ABDULLAH, ACHMED

author and playwright. Contributor of many short stories to magazines, Has written Grammar of Little Known Santu Dialects, 1902; The Red Stain, 1915; The Blue1917; The Trial of the Beast, 1919; The Man on Horseback, 1919; The Ten Foot Chain, 1920; Night Drums, 1921. Also author of following plays: © Toto (with Leo Dit rich stein), 1920; The Grand Duke (with Lionel At will), 1920; also compiler of Tales of the Psychic, 1920. Turkey elected in 1922 to succeed Mohammed VI.; who was deposed in accordance with a decree of the Nationalist government. The Caliph has no political power but serves only as a succe or of Mohammed as a religious leader of Islam. Abdul Medjid was cousin to the Sultan and was crown prince of Turkey prior to his succe ion as Caliph. Ses Turxny. of Turkey; succ. f., Mahmud II., 1839; concluded peace with Mehemit Ali, 1841; Crime an War undertaken by England and France in his defence. aw Afghanistan (1844-1901); noted for political sagacity; improved social conditions of country, and, by grasp of affairs, materially increased its power. His rule consisted of a military despotism, and he succeeded in imposing an organized form of government upon a most unruly people; succ. by eldest s., Habibullah..