Show TURKS INVADING PERSIA scores of nat ve christians include ng women and ch idren butchered teheran persia the incursions of turkish troops across the northwest frontier of persia which for some time had been in abeyance have again broken out A serious raid has oc burred near six thousand turkish troops with artillery having crossed the frontier and destroyed the village of lavanch seventy eight per sons of whom sixty were women and children mostly christians were killed subsequently the turks drove a small force of persian troops from a nearby camp and instituted them selves in it |