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No. 29. New Zealand, No. 127. Sir, —- Downing Street, 14th June, 1926. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's despatch, No. 65, of the 15th April, and to request you to inform your Ministers that I learn from the Army Council that copies of the New Zealand war diaries referred to therein have now been received by the Historical Section (Military Branch) of the Committee of Imperial Defence. 2. The Council have asked that an expression of their appreciation of the action of the Government of New Zealand in the matter may be conveyed to your Ministers. I have, &c., L. S. AMERY. Governor-General His Excellency General Sir C. Fergusson, Bart., LL.D., G.C.M.G., K.C.8., D.5.0., M.V.0., &c.

No. 30. New Zealand, Dominions No. 281. Siu, — Downing Street, 23rd June, 1926. With reference to my despatch, Dominions No. 144, of the 6th April, 1925, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, copies of Treaty Series Paper No. 10 of 1926 (Cmd. 2662), containing the treaty with Iraq, signed at Bagdad on the 13 th January, 1926, regarding the duration of the treaty with Iraq of the 10th October, 1922. 1 have, &c., L. S. AMERY. Governor-General His Excellency General Sir C. Pergusson, Bart., LL.D., G.C.M.G., K.C.8., D.5.0., M.V.0., &c.

Enclosure. Treaty between the United Kingdom and Iraq regarding the Duration of the Treaty BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRAQ OP 10TH OCTOBER, 1922. Signed at Bagdad, 13th January, 1926 ; ratifications exchanged at London, 30th March, 1926. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, of the one part; and His Majesty the King of Iraq, of the other part: Anxious to give full effect to the stipulations in the decision of the Council of the League of Nations dated the 16th day of December, 1925, fixing the frontier between Turkey and Iraq ,in pursuance of Article 111 of the Peace Treaty signed at Lausanne on the 24th day of July, 1923, to the effect that the relations between the High Contracting Parties now defined by the treaty of alliance and by the undertaking of His Britannic Majesty's Government approved by the Council of the League of Nations on the 27th day of September, 1924, should be continued for a period of twenty-five years, unless Iraq is, in conformity with Article I of the Covenant of the League of Nations, admitted as a member of the League before the expiration of that period : Bearing in mind the intention which the High Contracting Parties have mutually expressed in the protocol of the 30th day of April, 1923, to conclude a fresh agreement regulating subsequent relations between them : Have decided by means of a new treaty to ensure due fulfilment of the said stipulations and have for this purpose named as their plenipotentiaries— His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, Bernard Henry Bourdillon, Esquire, C.M.G., Acting High Commissioner of His Britannic Majesty in Iraq; His Majesty the King of Iraq, Abdul Muhsin Beg al-Sa'dun, Prime Minister of the 'Iraq Government and Minister for Foreign Affairs .. - — ' Who, having communicated their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as-follows : — Article 1. : The provisions contained in Article XVIII of the treaty between the High Contracting Parties signed at Bagdad on the 10th day of October, 1922, of the Christian Era, corresponding with the 19th day of Safar, 1340, Hijrah, and in the protocol signed on the 30th day of April, 1923, of the

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