Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-23
W. Morgan Shuster Raps Ger
many, England and Russia.
EMPIRE BOUND AND GAGGED
Former Treasurer General Talks of
His Experiences.
REsENTs M0RNARD's CHARGES
Declares His Successor in Office Is
Tool of Russia-Mr.
Shuster's Plans.

W. Morgan Shuster. burr in the
side of the Russian bear while he was
treasurer general of the Persian en-
pire. who returned to Washington last
evening after an absence of nine
months. is not to be permitted to rest
at present He has engagements to
make addresses before various organi-
cations in Philadelphia, New York and
elsewhere that will cover at least the
next two weeks. Mr.. Shuster will
make an address at the National Press
Club at o'clock this afternoon, and
fater this evening he will go to Phila-
delphia. where he is to address to-
morrow the American Academy Of Po-
htical Sociology and Science. From
Philadelphia he will go to New York.
When asked about his plans for the
future by reporter for The Star to-
day. Mr.. Shuster said he intended to
keep his law office here in Washington,
and that so far he had no other plans.
He was accompanied to Washington by
his wife and two children. Mrs Shus-
ter expressed herself unfeignedly glad
to be back in America, saying she had
feared every day for her husbands
safety while they were in Persia.
Says England Fears Germany.
Mr.. Shuster does not appear to be any
the worse for his trying experiences in
Persia. though he looks perhaps a lit
tie older than when he left here last
year. He declared today England's fear
OF Germany and her consequent desire to
remain on friendly terms with Russia
was at the bottom of the treatment
which had been accorded Persia by Rus
STA. and acquiesced in by Great Britain.
He was indignant at the statements
and accusations made against him by
Mornard, the Belgian treasurer general
in Teheran, who was appointed by the
Russian government after Mr.. Shuster
left Persia. Mr.. Shuster said:
Mornard was chief of the Persian
customs bureau when 1 arrived in Te-
heran, and was hostile to me during my
term of office because he was intriguing
for it himself.
''His statement that I was guilty of
gross irregularities in my accounts is
what Mr.. Roosevelt would call all lies,'
without the slightest foundation of fact.
l never handled any moneys whatever
during the time / was treasurer general.
The parliament ordered the disburse-
ments, o. KID the bills. and the Persian
bank paid out the money. ! did not pros
against me because / did not have the
time. Mornard is Russian tool. and
neither Great Britain nor Persia wanted
him at the head of the financial bureau
Alleges Gross Irregularities.
when 1 took charge of the customs
receipts last July found gross Irregular
tiles in his accounts, but did not prosecute
him 7 houo he Ia
would not allow my auditor OF inspector
to see his accounts. but 1 put stopper
on them at the banks.
''Mornard had been taking public funds
and banking them on his own account.
! found that he also had been taking the
revenue of a special fund for himself and
his Belgian associates It is we'll known
that this man has been a tool of the Rus
sian government for the last six years.
He was decorated by the car for his
services.
Il advised Persia not to make an armed
resistance to Russia's demands because
she was helpless. and her people wouiu
have been shot down like dogs in the
street. 1t would have been a repetition
of the massacre of TabriZ, only far
worse
"Are the Russians brave?" Mr.. shuster
was asked.
Yes, they are brave enough: but what
could they do against a great power like
RUSSIA, WHICH mas 1.D,tsp Troops on the
Caucasian border ready to march on Te-
heran in three days?
Women play a large part in Persian
affairs. he went on to say. In every
city and town they have we'll organized
society which has its central association
in the capital. When the trouble first
started with Russia 20O of these resolute
women marched into the medjlis as the
parliament is called IN Persia, armed with
pistols and threatened to kill their hus-
bands and brothers and every Persian
man they could meet if<Persia gave way
10 Russia.
Parliament Betrayed.
THE parliament was betrayed by the
Bakhtayi, a warike tribe from the noun
tain district in the south of Persia. The
Bakhtayi are brave. but mercenary. Fiji
teen hundred of these tribesmen, acting
in the pay of Russia, went to the parlia-
ment and wiped il out of existence Seven
OF the chieftains formed an alleged cabi-
net and turned the country over to Rus
-ia Brit nj