THE MOSUL TREATY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 7

THE MOSUL TREATY.

TURKEY AND IRAQ

SHARE OF Oil. DEPOSITS,

CONSTANTINOPLE, , June 7

The Mosul convention was signed at Angora •at midnight. It upholds the Brussels line with a slight modification at one point in favour of Turkey. It maintains a demilitarised zone seventy-five kilometres on either side of the Turko-Iraq frontier.

Turkey is to get a tenth share of the royalties due to the Iraq Government from all oil in Iraq.

The "Daily Chronicle" says that as a result of the treaty Britain will be able to evacuate Iraq well within four years after the ratification of peace with Turkey in August, 1924.

Under the new treaty, says the paper, the British Government has retrieved the blunder of commitment to a further indeterminate occupation.

Mr. M. H. Donohoe, the Paris correspondent of the "Chronicle," expresses the opinion that industrial and mineral development in Iraq will receive a stimulus now that the ever-present spectre of war has been laid. He questions whether an oil-pipe running through Mosul across the Syrian desert to a Palestine port can profitably be laid in view of the possibility of a Turkish petroleum company striking oil in the Mosul area. —(A. and N.Z.)