Last Sunday fighting took place in Teheran between the Government
troops and the Fidais, who refused to surrender their arms. The Fidais, led by Satar Khan, were in a garden, and the Government troops completely surrounded them, firing into the garden with two large guns at a range of a few yards. At the end of the fighting there were about thirty killed and wounded among the Fidais, and twelve among the Government troops. Three hundred Fidais were captured, among them Satar Khan himself, who was wounded. The Times correspondent thinks that the Government enjoys a genu:.-3 access of prestige as a result of its sn..etess. But it is not easy to see how the occasion will be turned to profit. Suter Khan has been a popular figure since his exploits at Tabriz, and is one of the chief forces of Nationalism, and a change of feeling may rapidly follow the impression the Government has created.
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