CLAIM ON MOSUL
WHAT THE TURKS SAV.
“AN INDISPUTABLE RIGHT” LAST POSTPONEMENT.” BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received Oct. 5, 11.10 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 3. Tewfik Pasha, returning from the Geneva conference, declared: “We have an indisputable right to Mosul, which we shall never renounce. The League is defying the question for three months, but it is for the last time.” — A. and N.Z. Assn.
NO ' SCUTTLING OUT. WAR TALK. DEPRECATED. LONDON, Oct. 3. Mr. L. C. Amery, Secretary for the Colonies, speaking at Sparkbrook, strongly attacked those newspapers who are opposed to the Mosul policy. He declared that the reckless disregard of some newspaper critics was little short of incitement to the Turks to attack British territory. A policy of “scuttle” would have boon, dishonourable. He was anxious to hasten the day when Iraq would cease to be dependent upon Britain, “but it was never intended that we should wash our hands of Iraq after 1928. We have a responsibility there, little though it might matter to the plutocrats’ press.” It was not a personal policy, but the policy of the Cabinet. He did not believe there was any question of war. If there were such a risk it had been created by the cowardly and hysterical attitude of certain newspaper proprietors. . , -
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 October 1925, Page 5
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212CLAIM ON MOSUL Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 October 1925, Page 5
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