PERSIAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
BRITAIN'S REPLY TO RUSSIA. STATEMENT BY SIR E. GRAY. Keceived February 25, 9 a.m. LONDON, February 24. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey), replying in ths House of Commons to a question put by Mr John Dillon (Nationalist member for Mayo East), said that the Government had informed Russia that the best course was for both Britain and Russia to stand entirely aloof from Persian internal affairs, but that if Russia was unable *o do so, England was pr - pared to co-operate with her. Received February 25, 12.10 a.m. LONDON, February 25. Sir EJward Grey, recognising that the restjratjon of order in Persia is impossible without representative institutions, intimated in a reply to M. Isvolsky that Britain was willing to co-operate with Russia, and advising the dismissal of reactionaries, the selection of able men, and the preparation ot a schema for an elective government.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3124, 26 February 1909, Page 5
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151PERSIAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3124, 26 February 1909, Page 5
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