Éditeur : Government Press | Date & Lieu : 1926-01-01, Baghdad |
Préface : | Pages : 113 |
Traduction : | ISBN : |
Langue : Anglais | Format : 155x220 mm |
Code FIKP : Lp. Ang. 317 | Thème : Histoire |
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Personalities: Mosul, Arbil, Kirkuk, Sulaimani and frontiers. Note on Mosul town Mosul town Nos. 2 and 3 are generally in opposition to each other. With regard to recent political movements, in August, 1920, 'a maulud was field at the Nabi Jirjis mosque at the termination of which forty members to represent Mosul were elected in order to present their demands to the Government. Manv of the Forty elected had no knowledge of what was intended and joined after consultation with the P.O. No doubt it was intended that the presentation of the demands should be attended with the same discrders as occurred in Baghdad. That however was averted, and by the loyal co-operation of soma of the Ashraf, the committee of the Fort- was, in a very short time, reduced to impotence. It is fairly certain that the maulud was occasioned by the orders of the Baghdad extremists to the Jami'at al Ahd in Mosul. The local leaders of the Ahd are:— Most of the leading Ashraf are very large landowners who hardly ever visit their villages. In the last winter of the war mort of them amassed large fortunes by holding up grain. Ten thousand people are laid to have died of starvation. |
Mosul town [...] Abbawais-I-Rustam He is the rival of Babakr Agha for authority in the tribe and in opposition to him backed the Turks in 1922. His section was largely responsible for the retreat of the British column in August, 1922. He subsequently joined Shaikh. Mahmud at Sulaimani and took part in his intrigues with the Turks. On the fall of Shaikh Mahmud's government in March, 1923 he returued to Rania and appears te have come to terms with Babakr. |