Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-08-16

proclaimed and was shortly afterward
in Constantinople, has written for the
Outlook an interesting account of what
she saw and heard, from which the
following extracts are taken:
The kilograms announcing the Con-
stitution also stated that all political
prisoners and exiles were Immediately
freed. Now, in Damascus the most
noted political exile was Marshal Fuad
Pasha, the hero of the last Russo-Tur-
kish war, and at one time high in I'M
perial favor. But, like many another,
he had suddenly fallen from favor and
been exiled Here in Damascus, in
little house, the old general had been
imprisoned seven years, eating out his
heart and growing white. AT the
first word of the Revolution, he was
taken from his prison and made the
center of Damascus rejoicing. When
we went down to Beirut. Fuad Pasha
was in the train with us, and at every
station crowds met him, and raising
him on their shoulders, called for
speech, and then cried strange Ara
bic strange because for a gen.
GRAFTON it had been heard on no mans
tongue, and could be found in no Turk
ish or Arabic ictionary-'Hurriet' Ito
give the Turkish form, or Freedom.
When he reached Beirut, the horses
were taken from his carriage and men
dragged it up the steep hill of the city.
He is said to have refused to return
to Constantinople until he should be
completely reinstated and his sword
and medals should be returned TO him.
This done, he returned as a conquer
or"
Again:
How can | describe to you the
weeks that followed that great day?
| have never before lived through such
national excitement and joy. Prison
ers were freed and eXiles returned;
bands of people went to meet them
with tears and reioicings All racial
and religious enmity seemed set aside,
the priest and the mollah embraced
in the streets. the Turks of Constan
tinople went with the Armenians to
pray over the graves of the victims of
the old regime. Brigands came out of
the hills, and were as lambs in the
cities. For a while there seemed no !
need of law and little administration !
of it, We who travelled were not ask /,
ed for our passports nor examined at .
the customs Spies fled, or, if they .
preferred remained in their homes,
but out of a job. The worst of the /
palace camarilla found the city too |
hot for them, and one, Fehim Pasha, /
after a life of such injury to the pro .
perty, life and honor of his victims as .
can hardly be believed would even .
then have been allowed to flee but he ,
insulted a would-be savior and was /
torn to pieces by mob There was /
no bloodshed no recrimination. no 7
criticism of him who still /,
on the throne; only rejoic- I
ing and love for one another. Some F,
one described it to me as a 'millen- /
mel anarchy. And how people talk ,
ed of the things they had so long been
silent about, The parks of the cities
were filled with speechmakers and
excitement, and everywhere troupes
of amateurs presented a popular play
called Fatherland which closed with
the entrance on the stage of the Mace
DOMAIN army OF course there were
some license and some curious mis-
of liberty-a strike or two, |
several mutines in schools, and some !
crimes committed, largely by prisoners !
let out from the prisons with the po- |
liticals But, on the whole it was
a period of liberty, fraternity and |
equality such as seldom reigns on the |
earth Those three words the Otto
mans took from the French for their |