The Archive · 1941

Support for Iraqi Rebels

Reverberations of the events in Iraq have spread to Peiping- This Weel the Chinese Mohammedan As-scalation held a special meeting—entirely spontaneously. of course—in support of the rebel movement. Iraq. Ty isa pretty certain bet that the. vast, majority of those who attended the meeting had not the fon glost notion what or where traq was. HEY por cent. of the Chinese. here has ever "heard of Iraq before. 1 should be vastly surprised ample of what the Peiping Mobs iedans knew about the Tvoqt alfa provided by the following sen tens inthe resolution wiopted by fleeting: "AS the Emperor of Tra with a view to protecting Mohammedanism, is waging war against the British, Whereas, of course the "emperor". of has "been driven into exile by the rebels and is very much on our side.

Among the more important persons present were members of the Japa-Embassy. and Tiatian and Ger man representatives.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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