Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caused blindness, and also because they refused to buy it, the concession was withdrawn. The new move is an attempt to provide the people with "pure stuff" at popular prices.- Robbers. From the gaunt heights of wild Kurdistan, a mountainous district lying partly in Turkey and partly in Iraq, a bold band of brigands swooped down upon the lowland villages, terrorizing the inhabitants. Then, gathering up their loot the lusty robbers staggered back into their impregnable fastnesses. In Angora the authorities fumed, impotent...
Mohammed in London. A Moslem mosque, the first in the British Isles, other than two temporary temples, has been dedicated in the London suburb of Southfields. The opening ceremony was performed by Emir Feisal, King of Iraq, third son of the King of the Hedjaz. Mohammedan worshipers in England are a small but steadily growing body. Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Fifth Baron Headley, is a leader of the British activities of the sect...
...striking feature was Mr. Baldwin's assertion that "Great Britain means to stay in Mosul and Iraq . . . and will cooperate with the Iraq Government to insure the stability and progress of that country until such time as our help is no longer needed...
...denied that a Turko-British crisis is impending, declaring that Britain is still willing to arbitrate the question of whether Iraq or Turkey shall eventually possess Mosul, indicated that he believes the League of Nations and the Hague Court will be able to induce Turkey to fulfill the obligation which Englishmen consider she assumed at Brussels last October...
...French losses were estimated at 200 killed, 600 wounded. Many airplanes, tanks, cannon, machine guns and munitions were captured and the rebels were being joined by other tribes whose object was the union of Syria, formerly sponsored (until the French in 1920 kicked him out) by King Feisal of Iraq. On the other hand, the French had been compelled to divert reinforcements destined for Morocco back to Syria to await further developments...