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"Recent events in Iraq are such a s Tokyo, May 19. may possibly cause misgivings in the Turkey has given tacit consent to minds of those Muslims in my all German requests, including per-dominions, and India and the Near mission for Nazi troops to cross East generally, who are not fully con- Turkish territory into Iraq. a "Nichi versant with the situation in that Nichi" despatch from Istanbu! reports. country and who, therefore, maj Y The despatch said that three Nazi have po:
ably misunderstood the ac- ships loaded with explosives and other tion, military and other, that the arms and ammunition had already left British Government has been com-|Constantza, the port in Rumania. for pelled to take in order to deal with Samsun, the Turkish port on the Black the situation.
Sea. whence the arms and ammuni-"In order, therefore, to reassure the tion will be shipped through Turkey Muslim peoples, and to allay any to Iraq. doubts or misgivings they may enter-It is understood that a Nazi force tain on the subject, I have considered numbering approximately 10,000 men it necessary to issue a brief message "I am fully convinced, and wish e. will soon arrive at Samsun to aid it Iraqi troops to fight the: British, the to be known and realized by all Muslims and others who may be me despatch added.—Reuter.
Close Watch Kept London, May 19.
The possibility of war material being conveyed from Syria into Iraq by a railway. which passes for some considerable distance over Turkish territory, is receiving the closest pos sible attention of the British Government. it is learned in London.
Reports of war material being so conveyed are not yet officially confirmed.—Reuter.
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