PERSIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14343, 22 October 1910, Page 3

PERSIA.

THE BRITISH MOVE. By Eloiano Telegraph.■■ Copyright BERLIN, Oct. 20. Tho Vossifieho Eeitung says that tho formation of detachments of Persian troops with British officers, combined with financial control, amounts to the translation of the defunct Macedonian system to Persia. MR. MACDONALD ON FOREIGN POLICY. LONDON, Oct. 21. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., speaking at Liverpool, referring to Persia, said the contentions of the Labour Party had turned out to be well founded. Sir E, Grey's blundering was going to result in Britain’s borders for the first time becoming coterminous with Russia’s. Tims Britain was weakening her position in India with the accompaniment of more militarism and scares and ultimately conscription. ANNOYANCE OF GERMANY. (Received Oct. 22, 8.50 a.m.) BERLIN, Oct. 21. Tho Nouoste Nachriohten complains that if Britain’s throat is executed it will bring tho Persian Gulf terminus of the Bagdad railway more completely into British hands. FEARS IN TURKEY. (Received Oct. 22, 9.5 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 21. The British note to Persia has caused a profound impression in Turkey, owing to tlio fear that it will tend to a Russian occupation of the North of Persia.