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...Abandonment of the Ruhr guarantees without a settlement of inter- Allied debts...
Many U. S. journals ignorantly write about Britain's oil interests in Mosul and lead their readers to suppose that the recent controversy was in reality over oil. This is a misconception. The settlement reached had to do only with the frontier. The question of whether the Mosul and its rich oil district is, or is not, to revert to Turkish sovereignty has yet to be decided by the League...
...clothing that is collected each year is distributed throughout the world through the agency of such charitable institutions as the Near East Relief Fund. It also is used to supplement the work of the Association at the settlement houses of Boston...
...discipline of the Lu army, numbering about 30,000 men, was naturally not good. Some of the troops declined to surrender except on payment of $20 apiece; others looted buildings on the docks, stole materials valued at $1,000,000. The Foreign settlement, enclosed by barbed-wire entanglements, was reported to be safe; guards were rein- forced, nevertheless, as a precaution...
Whether or not the agreement embraced a more sweeping settlement was not known. In Manhattan, Wall Street opined that the agreement, if ratified by President Obregon, or his successor, General Calles, and the oil companies, would pave the way for a rehabilitation of the oil industry in Mexico by making it possible, for the first time in seven years, for the investment of U. S. capital in the exploration and development of new fields...