Strenuous Ghazi

Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of Turkey, the Ghazi, the Victorious One, retired last week to his model farm at Tchankaya near Angora for his annual vacation. Active, he was soon in the fields, mingling with the workmen, superintending the harvest, himself driving a snorting, clanking mechanical reaper. Only the Ghazi's large panama hat showed the neighbors which were the laborers, which the Victorious One.

Later in the week Mustafa Kemal was awakened from a sound sleep by excited shouts, the clang of alarms.

"Hurry, Master!" cried a secretary. "The Fish Bazaar is on fire!"

Rushing in his car toward Angora the Ghazi saw that it was true. Jutting high above a dusty plain is the ruined citadel of Angora. The "Fish Bazaar," the old section of the town, known to modern Turks as the pest section, straggles down from the summit of the rock to the bleak modern city at its base. Up the rock now, as the Ghazi gazed, leaped crackling flames, lighting up the plain. For hours the Ghazi worked shoulder to shoulder with firemen, policemen, soldiers. The acrid smoke of burning buildings mingled with the smell of burning fish. By morning it was seen that fire had gutted 500 houses, one hotel, three khans (caravansaries) and a mosque. Since meat, vegetables, almost all food is sold in the "Fish Bazaar," Angora suffered a serious food shortage until the strenuous Ghazi rushed supplies up from Constantinople.

P: Just prior to embarking on his strenuous vacation, President Kemal had put finishing touches to the new Turkish tariff. Last week U. S. Commercial Attache Julian E. Gillespie cabled details vital to U. S. exporters:

1) High protective duties tending to the virtual exclusion of luxuries: perfumes, jewelry, silks, high-grade woolens, haberdashery, high-priced automobiles.

2) All articles not specifically mentioned in the tariff to be subject to a 40% ad valorem duty, instead of the present 20%.

3) Consumption taxes, at present paid by purchasers of sugar, coffee, tea, spice, candles, soap and sacks, to be abolished, the amount being included in the tariff instead.

4) Agricultural implements, and other "commodities used in developing Turkish industry and agriculture" to be duty free.