THE SULTAN SCARED.
KURDS RUSH SIS CARRIAGE.
THOUGHT HIS REIGN WAS
ENDING.
CONSTANTINOPLE^ June 13. The Sultan had an exciting.experience on Friday. He was driving to the mosque when fifteen Kurds made a rush at his carriaofo.
Mahomed, of course, was thoroughly ' alarmed,« and spring out of the carliage, thinking, as everyone did who witnessed tho incident, that an attempt was being made to assassinate him. Tho Kurds were instantly seized by the escort, but it turned out that thoy had come' from Erzeruro,' in Armenia, and that* they had nothing moredead']y* than- a petition to fire at -their, mighty, ruler. • -■>•., - !
They we're- all subsequently roleased
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12765, 21 June 1911, Page 7
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106THE SULTAN SCARED. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12765, 21 June 1911, Page 7
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