Identifier: stranglingofpers00shus (find matches)
Title: The strangling of Persia; a story of the European diplomacy and oriental intrigue that resulted in the denationalization of twelve million Mohammedans, a personal narrative
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Shuster, W. Morgan (William Morgan), 1877-1960
Subjects: Eastern question (Central Asia)
Publisher: New York, The Century Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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moor, where in 1900,the Russians, desiring to strike terror into the Chinese andsave trouble in dealing with them in the future, told the inhab-itants that they should move. When the Chinese explainedthat they had no steameror other means of conveyance, theRussian humorists told them to move into the river, and there-upon drove the entire population into the water to drown. With these incidents in mind it is not difficult to understandthe semi-official Novoe Vremyas utterance that in this casetrue humanity requires cruelty. The whole population ofTabriz must be held responsible and punished. . . . There isa limit even to Russian indulgence. Experience has amply demonstrated that the Russian Gov-ernment, having the power, never does less than it promisesin cases of this kind. It is safe to say that the horrors ofTabriz will never become fully known. The Russians saw wellto that. Unrestrained shootings, hangings, tortures, blowingof men from cannon, and the cynical butchery of women and
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SULTAN AHMAD SHAH, THE PRESENT RULER OF PERSIA.He succeeded to the throne on July IS, 1909, alter the deposition of his father, Muhammad All.Behind him on the left is the Crown Prince. The others are royal teachers. MASSACRES BY RUSSIAN TROOPS 223 children in the streets of their town — and even worse things —make a fair record for the officers and troops of a nation whoseruler promotes peace tribunals and poses as the friend of man-kind. One significant fact: at the same time that the fightingbroke out at Tabriz, the Russian troops at Resht and Enzeli,hundreds of miles away, shot down the Persian police andmany inhabitants without warning or provocation of any kind.And the date happened to be just after the Persian Cabinethad definitely informed the Russian Legation that all the de-mands of Russias ultimatum were accepted,— a conditionwhich the British Government had publicly assured the Per-sians would be followed by the withdrawal of the Russian in-vading forces, and which th

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