TROUBLE IN PERSIA.
. SERIOUS REVOLT. A NEW GOVERNMENT FORMED. ■; (BI TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIBIOUT.) '.: (Rec.'February 8, 11.30 p.m.) • :'.;..'■ Teheran, February 8. All the towns in the , province of Khorassan;ha've risen in revolt against the Shah and formed an Anjuman, or Government, at Meshed to assume the administration of the province. ■... ' '•■'" In the course of a speech on Persian affairs Sir Edward Grey, said: "The only, course for us to take is that, so long as there is : no danger to British subjects, we shall not go one inch further in intervention than we can hedp. As long as wo abstain from intervention, I hone the Persians will fight out their affairs in their own way. The hon. member, for Eipon recommended friendly assistance. Yes; but it is a very, difficult matter offering friendly assist-ance'-when there is a state,of civil war. When you offer friendly assistance the party to whom you offer it era apt to ask how far you are perpared to go, and there is no more dangerous thing : than to offer sympathy and friendly as-! sistan'ce unless, when state; of affairs' ocours,. you, are prepared to; back up those who have leant upon you by going somewhat further." '■..,.'.•• '"■" '■■■.. -
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 427, 9 February 1909, Page 7
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198TROUBLE IN PERSIA. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 427, 9 February 1909, Page 7
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