EVACUATING MESOPOTAMIA
THE MOSUL TREATY RETRIEVES FORMER BLUNDER STIMULUS TO DEVELOPMENT. POSSIBILITIES GE MOSUL OIL. By Telegraph—Per Press Assn. —Copyriab*. Received Juno 7, 7.15 p.m. LONDON, June 6. The “Daily Chronicle’’ states that as a result of the Mosul Treaty, Britain will be able to evacuate Mesopotamia well within four years after the ratification of peace with Turkey in August, 1924. By the new treaty the Government has retrieved the blunder of commitment to further indeterminate occupation. Mr Martin Donohoe expresses the opinion that industrial and mineral development will receive a stimulus now that the ever present spectre has been laid. The question exists of whether an oil pipe running through Mosul across the Syrian Desert to a Palestine port can be profitably laid, in view of the possibility of a Turkish petroleum company striking oil in the Mosul area. t
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19584, 8 June 1926, Page 7
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141EVACUATING MESOPOTAMIA Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19584, 8 June 1926, Page 7
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