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Russian Domination of Persia

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 20, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 8.

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Russian Domination of Persia

A EUROPEAN correspondent of Harper's Weekly, February 10, says that “Persia to-day is practically as much a Russian province as Manchuria;” and that “the latest news shows how all but absolute is the Russian domination” there. This gives to Russia the heart of Asia, as well as all the north and all the east of Asia above the fortieth parallel. Her next step is to secure a harbor for a naval station on the Persian Gulf, “in which, it is said, ‘England’s power in the East will have received one of its deadliest blows.’