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no wtterTn ° f the Fadhl Q uarter write t0 complain that for 3 months they have had
c ^ P1 6 ° f tll6ir re P resentatlons to th e Municipality. (Signed) Muhammad Salih.
5. The Syrian Delegation has reached Geneva.
Unsuliab^onsuc" WOme " dandng ha " S ^8 - a patriotic song in favour of Faisai.
Al 'Iraq, No. 362, August 3.
u Lea f er . on ( the false hopes of the Kamalists in the field of politics. They thought thev
Governmpnt h 0ri0US ’ f mistaken -. Th fy are now tr y in g to resume relations with the British
Government because of the strong position of the latter in the Near and Middle East. Only by
the power ot Britain can the Greeks be stopped.
Al ’Iraq, No. 363, August 4.
Naqib al Ashraf of Basrah.
. }■ have received the following telegram from our correspondent in Basrah : In view of
the denth of Rajab Eff. Naqib al Ashraf of Basrah the Saiyids and Ashraf assembled in the house
of Saiyid Muhammad Eff. al Barakat and discussed the election of a member of the family of
Naqib to replace him. Whereas Saiyid Hashim Beg al Naqib has public confidence and all
necessary qualifications and the highest qualities, the Assembly unanimously elected H. H. to
be Naqib al Ashraf of Basrah. They have informed the Government and a delegation went to
Saiyid Hashim Beg and informed him. He thanked them for their confidence in him.
Editor heartily approves the choice.
Letter to the Editor.
2. “The Dijlah in its issue No. 35 has made an observation to which we must reply. (The
observation was that Shaikh Daham al Hadi was lodging at the Government Guest House!. The
house referred to is not a guest house but was taken by me for my family to live in. But as my
family is in Syria, and knowing that many chiefs of tribes would wish to visit H. H. the Amir
Faisal, and wishing to participate in entertaining them, we prepared this house for their entertain
ment. This house and that of my father are at the disposition of any of the friends of H H
All we have is in his hands for the accomplishment of the national cause which H. H. represents
in his noble person.”
(Signed) NAJI AL SUWAID,
Ex. Wait of Aleppo.
Al 'Iraq, No. 364, August 5.
Acquittal of Shumail Shashu’.
1. On March 25th Antoine Kasparkhan was killed while sleeping in his house. His relation
alleged that a noise woke them and that they saw the murderer in the moonlight coming down the
steps. /
The Police suspected the well known merchant Shumail Sha^hu’ and one of the porters
employed by him and the wife of the deceased. All were arrested. This suspicion arose from
the relation between Sha'shu’ and Kasperkhan’s wife. The deceased was a partner of Shumail in
a business called Galerie de Paris. Antoine went to Bombay and Paris on the business of this
company and then received a letter from his wife showing her dislike of him and her wish that
he should not return.
He received at Basrah another letter from her saying that he must return to Paris. When
he reached Baghdad he begged her in vain to come back to him. The Gallerie de Paris has
suffered losses and a case was brought by Sha'shu’ against the deceased shortly .before he was
murdered.
The Public Prosecutor charged Sha'shu’ of inducing the porter to kill Kasperkhan but in
spite of the endeavour of the court no proof was found of the guilt of those arrested.
Reception at the Persian School.
2. Rashid Eff. Al-Hashimi, though his name was not mentioned in the programme of th
entertainment, stood and recited a poem praying the Amir and expressing the inclination of th
people towards H. H. He then turned to the affairs of Syria at the mention of which the Ami
was displeased and spoke as follows :—
“ Had I known the poem of Rashid Eff. would refer to this subject I would not have allowed
him to recite it, and if the time were not short I would have replied to his ideas. It is better to
think of the progress and prosperity of the country than to think of other questions”.