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Show I NATIVE PERSIAN IS CONSUL GENERAL SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16. Mirza AH Kuli Khan, who is at the Panama-Pacific exposition as commissioner general of Persia, received a cablegram from Teheran Te-heran tonight appointing him Persian consul general at New York. He will retain, re-tain, the cableRram Informs him. his office of-fice as counsellor of the Persian legation at Washington. This is the first time, it is said, that a Persian citizen has heen placed In charge of the Persian consulate, the position having been filled in the past by persons of other than Persian citizenship, citizen-ship, who have served in an honorary capacity. Mirza Ali Kult Khan has lived in the United States for sixteen years. His wife is an American, fche was formerly Miss 1- lorence Breed of Boston. |