Today -100: November 29, 1924: Of mutinies and mandates, legal whites and princes

A couple companies of the Sudanese army mutiny and attack the military hospital in Khartoum, killing a British doctor and 2 Syrian orderlies. This has something to do with Britain forcing out their Egyptian officers. What that has to do with a hospital is unclear. Sudanese are being killed and the hospital is under siege. Meanwhile, British soldiers have been marching around Cairo, pissing on stuff to mark their territory, probably.

Former PM Ramsay MacDonald suggests asking the League of Nations to give Britain a mandate over the Sudan.

Alice Rhinelander will fight husband Leonard’s annulment suit by denying having any negro blood and asserting that she is legally – yes, “legally” – white since her mother is white. Her lawyer says her father didn’t notice that a clerk had designated him negro on his naturalization application form, which he – according to the lawyer – isn’t.

The princes of the various German states (Prussia, Bavaria, Hanover, etc) supposedly have made a secret agreement to overthrow the Weimar Republic and resume their thrones, burying their past differences.

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