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The Hanging of Sir Roger Casement

By

Mohammad-Ali Jamālzāde

Kāve, 15 Aug 1916

 

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Hanging of دار زدن
   
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Sir Roger Casement سیر رُجر کِزمِنْت
   
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Third day of Shavvāl 1334 (3 August 1916)(The first paragraph as well as all others are indented, a practice not common in today's Persian.) روز سوّم شوّال ۱۳۳۴
   
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Reuters telegraph from London gave news that تلگراف روتر از لندن خبر داد که
   
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nine o'clock ساعت نه
   
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Farangi (European time) [in the] morning فرنگی صبح
   
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Sir Roger Casement was executed. (The (1) indicates a footnote with the spelling of the name in Latin characters. See the link above to the original scanned article.) سیر رجر کِزمنت (۱) اعدام گردید.
   
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This brief, mute news این خبر مختصر گنگ
   
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became the cause of some intense clamor in all the countries باعث ولولهٔ شدیدی در تمام ممالک گردید
   
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and most of the newspapers of Europe and America و اغلب جراید اروپا و امریکا
   
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(with the exception of the newspapers of the allies -- of course) (به استثنای جراید متفقین -- بالطّبیعه)
   
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severe protests on the English Government «پروتست»های سخت بر دولت انگلیس
   
13 did "support of freedom and independence of weak nations"
  «حامی آزادی و استقلال ملل ضعیفه» نمودند
   
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and God wanted that و خدا خواست که
   
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the heavy curtain of deceit, guile, double-dealing, hypocrisy and hypocrisy of پردهٔ ضخیم حیله و تزویر و دوروئی و ریاکاری و نفاق
   
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the Government of England which  (the 'ke' begins an embedded remark about the fact that the curtain of the Government had become torn which is separate from the main 'khodā khāst' clause taking the subjunctive) دولت انگلیس که
   
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from the beginning of this war از ابتدای این جنگ
   
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time-after-time that it had become ripped (end of the embedded remark) به‌کرّات دریده شده بود
   
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[that] it become completely torn به‌کلّی پاره گردد
   
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and the kettle-drum of disgrace of it و کوس رسوائی او
   
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should become beaten at the head of every bazaar. بر سر هر بازار زده شود.
Special thanks to Mr. Hashem Hakimi website for graciously providing this priceless audio recording. He is a descendent of another of the original writers of Kave, Manouchehr Farssad (psedonym) whose real name was Abolhassan Hakimi , a secretary to the League of Nations in Geneva. Abolhassan went to the same school in Antoura Lebanon as Jamalzade and they were colleagues in the League. Abolhassan Hakimi was Ebrahim Hakimi’s brother and the Great Uncle of Hashem Hakimi (his father’s maternal uncle). Hashem Hakimi is a retired diplomat.
Citation for this article:

 "Dār-zadan-e Ser Roger Kezment" [article is unsigned] (The Hanging of Sir Roger Casement), in Kaveh (Berlin), Volume 1, Nr. 11, Tuesday 4 Ordibehest 1286 = 15 Shovvaal 1334 = 15 August 1916, pp 7-8.

Authorship of this article is attributed to Mohammad-`Ali Jamālzādeh in the following index:

Zindagī-i ṭūfānī : khāṭirāt-i Sayyid Ḥasan Taqīʹzādah bih kūshish-i Īraj Afshār, Tihrān : Intishārāt-i ʻIlmī, 1372. (Series: Ganjīnah-ʼi Īrān va Īrānīyān, 8). See page 497.

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