BRITAIN AND PERSIA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10592, 22 October 1910, Page 4

BRITAIN AND PERSIA.

'By Elf.ctjuc -Telegraph—Cotyrtgttt

(Per Pnrss Association.) Received October 21, at 3.5 p.m. Berlin, October 20. Tho Vossische Zeitung says that the formation of detachments of Persian troops with British officers, combined with financial control, amounts to the translation of the defunct Macedonian system to Persia ._

London, .October 21. Mr Ramsay Macdonald, at Liverpool, in /referring to Persia, said the contentions of the Labor Party had turned out well founded. Sir JS. Grey's blundering was going to result in "Britain's horders for the first ."time becoming coterminous 'with the. Russian, stilus weakening the position of India, with accompaniment of more militarism scares and ultimately conscription. , Received .October at .8.5 a:m. Berlin, October 21. The Neueste Nachrichten complains that if Great Biitain's threat is execu-. ted, it will bring the Persian Gulf terminus of the Bagdad railway more completely into British hands v Received October 22, at 9:5 a.m. Constantinople,' October 21. The British Note relating to Persia ■ has caused a profound impression in Turkey, owing to "the "fear that. it.wiU tend to the Russian' occupation of North Turkey. ' ,