DANGERS IN MIDDLE EAST.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15273, 22 July 1920, Page 5

DANGERS IN MIDDLE EAST.

(Elec, Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.) LONDON, July 20. In moving an adjournment of th© House of Commons in order to di'iSMia* the immediate danger to British inter-' ests arising out of the threatened hos--tilifies in Syria,' Captain Ormsby Gore vigdrAusly criticised the; Government. He delcafed that the supreme British, interest in tne 1 Middle East as elsewhere was the restoration of peace, which alone would permit Of political freedom and economic prosperity. The Ifr«mch ultimatum would ineritably entail the employment of further British troops attd BKmey. "' Mr. Bonar* l/aw, replying, pointed out that France f'ccepted^ the Syrian .mandjite at' the Sari Remo' Conference;. Feisul consenting, French troops had' been massnered and other outrages com- * mitted. Interference on, the part of the Commons would be equivalent 'to interference by the French Chamber -with Oilr . action agairißt lawless Arabs in* Mesopotamia. France had' h\6t "violate her mandate in Syria. Britain, meant to honor her promise to the Arajj? and France. Replying to other questions he declared that Franca/ had. no intention of permanent military •occupation after the mandate wa*'«-aGcepted and <Mder restored. That/was our own policy ia» Mesopotamia. /, Mr. Churchill stated that larger reinforcemerrts/had been ordered from India and Mesopotamia, The Commander-in-Chief for Mesopotamia was fully authorised to. -take. any measure for concentration or 'contraction that the situation tequired. Therefore there, was no reason for anxiety in- regard tc the general safety of the garrisons. The" small force at Rdmaila . is still holding apt, being supplied from the air.^-A, and N.&OA. ■ * (Received July'22, USO a.m:)-' " , V PARIS. July 21. Owm? to Fetsal's reply, being ungate isfactory the Fcench operations against the : Arabs have ' prdbabw ' . already begun. ■■•— — *