... the Middle East. Since then the Indian Government has shown praiseworthy energy, with the result that there is now a Persian Government, which, Lord Curzon says, is as satisfactory as we could expect, and the country is being pacified. The main factor ...

... March 7, 1917 gendarmerie, the nucleus of which, under Swedish officers, broke like a rope of sand in the hands of the Persian Government last year. Its numbers have been doubled and will ere long be trebled by recruiting amongst the Baktiari tribes men ...

... and effect. For the Tongistani tribesmen had made an unprovoked attack on the. British detachment at Bushire and the Persian Government was powerless to secure reparation. The town and the island on which it was situated were, therefore, occupied, and ...

... In Persia. The attempts of German agents to cause trouble in Persia have completely failed, and the Persian Government has now been reconstructed upon a more stable basis. Nothing of late has been heard as to the whereabouts of Prince Henry of Reuss and ...

... occupation of British troops. The Persian Government had expressed their regret for the outrage, and had taken steps which, he hoped, would result in preventing any repetition of it. He agreed that the Persian Government was in a difficult position, but ...