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 . ll confidence in his pledges. - The combined advance on the capital by the two Nationalistarmies therefore continued. The troops from Isfahan werecommanded by the Bakhtiyari chieftain, the Samsamu s-Saltana,who was joined about May 7 by his more active brother, theSardar-i-Asad, who had returned fom Europe by way of thePersian Gulf. Against this force the Shah had despatchedsome Royalist soldiers. By this time the Nationa
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 . ll confidence in his pledges. - The combined advance on the capital by the two Nationalistarmies therefore continued. The troops from Isfahan werecommanded by the Bakhtiyari chieftain, the Samsamu s-Saltana,who was joined about May 7 by his more active brother, theSardar-i-Asad, who had returned fom Europe by way of thePersian Gulf. Against this force the Shah had despatchedsome Royalist soldiers. By this time the Nationalist force from Resht had taken pos-session of Kasvin, some 90 miles to the north of Teheran. Theywere commanded by the Sipahdar-i-Azam, although the mov-ing spirit of this expedition is said to have been an Armeniannamed Ephraim Kahn. Kasvin was taken on May 5, andon May 6 a force of Persian Cossacks with two Maxim guns,commanded by the Russian Captain Zapolski, was despatchedfrom Teheran, to guard the pass and bridge at Karaj, about30 miles northwest of the capital. The Nationalist force wasless than 600 men. At this juncture the Russian Legation again intervened by. I A INTRODUCTION xlv sending a threatening communication to the Sipahdar, demand-ing, in effect, the cessation of his march on Teheran. On June 16 the Bakhtiyari forces, composed of about 800men, actually started for Teheran, and shortly thereafter theywere in communication with the Nationalists at Kasvin. Boththe British and Russian Legations exhausted every effort todeter the Bakhtiyari leaders from their purpose, but withoutsuccess. On June 23 the advance guard of this force hadreached Qum, eighty miles to the south of Teheran. In spite of repeated threats from the Legations the Sardar-i-Asad announced that he had certain demands to make on theShah, and the advance continued. Still endeavoring to frightenthe Nationalist forces, the Russian Government began to assem-ble an expeditionary army at Baku to be sent
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