MOSUL VERDICT

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 December 1925, Page 5

MOSUL VERDICT

TURKISH OPINION. CONSIDERS IT UNJUST, EARLY SETTLEMENT WANTED. BY CABLE -PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBHiGT LONDON, Dec. 18. The Constantinople correspondent of The Times says,the press describe the Mosul, verdict as unjust and valueless to Turkey, ivho must solve the problem herself. ■‘The only redeeming feature of the decision is "the fact that it exposes to the. whole world the imperialist mentality of Europe,” declares the newspaper Ackcham. which demands to know “how much the Powers voting have been paid for the unjust verdict.” The newspaper Djumhuriet not only attacks the League of Nations, which, it says, ‘‘ought to be scrapped in favour of a new league based on real equality and possessing real authority and ideals,” but says the whole mandatory system is nothing but a farce and is destined to legitimise tyranny, slavery and usurpation. Mr L. C. S. Amery (Secretary for the Dominions) has returned from Geneva, and will meet Cabinet this morning. The debate on the Mosul decision is fixed for the. House of Commons on Monday, and the prorogation is fixed for Tuesday. The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that the Government intends to hasten the Iraq Treaty and obtain the approval of the respective Parliaments for submission to the March assembly of the League Council, when the award .can be confirmed three months ahead of the_time limit of six months. An early settlement is felt to be desirable, inasmuch Vi's the climatic conditions of Anatolia do not favour any Turkish military demonstration before April. Rushdy Bey has arrived at Paris for the nurDOse. it is believed, of seeing M. Tchitcherin (the Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs).