... pouring money into Persia, and had practically financed the Persian Government. This was a mere stop-gap policy. He thought the Government ought to support the authority of the Persian Government over the whole sphere With regard to Tibet, the arrangements ...

... to uphold some fonn, of constitutional government, to lose chance of easing the distracting situation in which the Persian Government wore now placed bv advice and such assistance as from time to time might find expedient to give, to enable Persia, by ...

... by British syndicate with regard to a railway in the south, and the Government had supported the application to the Persian Government by the syndicate, who had been granted an option and were going to make a survey of that particular railway. With regard ...

... could expect was possible under the circumstances. The Russian Government and His Majesty’s Government wished assist the Persian Government with small advances sufficient, they hoped, to enable it make progress towards the restoration of order, and give it ...

... loan to Persia was that the British and Russian Governments were on the point advancing the sum £400,000 jointly to the Persian Government. The only conditions were in respect of interest, repayment, and security, which hoped would bo settled in a few days’ ...