DEFENCE OF IRAK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19891, 9 March 1928, Page 9

DEFENCE OF IRAK.

MILITARY ACTIVITY,

'men recalled from leave

MR FORCE MOVEMENTS. TROOP-CARRYING PLANES. PATROLS AT THE FRONTIER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received March 3, 10:50 p.m.) 6un , LONDON. March 7. The .Jaffa correspondent of the Daily Mail says the Irak Government is about to take immediate steps to deal with any hostile movement on the part of Ibn Saud, King of the Hedjaz and and leader of the Wahabis, toward the Irak and Transjordania frontiers. A force is being mobilised and men have been recalled from leave. A second armoured car company left Ramleh for Amman to-day, and also a number of troop-carrying aeroplanes, each said to contain 20 men. Reinforcements from Egypt passed over the border bound for Amman.

Aeroplane patrols are keeping close observation over the territory south and south-east of Amman, but no concentration of tribes has been noticed.

ISLAM AWAKENING. FRENCH PAPER'S WARNING. WESTERN SOLIDARITY NEEDED. 'A. and N.Z.-Sun. PARIS, March 7. The newspaper Gaulois says: '"'He is blind who does not see a close relationship between the movements that are anti-British to-day and will be antiEuropean to-morrow, that are now shaking Islam. Illusions in this regard are. dangerous. "Sooner or later the solidarity which ought to exist among the Great Powers that are interested in Islam will become necessary for the common safeguard, if the reawakening of Islam is not to develop into a revolt, the consequences of which are incalculable."