... the live of securing the safety of the Southern trade routes, have on several occasions made joint ad. vances to the Persian Government for upkeep of the Persian gendarmerie. Thus, 4:25.000 was advanced in 1912 for the gendarmerie in Southern Persia, 4 ...

... was received that these elemonts of disorder were being organised and encouraged by German agents in defiance of the Persian Government. The only regular Persian force available at the time for the restoration of order in the provinces, apart from the ...

... a whole, although, so fAr as I am !nformed, it is only At Shira, and Hamadan that they have as yet openly defied the Persian Government. The British Consul and some members of the British At Shiraz were made prisoners; the Consul ll:tinia'an made his war ...

... affairs existed, for there was disorder and defiance of the Persian Government. _ . . TIIE ATTITUDE OF TIM PERSIAN GoVERNMENT. It was believed to be the genuine desire of the Persian Government to restore order so far as they could throughout the land, ...

... half under snow, and there were mount tin ranges across which operations would be very difficult, and the forces of the Persian Government that could be relied upon must be small. In the East there was nothing like force, and here it would be especially valuable ...

... officers, is in open revolt against the Persian Government, and has cut telegraph lines, and seized and robbed road tollhquses and offices. Our information is that all this has happened in defiance of the Persian Government, who resent the conduct of the gendarmerie ...

... The Persian Government have been expressly informed of tfie pacific intentions of the tr9ops, whose one aim is to afford protection to the foreign colonies in case of need. Certain proposals have recently been received from the Persian Government, and ...

... Foreign Affairs whether the British Minister at Teheran was a party to the warning given by the Russian Minister to the Persian Government that if it concluded any special agreement with Germany and Turkey the Anglo-Russian undertaking to maintain the integrity ...

... of Bushire, which was rendered necessary in August last by the chaotic conditions prevailing in Southern Persia. The Persian Government having now taken steps to ensure the security of British interests and the maintenance of order, the occupation was ...

... trouble and provoke the country against the Allies. Our troops were now occupying Bushire, and, with the consent of the Persian Government, would remain there until steps were taken by the latter to restore internal peace and order. Nobody could look back ...

... 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 ...

... supposed to be a neutral country, yet the whole of it was occupied and terrorised by armed bands under German officers. The Persian Government was helpless, the Majliss did nothing but talk and the local governors had neither sufficient money nor men to raise ...