ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 94, 21 April 1924, Page 5

ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.

''.'. MAY NOT BE RATIFIED. MODIFICATIONS DEMANDED. AGITATORS' CAMPAIGN. (By Cable—Tress Association.— Cop.vrijht.) (Received _.:)0 p.m.) BAGDAD, April 20. • An agitation, largely conducted by lairyc-rs and accompanied by the wildest .. ■misrepresentation., has broken out against the acceptance of the AngloIraq treaty, which it is possible the Con- ,..' stituent Assembly may refuse to accept without large modifications. Indeed, it is reported that only fourteen out of a , hundred Deputies can be depended upon to vote for the treaty. The agitators assort that Britain docs not guarantee that the Mosul Vilaret will not be surrendered to Turkey, 'ior guarantee th_ defence of Iraq's other frontiers, also that the treaty jives no financial assistance except for the maintenance of British forces in Iraq, while Iraq has to shoulder a large ghare of tbe Ottoman debt and the huge expense of expansion of the national srmy. which will mean early bank- . -ropi-cy. King Fci.ul and his Ministers are doing their utmost to counteract the agnation, but the deputies believe that if the Assembly rejects the treaty Brit tain will make large concessions inorder to retain a footing in Iraq.— (Rcutcr.)