London, May 26.
Foreshadowing an early termination of the fighting in Iraq. several high Iraqi rebel leaders are reported to have already fled the country or be preparing to leave.
These include Rashid Ah, the rebel chief, who is reported in Ankara to have applied for a Turkish transit visa.
It is rumoured that Nedji Shawket, the Iraqi Defence Minister, has fled from Baghdad en route to Turkey to join his wife and family, who are reported to have reached Ankara together with Rashid All's wife, son and daughter.
It is revealed that Rashid All's Finance Minister, Naji Suwaidi, who went to Iran "On official busines took his family with him. The same applies to Rashid All's Minister of Communications and Wor! He too has arrived in Iran with his family.
The Regent of Iraq, Emir Abdul Mah, has issued a second proclamation on the occasion of his return to the country, stating that he came back in the full interest of the nation in order to restore peace and, justice and heal the wounds caused by the group who satisfied the wishes of the Axis in consideration of the
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