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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 





KURD COOLIKS AT AMARA, A TOWN IN IRAK-ARABI ON THE BANKS OF THE) TIGRIS 



The Entente Allies are to establish many new republics in Europe and in Asia, thereby 

 releasing oppressed peoples from the yoke of Prussian militarism and Turkish barbarism, 

 and at the same time forming a series of buffer States, which will make impossible any 

 further aspirations of Germany for the control of middle Europe and the Near East. 



second, because the destruction of the 

 herd would destroy valuable and useful 

 industries in the preparation of the seal 

 pelts for use. 



Therefore, they said it was good form 

 and in the interest of the world that the 

 four nations concerned should agree 

 upon a compromise, by which the United 

 States might continue to maintain the 

 herd and sell the seal pelts gathered on 

 the islands, and that pelagic sealing 



should be stopped, but that the United 

 States, in consideration of the other three 

 nations restricting their citizens from 

 pelagic sealing, should divide with the 

 other three nations some of the profits of 

 the herd. 



Accordingly, Great Britain, Russia, 

 Japan, and the United States made such 

 a treaty, which is still in force, and under 

 which the herd has been restored to its 

 former size and value. Here we have an 



