Telegraphing on Monday, the Persian correspondent of the Times said
that affairs were moving quickly at Teheran, that the Shah was weakening, and that the fall of the camarilla was imminent. The Nationalists have once more flocked to the Legations for refuge, but in greater numbers than ever. The British and Russian Ministers are said to be unrelaxing in their joint representations to the Shah, and the Turkish Legation now does a notable service in receiving refugees, and insisting that the police shall not be allowed to block the way to the Legations. In a letter written at the end of November the correspondent prepares us to believe that important events may happen at any moment. The camarilla is utterly discredited, and the half-starved army outside the city no longer pretends to obey its orders. Not a penny has been paid to Government servants since the coup ditat. When deputations are coerced into the presence of the Shah, and represented as being petitioners against the Constitution, courageous individuals allow their true feelings to burst through, and tell the Shah what the Persian people really want, unrestrained, it seems, even by the eye of the chief executioner.
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