BRITAIN AND PERSIA.
UNION JACK PULLED DOWN AOT OF NAVAL OFFICERS. REGRET EXPRESSED OFFICIALLY. (Omctal Wireless.} (Received Sept. 18, 2.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 17. An answer has been received 'from the Persian Government regarding an incident at Basldu, in Kisbm Island, in the Persian Gulf, where recently some Persian naval officers landed and pulled down the Union Jack. Basidu has been in British occupation for one hundred years, and _ln response to a protest by the British Government an assurance was given by the Persian Government that the action was Quite unauthorised, and regret, at the officers’ behaviour'was expressed. The Union Jack was replaced in position by the British navy. A visit is, at present being paid to friendly sheiks of the southern Persian Gulf by the destroyer Flotilla of the Mediterannean Fleet.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19053, 18 September 1933, Page 8
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