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Died. Baron Rudolf Carl Slatin ("Slatin Pasha''), 75, Austrian hero of the British conquest of the Sudan; after a stomach operation; in Vienna. Protege of heroic General Charles George ("Chi- nese") Gordon, a bey at 24, he surrendered at 27 to the rebel Mahdi Mohammed Ahmed, was held prisoner for eleven years...
...political situation in Colombia has shown no improvement. . . . Burma was affected during the year by a series of local disasters. ..." Lyrically of the Egyptian Agency (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, etc.) it says: "There Pharaoh oppressed and Candace reigned, where Herod wantoned and Moses died, where Muhammad fled and the Mahdi slew. ..." Against these backgrounds are painted the labors of the Holy Bible salesmen. One entered an Austrian circus, sold Gospels to Japanese, Italian and Arabic performers. Trying unsuccessfully to circulate in the Eucharistic Congress at Carthage last year (TIME, May 19, 1930), one R. H. Robinson sold a New Testament...
...pontificated: "The Baha'i movement is the only power able to revive the Islamic world." Abdu'1-Baha, however, saw the movement serving a wider world. For Jews it could fulfill Old Testament and Talmudic prophecies; for Christians the visions of the Apocalypse; for Mohammedans the Redeemer, Imam-Mahdi...
...Perhaps he had an Arab mother, or perhaps his mother was a Turk. Nobody is sure. History recognizes only that ugly Osman Digna* spent his boyhood and adolescence helping his parents sell slaves. The Digna family was very rich. In 1882 the British again forbade slave-trading. The Dervish Mahdi proclaimed a Holy War and Osman Digna, brown and skinny, with an evil face, round shoulders, a hawk nose, joined the rebellion, achieved a title "Emir of the Dervish of God." He beat General Baker at Tokar. He fought General Gordon at Khartum and Kitchener at Omdurman. Three times...
...Sultan Mahmud II of Turkey succeeded in conquering the country. But even this victory was only nominal; for the Turko-Egyptians were never able to assert complete mastery over the country which they contemptuously called Bilad-es-Sudan, "country of the blacks." In 1882 came the revolt of the Mahdi, "Guide of Islam," aimed specifically at the Egyptians whose corrupt practices were thoroughly despised. The regime of the Mahdi was later replaced by that of the Khalifa. Under the latter, the country sank from bad to worse?virtually to a sparsely populated and barren wilderness. Sixteen years after the rise...