The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16
Want to Get Rid of Sultan Ab-
 duI Hamid
HIS NEPHEW PRESIDES
Prince Louis of Monaco Puts Paris To Talking By k;dnaping His Child of Moreanatic Marriage.
 Wolves Rampant.
BY PAUL VlLLlERS.

paris February 15.-A secret congress of representatives of all the supJects of Sultan Abdul Hamid who are anxious ta get rid of him has just taken place here.
 The delegates who were called to oruer by that arch enemy of the sultan, ms own nephew, Prince Sabaheddin' son ol Nahumd Pascha, a young man Who Ill spite of his noble birth is an ardent SO cialist. Speeches were made by the rep resentatives of the Egyptian Jewlsn relu- gees, the Arabian revoiutionlsts ana eie Turks living in the United States-
 The following programme was adopted aIa ligne Ottomane q initiative ct de oe- centralisation" pledges itself to work lIi- cessantlv for the removal or the tyrant Sultan Abdul Hamid, and for the estap lishment of truly democratic form Q. government in Turkey. Its members VIII resist arms in hand all attempts Of the cnltan,s officials to collect revenues and taxes. they will do everything In tneir power to promote 8 general strike 10 influence the soldiers of the Sultan's army and to bring about general reVoiu- tionary uprising.
 The resolution is to be printed m tne Turkish Abanese, Arabian and Greek languages and distributed all over the empire.
 Tine delegates expressed the conviction that they would be able to hold their next congress Is months from now open lv and within the walls of Constanti- nople
 Prince Louis of Monaco, the heir Of the reigning Prince Albert by his first wife, Lady Mary Hamilton, the aaugn- ter of the eleventh Duke of Hamilton, has made all Paris talk by kidnapping his child by a morganatic marriage With Mime. Louvet.
 The prince has been married for IA years and the child-a little girl named Charlotte-is g years old. The prince mas lived apart from Mime. Louvet for some time, but went to see her every oay, and spent a great deal of time with the child.
 Last Monday he 1unched with them, and afterwards took the child out. say ing that he would go with her to her dancing class At o'clock the mother became uneasy, and on telephoning to the dancing school learned that her daughter had not been there at all
 She has since found that Charlotte is in a school, and she is not allowed to see her. Prince Louis, who Is 36, re- fuses to make any statement, except that he considers 1t his duty as a father to remove the child from her mothers keep ing.
 As the prince legally recognized the girl as his child immediately after her birth, while Mime. Louvet did not do so until three years later. the prince has the law on his side.
 The French government has just dec- orated 5317 persons for services of vary ing merit, the decoration fin every case being either that of Officer of the Acad- emy or Officer of Public Instruction.
 The list of the new honors takes up no fewer than 106 columns in the Jour nal Official" It took over fl hours for the various cabinet ministers to sign the diplomas.
 The conferring of the decorations has necessitated the use of 1130 yards of violet silk ribbon. for every one of the new officers, large proportion of whom are women, are entitled to wear strip of velvet ribbon on the breast or in the coat lapel.
 An unexpected result of the continued cold spell of weather is being experienced in the district of Dion, a city 1S0 miles from here.
 Wolves, which are believed to have found their way from the Jura noun tains, have appeared in the surrounding villages, and it has become dangerous for women and children to be out in the fields or roads after dusk.