BRITISH POLICIES AND RUSSIAN AIMS: Object of Agitation to
Influence British Policy—Kurdistan the
Key of Mesopotamia—Sir Henry Layard’s and
Mr. Grattan Geary’s Opinion—The Danger to
Egypt—Cyprus Convention—Russian Opposition
to Reforms—Anglo-Russian Entente followed by
Reversion of British Policy—Turkish Request
for British Administrators Refused—Russian
Proposals—Turkey Appeals to Germany—An Impossible
Compromise—Band-Warfare and Propaganda 54