Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1902 — SHAH OF PERSIA IS SUED. [ARTICLE]

SHAH OF PERSIA IS SUED.

French Clipping Bureau Reeks to Recover for Press Notices. . A French justice of the peace is trying to make the long hands of the law reach no less a person that Muzaffar ed Din, Shah 'of Persia. Stamped paper containing a summons is to be sent from Paris-to the shah of Teheran calling on him to pay a little bill which he left unsettled while he was staying at Contrexeville in the summer of 1900. During his sojourn in France the ruler of Persia made an arrangement with a newscutting agency which contracted to supply , his majesty with" all the articles and photographs referring to himself while he was in this country. The cuttings were in due course carefully forwarded to the shah, and at the end of last year the supplying agency sent in a bill for £4BO. The amount was considered exorbitant at the Persian legation, and a sum of £BO was offered. This the newscutting agency flatly refused to accept, and then ensued a long correspondence on the subject. Seeing that this led to no practical results, the agency took out a “conciliatory summons" against the shah. As the document will not reach Teheran for a long time to come, the case is to be heard before the justice of the peace of the Rue Drouot in April, 1902. The shah is formally called upon to appear before the justice in order to come to a satisfactory arrangement, if possible, with the plaintiffs. .