740.0011 European War 1939/10087:
Telegram
The Minister Resident in Iraq (
Knabenshue
) to the Secretary of
State
Baghdad
, April
18, 1941—9 p.m.
[Received April 19—12:03
a.m.]
87. Sea-borne British troops arrived Basrah and air-borne at Shaiba
today without incident.