The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-04
Especial from United Press.)

Teheran, Persia, Nov. 4-The Eng
 fish invasion of Persia has begun with
 a pitched battle, in which it is re-
 ported that the commander and sev-
 eral other of the sailors of the Brit
 ish cruiser Prosperine were wounded. l Serious trouble. even to the point of
 involving Russia, France and Germany,
 is expected 10 follow
 1 According to advices received here,
 the Prosperine landed force of ma l rines several days ago at Lingah, in Laristan, on the Gulf of Persia. Ad- ditional forces of bAlejackets were
 landed today, and it is reported here
 that they were attacked by the Per
 sians, pitched battle resulting The
 number of casualties is not reported, | nor is it known how many were injur-
 ed
 There is every reason to believe that I the British invasion is part of a well l formed program between England and Russia. The Persians, so regarding it,
 have declared that they will fight to | the end and have even appealed, se-
 cretly, to Germany and France for pro- l lection against aggrandizement by | Great Britain.
 Germany, Austria and France are
 known to be opposed to the acts of | 1 ter a formal protest. As "a matter of
 fact, the opposing nations regard the
 matter as one of serious consequences | and it would not be surprising to see
 them go to almost any length to pre-
 vent the gobbling up of Persia. There | are vital reasons why England and
 Russia want to seize Persia, and just
 as vital reasons why Germany, France
 Austria and even Turkey will oppose ] the move.
 Russia must remain a second rate i power forever, unless she can obtain
 a seaport perennially free from ice
 For hundreds of years Russia has been planning Automatically for just such | a port Every port in Russia is block 1 ed some time during the year by the | ice. It was the need of an open port
 that drove her to seize Vladovostok
 and lay her eyes upon other Asiatic ports. She could reach these ports 1 by means of the trans-Siberian rail- 1 road But Japan, seeing the danger, i drove Russia away.
 l Russia turned toward Persia There
 on her Turkistan frontier. lay Prussia, with ports along the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Omar, open to the Arabian ! Sea all the year round. Russia began "RussianiZing'' Persia establishing Russian schools, banks, commerce, railroads. and churches. When there was an uprising in Teheran, Russian COSsackS poured across the frontier and checked the outbreak Russia was preparing to get port in which no ice blocked navigation.
 England was just as vitally inter- ested. Her Indian frontier was con- stantly menaced. The tribesmen of India along the Persian frontier have never been loyal. They might aid any enemy invading India through Persia. To prevent this danger, England be- gan 'tAnglecizing'' that portion of Per sia within the British sphere of in 1luence."
 Some time ago England notified Per sia that, unless order was maintained in the portions of Persia over which she had set her claim. England would send an armed force into Persia to make peace and charge an indemnity. Persia. unable to pay an indemnity. would have her customs houses seized and the annexation would become com Elete.
 It was in pursuance to this threat that the English force landed. Eng