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Show POLITICAL MURDER The days of the bowstring are not yet over m Turkey for the favor te son of former Sultan Abdul Ham d has been found strangled m h s bedroom. The young prince seems to have pos sessed some ability and had been men tioned as a candidate for the throne of Alban a made vacant by the abdicat on of Prince 'Will am of Wied H s un t mely death is due to the jealousy of the Young Turk party an aggregat on of alleged reformers w thout the least capacity for government who have succeeded, in bringing on the final catas trophe to Xhe r country Old Abdul Hamid was not an ideal ruler even in a Mohammedan country but so long as he held the rems of power he managed to play off one of the great European nations against the other arousing their natural jealousies and thereby prevent ng the dismemberment of the Turk sh emp re The young Turks who made so much clamor at the outset of the r career adopted new methods and f 3und the pathway to ruin very short ndeed. The strangling of Mehemmed Burhan Edden Effend shows how barbarous they really are |