THREAT TO DRIVE OUT BRITISH
ARAB LEADER MUSTERING ARMY IN IRAQ
INFLAMMATORY SPEECHES WIN SUPPORT
(Received December 15, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 14. The Bagdad correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that Faqzi Kawakji, the guerrilla leader in the recent Palestine disturbance, who escaped to Iraq, spends his time here making inflammatory ' anti-British speeches. He is seeking to form an army to "drive the British into the sea." Kawakji describes his battles in Palestine, and he claims to have slain hundreds of British soldiers. "What I have done is merely the first effort to show what the Arabs ran do," he is reported to have said. However foolish these fulminations, it is a fact that many notables Me supporting Kawakji's demonstrations, and hundreds of Iraqis be«eve that he defeated the British Army during the summer.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21967, 16 December 1936, Page 11
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