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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE SOPTAS. COMING EVENTS.?PRECEDING SHADOWS.?SOFTAS AND PASHAS.?THE llTH OF MAY.?A SHORT STRUGGLE AND AN EASY VICTORY.? THEOCRACY IN THE EAST.?A PANIC AT PERA.?A BRAVE LADY. With the opening spring the catastrophe which we had all so long foreseen and foretold, was at last destined to break out. The Government of Abdul-Aziz, and Abd-ul-Aziz himself, were removed, and Turkey began the experiment of a new Grand Vizier, a new Ministry, a new Sultan. There were not in Constantinople the elements of a popular revolution. The expected change could only be the result of a conspiracy. The people, indeed, had much to suffer, for civil war and national bankruptcy were upon them; the nonpayment of the coupons due in April, and the withholding of the salaries from public servants had caused a distress in the middle and lower ranks of society which gradually reached the higher. The Government of the Porte had been for the last ten months, and was still, contending with a mere handful of ill-armed mountaineers. It had raised, and wasraising against them an army which towards the end of April was more numerous, if not better equipped, than that which it had mustered against Russia at any period during the Crimean War. The resources of the country in men and money seemed utterly exhausted, and all the efforts of the Minister of Finance to come to terms either with the Galata bankers or with the European financiers failed to procure him the means of carrying on the public expenditure from day to day. No one was paid. There were moments when even officers of high rank, even foreigners in the Turkish service accustomed to receive their appointment through the Imperial Ottoman Bank, had vainly applied for their usual remittance, and then it was that the zeal of the most arde...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217412858
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217412858
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 186 gr


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