BRILLIANT FOEMAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 909, 28 February 1930, Page 9

BRILLIANT FOEMAN

YEOMANRY ENTERTAIN EX-CAPTIVE THRILLING WAR RECORD British Official Wireless RUGBY, Wednesday. The Iraq Minister in London, Jafar Pasha, will this evening be the guest at a reunion dinner of the yeomanry, who captured him during a cavalry engagement at Agagia in the early days of the war when he was an officer with the Turkish army. He was leading an attack with the object of invading Egypt. Jafar injured himself when he was attempting to escape from the Cairo citadel. A blanket rope broke and fell into a moat. While he was in hospital he read of the revolt and the execution of his best Arab friends by the Turks. He then decided to change his allegiance, and joined King Feisal, whose commander-in-chief he became. He showed himself to be a brilliant leader. Jafar is the only man who won an Iron Cross from the Germans and recognition from the British in the war. He was called to the English Bar after having passed his law examinations with distinction. ROUSING RECEPTION Reed. Noon. nONDON, Tliurs. Jaafar Pasha attended at Weymouth the annual dinner of the Dorset Yeomanry who captured him and 500 of his followers in operations against the Senussi whom he led in North Africa in 1916. He was given s. rousing reception by the Yeomanry, among whom were two officers and 40 men who rode in the famous charge: which resulted in his capture.

Speaking with emotion, he said that it was the biggest reward of his life to be tlieir guest of honour.