Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-25
The REVOLUTION In PERSIA.

immense and enthusiastic crowd In the |
parliament PIAZZA
Ahmed Mira lie the second son OF |
Mohammed All. the defhroned shah. He |
has been chosen rather than the eldest |
son because the mother OF the eldest was |
not a princess of the reigning hajar |
family. There are three brothers and |
years OF age.
A dispatch from Teheran of the 18th |
instant announced that the dethroned
shah had taken refuge In the Russian |
Saradarasad addressed the following tele-
gram to the British and Russian lega-
tons:
''ln accordance with the decision Of the
national council. which met today. July
II, at BahaFistan. 1t will
Official be necessary for depu-
tation from the council to
DePosltion' wait upon His Majesty
Mohammed All to notify him of the
change Of soyereigns As his majesty IS
at present a refugee in the Russian lega-
ton under British and Russian protec-
ton we request your excellencies to NIX
the time tomorrow when his majesty may
receive the deputation"
conscious of the dignity of his office. re-
scented the unnecessary offense by the
nationalist leaders through the Russian
legation
His majesty states that having taken
refuge in the Russian legation he has
ipso facto abdicated; therefore he does
not wish to receive deputation which
comes for the purpose Of informing him
of the fact
There Is another revolutionary leader in
Persia whose name has not been men
toned in recent dispatches, but who.
nevertheless, counts in the battle for
constitutionalsm in Persia, Satar Kahn.
the leader OF the Circassian revolution
aries.
NJ Goblet, director of the high school
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales) In
France, writes in the Correspondence
d'Qrient, under the title Can Persia Be
Free"
NJ Goblet expresses the fear that the
empire of the kadjars is In serious dan
ger of dissolution. THE shah and his
counselors are incapable. Persia. old
Persia, is dead Persia, new Persia, is
she born to live?" asks NJ. Goblet. who
fears that she Will not live. THE Kad-
jar soyereigns have caused the empire
/. and the people to fall very low. but the
shaking up of the empire since the last
two years may prove efficacious.
Il -
NJ Oh. de Million likewise writes IN the
Correspondence d'orient, under the title
Evolution Of the
Anglo-Russian Persian Crisis
On April %, 1909.
AePiesentaeions' the d p o matte
agents of England and Russia at
Teheran made q joint demand upon
Mehammed Ali Shah that hostilities
should be suspended at Tabriz and am
nesty accorded. They demanded at the
same time the establishment OF the
constitution, the formation OF an 1nde-
pendent ministry and the cOnvocation OF
parliament. Mohammed All shufhed, hes
itated and finally declared he was READY
to accord a constitution based upon the
religious law. Sir Edward Grey In the
house of commons explained that thai
was not what the Persian people wanted
They desired an occidental constitution,
and that the people had refused the con
stitutien based upon the religious law
The nomination OF Naib-es-Saltanan. his
uncle, as grand vizier "a notable reaction-
ary) was the last straw.
This attitude of the shah Justified and
explained the Russian entrance into Per-
STA. April 30 their advance guard was at
Tabriz The natienalists were not pleased
at Russian Intervention. It was dis-
cussed seriously In the councils OF the
party if it were not better to surrender
to the royalists rather than SUBMIT 10
the Russian occupation
The Russians, however, were equal to
the occasion and announced by clrcu-
lars to the population that as soon as
order was restored at Tabriz, the lives
and property of the consular representa-
tives and foreigners and Russians free
from danger, the Russian detachment
would be recalled. The entry of Russian
fofn e
feet Of suspepding the state of siege,
the opening of the road to Djoulfa. and
with abundance of provisions and the
circulation of the usual camel corps
there was q return to normal conditions
The news Of loan to the shah by Rus
STA of $5O.000.Q00 was the cause Of a
renewed wave of discomfort among the
people, who We're now fully convinced that
the shah had sold their country to Rus
STA. Satar Khan became an object of
hostility GA the part of the Russians, and
to such a point that Satar ned and took
refuge at the Turkish consulate. whence
he addressed to the European press the
following prOtestation:
"The Russian government in entering
Persia has tredden under foot the rights
of our country. That ma
Protest. ton, notwithstanding its
official notes and prom
''es"' Uses, has mixed itself up
in our interior affairs. hooking our sa-
cred rights for which we have shed our
blood, and has not hesitated by armed
force to impose upon Khoressan an i'm
possible governor. Russia has done the
same thing In the Azerbidjan. Notwith-
standing the general amnesty Persia
has caused Russian subjects To be
arrested. In the name of nation op-
pressed since many centuries, thirsting
for liberty and shedding its blood for its
imprescriptible rights. we protest in the
name of all humanity, and we implore
Europe not to permit us to fall vic
tim TO brutal force. Civilized Europe
will then have without aid martyrized
nation which wishes to regenerate her.
self? In seeking refuge at the Ottoman
consulate, we protest with all our force
civilized world against such brutal and
unqualified violence
lmbued with such energy and patriotic
ardor. Persia bares her breast for the
contest ii need be. Borne upon the shield
OF such chiefs as Stpahdar, Saradarasad
and Satar. Persia can and will be free
But not all the efforts Of these NAV
avail to maintain Persia's freedom and
independence if those who hold her des-
tiny in their hands now do not heed the
suggestion that the only way to maintain
freedom and independence from the rule
of the stranger is to appeal for neuralgia !
ton. Naturalization alone may save Per-
STA as a nation. The door to The Hague !