Foreign News: Turkey: Apr. 28, 1923

The Grand National Assembly passed a bill whereby any person or persons accused of acting against the sovereignty of the people, whether by word, deed or publication, shall be tried for high treason.

The Opposition violently opposed the motion on the ground that it would be deprived of the power of working for the restitution of the Sultanate.

Mohammed VI, deposed Sultan, issued (from Cairo) a proclamation to the Moslem world calling upon it to ignore the decree of the Angora Assembly separating the office of Caliph (successor to the prophet) from that of...

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