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Last May, Mohammedan villagers in the Tao-chow-ting district of Kansu province rebelled against omnivorous Chinese tax-gatherers, rioted, killed 700 Chinese women and children...
Successful in Afghanistan, the Mohammedan mullahs (priests) of Near Asia have spread their reactionary revoltings to neighboring Persia. Black-fezzed and bearded, they last week shouted in Persian market places that Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi is trying to Europeanize Persia, debauch her youth, rob her people. Always ready for a fight, nomadic Arabs in South Persia rose in revolt, tried to draw into the fray the dreaded Bakhtiari, fiercest of Persian tribes...
...mullahs [Mohammedan religious teachers] were better able to incite the populace to revolution than Col. Lawrence...
...Bird. Railways, roads, steamships and sewers are signs of civilization, but they cost money. Last week, swart Ahmed Bey Zogu Mati, King of Albania, made an effective yet inexpensive gesture toward westernizing his troubled kingdom by decreeing that in future all of his subjects must give up the old Mohammedan custom of taking the name of the town or village in which they live, and adopt good European names. Setting the fashion, Albania's King dropped the village name of Mati, dropped the u from Zogu (u in Albanian means "bird") and adopted the simple, resounding title of King...
...before trying to do this. Marshal Feng also realized that the Kwangsi rebellion was not occupying quite so many Nationalist troops as he had expected, that Chiang had over 250,000 troops to oppose his 150,000, that Chiang was making every effort to ally himself with the western Mohammedan war lords, Feng's oldest and most effective enemies...