GUEST OF YEOMANRY
IRAQ MINISTER IN LONDON. A ROUSING RECEPTION. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, February 27. 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 40 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 their guest of honour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20964, 1 March 1930, Page 13
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