THE MASSACRE IN IRAK.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12426, 19 August 1933, Page 5

THE MASSACRE IN IRAK.

ASSYRIANS' PLIGHT. PITIABLE SCENES IN. VILLAGES United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. RUGJBY, August 17. Information received in London indicates that a band of rebellious Assyrians who had fled into Syria had recrossed the Tigris into Irak and attacked the Irak army detachments. The fighting was unfortunately followed by excesses against Assyrian villages by Kurdish irregulars and Bedouin tribesmen. Seven hundred Assyrians are reported killed. Neighbouring villages are crowded with panic-stricken women and children, whose condition is Xiitiable. Sir Francis Humphry s is returning at once to Badhdad by air to use his friendly offices in this crisis, and pending his return King Feisal is reported to have postponed his intended visit to Switzerland. Irak was admitted to membership of the League of Nations last October and the British mandate terminated, and British responsibilities in Irak ceased on that date. There is, however, a treaty of alliance between Great Britain and Irak.