Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the week there occurred at Calcutta more serious riots than have taken place for some time. The immediate cause was typically oriental: the playing of music by a Hindu procession outside a Moslem mosque. Late despatches reported that the rioting Moslems and Hindus had mutually slain 35 of their number, injured...
...cabins had been cluttered with bottles of water from the River Jordan, from Red, Dead, Galilee Seas (bidding, at the end of the trip, sent the price per bottle to 50); that at Constantinople many failed to see the mosques' interiors because they would not trust their shoes to Moslem doormen...
...hundred years Christian missionaries have struggled hopelessly to capture the hearts of the Calif-awed Turks. They had come, said Mr. Barton, to suspect that "the Moslem was outside the sphere of the operation of divine grace...
...then went on to say that the commissioners had cross- examined refugees from this region before there was any possibility of their having been tampered with by British agents. In conclusion he expressed absolute certainty as to the material fact that the Turks have been deporting the non-Moslem inhabitants of this region with frightful barbarity...
...situation well in hand in Syria. . . . Then we were attacked at Damascus by rebels . . . and as I could not surrender the town there had to be fighting in the streets. . . . The British consul very nearly provoked a panic when I told him that I must bombard the Moslem quarters of the town. . . . The romantic versions of the affair in the English press indicate that somebody wanted to give the public its money's worth. . . . The French Government has always received full reports from me, except during three successive days when the cable service was interrupted . . . . I stopped the pillage...