BRITISH POLITICS.
AN GLO-RUSSI AN CONVENTION. THE DEFENCE OF INDIA. United Press Association —Copyright (Received 10.44 p.m., Feb. 18.) LONDON, Feb. IS. In the House of Commons, Earl Percy moved that while welcoming the principle of the Convention, the House considered ■that the terms ol it involved a material sacrifice ol British interests, and left room for an international misunderstanding. . ~ Sir Edward Grey, in a masterJj unlv declared that the agreement made the peace of tho world more secure Ho denied that Bntain prospects m Peisia.. , strategic considerations had been pa amount with the Govei-nment i the danger to India through 1 ersia was now very remote.. He '■-M la ' ( that if a special provision had be n inserted respecting the leiswn it could only have affected the Pt stan side of the Gulf, where,m in « future the Mesopotamia side he the more important . . M. Balfour declared that Govr...ilnent had not secured a great cip o matic success, though he admitted that it would he a strategic gain it the agreement prevented Baluchistan from becoming flic base Jor attaching India. . Hr. John ‘Morley. describes the Convention as a most momentous instrument in connection with the defence of India. Tho motion was eventually withdrawn.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2119, 19 February 1908, Page 3
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