FUTURE OF IRAQ.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 11 September 1933, Page 7

FUTURE OF IRAQ.

ANXIETY EXPRESSED.

LONDON, Sept. 9.

Comments on King Feisal’s death show anxiety for the future of Iraq. The Daily Express ' declares that the Kingdom of Iraq has cost Britain’s exchequer over £100,000,000. “There is nothing in Mesopotamia and Arabia to justify the spending of British money and the risking of British lives,” the newspaper says. “We should abandon our temporary mandate there and devote our energies and treasure in our permanent heritage—the colonies and Dominions.”

The Daily Mail’s Berne correspondent states that King Feisal’s doctor disposes of sus]#nons that the King’s death was due to poison, saying there was no trace of gny. King Feisal died from arterio sclerosis, from which he was long a sufferer.

MOURNING IN BAGDAD

KING’S LAST WORDS.

BAGDAD, Sept. 9. Rashid Ali has been formally reappointed Premier and lias announced the continuance under King Ghasi of the policy of maintaining the bonds of friendship and alliance with Britain. A Moslem procession, with .funeral drums beating and standards dipped, marched slowly through the streets and passed over the Maude bridge at sunset, beginning a week’s mourning. Youthful King Ghazi drove with his Ministers through the streets to a salute of 101 guns, and at the palace received his subjects’ homage. King Feisal’s dying words as reported were: “I am satisfied I have done my duty. My hope is that after I am gone my nation will be happy, strong, and united.”

LATE KING’S RETURN

ON BRITISH WARSHIP.

(British Official Wireless.) Received September 11 10.40 a.m. RUGBY, Sept. 9. The British cruiser Despatch has been ordered to proceed to Brindisi to convey the body of King Feisal to Haifa. The warship is due at Brindisi on Monday.