At the beginning of the week a Blue-book was issued
con- taining correspondence on Persian affairs. It is unnecessary to follow the record of recent events which the correspondence provides, as the events are familiar. But we may note that in a letter to the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg the Russian Acting Foreign Minister, M. Neratoff, after hotly attacking the acts of Mr. Shuster, defines the limits of the Russian Government's policy in Persia in the following plain words (we quote from the translation in the Times): "Their proceedings are in no way in contradiction to the provisions of that Convention [the Anglo-Russian Convention], since they are not pursuing any object which could assail the integrity or independence of Persia. Further, they desire to state categorically that the military measures which they are taking in Persian territory are only of a purely provisional character."
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