ABDUL HAMID'S MONEY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 619, 23 September 1909, Page 7

ABDUL HAMID'S MONEY.

</ ; A BIG PAYMENT. '■;.[' r. X ; (By Toleßrapb-Press . Association—Copyright.). , Constantinople,. September 211 '■ Abdul Hamid, /the \ deposed ; Sultan 'of Turkey, ,bas been' given a second -million sterling.'. .'.'■/. '.-■'.' ..,•: '." GERMAN BANK PAYS OVER TREASURE. The "giving" apparently consists of the gassing over of the money by the bank whero'itis dopositedjo the deposed Sultan, who thon, it is presumed,;passes it on to his .Turkish ■ Custodians. In July the Constantinople correspondent of "The Times" reported: .;■'■■ "Herr Neef, ono of the - directors of the Deutscho Bank, has. left for Salonika, accompanied by Herr Anders..third dragoman of tho German Embassy,, bearing scrip and■shares,to tho valuei of ; nearly .£5(10,001), tho property of theox-hultan.' On July H Herr Neef and Herr Anders, accompanied t)y the' Germau Consul- , General,'at Salonika, and Hadi Pasha; ■ Com- 1 , mandant at Salonika, will visit the ex-Sultan, to whom they will hand ovor the suin, which Till without doubt bo transferred with tho least possiblo delay to tho Minister of War." .The Deutsche 3ank of Berlin is, the great institution which is financing' tho Bagdad Railway and other German enterprises in the Ottoman empire. It is reported that Abdul mmid also had a large sum (some arennnfa' say £5 000,000) deposited with <the German Imperial Bank... •.•-.".-