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Show VIOLENCE REIGNS IN NORTH PERSIA MOSLEM MOB PLUNDER MISSIONS, BURN VILLAGES AND TAKE WOMEN CAPTIVES. Russian Troops Have Been Sent for to Save the Lives of Christians Who Face Horrible Death at Hands of Mob. New Vork. Reports of plundering and murdering of (Christians in northern north-ern Persia were contained in a cable-grain cable-grain from Tiflis, Transcaucasia, re. eelved Tuesday by the Parisian relief committee, with headquarters in this city. The cablegram said: "All tiie villages burned except three. (Christian quarters of Urumiah -plundered and a great many killed. Women taken captives. Fifteen thou sand refugees in the American mission. mis-sion. Great danger. "The French mission has been destroyed. de-stroyed. There are 10,000 refugees in Russia." The message was signed by A. Sla naoff, a Russian contractor of Tiflis. Urumiah Is 1n northwestern Persia. A previous dispatch from Djulfa. Persia, received here March 21, was to the effect that the Turkish consul at Uru miah, at tho head of seventy Askaris recently attacked the American mission mis-sion there. Priests and deacons, upon Ibeing ordered to leave tho mission were Insulted and beaten, it was stab ed in the dispatch. Russian troops, it was also said had been sent for' tc eave the lives of Christians whom the mission was unable to protect. Urumiah has been in the throes ol mo,b rule for weeks, according to re-3Krts re-3Krts received bore by the Presbyterian Presbyte-rian board of foreign missions. A treign of terror, In whicli marauders innd bandits hold sway, ihas driven tens of thousands from the city and rinto the outlying provinces and has sent other thousands to the protection of the American flag, which waves above the Presbyterian mission. |