Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part II

Minister Pearson to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Teheran, February 15, 1906.

(Mr. Pearson states, in reply to the telegram of the 12th, that the Shah, through the Persian minister of foreign affairs, has given emphatic assurance that the accomplices shall be punished before next January. After full conference with Mr. Pearson, the British minister withdrew the British consul-general from Urumia. They do not anticipate any disorder, but believe that the Kurds will not be recaptured except by force.)