A sidelight is cast on the situation in Mosul by
the request of Mr. Amery, which we are very glad to note, that the Council of the League should meet again as soon as possible to investigate the deportation of Christians by the Turks. Mr. Amery points out that these deporta- tions are a violation of the Treaty of Lausanne, and he suggests that the Council should send a representative to the frontier to inquire into the facts. In this matter the Turks cannot put forWaid even a verbal excuse. .They definitely promised that pending the settlement of the Mosul problem they would not discriminate in their treat- ment between Moslems and Christians. We cannot be indifferent to the miseries of these people. Nowadays some even among those newspapers which profess high ideals • write as though the sufferings of an unhappy minority were really not worth mentioning. Yet all the thunders of Gladstone's eloquence would have been called forth by what is happening in Mosul. We ask our readers to study the article by Sir George MacMunn on the Assyrian Christians which we publish this week.
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