NOTEBOOK “ζ” (“ZETA”)

Mutual Accusations

La Revue de Paris , March 1, 1915 (No. 5, 1915)
article by G. Demorgny “ Turkish-German Methods in Persia ” (with a map of the Russian and British spheres of influence in Persia).

| An imperialist laments German successes. (Char- acteristic for a description of imperialism.) | | | | N.B. |

Incidentally (p. 217):

| | “On December 24 (1914) a bomb intended to wipe out the Russian, French, Belgian and British minis- ters exploded in Teheran, but the attempt failed and the bomb killed one of the participants in the plot organised by a German-Turkish gang”.... Author quotes his articles in the magazine Revue du monde musulman , 1913, Nos. 22 and 23 (March and June 1913) and his books: Problems of the Danube , Paris, 1911 (Larose et Tenin); The Administration of Persia , Paris, 1913 (Leroux), and Persian Financial Institutions , Paris, 1915 (Leroux). | | | N.B. |
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The Sitchkan-il year (March 21, 1912-March 20, 1913).

1. Russian trade with Persia = 628,857,900 krans (1 kran = 0.4545 franc).

Persian exports to Russia = 69 per cent of total Persian exports.

Persian imports from Russia 58 per cent of total Persian imports (p. 205).

2. Persian imports from Britain = 25 per cent of total Persian Imports.
Persian exports to Britain 13 per cent of total Persian exports.

3. Turkey.

4. German trade with Persia = 24,316,252 krans.

5. France.

6. Italy.

((Countries listed in the order of their trade with Persia:
1-6))

Preussische Jahrbücher , 1915, No. 3 (March), article by Hans Delbrück (p. 485):