Evening star., 1923-04-25
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoNrENo,

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A few months ago I called atten.
tton in these letters to the presence
at Madison University. Wisconsin, Of
student who. under the name of
Muller y. II. kung," was no other
than the so-called Holy Duke" Ling
Hsuan Of China. seventy-sixth in
unbroken descent In the male line
from Confucius. and whose ancestry
goes back hundreds OF years before
Confucius. to date twelve centuries
before the birth of Christ-thst is
to say. for more than 5000 years,
during all of which time his family
has been in the possession OF tho
lands in the province of Shantung
which owns it today
The duke at the Madison Uni
versit!. Wisconsin. enjoyed until his
recent departure for England, on his
way home to China, the profound
yeneralion of all his countrymen
here. not only as lineal descendant
from Confucius, but also as a
guardian of the latter's tomb at
Kyfu. which has sometimes been de-
scribeG as the Mecca Of China.
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And now learn that the Uni
sersity OF Illinois is charged with
the education of the two sons of
Halide Edit Hanum, wife of Adnam
Bey. vice president of the assembly
at Angora, and its acting minister
of education. also governor last year
for a time of Constantinople. The
young men pursued until last win
ter their studies at Robert College,
Constantinople, where their mother
also had received her education. But,
fearing for their safety, in view of
lat Constantinople, she shipped them
off to the United States, where, on
arrival in New York, they were con-
fided to the care of the president Of
the University of Illinois. Few in
this country are aware Of their identity.
No woman has been the subject Of
more interest and attention than their
mother, who has been described as the
Turkish Joan OF Arc" who was for a
time the Egeria of Kemal Pasha, and
who has been credited in the past with
the authorship of many Of the commu-
nications issued from Angora to the
outer world by Mustapha Ksmal Pasha
She is native Of Constantinople: en-
tered the American College Of Stam-
boul at the age Of fourteen and pub
lished at sixteen a book attacking the
Turkish customs with regard to women,
condemning the harem system as de-
grading, and vigorously protesting
against the ufe OF the veil Her first
husband, Salib Bey, was a professor Of
mathematics, but when he decided that
he could afford. to support an addi-
uonal wife she divorced him, and in due
course was married to her present hus-
band. Adnam Bey, by profession q ply
English until, in spite Of her protest,
two Of her Turkish friends were mur-
dered by the Greeks and she was unable
TO obtain any redress. Indeed, the
treatment which she underwent at the
hands of some of the entente commits
sioners at Constantinople in connection
with the affair led her to throw herself
into the nationalist movement at An
CORA and to ally herself with Kemal
pasha.
There is no doubt, whatsoever, but
what she took a very active part in
his campaign to drive all the Greeks
and Christian population from out of
Asia Minor. and that she fought with
her own hands against the Greeks
whsnce her name OF THE Amazon Of
the Ansora-" But. many OF the
stories told about her prowess in
the earlier wars of the Ottoman en-.
pire against the Balkan states. dur
ing the conflict with the entente. and
the attempted invasion of Egypt via
Palestine, are OF a purely legendary