ANXIETY EXPRESSED FOR FUTURE OF IRAQ

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 354, 11 September 1933, Page 3

ANXIETY EXPRESSED FOR FUTURE OF IRAQ

Press Association.- Copyright. London. Sept. 9. Comment oh King Feisal’s death shows anxiety for the future of Iraq. The Daily Express declares that the Kingdom of Iraq has cost the British Exchequer over £100,000.000 and that there is nothing in Mesopotamia or Arabia to justify spending British money and risking British lives. “We should abandon our temporary mandate’ there and devote our energies and treasure in our permanent heritage, the colonies and Dominions,” the paper adds. The Daily Mail’s Berne correspondent states that King Feisal’s doctor disposes of suspicions that death was due td poison by' saying there was no trace of any poison. King Feisal died from arterio sclerosis; from which he had long been a sufferer.

Rashidj Ali has been formally reappointed Premier of Iraq. He announced the .continuance under King Ghazi of the policy of maintaining the bonds of friendship and alliance with Britain. A 'Mosleih procession with funeral drums beating and standards dipped marched, slowly through the streets and passed over Maude bridge at sunset, beginnings 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. King Feisal’s dying words as reported were: “I am satisfied I have done my duty. My hope is that after I have gone my natiori Will be happy, 1 strong and united.”

COMPLICATIONS MAY ARISE AS RESULT OF KING’S DEATH

“Waste of British Money and Risking Lives”