OBITUARY.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 52, 11 July 1918, Page 4

OBITUARY.

THE SULTAN dr TURKEY. .The Sultan of Turkey is dead. [Mohammed V., son of Sultan 'Abdul Medjid, was : born on November 3,1844 and succeeded to the throne on the deposition of .his elder , (brother, Sultan Abdul Hamid l'l. i('''Abdul t hc Damned"), on April '27, 1909. The deceased sovereign was the thirty-sixth, m male descent, of Othhnan, the founder of the 'Empire, and the twenty-ninth Sultan since the 'conquest of Constantinople. Hie liad a brief but eventful leign, with varied difficulties increasing lapidly towards its end. Immediately following iMohammed's accession there was promise of constitutional progress. After the storm of discontent over corruption aiid 'misgovernnient that precipitated the deposition of his elder brother, 'Constitutional'Government was restored and a new Parliament convoked. Very progressive legislation (for Turkey) iwas enacted, and everything promised well. But the new Parliament soon acquired the character of the old, and became more subservient than its predecessors to thc 'Committee of Union and Progress, whose progressive ideas dragged the Ottoman 'Empire-, into the great war.]