INTERNATIONAL: Presidential Trains

The Presidents of two republics bought sumptuous private trains last week, and, since their own countrymen could not make them, they turned to the railway shops of two other republics.

$36,000 Car. President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, the Ghazi ("The Victorious"), satisfied his relatively simple wants by decreeing that his private train shall be made up primarily of an ordinary engine and cars; but shall have attached at the end a $36,000 "Presidential Car" which was completed for delivery by the German firm of Wegmann last week. It contains, at the forward...

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