The Saturday evening post . Bolshevism. Germany saw hor way throughthe Caucasus from Tiflis and down to Persia,and through Persia, perhaps, to Bagdad. Therecould be operations in Transcaspia with Krasno-vodsk as a base—Turkestan willing, and Afghan-istan willing— for a sweep into India. The Britishsent a force into Persia as far up as Kasbin, fromthere advancing them to Enzeli and to Baku. InBaku they were joined by a force of Armenians andPersians, but they were later forced to evacuate. The signing of the armistice found a broken Per-sia. Her people were still dying as a result of thefamine.
The Saturday evening post . Bolshevism. Germany saw hor way throughthe Caucasus from Tiflis and down to Persia,and through Persia, perhaps, to Bagdad. Therecould be operations in Transcaspia with Krasno-vodsk as a base—Turkestan willing, and Afghan-istan willing— for a sweep into India. The Britishsent a force into Persia as far up as Kasbin, fromthere advancing them to Enzeli and to Baku. InBaku they were joined by a force of Armenians andPersians, but they were later forced to evacuate. The signing of the armistice found a broken Per-sia. Her people were still dying as a result of thefamine. There was the usual vacuum in the ex-chequer. There was a weak central were disunion and the usual factions amongthe politicians! Above all, the spirit of the peoplewas depressed, even broken. This was, however,only a little worse than the state of some othercountries, and Persia, though threatened with in-ternal dissension, and from without by Bolshevism,was at least free from the tyranny of Russia. M. American Mission Schoolboys Eating Watermelon The Persian Oil Field EANWHILE a Persian mission went to Paris,hoping to get a hearing at the peace con-ference. They wanted an enormous amount ofterritory, covering Transcaspia and Turkestan, in-cluding Khiva, and a large part of the Caucasus,taking in Baku, with a considerable portion of Ar-menia, Kurdistan and Mesopotamia. Mosul, LakeVan and Diarbekir lay within this map, which alsotook a slice out of Upper Syria. This missionalso wanted loans and advisers to help bring orderto their finances and to reconstruct their faultysystem of administration. The members of themission got a ticket to the Hall of Mirrors but theyhad no opportunity of presenting their case to thepeace conference. Meanwhile negotiations weregoing on between the Persian cabinet at Teheranand British representatives there, which resultedat last in the Anglo-Persian agreement, given tothe world in the late summer of 1919. The reasons why Grea
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