JAFAR PASHA
MAN WHO LED THE BENOSSI I ENTERTAINED BY DORSET YEOMANRY • (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright
RUGBY, February 27. (Received February 28, at 11 a.m.) Jafar Pasha, envoy* of the Iraq Government in London, was the guest of honour at Weymouth last night at the annual dinner of the Dorset Yeomanry, who captured him and 500 of his followers in operations against the Senussi, whom the pasha led in North Africa in 1916. The pasha was given a rousing reception by the yeomanry, among whom were two officers and forty men who rode in the famous charge which resulted in his capture. Speaking with emotion, he said it was the biggest reward of his life to be theu* guest of honour.
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Evening Star, Issue 20421, 28 February 1930, Page 8
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124JAFAR PASHA Evening Star, Issue 20421, 28 February 1930, Page 8
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