BRITAIN’S POLICY
IN EGYPT AND MESOPOTAMIA. SELF-GOVERNMENT PROPOSED. UNDER BRITISH SUPERVISION. [Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, August 26. Following the Government’s decision to contract, as far as possible, Britain’s foreign obligations, Cabinet proposes to grant independence and to Egypt under British influence. The British Cabinet have decided to withdraw the British armies from Mesopotamia, and to grant the Arabs selfgovernment, under their own chiefs. Britain will also abandon her ambitious system of civil administration, thus withdrawing numerous Foreign Office officials recently sent out to India, but will maintain a corps of expert administrators to advise the Arabs. Sir Percy Cox is hurriedly going to Mesopotamia to inaugurate the new policy. Meanwhile Bagdad is not regarded as a danger.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 August 1920, Page 5
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