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Show TURKISH SULIAN SEjKS- SAFEI1 DECLARE8 HE IS NOT ABDICATING ABDICAT-ING THRONE BUT SEEKS RETREAT OF SAFETY British' Grant Rulers Request For Protection; Political Slgnlfl- canco Seen In England Granting Asylum London. Sultan'Mohnmmod VI fled from Turkey on tho British worship Afalnya, according to a Nowa Agency illspatch from Constantinople Tho sultan took rofugoon n British worship In tho Golden Horn, which ntor Btoamod for Malta, tho British naval baso In tho Mediterranean sea. Violonco was reported from Con. itantlnoplo. Hussein Mllmid, leadoi f tho Turkish Socialist party, was issasslnatod. As tho aultnn wont on board tho .Uoloyu ho said ho was not abdicating' iho throno but was merely going to a placo'of safoty. Tho. Allied high com-mlsslonors com-mlsslonors fourod tho-rulor would' 'bo iKslsslnated. Tho Biiltan hlntoil that ho oxpocts to return to Constantinople no soon as ;ho danger has passed. Tho sultun wna accompanied by bIx thor porstms who nro supposod to linvo heon officials In tho Constnnti-noplo Constnnti-noplo administration. Thoy drove from tho paluco to tho water front in a British official motor car. Tho sultan had ronuostod British protection on Wednesday but it was not until thlajuornlug that danger mado It nqcessary, for him to leave |