M. Sassonoff will confer with Sir Edward Grey at the Foreign Office to-day and they will probably journey together to Balmoral, where there will be a series of conversations to which the papers attach great importance. They anticipate that the result will be an amplification of the entente chiefly affecting Persia.
The Times" yesterday urged revision of the convention relating to Persia, in order to give Greab Britain freedom in the south similar to that exercised by Russia in the north.
The "Daily News" to-day denounces " the impudent and cynical proposal to share the spoils" and says thst the Liberals have been too long loyal to the Government in this respect and must insist on the
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