New Britain herald., 1922-01-20
MOHAMMEDAN KING
 NOW IN POVERTY
Robbed, Ragged and Starving
 Left in Concentration Camp to Die

Moscow, Jan. 20.-Robbed, ragged, starving and forgotten in the big con centration camp of PokrowsKy, few miles distant from this city, is the fate of the Hevdiar, Khan of Khiva, who, until few months ago, was one Of the richest of the Mohammedan rulers of Central Asia. As he is nearly so years old, he may die there.
 Hevdiar, successor 10 Tamerlane the Great and Genghis Khan, who ruled from China to Germany in the Middle Ages, is a pureblooded lIzbek Iurk to whom the Sultan of Turkey Is mere modern upstart He has been brought to his present plight through the revolutions engineered by the Mos COW Soviet in Russian Turkestan aided by Enver Pasha, recently de- nounced by Mustapha Renal Pasha | as the arch-traitor of Turkey.
 The treatment of the Khan of Khiva not yet widely known by people Of the Mohammedan world, is expected | in time to widen the rift that has long threatened between the Russian Soviet and the Mohammedans of India and the old Turkish dominions. The Rus sians have long been hated for their conquest of Khiva, Bokhara, and the rest of the territory known for the the past 60 years as Russian Turkes- tan.
 For two centuries the Russians tried in vain to conquer these war-like peo- ples and only in 1873 was khiva humbled and it's khans made subject princes of Russia. But they retained their religious influence and their vast wealth and when they came to the Russian imperial court at Petrograd, their presents in gold and jewels sur passed easily the treasures of that gorgeous court.
 For the past two years the Soviet influence has been slowly tightening its hold on old Russian Turkestan, un- der General Doutoff, aided by 100000 German war prisoners. First, Soviet revolutionary committee was formed at Tashkent, after the approved Bol- shevik manner, and later at Bokhara, and finally at khiva republics, as in Baku and Tiflis, at the point of the Red army's bayonet.
 The Emir of Bokhara was reduced to figurehead, though still held as a possible religious successor to the Sul- tan of Turkey.
 Hevdiar was unseated in his rule | by the new order but when his advis- CTS showed him how the palace walls were falling about him. he got togeth- CT the choicest of his inherited jewels, | 1,l Fo, 1or yf0 of h hicI royal robes, together with 400 pounds avoirdupois, of solid gold, ordered a train at Bokhara and started overland | to reach 1t. At the depot in Bokhara, the Cheka, or secret police, swooped | down upon him, robbed him of his wifes, his jewels and gold, and made him prisoner together with his 20 year old son and heir apparent.
 Both were put aboard the train, un- der heavy guard, and sent to Moscow, to the old convent prison of Pokrow sky, where they have since been.
 With heavy white beard, the Khan maintains his proud bearing and still | looks the part of a great ruler in exile. Silent and uncomplaining, after the | manner of his people, he sometimes attends the concerts organized for the prisoners.
 In answer to his request to the Soviet Khiva Mission for food, he was sent exactly one pound of bread.
 Ut is the will of Allah" said the | Khan when the bread came. His son has fared somewhat better. He does odd jobs, such as scrubbing floors, for the more fortunate prisoners whose friends send them food and in this way keeps soul and body together.