Assyrian Patriarch Deported

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7240, 21 August 1933, Page 7

Assyrian Patriarch Deported

BANISHED TO CYPRUS. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. BAGHDAD, August 18. Under an Iraq Government deportation order, the Patriarch Marshinnum left for Cyprus, where Ms father and mother have also been given asylum. He is regarded a 3 being responsible for tho Assyrian invasion of Iraq. Referring to the massacre of Assyrians in Iraq, the Manchester Guardian says that there are about 40,000 Assyrians, half of whom are homeless. Others are scattered about in temporary villages in the arid mountain area north of Mosul. They were bitterly disappointed when Geneva failed to safeguard them as a community when Iraq was given independence. “The crux of the matter,” says the Guardian, “is that the Assyrians want an assurance that they will be allowed to live together for their own protection ruled by their own archbishop, whereupon they will lay down their arms and swear loyalty to King Feisal, but tho Iraq Government demands their submission upon whatever conditions the Government may impose.”