... t establiahinP a control over tlse Custom-houses, the ii revenues of which formed the security for the loan. i IThe Persian Government engaged to extinguish all its a previous external obligatione with part of the proceeds of Jrthi lean, and not to conclude ...

... are too iniportant to be3 allowved to -a 'eeape notice. N!ominally the agrectoent has been el concluded betwvt-en the Persian Government and a B privawte institution, hut from the terms ?? die con- iract, as wvell as from the circumstances c~inch attendedl ...

... The story may be not welt ouundedd,-but it. probably ag6 ha in`*%relenments of truth. To continue the narrative. The. Persian Government finding Russia pressing,paid off their littleindebted uss to th e bank,aiid expressed,withthe l usual politeness of ...

... 1be sus pended. The Russian Government has permitted the Loan Bank of Persia to take up the lean to be Iissued by the Persian Government, to the amount 1 of 22% million ronhics. under the designation of the 5v Phersian Gold Loan of 1900. ?? Paris b oemrne ...

... intererta in Westera Asia imposed apon Rassia the imperi- ous daty of promptly renewing the Railways Convention wii ith the Persian Government, and of realising the idea of acquiring an atlet to the Indian Ocean as the only means of safegaarding her promicent ...