... nave arrived here and has been received in audience by the Shah. Sir Percy Sykes will enter into a contract with the Persian Government with regard to his taking up the duty of instructor to the new Gendarmerie force in accordance with the Anglo-Persian ...

... have arrived here, and he has been received audience by the Shah. Sir Percy Sykes will enter into a contract %%ith the Persian Government regard to his taking up the duty of Instructor to the new Gendarmerie Force. in accordance with the Anglo-Persian agreement ...

... march from the coast. Sir Percy Sykes took over the mutinous gendarmerie ; and the act was officially rect'snited by the Persian Government at the end of March. The staff was kept very busy reorganizing this huge body of and in spite of the disorganized condition ...

... general public. In a rilous march of a thousand miles Sir E‘Zrcy succeeded in re - establishing the authority of the Persian Government and filying the flags of the Allies in a number of important towns. Sir Percy Sykes is fift{ ears of age, and his ac ...

... Prime Minister that Russian troops have occupied Bijar, Sinus, Hamadan, Kangaver, and Dowletabad, and has invited the Persian Government to retake possession of these towns, which have been evacuated by the enemy troops.—Reuier. ...

... Persian Premier that Russian troops have occupied Bidjar, Senneh, Hamad an, Kangavcr, and Douletabad, and has invited the Persian Government to retake p oasession these towns, which have been evacuated by the enemy troops.—Reuter. , ...

... the Middle East. Since then the Indian Government has shown praiseworthy energy, with the result that there is now a Persian Government, which, Lord Curzon says, is as satisfactory as we could expect, and the country is being pacified. The main factor ...

... March 7, 1917 gendarmerie, the nucleus of which, under Swedish officers, broke like a rope of sand in the hands of the Persian Government last year. Its numbers have been doubled and will ere long be trebled by recruiting amongst the Baktiari tribes men ...

... when tie situation was such that the Persian Government was the evacuating the capital. The Russian forces were dieorgaiuoed their efforts. Many towns in the country had passed out of the control of the Persian Government. and lawlessness reigned supreme ...

... wide area. The object of Sir Percy Sykes was to organise in Bomjurn Persia a force of military gendarmerie under the Persian Government, but officered by British officers with Indian experience. That force was ultimately to attain to a strength of 11,000 ...

... that* according to the latest information from Persia, the efforts of the British, with the friendly as aistance the Persian Government, are successfully holding in check the German agents, who are trying to incite the tribesmen against the Allies. A. ...

... PERSIA. According to the latest information from Persia, the efforts of the British, with the friendly assistance of the Persian Government, are successfully holding in check the German agente against the who are tryin ATi fe incite the tribesmen A. considerable ...