THE IRAQ FRONTIER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20283, 16 December 1927, Page 11

THE IRAQ FRONTIER

RAIDING FORCE OF WAHABIS. ATTACKED AND PUNISHED. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) BASRA, December 14. Air Force ’planes patrolling the IraqNejd frontier discovered, 70 miles from Nasirieh, a force of Wahabis returning after raiding Iraq tribes, and immediately attacked and punished the raiders. One ’plane was slightly damaged.—A. and N.Z. Cable. REVISED ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY. SIGNED AT COLONIAL OFFICE. LONDON, December 14. (Received Dec. 15, at 10 p.m.) Tire revised Anglo-Iraq treaty was signed at the Colonial Office by Mr W. G. Ormsby-Gore, Under-secretary of State for the Colonies, on behalf of the Government, and by the Prime Minister of Iraq. It is couched in general language, and provides certain conditions for the termination of the British mandate and Iraq’s entry into the League sponsored by Britain, by 1932. The most important sections of th e agreement, relating to the future military and financial relations, bav 0 still to be worked out in the shape of separate annexes, but it is regarded as almost certain that squadrons of the Air Force will continue to be maintained in Iraq.—A. and N.Z, Cable.