Show sun SULTAN AN TO GIRD GIRDON GIRDON ON SWORD TODAY Ceremony to Take Place in Mosque Only Mo Present GREAT DAY OF STAMBOUL REQUEST MADE OF THE GOV GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT BY ARMENIANS Constantinople May IY 9 t Review stands were put up in the principal streets of Stamboul today in preparation preparation tion thin for the procession ion tomorrow for forthe forthe forthe the girding of the sword upon Mehemed V This Thia ceremony which corresponds corre to that of coronation DUon will take place in the mosque mo que the single mosque in lit Constantinople which Christians are allowed to enter or even congregate about the entrance or courtyard It will wilt last lAM but a few minutes and aad no for foreign foreign eign eyes will wilt witness the ancient rite of the spiritual power consigning the temporal power to the sultan sultanA A Maud has baa been teen erected for the dip diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic corps and distinguished hed for foreigners eigners eight or ten blocks from the mosque The sultan will proceed fro palace to the mosque in ina Ina Ina a launch and from there then attended d by bythe bythe bythe the grand vister the the members of the cabinet the chiefs I of or the army anny the officers of the two higher hll ler grades of the ulemas and man many other functionaries will go 80 to the Top palace about six miles distant to kiss the robe of the prophet The rh sul smil sultans tans tan s train is expected to make a rich display Government Relief Vork Work The government is taking hold of the relief work in Adana province with vigor It U was wa announced today that IM had bad been sent there The grand vizier and Ferid Fend Pasha the tIme minister of the Anterior received a deputation of the Armenian clergy and laity yesterday The delegation was headed by the representative tive five of the who was as assured surd su that the government would in inquire Inquire inquire quire thoroughly into the Adana out outrages outrages rages rates and severely punish those guilty of or inciting them The minister said ald the investigation would be conducted by bya a military court courtS S Fend Ferid Pasha told the delegation d that eight physicians pk had been sent ent from fromma Smyrna ma to Adana and that several alto alee had gone SOM there from k m Constantinople Armenian Requests A number of prominent Armenians letS 1 jid t the olk First that the th murderers Af Christ Christians Christians ians inns be punished second that stolen property be returned and indemnities be he paid for tor property destroyed l third that the women and girls who were stolen be returned and also that men and women who were compelled ford forcibly bly to adopt Mohammedanism be al ai allowed allowed lowed to resume re ume their faith fourth that the investigation conducted under the chairmanship of the governor general be suspended and that a new investigation of the disorders Orders from their commencement be made by a mil mu military milItary commission fifth that Christ Christians tans ians be permitted to participate in the local ocal police establishment and sixth that Armenians be allowed to partie participate participate I pate in defraying the cost of erecting a monument to those who have fallen in the army anny of liberty The bank has arranged to loan without interest to the farmers of Adana province to aid them in planting new crops |