Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1918 — SULTAN OF TURKEY IS DEAD [ARTICLE]

SULTAN OF TURKEY IS DEAD

Dispatch From Constantinople Telia of Ruler's Death. Amsterdam, July 5. —Mohammed V, sultim of Turkey, died at seven o’clock Wednesday night, says a Constantinople dispatch received here by way of Vienna. Mohammed V, thirty-fifth sovereign of Turkey in direct descent of the house of Osman, founder of the empire, came to the throne by a coup d’etat on April 27, 1009, after having been held for 33 years a prisoner by his brother, Sultan Abdul 11, In the royal palace and gardens In Constantinople. Mohammed V was horn in Constantinople November 3, 1845. By his enforced seclusion he was totally upflt for public life. At his accession ho espoused the cause of the Young Turks. In 1914, at the outbreak of tho present war, Mohammed Issued a procllrriation blaming the triple entente with thrusting war on Turkey. The next heir to the throne, Ytisseff Izzedune, is the son of the late Sultan Abdul Azzlzl.