New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-11-20
FLAYS BRITISH GOVERN
MENT IN LETTER TO Sui
TAN'S GHOST.

London, Nov. 6.-Recent,y ar
rested and searched 10y the mill
tary In Ireland, Henry w. Nevin-
son, the well-known English
writer, retorts by publishing the
Following open letter to the
ghost Of Sultan Abdul Hamid":
Slre-ln the name of God the
Merciful, the Compassionate,
beg leave to tender my sincere
apologies to Your Ex-Majesty.
Not knowing what region Of
Gehenna you now inhabit ] can
only trust that through one med
ium or another the purport of this
letter may reach Your Imperial
Soul
For about twenty years / per-
sisted in doing you incalculable
uniustifable wrong. l joined
with one Of our foremost poets in
denouncing you as "Abdul the
Damned. " Like thousands Of
others throughout Europe
habitually entitled you "The Red
Sultan because red is the color
Of blood. / described you as the
Devil lncarnate mtruding your
pestilent presence among peace
z<bving and Christian nations Ike
an emanation from He'll.
Visited Once Fertile Lands.
/ visited beautiful and fertile
lands devastated by soldiers ana
police acting under your orders or
with your connivance / drew
poignant and accurate pictures OF
Greek villages, destroyed by you
in Crete. and Of Bulgar villages
destroyed in Macedonia. | de-
scribed the cottages Of the odor
inhabitants burnt to skeleton, the
men pitilesslv murdered under the
pretext of "repricals'' for deeds
they had certainly not committed
the women and children driven
out into the fields and mountains,
and cruel restitution prevailing
among those territories once 80
prosperous. I insisted upon the
expulsion Of YOUR power from the
countries which you and your
predecessors had for so many
centuries tormented and be-
trayed.
For all this abuse and denuncia-
stfon / owe you my sincerest apol-
ogy. Not that | was wrong in
my statement of the facts My
account Of the denominations com
mitted upon alien races under
your rule was long ago confirmed
and remains unquestioncd. But
my apology is due to you oe:ause
the government whose subject l
am--the government Of my own
dear country, freely elected byl
the majority of my own country
mems at this present time fol-
lowing the example of your me-
thods point by point-methodsl
which only few years ago would
have appeared to them incredibly
atrocious.
The Difference.
AS you held sway over Greeks,
Bulgars and Armenians-rac es
alien from your own-so the
British government holds sway
over the Irish people, who are
mainly alien in race. The chief
difference in this comparison isl
that, though you professed Islam,
your subject races were Christian,
while, on the other hand, the Irish
people are Christian and the Brit |
ish government also processes
Christianity.
This slight divergence, how
e. makes no difference in our
methods of suppression when the
Irish people assert claim to ma
tional existence, just as Greeks.
Bulgars and Armenians asserted
that claim against you. TheI
agents and representatives of the|
British government follow your
example in burning villages toI
skeleton. Under the pretext of
isreprisals' for crimes which
I, :.4;,, oar+ainly lid not