IRAQ CONTRACTS LOST
GIVEN TO JAPAN LONDON, August 26/ A' contract for 80,000 metres (about 90,000yds) of khaki cloth has been placed by the Government of Iraq in Japan. Manchester firms have secured year after year Iraq contracts for khaki and other military supplies,- and this is the first time in Iraq’s history that such an order has been given to Japan.The Anglo-Iraq Treaty provides that the British Military Mission shall remain in Iraq and that that country a army shall be trained and equipped on British lines, and considerable astonishment was expressed in; Manchester when it was learned by air mail from Bagdad that Japan had secured the latest order for khaki.
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Evening Star, Issue 21510, 7 September 1933, Page 9
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113IRAQ CONTRACTS LOST Evening Star, Issue 21510, 7 September 1933, Page 9
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