It is to be boped. that the intervention of the
Council of the League will bring- about a satisfactory settlement of affairs on the Iraq frontier. The invasion of Iraq by Turkish regular troops was a barefaced proceeding for which there is not a shred of justification. It was not a case of tribesmen carrying out marauding raids. The invasion was a systematic business lasting a. fortnight or three weeks and conducted by detachments of all arms. Moreover, it was not designed merely for the occupation of the Hakkiari district, which is provisionally neutral, but was carried into that part of Iraq which is expressly assigned to the control of Great Britain by Treaty. Fortunately, the Council of the League, on the earnest appeal of Great Britain, has promised to appoint a Commis- sion of three impartial persons to visit Iraq and report. Fethi Bey, the Turkish representative at Geneva, was forthcoming and extremely urbane in giving the necessary pledges. As to the results—we shall see.
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