REUNION OF YEOMANRY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20963, 28 February 1930, Page 9

REUNION OF YEOMANRY

FORMER ENEMY AS GUEST. IRAQ MINISTER IN LONDON. I ‘ , • ! (British Official Wireless.) , (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, February 20. (Received Feb. 27, at 5.5 p.m.) 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 he 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 beat friends by the Turks, and he decided to change his allegiance. He thereupon joined King Feisal, became liis com-mander-in-chief, .and showed himself: a brilliant leader. 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 examintions with distinction.