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President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey: "I continued last week to exterminate my enemies. Abdul Kadir Bey, one time Governor of Angora, was hanged during the week for participating in a plot to assassinate me which I am thought to have trumped up. To date, 18 of my political enemies have been disposed of by hanging through this strategem (TIME, Sept...
Pitch-soaked torches roared high one night last week in the public courtyard of the Central Prison at Angora, A Death-lured crowd, chattering expectantly, hushed as four tripod gallows were erected. Eerie as ghosts in the flickering light, four white-clad condemned men paced silently from their cells...
...Bozkourd. Simultaneously it was announced that M. Emile Daeschner, onetime French Ambassador to the U. S. will be despatched shortly to succeed M. Albert Sarraut as French Ambassador to Turkey. M. Daeschner will be the first Ambassador to occupy the new French Legation at the nouveau capital of Turkey, Angora, a town still chiefly com posed...
Elegantly clad British diplomats have lived uncomfortable lives for some months at Angora, that insupportably nouveau capital which the young Turks are erecting on a site now chiefly mud. Their efforts have been directed toward negotiating a treaty whereby British-mandated Irak would be confirmed in the possession of that major portion of Mosul granted to her by a ruling of the League Council (TIME, Dec. 28, LEAGUE). The Turks have consistently refused to accept the Council's adjudication...
...most markedly successful applications of the British diplomatic steamroller to an Oriental people was accordingly signalized last week when representatives of Turkey, Irak and Great Britain signed at Angora a ten-year pact of security and nonaggression, apportioning the Vilayet and Village of Mosul to Irak-the Turko-Irak frontier to be delimited by a Swiss chairmaned commission within six months, approximately as adjudicated by the League. Further treaty provisions: 1) Turkey to be granted 10% of the revenue of the Mosul oil fields for 25 years. 2) Turkey to be empowered to sell these revenue interests. 3) Mutual security...