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Stallion, Slave. From Ibn Saud Husein, King of the Hejaz, to "Salubria," horse farm of Rear...
...soldiers, commanded by Azmi Pasha, were starting for Cairo as an escort of the Holy Carpet, the immemorial piece of rug that covers the Kaaba in the Mosque at Mecca. Because of friction between Sultan Ibn Soud and King Fuad of Egypt, the Holy Carpet had not gone to Cairo for two years, but this year things looked better; the King of Egypt had a chance of being made Calif of Islam; the rug started on its journey, accompanied by the soldiers and followed by a brass band which blared out, with wandering horns and cymbals, an Egyptian marching song...
...Turkey all members of the House of Osman, which had ruled as Sultan and Calif since 1517. Thereupon King Husein of the Hejaz was somewhat irregularly "elected" Calif by his adherents, but abdicated as King in favor of his son Ali, who was subsequently conquered and deposed by Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd. 2) None of these three disgruntled Califs possesses all three of the traditional qualifications: descent from Mohammed; the status of an independent sovereign; possession of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. 3) None of the at present outstanding Mohammedan potentates possesses all three qualifications. 4) Should...
With the spring sun beginning to evaporate the awful ditch-bilge into which Morocco is annually transformed by the winter rains, there emerged into modest headlines that fierce and intractable Riffian, the Amir Muhammad ibn Abd-el-Karim...
Bluffing on the part of the Angora Government began by calling four more classes to the Turkish colors, the massing of four divisions of cavalry at Jezire-ibn-Omar, 20 miles behind the Mosul frontier, and mild efforts to prepare the Dardanelles against a possible naval threat from Britain. The Jumhuiet, famed Turkish Government journal, announced: "They are merely measures of national defense . . . since the emasculate League of Nations wallows as a mere servile instrument of British dictatorship. A recourse to arms remains as our only means of defending our rights...