... heat it sooa acquired commercial importance. So valuable did the trade become that Armenian Emperors fought for it with Persian Shahs. The first Czar to recognise the value of the deposits was Peter the Great. Russia, he was determined, should have them ...

... Malatesta. A little later Malatesta appeared in Paris, and almost immediately there were two at- ' tempts on the life of the Persian Shah, then in Paris. A shot at the French President followed. In Switzerland and Belgium riots attended his coming. In Germany ...

... (Jazz Pierrette): Mrs A. C. Balfour (French Maid); Miss Dawbarn (Joan of Arc). The gentlemen included Mr J. M. Lowrie (Persian Shah); Mr W. D. Butler (Esquimaux); Mr D. T. Brown (Sheikh); Mr J. I). Latta (Nurse with Pram) ; Mr G. W. Plummer (Harry Lauder); ...

... action successively in suppressing the Iraq revolt, in liquidating the Vichy machinations in Syria, and in bringing the Persian Shah to account. The building up of an army in the Near East, about which probably the Turks know more than we do, may have ...