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There was no news concerning the way in which the Kurds are to be put down by the Turks except that Kemal Eddin Pasha and Samy Bey, had gone by airplane to Diarbekr and that a vigorous campaign was to begin after their arrival...
Figures from Egypt on the general election just held show that ex-Premier Zaghlul Pasha just missed winning a remarkable victory. His party, the Nationalist, won 101 of the 215 seats, but the returns were not complete...
...combined anti-Zaghlulist Parties also secured 101 seats; and of the 13 remaining seats, not more than two were expected to go to the Zaghlulists. This will then give the present Premier, Ahmed Ziwar Pasha, the smallest of majorities, and thus enable him to remain in power...
...refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, there is none greater in this house than I, neither hath my master kept back anything from me but tea, because tea is the luxury of the English, and Zagloul Pasha hath forbidden the Egyptians to fall into the evil ways of the idle-worshippers. How then can I do this great wickedness...
...against the National Turkish Government at Angora. He further admitted that the revolt was serious. Martial law was proclaimed. Eight Turkish divisions (two-fifths of the entire Standing Army) were dispatched to Kurdistan* to quell the bloodthirsty Kurds. Five classes of conscripts were called to the colors. General Ismet Pasha, onetime Prime Minister, was appointed to command military operations. It was impossible to determine the extent or the success of the fighting, as reports were as speedily denied as they were issued; but it could be assumed, since the Turkish Army had not had time to get into action, that...