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...rule. If the traveler, raincoated against England's chilly mist, has his luggage marked "Australia," he will slip between the Alps in the afternoon, dine in Rome, sleep that night in dusty Athens. Next day he will cross the eastern Mediterranean, sweep over Mesopotamia, go to bed in Basra, Irak. Third and fourth nights are spent...
...European and American ladies and ladies of similar national and social status must acquire residence permits for all Irak cities other than Bagdad, Basra and Mosul...
First Dates. Off the town of Basra on the coast of Irak, the S. S. Registan, flying the Union Jack, upped anchor at noon Sept. 15. When the Registan tied up at the Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, last week she had made the 10,000 mi. voyage in 25 days 19 hr., knocking a day off the previous record. By being first ship in port with 266,000 cases of new Arabian dates she added 1½? per Ib. to the value of her cargo, making the crates in her hold worth...
Late that night the Crane car reached Basra again, bullet-riddled, bearing a dead man. Straight to the U. S. Consulate went the Friend of Small Peoples, and there he gravely told what had occurred...
Jews, Moslems and Christians attended the slain missionary's funeral, at Basra, last week, stared sympathetically at his young wife and four children...