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Kurdish rebellions are nothing new for Turkish soldiers. For 400 years Kurdistan, a district which overlaps the present boundaries of eastern Turkey, Persia and Irak, has been rising in revolt against its Turkish conquerors. Kurdish hopes for a free state were raised at the beginning of the Paris Peace Conference only to be dashed at its close. Last important Kurd uprising...
...made more interesting accusations. The real cause of the trouble near Ararat, they said, was not the Kurds' perennial desire for independence, but their new desire for Oil. Year ago Djevet Eyoub. Turkish engineer who had spent 20 years in Texas oil fields, went prospecting along the Turko-Irak frontier. He found unmistakable traces of oil on Turkish territory not far from the British-owned Mosul oil fields of Irak. It is not impossible that Turkish wells on the new oil fields might. if driven, drain Mosul wells dry.* Succinct was a message from Angora last week...
...three hours against all the machinery of modern warfare. Only at the stone fortress of Peshawar were the tribesmen turned. Commented the London Times: "One other lesson deserves the careful attention of the Imperial General Staff. Whatever may be the effect of bombing airplanes in open countries like Irak where vast stretches of ground are open as a cricket pitch, it would seem that punitive action from the air has lost its terrors to the Pathan. Against mobile and intelligent opposition in broken, mountainous country the mobility of the air arm for offensive purposes may have been overrated." At Bombay...
Sultan Abdul Hamid, called "Abdul the Damned" by phrasemaking historians, was crafty, cruel, ignorant,* yet at the beginning of the World War his personal estates included half the Province of Saloniki, holdings in the Island of Cyprus, Thessaly, Greece, Syria, Palestine and what is now the Kingdom of Irak, a goodly section of the rich tobacco lands of Macedonia (whence "Egyptian" cigarets) and about $25,000,000 in jewels. When he was deposed in 1909, all these were confiscated...
...Anglo-Hellenic Corp., succeeded by Valideh Trust, Ltd., and finally Aegean Financial Trust. † Not satisfied with last week's 50 millions from Greece, officials of the Aegean Financial Trust announced that they had every hope of obtaining an additional billion for their clients from the Kingdom of Irak...