TURKEY: Strenuous Ghazi

Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of Turkey, the Ghazi, the Victorious One, retired last week to his model farm at Tchankaya near Angora for his annual vacation. Active, he was soon in the fields, mingling with the workmen, superintending the harvest, himself driving a snorting, clanking mechanical reaper. Only the Ghazi's large panama hat showed the neighbors which were the laborers, which the Victorious One.

Later in the week Mustafa Kemal was awakened from a sound sleep by excited shouts, the clang of alarms.

"Hurry, Master!" cried a secretary. "The Fish Bazaar is on fire!"

Rushing in his car toward Angora the Ghazi saw...

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