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Central Anatolia, Turkey; damage; deaths; homeless; Red Crescent aids; Govt appropriates relief funds
Sen unemployment com recommends modification
Chinese evacuate Lini; Japanese reinforcements from Shansi pushing through Tsinan reach Tenghsien, Tsining and Hanchwang; map
judges' reaction; Kings Co ct grants pay rises to attaches
1938Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani National philosopher and poet (born 1877)[†]
Sir Muhammad Iqbal was an Islamic philosopher and poet. His poetry in Urdu is considered to be among the greatest of the 20th century, and his vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British India is widely regarded as having animated the impulse for the Pakistan Movement. He is commonly referred to by the honorific Allama and widely considered one of the most important and influential Muslim thinkers and Islamic religious philosophers of the 20th century.