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Show 1 illSTSlE SWORD IF OSMAN With This Ceremony Sultan Sul-tan Takes Possession of Turkish Empire - 1 Constantinople, May 10 The ceremony cere-mony of girding the sword of Osnnn upon Mehmei V., the new Sultan of Turkey, in succession to Ab'l"1 llamid, occurred today in the mosque Ayonb, the only sacred edifice in Constan- tinopie wnica wnriiiia-ns ai uui 1 towed to enter. The furctjou was carried out according ac-cording to the. pre arranged program, ! and, at its conclusion, His Majesty j started to drive through Stamboul at j tiie head of nn imposing procession. 'This ceremony corresponds to that of coronation In western countries. It lasted only a few minutes, and the ancient rite of the spiritual power con-signing con-signing the temporal power to the Sultan, was witnessed by no foreign eyes. The Sultan proceeded 4in a launch from the Dolma Llagtsche palace to the1 mosque, which stands at the water's wat-er's edge, where the rite was performed. perform-ed. Then, intended by the Grand Vizier, the Sheik ul-Islam. the members mem-bers of the cabinet, the chiefs of the army, the two higher grades of Uleiu- j as, and many other officials, ho drove 1 lo the Top Kapou palace, about six miles distant, to kiss the robes of the prophet. I At the Ayoub mosque. Melimed V. drew the scimitar of his aacestcr, Os-man Os-man I., the founder of the Ottoman empire, from its sheath, and. standing stand-ing in the square in front of the group of buildings, called tho Sublime Porte, he raised the weapon on high, and, by this immemorial act, look possession posses-sion of the Turkish empire. The action of the Sultan was fol-lowprl fol-lowprl lw .in outburst, of sihontin'r from the people massed beyond the lines cf the tmrrounding troops, together to-gether with a fanfare of trumpets and a rattle of musketry as the poldiers fired a salute, but above all this noise rt.se sharp and clear voices of a chorus ot school boys chanting Mid-hat Mid-hat Pasha's hymn of liberty. The scene was a strange admixture of historical Eastern observance and modern Western civilization. Mehmed 'V'., the first Sultan in four centuries who has blue eyes and fair hair, was dressed in a western uniform of olive ! green khaki. Within sight of the r.quare were tho Byzantine walls surrounding sur-rounding tho clty, aud the Genoese tower of SL Sophia, two striking re- mains of fifteenth century history, in further contrast was the fact that His 1 Majesty, chosen by the constitutionalists constitution-alists to rulo the empire, stood up- ' right in an open carriage fresh from , the mobt fashionable manufacturer of Paris, and raised on high with a dig- 1 nilieel gesture the ancient sword, worn j by thirty-four of his ancestors, and , carried by twenty-eight ot his fore- : bears since the conquest of Byzan- ' tium. 1 It was remarked also that Mehmed V. wa3 the first beardless ruler of his line. He wore only a pointed moustache. j |