RIVALRIES IN PERSIA.
ATTITUDE IN FRANCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—CoDrricht Paris, January 1". In the Chamber of Deputies, M. Jaures, the Socialist leader, blamed France'-' for assenting to the Anglo-Russian t Convention, the object of which he declared to be the partition of Persia.
JI. Pichon, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in reply; said no such object had ever teen in the negotiators' minds. | The agreement was calculated to terminate conflicting rivalries, which might have, led to the partition of Persia. It was, he added, one of the happiest agreements arranged for many atloug year.
lleplying to 11. Constant, who had made a statement regarding the Bagdad railway, SI. Pichon remarked that no foreign Power was entitled to grant railway concessions in Turkey. Possibly there had been' some conversation at Potsdam relating to the linking of the Bagdad rail-: way with a future northern Persian line. Why should France, in such a case, object to Germany's asking Russia, not to opposo the linking up of those lines?
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1029, 19 January 1911, Page 5
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