It is not difficult to fill in the blanks in tory of the present crisis in Persia since the Shah's attempted coup d'état on December 17 down to the telegram which we published on Saturday announcing that the Persians sre mistrustful of mere pledges from the Shah and look for deeds not words.
The attempted coup d'état, to be accompanied by the formation of a new Cabinet, was evidently inspired by the desire of the Persian Parliament to establish a regency. Subsequently there was a report that the Shah was assembling Kurdish tribes to overawe Parliament; then the news that the unhappy monarch had abandoned his coup and was to take oath to observe the constitution. Meanwhile the whole country has been in a ferment, breaking out occasionally in open note, in one of which the British Consul at
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