HAMID’S FORTUNE
LITIGATION BY FAMILY.
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 24.‘
Dismally failing to secure compensation for the Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian Governments for property allegedly belonging to the. late Turkish Sultan, Abdul Hamid, Princesses and Princes, his joint heirs are making a final bid to secure a verdict, and suing the British Government before a British Tribunal, claiming the restitution of 122 properties at Baghdad and Cyprus and oilfields at Mosul, involving millions. It. is recalled that Abdul Hamid, during his thirty years reign, accumulated a fortune of eight million sterling, accruing property throughout the Turkish Empire, chiefly by questionable methods, although he had generally a Registered title thereto. Some of the claims date to the time of the Balkan Wars.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1928, Page 10
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