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Show WHY ARE THE BRITISH FIGHTING i .1 IN MESOPOTAMIA? HERE'S ANSWER 'Why are tho British fighting in Mesopotam la ?" This Question is frequently asked these days as news dispatches tell of heavy fighting in Mesopotamia. Here I is the answer: The league of nations created four distinct states in Asia Minor three mandates and one separate and sovereign sov-ereign coun.ry. Mesopotamia was placed under a British mandate, Syria under ihe French, Palestine under the i British, and the kingdom of Ihe Hejas sas made an Independent nation and I an original member of the league. INDIAN COLONIALS In Mesopotamia the British are charged with drawing up the organic law, protecting tlje Mesopotamians from invasion and preserving order. The chief cause of fighting is that the British are using a large number of linh;n colonials (the British force di Vidod, 55,500 Indians and 9800 British) and there Is considerable racial antlp .it by between the Indians and the Arabs. It is estimated also that J00 -000 ot the Mesopotamia! population ue privatel and secretly armed with British and Turkish rifles. The Iroops are protecting peaceful farmers from Kurdish and other no-Hc no-Hc raids and trying to keep rival religious factions among the ArabS apart. But the political ideal of peace and orderly sell government, mapped out by ihe league of nations, never can be n allsed until the Indian colonials are, withdrawn and the British pollcine army is recruited from and trained in Mesopotamia. ECONOMIC REVIVAL. Mesopotamia has a population of 2,-i 850.000, tin area of 1,200 000 square miles, and a tillable area of about 2,000,000 acres. The country Is now rhowing signs of remarkabh econom-j M-5UU I feALE5TN VfeiX 1 ifXfdy VeV21 285QOOO V Z l "J-H -.OOO OOO A ZJ?5 .) V - DEN -tt i-- i. - y. s 1 Mesopotamia, comprising the provinces of Bagdad. Mosul and Basra British mandate under league of natons. 2-Syria-French mandate com pnsea parts of Syria Beirut, and Lebanon and Aleppo. 3 Palestine ' i , i ' lsh mandate, comprising Sanjak of Jerusalem, and portions of fnnnnr ... inces of Beirut and Syria. 4-Hejaz. sovereign SSS rlinaHSJ SS2 league of nations 5-Fate of provinces of Yemen El' Ha' a ( n p ? gulf) and scatteiing Arab tribes in Interior remains undetermined 6- MtUta territory, a narrow strip along the southern coat of the Arabfan j C revival, and Is destined to become one of the great otton grain and oil producing nations It is calculated thai In ancient days before ihe Mongol Invasion destroyed the vast irrigation works tTiai Bagdad alone had more population than all I 4 Arabia is credited with now n the center of Arabia are great stonv dc-s- oris and white men have never sur-reye sur-reye d .hern. They are among the larg. 1 est unexplored regions on earth M |