The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-14
REBELS RESUME
 HOSTILITIES TODAY
Rush InfrenchmentS of Persian COssackS
 in Teheran Central Square.
CANNONADING BY BOTH SIDES
Heaviest Casualties so Far Result of This Mornings Engagement Rebels Now Occupy Garden of Colonel LiaknOff, Adjoining the Barracks.
Especial from United Press.l

NSpeclal rom United PreSS.) Teheran, Persia, July 14.-11:3O a. m l-Hostilities were resumed early today
 when the rebels attempted to rush the
 intrenchments of the few hundred
 Persian Cossacks who are holding out
 behind the barricades in Central
 Square, and succeeded in occupying
 the garden of the home of Colonel
 Laknoff which adjoins the barracks.
 Heavy cannonading by both sides re-
 suited in the heaviest casualties that
 have attended the fighting in Teheran.
 The Cossacks are now smelling the position which the rebels gained in the
 garden and are endeavoring to displace the force which they fear will succeed in turning an enfilading fire on the barricade. The engagement was pre-
 ceeded by an attempt by a force of Bakntiara tribesmen to rush the, in- trenchmentS late last night thinking to find the defenders unprepared. They were met by vigorous volley firing and cahnonading which soon cleared the streets before the barricade. The reb-
 els returned to the attack, however, bringing up cannon from the gates of the city. They attacked again under cover of their artillery and were re- pulsed with a heavy loss. A third time they returned and succeeded in getting a foothold in the Liakhoff gar den. Mime. Liakhoff, wife of the com- nIander of the Cossacks, has refused to leave the house, behind the barri- cade, which is now in danger of cap ture by the rebels. She says she will remain near her husband to the end. A Royalist force, summoned hastily by the Shah from Kasvin, arrived at his summer home at Sultanatabad during the night and hurried to the city to at tempt to relieve Lfakhof. They were interrupted by force of rebels and are now shelling the parliament building in the Baharistian quarter in an at tempt to force their way to the cen ter of tn ecity. The rebels are fight ing desperately to repe1 the Shah's re- Inducements and it is doubtful wheth- CT Liakhoff will be able to hold out until the relief can fight it's way to the Square.
 The foreign residents of Teheran are now in grave danger. The rebels, balk- ed in their occupation of the city by the few hundred Russian Cossacks who are barricaded in Central Square and enraged over the furious engage ment now going on at the north gate of the city where a strong force of Royalists from Sultanabad is trying to force an entrance, have demanded of theN British and Russian legations an explanation of the flying of the Rus sian flag above the barricade com manded by Colonel Liakhoff. The flag itself is a mere excuse to cause inter national complications by precipftating a massacre.
 He IoDSl lSdueTS say IHdI Iu0lr IOI- lowers are being killed by the Loyal ists who are sheltered behind the Rus sian flag and are commanded by Rus sian officers. The latter are hated with great intensity throughout Persia and the rebels are much aroused by the manner in which the flag is kept fly ing over the Liakhoff barricade, where they have left many dead and wound ed in their vain attempts to rush the The rebels have redoubled their efforts to dislodge Liakhoff and his. Cossacks but the latter, encour- aged by the sound of cannonading from the northern end of the city where the Shah's troops are battling to enter and force their way to the relief of the barricade. have gained new energy and are working their guns with disastrous effect. Every at assault or 1anking move ment by the rebels has been frustrated by the fire of the artillery behind the barricade.
 It is understood that the Shah is hurrying endorsements of Loyal troops to the city from the Caspian Sea to invest the city if his force now attacking the northern gate is unable to break through the rebel lines.