File 3852/1912 Pt 2 'Persia. Conditions in South Persia. German Documents' [‎231v] (94/280)

It is presented on November 29th, 1911, and expires
48 hours later. It contains the following chief demands:
1. Dismissal of Shuster.
2 . Persia is prohibited from taking Non-Persians into its
service without Anglo-Russian consent.
hating demands met with in parliament deserves to be saved
from oblivion:
“A few minutes before noon the public vote was taken
As each name was called the deputy rose in his place and
gave his vote; there was no secret ballot here. And when the
roll call was ended every man, priest or layman, youth or
octogenarian had cast his own die of fate and had staked the
safety of himself and family and hurled back into the teeth
of the Great Bear from the North the unanimous answer of a
desperate and down trodden people who preferred a future
of unknown terror to the voluntary sacrifice of their national
dignity and of their recently earned right to work out their
own salvation 1 ).”
The sombre December days which Persia lived through
after this manly refusal of grave violations of right, shall not
be depicted here in detail. It is sufficient to state that Russia
occupied Resht, Enzeli and Tabriz and that in this largest
city of the North the Russian usurpers executed every nationalist
they could get hold of, that shooting, hanging, torturing,
binding and blowing men from the cannon’s mouth, brutal
massacres of women and children were the order of the day
according to the account given by the "Novoie Vremia” on
this occasion: “True humanity requires cruelty.” Professor
Browne whose gorge rose at the indifference of his government,
published a pamphlet on the Tabriz atrocities 2 ) in which quite
a series of these Russian deeds of heroism were illustrated.
Even the English consul had to admit that some of the persons
executed had suffered innocently 3 ) and calls the method used
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2 ) The Reign of Terror in Tabriz: England's Responsibility.
3 ) English Blue Books Persia No. 1 (1913) No. 464.
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