ANGLO-TURKISH SITUATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16545, 27 September 1924, Page 7

ANGLO-TURKISH SITUATION.

SOVEREIGNTY OF MOSTJI

TURKISH INVASION OF IRAQ. BRITISH REGISTER. THEIR PROTEST. i (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.; (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.LONDON, Sept. 26. A serious situation has arisen in oon-noL-lion with the Auglo-Turkish dispute regarding the sovereignty of Mosul, avilayet of Mesopotamia. This is one of the questions on which an amicable settlement was not reached at the time of the signature of the Lausanne treaty and wa.s reserved for subsequent negotiation, with a- provision --for its ultimate- reference to the League of Nations if necessary. The Turkish Government, despite the application of this provision, last week presented a Note to Britain, complaining of alleged British troop movements on the Tnrco-lraq frontier. A message from Geneva, shows that Lord Parmoor created a sensation today by reading the British repiy, in which a . strong protest- was registered against the invasion of armed bodies inside the area administered by the British, also .within the old administrative boundary of Mosul vilayet. Bodies left behind showed that the- invaders included Turkish regulars, and evidence was available of Turkish disregard for the. status' quo at the time of the signature of the Lausanne Treaty. Lord Parmoor said the Iraq police and local levies were forced to retire, as recently as .September 22, to- Arnndia. He emphasised his Government’s solemn protest before the- League at the intentional flagrant violation of the Treaty. Meanwhile lie stated the* British authorities in Iraq were authorised to take all necessary action to prevent the invasion arid infiltration of Turkish forces of such a- nature as would entail serious unrest and bloodshed. Fetbi Bev, who followed Lord Parmoor, disputed the British view with regard to the frontier, declaring that it assumed that the fate -of Mosul had already been decided in favor of Britain, Avhiali Turkey disputed. The Morning Post’s Bagdad correspondent- says: Native British levies, under British officers, are retiring on Amada, sixty-five miles north-west of Mosul, in the face* of a Turkish advance. A British aeroplane crashed and the occupants were injured. TWO TURKISH RAIDS. AEROPLANES REPEL RAIDERS. LONDON, Sept. 26. Referring to the Mosul situation, it is officially learned in London that there have been two Turkish raids in Iraq, one last- week, and the other on September 22. British aeroplanes participated in repelling the- raiders.