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Russian advance in Persia alarms British fears over India
St Percassens April 18 The foreign office monitors Russia’s frontier war in Persia as the first test of applicable rights under the Anglo Russian accord. Russia seeks a Persian gulf port and rails into Herat Kandahar and Baluchistan to threaten India, while Britain fears subversion of its India domain.
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St. Percassens
Foreign Office
Russia
Persia
Great Britain
England
Cyrus
Xerxes
Darius
Croesus
Persian Gulf
Arabian Gulf
India
Beluchistan
Afghanistan
Ivan the Terrible
Czar
Central Asia
Yernak
Siberia
Or the Great
Far East
Khiva
Oxus
New Siberian
Bokhara
Turkestan
Tashkent
St. Petersburg
Iran
Teheran
Herat
Kandahar
Baluchistan
Herat Herat
Pearl of Khorassan
Cabul
Alexander I
Harford Jones
Merv
Servia
Turkey
Armenia
Kabul
Gandamak
Khyber
Midian
Akhal
Soudan
Kushk