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fi rr wW PflePiiiSr I MMMBMMWMMaMMMaMMMWMMMMaMMMMMMM TPB WASHINGTON POSTr SUNDAY MAY 9 1920 TO CONTINUE THE TURKS UNSPEAKABLE PRAGTM rSBi 5 7 Market the Buying of Circassian Girls the Murders in the Harems Now Forbidden in Constantinople Are to Be Revived by the New Sultan in Asiatic Turkey 5 IN order that they may keep up their old system of slavery and the degradation of women the Turks have set up a new sultan and a new sheikh ul islam in Asiatic Turkey Many dispatches prove the villainous conspiracy in which this hateful race is now engaged Belonging to a religion that makes licentiousness a cardinal rule of life the Turks surpass all their coreligionists by their excesses They have stolen and enslaved the women of every land from the heart of Asia to parts of southeastern Europe When they captured Constantinople from the Christians in 1453 they sacked a hundred Christian churches and murdered the priests at the altars More than 20000 Christian nuns suffered death slavery or degradation in that great calamity Even among their Mohammedan coreligionists they are hated and feared They have made the River Tigris at Bagdad run red with the blood of their fellow believers The Arabs the race from which the prophet sprang have been in perpetual revolt against the Turks The Turks are the curse the torturers of humanity Starting from an obscure spot in central Asia they have spread westward like a plague until they have left their mark on a large part of the Asiatic and European world And now when at last there is an opportunity to destroy them as a political power they may be permitted to continue their wicked practices The European allies not haing the courage to destroy the Turkish empire and drive the sultan out of Constantinople when they had the power have left him there on his throne believing that having him at their mercy they could check the villainies of the Turks He is to remain there as commander of the faithful and caliph which signifies lieutenant of Mahomet because among other reasons the Europeans were afraid that if he were driven out the Mohammedans throughout the world would be enraged He must make his processions to the mosques of Constantinople at Ramazan and the other sacred festivals worshiped as if divine the bhadow of Allah upon earth Otherwise the diplomats think the Mohammedans might revolt Want Real Power The wonderful Church of St Sophia once the greatest Christian edifice in eastern Europe must be left as a Mohammedan mosque The gentle Mohammedans would be angered if Jjt were given back to its Christian iii era The venerable sheikh ul islam the chief priest of Mohammedanism is to be left in his seat of authority at Constantinople He interprets the laws of Mohammedanism for the use of the sultan and all the faithful The powers believed it was safe to leave this power to the sultan because they had him under the guns of their warships But the real Turks are not satisfied with a tame sultan and sheikh ul islam under the control of the powers in Constantinople They want real power to continue their offenses against humanity to recruit their harems from Christian races to maintain slavery to abduct Christian children to exterminate the few remaining Armenians and to set the Christian nations in arms against one another The aggressive Turks who call themselves nationalists have set up an independent state in Anatolia or Asiatic Turkey which now constitutes almost the whole of the former Turkish empire The European part of the empire is a mere patch of territory around Constantinople Mustapha Kemal Pasha the daring and bloodthirsty leader of the Turkish nationalists has named a new sheikh ul islam in opposition to the nominal chief priest who holds forth in Constantinople The new shelkh ul ilam has hitherto been chief dervish in Anatolia and holds great prestige among the most savage and fanatical of the Turks He has no sympathy with those Turks who profess toleration of European civilization and the Christian religion Only a few weeks ago the chief dervish caused a band of 500 starving Armenian women and children to be massacred at Kharput Certain acts of a Turkish ruler must be approved by the sheikh ul lslam as being in accordance with the laws of the prophet and the Koran The new sheikh may therefore issue decrees that it is the will of Allah that Sultan Mohammed VI should be deposed and a new nation created Can Defy Armies According to latest reports the new Asiatic sultan or caliph is Prince Djemaled Din a member of the imperial family The office of sultan has not followed the European rule of primogeniture but has been bestowed on a designated member of the imperial family In earlier centuries the office of caliph was given to various members of the family of Mahomet The Turkish insurgents hold not only the greater part of the empire but the wildest and roughest parts In the mountain strongholds of Angora and neighboring provinces where there are no railroads and where the ordinary roads are little more than goat ipaths the savage Turks can defy civilized army Here are ancient 4jrtresses which have been held by tne Turks since they first came from At left Mohammed VI the present Bultan of Turkey who is not permitted to carry on the barbarous practices of his ancestors Center A eunuch guard of the harem His opportunity for a livelihood is passing in old Constantinople and the eunuchs are moving on to the new capital in Asiatic Turkey Right A slave girl beautified adorned and dressed up for the harem the heart of central Asia to plague the world On the east these Turks are in contact witn that part of the former Russian dominions known as Circassia from which the Turkish conquerors have from time immemorial recruited the most beautiful women for their harems The bolsheviki are now reported to be in control of Caucasia of which Circassia forms a part The Turkish nations are seeking a temporary alliance with the bolsheviki for several purposes They be lieve that the reckless bolsheviki will be willing to supply them with women from their favorite race in return for support against the European allies The Turkish revolutionists plan to make their capital for the present at Brusa in Asiatic Turkey about 60 miles east of Constantinople and the Bosporus This was the capital of the Turkish empire before the conquest of Constantinople and enjoys a reputation among the faithful almost equal to that of the gTeater city TJVO WOMEN CLAIMED MAGI PRIESTS BODY TWO GRAVES WERE PREPARED A very significant fact is that the Turkish nationalists have obtained the support of two fanatical Mohammedan races dwelling in various parts of the empire the Afghans and the Azerbajians The support of the Afghans is most important as they belong to the same race as the people of Afghanistan a large state on the borders of British India which is constantly menacing British rule in that country The nationalists are in fact making the most extensive plans to guished upholder of the sultans power in Asia was Anzevour Paiha for sriy a Circassian bailtt who or ganztd an army of sevorn thousand men en the southern shors of tiie Sei of Marmora Ha is inspired in hs hatied of Kemal Pashi by outrages committed on members of lis funiiv Circassia No well informed person doubts that the mass of the Turks desire to maintain slavery the traffic in women and all their othr unspeakable practices It is a cardinal tenet1 of kindle the fanaticism of the Moham their religion to regard women ns medans throughout the world against soulless things created only for the British empire and other Euro mans enjoyment to be used abused pean powers bouffht sold bartered or killed as he sees fit Mahomet ipromised as a reward to the faithful in paradise enjoyment of an endless number of exquisite hourjs whose youth would be prolonged eternally and who would give their owners interminable delight The numerous class of unfortunate men who acted as harem guardians are reported to be strongly in favor of the new Asiatic state which will continue their employment Slavery is regarded perhaps as equally sacred with polygamy Every Turk believes that he is performing a service pleasing to Allah when he makes a slave of an unbeliever Every blow on the back of an unbeliever brings the Turk nearer his delightful paradise It is evident that the entire history of the Turk in Asia Minor and southeastern Europe has consisted in the enslavement of Christian populations and the abduction of their women Not Openly Practiced Up to the present time slavery has been practiced openly throughout Asiatic Turkey Slaves white and black men and women young and old are displayed in the market places and sold to the highest bidder The purchaser is at liberty to run bis eyes and fingers ovar the goods to judge of their strength their capacities and their attractions Those who are useful only as drudges sell for a trifle young girls of graceful form and unsullied past sell for a larger sum In Constantinople slavery has been less openly flaunted because of the presence of many Europeans and Americans but in the palaces of the sultan the pashas and the wealthy there were innumerable slaves whose lives were absolutely at the mercy of their masters Now the European powers have required the sultan to abolish slavery throughout his dominions and to make efforts to end the scandals and atrocities of harem life The British and other European powers do not at present propose to prevent the Turk from having as many lawful permanent wives as his religion permits which is four but they demand that the Turks and particularly certain notorious pashas shall cease to fill their harems with girls stolen from Circassia Armenia and other helpless lands The Turks believe that they can continue slavery and harem excesses in Asia and hence their revolt against a government which is controlled by Europe As recently as the time of the horrible Sultan Abdul Hamid the great exterminator of the Armenians the imperial harem at Constantinople contained about a thousand women Among them were troupes of French and Russian dancers and other women chosen for their accomplishments including it is oelieved a few Americans That monarch was at onetim willing to allow favored European eidAnerlcau women see tne in tenor of his harem but after the rnanyerrtichsms passed upon him he stopped these privileges Since then few European women going simply as vfWif6fslftave been permitted to see the imperial harem An English writer of great influence Dr William Spry who visited the Old Seraglio the most historic and blood stained of the many splendid buildings occupied by the sultan on the shores of the Bosporus has given this interesting glimpse Qf the spot Wonderful Memories Here lived all those whom his highness delighted to honor Here was the great family of the seraglio What memories may be recalled What wondrous scenes have here been enacted What visions of loye ly daughters of the Caucasus and archipelago the mountain the desert and the sea Mussulmans Christians Jews and others won in battle by pashas presented by princes or stolen by corsairs pass like shadows under those silvery domes To get within the gates of the Old Seraglio may almost be said to be a dream of ones life after reading the Arabian Nights description of the homes of caliphs and sultans The English writers wife was permitted to visit the harem of a great pasha a favorite of the sultan This woman has given us a discreet picture of the iniquitous harem system maintained by highly placed Turks in these civilized days I had no positive information how many ladies were inmates of the harem but it must have been a considerable number of one sort and another slaves both white and black and the many attendants on the principal wives who I believe were four In number We remain in the grounds until the suns rays are fading The miniature lake the trim garden and the hillside being bathed in shadow while the golden light of the closing day glitters all around The lingering groups turn inward from their walks which as they pass gives me the opportunity of comparing and observing the faces of some of these beauties of the household Here are Circassians whose fair skin and delicate coloring blue gray eyes slightly arched noses and al most golden colored hair go rar justify all I had from time to time heard of the beauty of the Circassian women Another beautiful woman passes I am Informed ehe is a Georgian She is dark with delicately cut features a lovely little mouth and an ever winning smile lighting up a charming face full of bright in tlligence The Funeral Rites Were Rudely Halted and Remains Left Unburied While the Deserted Wife and the Young Affinity Fought in Court for Their Possession mains of the last grand master of the prder of the Magi Dr Olney Hoffman Richmond Clad in the purple robes and ritualistic jewels of his high office flanked Will Crush Movement The sultan and the Turkish officials at Constantinople declare that they will crush the nationalist movement The sheikh ul islam at Constantinople Durnzade Abdullah Ef fendl has issued a decree calling down the wrath of heaven and eternal torments of hell on all who support the new Moslem regime He declares all Mussulmans who kill nationalists will be blessed by Allah mfiinhpr nf th Maerl and rprpilved his and all who die fiehtine aeainst the and faithful refugees planted the seed education at the hands of the order rebels will earn eternal glory hereof their occult wisdom and power in when he went down into EervDt after A Bn Cf mij other innrin KnUnnR havn romp and One Droof to all Christians of the He promises the severest eternal remarkable series of delays over the gone and rulers and their temporal truth of astrology is the fact that the punishment to the Anatolian Dervish and understood WO rival graves lay yawning cnlt astronomy chemistry and divine way during all of 13000 years The words and secrets and gaping wide open for action by magic had to submit like original home of its mcepton the them perfectly days tenantless each crav that of any ordinary mortal suspected Island of Atalantia became comDletelv The religious factor of the Magi is ing the honor of preserving of being done to death to a post submerged in the sea but scattered the rue stlanity Christ wa a from corrupting decay the mortal re mortem examination Broke Her Silence burial of the late leader In her home ambitions vanished with them but three wise men who found Christ in at the head and feet with a solid gold at 50 South Marshfleld avenue Chi the stars and their immutable truths the manger at Bethlehem were guided msiv Kpt tVi rrp ca the widow Mrs Verona Rich remain forever diamonds lav the master denied mond who had Ween estranged from The Egyptian pyramids were erect the quiet and majesty in death he ici ho lareeij nthnrltlw vom ilie Under the nervous strain of this her husband for eight years held ed under the rule of their order the fc5 7TtrM iJv lonelyvigilwaitinrforwonifromthe Mai claim and also that Free had been able to extract so largely authorities 1 luaavnij unco its vuuuaninx ivy uicii tenets A Curious Story eWeric as even lus most starstruck uQoTtnnTnelvlS em that he was gu worshipers could hae desired tn seemed to th sIgnlfiJ thing far more com Under the sole auspices of the fair Qf the sacred SP njr mere personal choice tiu circunif ncef ol waiting period she broke the silence of the home of the cult which it is al oor ftged by the widow at the same time d4 constituted the mutual home of her i In his book on evolution Dr Rich leader husband and his ardent dev mind and side by side she and Dr mond relates mo3t lnterestingly and otee daughter Pauline Goethe or gchmond had If graphically the story of his ac as she prefers to be known Arline ftr5ene m1 ceptance of the responsible post of Richmond disclosed a situation as 1stflH nt t1A exalted leader in which it would was guiaeu ay sonie mplicated than a i a ovo noannn nrict i ftutc ui tuc odicu i itutti aufcriiL ner fwum wvv Arnne tne xunerai rues rom lu sq asslduously by the ma8te But it waa during the civil war in the me mow VrHr from also they were apparently quite as spring of 64 and he tells how a ly in progress when an order from a8aiduous about other mat not so Frenchman fighting on the Union the corner brought the sacred cere remote as the starS and the tremen side whom he had never seen be mmnuy lia Ztm5 fi mo nrit dous er that Mrs Richmond had fore came up to him calling him by The triumph of Arline high priest wlelded oyer her husband and tne cult namfl anfl reallln facts In hls early eLnl JPdif terminated It bePn wane almost forgotten by Richmond waPthe urn of the outraged wife In 1912 8he was obUeed to to himself which no total stranger Robbed of her husband Ke de Florida and on her return found that could possibly have known prived of her incontestable privilege her place in the teachings of the ciilt The man told me all about my to remain close with him to the end ln her husband heart and in his self and when I asked him how he she had quietly gone to tho coroner home had been supplanted so effec knew all this he said By the won and told him Bhe had not been notified tually that even her membership ln derful philosophy which I am going of her husbands death except indi the world old lodge had been dis to communicate to you I do not rectly that it occurred under what credited know you but was guided to you I she deemed suspicious circumstances A lifelong friend and follower of am a member of an order which has in the apartment where she stated the Magi Peterson saw the sit been lost to view for many ages I her husband had installed the young uatlon and understood and being also am a member of the Order of Magi priestess and himself on one of her dissatisfied at the way things were which flourished in Egypt thousands necessary absences from the city and going quietly left the fold and en of years ago I feel that I am about which they had continued to occupy gaging another temple conducted a to die and am bound by the powers together separate wing of the cult Deprived that rule me to convey to another Amazed at the turn of events of the privilege of hearing the great who shall live the marvelous secrets checked in their outpourings of grief truths she had so long helped to which I hold You are that succes the laithful followers filed out one by enunciate expounded by her beloved sr ohe and the body of the high priest husband she of course joined the could hardly grasp the facts and discoverer of the lost words from ranks of the insurgents strange secrets which he imparted to w3iose earthly mouth had filtered to The cult of the Magi Mrs Rich me but he gave me articles which I Ills disciples the sacred intricacies of mond explains in spite of innumer subsequently studied and in time I occult astrology of necromancy oc able vicissitudes has persisted on its was possessed of all the signs pass thither by a star This group was a committee from the Magi But that same fate responsible for the leadership of the Master would seem to have left him to his earthly devices on several trying occasions In 1904 he was arrested in New York city for selling medicine without a license However aided doubtless by his occult wisdom and his power of foresight and hindsight he got himself out of this difficulty In the same way CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE who has usurped the office of sheikh ul islam But there is good reason to suspect that the Turks in Constantinople are merely issuing decrees and making other pretenses to fool the allies When all these moves are over it will probably be found as on ether occasions tlat all the regular Turks have got together to carry on their old practices of brigandage and self lndulgenoo The Sultan attempted to torn an army suppress the Asiatic rebels but most of the Turks even those in Eurrpe declared that the ha I 10 disjottlon to fight agiinst thttr brothers in Asia Th most distw ffJi vtfjM Suede Footwear OMEN have turned to suede this season we have turned our attention to originating appropriate styles for this soft leather of silken texture NuniSrous are the models in pumpinVleo Ties to be seen here intthe several shades of suede skm Delicate and light to behold yet so built as to wear beyond expectations Styles for wear at all times or with any cos tume 16 Other Womens Footwear 8 to 17 3350 for Womens pure Worsted Jersey Suits VEN not considering the difference jersey cloths 3350 would be a low price But when you will have compared qualities of jersey cloths about town you will wonder what keeps this price apparently ten dollars too low There are three mannish styles at 3350 The English model with two patch pockets and small collar with peaked lapels The Tuxedo model with its fetching facing beginning with the lapels The Norfolk model with its bo pleats Ideal as a summer trip suit Never wrinkles does not require pressing and dust or water has to come heavy to penetrate the jersey weave Blue brown oxford heather green and so many shades of each tolorl You really ought to see these womens jersey suits at 3350 kfrpudk Mens St ore With Exclusive Specialties for THAVENUE AT NINTH Daily 830 to 6 Mens Store With Exclusive Specialties for Women THE AVENUE AT NINTH Daily 830 to 6 Upper left The late Dr Olney fHgfjman Richmond grand master of the Order of the Magi and below the adopted daughter affinity in whose apartment he died Upper right The high priest in his regalia which was spirited away by Mrs Richmonds irtval The widow refused to allow his funeral to proceed until the vestments were restored At the top center is a photograph of the widow who stopped the funeral ceremonies by demanding a coroners investigation of her husbands death ik3fr fos wtnmm 1 fl ft.