RULE IN MESOPOTAMIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1920, Page 5

RULE IN MESOPOTAMIA.

BKffiAIN starts her take, THE FIGHTING CONTINUES. ■tt Mamfe-Frcss Asm—Copyright. JUeeivedAugust 9, 1220 am. / ' Delhi, August 1. The first step towards setting up national Institutions in Mesopotamia, in compliance with Great Britain's man-date-obligations, waa taken in Bagdad on tt» OQt infc, when nineteen former Deputies Vera summoned from various parts of the country by the present British administration, and their functions will be to frame* proposals for s profrtaeiftl electoral law, under which -; will 1» elected to the General Assembly, which will frame organised ,; tow (or the country. This Assembly . wfll also provide a source to wfcidi the administration may tun for advice eon* «wteft »ith the welfare and future of . the crantfjr. .. - A cobnut returning from Diwspiy&h, tsftier General Ooningham, readied Jarbufych, Arabs made elaborate arrangements to prevent the column ranching Jarbuiyah, but the attack was beatfen off. by the Deccan infantry. The Arabs left eeventy dead. The Ghurkaj had famd-to-hand flghttag in the palm grafti a6d villages. The final concenttt&m at two thonmand tribesmen, with barkers flying, waft successfully disfttMfr by gun-fire. The total Arab «Muakiet were very heavy, ours being •fast twenty.—AW.-N.Z. Cable As*n.