Jf the League of Nations can settle the problem of the Kurd, now disturbing the blessedness of Mesopotamia, it can settle anything, remarks a Home paper. For the Kurd is, probably the fiercest human creature ttyat prowls on the borders of civilised- States. He is nomadic, semi-nomadic, and' sometimes settled. Those* in Southern Kurdistan are perhaps the least troublesome. In the winter time they live oil the levels to the east of the Tigris', and in summer migrate to* the marches:! of Persia, to shelter under roughly made* huts. It was Marco Polo who described the Kurds as “an evil generation whoso delight it is to murder merchant®.'’ They are still ready to* rob caravans, and, like Rob Roy, to levy toll 1 on merchants travelling through the Anatolian passes. Some of these communities. however, having dfcetroy^d' 1 the goose that laid the egg, have been driven to cultivate the soil.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3146, 4 December 1922, Page 2
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