MOSUL AWARD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 December 1925, Page 5

MOSUL AWARD.

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. I!Y CABLE- -PEESH ASSOCIATION -COPYKHIGI LONDON, Dec. 17. The council of the League of Nations unanimously approved the committee's award in the Mosul dispute. The president read a letter in which Tewfik Bey protested that the Turkish Government maintained Turkey’s sovereign rights over Mosul, which would remain complete and undiminished. Sir Austen Chamberlain (Minister for Foreign Affairs) and Air. L. C. M. S. Amery (Secretary for the Dominions) were largely responsbile for the insertion of the phrase permitting the termination of the mandate whenever Iraq joins the League as an independent nation. This is regarded as most important in view of Air. Amery’s repeated declaration that Iraq should be self-supporting within four years. The decision is given a mixed reception in the press. The Times stresses that the six months in which Britain must make a treaty with Iraq should be utilised in an effort to reach a friendly understanding with Turkey. It advocates sending “a wise Englishman familiar with- the East” to Angora. The Dailv Express, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Herald find it impossible to reconcile Sir Austen Chamberlain’s welcoming decision with the pronouncements of the. Prime Minister (Air. Stanley Baldwin) in the House of Commons. The Daily Herald says that if business men 'want the oil of Alosul let them nay for it. The Daily Express states that the public has been deceived and knows The Daily Mail* says that when the public discovers the nature of the new burden there will be universal indignation. , The Morning Post comments: We again express tlie hope that the Turks will be imperssed with the danger or lending too ready an ear to the promises °and inducements of concession hunters.” , The Daily News states: What seems to he contemplated is a repetition of the history of Egypt with oil instead of Soudan cotton, and without the Suez Canal.”