IN PERSIA
THE POSITION IMPROVING. " WHILE GERMANY DREAMS. LONDON, February 21. In the House of Lords \iscount B.vyce sought a'statement as to the condition in Persia. Lord Curzon. replied that recently there lia'd been a steady improvement. Germany for years was dreaming and intriguing and had not yet abandoned her .dream of a. German dominion from Antwerp to the Indian. Ocean,', with .the. sinister object of striking Britain's' Dominions and Egypt and robbing us v,f Our hegemony in the Eastern World. Germany made Austria her dupe and Turkey her slave, and hoped to attain her ends by means of the Bagdad railway, The Turks, although unable -to advance, now occupied 30/jCOT square.miles of Persia. :' -
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 February 1917, Page 6
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