Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-28
TEXT OF THE SHAH'S DECREE
TELLS OF DISSOLUTION OF
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
Wants Patriots Elected to Next Par
liament-Tells Reasons for
Course

Gen. MorteZa. Persian minister to the
United States. has received a copy of
decree issued by the shah explaining the
clash at the parliament house Thursday
|. The decree is addressed to the prime
minister. Mochirsaltaneh. and says:
! ut is known that many societies and
clubs. have been founded without any pur
pose and have interfered with the bust
ness of the state. which was not their
function. in such a manner that the order
of the country was disturbed and control
vas taken from the hands of the govern
nlent. Those societies and clubs want
/ i@S to interfere with all the business OF
the state. anarchy was threatening in
all the country. which would have led to
the destruction of the old government of
| Persia.
| Order Was Disturbed.
| Ion the one hand. newspapers and some
| speakers that were supported by these
| societies and clubs made great trouble
in all parts of the country and disturbed
the order of the state. And as the order
| and maintenance of the country must be
| under U.s. in the hands of some educated
! and capable men. We try to have these
societies and clubs pursue their own func-
! TONS and to restrain them from making
! trouble. But they were sustained by
the national assembly, our sincere wishes
and desires had no influence and made
| no impression upon them.
''On the other hand a sroup of reyolu-
tloniSts who were seeking to precipta at g
anarchy upon the country was opposed
To the conduct of the business of the state
| 1nally. to restore order i'm the coun-
try which God has placed i'm our hands
for the benefit of all the people after
whom we look as our children, we wanted
To arrest the rev0lutionists and put an end
To their unlawful operations. AS soon as
we took such course the national as
sembly protected them Many of the revo-
| lutfOnists took refuge i'm the building of
the assembly and barricaded themselves
against the army, beginning by using
| bombs. guns and other firearms
| I'm such a case we have been obliged
| to dissolve the national assembly for
three months. After that period we want
| the election or reelection of. patriotic
and capable members of the assembly. At
the same time, the election of members
of the senate must take place according
to the constitution in order that the
houses of the assembly and the senate
may be opened the same day.
| I'VE order that this decree be tele-
graphed to all the governors of the prov
| inces that the whole population may know
our good intentions for their welfare and
for the tranquility of the country"
| Today mail report came to the state
| Department from Consul Doty. at Ia
briz showing conditions as they existed
at that place June l. Necessarily be-
cause of its old date it is of little value
| as bearing on the present situation.
Shah's Acts Constitutional.
| BERLIN. June 27-The Lokal AnZeiger
today prints dispatch from Teheran
| saying that among the refugees In the
British legation there is Takizadeh OF
| Tahriz one of the best and most highly
educated speakers of parliament. whom
the shah desires especially to arrest
The shah. therefore. has caused the le-
cation to be surrounded by company
| of Cossacks Yesterday a patrol of Cos
sacks examined carefully every person
| who tried to leave the legation.
| The British minister, who previously
had assured the shah that the right OF
asylum would be granted only In cases
of extreme danger of life. sent his gov
ernn,ent S protest against such surveil-
lance as an unprecedented insult and de-
manded the withdrawal of the Cossacks
by 6 O'Clock this evening,
| All the legations. with the exception OF
the German and the American, have re-
| ceived refugees.
| ST. PETERSBURG, June 27.-The Rus
| sian press expresses itself editOrially as
opposed to any form OF RUSSIAN inter
! vention in Persia, except for the protec-
ton of the lives and property of foreign
| ers or to save Persia from spollation at
| the hands of Turkey.
! The NOvOe Nremya explains that the
! shah up to'the present time has observed
| the constitution faithfully, and says the
dissolution of parliament is permissible
| and would even be advisable.
| Similar views regarding non-intervention
are held at the foreign office. where it
was explained today that the British and
Russian measures against a dynastic up
heaval were not designed to interfere
with the right of the Persian people to
determine the form of government they
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