Show I VIOLENCE REIGNS REIGN'S IN NORTH PERSIA MOSLEM MOB PLUNDER MISSIONS BURN BURN VILLAGES AND TAKE TAKEo o 1 WOMEN O EN CAPTIVES y J Russian Troops Troops H Have ve Been Sent for forte to Save Sav the Lives of Christians Who Face Horrible DeathS Death at Hands of Mob S New ew York Reports l ts of plundering of Christians in north north north-l eri ern persi Persia w were ere re co contained in a a. cable i cablegram grain gr gram ni fron Tiflis Trans Tran's u as r re-i re d Tuesa Tuesday y by the ilia Parisian 1 arisia relief committee with headquarters in in thi this city The Tile cablegram said All AH 11 the villages burned except three Christian Christla quarters o of plundered and a great many killed Women taken captives fifteen thou thou-j sand re refugees ug s in in the American mis-j mis sion Great GrOat danger The French mission has been de de- There Ther are re 10 refugees' refugees In u uThe Russia The message was signed by A. A Sla Sla-l Sla a Ruts Russian an contractor of of Tiflis i is in northwestern Persia A Aj Ai previous dispatch from Persia received here March 21 was to the effect that the Turkish consul at Uru Uru- miah at the head of seventy recently attacked the American mission mission mission mis mis- sion there Priests and deacons upon upon being ord ordered red to lea leave e the mission were insulted arid and beaten it was w s stated stated stat 1 ed in the dispatch Russian troops It it was was also said had been sent for to save saie the lives of Christians whom ham the thO mission was unable t to prote protect t. t has been in the throes of mob rule for weeks cac according to reports reports re re- re- re ports received here by the tile Presbyterian rian nan board of foreign missions A reign of terror tenor in which marauders and bandits hold sway has driven t ns s of f thousands from the city and into the outlying outlYing- provinces s and has lias hassent hassent sent other t th thousands usa J to the the protection of the tile American flag which waves above the Presbyterian mission |