A SULTAN'S BODY
REMOVAL FROM FRAME POSTPONED SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS. Proas Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SAN REMO, Juno 10. It is reported that the departure for Damascus of the body of the exSultan Mahommod VI., which was fixed for June 16, has been postponed, as the Sultan was in debt to the extent of 200,000 live. Seals have been affixed to the house of Colonel Ecky Bey, Aide-clc-Camp to the late Mahoinmed VI., and ho has been arrested on a charge of the premeditated murder of Re-chad Pasha, the cx-Sultan’s physician, who was found dead with a bullet in Iris brain in March, 1921. It was thou decided that it was a case of suicide, but since the death of the ex-Sultan revelations have been made by persons in the suite of the Turkish Consul at Genoa, who informed the Italian authorities.—Reuter. [Ou the death of Mahommcd V., in 1918, his brother, Mahommcd VL, ascended the throne. On the rise of the Nationalist movement under Mustapha Kemal, in 1922, the Sultan lied and took refuge on a British battleship. He then went to Malta. Ho died at San Romo on May 16 last.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19274, 12 June 1926, Page 4
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190A SULTAN'S BODY Evening Star, Issue 19274, 12 June 1926, Page 4
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