Lord Lansdowne, Foreign Secretary said that the Government would sist the establishment of a_ foreign naval base in the Persian Gulf by all the means at our disposal, but he w not aware of any proposal to that effect having been made.
The Government's policy in the Gulf is to protect and promote British commerce without aiming at the exclusion of the legitimate trade of other Powers,—Reuter.
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