The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-16
TURKISH SULTAN ASKS AID FROM
 UNITED STATES
Says His Country Has Been Misunderstood By
 Others.

Constantinople, Jan. 16.-Turkey's next Sultan, Abdul Medjid, now the heir apparent. will be the first to have but one wife, and as such she will enjoy the same romantic po- Sition as the celebrated Roxalana. the all-powerfuI favorite wife of Sulei- man the Magnificent whose ton1bs for centuries have attracted visitors to the Suleiman mosque in Constanti- nople.
 Abdul Medjid is regarded as one of the most interesting personalities of Turkey. For B years he was a pris- oner in the house of his father, Alb dull Aziz. who was Sultan for 1o years until his deposition and death in 1878.
 CT was happy during those long years.'' he said to The Associated Press, 'fbecause married early, at twenty-four. married for love, and then used my time improving my mind, drawing wisdom from the works of the worlds philosophers. He is no longer officially a prisoner. Since the dethronement and sudden death of Abdul Hamid in 1908, and the advent of the young Turks, he has won his way to liberty at least so far as travel in Asia, or in Con- stantinopIe, is concerned, and also to a certain freedom of speech.
 In person he looks not unlike the old-fashioned gentleman farmer of England or America Stout, bluff, his dress is of rough, loosely fitting homespun, with only the red fez which Turks wear in or out Of doors to indicate his nationality. When he doesn't smile, which is not often, his greying hair and moustache and wide, Circassian blue eyes give him the thoughtful air which has led the Turks to declare he will be a great Sultan if the whirligig of politics, in ternal and international, give him his chance to fulfill his dream of salvag- ing the wrecks of the Ottoman Elm pire.
 eve have the makings yet of a great people, of a people that will get ahead in the arts of peace and in- dustry under proper conditions" he said with an air of deep conviction. 'sWhy won't America give us a start?'' he asked in a quick, pathetic manner common to many of the men of the nations defeated in the war.
 sewhy should we have those hostile war vessels in our harbor a year after the armistice?" he asked, point ing to the ships swinging in the Bos- phorus. 'Why not settle our affairs; letNus rest from the wars without number which we have had?'
 The Prince was looking out from of the DolmabaghGheh Palace. the show place of Constantinople, where he has the use of one wing.
 "Aren't the Turks anxious for an American mandate because they thereby see an opportunity to save themselves from partition and the loss of Constantinop1e? he was asked.
 Here the Prince dropped his French and began talking rapidly tn Turkish, to Ahmed Emin Bey, a graduate of Columbia University and editor of the nationalist paper, Val1it, yho interpreted as follows:
 ''We have no means of letting the people in America know what kind of people we are and what we think The Turks want the Americans be cause they know the Americans would treat them honestly and helr them develop a rich country to tho profit of bothi The Americans have never travelled here much, nor got ten to know the possibilities of oul people, who are reasonably homes and hard working. It cannot be sait that the Turks have ever betrayed their foreign friends so long as the latter acted in good faith. We hav' long tradition of friendship witl the liberal western powers. After tn, Turkish revolution of 1908, we wert most anxious to continue these re lationS.
 "But here came our difficulty These powers (England and France wished to maintain good relation with the Russians who, without ou seeking it, were hostile to us, am finally the Russian influence becam