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There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said: "Master, just now when I was in the market place I was jostled by a woman in the 'crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find...
Died. Liza Hardoon, 78, reputedly the wealthiest woman in the Orient; in Shanghai. A Chinese, she was the blind, recluse widow of Silas Aaron Hardoon, a Jew from Bagdad who rose from night watchman in an opium warehouse to possessor of a fortune of some $50,000,000, most of it Shanghai real estate. Hardoon turned Buddhist, built a private temple within his high-walled estate...
...Berlin-to-Bagdad Railroad* (which Germans began working on in 1888, left four-sevenths completed in 1914) was intended to make the Kaiser's dream come true. The mere thought of that 1,850-mile rail line for 15 years kept the British lion sleepless and roaring. To prove his friendship for Sultan Abdul Hamid's Turkey, owner of the roadbed, Wilhelm II visited Damascus in 1898, dropped a wreath on the tomb of Saladin (Saracen Napoleon during the Crusades), expansively designated himself friend of the world's then 300,000,000 Moslems, half of whom were...
Excavation of cubistic-faced gods was not all little Baron Max was up to during his half-century in the Near East. He was also pioneering the Berlin-to-Bagdad Railroad, and serving as the Kaiser's confidential intelligence agent. One of the world's greatest authorities on Bedouins, Baron von Oppenheim still loves to don their dress and disappear among them for long periods...
...Kaiser, Germany once more swelled with power and pride; once more she threatened to burst her boundaries. Under Wilhelm, Germany built a mighty Navy to threaten Britain, a mightier Army to threaten France and Russia, a mighty economy which threatened to follow the Kaiser's pet Berlin-Bagdad Railway to domination of the Middle East (see p. 22). The Triple Entente was born of this fear. Cried the Kaiser to Reporter Hale in the Bergen fjord...