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Mohammed VI. At San Remo, Italy, the deposed Sultan Mohammed VI kept in close touch with the doings of the Cairo conference. When he ascended the Turkish throne (1918) his subjects numbered 12 millions. His realm embraced both Turkey in Europe and Turkey in Asia - nearly half a million square miles, including Anatolia, Arabia, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. The Turkish Republic now holds in Europe only the zone of Constantinople, and in Asia little more than Anatolia and Kurdistan...
...spite of the fact that Maxey Long is the officially accredited holder of the world's record for the quarter mile, in which he was timed in 47 seconds fiat, in my opinion a better performance was made in 1915 by James E. Meredith at the National Championship in San Francisco in the Senior 440 yards, in which he equalled Long's mark, but the record was not allowed...
...San Francisco, Calif...
Again the world's record for a hundred yards has been beaten; again the wind was at the runner's back. Philip Barber, running in front of a Pacific breeze last week in San Francisco, made the distance in 9 5/10 sec., beating by 1/10 sec. the accepted record, tying the mark recently set by Roland Locke of Nebraska...
...whole distance is about equal to that between New York and San Francisco, and with the slow going which a large train necessitates will take several months...