THE PERSIAN GULF.
DECLARATION BY IX&ID ' LA'NSDOWNE, BRITAIN'S' ATTITUDE. ■United Preso Association—By^ElscViio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 6. Lord Laimington raised a question in the House of Lordls of Russia's growing ascendency in Persia. He added th'ait the only object of any l-tassian outlet on tihe Gulf was the esfcalbliEihimerib of a naval base, t'hreabeninlg IrJdlia and! trad© in the SoutQiiern Seas. The Marquis of Lansdowno said that it was owing to (British enterprise and expenditure of lives and money that tike Gu3if toad been opened to na-vilgation to tlhe world. 'British policy was firstly to protect and .promotes Britlah tcradie, without excluding the lagitimlate tradb of others, and next, and he wwuM say it without hesitation, Britain would regard the establish.men* of a naval baise or fortified port on the Gulf by any other Power as a very grave menace to British) interests, and would certainly resist it "by all means at hler disposal. (Cheers). He would say tihis in no minatory spirit, because he was not aware that amy such jprojeet was afoot.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CIX, Issue 13120, 7 May 1903, Page 5
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173THE PERSIAN GULF. Lyttelton Times, Volume CIX, Issue 13120, 7 May 1903, Page 5
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