17 JULY 1909, page 1

News Of The Week.

D URING the week there has been continuous fighting in and around Teheran between the Nationalists and the Bakhtiari under Sardar-Asad on the one side, and the Persian Cossacks......

All Tuesday Night And Wednesday And Thursday There Was Heavy

firing in Teheran. The news is very vague, as the onlookers were unable to move about the city. It seems, however, that the Nationalists have gradually made good their......

Noncm—with This Week's Number Of The " Spectator" Is...

an Bight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—i.e., from January 2nd to June 26th, 1909, inclusive.......

M. Clemenceau Defended Himself And His Policy In A Long

and brilliant speech in the French Chamber of Deputies on Monday. The Government had survived two hundred and ninety-three interpellations, and had accomplished solid reforms.......

On Friday Week At The Lake Champlain Tercentenary...

Taft made a singularly wise and graceful reference to Canada which marks him as a man of the highest wisdom. Speaking of the Canadians in their relation to the United States, he......

At The Westminster Police Court Last Saturday Hadar La!...

was committed for trial for the murder of Sir Curzon Wyllie and Dr. Lalcaca. He made a statement in which he declared that no English Court had any authority over him. "I hold......

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