... the private residences of the bank managers are guarded by gendarmes. The situation is very threatening.—Reuter. The Persian Government, on bearing of the recent attack on the British Consul- General at Ispahan (says Reuter), instructed the Persian Minister ...

... tribesmen, Bushire was occupied by the British on August 8 without opposition. This was protest against the failure of the Persian Government to punish the tribal chiefs who it is known were acting, assisted Germans, and other breaches of neutrality. According ...

... comrades. “The Persian gendarmerie,” said Col. Folke, “is armed with German Mauser carbines of a rather old pattern. fhe Persian Government decided a long time ago at the instance of General Hjalmaxson, Chief of the Gendarmerie, to buy some more of these weapons ...

... PERSIA STRICTLY NEUTRAL. Official telegrams from the Persian Government at Teheran state (says Reuter) that the Turks entered Tabriz on Friday last. A day or so before, in order to avoid a conflict, all the Russians in Tabriz, together with the Consul ...

... EVACUATION OF AZERBAIJAN. Petrograd, Friday. A telegram from Teheran states that the Turkish Ambassador has addressed to the Persian Government a Note declaring that the Turks are ready to withdraw from the Province of Azerbaijan when the Russians have definitely ...

... Soudja ed Douleh, formerly Governor of Aserbaijan. has aiTived here. In the course of an interview he denounced the Persian Government for allowing the futelags of the Turks. He declared that possessed proofs that Persian clergy and officials had been ...

... Customs and Secretary for Public Instruction in the Philippines, and afterwards for some time Financial Adviser to the Persian Government, giving evidence to-day before a Committee of the Senate, expressed the belief that Japan would fladly agree to the ...

... effect that Persia and its Government have manifested sympathies with Turkey and Germany are devoid of foundation. The Persian Government since the beginning of the war has observed and will continue to observe strict neutrality.”—Reuter. ...

... held yesterday Constantinople with the object demanding the evacuation of Persia by Russian troops and inviting the Persian Government declare war The meeting assumed exactly the same character the grotesque street processions organised the Committee ...

... British Navy. The news from Karachi, if confirmed, means that the Kasr-i-Shirin oil wells are not in the gift ot the Persian Government. The statement does not vitally aSect the arrangement between the Admiralty and the company, says the Times.” Kasr-i-Shirin ...

... The control exercised over the Eakhtiari and Muntefik tribes is of the slightest sort, and it is clear that if the Persian Government were unable to protect the oil-fields against them should compelled to undertake the business ourselves. That duty would ...

... btrathcona. the Burmah Oil Company and the Concessions Syndicate concession for period of 60 years from 1901 granted by the Persian Government giving the exclusive right to search for and deal with petroleum, asphalt, ozokerite, &c., throughout the Persian Empire ...