A WAR INCIDENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 17 January 1913, Page 4

A WAR INCIDENT.

'There is Hytr in the way of laughter to be derived from tlirs tragic condition of Turkey. But the Pal! Mall Gazette's \rai' correspondent tells a tale i'bout the Ulster 0 <vo.ant tho; will bear repetition: "One amusing incident .occurred to relieve r .tbe, .general atmosphere of tragedy wliieh pervades the capital. An English press photographer, in search of pictures, attempted «to gain admittance into a sacrosanct moSque, hitherto unpolluted by the presence of an unbeliever. The Moltah iu charge, who wore the green hand round his turban-denoting his direct descent from Mahomet, indignantly refused him admittance, whereupon the photographer put hi# hand in his pocket and a copy of tlie Ulster Covenant, which he had parried away from Belfast as a souvenir of his photographic exploits during Sir 'Edward Carson's campaign, The Covenant h printed in ancient characters on parchment, ami stamped with a blood-red hand which i.s incidentally a Mplia'r . edan symbol.; The Moliai) «' as so • * ,by this imposing, document,, tlm t ho xa la am ed pro foivndlyy 'Wd,# fi ter inviting tlie photographer to enter, personally .conducted him round the mosque."