Word: mosul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MOSUL. The vexed question of whether the Republic of Turkey or the British-protected Kingdom of Irak shall hold sway over the oil fields and Christians in the Vilayet of Mosul (TIME, Dec. 31 et ante) was illuminated early in the week by the report of the Esthonian General Laidoner, sent by the League to investigate British charges against the Turks (TIME...
General Laidoner began by recalling that the Turks had refused his commission access to the region on the Turkish side of the Mosul frontier. He then went on to say that the commissioners had cross- examined refugees from this region before there was any possibility of their having been tampered with by British agents. In conclusion he expressed absolute certainty as to the material fact that the Turks have been deporting the non-Moslem inhabitants of this region with frightful barbarity...
...committed. Unofficially the Turks at Geneva inquired, "How much did Laidoner get paid for his report?" Previously the Turkish representative before the Council, Munir Bey, had delivered an interminable harangue in which he raked up endless legal quibbles. He alleged that the Council had no right to dispose of Mosul, under the Treaty of Lausanne, except by a unanimous decision in which Turkey's vote must be counted...
...present Mosul frontier to be moved in such a way as to give Turkey a very small increase of territory...
...Vilayet and Village of Mosul to be definitely acknowledged as part of the Kingdom of Irak...