MURDER OR SUICIDE?

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2690, 9 February 1916, Page 5

MURDER OR SUICIDE?

THE DEATH OF PRINCE YUSSUF OF TURKEY ENVER EASHA'SENMITY By Telegraph—Pre)36 Aesooiation-Copyrißht ("limes" and Sydney "Sun" Services,) ' r,. •, February 7. Ohonf Pasha, head oi the -lurkisli Opposition, is in Paris. He states that ho is not surprised at Prince Yussuf's mysterious deaih. lussuf was a sincere irieudJ oi : l'raiice, and had struggled valiantly ''against iltiver Pasha. .Repeated furious scenes occurred,-arousing the bitter hatred of the Committee of Union and Progress. Buyer Pasha surrounded Yussui with, spies, and put him out of the way, choosing a manner of death that would! lead people to say that Yussuf, liaunted by his lather's death, had followed the same method. Cherif Pasha lias no doubt that Turkey knows that Yussuf was assassinated. Yussuf's successor is Vahid Eddin, a more bitter foe of the Young Turks, and Cherif does not predict for nim a lone life. The Paris "Journal" slates that' Emile Galli, a- former manager of an Anglo-French newspaper at 'Constantinople, who was imprisoned by the Turks and_ Germans foi' eighteen .months, was a friend of Y'ussuf. He states that there is no doubt that Yussuf was murdered. He refused to receive .General von Sanders when Enver Pasha introduced him. Enver proceeded to the Palace the day after the Gaeben had 1 bombarded Russian ports on the Black Sea, to report to the Sultan. The moment Enver was anuounced the Sultan stood up, exploding with anger, and thundered: "Am I nobody that tlie Russians should be attacked without my authorisation ? Are the Germans- masters of Constantinople?" Enver Pasha coolly answered: "The Russians attacked us." The Sultan 6houted: "That is a lie.' It was aggression. Acknowledge it." Eiiver, surpitised at the Sultan's uncharacteristic attitude, begged leave to postpone explanations, and hastily departed. Yussuf followed him, and said: "Listen! You and your accomplices are ruining Turkey, fieware of the people's wrath. You will die like dogs." Yussuf continued vigorously to protest. That was his death sentence. [Abdul-Aziz, the father of Yussuf, was Sultan of Turkey from 1861 to 1876. Born in 1830, lie is supposedi to have been assassinated on June 4, 1876. Aidi ed''t>y his Grand Vizier, Ali Pasha, and Fuad Pasha, ho attempted to introduce Western civilisation into Turkey. _In 1867 he visited the Paris Exhibition, and journeyed through England, Austria. and Germany. Dissatisfaction with his reform policy and the depletion of Uis treasury brought about his deposition in May, 1876. Vahid Eddin is the youngest brother of the present Sulian.]