“I HAVE DONE MY DUTY”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18190, 11 September 1933, Page 5

“I HAVE DONE MY DUTY”

FEISAL’S DYING WORDS TITE FUTURE OF IRAK BRITISH PRESS ANXIETY (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) LONDON, Sept. 9. Comment on King Feisal’s death shows anxiety for tho future of Iraq. The Daily Express declares that the Kingdom of Iraq has cost the British Exchequer over £100,000,000. “There is,” it . says, “nothing in Mesopotamia or Arabia to justify the spending of British money and the risking of British lives on. We should abandon out- temporary mandate there and devote our energies and treasure to our permanent heritage, the Colonies and Dominions.” The Daily Mail’s Berne correspondent states that King Feisafs doctor disposes of suspicions that death was due to poison, saying that there was nu trace of any. King Feisal died from arterio sclerosis, from which he had long been a sufferer. King Feisal’s dying words, as reported, were: “I am satisfied. I have done my duty. My hope is that after I . am gone,’"my' nation ' may YoTiappy*'strong and united.” 1 . ■ *"■

Rashid Ali has been formally re, appointed . Premier.. He announced a con'tiiniande, under ..King Ghazi, of a policy of maintaining the bonds of friendship and allegiance with Britain. A Moslem procession, with funeral drums beating) and (standards dipped, marched slowly through the streets and passed over Maude bridge at sunset, beginning a week's mourning. The youthful King Ghazi I drove with his Ministers through the streets to a salute of 101 guns to the palace, where he received his subjects’ homage.