908, Page 1
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