MESOPOTAMIA
COMMENT ON THE OUTLOOK
(*Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)
LONDON, Nov. 13. Mr Percival Phillips, at the conclusion of his tour of Mesopotamia on behalf of the Daily Mail, writes that the outlook is far from encouraging. The present year’s expenditure is estimated at £600,000, of which £200,000 is for the maintenance of the British civil administration and tiie remainder for military and air forces. The crying need of the moment is an amniffl loan of at least a million. The treaty of alliance signed on 9th October, coupled with the suppression of the anti-British agitation. removed the feeling of pessimism previously pervading British advisers, but the new treaty will not _ work miracles. Extreme pro-Arab British officials are 100 prone to regard an era ol peace as signed, and that political stability and financial prosperity have begun. King Fcisul does not really trust Britain or bis ministers, and the people trust neither king nor ministers. More than half the population are fanatical Shiahs, who arc opposed to all forms of. civil power.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 November 1922, Page 7
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