THE RAIDS IN IRAQ.
REGENT RUMOURS DISCREDITED. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) ' LONDON, March 27. Jafar Pasha (Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Iraq) has arrived in London. In an interview he said he did. not attach much importance to the rumours of raids by the Wahabis and other tribes. The talk about a Jehad (holy wax) \vas exaggerated. The Wahabis' excuse that the erection of frontier forts justified the raids) was without foundation. The nearest approach to a fort was merely a police post, seven miles from the frontier.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 143, 28 March 1928, Page 5
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