19 MAY 1928, Page 2

Several new Conventions and a Treaty between Great Britain and

Persia were signed at Teheran last week. The most interesting of the Conventions abolishes the Capitulations. When the Capitulations were abolished in Turkey it became inevitable that they should be abolished also in Persia, and it seems that this can be done now with comparative safety. When justice is reasonably assured to foreigners there is no need- any longer to require of an Eastern nation the humiliation of granting to foreigners their own Courts. Under the present Shah there have been great improvements in government, social order and industrial activity. It was time, there fore, to gratify the national pride which was the source of the improvements. * .*