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 CONVENTION-AMERICAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ. JAN. 9, 1930. missioner, proclaim martiallllw in all such parts of IrB9 as may be a1fected by such aggression or commotion, and entrust Its adminis- tration to the Air Officer Commanding or such other officer or officers as the Air Officer Commanding may appoint, and will further secure the passing of the n~ measure of indemnification for all acta done by the armed forces under martial law upon the subsequent re-establishment of civil government. ARTICLE 13. The Iraq Government undertake to provide every facility for the movement of His Britannic Majesty's forces (including the use of wireless telegraph and land-line telegraphic and telephonic services and the right to lay land-lines), and for the carriage and storage of fuel and supplies for such forces on the roads, railways and water- ways and in the ports of Iraq. AlmCLE 14. The Iraq Government undertake to recognise and to secure by licence or le~lation the right of His Britannic Majesty's forces to establish ana work at the expense of His Britannic Majesty's Govern- ment a system of wireless telegraphs for the transmission and recep- tion of external and internal messages on British Government service. No payment either by way of charge or compensation for loss of traffic shall be made to the Iraq Governmept in respect of such messages. His Britannic Majesty's Government undertake that no messages other than on British Government service shall be transmitted by the said system except by agreement with the Iraq Government, which agreement shall provide for compensation for loss of such traffic by the Iraq Government's Department of Posts and Tele- graphs unless such messages are transmitted at the request of the Iraq Government, in which case His Britannic Majesty's Govern- ment shall be entitled to payment for the transmission of such messages. Any compensation which may be due to the Iraq Government shall be in the form of a reduction of the debt due by the Iraq Government in respect of the telegraph system transferred to it by His Britannic MaJesty's Government. ARTICLE 15. The Iraq Government undertake at all times on the request of the Hi~h Commissioner so to restrict the working and method of transmIssion of the wireless telegraph station at Basrah and so to define its wave-length as to obviate interference with British Govern- ment stations, and further undertake, in the event of an emergency arising, to hand over the said station on the ~uest of the High Commissioner to His Britannic Majesty's forces for the transmission of messages on the service of His Britannic Majesty's Government, sul?ject to the payment of compensation for the loss of other traffic. Furthermore, the Iraq Government agree that the above under- takings shall hold good notwithstanding the disposal of the wireless telegraph station at Basrah by sale or otherwIse and that, in the event of their deciding to discontinue the use of the station; three months' notice of such intention shaft be given to His Bntannic Majesty's Government, who shall be given an opportunity of tak:4lg over the station before dismantlement, and of operating it for the remainder of the period of the treaty. 1843