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Show Mosul Control Pact Is Made. Constantinople. Turkey and Great Britain have signed the Mosul convention, con-vention, which settles the dispute between be-tween these two countries over the control of Mosul, with its important untapped oil resources. The Mosul question came up before the league o nations and various solutions were suggested. Eventually the present agreement was drawn up. The principal princi-pal points of the convention are acceptance ac-ceptance of what is known as the Brussels line by both parties with slight modifications in favor of Turkey in the neighborhood of Alimoun, and the maintenance of a demilitarized zone seventy-five kilometers on both sides of the frontier. A Turko-Irak military commission, presided over by a Swiss, will delimit the frontier within six months after ratification of the agreement. The inhabitants of the ceded territory may choose Turkish Turk-ish nationality if they wish. Turkey.!' granted a one-tenth share in. the royalties roy-alties due the Irak government from oil in the kingdom of Irak, in which the vilayet of Mosul lies. Great Britain Brit-ain now holds the mandate over the kingdom of Irak and recently the con-venion con-venion covering this mandate was extended ex-tended to a maximum of twenty-five years. The signing of this convention conven-tion last January was in conformity with the decision of the league of nations na-tions in the dispute over Mosul. |