LADY FLEES FROM HAREM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 28 August 1914, Page 6

LADY FLEES FROM HAREM.

DISGUISED AS-A .SERVANT. Considerable interest lias been aroused by the story of the flight of a Turkish young lady from the Qiome of her husband in the domiuions of the Sultan (writes a Berlin correspondent). The lady, a daughter of the one powerful 1/zet I'akha, who now lives in Paris, received a European education, and was given by her father .in marriage, at the. age of 17 to a Turkish grandee, who already had other wives in his harem. The young lady endured the life for «ight'months, and then lied. Disguised as a servant t,he tramped for eight hours to the Constantinople harbor, where she embarked on a ship of the Austrian Woyd shortly before its departure. Hot upon her heels c-.imic her husband, who iried to make, ihi's wife return with him, but w-ho was given to Understand by the Austrian captain that the young lady would not be delivered from tlie ship. The latter had sufficient presence of mind to obtain confirmation from her husband, in the presence of the .'slue's officers, that the jewels, worth £07250, were llier own personal property. Izzet Pasha, who iwas informed of his daughter's flight, siit once hastened- to Trieste, where she had discmiktrked, and, accompanied by police, went tc the hotel where she was staying. But tie-fugi-tive remained adamant to all his entreaties, and would milt return to the haivnni even though she was promSsed the fullest [icrsonai liberty; The threat to disinherit also failed to- .make hor alter her resolution. 'SUw spends- most of her Itimo at Trieste in company with two Levantine ladies, the. wives of local ol'liciafs of high rang, whohave taken up hereauso. ■ ....