Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03

LONDON
TURKEY ENTERS
GENERAL DENIAL
Special Cablegram to The Star.

| Special Cablegram to The Star.
| CONSTANTINOPLE, September 2. At
the request of the Turkish government itself
the statement telegraphed from Vienna con-
| corning the alleged Imprisonment of Rechad
! Effendi. the heir apparent, and the Danish
ment of Fehmi Pasha, chief Of the secret
| service. is denied. Both of these statements
| are absolutely false, and their publication,
while without Importance when the source
| of the origin of the news is considered, is
nevertheless regretted because English and
European readers may be misled as to the
true condition of affairs existing here.
AS regards the confinement of Rechad
Efendi to Cherigan palace, the facts in the
case are that the prince has been seriously
| Ill and unable to leave his house, while
Cherigan palace is at the present moment
occupied by some hundreds of workmen
who are repairing the damage done by the
cyclone a short time ago. Hardly win
dow in the entire building remains intact,
and as the glass is particularly thick and
cannot be obtained here a long delay has
occurred In replacing them, and most Of the
windows have been roughly boarded up.
With regard to the Punishment of Fehmi
Pasha. he is In evidence every evening at
the open-air theater at Pera.
The imperial princes are always carefully
watched, but go about freely, though fol-
lowed by spies. Rechad EHendi, the sui
tan's brother, the heir presumptive is very
Ill, and in consequence the sultan has taken
measures to look after the next in success
sion. This is not, might be supposed,
either of the two brothers of the sultan,
Suleiman or kemeledin, but 1ouSsouf lied
din, the son of Abdul Aziz who as he is
older than either of the others, will succeed
Rechad. 1t is understood for this reason as
soon as Cherigan Is ready for habitation
vaIE IN mill No a. H.
his residence there, so that he may be close
to the sultan. At present he lives on a hill
facing YildiZ, on the Asiatic coast. There
is also rumor that Fehmi has received or
ders to proceed to the ASiatic coast to
watch YouSsouf IZeddln till he comes to
Cherigan, and this may have given rise to
the report that Fehmi had been banished to
Asia.
reference to the criminal who produced the
explosion which came so near to ending the
life Of the sultan. Many people have been
arrested. but the finger of suspicion has
been chiefly directed against a Belgian. II
appears that about two weeks before the
explosion couple-some say Bulgarians,
others say Armenians-made contract with
him for rooms for six months. They
ceived sums of money from various towns
In Europe and disappeared on the day of
the explosion The wife of the Belgian also
disappeared at the same time, and the po-
lice found that a person whom they suspect
te have been one Of the anarchists left by
train that evening, using the passport which
the Belgian woman had obtained few days
before. The Belgian, having been arrested.
was asked to show proofs to where his
wife has gone. He declares that she is with
her parents, and the authorities are not con-
WINGED that everything is 1t should be.
The police are also endeavoring to connect
these incidents with the incident surround
ing the movements mysterious in the ex-
treme, of the India rubber-tired carriage.
The great trouble has been that the coach
man was killed. If he had lived he would
have been able to supply much valuable In
formation. The authorities believe that he
was deliberately blown up in order to pre-
vent him from giving evidence.