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Died. Kara Kemal, onetime member of the Young Turk Committee of Union and Progress, sentenced to death as ringleader of the recent plot to assassinate President Mustapha Kemal Pasha of Turkey (TIME, July 26, TURKEY) ; in Stamboul (Constantinople), after shooting himself when a group of policemen surrounded and sought to arrest...
...theoretical despot, technically absolute, actually impotent, arrived at Paris last week, swathed in billowy garments, bedecked with Orient gems, surrounded by 100 six-foot Negro guards, by many a caid and pasha...
...were members of the Turkish Parliament, among them General Ruchdi Pasha and former Minister of Interior Djambolet Bey. The remaining seven included men of lesser rank and two notorious assassins, Lazo Ismail and a man known simply as "Horsehide." He, bullnecked, nerveless, had snored through the preceding night. The others had not slept. All were to be executed in a few minutes for conspiracy to murder President Mustapha Kemal Pasha...
Significance. The Jebel Druses, numbering some 6,000 fighting men under command of Sultan El Atrash Pasha, have sufficiently demonstrated their ability to keep the 20,000 French and French colonial troops sent against them from pacifying Syria. It is conceded by experts that with 30,000 more French troops, General Andreas could probably wipe out the Druses...
...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...