Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1924, Page 62

Apsard B. 5. Rasolute, just going over a Sharp Spot on the Atlantick Ocean. To Editor The Star, who travel in a fivver, which are a good way because it never get far from home, EAREST Sir: If you wish find me on this Ship please call room 139, 3rd floor, where 1 are now bedriding, enjoying hgme sickness so bad that 1 cannot Told it on my stummick very long time. In the bank right becrost from me lays Cousin Nogi, who are going as my gloom mate on this Surround the World Cruise. Every time Hon. Ship bumps against a pile of water he grone. “Nogi, why you rcll muchly?" I ask to know. “I think I must be that Ship's Log you told about,” he grubble while rolling. “Since we left N. Y., 2 days of vore, intending to do this famus Globe Circle, you have did nothing but Jellyache all time,” I dib. “What did You come for, if anything?" ‘For this reason,” he reproof. thought maybe if I stayed away from Prohibition for four (4) months I ight get a chance to sober up. “The Atlantick are a ygry long ocean,” I manipulate. “It are not so long as it are high," he creep. ‘“This ship have been climb- ing every since we past the Statute of Liberty. Maybe when it get to the top I shall feel more cheery-O. At this junction income our stew- ard, a nice Irishman name of Otto, who fetch an enlarged bottle Ger- man shampain. This beveridge are Very axpensive, costing 23 pr qt: but in time of shipwreck persons will pay large prices to save life. He pore several bubbles for me & -equally for around so e " 1 holla, razing glass. We squelch our throats in that cold boil-juice and feel improved. “Otto,” I require, “how big around arc the World?" “Since der Vorld Var,” he accent, “it are somevat shmaller at it vas. Chermany has been removed.” “Yet cannot you estimate how fat this Planet arc around the waist? 1 udge. “Oh, maybe 28 thousand miles,” hes Ppronounce. “Cheer uply, Nogi'™ 1 holla. “We have already went 721 of those miles. This leave us only 27,279 more to go. Think that!” “Danks, meinherr,” dictate Otto while backing up with two (2) bottles shampain which are no good sines we drank it. This leave me & Nogi alone- some to discurse about this enlarged Loat-risc on which we are now steam- ing so rapidly. ¥ K ¥ G\J¥ sweethearted Cousin,” I com- mence educationally, “why should we not practice X Science & forget our mizery in thinking of mizery of others?" “Even that cannot make me happy nov .’ he contempt. “Ah, yes!” 1 toll, “think what I heard last night up in the Setting Saloon. There was a lecture, by solly, with brite-colored lantern- snides.” “Who give that Lecture, body?" he ask it. “Either Mr. Raymond or Mr. Whit- comb. Not sure because I were not introduced. But he had sweet voice like a nightingail while telling us about Strange Lands & Wonderful Scenarios. Next Sunday am. where you think we shall be?” “I bave given up so much,” mone Nogl, “that I cannot answer any more puzzles.” “We shall stop at Madiera, an Taland where the Portugoose people do nothing but make win “Cannot we bribe the Captain to get there faster?” narrate Nogi feb- bly- “And where do we go from there?” 1 increase. “To the Rock of Gibral- tar where the life insurance come from. We shall stop there only long ough to take out a policy, then onwards to Naples. Naplas!! Think of seeing that famous headquarters if any- Languadges (to use on Guides, Mules & Camils). 1 suit Unwashable Underware, which will be useful in China where laundries are app. to be poison. 1 portable pocket adding machine which will help me cheat the natives of foreign lands while making change in a forin languadge. Mr. Editor, I were thankful to my friends for telling me about those useful sipplies. They look very nice, all stacked up in my floating bedroom till last night. Then I did not need them very muchly. The High C got 80 rude that it spank Hon. Resolute with a billow while I was asleeping. Crashes! When I awoke from my nightmare that seasick remedy h&d fell from shelf & stroked me in my headache where it did not cure me. | Also that useful Book, How to Swear in All Languadges come down Hit my pained stunnick so I could only swear in (1). While in bed Cousin Nogli thought those Skyrockets were some kind of Egyptian cigar, so he commence smoke one which almost pull him out of Hon. Porthole by his teeth. & so onwards. BY FRANK G. CARPENTER. CONSTANTINOPLE We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo. if we do, We've, got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too! We've fought the Bear before, and while we're Britons true The Russians shall not have Con- stantinople. HE Russians are mow out of the great international strug- gle for possession of the Bos- phorus, and for the time the English and all other foreign powers as well have lost their control over the affairs of the Ottoman empire. Constantinople is no’ longer the capi- tal of Turkey, and for the first time in centuries it is without a sultan or caliph, but it is still one of the most interesting cities on the face of the globe. 1 have been in Constantinople three times in my life, and at each a momentous era of the great city's history. My first visit was in 1889, thirty-five years ago, when the noto- rious Sultan Abdul-Hamig was at the height of his power. 1i6 was ruling Turkey with an iron hand. giving se- cret orders for massacres and putting out of the way any of his subjects of ice cream, bootblacking & vol- canoes.” “We got some pretty swelled vol- canoes in Japan,” gollup Nogi for pa- triotism. “We shall come to Japan in dew time,” I yall pleasurely. “But firstly we shall slide over soft Muditer- ‘ranean billows to study geography in Algeria, famous for Mohommedans, fleas & cigarettes. Then whether away from there, you think?' (I snatch forth my Guide Book to see what was) “Nextly we are in Egypt. watching Arabs, scarabs, Faros & other rulns.” “Fere are one ruin what will be spofled before he gets there,” collapse Nogt. “Brace uply,” 1 snagger. ‘“Think, pleass of going to India to see all those wild Indians & cowboys under 1he shadow of Taj McHall. Or to see the Fakers doing fakes. Or watch those Notch Girls. And from thers we go to China and study the heathen habits of those guaint people who for 160000 yrs has remained so inferior to the Japaness, as any Japanese school- boy can tell you. From there, O bansai! Japan—"' But from the music of Nogi's nose I could tell he was asleeping. He are & very bom traveler. * k% ¥ EDITOR, before getting on shipbored considerable kind friends tell me something to take to keep me from dying far from home. One sweet-hearted lady say, “Togo, be sure wear & veil in Egypt because 4 place sre billed with kind of files that killed King Tut” I do so. Yet another one-say, “Carry plenty of rocketa You can shoot them off when last in the Pyremide.” And etc. good avige from everybody. Therefors I start.out with following arcticles in 13 skyrockets (sorted) ¢ yrds fashionable green Vel . 3 csns Siberian insex Powder (for B scarabs etc) U!l"l"' ‘bottles Uncle Bill's Seasick Remedy. 1 dnist-proof bathing-suit for swim- ming ip Nile, Red Sea, Ganges & wwhatever comes along. 1 Book of titte How to Swear in All who opposed him. At the same time he was in constant fear of assassina- tion. Garjullo, the dragoman of our legation, who knew all the ins and outs of the court, told me that Abdul sat up in his palace night after night trembling with terror, and his fear of assassination continued until he was taken from the throne by the Yonng Turks in 1909. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. “INCOME OUR STEWARD. I are fearful that this Siberian In- sex Powder will never reach any Ori- ental bugs, because Cousin Nogi drunk it this a.m., thinking it was coco. Otherwisely, voyage going smooth. On B deck there are 411 passengers laying out in rows, all covered with Scottish tablecloths while learning how to travel. Some young gentle- men promenade rapidly all 3ay, wear- ing golfing pants. When I ask one Yale person why he wear such pants on Ocean he report, “We are now on the Golf Stream.” T could not assimi- late those words he spoke it * % ¥ ¥ P on the roof of the Resolute there are a open-air Swimming Pool. Very delicious axercise, it you know how to do so. But not sure I unstand that sport when at sea Yestdy p.m. 1 go up there, hoping to show my skillful' strokes. But what happen? Hon. Pool all empty from water. “Why are there no wetness in that splandid cantainer?” require of Hon. Seward who was theer. “Too rough,” he commit with voice. Pretty soonly long come another | Steward who ask chivalry. Turks, as Rulers of When I first saw Abdul-Hamid he was going across Stamboul to kiss the mantle o Mohammed, and it seemed to me then that I could see the fright in his black-bearded, sal- low, anaemic face. He was, you know, practically the successor of Abdul-Aziz, whose zon, Abdul-Medjid Effendi, was deposed and sent into exile the other day. Murad V came in between, but he reigned only three months. Abdul-Aziz, the uncle of Abdul- Hamid and the father of Abdul- Medjid Effendi, was a most remark- able character, and it was his ex- travagance and misgovernment which finally forced him from the throne and prepared the way for the na- tional spirit which permeates the Turkey of today. Before he was de- posed he had promised to give Turkey a new constitution, and when Abdul- Hamid came in he renewed that prom- ise and actually signed a constitution on December 23, 1896. But it was not long before Abdul-Hamid was following in the footsteps of Abdul- Aziz He went back on his promise, and the result was his deposition in 1909. My second visit to Turkey was at the time he was torn from his throne. I then saw the fightin watched the sultan taken from his palace, and photographed the long procession of cabs, hundreds in num- ber, which carried his harem across Constantinople. The ladies wore black gowns and thin white veils, and each of their carriages ,was guarded by a eunuch whose jet-black face shone out under his high red fez ADMIBAL MARK BRISTOL, THE AMERICAN HIGH COMMISSIONER IN CONSTANTINOPLE, TELLS FRANK G. CARPENTER HOW HE PROTECTED AMERICAN INTERESTS DURING STORMY DAYS. “Mr. Togo, you wish to play the Pool? “Stroking, splashing, doving. T adore them in water.” This from me. *So very well! he say, “It will cost you 5% for une plunge.” This seem a kind of high bath, Mr. Editor, but in travel we must be recklus. Therefore I pay 5§ and await for water to turn on. For 13 hrs I set there. Nothing tg do. At lastly one enlarged Cruiser from Cleveland come booling through, making finan- clal noises with big cigar. “Why so happily, Mr. Sir?" I nar- rate peevly. “I have just maoevre. “Well 50" I jeruse, “now that you got it what will you do for a bath™ Therefore I go back to my bedroom on 3rd floor and am seasick again. Hoping you are the same Yours truly Hashimira Togo. won the Pool” he P.S.—I will write soonly, if ever, from Madiera where the Gov- ernment make it illegal for poeple to stay there without getting drunk. Think that! (Copyright, 3824.) PRIL 20, O the editor: Since the news leeked out that I had been to Washington city the mail has been flooded with a couple of letters wanting to know did I meet the President. Yes friends we both had that honor and the meeting took place in the executive offices on one of the days when ho receives what- ever newspapermen is able to be up by 4 pm. The doors is throwed open-at a given signal and all the correspond- ents rushes In and stands around his desk, and he stands up and reads off a few replies to queries that has been wrote in to him, and wile he is reading any correspondent has got tho privilege of interrupting him to ask extra questions provide it they don’t care if they get a answer. The day I was there he might just as well of said mah jongg as s0on as we bad him surrounded. When meeting was over Mr. Wat- kins of a Indianapolis paper says for me to lag behind like usual and he made the introductions and we shook hands, and the President says 1 have heard your name a good many times and I wanted to say horse a piece but I just give him one of my smiles and says I had heard of him too, and he says what was 1_doing in Washington and I says I had came there hoping to testify but' nobedy would call on me 5o I had called on him. He laughed till you could of heard a pin drop. So then I left be- fore he had a chance to ask me to supper, as I all ready was dated up. The date was with a stage actress who I had kind of bragged around that I knowed her and promised some of the Washington folks that I would introduce her to them, and the ar- rangement was that they would walt for me down the restaurant and I would bring her there. Will state at this point that the lady in question was starring in a music show which seems to be getting kind of popular. Well anyways 1 could not find her and the folks who was waiting for us got kind of hysterical. The taxi drivers was telling me about a congressman who they had all been trying to get but couldn't scem to do no more than graze him till finely they hired a policeman to Stimulating a Glacier. HE fact that earthquakes accele- rate glaciers has been established by observations made in Alaska. The quakes have the effect of shaking down loose snow from the slopes above the glaciers source, thereby swelling the snowfield in which it rises. This increase in bulk moves slowly down through the mass of the glacier—slowly, because of the vis- ocosity of ico—and, reaching the foot, pushes it forward. 1924—PART 5. i | ANDS, AND THE PRESIDENT SAYS HE OF MY NAME A GOOD MANY TIMES, AND I SAYS I HIM, TO.” tell him about the safety zomes in the middle of the street, and he stepped into one of them one mnight and they kept him there till he starved to death. Personly I was too smart to walk anywhere in Wash- ington and all 1 got was strained ligaments from trying to work the foot brake from the back seat. Another chance a pedestrian takes is on acot. of the bootleggers being jealous of each other. and cvery time one of them sees another, which you can't hardly help, why they's a mu- tual shooting affray. But the boys has generally always been trying their own stuff and being 1.2 blind they are just as libel to hit you or 1. I kind of expected that everybody in town would be speaking in code but was able to understand practally everything that was said up to 2 or 3 am. 1 figured that the Washington newspaper men being right there on the grounds, why they would have a better inside in the situation, but they was very few names I didn't hear favorably mentioned for the president’s chair, speaking of which they will half to make it a couch or can count me out. Spent one pleasant P.M. out to the Central High School where the ath- letic director is Doc White that used to pitch and sing baritone for the White Sox. Doe's high school base ball team was having their work out and will state that it is good thing for Philadelphia that they ain’t in the National League. Well, the last day T was in the old “SAILING OVER THE BLUE WATERS OF THE BOSPHORUS, ONE SEES GREAT WHITE PALACES ON THE SHORES, WHERE SULTANS LIVED IN THE HEYDAY OF SLAVES AND HAREMS.” ! BDUL-AZIZ was one of the great- est spendthrifts who ever sat on the Turkish throne. His reign was a long series of splendid extrava- gances, founded on money borrowed from England and France. He built palace after palace, for it had been prophesied that he would live as long as he kept up his building. He im- ported lions and tigers from Africa, filled his palaces with parrots. and had planos strapped on men's backs and played there. He liked women so well that his harem is sald to have had as many women as that of King Solomon, who, as 1 remember it, had 1,000, namely, 300 wives and 700 conoubines. Among others, Abdul fell in love with the Empress Eugenie, and when she vis- ited him at Constinople he put up a palace for her entertainment on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus, where she lived during the few days she was here. At one time Abdul-Asziz went to Europe, and upon bis return commented upon the ugliness of the European ladies, saying that all he saw were hideous, with the exception of Eugenie and the Empress of Aus- tria. He said a king’s wife should be the most beautiful woman in the country, but as a rule the European monarchs selected the ugliest. - He said he would try to find a woman as beautiful as Eugenie, and he thought he had done so when he took into his harem a Circassian slave girl, named Mihri, who remained his fa- vorite wife until the day of his death. According to the old custom, the sultan was given & new wife, a beau- tiful slave girl, at the close of Hama- dan, or the Mohammedan Lent. He received her on Easter day, or Bai- ram. The girl was selected by the velideh sultana, the mother of the sultan, from a large number, and was kept in training for her new position for several months. When the avail- able girls were looked over the fif- teen most beautiful were picked out and taken into the palace. Here they were fed, groomed and put through their paces, to see who should win in the race. Bhortly before Balram the lucky girl was picked out, and she became the bride of the sultan for that vear. although he had a right to take such other girls from the lot as struck his fancy. He did not see his Bairam bride until the night after the feast and then only when he had retired to rest. If she happemed to please him, she was then given ‘sepa- rate apartments, and if she had chil- dren they were legitimately ranked with the other princes and princesses. On the other hand, if the sultan did Dot like her she was put with the other slave girls and she might never see him again. Abul-Aziz spent so much money on his wives and palaces that the peaple dethroned him and confined him in the palace he had built for Eugenie, where he died five days later. Ac- cording to ome story, he committed suicide in the Selamlik, adjoining the barem. He bad sent away his ladies, asking Mihri for a, hand glass and a pair of Persian scissors, saying he wanted to trim his whiskers. She brought them and he locked the door. It was opened by Ismail Bey, who said the sultan had cut open the veins and arteries of his arms, wrists and feet and that he died in his presence. Another story is that Abdul 'Il1 really assassinated by his political enemies. In the meantime, Murad V, who had succeeded Abdul, became terrified, and after three months he went crazy. He was kept in seclu- ston until the day of his death, and Abdul-Hamid took his place on the throne. * % x % HE sty of Abdul-Hamld covers thirty-five years. He was the younger brother of Murad V and a nephew of Abdul-Asiz. This makes him a cousin of the preseht caliph. He was the son of Abdul-Medjid, the predecessor of Abdul-Aziz, by an Armenian slave girl. When he first came to the throne he was twenty- four years of age. He then occupied the Dolmebagtche palace, and after- ward moved to the Yildiz Kiosk, ‘where he was living during my first visit to Constantinople, and from whers I saw him taken away by the Young Turks during my second visit, n 1903, Abdul-Hamid’s whole life was one of conspiracy and treachery and of playing with the great powers of Europe in order to £ave his skin and his throne. He found the Turkish empire bankrupt and added to its debt. To get to the throne he prom- ised to grant.the constitution end then went back on his word. During the latter part of his reign the senti- ment against him grew stronger and stronger. The Young Turks formed secret socleties in all parts of the empire. They established headquar- ters in Paris and sent out propa- ganda. They smuggled into Turkey tons of literature published in Arabic, and as a result raised a revolution- ary army to support their demand that Abdul-Hamid give them a con- stitution at once. The sultan was ready to acceds to their demands, but before he did so the Young Turks had marched upon Constantinople, and it was while I was here that they seized the city. The occupation was well managed, ‘with but little bloodshed. The Young Turks had about 40,000 troops, and their armies surrounded Constanti- nople. While out riding the day be- fore to the swest waters of Europe I found soldiers at all the crossroads. and at several places I was turned back. The Young Turks had bribed 'some of the common soldiers of the sultan, many of whom came from Bulgaris, to kill their officers, and 300 wers murdered that night. The rebels then came in and took posses- sion of the barracks and disarmed the soldiers, most of whom were asleep. At the 'same time they sta- tioned their men in every part of the city to keep order. The whole was done so quietly that the day after the occupation this city of a milllon showed as little disorder as a New England village on Sunday. The only shooting that occurred was in the early morning. 1 was stopping at the Pera Palace Hotel, and was awak- ened at 4 oclock by a noise that sounded as if the whole city was en- gaged in corn-poppisg. It was the Gatling guns firing away within a balf mile of my hotel, and during that firing ome ball went through the transom above the front door of "the hostelry. Tho fighting was all over before the sun rose, and when I went out on the streets the city was under martial law, but the soldlers were polite and one could walk anywhere without trouble. The revolution was practically bloodless, and that after- noon I was able to drivo past the Yildiz Palace, where the fultan was still fmprisoned. I have never published a story of those days, and there are some inci- dents which even now will bear tell- ing. One bappemed on Friday, the day before tho dethronement, when Abdul-Hamid went to worship at the mosque. I had gone with our minis- ter to watch the celebration, and was in the kiosk, or pavilion, given over to the diplomats for this purpose. is just opposite the Yildiz Mosque, and so situated that the sultan must ride under its windows.to the place where be gets down from his car- riage and walks in to pray. The ovent was a spectacular one. The roadway had been covered with six inches of sand, &o that the royal bones might not be shaken, and when T arrived at the palace it was lined on both sides by regiments of sol- dfers. There were at least 10,000 troope, and from the pavilion T could mee mcres of red fez caps with the dasrk-brown and white faces below. They formed a human flower garden along both sides of the road and reaching far back into the fleld. About the mosque was a great bed of red caps amid shining bayonets of steel, and in the court In front of us were companies of lancers dash- ing about on Arabian horses. At the Eates of the palace were mauy tall eunuchs, with faces as black as the crows that fill the trees about Con- stantinople. They were fezes and gorgecus uniforms. * % % % IN a short time the chief officials of the sultan appeared. His young son, with a face like chalk and an effeminate look, rode by. Then came the sultan’s bodyguard of finely dressed soldiers on magnificent horses. Opposite the gate of the palace they raized themeelves and stood with up- burg they was a ueivy blizsurd and the senators adyourned two hours early for the fear it would get worse and they couldn’t get home. Only for this 4 sighted action they's no telling how long they would of been detained in the senate, of all places. Teaching Blind Boys. LIND boys as well as any others have their schools, and the aim »f the teachers in the blind schools is to render the blind as much like other boys as posesible. Blind lads are expected to d¥ the same work, to pass the same examinations. to submit to the same discipiine and to enjoy the same recreations as boys who have two good eyes. School routine at an institution for the blind differs but little from that which other boys know. Thelr day begins with the half hour in thr gymnasium, where the boys are quite at home on the paraliel and hori zontal bars, the rings and the rope Exercise for which a rinning start is required is, however, usually little beyond them. In the classroom the work dons b tho blind boy reaches a high stand ard. Books, whether classics, mathe matics or music, are in Braille typo and, therefore, very awkward to handle. And to read a story throngh somatimes means the handling of 2 dozen or more clumsy books with raised type. . All writing is dome upon littlr wooden frames filled with a bras guide, either with style or a &mal seven-keyed machine. Blind boys can write as fast as can the average bo with perfect sight, and their writins is always plain. Typewriting ma chines are much used. Mathematica! problems are worked out with mechanism on a zinc board that car bs made to represent rixteen sigm: and the use of spurred compasses and rulers for geomistrical drawinz is, of course, slower than the ord! nary process on paper. In the natura! sciences the blind boy finds himsell at a decided loss Henoe classics theology, law, music, modern lan guages and history hold the great est attraction for him. ‘When it comes to amusements ther~ is a wide choice of games. It is pos sible to play ball games by means of balls containing beils. Other games are better for him, however. At foot- ball, for instance, he cannot trust himself to run at full speed unless he can *“hear his boundaries,” and grass does not give him a sufficient echo to locate his position. Thers ars chess, checkers and similar games, while older boys get a lot of fun out of rousing debates, lectures 1t| and concerts. Own Country, Have Advanced Rapidly lifted swords while a dozen Arabiar saddle horses, the suitan's favorites were led down by grooms. with the idea that his majesty might take a notion to ride back from his prayers. After that thero was a long line of carriages containing the veiled ladles of the harem. with eunuchs sitting beside the drivers, and then the sul tan appeared. His carriaze passed within twenty f. of where I was standing, and ade a snapsh through the open window:. Abdu! Hamid wore a red fez, a black suit and the famous gray overcoat, which was his usual costume on the way to prayers. He sat bent over im the carriage. His face was an apoplec- tic red and his hair and beard were o dead-black that an¥ one could see they were dyed. As the sultan passed by we a lifted our hats, which we ‘held in our hands until he stepped out of the carriage and went into the mosqus We bowed and Abdul lifted his hand to his fez and at the zame time th soldiers raluted him, riffsing thei- musk while the officers drew their swords and the lancers stood with spears upright. The carriago stopped and he stcpped out and started to walk up the steps of the mosque. At that moment I glanced up at tho minaret, where but an instant before the muezzin bad been calling the hour of prayer, and there, away up 200 feet in the alr, on top of the golder crescent I saw a black raven, the bird of evil omen, alight It stood right on the coat-of-arms of his majesty, and the Turks who saw it whispered “It is the bird of despair.” A little later the band began tn play and the raven flew. When the sultan came out there were more stage cheers from the soldlers, but there was no enthusiasm whatever Within twenty-four honrs from that time Abdul-Hamid was in the hands of the revolutionists. He was taken by them to Saloniki, and thers he died. This incident of the raven was commented upon by the ministars in the pavilion, but the story has never been publiched. Abdul-Hamid attributed the loss of his throne to the new education which had been spread abroad through Turkey by the American schools. In talking of this some time before his deposition he said: “It was Robert College that lost me Bulgaria and it will, T believe, eventually cost me my throne.” Aftor Abdui-Hamid came the Youns Turks, who chose Mohammed V as sultan. They adopted some reforms, but graft and intr'sue prevailed, and much the same conditions obtained that existed throughout the war. In 1918 a new sultan was chosen under the title of Mohammed VI, and on November 1, 1922, the grand national assembly voted a resolution that the office of the sultan as a supreme power bad ceased to exist and that in the future his place should te taken by the caliph or epiritusl ruler only. Three days later the admihis- tration was taken over by the grand national assembly and the Constan- tinople cabinet of the sultan resigned Mohammed VI, fearing that mwe €zt might be the same as that of Abdml Hamid, took refuge on a British war- ship and 1e?* Constantinople. and the grand na’ | assambly then elect- as calip! cousin, Prince Abdul Medjid, 1 prince in the maie descent o house of Osman. But in Httle move than a year he followed his predecessors Into exile, when the national assembly passed a bill abol- ishing the caliphate and ordered Ab- dul-Medfid out of the countrs.