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Show SHAH OF PERSIA LuSESJHflE Hal Taken Refuge in Russian Summer Sum-mer Legation at Zerzende, Under Protection of Cossacks. The Crown Prince, Sultan Ahmed Ml-raza, Ml-raza, is Proclaimed Shah by the National Assembly, Azad Ul Mulk Being Named as Regent. Teheran. Mohamed All, Shah of Persia, was dethroned on Friday, July 16, and the crown prince. Sultan Ahmed Ah-med Miraza, was proclaimed shah by the national assembly, composed ot the chief mujtehids and the leaders of the Nationalist forces, in the presence pres-ence of an immense crowd in Parliament Parlia-ment square. Mohamed Ali has taken refuge in the Russian summer legation at Zerzende, Zer-zende, where he is under the protection protec-tion of detachments of Cossacks and Sepoys, dispatched to Zerzende by the British aud Russian diplomatio representatives. repre-sentatives. The new shah is yet in his minority and Azad Ul Mulk, head of the Kajar family, has been appointed appoint-ed regent. Sipahdar, one of the most active leaders of the movement, has taken office as minister of war and governor of Teheran. General Liaka-hoff, Liaka-hoff, through whose negotiations with the Nationalists the surrender was effected, ef-fected, was escorted Friday afternoon by mounted Bakhtiria to the parliament parlia-ment building that he might remain temporarily in command of the Cos' sack brigade, provided he obeyed the orders of the war minister. This" arrangement ar-rangement ws oommunicted to the British and Russian legations. The shops and private quarters occupied oc-cupied by the shah's soldiers Ciave been plundered and the residence of the manager of the Indo-Persian Telr egraph company has been looted, but no other homes of foreigners were invaded. in-vaded. The townspeople are taking calmly the sudden change in rulers, and the Nationalists are resting after tour days of incessant fighting in the streets of a strange town. |