THE IRAKI TROOPS
NO INTEREST IN WAR
OF DOUBTFUL VALUE TO THE
GERMANS
RUGBY, May 19.
"The Times," in considering the Middle East situation, finds grounds for confidence in the fact that the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm have already taken strong action both in Irak and Syria.
"Germany will doubtless attempt," it says, "to make all possible use of such portions of the Iraki, army as adhere to the cause of Rashid Ali, but even with the aid of her bombers it is to be doubted. whether these troops, which have not the slightest interest in the conflict forced upon them, will prove
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 118, 21 May 1941, Page 7
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