Simla, May 5, When tension of Iraq became acute, facilities for the removal of British women and children from Baghdad to the shelter of the Royal Air Force station at Habbaniyah were offered by Raschid Ah to the British Minister, it was revealed here yesterday. That "sanctuary," however, was promptly violated by Iraqi forces, who surrounded the station, The British Imperial troops now in Iraq, despite overt provocation by Iraqi troops, are occupying only certain points essential to the ful. fiiment of the terms of the Anglo-Iraq Treaty, it is stated here—Reuter,
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