PRAISE FROM IRAQ

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 11

PRAISE FROM IRAQ

TURKEY'S PEACE AIMS

WORLD INFLUENCE

PLACE AMONG NATIONS

NEIGHBOURLY PRIDE

(British Official Wireless.)

Reed. 2.30 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 23. The Foreign Office says that the Prime Minister of Iraq has addressed the following telegram to the Prime Minister of Turkey: “The high policy closely affecting Iraq which was planned by the great Kemal Ataturk and has been successfully carried out by General Inonu ensuring lasting peace and tranquility, not only in the Near East, but the whole world, has won the apreciation and admiration of all Iraq. I take the opportunity of congratulating the Turkish Government which has gained for our sister State, the Turkish republic, the high place which she occupies among the nations."

The Prime Minister of Turkey, Dr. Saydam, replying to the Iraq telegram said: “Our common purpose Is to establish peace and contentment and there is no doubt that it is a source of gratification and pride to us that this purpose should have been upheld by the friendship of our dear neighbour Iraq, providing a strong basis on which to establish common interests.”

PROJECTED ZONES

HOSPITAL LOCATIONS

BRITISH SUGGESTION

OFFER TO GERMANS

(Reed. Oct 24, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 23.

In view of the fact that the Germans were blamed in the last war for bombing a British field hospital which was placed at the angle of two strategic railway lines in France and which the enemy sought to justify attacking, interest attaches to a British United Press announcement that an important port of France is being organised as a main hospital base for the British Army and may become a neutral zone.

It is suggested to Germany that no plane of any nationality should fly over the area. The Allies would similarly respect a corresponding zone in Germany.

COMMANDEER POWERS

SUPPLIES FOR DEFENCE AUSTRALIAN AUTHORITY (Reed. Oct. 24, 2.20 p.m.) CANBERRA, Oct. 24. Wide powers to commandeer from private sources anything . which might be required for defence purposes, has been conferred upon the Australian Defence Department in a Federal proclamation. The regulations provide that any goods not delivered in accordance with an. order by the purchasing officer may be summarily seized by the defence authorities.

N.S.W. TROOPS TO PAY , UNEMPLOYMENT TAX (Reed. Oct. 24, 2.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 24. The New South Wales Commissioner of taxation, Mr. McMahon has ruled that members of the military forces arc liable to pay unemployment relief tax on their pay.