... people. The head of the present Persian Government was forced upon the Shah by Great Britain. The long time that has been taken In carrying through these negotiations was duo to the necessity of the Persian Government organising a force sufficiently strong ...

... implied in the reply that the Persian Government has turned to Great Britain as its most powerful and friendly neigh. hour cad begged this country in accord with its traditional policy of warm interest in the Persian Government to take the country under its ...

... only one to exerted in that country. and only British subjects will he Po,aged henceforth as Foreign Officials by the Persian Government. Great Britain is to reorganise the Persian army, supply instructors and modern arms, and British experts will reorganiee ...

... that, so far as this country is concerned, the 1907 agreement is suspended, and on Monday Mr. Balfour stated that the Persian Government had been informed of this. But the course of events between 1907 and 1917 cannot be wiped out by any mere act of oblivion ...

... HERE AND THERE. The Persian Government has made representations to Petrograd, London. Constantinople. and Berlin for the removal of foreign troops from Persia. Each Government except the British have given an undertaking to withdraw the troops. A Press ...

... destroyed by the armies, and the peasants fled from the ►nest fertile districts. Later, when food was brOught by the Persian Government into the starving districts it was seized by the Russian armies, and the whole of Persia is now on the verge of famine ...

... frontiers; to have full control of her mineral resources; all concessions, conventions, and contracts forced upon the Persian Government to be considered void ; and the country to be assured absolute and complete independence and unhampered peaceful development ...

... shadow of a doubt the conclusion that Mr. Shuster's fault lay in the fact that he regarded himself as the servant of the Persian Government and not the tool of Russian policy. A little more of the cat is shown in the next page, where it is innocently confessed ...

... right to control its expenditure. In September, 1911, a new difficulty arose. Despite the pledge given by Russia to the Persian Government, the ex-Shah, with her connivance, invaded Persia. He was defeated, but when the Persian gendarmerie, at the orders ...

... both Power.; guaranteed the independence and int,grity of Persia. The British Minister iu s communication to the Persian Government said. Sot only do they wish not to have at hand any excuse for intervention, but their object in these friendly negotiations ...

... Nasvi-ut Mulk, has resided abroad, and the Cabinet is terrorised by Ruq--ia. Small sums of money have been doled out to the Persian Government by Russia and Great Britain on exorbitant terms of interest, in addition to which concessions have been extorted. Lately ...

... ex-Shah, entered Tabriz, which he had vainly besieged since August, 1911, and became Governor under Russian auspices. The Persian Government refused to recognise this monster, but Russia insisted on retaining him, and was supported by Sir Edward Grey, as clearly ...