NEW GOVERNMENT
IN ALEXANDRETTA
The French High Commissioner, M. Roger Garreau, recently read a proclamation before local dignitaries of the Sanjak (State) of Alexandretta announcing inauguration of an autonomous Government for- that ■ region (says the "New York Times").
Garreau informed the officials that the action was .being taken under, the decision of the League of Nations in May to make the territory self-govern-ing.
■ -The Sanjak is composed of the districts of Antioch, Alexandretta, and Kirikhan in north-western Syria, bordering Turkey.
' "The Sanjak is one of the five "States" that compose Syria, which France governs under mandate of the League.
The High Commissioner said a. committee named by the League ■ already had begun work and would, organise and' control elections for the Parliament of the Sanjak of Alexandretta.
Lebanon arid the other three States of Syria are" to become fully independent in 1939. The Syrian Legislature had opposed autonomy for Alexandretta.
- The Sarijak had been the scene" of rioting between Arabs and Turks, the latter insisting that the Alexandretta-' Antioch region was. "technically purely Turkish." Turkey had sought the separation of the Sanjak from Syria.
Turks in the district are said to number 70,000; Arabs, composing most of the remainder of the 220,000 population.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1938, Page 15
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