CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924 — Page 87

This decision was taken subject to the reservation that "such protection will however, be limited to the

and this reservation

company's business only";

was amplified in Foreign Office despatch No. 7 Treaty of the 22nd August, 1906, to Tehran by the words "and would not extend to their employees in Persia if,

by Persian law the latter are considered Persian

Bubjects".

4.

Sir Eyre Crowe would be glad to be informed what reply the Comptroller considers should be returned to Sir P. Loraine in the light of the above considerations.

FOREIGN OFFICE, s.w.1.

23rd February, 1924.

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