IRAQ CONTROVERSY

Evening Star, Issue 19126, 18 December 1925, Page 6

IRAQ CONTROVERSY

MR BALDWIN'S EXPLANATION

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, December 17. (Received December 18, at 12.5 p.m.)

In the House of Commons Mr Baldwin read the text of the League’s Iraq decision. He explained that the Cabinet was confident that the actual period of the mandate would be tar loss than twenty-five years. It involved no responsibility to spend money or to keep troops in Iraq for the purpose of maintaining order or against external aggression. 'The award did not involve any departure from the policy of tho last two and a-half years.—Reuter. TURKEY’S ATTITUDE. GENEVA, December 17. (Received December 18, at 11.30 a.in.) Tewfik Boy has gone to Paris en route to Angora. Interviewed, he said: “ Our relations with England will continue friendly. We protested against tho decision of tho Council. Henceforth it is for Angora to speak. We have now geft to settle the question of Mosul with the Government of Iraq. I am convinced that the population of Mosul docs not want to remain with Iraq.”—Reuter.