Show I I I ANCIENT PEOPLE SEEK AUTONOMY Delegates of or As Chal a dean clean Empire ire A Ask k Allies to Establish Mandate l By n- FLOYD OYD lI MACGRIFF CG International yews Nen T Service Staff Correspondent Cor Cor- respondent Dd Dt London May 8 Dust Dust off ort your musty tomes and prepare to bid welcome to yet yot another nation perhaps nation perhaps aa the tho result of or the world war and Turkish I I pence peace For hero comes Mr Rustem Nedjib and Mr Air Said Sald not tho the aforesaid but his hla brother Namik properly credentialed creden- creden representatives of ot tho the ancient Chaldean empire which has been boen hibernating years C lI Bo Do It known that ans did their bit In the world war giving tho the Infidel Turks a Q wallop or two on tho the r front for tor which tho the little father tather Czar r Nicholas promIsed prom prom- them autonomy Their world war ar losses from Crom fighting ling and massacre to totalled totalled to- to Their habitat is northern northern north north- ern Mesopotamia So when the tho well known own peace con con- ference forence met In Paris Rustem and Said gathered up their rugs and French book on Christian departure from their then people President Wilson promised them at Paris ho he would look after their inter inter- ests when tho the Turkish treaty came camo up and the tho French and British told them to como come back when things were less busy Definite war time engagements ments had b been on en entered Into with the allies ames The Tho Chaldean delegates returned home awaiting events event but now have havo turned up looking looking- for tor a mandate They want W some ROme power to bo ho their godfather until the they relearn the tricks of ot government govern govern- ment mont mont-an an art they lost years cars ago IJO The They also so want their nationality guaranteed guaranteed guaranteed guar guar- by tho the allies and the tho league lealUe of ot nations Tho The patriarchs p say the Coal Chal deans number of ot whom were In 1914 in tho the Turkish empire In British India whence ha half tho the nation fled several hundred years ago to escape pe persecution aro In Persia and in the tho Caucasus The territory which they ask Isk as a a. state comprises people of ot twenty nationalities n and divers religions of ot which are C ns and aro are Christians Christians-all Christians all under the pope Tho The distinctly object to being added to Arab Mo ro- ro I n kingdom of ot Palestine or to the tho other Arabian kingdom tho the Hed- Hed jar In the territory th they y seek to have created as ns a state te are Moslems i divided Into nine nino nationalities of or whom tho the Turks and I Kurds ur s n number |