ANGORA’S VIEW

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 22 December 1925, Page 9

ANGORA’S VIEW

DELICATE AND CRITICAL TEWFIK’S STATEMENT SOVIET AGAIN INTRODUCED. By Telegraph—Per Press Amd.~Copy right. PARTS, Dec. 20. Tewfik Bey said that he could not. forecast the decision of the Angora. .Assembly regarding the. Mosul situation, which he described as delicate and even critical. He emphasised Turkey’s de sire for peace, but Turkey, though abhorring war, would if necessary act, in her national defence. He said that. Turco-Sovieto relations were those of good neighbourliness, the closeness of which would continue to be developed in relation to events.

RELIEF IN MOSUL

KING FEISUL PLEASED. IRAQ AS COMMERCIAL NATION. BAGHDAD, Dec. 20. news of the League’s decision was received in Mosul with feelings of relief. Many houses displayed the Iraq flag. YVith the prospect" of the city remaining permanently in Iraq business is already improving. The decision caused no great surprise in Baghdad, politicians declaring that the justice of the Iraq claim was obvious. A Baghdad correspondent says that the League’s Mosul decision has given genuine satisfaction, and it is regarded as definitely assuring Iraq’s future stability. King Feisul said the decision was most important economically, enabling Iraq to assume a great position as a commercial nation, revealed by the proposal to link Baghdad by rail across the desert with a, Mediterranean portHe foreshadowed other important internal developments.