WHO WAS MERELY
\MSTKK1 >.\M. July a .Mohammed
V, sultan of Turkey, is dead, accord
ing to dispatches received here from
< 'nnstantinople.
A Weak Sovereign
Mohammed V. thirty fifth sovereign
of Turkey in direct descent of the
house of Osman, founder of tin- em
pire. . ame to the throne by a coup
d’etat on \pril L!7. lltop, after having
been held for thirty three years a
prisoner by his brother, Sultan Abdul
II. iu the royal palace and gardens in
Constantinople The scheming Abdul
11 intended that his own son, Prince
Hurhan Edine, described as tin* most
brilliant and gifted of the princes of
the house of Osman, should succeed
him. Hut this plan was thwarted
when parliament deposed Abdul and
placed his prisoner brother, Moham
med Kesched Kffendi. on the throne
as Mohammed V.
The Sheik-ul-Islani. head of the Mos
lem church, drew up the decree of
deposition, which passed parliament
without a dissenting voice. Five min
utes later Mohammed, who during his
imprisonment had had no experience
ju th* duties of government, being
purposely denied education in such
matters by his brother, was declared
sultan The same afternoon he took
the oath of fidelity to the Turkish
constitution, and 1 o 1 guns proclaimed
tht new sovereign.
In Seventy-third Year
Mohammed V was horn in Constan
tinople. November 3, 1X45. He was
ot a studious disposition, and read
widely in Turkish literature. His
long imprisonment, with lack of exer
cise and rich living, undermined his
health, and several times he was re
ported dead or seriously ill. His ap
pearance showed the ravages of tint#
and the worries of an unsteady
throne By his enforced seclusion he
was totally unfit for public lit'*-, and
i- reported to have said regarding it:
"Curing my imprisonment of thirty
three years my enemies have slan
dered me and railed me a madman
bordering on imbecility lie was
characterized as good-natured, weak
and ingenuous, with an almost infan
tile curiosity, and of a religious na-,
ture.
i At his accession he espoused the
fiu.se of the Young Turks, the party
which was in opposition to the form i
itid c'-remony of his brother s reign.! 1
I pnn the deposition ot Abdul. Moham !
med was welcomed by them as a
champion of freedom. He promised I
:i progressiva* reign in a speech from 1
the throne, read by tin* grand vizier., I
h- was. however, merely a pawn ot I
flic Young Turk party, although he1
out 11> the work! the message i
that In had always been the ardentj 1
supporter of the cause of liberty, en-j I
lightenment and progress
His Weakness in Crises
His hand in the government was 'j
never strong. Illness, a naturally *
easy disposition and weak will power . •
kept him continually at the mercy of
the Turkish officers and the Liberal
party. He feared deposition during
the Turko Italian war in lull, and
spent a night praying in the various
shrines ot Constantinople lie ap
pealed to the army to he loyal to him
and said that their treasonable de
mands encouraged the enemy to at
tad the Hardanelles H ♦ ■ also lost
most ot his Kwropean dominions in
tin* Balkan wars The Young Turks
invaded the palace in ldi:: when Mo
hammed was reported to have become
r*< oncih I with his brut her
In 1!H 1. at tin* outbreak of the
pn — lit war. Mohammed issued a
proclamation blaming the triple en
i. iit** with thrusting war on Turkey.
He exchanged telegrams of greeting
with the German emperor, from whom
| he later received the Iron Cross,
j When England and France declared
that a state of war existed with Tur
key he arranged to send troops to
Germany whenever needed In return
he was appointed Held marshal by the
German emperor and received the
baton of that office from Field Mar
shal Von Mackensen.
How He Entered War
In February, l'.HT. in a speech in!
parliament, the sultan promised Turk
ish participation in tin- war until the
end. and dot hired the alliance forced j
him to break relations with the!
United States
The Turkish empire paid dearly for
his entry into the great war. Russia
overran Armenia and tin- British
drove the Turks far up the valleys of
the Euphrates and the Tigris and
took Jerusalem. Bagdad and other im- j
portaut cities from them, with great
loss of life and treasure. Under hint
Turkey hits become virtually a Ger- j
man vassal in the autocratic scheme j
of the German powers for Teutonic
ascendancy in central Europe.
The next heir to the throne. Yus!
seff Izzedune, is the son of the late {
Sultan Abdul Aziz, and was. there
fore, first cousin of Mohammed V
Mohammed's eldest son, Zia Eddine, j
a man now over JO. is ninth in the
line of succession.
HERD DF Aflois BATTLE
ADDS TO HIS LAURELS
LONDON. July ♦».—In one ot the
most important British government de
partments in Whitehall a few days
agd, loud and prolonged screams were
suddenly heard. There was an im
mediate rush of military men and
others to the* door of the room where
the commotion came from. The door
was pushed open and the twelve girls
employed there were revealed stand
ing up on two large tables, with their
skirts well tucked up. screaming for
help and shaking with fright.
The cause of all the trouble was
a small mouse The military police
promptly gave chase with such weap
ons as came to hand, and finally a
gallant artillery sergeant, a Mons hero,
armed with a coal shovel, killed the
intruder.
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