... moral and civilising influence of the Government Oil Company the whole situation in Persia is to undergo a change. The Persian Government may be. come Aron', and though oil in the hands of the Anglo-Persian Company has had no softening effect on the barbarians ...

... trade to be harassed and British merchandise looted rather than undertake active intervention. He has trusted to the Persian Government and even trusted to the tribesmen to preserve order, and invariably his trust has been mieplaoecL He sent the Central ...

... tribesmen and the gendarmerie of the Persian Government for the protection of the pipe line. The investment of capital and the development of roads, railways, and industries, in which the tribesmen and' the Persian Government were both interested, and from ...

... 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 ...

... which be regarded as impoesible. One would be that every other method of_protecting it by the tribes or through the Persian Government bed failed. That was not isapoeirible, but it wee improbable Another oonditiea was that the necessity for preserving ...

... local tribes of Bekbtiaris, this country would, it is thought, be under some obligation to give them assistanos, it the Persian Government did not suppress the disorder. It is argued, therefore, that the new arrangement will not really involve lan alteration ...

... power of the infamous Cossack Brigade, instead of a Persian gendarmerie in the north, under Swedish officers, that the Persian Government is willing to allow. But why did the British Ambassador and Foreign Office veto the appointment of Major Stokes, who ...

... Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which came into existence some five years ago, acquired an oil production concession from the Persian Government for a term of 6o years. The concession, it is stated, embraces practically all the oil producing parts of Persia. The ...

... of ** water,’* which will participate in any dividends earned means of the new capital, apart from the fact that the Persian Government has a first charge on 16 per cent, the profits. ...

... regulsrized by the arestion of an institution which cannot fail to and so seriously diminish the postal revenuo of the Persian Government. ...

... Minister in St. Petersburg has been withheld by the Russian Government, although it has not yet been decided by the Persian Government whether to cancel the previously contemplated transfer of lahak Khan from St. Petersburg to Rome. In consequence of ...

... has been merely to convey the impression that M. Mornard ! was a party to the abrogation to Russia of the right of the Persian Government to collect and dispose of the revenues of Azerbaijan. M. Momard has addressed a strong protest I to the Cabinet against ...