V. I.   Lenin

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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).

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

Incidentally (p. 217):

|| N.B. “On December 24 (1914) a bomb intended to wipe out the Russian, French, Belgian and British ministers exploded in Teheran, but the attempt failed   N.B. || and the bomb killed one of the participants in the plot organised by a German-Turkish gang”....

N.B. || 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).

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 Jahrb\"ucher, 1915, No. 3 (March), article by Hans Delbr\"uck (p. 485):

N.B. || “On behalf of his Government, the British Minister in Norway, Findley, tried to hire an assassin in order to do away with the Irishman Sir Roger Casement”. (From Delbr\"uck’s counter-charges against Great Britain.)

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