THE SULTAN'S SPIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 14 January 1907, Page 4

THE SULTAN'S SPIES.

Many »t tin. nil'iier-, of tin- army (says u writer in the Sunday at Home) reali-c Hi-., roticinc.-s of t!, : . rule- oi A!idul Humid, and wnuW'lakc |»art in it coup dVSiI to ili'tin-iiii.' lorn. I have I I'll i.-i,i.|i.!- ill is I t:i!ks with many of Llk-iii. I,lit 111- Sii lull's prcc-ai'i lion.- fur I lie prolcetion of his .mil |i 'iMin ami his system of spies' aiv 100 tlmrniicdi for anvtlii-e.' of tliis kind to snm-.il. I h . vc- Iwii told i,v ail KF.m.!ai'v -now iii cxih- that Aluiii! Ilainid never mis from a di-li that he lias no. had fried personally on 50,,,, servant, and lie sleeps: in secret subterranean ct-l-'ars. Jlis spies and tile result of tie ir work arc to be s.vn on all sides. The system even extends to spies upon j-pii-.-s. A Tnrkisli ge -al sit-, in the (illico of Jli'nnt fa ilia, the inspi-etnr-■(■eilJ.'l! for the Auslro-Kussian reI'ire.iS. watcliiu-.-.- even tin- trusted .\loliiiiiiinedaii Hi:- Sudan lias seen lit to s-le-:-t for ihi, hi-!, position. Jl is ;l '■ '"•" "cclirri-licc to see ollieers shipped into exile: but still more common—every Thur.-duy L was in Sji'oniea-suspected peasants, untried, simply accused, sail away in score to' unknown lands in Asia.' The Turk sull'ers as much as Unchristian from the atrocious rale of Abdul Humid, hut he suffers i„ silence, for lie believes that it is A! Inh's will, and Abdul is his proph-t