PERSIA.
1 WITHDRAWAL OF BRITISH rOECES. (By Cable —Press Association—Copyright.) (Beuter's Tolegnms.) LONDON, December 15. Speaking on tho Army Supplemental Estimates in the House of Commons, I Jlr Winston Churchill (Minister of War) stated that tQie force commanded by General Ironsides at Kasvin, which. ; was practicaliy the sole protection of i North-West Persia and Teheran, was 'to bo withdrawn in the spring. Meanwhile, Great Britain was trying to rouso. tho Persian Government to a tense ot; its responsibility for self-protection. It was melancholy to contemplate i'ho ancient capital and monarchy being engulfed in barbarism, but there must be a limit to Great Britain's responsibilities.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17021, 18 December 1920, Page 9
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