British Agents Busy Among Supporters
LET DOWN BY NAZI ALLIES Received Monday, 11.30 p.m. LONDON, May 26. Reports from Ankara say that Nuri Said (Iraq Foreign Minister) who has "been spending his exile with the Abdullah of Transjordan is reported to he going to Iraq under escort of a cavalry detachment of Transjordan frontier troops. Rashid Ali’s Government is reliably reported to be panicked because it has discovered that British agents have made contact with some of Rashid’s most trusted political and military chiefs and this with Rashid’s failure to get German or SaudiArabian support is believed to have wrecked the morale of Rashid’s Government. The Iraqi Legation at Cairo confirms the revolt of Iraq tribesmen who will now support the regent Abdul Illah. Arab circles say lUalh has gone to Baghdad leaving his exPrender, General Janil el Nadfa, to act for him at Basra and General Nuri Said (Foreign Minister) 'representing him in another part of Iraq.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 124, 27 May 1941, Page 5
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