CLAIM TO MOSUL

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 January 1926, Page 5

CLAIM TO MOSUL

TALK OF NEGOTIATIONS. WHILE TROOPS CONCENTRATE ON IRAQ FRONTIER. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Jan. 1. The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent discloses that, according to the most reliable estimates, do,GOO Turkish troops are now in the vicinity of the Iraq boundary. Nevertheless the talk at Angora is not of war but of early negotiations. Maybe the dispatch of a British delegation to Angora "will be invited. There appears, however, to be a general resolve to compromise on a formula if it can be devised. It must in no way imply recognition by Turkey of the League of Nations award. How such a formula can be found it is difficult to see, inasmuch as concessions that- Britian may be prepared to offer would relate rather to financial and economic collaboration than to territorial considerations, whereby only slight rectifications are possible. The Exchange Agency’s Bagdad correspondent states that it is estimated that the British and Iraq troops on the frontier are over 15,000. MOSUL SAFE - FROM TURKISH ATTACKS. BRITISH GENERAL’S REPORT. RAIDS ON SYRIAN FRONTIER. Received Jan. 2, 11.5 a.m. BAGDAD, Jan. 1. General Davy, chief adviser to the Iraq Army, reports that Mosul is secure against Turkish aVtack. It is estimated that 15,000 British and Iraq troops are assembled on the frontier. The Aleppo correspondent or the Dailv Mail asserts that the Angora Government is supporting Turkish raids on the Syrian frontier. He reports large Turkish concentrations at Diarbekr. Mardin and Jeire. —Sydney Sun Cable.

CANNOT AFFORD WAR. SAYS TURKISH PREMIER, (Received Jan. 2, 11.8 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 1. The Westminster Gazette’s Angora correspondent says: “Kemal, in conferring with military leaders, declared that Turkey could not afford a war over Iraq. A British mission, excluding Mr Amery, would he welcomed to negotiate regarding Mosul/ ‘ —Sydney Sun Cable.