President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, national hero and onetime supreme commander of the revolutionary armies which swept away the Sultanate, set foot in Constantinople last week, for the first time since the Turkish Capital was officially moved thence to Angora in 1923.
To greet Kemal all Constantinople was en fete. Fifty thousand electric bulbs were festooned along the streets and from the minarets of Stamboul.* Even at Pera† the Diplomatic Corps and foreigners generally decked their establishments, in honor of Kemal. He came, at last, steaming up the Bosporus on a cream white yacht, once the Sultan's. Twelve large...
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