LEBANON CRISIS
CONFLICTING REPORTS QUOTED.
BRITISH ATTITUDE UNCHANGED. IRAQIS URGE INDEPENDENCE (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 16. While the French spokesman at Cairo states that no incidents were reported in Lebanon to-day, Reuter’s correspondent at Algiers, quotes informed British circles as saying that there is no sign of calm in Lebanon, and despite the French claims that order lias been restored, reports of disturbances persist.
There is no indication, says Reuter’s of any softening of the British attitude.
The President of the Iraq Senate and prominent persons cabled Mr Wendell Willkie asking for the independence of Lebanon “in the interests of democracy and the Allies, and the aims of the United Nations.”
The all-India Moslem League newspaper “Dawn,” commenting on the Lebanon question, says: “The outrageous conduct of the French intruders in Lebanon is an affront felt throughout the Islamic world and the Moslems of India are shocked at it. It is for Britain to see that the scandal stops.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 32, 17 November 1943, Page 3
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