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Show SHAH MAY LOSE CROWN. Entrance of Revolutionists Into Teheran Te-heran a Foregone Conclusion. St. Petersburg. The Russian expedition expe-dition from Baku which landed at FJnzel, a Persian seaport on the Caspian, Cas-pian, Saturday, is made up of 1,000 Russians and 800 Cossack cavalry, with eight field guns and eight machine ma-chine guns. Despite the correct attitude maintained main-tained by the Russians the natives ire demonstrating their unfriendli-aess. unfriendli-aess. The unopposed advance of Siphidar, the leader of the revolutionists, and Sardarasad, the chief of the Ba.kh-tiari Ba.kh-tiari tribesmen, towards Teheran, is taken here to mean that General Liakhoff, the governor of Teheran, considers his force inadequate to engage en-gage in a general battle and that he has decided to employ his Cossack brigade merely as a guard over the life of the shah. Persons well informed here regard the entrance of the revolutionists into Teheran as a foregone conclusion, while the deposition of the shah, which several times has been mooted, will now cause no surprise. |