Sick Man of Europe,
#, - /:i. — - . .* .. __- HIS SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT. ,PLAU>T TALKING BY AUROTHER- : . . ;■*? :^*u£yt. ■' r ; United « v Press "Association.— By Elec1 trie Telegraph.— Copyright: - • . j' Received JakUary 31, 8.6 a.m. • , ; 'i Congtantinojjle, "Jajmary 30. \ * The Sultan,^asrked the soins of- Mah«niud Pasha, who' recently died, to deliver up the bodys the \S;ultan being unwilling that it shoiild rest in^ Christ* ti&n. soil. . . - • The sons repliqd that their father's body was interred > in a Mussulman cemetery and thai" his wisjh was never to return alive or dead, under the aresent Govern'mont,, to Constantinople. .' 'Mahmud was> a- brother-in-law of- the Sultan, and secretly left Oocnstantinbple in' 1891. He, addressed a letter to the Sultan s%r,ongly condemning the administrative system with its rampant despotism. He took refuge' , in Corfu ,and\ was sentenced to death in default of ignoring an osrdar to return to Constantinople. Mabmfciid Jhen, fled to E,ur.o'pe wihere he w.orked in the interests of the young Turkey party.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12179, 31 January 1903, Page 2
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156Sick Man of Europe, Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12179, 31 January 1903, Page 2
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