DEFENCE OF PERSIA
WITHDRAWAL OF BRITISH FORCES LIMIT TO RESPONSIBILITIES ißy Telegraph-Prem ABSociat!on--OopyrlsM London, December 15. Oil lllie Army Supplementary Estimates. Mr. Winston Churchill, Minister of War, stilted that General Ironside's force at Ivasvin, which. was practically the sole protection of North-west Persia and Teheran, would be withdrawn in tho spring. Meanwhile Britain was trying to / rou.se the' Persian Government to a 6enso of its responsibility for self-pro-tection. It was melancholy to contemplfttio the possibility of nil ancient capital and monarchy being engulfed in barbarism, but there must be a limit to Britain's responsibilities.—Keuter.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 72, 18 December 1920, Page 11
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94DEFENCE OF PERSIA Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 72, 18 December 1920, Page 11
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