MOSUL PROBLEM

Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 5

MOSUL PROBLEM

BRITAIN'S POLICY DEFENDED. SPEECH BY MR. AMERT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 3. Mr L. S. Amery, speaking at Sparkbrook, strongly attacked those newspapers which are opposed to the Mosul policy. He declared that the reckless disregard of some newspaper critics was little short of an incitement to the Turks to attack British territory. A policy of “scuttle” would have been dishonorable. He was anxious to hasten the day when Iraq would cease to bo dependent upon Groat- Britain. “ Rut it was never intended,” be said, “that wo should wash our hands of Iraq alter 1928. We have a responsibility there, little though it might matter to the “ plutocratic Press.” It, was not a personal policy, hut the policy of the Cabinet. Tie did not believe there was any question of war. If there was such a risk it had bee'h created by the cowardly, hysterical attitude of certain newspaper proprietors,—A. and N.Z. Cable. TURKEY’S RIGHT. CONSTANTINOPLE, October 3. (Received October 5, at 9.-15 a.m.) Tewfik Pasha, returning from the Geneva Conference, declared: “Wo have an indisputable right to Mosul, which we shall never renounce. The League is delaying tho question for three months, but, it is for the last time.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.