Show I I THINKS HE IS IS' GREATER POET Shah of Persia Has Bi Big g I Ideas of Ability I LONDON March Marc 1 The I.-The The young oung Shah of I I Persia who recently left lert his capital Teheran Te- Te TeI I reran heran for another trip to Europe Europe is is said I to hold a high opinion of himself as a poet In fact according to a story told here he ire puts himself In a class with Omar Khayyam and considers himself if it anything any any- thing a trifle better than his great coun coun- tryman t As the story I y m is told by y the Morning Mornin r. r ym p Post a British rl minister a at T Teheran called lon l on the Shah at the request ot of of English admirers of the tho great Persian poet and asked that tat better care be taken of his grave at where as Omar pre pre- the north wind still scatters scatter roses on his tomb But the Shah could not be Impressed with this need Persia I he declared h had d lots of poets and he himself himself him him- self was was possibly a little little better better poet him I than Omar Ahmed Mirza Shah of or Persia Is only 24 years old old- and this some say may ac account account account ac- ac count for his opinion He knows English and Russian and talks French fluently and accurately and has been reported as ai eager r to fo learn western ways and In appearance his majesty Is short and stout He takes a lively Interest in sports plays a good lawn tennis game pame and In order to encourage open air all sports In Persia founded the Imperial Sports club at Teheran placing at its disposal a apiece piece of ot crown land Jand His father Mahomed All AU lost his throne in consequence of ot his attempts to stamp lout out the constitutional system in Persia and regain the absolutism of his an an- Ahmed who was then In his twelfth year was proclaimed sovereign In 1909 and his father was sent Int into exil exile on the tho famous fa famous famous fa- fa Island of where President Wilson proposed that tho the allies hold a conference with the Russians as a part of He lie the t has i after t been war credited em peace e ew w with negotiations fO having kept Persia from taking the side of ot the Central Central Central Cen Cen- powers in the World war |