Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1912 — PERSIAN CITY CAPTURED [ARTICLE]

PERSIAN CITY CAPTURED

Russians Occupy Meshed with Two Thousand Troops. • , • : —t v * Teh eflan, Persia, Jan. 19.—Two thousand Russian troops have occupied Meshed, a wailed city of northeastern Persia and capital of the province of Khorassan. The reason for the occupation of this city of 60,000 inhabitants is unknown.