TILE MOSUL DEPORTATIONS
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—May I congratulate you upon your reference to the situation in Mosul ? The attitude of a section of the Censer- cvative Press in stabbing the Government in the back by reason Of 'its action at Geneva should be a cause of shame to the Conservative Party. As a Liberal, I consider that the Govern- Ment is likely to emerge with honour and increased prestige When the facts are known iegaiding Mosul.
What is it about the Turks that so many people in thii country like so much ? Have they not massacred Christians and enslaved women and children Whenever they have had the
opportunity ? At the very time discussions were proceeding at Geneva, were they not violating the frontier, massacring Christians, and carrying off women and children into captivity ? You rightly pointed out that all the thunders of Gladstone's eloquence would have been called forth by what is happening in Mosul.
Regarding the fact that these deportations are a violation of the Treaty of Lausanne, is it not well to remember that, regarding the protection of minorities in Article 38, the Turkish Government " undertakes to assure full and complete protec- tion of life and liberty to all inhabitants of Turkey, without distinction of birth, nationality, language, race, or religion" ? That •Aiticle 44 states :—" Turkey agrees that in so far as the preceding articles of this section affect non-Moslem nationals of Turkey, these provisions constitute obligations of inter- national concern and shall be placed under the guarantee of the League of Nations " ? Is there not a multitude of Armenian women and children still enslaved in Turkey in spite of the
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