RUSSIAN CONVENTION.
OMISSION MADE GOOD, r : BRITAIN IN TIIE-PERSIAN GULF. BY TELEGRAPII—rPRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, London, February 11. Tho Earl of Crowe, Lord President of tho Council, in tho House , of Lords, , said ' that M.vlsvolslcy, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, had handed the' Ambassador a docu-' ;ment admitting tliat.Russia had not denied, Groat Britain's position in the Persian Gulf. 11. When it jjecamo -known that tho Anglo-Rns-t sian Convention,, whilo making . North Persia tho Russian, tand South Persia the British, sphere, 1 , did not' definitely'assign to --Britainspecial interests in tho Persian Gulf, the omission was'.-criticised. Tho News" ;said that; Sir, Edward Grey's.dispatch had not -convinced it, that Russia, had.abandoned her old aspiration for a warm water port. Similar .criticism.- was -heard■ the /other day .from 'Lord CurzonJn the: House of Lords.. The present Russian admission, while curiously worded.' may .'help to-increase "confidence, in ' this portion of the Convention. ': . ' : ' "• 1 ■ : • ■ '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 7
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147RUSSIAN CONVENTION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 7
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