The Persian Gulf.
Lord Lamington, speaking in the House of Lords, raised the question of Russia’s growing ascendancy in Persia. He added that the only object of any Russian outlet in the Persian Gulf was the establishment of a naval base threatening India and the trade of the Southern Seas. Lord Lansdowne, Minister for Foreign Affairs, said it was owing to British enterprise and to the expenditure of British lives and money that the Gulf was open for navigation to the world. Britain’s policy, said Lord Lanadowne, was, firstly, to protect and promote British trade, without excluding the legitimate trade of other nations; and next—and he would say it without hesitation-—Britain would regard the establishment of a naval base or a fortified port in the Persian Gulf by any other Power as a very grave menace to British interests, and would certainly resist it by all the means at her disposal. (Oheers). Lord Lansdowne added that he said this in no minatory spirit, because he was not aware that any such project was afoot.
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Manawatu Herald, 9 May 1903, Page 2
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174The Persian Gulf. Manawatu Herald, 9 May 1903, Page 2
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