THE IRAQ PROBLEM

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10192, 2 January 1926, Page 4

THE IRAQ PROBLEM

TURKISH TROOPS OX THE FRONTIER,

SEARCH FOR NEW BASIS OF AGREEMENT.

(Received .Jan. 1, 5.5 p.m.) . LONDON 1 , Jan. 1. Hie Diiily Telegraph’s diplomaticcorrespondent discloses that according to most reliable estimates, fifty thousand Turkish troops are now in the vicinity of the Iraq boundary. Nevertheless the talk at Angora is Lf P* '). ;a ljut of early negotiations. Maybe the despatch of the British (relegation to Angora will he. invited. 1 here appears, however, a general resolve to compromise on a formula. Jf it can be the devised, it must in no way imply recognition by Turkey of the League s award, flow such a loi m ula can he found it is difficult to see, inasmuch as the concessions Britain may he prepared to offer would relate rather to financial and economic collaboration than to territorial consideration whereby onlyslight rectifications are possible. The Exchange Agency’s Bagdad correspondent states that it is estimated the British and Iraq troops on the frontier are over fifteen thousand. -A. and X.Z.C.A.