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Germans London Jul July The The new sultan o of Turkey Burhan Durhan Eddine Effendi is only I R a pawn of oC the kaiser a a tool of or the gang ang f 4 Now NoVo In his thirty-third thirty year ear Bur- Bur han han-Eddine has ever er since his bo boyHood boy boy- Hood been groomed b by Emperor William for the eventual o occupancy r f the Ottoman throne Abdul loved oved him above o all nIl his other children children chil chil- 1 dren and made no secret O of his dc- dc to to alter tho the or order er of or succession I de-I J In such a manner as to make him his next tl hell heir He was warmly encouraged S this project b by the German emperor j I II and id empress and b their I I empress by representatives lives tives official and otherwise at nt Stamboul Stam- Stam I bout boul b to change the or order er of or succession succession sion he needed the sanc ion Ion not alone the of Islam Ul the head of oC 1 the tho clergy but also of a dignitary who I from his point of ot view was even e still stillmore stillmore more t re Important namely th the FetI J I E For the latter Is tho the rich In Int Interpreter interpreter In- In t and expounder o of the tho sacred scriptures and o of what Is even cn still ore ore important t the called so-called which hick Is Js tho code of ot religious Ious and andI I secular ocular la law last wi both based on Koran oran Life Ilfe Job Joh for I l The Sheik Islam holds his office I lit t the pleasure of oC tho the but 1 he the Fet Emini is for life lire and nd nd Is much more independent Sultan Abdul Ham Hamid Id owed the possession o of his throne to the deposition o of his elder lder brother Murad b by virtue of or a n signed by the Sheik Islam de depriving depriving de- de Murad of or his sovereignty on the ground of ot his Insanity As long as Muria lived Abdul Hamid Hamill was In con- con etani dread of ot the Issue of or a n n de declaring declaring declaring de- de claring that Murad had reco his reason reason and was therefore entitled to resume po possession of the throne In view W of oC the insecurity of or his position ead not the courage to venture upon so 50 revolutionary as a change tho order orr of ot the tho succession or even lit to approach the Fet a Emini about the matter malter To Today a both Sultan Abdul Hamid and the former Emini lie In their graves There Is Isn a new Feria Emini o of the name of or Haldar Haidar who owed his appointment to Insidious influences In entire sympathy with the existing regime reg-Ime at Stamboul ho cO could be trusted to offer no objection obJection objection tion whatsoever er to the candidate ate of or orthe the kaiser A felva Celva vesting the succession suc sue cession in Burhan l was vas all that was necessary to do the trick Burhan- Burhan Eddine both as ns a I. I boy boand and as a young man was was until the beginning of or th the present war a frequent guest at al Potsdam Pots Pots- dam am treated by tho the emperor and I empress as ns a 1 member of or their family and as ns an Intimate chum of ol their thell sons I The main shadow on Burhan Kd dines dine's record apart from his pro pro- pro and his even evell associations with that unsavory or pro product of an Imperial Im tin- I penal scullery namely Enver er Pasha Is his attitude toward his late father I Although h Sultan Abdul Harold 1 had even gone one to the length of or bestowing upon his favorite fn son on the occasion I o of his twenty first birthday a the title of ot Nahim which ma may be rendered In England as 8 coadjutor associate or viceroy viceroy viceroy-a a title which figures but 11 rarely l' l el in this history of the Ottoman empire yet et Burhan never raised a finger ringer In defense of or his father either on the occasion of or the I first military in 1908 or at the tho time o of his final deposition t I tand and Imprisonment In 1909 In fact tact lie he joined forces presumably at tho the instance of ot the kaiser with Inver who had hall been primarily responsible responsible responsible sible for Ab Abdul ul downfall and andone andone andone one of ot the ringleaders In th the risings against him Early to 0 o That Burhan Durhan should have ha committed his future to the thc kaiser and have ha thus identified himself with i i c J Vr 4 w what li is bound to prove pro sooner or later later a disastrous cause Is ot or course attributable to his early training an anto and to h his Ilia i long standing Intimacy with tho the members of or the family at Pot Tots Potsdam dam On the other hand It Is less pardonable in him than It would bo be In the case caso ensor of or most of or tho other members members' o or of the soverign house of han Ulhan unlike Othman For Bui most of his predecessors on tho the throne thron has traveled extensively has spent much of or his Ills time lime abroad abro and has had advantages ad cs In this respect that have o not been within tho the reach of oC other rulers of oc the Ottoman empire At ono one time lh the sublime porte porle owned near one half o of Europe and all nIl the northern portion of or Africa besides Arabia A Asia ia Minor 11 nor Mesopotamia and the Caucasus To Today a er e every vestige of or orO O Ottoman toman sovereignty so has has vanished from the Iberian peninsula Morocco Tunis and Algeria all belong to France torance E Egypt Pt and the Sudan are British protectorates pro pro- The English hold Jerusalem Jerusa Jerusa- lem 1111 Bethlehem Nazareth and tho the greater part o of the Hol Holy Land as well wella a as Bagdad an and all Mesopotamia Ilu II v Turkey tins lIme Dwindled The Turk has hag been driven from Al Al- Al bania Greece Is no longer an nn Ottoman Ottoman Ottoman Otto Otto- man province pro but an Independent kingdom king king- dom with the island of or Crete subject to its rule Rumania Serb Serbia It Montenegro Montenegro Montenegro Monte Monte- negro and the Balkans ant as well as Bulgaria Bulgaria Bul Bul- garia which had all won their thell independence Independence Inde Inde- from Crom Turl Turkey e are temporarily subjected to German occupation which will terminate with the victory o of the powers of ot the entente The Crimea was seas torn from the Ottoman empire b by nu Russia and Bosnia and Herzegovina b by Austria Arabia a as was pointed out above c Is now nosy an Independent state Indeed it is a no sadly shorn inheritance Inheritance Inheritance Inherit Inherit- ance to which Burhan has succeeded succeeded suc suc- ed und and In view o of tho the fact that tho victory of or the entente and tile the final defeat of or tho kaiser arc are coming nearer day flay by da day and hour b by hour It looks very r much as if It by attaching himself to the Touton chariot charlot of ot war he ho had determined the final doom of ot the once mighty might house O of Othman nn and as if ho he were destined as predicted b by Nostradamus Nostradamus Nos Nos- os- os In 1553 to be the last wearer of ot that scimitar of or Othman founder of or orth th the dna dynasty t of which Burhan Is the thirty sixth sultan the sultan the scimitar tar which Is Is like the thc scepter In Christian Chris Chris- tI linn tian n monarchies monarchic the symbol of ot Ottoman Ottoman Otto Otto- man luan sovereignty o |