... in Afghanistan. A sharply-worded Note has !ono despatched be Acting Commissar for Foreign Affairs M. Karakhan to the Persian Government, it is reported, demanding that Teheran shaU immediately liquidate the concentra. ties of troops on the Afghan frontier ...

... skirmishes against nomads withi:i the country's limits. Semitko, the noted Kurdish chieftain. who during many years cost the Persian Government dearly in blood and money, and who fled to Turkey three years ago, has returned to Persian Kurdistan. whore lie has ...

... unlucky one ever attempted. First there were the political difficulties with Persia. After much diplomatic discussion, the Persian Government consented allow one British aircraft a week to fly over its territory. It was arranged to start the Air Service on Saturday ...

... memorandum to the Government the retail petrol no concern of British Government states that it of vital importance to the Persian Government which receives a percentage of the profits on petrol marketed under its concession to the company The price of petrol ...

... their decisinn was known it was impossible to take further effective steps to link up with Australia. It was for the Persian Government to decide who could use their aerodromes. SINGAPORE BASE. Regarding the expenditure of £576,000 on the air station at ...

... relating to consular and commercial arrangements have been exchanged between the present Japanese Delegation and the Persian Government, whereby reciprocal facilities for the import of goods have been given. ...

... Notes relating to consular and commercial agreements have been exchanged between the present Japanese delegation and the Persian Government by which reciprocal facilities have been given for the import of goods.—Reuter, £600,000 GRANT FOR MINERS. London, March ...

... nationals. Negotiationi for a new general treaty of commerce and navigation had, however, already been initiated with tha Persian Government. Dearer Derry Bread.— Tbe price bread in Londonderry has been increaaed from 9d to per fib. loaf. Long Pablic Berrloe ...

... unprovoked attempt on his independence by a foreign Government. A SURPRISING REFERENCE, The Note expresses surprise that the Persian Government hould have referred in the correspond nce to Article io of the Covenant of th 3 League of Nations, under which the members ...

... Teheran has handed to the Persian Government in reference to the latter's claim of sovereignty over the island of Bahrein in the Persian Gulf. The British Note deals in detail with the contentions put forward by the Persian Government and recalls that Britain ...

... ISLANDS The Secretary of State for ^ Foreign Affairs has handed to tho Persian Minister in London a Noto addressed to tho Persian Government from tho British Government , in which the recognition of Persia ' s claim to the ownership of tho Bahrein Islands ...

... Tho reply refutes point by point tho grounds on which tho Persian Government bases its claim to tho sovereignty of tho islands. The Note concludes by expressing the hope that the Persian Government will acknowledge tho desirability of establishing good relations ...