MOSUL AND IRAQ.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18571, 22 December 1925, Page 13

MOSUL AND IRAQ.

LEAGUE'S DECISION. | PROSPERITY PREDICTED. TREATY WITH BRITAIN. <BT CABLE— ttttSS ASBOCUTIOX—COPtaiOHT.) UUCVES'S ■ISL.KUUKXB.) UAGHDAD, December 20. News of the League of Nations' decision was received in Mosul with feclinm of relief. Many houses displayed tho_ Iraq flag. • With the prospect of the city remaining permanently in Iraq, business is already improving. Tho decision caused no great surprise in Baghdad, politicians declaring that the justice of Iraq's claim was obvious. King Feisal is delighted, considering that there will be littic difficulty in negotiating a 25-year treaty, o r even loiter, with Great Britain, provided tho dignity of the Iraq nation is prc-tr-rved. Great commercial developments arc prophesied as tho result of the security afforded by tho Mosul decision, includina the possibility of a direct transdesert railway uniting Baghdad and a Mediterranean port. The Turkish View. PARK, Dec-ember 20. Tewfik Pvushdi Bey, Turkish Ambassador, said that ho could not forecast tho decision of tho Angora Assembly "regarding the Mosul situation, which ho described as delicate, even critical. Ho emphasised Turkey's desire for Deace, but Turkey, though abhorring war. would if necessary act in national defence. Turcc-Soviet relations, he said, were those of good neighbourliness, the closeness of which would continue to be dcyeloped in relation to events.