Show TURKISH DICTATOR SPARES HEROS LIFE soldier risked execution ion to aid widowed mother london no traitor shall escape death said plia kemal pasha dictator of turkey when in 1023 he signed the death warrants previously expected by the sultan of turkey of those who and been traitors to their country during the war the story lins lifis just reached london londin however of how the relented for the first time recently and freed one of turkeys traitors traitor the memory of his widowed mother whom lie he adored moved him to mercy in one of the most extraordinary stories coming coining out of the war he granted state clemency to capt sabry bey formerly of the british army who had risked death by returning to turkey el eight lit years ago to see his mother before she died ue he was arrested only recently sabry bey of the ottoman fusiliers fusi fus liers lifers of the imperial guard was recommended for aeronautics in 1913 after a distinguished active service record in the balkan war and sent to england to train lie he was attached to the royal flying corps then in its infancy and became very popular in ID the mess through his kinsman prince the turkish sli ambassador who had fought with british allies in crimea he be obtained entree into the most exclusive circles of E english rig society when britain declared wai against germany in august 1914 sabry like all the rest of his corn com rades in the mess got war fever the pro british tradition inherited from the crimea became too strong for him ue entered the ranks of a british infantry regiment regime nl and fought at mons in the retreat a at Gi and at neuve beuve chapelle within three months and before turkey entered the war ar sabry bey had won its commission as an oali in the british army in acthen ser sen lee ice in the early days of november 1914 telegrams from the war office sl at constantinople Constantin uple armed in lon loa don for sabry recalling him to turkey which had already roade made up her mind to join the lie germans Ger muns sa bry never replied and the turkish ambassador was vias unable to obtain any trace of him in 1916 lie he received honsl star the military medal and was mentioned in ID dispatches 1 by the tae avas bait t 1 I 1 ish comin andeA lit in chief in the meantime the turks held an im aerial court martial and the sultan signed his death warrant at the end of 1916 in 1923 1023 mistapha renewed it eight years ago the friendly commander of a british torpedo boat destroyer shipped sabry at a bulgarian port and dropped him at the european side of the the turk swam back to his own country despite the he death warrant because he had received news that his aged widowed mother of whom lie he was the only child had become a paralytic for eight years he remained hidden in her home disguised as a servant few people en entered ter e d the house as it was notorious that she was the mother of a traitor who had been convicted A short time lime ago sabry bey attended ills his mother to alie grave and in answer to the priests question what good moslem commits this body to the grive grave sabry answered iler son ills s arrest was a matter of hours it when the dictator was informed of it and babrys history he sent for or him me he was taken before the chief executive under heavy guard the phail ordered the escort to jelense the prisoner and gave him a complete pardon because he tied had thrice risked his lire life once for turkey in the balkans Cal kans again for E england on the western front and finally to console his mothers last years mustapha reminded sabry that he had also loved his own mother deeply and declared that since he had find heard of the batters lat case he had been wondering whether under the same circumstances he himself would have had the courage to come back |