27 NOVEMBER 1915, Page 3

The Foreign Office have stated that the Persian gendarmerie under

their Swedish officers are in revolt against the Govern- ment in Northern Persia. At Shiraz and other towns in the South the gendarmerie have seized and deported the British colonies. The Persian Government apparently ceased some months ago to pay the gendarmerie, and the latter were naturally in a responsive frame of mind when German intriguers began to ply their customary arts. The whole movement is traceable to German agents.