BRITISH YEOMANRY
REUNION IN LONDON FORMER ENEMY AS GUEST (British Official Wirelcw.) Prww Asworiiihoi! —Bt Telegraph—Copyrisht. RUGBY, February 26. The Iraq Minister in London (Jafar Pasha) will to-night be the guest at a reunion 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 the Turkish army, and was leading an attack to invade Egypt. He injured himself when ho was attempting to escape from the Cairo Citadel when a blanket rope broke and he fell into a moat. While he was in hospital he read of the Arab revolt and the execution of his best friends by the Turks, and he decided to change his allegiance. He thereupon joined King Feisal, became his commander-in-chief, and showed himself a brilliant loader. He is the only man who won both the Iron Cross from the Germans and recognition from the British during the war.
Jafar Pasha was called to the English Bar, having passed the law examinations with distinction.
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Evening Star, Issue 20421, 28 February 1930, Page 8
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173BRITISH YEOMANRY Evening Star, Issue 20421, 28 February 1930, Page 8
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