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...latter infraction of the Mohammedan religion was made known by Moukbil Kemal Bey, the famed Turkish architect who superintended the reconstruction of the Mosque of Omar at Jerusalem and the Mosque of Mohammed at Medina and who has designed many public buildings at Constantinople and Angora, the new capital of Turkey...
Moukbil Kemal Bey arrived, recently, in Manhattan to secure sketches and designs for the Mustafa Kemal statue. Naturally he journeyed to Stamford, Conn., and there consulted the famed U. S. sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, and received from him a sketch which, with others, he will take back to Turkey for approval. The definite acceptance of any plan will not be made for the present; but there is every prospect, it was said, of a $20,000 statue of the great Mustafa, "made in America," adorning the city of Angora...
...tomb of Chateaubriand, famed philosopher whose name is identical with that of the only passable French imitation of a beefsteak, is endangered by the wild Atlantic surges. His grave is on the cliffs facing the sea on the Island of Grand Bey, off St. Malo. Winter storms have cut under the cliff, and the tomb may have to be moved further back...
...debate over Article X was lively. Isahn Bey, deputy for Jebel Bereyet and President of the First Tribunal of Independence, declared that resistance to the admission of women to equal rights was foolish, as in ten years women would certainly be members of the Assembly...
...Constantinople, Vali (Governor) Dr. Adran Bey, went to the Dolma Baghche Palace, home of the Calif. He there demanded to see the Calif in the Throne Room. When the Calif arrived, the Vali ordered him to ascend the throne, read the decision of the Grand National Assembly to him, ordered him to descend the throne and pack his things...