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...Author. Percy Molesworth Sykes was bom 67 years ago, played racquets and ran a fast mile at Rugby and Sandhurst. He was gazetted in the 16th Lancers, was almost constantly in Persia and Baluchistan for 26 years after 1893 but went to the South African War, was wounded and decorated. He explored parts of central Persia, surveyed it for a telegraph line, established three consulates, was the first European to climb Tartan and Bazman volcanoes. When German agents and Turks were stirring up the country during the War, he took command of 3,000 untrained natives, handily restored order. Other...
CANNIBAL QUEST-Gordon Sinclair-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Canadian journalist on the loose in Mandalay, Bali, Baluchistan...
Another kind of show-the kind anyone can understand-was provided by Viceroy & Lady Willingdon. Having pitched their golden thrones and held a durbar near the frontier of Afghanistan (TIME, May 2), they pitched thrones again last week and held another durbar in British Baluchistan, adjoining Persia. To do homage to Their Excellencies hundreds of Baluch nomads rushed out of mud-walled huts, sprang to horse and to camel and greeted the Vice-regal procession as Benito Mussolini or oldtime Amerindians would have done- with right arm outstretched. On the high-road to Kalat, capital of the native states...
Small girls strewed rose leaves sticky with perfume ahead of the Viceregal motor as it purred through the streets of Quetta, British Baluchistan's capital. Bearded merchants strewed Oriental rugs, hastily retrieving them once they had been run over by the Viceregal tires. Under a great canopy on the Quetta race course the thrones had been pitched, and there the durbar began...
...Regions bounding Persia are (in clockwise order) ; the Republic of Turkey; the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia; the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic; the Caspian Sea; the Socialist Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan ("Turkestan") ; the Amirate of Afghanistan ; the Kalat State of Anglo-Indian Baluchistan; the Gulf of Oman ; the Persian Gulf and (completing the clockwise circle) the Kingdom of Irak, a British mandate...