New-York tribune., 1911-12-27
sHVSTER READY TO GO; |
AWAITS A SUCCESSOR
treasurer General of Persia Ex-
uresSeS Willingness to Hand
Over His Accounts.
RUSSIANS DENY ATROCITIES
Troops, However, Continue to
Kill Natives in Tabriz, Accord
''' ing to Dispatches to Wash
ington from Teheran.

Teheran Dec. 26.-W. Morgan Shustcr,
,bs American Treasurer General of Per-
=. who has been dismissed from office
-, the Cabinet in compliance with the
demands contained in the Russian ulti-
,ratum. sent his reply to-day 10 the
cabinet. He stated his willingness to
hand over his accounts when his sue
,essor was named. and added that his
,b,of solicitudc now was for the welfare
-, his fourteen American assistants. con-
corning whom nothing has yet been de-
,ide6.
Meetings were held to-day i'm the
various mosques 10 protest against the
action Of the government The Minister
~ the Interior has issued an order that
new elections shall be held. as soon as
possible
The latest dispatches from Tabriz re-
rort temporary lull in the fighting A
telegram from Shiraz. province Of Ears,
where a boycott had been instituted
against the Indian troops. reports am
other attack on the Indians near Kazcr-
oor. ir which two Sowars were killed.
The situation there is regarded rs Sc
dous
Washington. Dec. 26.-The contract f
". Morgan Shuster with the Persian
government 10 manage the finances Of
Persia has not been formally cancelled.
so far as the State Department can
learn a cable dispatch received to-day
from G. w. Russell. American Minister
in Teheran. however, dealt with the
mans being made 10 GET Mr. Shuster and
bs family safely ont Of Persia. Hence.
II is assumed that the formalities at
tending the termination Of Mr.. Shusters
activities I'm that country will not be
long delayed
Tho Russian troops continue to kill
persians in Tabriz. according 10 dis
matches received in Washington to-day
from official sources I'm Teheran. Gable
messages from the Persian capital do
clare that alleged Russian atrocities
have so aroused the Persian people that
It will ho impossible now 10 bring about
sn, amicable settlement between Russil
and Persia.
The Persian attitude is declared to be
ono Of growing hostility
The meagreness of the news that is
coming TO the outer world from the Per-
sian capital has led 20 the suspicion that
a severe censorship is being exercised
over tho news dispatches by the Rus
SLAMS. who control some Of the tele-
graphic channels Of communication
~ petersburg. Dec ga telegram from
'rabriz SAYS that the total loss Of the Rus
slams killed and severely wounded in the
recent fighting In that city is about one
hundred. Several bodies Of Russian SOL
d.ory have been found partly burned
Tho director Of the Persian Department
or the Russian Foreign Office. in an inter
view to-day. said that the government was
convinced that the Persian government was
not concerned i'm the ant-Russian outbreak
a, Tabriz or elsewhere. Those responsible
were principally Armcnians and criminals
The Russian Consul General at Taori2
has talegra phed to-day TO the Russian For
egn Office a vigorous denial OF the charges
NJ murder and outrage which have been
launched against the Russian troops by the
Persian authorities.
The consul general says II protest
against this Infamous caiumny on our
troops who have always treated the peace
able populacc with humanity, notwithstand-
ing the atrocities wreaked by the Persians
On OUT wounded soldiers and the mutilation
Of our killed
'If isolated innocent persons have Suf
fered IL can only have been during the BON
bardment Of houses in the vicinity Of oul