... negotiating a Russian loan of 20 million roubles, official of the Russian Ministry of Finance is now in Teheran. But the Persian Government refuses to come to a decision in the matter, as Russia insists upon obtaining from Persia either the cession or lease ...

... that no arms were to be imported into Persia, of which Bushire was a portion, without the leave and permission of the Persian Government. The second seizure took place at Bahrein, an island in the Persian Gulf, governed by an independent Sheikh, who, however ...

... forty million krans, or abont £1,506,560, will bring in at least sixty million krana, £2,250,000, year, and thus the Persian Government will base at its disposal the yearly sum of twenty million krans, or £750,000, to bs laid out in budding roads, schools ...