THE SULTAN AND HIS JEWISH SUBJECTS".
In our lasfissue we reported the alacrity with _ which Jews in all parts of the Turkish Empire volunteered for active service in the war with Greece. This action—which was intended to betoken the grateful recognition by the Jews of their complete immunity from oppression, and of their full enjoyment of religious liberty—has given tbe utmost satisfaction to the Sulttn. His Majesty speaking on this subject, skid : " Our Jewish subjects have already been true and devoted to us. and go with us through fire and water. 1 ' Soon after the news of the first vietoriea of his troops reached Constantinople, the Sultnn sent a considerable sum to the Acting' Chief Rabbi of Turkey for distribution among the Jewish poor. His Majesty had only seat a short time previously 30,000 pia'strates to the Rabbi for the purchase of Matzoth, meat, and wine, to be present d in his name to the poor for I'assover. It will be remembered that last year the Sultan made a similar gift, the equivalent to which in England currency is about £3lo.—Jewish Chronicle.
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Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 164, 31 July 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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182THE SULTAN AND HIS JEWISH SUBJECTS". Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 164, 31 July 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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