... corresponding month year ago. The individual amounts are also not large, there being, in fact, only two instances, tlie Persian Government iive per Cent. Sterling Loan and the Metropolitan District and London Electric Power House Rent Charge stock. Where ...

... to explain the circumstances warranting such optimism. I understand that they must be ascribed to the fact that the Persian Government has entered on pourpariers with Russia on the subject. Had the authorities in Teheran adopted this course at the outset ...

... Army will not be accepted. This is intended to make It impossible for him to accept the appointment offered him by the Persian Government. Russia has declared that if the appointment is confirmed she will take steps to protect her own interests. Our Teheran ...

... Turcomans have ■evacuated Semnan. St. Petersburg, Aug. 21 (Times). —A telegram from Astrabad reports the repulsp of the Persian Government troops, who were trying to outflank a position north of Firuzkuh occupied by the •ex-Shah’s forces. A pursuing detachment ...

... to the Persian Government to cancel the appointment of Major Stokes. Major Stokes is an officer of the British Indian Army, who has been in Teheran for some years as British Military Attachi'2. He was recently appointed by the Persian Government to the ...

... his Mazandaran, lieutenant, is also, it is said, defeated and surrounded. Shiraz is in a state of disturbance. The Persian Government is incensed at the Kusso- German agreement being concluded without reference to it. The Mejliss is surprised at the ...

... Klumilin of the Baghdad line, and if it is not completed within four years, Germany becomes free to apply, herself, to the Persian Government for the concession. The difference between the version of January and the terms as now published is, of course, the ...

... against the present Persian Government, The Russian Minister in Teheran asked the Persian Government to keep Rashid-ul-Mulk in honourable confinement on the ground that he was the possessor a Russian Order. The Persian Government at once complied with ...

... t offered by the Persian Government to organise a Revenue Gendarmerie in Persia. To this appointment Russia objects, as giving a British officer executive functions in Northern Persia. The sohition suggested by the Persian Government was that the appointment ...

... officer belonging to some minor Power. The Russian Minister also made representations yesterday to the effect that, if the Persian Government persisted in the appointment of Major Stokes. Russia would take her own measures to safeguard her interests. The charges ...

... The Persian Government, in reply to British representations, declared that the appointment was purely civil, and that Major Stokes was the only available candidate for the post. It is believed, says Renter's Agency, that the Persian Government will now ...

... resignation of his commission in the Indian Army is intended to debar him from accepting the appointment offered by the Persian Government to organize a Revenue Gendarmerie in Persia. this appointment Russia objects, giving a British officer executive functions ...