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_ ~| n . i • i q Kripf* reference to the hiffh-handed. manner
in which tXZfAZZ Ministers extracted from the Persian Government the
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Count Reventlow, m the Tageszeitung also has an^ar tm ^ ^ ^ hi ^
calls attention to the activity o o' 1 ;; ., ssurance s given by His Majesty’s Government
readers against putting any ai , . . j f show how little assurances from
that no partition of Persia is contemp ated and to show ho that
that source are to be credited, points out . of a P e Jan official, the
the landing of troops at Lmgeh was carried out at the t Count Keventlow
Persian Government is protesting agan English sphere of influence,
makes a great deal of the fact that ^ / e routeS) which
and points out, moreover, that tne greater pomo s
Great Britain proposes to protect with Indian officers ^troops,^le ^
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Grfaf Britein’f St-rejwated^eclaration, that Z
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inroad into Persia. th;s ; s the keynote of most of the articles written here
on the IPeraianJuestion —how the Russians will relish the British conception of a
n^S f- U he observes that they will speedily realise that
fhrJrifiri form, but JvtlopTdTn thflffi^s which Great Britain finds most
adV Tfr ^ ““ndi^f the Czar he reminds his readers that
His Majesty once said to Prince Hohenlohe, who had spoken to lum about the mtention
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Engiisn are happy ^ from these newspapers in order tha^munwy have
Britain and Russia. As it is only lately that th 7fhf p JeTe
it is to be presumed that they consider the occasion of the Czars visit and the preset
of M. Sazonow in Berlin a fit opportunity for warning Russia °P 0 ^ r ® vl ^ nte ?f” n * rcelv
In this connection another prominent German paper says that Russia will s^ey
relish the efforts which are being made by Great Britain to exclude her from the ice-tre
V014 Vhefollowing observations on the subject of M. Sazonow’s visit are qiwted
from a paper which is sometimes used by the Imperial Foreign Office for semi-othc
communications :— ;|
“ Discussions on special questions will not be started from the German side. It
will, according to diplomatic custom, be for M. Sazonow, as the guest of the Geima
Government, to take the initiative. For instance, it is quite possible that he nia)
the question of Persia, which is undoubtedly of all others the question of the day 1
this case he will probably receive the assurances that Germany will do nothing to tor
Russia and England from the position they occupy m Persia, but that, on the or
hand, a partition of Persia will meet with her strongest disapproval; that on me
contrary, the principle of the open door in Persia for all countries must be upheld.
In commenting upon this paragraph the paper which publishes it says ^that i
in this very correct statement of German policy due emphasis is placed on the mu
of the last sentence, it is of the highest importance for German commercial cir
to know what steps will be taken by the Imperial Government to secure the nece i y
guarantees that the principle of the open door will be effectively and abso )
upheld.
I have, <xc.
W E GOSCHEN.