BRITISH ARMY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 December 1920, Page 5

BRITISH ARMY

FORCES IN PERSIA

TO WITHDRAW IN THE SPRING-

BY CABLE—FEESS ASSOCIATION—COP'/ftiGHT

(Reuter.) (Received Dec. 17, 8.50 a m > _ LONDON, Dec. 10. Un the Army Supplementary Estimates Mr Winston Churchill (Minister ot TYar) stated that General Ironside si force at -Kasvin, which was practically the sole protection of northwest _ Persia and Teheran, was withdrawing in the spring. Meanwhile Britain was trying to rouse the Persian Government to a sense of its responsibility for self-protection It was melancholy to contemplate the possibility of the ancient capital and monarchy being engulfed in barbarism, but there must be a limit to Britain's responsibilities.