LOST JOBS.

Shannon News, 26 August 1924, Page 1

LOST JOBS.

- 't WANDERING KINGS AND PRIESTS

Among the tribulations of the deposed monarchs and exiled nobles oil Europe, few are more remarkable than those of the 150 Turkish pashas, beys, and eileudls • who wer© excepted from the amnesty passed by Mustapha Kemal and were driven to wandei through the world. The Turkish wanderers include three high priests, one grand vizier, three editors, and many ministers, ehiefs of police, and other high officials.

First they tried their luck in Egypt, but found the climate unbearable; and the ex-grand vizier died. The main body split into two streams, one of which- turned towards the Hedjaz, where they were taken in by King Hussein, and the other to France. The French group landed at Marseilles, and went first of all to Monte Carlo, where they lost all their savings at the tables. Then they applied for aid to five Turkish millionaires living at Nice, three of whom were ministers under Sultan Abdul Hamid. These came nobly, to the rescue afid provided funds for their distressed compatriots until they could obtain work. They began to gamble again, and lost. This time no more help was forthcoming, and the exiles made their way to Paris in various stages of complete ruin. Now they are driven to earn their bread. One peddle® onions and bananas in the streets. Another hawks cheap stockings. The chief doctor of a large Turkish hospital is lucky in knowing a trade; he receives five shillings a day'as a bookbinder’s assistant. A Greek doctor from Constantinople where he had a private hospital with fifteen doctors under him, is reduced to selling chestnuts on the,kerb. Turkish royalties are no better oft The ex-Sultan Mohammed VI., who lives at San Remo, was reduced to great poverty until his sister sold a large diamond for about £12,000, which enabled them to pay their" debts and obtain credit. Even the Sultan's tlurteioh-year-old boy, Ertoghrul, had been deprived of his German governess.

A son of Mohammed P., who died during the war, is said to be living with his family and one devoted old servant in a single room in Paris, The only one of the Turkish princes to live in happiness is Prince Osman, son of Abdul Hamid.

He married a wealthy niece of King Fuad of Egypt and they live in luxury near the Gliapips Elysees.-