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Show PERSIAN INSURGENT DEFEATS REGULARS CMJNSTANTINOPL.E, Feb 85. (Bj i he Associated Press) BlmfCO, tho insurgent in-surgent Persian leader and his army are masters of Tabriz, and. threaten the overthrow of tho Persian government, govern-ment, according to recent advices. Id lias succeeded In increasing IhS number num-ber of his followers to 5000 and he is operating successfully against the Pcr-j .dan regular forces In the district otj Urmia. The country is reported to bo Infested In-fested with bin brigands, who urn robbing rob-bing and killing. Travel in Persia Is said tO bo unsafe. The Persian gendarmerie, gen-darmerie, which is being reorganized, by Swedish instructors, has boen unable un-able to chock tho Insurgents. Tho Persian army failed to take anyi measures against Slmko, and the war minister All Kizu Khan, an ex-Cossack officer, has undertaken to suppress sup-press him. With the dissolution of the south Persian fuglleers und the withdrawal of the small British garrison in Per aian. this country of xroat natural re tourbes. is reported to have fallen Into i -l ito of chaon .md confusion |