RUSSIA'S ASCENDENCY IN PERSIA.
BRITISH POLICY ENUNCIATED. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 8,10.24 p m, London, May 6. Lord Lamington rais:d a question in the House of Ludsof Russia's growing ascendancy in Persia. He added that the ocly olj jet cf any Russian outlet on the gulf was the establishment of a naval base threatening India and the trade of the southern sou. Lord Lanslowne said it was owing to British enterprise and the expenditure of lives and money that the Gulf was open to naviga'ion to the world. Our policy was, firstly, to protect and promote British trade, without excluding tho legitimate trade of others, and, next, and he would say it without hesitation, Britain would regard the establishment of a naval base or fortified port in the Gulf by any other Power as a very grave menace to British interests, which Britain would crtaicly resist by nil means at her | disposal. (Cheers.) Ho wsuld say this in no minatory spirit, because he was not aware any such project was afoot.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 110, 7 May 1903, Page 2
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171RUSSIA'S ASCENDENCY IN PERSIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 110, 7 May 1903, Page 2
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