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...year-old god, Kemal gave the muezzins a time allowance to learn the Koran in Turkish. Last week in pious Brusa, the "green* city," a muezzin halloed "Tanri Ulndur" from one of the minarets whence Brusans had heard "Allah Akbar" since the 14th Century. Raging at Kemal Pasha's god, they mobbed the muezzin, mobbed the police who came to save...
Stanley made two other African journeys: across the continent and down the Congo River to the Atlantic (an exploration which resulted in the formation of Congo Free State); and his most famed exploit-the relief expedition to Emin Pasha. When "Chinese'' Gordon was cut off in Khartoum by the Mahdi's fanatics, the only Egyptian force in the Sudan to escape annihilation was one commanded by Emin Pasha (real name: Eduard Schnitzer). To rescue Emin Pasha became The Thing in England: Stanley was put in charge of the expedition. Practically everything that could go wrong...
...moon. When they should see it Ramadan would begin, Ramadan the mystic month in which the Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed. This year the first glint of the new moon had a special, dread significance. Turks had been ordered by their stern dictator, Mustafa Kemal Pasha who made them drop the veil and the fez (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926 et seg.), that beginning with Ramadan they must no longer call their god by his Arabic name, Allah...
...Egypt boiled with indignation last week at a Turkish insult to the fez, favorite headgear of Egypt's fat King Fuad. Years ago Turks abandoned the fez, the veil, the Arabic alphabet and polygamy by command of their progressive dictator, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha. It was Kemal himself, according to irate Cairo newspapers last week, who insulted the fez on Turkey's Independence Day at a banquet tendered by the President at Angora to the diplomatic corps...
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...