It is a real satisfaction to learn that the Anglo-Turkish
agreement, which Sir Ronald Lindsay has been patiently and ably negotiating, was signed at Angora last Saturday. The "Brussels Line," with a very small modification, has been accepted as the permanent frontier between Turkey and Iraq. Iraq will thus be in -a position to defend herself—which WoUld_ hardly have been pOssibla if the Brussels Line had been abandoned. The small modifica- tion in the- line is merely to enable Ttirkish road transport to avoid a very hilly bit of country. It is sensibly agreed that there shall be a neutral zone on each side of the frontier. Sir Ronald Lindsay has been able to convince the Turkish Government that their fears about Great Britain encouraging a separatist- movement by the Kurds were quite unfounded. Turkey is promised 10 per cent, of any royalties which may become due to Iraq as the result of oil discoveries in Mosul.
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