RUSSIA-PERSIA TREATY

Hastings Standard, Volume VII, Issue 2032, 4 February 1903, Page 3

RUSSIA-PERSIA TREATY

ffJPer United Pre 3? A ■"•vi-. nonCopy risbt Received February 4, 1.3 a.m. London, February 3. It has transpired that a Russo-Per sian commercial agreement has been completed which becomes operative on the 4th instant. It: introduces specie instead of the ad valorem du ties levied under the Turkamanchi treaty. The latter has been in opera tion since February, 18,28. The new agreement abolishes the majority of the Persian export duties, the tolls system, and the famine; out of' taxes and established Persian Customs stations. Persia is arranginz with Russia for the payment of Customs duties. Free storaee of <rcods for a per iod of twelve months is being: granted.

The investiture ot the Shah of Per si* with the Order of the Garter, recently conferred on him by King Edward, was a brilliant function The ceremony was ppr'«>rmed nv Viscount head <>f t!.;> special mission sent to Persia for the purpose. The Times, a T- : n.'t a ooi icy of drift, says that <■< h "n™ hj" yond cotmlimentarv ~~ : '-* t" Teheran is pHc< *'> rrr>M-? fVra* Britain f " h<-'d V-- own in Ib'- roe ions wherein, as l ~' r ' rrr-.hr.mc declared in 1902, amidst the warm ap proval of both sides of the House of Commons, "we cannot abandon our rights and ascendency,"