File 301/1921 'MESOPOTAMIA: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS' [‎75v] (161/586)

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line following notes lave' been reeeivedl from tie' Ministry ©>f Defenee:
Tie ‘Iraqi Military College will ©pen about tie 2011 Jnly r 1921,, for a eonrse
of 3 Mentis for officers of and! above tie rani of Captain, and © moamtls for
Lieutenants and 2nd-Lieu-tenants. .
The students eonsist of one Qaimnnaqam, 7 Q'aiefc, 2& Walkil Qaids, 1© Raises,
Lieutenants and ©8 2nd-Lieutenants..
Heeiuiting may be ©onsidered to- lave opened on tie 1st July, and by tie
8th instant 673 men lad registered tlemseives. Of ties© some lave been medi
cally examined and some are yet to> be examined, as Medieal Offieers are not
stationed in eael recruiting ©entre.
At Karbala 151 volunteers lave been passed by a Medieal Offieer sent from
Baghdad.
No 1 recruits lave yet been enrolled at Diwaniyal.
Two Klaus lave been rented at Kadlimain for tie recruits of tie "Iraq
Army for whom tier© will not be accommodation in tie Cav. Barracte..
Good progress las been made in translating portions of tie British Army
Training Manuals into Arabic,
On tic whole recruiting is progressing satisfactorily, but tie higher rate
paid by the Levies to privates las somewhat of a bad effect on recruiting for
tie Iraq Army. °
, ^ !f aot proposed at present, however, to raise our rates- of pay, as it k
loped that as many recruits will be obtained at tie present rate as we can drill
and clothe at present, and for whom we lave budget provision.
PUBLIC OPINION AND THE AMIR FAISAL.
S. The salient feature during the first fortnight after Faisal’s arrival w
S v T:;T"' f P* * he ®f j>» eleeti* to the thro
ust be settled without delay. From insistence on tie necessity of summo
ng the Congress immediately, public opinion, reflected’ in tie Vernacular' ore
tunica i awards a resort to some speedier expedient Tie leads of the Mn«
had “ a * “ «frefel“
ft Thf lmC I * tI,e loeaI were advoekh
partk™, 8 rf fo;f sS? a KC W P C™ tIle extreme Sharifl “ P^y were ea@
the Amir n ,. * L W 1 '"' 1 ’** 1 * 1 whether their adherenee to it d
umtf from H Jh i' and tLT " r m ° St , 01 the ^rtees who have lately r
re^ardpd - the who came back with Faisal They a:
whom theTreJS to^reMfion” h T ,taf ! fes ® f Baghdad M also by Tfao
gaol under the amne^ ^ r t rf S Ullkhs whQl were released from Hills
Suspicion is not diminished W^he^fapt°+P 7+1° ,la( !. r } ot ™dergone sentenc(
are undoubtedly tinged with a desire to be rM f p®, p<)lltle>s I ° ,f th& extreme part
of British control. Saiyid Muhammad a t ° lf . th f ma]Ql ^te and even all fora
Suwaidi the most comnetent f ti l 1 / mmi Prominent and Na,
by the natural "folustifv Ms IattCT i
is improbable that he shares Muhammad Sadr ™ the revoIt ^ 1>Bt :
the part that the British Covernmpnt «i, i / P ] !M ^ meed with regard t
held bn July 4 and July 9 at the qop p ay . 111 Mesopotamia. Meeting
and the Ja’fariyah were made foe Hwainiyl
opinions. At foe fiJtheZLre * fe «* advance,
future complete independence of the 1 b ^ ^ exaggerated emphasis on tb
lion, pointing out ZTthrLtll lJ re P lied ^eat moclen
itself. The meeting of the JaUWivMi !° earB before it could gover
attended by most of the Sunni nSl^T “T* ^ pe-rtamt; it wan
•reported tolerably fully in the loesl ™ an< + S ° )y Christians and wa
independence expressed'by several of the 110llgr 1 tke desire for ©omplet
(see Press Supplement, Al DiHalt for iX in* down in report
was the speech of Ibrahim Naii Karimr »n -i a ! 1 ^ l^bie notable episod
to be the representative of the legal owrf, • • at X< !^ a ^ e C dde H eii yam. Claimimj
and urged that other classes of'the^nrq l °^ h ® : f f ^ ered to ’ faisal its allegianc
handled this outburst with the utmmt V' skoB d follow his example. Faisa
known what the speaker intended to sav lie mil' Saying ! llat if be hai
that he nad not come to ‘Iraq to imnose tr U i 1 have stopped him, and adding
free m their choice. He gafoed moreTdw/f T ^ P& ^ who ' ^ to hi
his jaiis et gestes since he landed at Basrah ^ S ^ 118 s P e ' ee b than by any ©j
need entertain no aLfoty^hat h’fdnwte^f StOC><1 w * s,>lki ant
-tremists, a position wMeh he has fremiemt ? , , andoned . fb e sll PP f ->rt of tM
iat he would not accept. The High ( ^ ^ e( f a r ed ™ private eonversatioi]
Churchill’s speech, published on Jrilv^T ( omn J lsslone r’s comments on Mr,
decriJve impression. The Secretary if State O hatl Pi-odn^ed a
’ &tate s P eaks with a resounding voice,