The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-29
WILL APPEAL TO
THE BIG POWERS
England and Russia to Be
Asked by Persia to Stop
the Turkish Atrocities.
"FACTS" DIvERGE WIDELY
SITUATION REGARDED AS VERY
GRAVE.

Constantinople, Aug. 2s.-Replying to
the Persian complaints regarding the
last two violations of the frontiers by
Turks, the porte blames the Kurds, but
it is certain that Turkish troops sup
ported the Kurds, who, as always,
committed great atrocities.
Persia will again apply to England
and Russia TO intervene and put an end
to this dangerous situation.
News from the Persian frontier is
contradictory, but there is no doubt
that the incident in the Sui Bulak dis
trict was of a serious character.
The Turkish official version states
that the officer commanding a detach-
ment of 100 men which has been sta
toned for four months at Mergovar,
disputed frontier town, received intelli
gence that the Persian commander,
Medjiss Saltana, with regular troops,
1000 Persian auxiliaries and 400 Ar
menian revOlutiOnaries, was preparing
to deliver an attack. He consequently
applied for achievements, and two
batallions of infantry and one battery
of artillery were sent from Van. The
Persians subsequently made an attack,
but were repulsed with heavy losses,
particularly among the Armenians,
many Of whom were captured.
Says Turks Were Agsressors.
On the other hand, the Persian ac-
count throws the entire responsibility
on to the Turks. Medjiss Saltana, at
the head of 1,2O0 infantry and cavalry,
was, it is declared, sent to Tuli, in the
neighbOrhOOd of Mergovar, in order to
capture and punish the murderers of
an American missionary some time
ago, and also to chastise the numer-
Gus Persian and Kurdish brigands es-
tablished in tat vicinity While en-
camped at Tuli, the Persian officer re-
ceived an ultimatum from the Turkish
commander, who advanced into Persian
territory with four battaliOns of regu-
lars, several guns, and 1000 mounted
Kurdish irregulars, ordering him to
evacuate his camp within three hours
Medjiss Saltana asked for an extension
of time, in order that he might con-
suit with his government, but at the
expiration of the three hours the Turk
ism troops bombarded the camp, fore
ing the, Persians to retire. Notwith-
standing their losses the latter re-
Trained from returning the fire.
The dispute. which threatens to as
sumo grave proportions owing to the
embittered relations between the Sunni
and Shah sects, is occupying the seri-
Gus attention of the porte and diplo-
matte circles. The Persian ambassa-
dor has had repeated interviews with
the Turkish foreign office, and both NJ
ZinOvieff, the Russian ambassador
and Sir Nicholas O'Conor, the British
representative, have addressed verbal
representations to the porte urging the
recall of the Hamidieh troops from
Persian territory
Diplomacy and Mutinous Troops.
Advices from Teheran are that the
Turkish troops have not advanced far
Their into Persian territory. The Kurds
occupy the environs of Urmia. so that
the town is cut off from supplies, and
they have destroyed several more viii
lagos, sacking houses and killing the
inhabitants.
The Imperial Ottoman embassy COM
municates the following:
''Some papers in Europe have recent
ly reported, on the strength of teIe-
grams received from Teheran, that i'm
Perial troops had passed on Persian
territory, near Urmia, and attacked the
Persian army. By being presented in
that light, the facts of this incident
are wrongly exposed, for everyone
knows that the imperial government is
not prompted by any aim at territorial
| extension. and it declares that the i'm
/ perial troops have not been the ag-
gressors. The sole object they have in
view is the maintenance of order and
/ peace, which bands from Persia are
1 seeking to disturb.
THE incursions of such bands. among
/ which a considerable number of Ar
menian asitators are to be found, are
| occurring repeatedly. without the Per-
| sian government taking any steps to
prevent them, notwithstanding the
/ most pressing representations of the
imperial government, which has, there
fore, been compelled to put a stop to
such incursions by military action.
This is the incident which is repre-
! scented by the Persian government as
an attack by the imperial troops, while
these merely do their duty by watching
over the safeguard of the frontier and
of the territory of the empire"
PRISONER IDENTIFIED.
! Leavenworth, Kan. Aug ga man
under arrest at Osceola, Neb.. has