Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-12-02
OBJECT TO BRITISH ADVICE
Sir Edward Grey Had Urged Persia
to Yield to Demand.
RUSSIA TAKES PROMPT ACTION
Army at Resht is Ordered to March
Toward Teheran.
FOREIGN MINISTER RESIGNS
CHar Asked Instant Dismissal OF w.
Morgan shuster and Cash In
demnity to Cover Cost of
Sending Troops.

TEHERAN, Dec. 1.-The national coun-
ell has rejected the Russian ultlmatum
by big majority. The foreign minister
has resigned.
The vote Of the national council on re-
lection of the ultimatum was cast In
open session. A subsequent secret sitting
of, the members was practically unan-
imous against compliance.
A cablegram from British Minister Sir
Edward Grey was presented to the as
sembly during its sitting, The dispatch
urgently advised compliance with the
Russian demands, but some Of the mem
bers pointed out that Englands advice
had heretofore only led to Persian hui
initiation. They believed that Sir Edward
Grey had been mislnformed and em-
phatically asserted that Russian injustice
had become intolerable. They thought
that resistance on the part of the Per-
sian government to the Russian de-
mands would awakea foreign attention
and lead to an impartial Inquiry. Com
pllance, on the other hand, would be
construed as a sign of abject cowardlce
and would mean national suicide.
Ala Ed DOweh Assassinated.
Ala Ed Doweh, former governor of the
province Of Ears, was assassinated as
he was leaving his residence today.
Three men participated In the crime.
Speaker after speaker declared that II
was impossible for Persia ever to sign
away its own independence. II Russia
should wrest 1t from it that would be
Gods will.
A danufatlnn Of l,at. 90 h.
tional council waited on w. Morgan
shuster before the vote was taken in the
parliamentary session. The American
treasurer general begged them to con-
suit only the interests of their country
and not to consider him. The national
council registered its refusal to comply
with the terms of the Russian ultimatum
at 11:45. Just a quarter of an hour before
the time limit Of the expiration of the
ultimatum.
In the meanwhile large, silent crowds
thronged around the precincts OF the par
Lament house, waiting for the verdict
of the deputies. The Russian minister
here, NJ. Poklewsky -Koziela. notified the
Persian government that the mother.
Shua- Es- -Shultaney and all her property
would heneeforward be placed under the
protection of Russia in compliance with
a request which she had telegraphed to
the emperor and empress OF Russia.
The Russian ultimatum to the terms of
which the Persian national council re-
fused to agree, called, in the first place,
for the instant dismissal of W. Morgan
Shuster, the American who has for sew
eral months occupied the post of Persian
treasurer general. A further demand was
for cash indemnity from Persia to cover
the cost of the dispatch of Russian troops
to that country.
Russians March on Teheran.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. lin conse-
quence of the rejection by the Persian
national council OF the Russian demands,
Russia has ordered the Russian troops,
now concentrated at Resht, capital of the
Persian province of Ghilan, sixteen miles
from Enzeli on the Caspian sea, to ad-
vance on Teheran.
Russia has, 1t is believed, 1000 men
concentrated at Resat. These troops ar
rived at Enzeli, a port on the Caspian
sea, on November %. They were dis
patched to Persia in consequence OF the
delay OF the Persian government in COM
plying with the Russian demand for an
apology 20 the Russian vice consul at
Teheran. NJ. 'Petroff. and the withdrawal
Of the gendarmes raised by W. Morgan
Shuster, the treasurer general, who were
engaged In northern Persia collecting ar
rears OF taxes. The gendarmes had ig-
nored NJ. Petroff when he protested
against the treasurYs seizure of the
property of shuah-Es-sultane. brother OF
the ex-shah.
Taft Asked 10 Mediate.
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-President
Taft was appealed to today by the Per-
an-American Educational society to use
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