The Saturday evening post . e him depart. Atnine a carriage pushed throughthe crowd and from it steppedthe British and Russian minis-ters to make a final appeal. Thehours passed and the crowdwaited, and down on the plainthe officers wondered and thetroops stood patiently. No one knows what the twoministers said to the Shah. Per-haps they threatened to bringback his deposed father, Mo-hammed AH, from Russia, andmake him the Shah. Perhapst hey merely presented the factsof the situation, showed whatthe defeat of Germany must in-evitably mean to Persia. Theyoung Shah has a pretty clearmind, and it
The Saturday evening post . e him depart. Atnine a carriage pushed throughthe crowd and from it steppedthe British and Russian minis-ters to make a final appeal. Thehours passed and the crowdwaited, and down on the plainthe officers wondered and thetroops stood patiently. No one knows what the twoministers said to the Shah. Per-haps they threatened to bringback his deposed father, Mo-hammed AH, from Russia, andmake him the Shah. Perhapst hey merely presented the factsof the situation, showed whatthe defeat of Germany must in-evitably mean to Persia. Theyoung Shah has a pretty clearmind, and it is said that the realhistory of the events of the warup to that time, and the realafter possibilities were then putbeforehimforthefirsttime. Butno one really knows what tookplace, except that within thespace of half a dozen hours agood many words can be pouredforth. In the afternoon a courtofficial announced to the waitingcrowds that the Shah would notN-avo the palace. In 1916 the British, with thepermission of the Persian. Old-Style Harem Dress Introduced by Nassr• cd• Din cabinet, organized a constabulary to replace the gendar-mery suborned by the Germans. Sir Percy Sykes trainedthem, and they displaced the German agents. Then aforce of Turks with Kurds and Persian gendarmes flowedover the border, and from that time on the poor Persianpeople suffered all that any invaded land suffers. For ayear this force and the Russians opposed each other untilthe British victorious advance on Bagdad forced the Turksto retreat, pursued by the Russians. Followed the Russianrevolution; but even then the Russian troops were slow towithdraw. Next came the most dreadful famine in all thehistory of Persia. The harvest was almost nil. Certainrich ones profiteered, people died of hunger and of choleraand of other diseases by the hundreds of thousands, untilthe nation was sick with despair. Nor could she yet become a neutral country. For Ger-many had again set her mind on the new route to India
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