GUEST OF HIS CAPTORS
JAFAR PASHA'S ROMANCE
lEON CROSS TO IRAK
Brltisb Official Wireless.
(Received 28th February, 8 a.m.)
RUGBY, 26th February.
The Irak Minister in London, Jafar Pasha, will to-night be the guest at a ro-union dinner of Yeomanry, who captured him during a cavalry engagement at Agagia when in the early days of the war he was an officer with tho Turkish army and was leading a Senussi attack to invade Egypt. He injured himself when attempting to escape from the Cairo Citadel, when a blanket rope broke and he fell itito the moat. AVhilo in hospital he read of the Arab revolt and the execution of an Arab national, his best friend, by the Turks, and he decided* to change his allegiance. He thereupon joined Foisal in Arabia,' became his Comuiander-in-Chiof, and showed himself a brilliant leader.
Ho is the only man who won both the Iron Cross from the Germaus and recognition from the British during tho war. Jafar Pasha was called to tho English Bar, having passed his law examinations with distinction.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 50, 28 February 1930, Page 9
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