Show MOUNTS A SHAKY THRONE sultan ahmod ahmed mirza the sixteen cearold ye arold shah of persia on attaining ills hla official majority the other day took the constitutional oath nath of in III tile the palace of the national council at teheran Te horan the ceremony took place in the presence of the members of the tha national council tho the royal princes high state officials foreign representatives and their wives the little shah accompanied by the regent abdul kassim khan noa nes ser el mulk drove to the palace of the national council in a glass coach drawn by eight white horses large bodies of police and troops were stationed in strategic positions along the route the persia of today Is only a shadow of the once powerful empire of ancient times ahmed mirza who succeeds ills his fattier father on the throne la Is a t i more puppet in the hands handa of england and russia without any real power russia practically owns the northern southern half when the former the half of the country while england took and kept a prisoner in russia shall was driven from the throne |