The Washington herald., 1915-04-11

Mr.. Morgan today unfolds the romantic story Of
Coostantncpe. where the British lion is rushing to
the rescue Of the Russian bear and where English
policy for 90 years is going up in the smoke of her
hombarding feet He also outlines the Kaiser's
dream Of .Asatic empire and points out thu
hardest knot IN the problem of peace.
There will DO another article next Sunday in this
series q articles on the great background, Of the
wE.
Copyright. 1915. By the Mcclure Newspaper syndi-
cate.)
NYHERE Europe ard Asia fac.
" b1ne ONE, oaner across a mile of
IT. and the British lion Is oarins
his S commend an that the Turk shall take
he.r na1G OH the throat of the Russian
war is presented. OF the
sta I,hr rOag a, the generations. English
lnsly true to the one ever present nnS-
pose OF keeping Russia ice bound in
H me north n and land locked in .the south.
turtles and more seems to be Going I'M
IN me smoke Of dreadnousht and SUI
Pound do%ns The as ;y., strive
barred the path of the Russian ria as
TO the Mediterranean. And the tbnnt
T WaIp gir Poom n,,t OF those 15-ineh guns
and Beaconsfield to- turn in their
-, a., 'ie -;oVo years since an ad-
oracular guidance of Apollo, reared their
i GlrS OF OF By as beside the winding
sea e with Gf t5e which links the Black
nstionS Consuming the GP Haaue eve5
morning more than fifteen centuries
ago. with lance in hand and God for
h his gduide. ne traced afoot the spacious
whose crumbled walls mark to this day
the course of his footsteps
After nine centuries had passed and
Wnen lhe eastern or Greek Empire
was in its dotage, a concubine Of
turkish chief gave birth to a boy in
in rom Of tbe ear rparnna who had swept
and pitched their black tents at the
foot of Mount Olympus, whose eternal
nople. The heir of the chief received
the name Of Osman, and when, in his
marital martial youth. he captured from the
the Great few outlying towns of the
empire, his Victorious followers We're
pr0Ga the
years ago and more. the tribe never
has ceased to follow the descendants of
and their nation the Empire of osman.
They reject the names of Turk and
Turkey. which jealous neighbors have
bestowed on them, and they smile at
our bungling Osman into Ottoman.
The House of Osman.
The present Sultan. Mohammed V. is
and may boast a longer descent than |
any European monarch except Francis |
are the only rivals Of the o smsDs IN |
ancient lineage. The latter. however
have preserved their line unbroken by |
followed by European royalty. They
not only have the advantage of an un-
limited number of sultanas and slaves
he oh NfI
whom are equal. but the oldest living |
son of any Sultan is the heir to the |
throne, BY that law the brothers take
Sultan. If the former are older. Where
fore, Pope was not idly turning a pc
riod when he said:
Bear. like the Turk, no brother near the throne
struck off the heads of their brothers, |
By that fratricidal measure they rid \
themselves OF the jealousy and plots of |
sion of their own sons. Now. however.
they suffer them to live, but they take |
the precaution of locking up the eldest
For many years the lately deposed
Sultan, Abdul aamid: Kept his BROTHER
rance. With the revolution of 1900 the
brothers simply changed places. Abdul
SSr IS tie now son
either Mohammed or Abdul Hamid, but
a younger brother of both.
The Fall of ConstantinopIe.
When the Turks embraced Mahom-
etanism. that sanguinary religion only
served to add a pious satisfaction to
itar in one hand. the Koran In the
other. they, hurled themselves upon
Christian Europe. where nearly fve
their way UP the Balkan peninsula.
After they had driven in the out
t p they l' assaiied ' the battiemented
walls of Constantinople itself. From
its. vantage point that. capital had
"f yssrs anG had fase
only once. when. in 10000. the CRU
saders burst through its gates and
sang their TIE Deum at the altar OF
Although formerly the greatest city
in the world. Constantinop1e had
nondescript population of hardly more
than 100000 and with fewer than 5000
musketeers and bowm en-, to defend it
less its natural situation is such that
n little squadron of converted mer-
chant ships which SAILED III, up the Dard
enabled to thwart an army of 100000
OF the most redoubtable warriors OF
Recognising his helpIessness in tho I
the sea. the Sultan. Mohammed II. won ,
the campaign only by a bold stroke.
He laid a plank road five miles long
from the Bosporus to the upper part Of q
the Golden Horn, an inlet which forms [
the inner harbor of Constantinople. =
After the boards had been creased 4
with the fat of sheep and oxen. Mo- J.
manned commanded his soldiers to d
haul eight light galleys and -brigan- t
tines over the improvised way and v
launch them in the shallow waters of I
the Golden Horn. where the enemy's /
big ships could not come because of '
their deeper draught. c
The Turk and His Glory.
BY that ingenious method the Turks e
regained a sufficient control of the sea
to permit them to attack and breach
the city wall from the water side
Thus after a siege OF hfty-three days. h
fell and the Turk seat q
ed himself at the great gateway of the | a
world And at once he shut the gate c
against all trade and communication | a
between the Christian West and the /
conauering Egypt. he wrested from o
the family which claimed succession b
from Mahomet the caliphate of the
Moslems. together with the sacred a
mantle and mattress of the prophet. | h
Carrying to Constantinople the ven- 4
Grated overcoat and bedtick. the Sultan d
himself the caliph. or spir- n
ltual chieftain OF Islam. In
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