The reign of terror at Tabriz. England's responsibility.

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The Reign of Terror at Tabriz. A NARRATIVE OF EVENTS. THE purpose of this publication is to call attention to certain terrible events which took place in December, 1911, and early in the present year, in Tabriz, the chief commercial city of Persia ;firstly, because these show as nothing else can show the means which are being employed in order to crush the spirit of Persian nationality and to reduce one of the most ancient and gifted peoples of the world to a condition of servitude to the power of Russia ;and, secondly, because the responsibility of this country, which has claimed, along with Russia, the exclusive right to political influence in Persia, is clearly involved. Tabriz is a city of over a quarter of a million inhabitants in the extreme north-west of Persia, about 80 miles south of the Russian frontier, in the fertile province of A zarbayjan, and, owing to its comparative wealth and commercial activity, and the hardy and courageous character of its inhabitants, it became the centre and chief support of the Nationalist movement of revolt against the tyranny of the feeble and corrupt government of Muhammad AH the ex-S hah. This liberating movement, of the utmost promise for the future of Persia, first took effect in the time of the ex Shahs father, who shortly before his death in January, 1907, had accepted and sworn fidelity to the New Constitution. Within a year and a half of his accession Muhammad A li attempted, by the aid of his Persian Cossacks and their Russian officers, that is, practically a Russian force, violently to suppress the Constitution, to destroy the Majlis, or Parliament, and to restore the previous absolute power of theS
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