The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-11-23
MOhammed VI. Requests Asylum
on the Ground That His
Life Is in Danger.
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diate danger.
The Sultan wrote to Lieut.. Gen.
Harrington, the British commander-in-
chief, stating he considered his life to
be in danger and would like British
protection.
All arrangements were consequent
ly made, and car, in which were the
acting dragOmans of the British en-
bassy and General Haringtons aide,
drew up at the side entrance to the
Sultan's palace.
Soon afterward, while the guard
was being changed, the Sultan, with
his son, Prince Erlogrul Effendi, and
six members of the Palace staff,
slipped into the car and drove to the
British Naval Base, where General
Harrington and Neville Henderson,
acting British high commissioner, re-
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EMBARKED on the the Admirals barge
without anybody perceiying his fight.
iIe was rJwod oul to The British
dreadnought Malaga, where he was
received by Vice-AdmiraI Brock.
Commissioner Henderson gave the
Sultan a welcome in the name of
King George as the Turkish monarch
set his foot on British territory.
The Sultan replied that he felt safe
under the protection Of Great Britain,
adding that he was not aDdicating,
but was merely removing himself
from the danger which was imme-
diately threatening.
The kemaIsts, it is generally
thought, will endeayor to make it ap-
pear that the Sultan fled under Brit
ish pressure.
Apparently the Sultan did not wish
to face the ordeal Of the selamik, or
official attendance OF the Sultan at a
mosque, which occurs on Friday. the
Mohammedan Sabbath, at noon, The
last selamlk was somewhat pathetic
spectacle, which the Sultan carried
through with courage and dignity. but
it is thought he feared an attempt
might be made upon his life on the
next occasion.
Fahid-Eddin was proclaimed Sui
tan on the death of Mohammed V on
July 8, 1918, in the midst of the
troubles Of war, famine, brigandage,
and political discomfort In the fol
lowing October Turkey presented a
note to Secretary Lansing at Wash
ington through the Spanish ambassa-
dor begging President Wilson to take
immediate steps for the cessation of
hostiities between the Allies and
Turkey. The note specified that the
Turkish Sultanate accepts as a basis
for the negotiation the program laid
down by the President of the United
States in his message to Congress
January s, 1918, and in his subse-
quent declarations, especially the
speech of September 81" On Octo-
Der 80 Turkey surrendered to the
British Vice Admiral Calthorpe.
His abdication was called for in
1920 and 1921 by the Kemalists, but
it did not follow, and last month the
Grand National Assembly decreed
thar the Gultante should cease to ex-
ercise control over temporal affairs,
and should restrict itself to the religi-
GUS affairs of the Caliphate
Mohammed VI, born in 1861, is a
son Of Sultan Abdul Medjid and
brother to Mohammed V, whom he
succeeded. The heir apparent is Alb
dull Medjid Effendi, now fifty-three,
uncle of Mohammed VI; but the
Kemalists have favored a younger
cousin of the now refugee Caliph,
who is thirty-sCventh in male descent
Of the house Of Gilman, founder of
the Ottoman Empire, and the thir-
tieth Sultan since the Turks con-
quered Constantinople,