Evening star., 1925-12-16
AnuOra Must Act. Official Re-
plies to Query on Mill
tary Action.
LEAGUE COUNCIL RULING
TO BE ANNOUNCED TODAY
Decision Described as Worse Than
That Under Treaty of Sevres.
British Denounced.


GENEVA, Switzerland, December
16.-There can he no question OF
Turkey making economic arrange,
ments favorable to an lrak which in.
cludes Mosul. said Turkish spokes.
man today in discussing the award
in the Turco British dispute over
Mosul. which is formally being given
out at public session Of the Lea eus
of Nations council this afternoon.
IF what we read about Mosul Is
rue" the spokesman continued. 1T
means that Turkev gets worse treat
ment and less Mosul than she re-
ceived under the treaty of Sevres; in
other words. we have gone backward,
and the Turkish government and peo-
pie can scarcely be pleased. The
word now is up 10 Ansora.
by the sworn act of our National
Assembly we are ready to. waive Our
rights to Syria, Dana sous and what
has been known Us Irak. but we
cling to MoSul aS Il natural and
necessary part of the new Turkey.
Even the League of Nations com
mission of investigation, on which
the council based it's decision. recoG
nized that MosuI * iuridica'lv ours,
ana remains ours ultl we lCiiouil'e
it."
Turkey. he continued. was ready
to help Irak by removing the customs
barriers. but II was fantastic To as
sumo that Turkey would he so
generous rs to favor the British
mandated state with Mosul. which
was really under Turkish sovereignty
and included in Turkish territory.
Sees Concessions IGNORED
The Angora government was also
pact of guarantees with Irak. but he
insisted that these and other conces-
sions had been ignored by Great
Britain and the league council.
Asked II the councils decision
would bring military operatio by
Turkey to keep Mosui the spokesman
declined to answer. merely repeating
his assertion that the national as
sembly at AnEora now must speak.
The councB. held a secret session
Yesterday SstJNt4rx&%ss,d *reGretfuf}y
noted the failure of its attempts at
mediation" 1t Is reported that the
British cabinet has sent assurance
10 the council that il will accept
prolongation of the British manda te
over Irak.
Turkey, it is said will get mar
row strip to the north. In other
words. the provisional frontier be-
tween Turkey and Irak. laid dowi:
at Brussels. will become permanent,
with slight notifications. Irak. under
British influence. is expected to grant
favorable economic arrangements to
Turkey. whereby no customs barrier
will exist betweene Turkey and Irak
and Great Britain formally must
accept the mandate for 25 years
Pending this the councils decision
is provisional.
Action Draws Protest.
While the officials were making
this announcement the Turkish dele
gates shot a new bolt. Tewfik Rushdi
Bey. the Turkish foreign minister
sent an official protest to the council
accusing Great Britain Of influence
ing the council by circula tine false
charges that the Turks had afro
cioUsly treated Christians. lie was re-
plying TO document published last
night from Chaldean Catholic
priest. which. like the report recently
issued by Gen. Laidoner, special
league commissioner. accused the
Turkish soldiers of massacres.
The priests report. which England
gave to the council, alleges that the
Turks have savagely massacre men
and women. sold children into slavery
and have driven many r~ld through
unspeakable hardships. and declares
that if the European powers do not
stop these denominations. the world
would soon learn that "Christia nifty
which has 1ourished In this famous
land for 1000 years. has been de-
stroyed in the twentieth century r..
the attacks of the fanatic Turks"
Rushdi Bey charged the English
with arminG the Assyrian Chaldea MS
against Turkey. and asserted that
England was making use of incidents
which occurred before the creation of
the Turkish republic To discredit Tur-
key. He cited the American Mai
Gen. James G. Harbord as one of the
impartial foreigners ~ho had declared
that the Turks We're not only not re-
sponsible for these, Incidents but ac-
tually themselves suffered because of
them.
maj. Gen. Harbord headed an
American mission which investigated
the situation in Armenia in 1912
Rushdi Bey concluded by arraign-
ing England for mixing huma anitaria n
with political questions, and hoped
that the movement opposing Islamism
by Christianity would come to an end.