22 MAY 1909, Page 1
On reading this we are led to say, in Lord
Salisbury's formula, "the vision that rises before us" is of some notable pirate like Captain Kidd or Morgan or Jones, who, it will be remembered, are always portrayed in boys' books as literally covered with lethal weapons. After this vivid description the Times correspondent adds a note which must be regarded as somewhat of an anticlimax. "The Nationalists are doing their best to explain that the presence of revolutionaries is unnecessary now that the Shah has granted the Constitution." "Unnecessary" seems a somewhat weak word to describe these exceedingly explosive gentlemen. If one of them were to go off by accident, he would, we presume, blow not only himself but everything within reach to atoms.
