New Britain herald., 1925-09-15
MOSUL AS X BAIT FOR IMPERIALISM

FOR IMPERIALISM
 Mosul is a town of importance on tke Tigris river opposite the an cient site of Ninevch. 220 miles north of Babylon. MosuI is part of Irak, the new Turk state erected there by the peace treaty. It Is q place that nobody would got OK cited about under ordinary circum- stances, but 1t is supposed 10 bo "hlessed" with the possibilities of a vast petroleum production. Conse- nuently there is friction between Britain and Turkey about if and some observers say a war is threat ened.
 Of course. no one can under stand how tho Turks can stand up in war with Great Britain. but the lay of the land favors the Turks; and at any event, a brush with the Turks in that faraway corner would cost England much money perhaps more than the oil Is worth. It Is small wonder, therefore, that the average Brit isher calls the Mesopotamian inn broglio the "Mesrot," Lloyd George fooled with the Turkish hn7z-saw at Chanek and shortly thereafter went into political oblivion. Two 1 years ago Baldwin was anxious 10 have the British nation get out from unde rthe expensive Mesoro- tamian mandate. and arranged a treaty with 1rak 10 have the man date expire in 1928, But today Baldwin has changed his mind.
 The League of Nations commits sion which investigated the dis | puted Mosu frontier, in recon 1 mending that the disputed area re. main q part of Irak, added the condition that Great Britain's man. date be extended at least 25 years Premier Baldwin went further bN announcing the. intention to extend the mandate over 1rak for an in definite time upon the provision that Mosul be included within tht territory of that country by thu League.
 In other words It Is g first clas inperialistic game that is heinl played, The Baldwin government in it's endeavor to grab strip 0 rich oil territory under a mandat for the benefit of the various oi companies forming { he world largest producers is running int
 much unpopularity in Britain,
 The Baldwin ministry has los the confidence of many bushes
 men who helped 10 bring 1t int
 power. The people voted for econ
 omy, and what they have been get
 ting has been the reverse. A mor
 costly pensions system has been ei
 fectcd the Singapore naval base
 being built after the project ha
 been discarded by the MacDonal
 ministry as unnecessary and eXper
 sive, an expensive cruiser buildin
 program has heen instituted, an
 heavy subsidy has been given {
 the coal industry.
 While this has been going on i
 England the harassed business ma
 almost daily reads goVcrnmentt , economy cable messages from tf United States
 The Mosul thrust is purely in rerislistic; the British people ; , this time do not care about colonij wars and are in no mood 10 tal upon themselves expensive coloni l mandates" for the benefit of c . companies, Yet they have been ol . posed 10 considerable that Il l Baldwin government has give them. Many observers predict al 2 other political showdown 500 I when another government wi Q probably get into power and spcr - ifs time undoing the Baldwin a T complishments, just like Baldw
 has heen spending his lime und n ing what Macdonald tried to d a These merry political pranks a 7ha' IS known as 'mud1lir , throukb.r