SULTAN OF TURKEY'S ILLNESS.
A sensational version of the Sultan's illness is reported by the Constantinople correspondent of the <-Petit Parisien." According to this story his Majesty is not suffering from disease, but from a dramatic attempt at assassination in his harem, It is said that one of the Sultan's favourites, a young Kurd, became jealous of a young and beautiful Circassian, who recently became an inmate of the harem. In order to avenge herself, she succeeded in obtaining possession of the revolver which the Sultan always carries, and fired a bullet at his Majesty, which lodged in the lower part of the stomach. By ,the Sultan's orders the eunuchs of the palace fetched the German surgeon Schroeder secretly from Pera, and the bullet was extracted, the Sultan enduring the operation with great courage, and without the aid of an ansethetic The doctor received a handsome fee, and gave a pledge to maintain the most absolute secrecy. For three or four days there was fear of peritonitis, but happily this did not supervene. The Sultan's own doctors, it is ;said, could not understand his illness, as he would hot allow himself to be approached either by them or by Professor Bergmann. The actual circumstances, it is said, explain his majesty's quick recovery, which would otherwise be inexplicable.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8303, 5 December 1906, Page 3
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217SULTAN OF TURKEY'S ILLNESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8303, 5 December 1906, Page 3
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