Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-26
TEHERAN STILL
BEING LOOTED
ONE HOUSE TO BE B0MBARDED
DAILY
splAH ORDERS PlLLAGlNG TO GO
ON INDEFINITELY
New Parliamentary Building Is Being
Raced and the President Under
French Protection - More
Killed and Many Flee

BY Associated Press.
TEHERAN, June 25.-Looting and
disorder are not yet at an end at Tehe-
ran, and while the city is more quiet
today than 1t was Tuesday and We'd
nesday and the people and troops are
more orderly, further encounters are
expected before nightfall.
The shah has appointed the Russian
colonel of Cossacks to the position OF
governor of Teheran.
Santi-el-Dowley, minister of finance,
a member of the parliament named
Sadio Haeret, and Muchlier-el-Muelk,
secretary of parliament, accompanied
by their families, have taken refuge
at the italian legation here.
The shah has issued orders that one
house be bombarded each day. He is
making a list of prescribed houses be-
longing to- persons opposed to him.
After house has been bombarded 1t
Is subjected to complete pillage.
The pillage of the home of Ala-el-
Dohel, who is absent from Teheran, Is
appointed.
The members of the European colony
are indignant over the atrocities oc-
curing before their eyes, although
they themselves remain unframed.
Representatives of the various le-
cations have sent word to the COM
mander of the British guard express
ing their condemnation of the con-
tinued plundering of property and the
numbering of innocent people.
Bombardment Ordered
The shah has given orders that the
chancellery of parliament again be
bombarded.
Workmen are at present engaged in
demolishing the remains of the parlia-
mentary building proper. while many
tSxR feex "a I,A Tlrtt
ish legation.
When the minister of finance and
others sought refuge at the German
legation 1t was refused them on the
ground that their lives were in no i'm
mediate danger
The president of parliament has
placed himself under French protection.
The vice president is a prisoner.
A deputy named Ibrahim Rihan has
declared that three instead of two of
the best known agitators have been
hanged at the shah's orders
The bazaars are being kept open to-
day, the authorities having issued strict
orders to this end.
The shah has ordered that new par
liamentary election be held.
High born Persians are in constant
fear that their houses may be destroyed
and pillaged any moment.
The principal streets have been posted
with copies of proclamation by the
shah announcing his intention of main
tanning the people of popular repre-
sentation and the constitution. These
proclamations are identical with those
Issued shortly before the disorder broke
out.
Fighting In Trabrlz
A dispatch from Tabriz says that the
fighting between revolutionists and ad-
herents of the reactionary party, which
began early Wednesday morning, con-
tinued until nightfall.
The combatants were called to arms
by trumpeters who paraded through
the city and exhorted the people to rise.
The governor is panic-stricken and Is
planning to flee to Tifis. The lower
classes at Tabriz are pillaging freely.
Two mosques used as headquarters
by patriotic societies have been sacked
and destroyed. The looting and pillag-
ing through the city has been the work
of regular troops and hoodlums.