MOSUL DISPUTE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 September 1925, Page 5

MOSUL DISPUTE.

DEPORTATION OF CHRISTIANS. LEAGUE OF NATIONS INVESTIGATION. IY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRHiGT. GENEVA, Sep. 22. The British delegation has requested the Council of the League to meet at an early moment to consider correspondence in regard to the deportation of Christians from districts adjacent to the Brussels line and Mosul. It urges, in view of the Turkish denial of deportation, that the Council should immediately take steps to satisfy themselves whether the reports of the High Commissioner of Iraq forces on the fact that the League should forthwith send representatives to the locality- of the Brussels line to investigate and report immediately to the Council in the event of similar occurrence in future. The British and Iraq Governments would welcome, the presence of such representatives on their side of the Brussels line, and would afford them every assistance to fulfil the task. The Note says that the action of the Turkish Government in deporting Christians from villages between the Brussels line and the frontier is unquestionably a violation of the Treaty of Lausanne, and might modify the present state of territories, whose final status will depend on the decision to be reached in regard to the frontier.