... a concise but comprehensive survey of the history of British relations with the chiefs of the littoral and with the Persian Government in . . His obicct was to show that the claim to paramountcy in those waters rested on long sequence of eventsfin which ...

... • concise but comprehensive survey of the history of British relations with the chiefs of the littoral and with the Persian Government in respect to the Gulf. His object was to show that the British claim to paramountcy in those waters rested on a . long ...