Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-27
WILL DISSOLVE
PARLIAMENT.
Shah win Issue Decree Sunday
And Order New Elections
For the Assembly.
AMNESTY is PROCLAIMED.
Refugees In Legations No Longer In
Dangcr~-AIl Persia is Under
Martial Law.

Toheran. June 2G--The shah of Fer
STA viii issue a decree Sunday, dissoiv-
ing parliament and ordering new cleo
lions for the assembly and senate
which he will open In state three
months hence.
A general amnesty has been pro
claimed, and there is no longer any
danger TO the refugees in the lcga-
tons
The situation here is steadily inn
proving. The bazaars are reOpenlne.
Troops today are cainped on the streets
and the population is orderly and quiet.
Several foreigners were wounded or
lost property during the recent disor-
ders The British and Russian diplo-
matte representatives have made reprt-
sentations on tho matter 20 the shah,
who has promised to reimburse for all
damages sustained by foreigners.
The last news from Tabrlz indicates
that a renewal OF the lighting there is
imminent, The reVolutiOnsts are short
OF ammunition and the supporters of
the shah are pressing their advan-
tage.
Prince NIeid- Ed-Dowleh, who has
been appointed governor general of Te-
hei'an, IS gradually restoring order,
There was no disturbance last night nor
today. Patrols of Persian Cossacks
suppressed all attempts at dcmonstra-
ton and are Systematically disarming
the people.
Public opinion appears to be steadily
augmenting in favor of the shah, who
is in almost continuous conference with
his ministers Mt the palace with the
view of devsing measures to guaran-
tee order.
UNDER MARTIAL. LAW.
London. June 2G-The Times re
heran correspondent says that the
shahs proclamation declares Persia
To have been under martial law from
June 20, and that II gives Gen. Lihk-
hoff commander OF the Cossacks. a free
hand to deal severely with the peo-
pie.
The assembling Of the people and
the carrying of arms are prohibited on
pain of death.
Several members of the assembly
are IN chains in the royal camp, The
ptherH are scattered and their where
abouts Is unknown. The number OF
prisoners in the camp Is increasing
hourly, Those detailed are being sub
5ected to the worst OF ordeals.
Messages from the provinces are be-
Ing censored, thus severing the prov
inces from communication with the
capital.
II Is difficult TO pass Judgment as vet.
the Times correspondent adds, but UNI
doubtedly the popular feeling Is that
what Is regarded here as the inactivity
OF Great Britain and the activity OF
Russia probably viii restore the shars
authority.
The correspondent also says that II
is reported from Tabriz that the gov
ernor of that city has taken refuge in
the Russian consulate there.
A DISTINGUISHED REFUGEE.
Berlin. June 26.-T'he LokaI Anzeleer
today prints a dispatch from Teheran
saving that among the refugees IN the
biltish legation there Is Takizadeh of
Tabfiz, one OF the best and most high
~ educated speakers of parliament.
whom the shah desires especially to ar
rest. The shah therefore has caused
the legation to be surrounded by a com
pany OF cossacks. Yesterday a patrol
OF sossacks examined carefully every
person who tried To leave the legation.
Ihe British minister, who previously
had assured the shah that the right OF
an asylum would be granted only in
cases OF extreme danger to life, sent
his governments protest against such
surveillance as an Unprecedented insult
and demanded the withdrawal of the
Cossaeks by o'clock this evening.
All OF the legations with the exception
or the German and the Americans have
received refugees
OPPOSED TO INTERVENTION.
ST Petersburg, June 26.-The Russian
press expresses itself editorially as op-
posed TO any form of Russian intervene
ton IN Persia except for the protec-