Refusal of Premier to Share Burden of Maintenance Baghdad, Aug. 20.
In the Chamber of Deputies ti day the Premier stated that the Iraq Government would never agree to the proposal made by Britain in the Military Agreement—which has not} yet been ratified—that Iraq should undertake to pay the difference: between the cost of maintaining the British forces in Iraq and the cost, of maintaining them in England. He stated-that the Iraq Government was convinced that Britain had many, political and economic interests in that part of the world and ought} therefore to pay the total-cost of the maintenance of the British forces.
'The Italian Minister at Belzta has. been instructed to protest' to the Jugo-Slav Government and demand reparation on account "of the incident at Spalato, in Dalmatia, from which town it is véported that 2 body of Serbian students insulted and threw missiles, including chair, at a party of Italians, including' Consul, who were sitting in a'engé, The latter were finally rescued by the police—Renter, London, Aug. 18.
Reuter's Belgrade correspondent reports that several arrests have een effected at Sebenico, Dalmatia, of demonstrators who had to dispersed by the police. The den monstration was against the signa ture of the Nettuno conventions with Italy, A Vienna message states that the Croats, already embittered by the death of their leader M. Raditchy allege that the Belgrade Gove ment is betraying Croat econom interests to Italy in order to puk= chase security for the purely Set bian part of the kingdom with Ye= gard to Albania, mob of Several thousands ignored the orders of the police at Sebenico and began throwing stones, Gendarmes charged the mob with fixed bayonets supported by ° the police wielding their truncheons. The crowds left the main square and proceeded to bombard ' an Italian steamship with stones. 'They, also stoned windows of Italian, shops inflicting. many injuries upon' the shopkeepers, Seventy arrest, resulted.
Most of the demonstrators werd Croat workmen employed in Italians owned factories who fear dismissal as a result of the rights acquired by Italy under the conventions to import Ttalian labour to Yugi Although tha sim asked at the
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