SULTAN MOHAMMED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1909, Page 7

SULTAN MOHAMMED.

INVESTMENT CEREMONY. GRAND MILITARY DISPLAY. NEW RULER HEARTILY RECEIVED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright (Received May 11, 8.10 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, 10th May. The new Sultan, Mohammed V., has been invested with the Sword of Othina.n. There was a great military display. Enormous crowds enthusiastically cheered the Sultan. ABDUL'S CORRESPONDENCE. LETTERS FROM THE KAISER. CLOTHING LINED WITH VALUABLE BONDS. (Received May 11, 8.25 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, 10th May. Among the papers belonging to the deposed Sultan seized at Yildiz Palace, were letters from the Kaiser, and the private Imperial correspondence with Abdul Hamid during the Kaiser's visit in 1898. Documents were also found, showing that some reputed exiles were Abdul Hamid's chosen agents. Many bonds were discovered in the linings of Prince Halnii's clothes. Halmi had desired that his wardrobe should be sent to Salonika. GOVERNMENT'S' FREE HAND. NOT SUBJECT TO COMMITTEE'S CONTROL. YOUNG TURKS' DISCONTENT. LONDON, 10th May. The Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that the decision made by Shevket Pasha, leader of the Constitutional forces in the recent coup de main, that the Government must govern without interference by an irresponsible committee is causing friction among the Young Turks. Hilmi Pasha, the Grand Vizier, is Shevket's choice, the Young Turks desiring that Ferid Pasha (now Minister for the Interior) should have that position, while the Sultan preferred Mukhtar, late Ottoman Commissioner in Egypt. ACCUSATION AGAINST BRITAIN. > CONSTANTINOPLE, 10th May. The Ottoman Lloyd, a German newspaper published in Constantinople, accuses the British Foreign Office and press of supporting the recent reactionary revolution. _