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Show 1 UPRISlHe A6AIHST , C1ISTIS URGED Proclamation by Turkish Government Arouses Mohammedans. By International News Service. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. The Turkish government has issued a proelama tion throughout Persia Inciting Mohammedans to rise aprainst the Christians, according to a dispatch received in an allied quarter quar-ter here today. Of Persia's population of about I. 000,000, there are about 70,000 Christians; Armenians Ar-menians number 40,000 and Nestorians about 25,X0. With the dippatch was transmitted a copy of the proclamation which is sipned bv AH Ebran, commander in chief of the Turkish forces in Persia. It reads: Oh, Mohammedans of Persia, you shall capture everyone of the enemy and slay them all; allow them neither their goods nor their lives. Destroy their telegraph and telephone wires; take their mounts, guns, rifles, and ammunition; reduce their goods and ' bodily forces; destroy the roads and &tf bridges behind them"; cut their lines of communication,, their sources of food and supplies and invent every kind of difficulty .for them. These are the conditions of Jehad (public religious war), and every one of them balances with seventy years of worship and causes one to be transported trans-ported to heaven and palaces. Those who are Mohammedans, but are worse than Russians on account of their greediness to receive money and propagate falsehoods about the Islamic army, carry them away from the road and deliver them to the army of Islam or kill them yourselves, as it would be exactly the same as having hav-ing battled with the Russians. Create an Islamic committee where there is no army of Islam and pursue these instructions, punishing the enemies en-emies of Islam and of Persia, inasmuch inas-much as this is a part of Jehad and a service to religion, and no one would blame you and you would-be deserving deserv-ing of blessedness. The inhabitants of all villages where t there are wise Mohammedans should take part in this Jehad when they behold this proclamation and create private committees and consider those against them as enemies of the nation na-tion and, having caught enemies, should deliver them to the nearest army of Islam, or, if there be no such army, they should punish them severally themselves. |