... efficient control; that to avoid future accidents, the Persian Gulf cable should be doubled, or, by arrangements with the Persian Government, that hand wires should be instituted between Ispahan and Kurrachee. That the scheme of establishing a direct communication ...

... Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army, will return to England next spring and be succeeded by Major General Windham. The Persian Government has protested against Colonel Pelley's seizure of a vessel belonging to the Chief of Behrein, on the ground that that ...

... but instructions will be sent to Mr. Alison to make further inqury into the matter, and strong representations to the Persian Government. Mr. Alison speaks in high terms of the assistance rendered by the Russian Minister at Teheran and by the Russiah consul ...

... to have an independent line from Bagdad to the Persian frontier, at a place called Khanokain, from which point the Persian Government, under the advice and with the assistance of English officers, will carry the line to Teheran and Schiraz, and so to ...