IRAQ BLOODSHED
LATEST REPORTS RECEIVED. , Ur’ted Press Association —Bv Electric Tel egra pb—Co py r i gilt.) (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) CALCUTTA, August 28. The veil is gradually lifting from tho recent event,- in Iraq. There is now -no doubt that a massacre took place at the village of Simel, forty miles ’from Mosul, .in which it is alleged the fleeing Assyrian Christians passed the- night. According to the Baghdad correspondent of the Calcutta “Statesman.” soldiers of the Iraq Army entered the village and proceeded to butcher seven hundred inhabitants, all unarmed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1933, Page 5
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94IRAQ BLOODSHED Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1933, Page 5
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