MESOPOTAMIA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 273, 12 August 1920, Page 5

MESOPOTAMIA

TURKISH AGENTS FOMENTING

DISTURBANCES NATIONAL ARAB MOVEMENT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Simla; August 10. . The IChilafat Committee in India, for organising opposition to the Turkish Peaco Treaty, has had its application foj passports for a deputation which it proposed to send to Mesopotamia, tho Hcdjaz, and other Islamic countries, refused by the Government, in view of tho unrest prevalent 111 those areas. Investigation shoivs that the present disturbances in Mesopotamia are due to Sheriilian propaganda, directed from tho borders ,of the neiv Arab State, and effectively seconded by Turkish agents operating from Kurdistan. The Arab national movement is making great headway among the Mesopotamian notables, particularly in Bagdad, which now supplies Damascus with sonie of its mo9t conspicuous agitators. Advices from Bagdad state that the column under Coningham is returning from Dewaniyah to reach Hillah after dealing with the rebel villages en route. All tho rolling stock and railways in the distuiljed area lmve been securod. An ineffective attack was made by the rebels at Mohmidiya on the night of August 7. There are indications' that the rebels are demoralised and that the. spread of the disturbances has been checked. Beinforcements of troops from India have begun to reach Basra.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.