PERSIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12584, 3 October 1908, Page 5

PERSIA.

Reform Smothered.

New Constitution Practically

Annulled.

Press Association. -Telegraph. — Copyright.

Received October 3, 8.20 a.m.

TEHERAN, October 2.

The Shah has issued a rescript, indirectly repealing the Constitution, as being against the nature of the country. He instructs the Grand Vizier to convoke a "pious" Mejliss (Assembly), capable of fully dispensing the royal justice. The rescript deprives the province of Tabriz of the right of participating in the Mejliss, before the "irresistible royal force" has destroyed the rebels in that district.