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...spouse with high-handed masterfulness. Other accounts said that the wife had found the husband unbearable, had decided to live with him no longer, had herself sought the divorce. Official statements discreetly said nothing. All that was definitely known was that about three weeks ago Mme. Kemal left Angora precipitately. Ministers of the Government were present to bid her farewell, but the President was conspicuously absent. Latife Hanoum, 21, pretty, plump, short, graceful and possessed of "large, .luminous and altogether entrancing black eyes," is the daughter of Mouamerou-Chaki Bey, rich merchant of Smyrna, who once had connections with...
...smallpox in Bombay. Over $24,000,000 was taken to South Africa in four years by farmer immigrants attracted by advertising. Strolling between the acts at the Palace Theatre, Kohlafeur, you can be bitten by a cobra. Constantinople is dirty and dejected-a busted-boom town, not oversatisfied with Angora. Algiers looks prosperous. Hyde Park of a Sunday is changed; British anti-Socialists, Fascists and Gospelers replace the 'lunatic fringe' that used to orate there. Nearly 100 cats live free wild lives at the base of Trajan's Column, Rome. The clerk at the Grand Hotel, Paris...
Sheik Said, Kurdish leader, was captured, tried, sentenced to be hanged, transported to Angora for execution...
...rift: The Grand National Assembly at Angora extended for a month martial law declared in the vilayets occupied by the rebellious Kurds (TIME, Mar. 9, 16). The General Staff of the Army warned the inhabitants against aiding in any manner whatsoever the revolt against the authority of the republican government. The clouds grew dense...
...hundreds of years, Constantinople was the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Most Powers have costly embassies in that city which they cannot easily dispose of; and, if they do, it must involve large losses, owing to the depreciation in the value of real estate in the former Capital. Moreover, Angora presents other difficulties. Aside from the cost of erecting new diplomatic edifices-there are no buildings in Angora that could accommodate an embassy-communications to and from the capital are extremely bad and the climate is not so healthy as that on the banks of the Bosphorus...