Show THE TIfE TURKISH CRISIS t The Young Turks are apparently y r of the situation In Constanti Constantinople nople n k and aDd for tor a season may many continue 7 Jn In n There are something like Mke Moslems m however and there I W no telling how soon anon some me fanatic h t a J fits lly y stir sUr up ap a holy war If Ir that th lt oc oe sifts the hordes of or Asia As would soon European Turkey and the ul te condition of or the Ottoman em embe embe emr embe r be worse than at present The iii chance would be intervention by bytel byI tel J I a great powers with a chance of a at ai t i tirrel being started which would r each ch h continental Europe with bleed bk od Whether tv hether Abdul HamM Hamid will win be al all l to continue as ruler retaining limey ney enough for ordinary expenses but with little or no ne authority is la a matter not yet et worked out HIL o L The Young Turks would depose and ex ute him quickly enough were It not net ne nethe neta a the fact tact that he would be lie b e consid co n sida f a martyr to the cause of Islam f l Mp 1 bring the convict conflict on before the re r era ara IU ready for it lt The downfall t J lf the sultan has been predicted many manyx t x t 1 free but bat by b playing upon the Jon Jeal r 01 of or the European powers lie he ha hu haaya huay aye aya ay managed mana o 0 emerge em rge from the moet meet desperate situations and borrow b more mone money on the strength th of hl his good goad intentions Abdul Hamid Hamad is III the sultan of the Moslem m empire succeed succeeding ing to the t throne t Au a II 1 ISiS 1876 lite liis brothel Abdul Asa a was as assassinated and Marad Murad Mu succeeded to the throne i iThe The he latter feeing being a reformer of the most meet I type and intent upon upen i adopting western m civilisation was nan pro pronounced pronounced crazy by the hardheaded Turks and depose Abdul Hamid was next nex in la line litre the Town Crown passing JaPIng to brothers hi ip t Turkey instead of or descend descending descendIng ing In front from father to eon son as u in other r countries For years be he bebas behas has bas ruled a phenomenally phe long reign for an Ottoman calph in view Ie of the fact tact that from the tine time of or the taking takla of Constantinople by Mahomet II more mere than GM eo years years yearn ago each Neb of or Abdul AbdulHamid HamMs Hamid predecessors ors save aTe four tour has gone to his death by violent means mean From Prom time to time Ume provinces have fl been en n lopped off or that part of or the Ute em emIn Bin in Europe and but for the nat l Jealousies of the great powers the theman man would ouId have seen aen een n put pat t oat af of his misery long Jone ago 0 The Berlin treaty 7 of or IV 1171 robbed the empire of or and lid eastern prey f wale giving Yio them Independence I en M ento to Austria Bosnia Bo I and Herse Herne which two provinces have late lately i ly been Incorporated in the empire of ofTe nil gave garc Te Cyprus to tot t Britain and a slice IIII of or Turkish t territory to Greece ONe besides be Ides depriving lt porte of its suzerainty over overIa I I h Ia and S Servia Senia which it has hall ex I for tor more than Ulan ill years In Inthe 1962 j the rood pod friend of Turkey Great Britain tain seised Egypt and 11 tb U Mme French z Tunis Afterwards the Island cased pf pt Crete was as taken from the control o e porte perte Orte and d placed under und r the th rule rulef u it f r a prince p of the UM reigning house of c rene e A recent writer after atter sum sun sunup ff F ping up these theae various varto reverses says MY Yet this thin teat loll of 01 so ao many y provinces g r aed dependencies and end Ad the List n na ta U a which he be has baa been subjected so eo r rpsa no ri i atly dy by the various arIous powers left ten Ute tile sultan tan more powerful than ever I the prestige of his hs h sovereignty In blY greater eater than that of or any I his hla II predecessors for hundreds hundred of s past The provinces which h he be heit it were sae mostly 3 Christian Chr tJan and Bu Eu therefore a source of weakness s f 1 a Moslem power and just In the ther r name way that the amputation of or some Orne were sare or less lea defective dett member r of the 4 fruman Inman taffy body seems s em to develop the th Strength S and aMI vitality of the remainder id so the tile ablation of the various Christian Christiani 0 i provinces and European dependent dependencies ies a tf if the sultan inc increased ased Hd th strength t i ad vitality of his hi government In to the 7 portion of his dominions Now No the Rr at er crisis ri is ds has ha arrived armed and if the nu m comes through it with a ith OT or without th T i M nt sultan ultan further k lo Ice e p torn tori will mill ill U b f passing str r I |