BRITAIN AND IRAQ

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19970, 3 July 1930, Page 9

BRITAIN AND IRAQ

MANDATE TO BE ENDED. COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE TO BE GIVEN. (UNITE E> pais 3 ASSOCIATION —BT EIZCTEIO TStEGKAPH— COPIBIGHT.) (Received July 2nd, 10.30 p.m.) BAGDAD, July 2. The Great Britain-Iraq treaty has been signed. It comes into operation when Iraq is admitted to the League of Nations in 1932. Tho full terms will bo announced shortly, but it is understood that the treaty gives Iraq complete independence, ending the British mandatory responsibility, and tho British forces within five years will be withdrawn from Mosul and Bagdad, and will be concentrated at throe bases uear Basra. [lraq was freed from the Turks during tho Great War. It was recognised as an independent State to be placed undei a Mandatory Power, and the Mandate was allotted to Great Britain On December 14th, 1927, a treaty was signed between Great Britain and Iraq by which the former undertook to recognise tho latter as an Independent State. In 1920 a Council of State was formed, as a provisional measure to conduct the administration of tho country. A year later Emir Faisal was proclaimed King of Iraq. Tbe country has an area of 143,250 square miles, and a population of 2,849.282.1