The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-15
FURIOUS ATTACKS
 BY THE REBELS
BUT COL. LIAKNoF;F AND LITTLE FORGE STILL HOLD THEIR
 POSITION
Shells Damage Residences
Cossacks Ordered to Cease Firing at Noon Today and Generally Under ities Will Be Followed By Surrender of the Royalists.
Special from United Press.)

Special from United Press.)
 Teheran, July 15.-Colonal Liakhoft
 and his little force of weary Cossacks
 still hold their position in the barri-
 cade in the Central Square despite g
 furious attack by the rebels at day.
 break today. At intervals the wild
 tribesmen, the Bakhtiari, attempt tc
 creep up within striking distance ot
 the barricade, and time after time the strets before the intrenchments are
 swept clear by moving artillery fire. The cannon with which the Cossacks armed the barricade have been the only real setback that the Nationa1iSts have met in their occupation of the city.
 In this mornings attack on the bar ricade the rebels brought up several heavy guns from the forts at the to shell the CossackS' position. The guns were not of the field variety and they had great difficulty in handling them in the streets. No sooner had ricade than the well directed fire of the Cossack artillerymen dismantIed the guns and drove the rebel gunners to cover. The rebels succeeded in fir practically all of which damaged the foreign residences about the Central Square. Before the rebels retired an- other shell dismantled the residence of pr. Scott, an English resident physic- ian. Shells from the Cossack cannon have wrecked many of the houses in the line of their fire. This morning the city is entirely deserted save for the rebels and the Cossacks entrenched behind the barricade.
 The Shah, at his palace at Sultana- bad has summoned every avafla ble loyal soldier from every part of Per sia to the relief of Liakhoff and his besieged Cossacks.
 The force which attacked the town from the north has given up the at- tempt to take the gate. Loyal troops are marching from the shores of Cas- plan Sea and from the Turkish bor- der.
 St. Petersburg, July 15.-The Foreign Office has sent officers to the Russian troops in Persia to arrange for the safe removal of each access to the This has led to the infer ence that the government has receiv- ed information from Teheran that the Shah's position is hopeless and that he will be forced to abdicate and flee. Orders were sent to General Sharsky, who with a Russian army corps has been at Kasvin, 150 miles from Tehe- ran, for a week. He has been de- tered from marching on the capital by the British authorities in Persia who have insisted that Russia observe ! strict neutrality. He will now pro- ,eed, it is expected, to Teheran. Or lers have also been sent to the Rus sian fleet in the Caspian to be ready to go to Persia.
 Teheran, July 15.-Noon.-Lieutena Colonel Lakhoff shortly before noon ordered the Royalist Cossacks to cease firing. It is generally understood that he cessation of the artillery fire which has been continuous since the investment of the barricade, will be ollowed by the surrender of the Cos ;acks. Lieutenant Liakhoff, it is un- lerstood, is arranging a state of terms lpon which he will surrender.