SULTAN’S VAST FORTUNE
HEIRS SEEKING ESTATE
LONDON, Aug. 6
A law suit over the vast estate of the Ottoman ruler Abdul the Damned will open shortly at Jaffa. Abdul the Damned was the Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey who was deposed in 1909 and died nine years later in prison in Asia Minor.
During bis reign ho acquired estates in Greece, Macedonia, Syria, Palestine and elsewhere and they lay in territories ceded by Turkey in 3 924 under the Treaty of Lausanne. He was said to have bad 237 wives and his estate was valued at £300,000,000. A claim was made in the Court at Jaffa some years ago to establish tlie rights of tlie heirs and the decision was given in favour of the heirs, but tlie appeals eventually brought the case to tho Privy Council which directed that the action should go back to Jaffa for re-trial.
The son of Sultan Alxlul Mejid, Abdul the Damned became Sultan in 1870 on the deposition of his brother. His empire was always in disorder and the Armenian massacres of 1890 won him the titles Abdul the Damned and the Great Assassin. In 1909 Turkish youth revolted, the National Assembly voted his deposition and he became a State captive.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 212, 7 August 1945, Page 5
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