The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-01-16
'SHUSTER STARTED
AN ARMY IN PERSIA
Real Reason of RuSSia'S' Inter-
ference as Given by
a Friend.
MEN FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Called In to Drill Customs Gendarmes
Into the Nucleus of
Fighting Force.

"The real reason why Russia hristled up
and forced the ousting of William Morgan
Shuster from the Office of the Treasurer
General of Persia WAS because he had
already begun to move to lay the founda-
tions of a national army
This is the sta ement made yesterday
by Patrick Gallagher. friend and former
associate of Shuster' in Manila. who had
been in communication with the young
American administrator. and who says
that he knows much of the inside history
of Shuster's appointment TO the delicate
executive post in Asia and of the Influences
that dictated a policy Of non-interference
al Washington when Shuster was lighting
alone his losing struggle against th
might of the Russian Government.
Mr. Gallagher said that before he had
been month in Persia Shuster felt the
strong underrirrent of patriotism tha>
was moving the people TO resent the
division of their country into spheres of
influence of Grea. Britain and Russia
and thai far from failing to recognise
the existence of these respective shper"s
of influence, as some Of the English critics
of Shuster's course have alleged. tn"
Treasurer General determined To give
the Persians permanent weapon with
which to resisi aggression and establish
their Independence
Shnstcr's design so his friend said
yesterday. was ~ work out the rudiments
of standing army under the cloak of
strenpt pthcning the customs gendarmerie.
After securing the full approval Of the
Persian Cabinet h" sent back 10 Manila for
some OF his o'd '',7"cl'NpS' 'ii'h WIZ '''
been o. were IN the fhiiipplne tohstao-
ularv to come to Persia and help him
Chief of those summoned was Can't John
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,',
, ol1''r III 'he 'hliPpi'l' ,'i'9'"o"'" .
who was assistant chief of police at Manila
invitations TO come to Persia went to six
! otb.r man in ,be phiinpines who knew
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army d'scilihe 'h"uSh major
/ stokes. an EnSllshinall. was appointed ny
Shuster head of the customs gendarmerie
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4 W;mi.ta-s Who dasirrd to shake IN the
4 Inminntjnn of the two great Pnvers
I hnnw ,b.t Shus,er found hcfor. he ba1
hoan nr Tho ;oh three months tha, hi.
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Rus.,ans and English and when tbey saw
= The dr;rt Of his nolicies ihey began nj onl
tn mn Obstacles in his nath TThe result
xas inevitahle for Sh,ister, though fa,
rom haing hotheaded i n man who
nro,nises Himself Ia finish anythinp n,
h,s undertaken. He did If in Cuh, anr
tho philinpincs but in ehcr,n In,
nronn.it,nu was too bio Ter him,
Shusfar's friend said that there secned
, to hs a mistaken notion that pr,siden,
, Taft had sanctioned the appointmcnt of
, Sh,ister to his Office in Teheran. Mr.
= cniia%bar soiJ that ba was in n nos;tior
. toknSw thai such was NOT the case Nir2a
$ Khan Persian representative N Wash.
/, inrton is n friend of senator Root ne.
cordinr 10 Mr. Calleyhar. and il was to
, senator Root tha. Mira Khan went when
u he wished to secure the services of an
= American to act ps treasurer General
N ! S,,,,D, pn,, b,I baop tl,
a shuster found when he went to Cuba as a