EX-SULTAN INTERESTED.
CONSTAN TINOPLK. March 22. A representative ol 'I he Mirror had tin* nmisij.il privilege to-day of an interview with the deposed Saltan. Abdul Hamid. The ex-Suhan. who is generally wrapped in melancholy ami rarely utter- a word to hi> entourage, showed keen interest in Hie reports in The Mud* got, of which he is a constant reader, of tin- New Plymouth Carnival. His cyts unite spaikhd at the idea of tilt) contest I.if Carnival Queen, and lie remarked vivaciously that in the old days he should have been glad to enter a team from among the ladies of his harem. He -non. however, dropped hack into his old lethargy, only arousing himself for a moment to order an attendant, wlm had not prevented a fly alighting in his coffee, to ho bastinadoed.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144357, 23 March 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)
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134EX-SULTAN INTERESTED. Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144357, 23 March 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)
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