The Washington times., 1920-08-10
IGNORE ELEACUE
|NAGREEMENT
Pact Assures England Complete
Control Of immense Sup
ply Of Oil.
By KARL H. Won wIEGAHD.
STAG Correspoadest OF New York
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BERLIN. Aug. 1o.-Whst purports
TO be the text of secret clauses added
TO the treaty entered into by England
with Persia in 1919 and not made
public when the British government
published the pact, months after II
had been signed. has come into my
possession.
The British-Persian treaty was
signed in Teheran, August o, 1919
just one year ago.
The. publication of the fact that
England had entered into a treaty
with Persia, without reference to the
newly formed League of Nations.
caused. no little disapprovalTand sur
prise-at Washington. The American
minister at Teheran, presumably at
the instance of Secretary OF state
Lansing, protested to the Persian
government.
The following secret clauses are
alleged to have been signed at the
same time, and are another instance,
II they. are authentic, of how little
European powers regard President
Wilson's "open covenants, openly ar
rived at"
THE .sECRET CLAUSES
This document. the authenticity Of
which, however. / cannot guarantee.
has come into my hands through
Bolshevist and Turkish Nationalist
circles. which i know to be In touch
with Persian revolutionists. am
informed II was obtained from the
Persian archives at Teheran after
the ministry, which entered into this
treaty with England. fell and was
followed by a cabinet in strong op-
position to the British-Per agree
ment.
There are seven paragraphs:
His majesty, the Shah OF Persia.
twelve days after the signing OF the
treaty by the contracting parties, will
start on journey to Europe with the
desired encourage. An English war
ship will be at anchor at Batum to
escort him to the desired European
port.
His majesty will remain six months
in Europe, and all his expenses VIII
be paid from the loan which Persia
will raise in England.
t2-Persia will permit all the
rights and advantages accruing to
England from the Russo-British
treaty Of 1907 to continue. Persia
will, moreover acknowledge that the
zones mentioned in the same treaty
az neutral, are to be placed under
the British sphere of influence.
N3-The Persian government will
permit Great Britain to send troops
into those zones Of Persia in which
the former Russian government
maintained troops. The expense OF
maintenance for such troops will be
paid by the British government.
4EThe Persian government agrees
not to enter into political relations
with any other state without the ap-
proval Of Great Britain, except with
such states with which it already
maintains foreign political relations.
BIN it's foreign relations, Persia
always will accept the advice. OF Great
Britain, and it will not conclude a
treaty in whatever form with any
state, without first gaining Great
Britain's consent.
6-Great Britain reserves TO itself
the right to prevent agitation direct
ed against Great Britain, to punish
perpetrators, or to expel them from
Persia
PLEDGED TO CURB ANTI.BRITISH.
THE Persian government pledges
itself energetically to prosecute all
movements in Persia directed against
Great Britain.
1t Is noteworthy that the Shah did
leave Persian soon after the signing
of the treaty with England that he
came to Europe on a British ship and
remained in Europe several months.
1t is TO secret that the Persian gov
eminent had no money with which to
defray the expenses Of the Shah and
his extensive encourage in Europe.
Attention also may be called to the
fact that the neutral zones" men
toned in article II, whiC\ Persia is
alleged therein to agree being placed
in the British sphere of influence, in
cIude the Persian oil fields one of the
richest petroleum fields in the world.