Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1929, Page 70

16 SCANDAL FEATURES “Decadence” of Aristocracy Is Marked by Trial of Woman for Shooting. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, December 14.— The decadence of Turkish aristocracy, a subject dear to the press of the new Tepublic, is supplying Constantinople a lively scandal The scandal centers in one of high Turkish society’s most beautiful women, Alie Hanim, daughter of the once Wealthy and influential Chakir Pasha. This daughter of an old aristocracy was put on trial in the Criminal Court of Stamboul, charged with attempting to shoot an Armenian, Mme. Manig, supposedly a rival for the affections of & handsome Hungarian piano teacher. Court Packed by Curious. A clause in Turkey's mew code of legal procedure prevents the press from reproducing court proceedings capa- ble of injuring the moral dignity of the defendant, and so Turkish society | women and the public at large, hungry for news of the trial, packed every ses- sion of the court. Another scandal involving the “de- cadent aristocracy” is that of Nihat Bey, grandson of Ali Rifat Pasha, a former grand vizier of the Ottoman empire. His attempted suicide because a pretty little Armenian daughter of a arage owner refused to marry him, is ;ll\ng the bourgeoise which now rules Turkey with derisive expression of scorn. These cases are cited as examples of | a general truth—that the aristocracy of Turkey is slipping into the common grave opened by the Great War for all the aristocracies of the world. Although there were no titles of no- blity in the Ottoman empire, the Pasha-zades, or “sons of pashas,” con- stituted a class of Turkish aristocrats born to the purple, cultured and wealthy. Aristocracy Not Exiled. This aristocracy, except for a black- list of 150 individuals, was not actually exiled by the revolutionary Kemalists. But time is proving that there is no place for them in the new Turkey, where power is lodged in the sons of the Anatolian soil and in self-made men of the middle classes like Mustapha Kemal himself, whose father was a humble customs house official at Sa- loniki and later a dealer in wood. A trustworthy Turkish investigator and writer, Djelal Nouri Bey, states that 95 per cent of the sons of pashas, sons who under Abdul Hamid were appointed to lucrative government posts while they were still in the cradle and to high army ranks while they were still in school, are jobless under the new regime. Four-fifths of their wealth, which poured in with Arabian Nights splendor from -flung provinces of the em- ire, has passed from their aristocratic Elnds. ‘Their great white villas stand empty or are being rented for $10 a month. 700 WOMEN END COURSE IN AUTO DRIVING SCHOOL Seven hundred students of the Wom- an's Instructional School, maintained by the American Automobile Associa- tion for the mechanical education of woman drivers, have concluded the six ‘weeks’' course with final examinations. The examinations, which stressed the mechanical phases and complications of automobile machinery, will be judged by Rudolph Jose, Edward M. Cornell, automotive instructor for public schools, and H. H. Allen of the Bureau of Standards. All graduating students will receive a certificate, and special cash prizes will be awarded those with high ranking. Following the examination, Miss Pearl H. Doremus, traveler and author, ad- dressed the school on “How to Apply ‘What You Have Learned.” On Wednesday, December 18, the graduates will be the guest of the A. A. A. at a graduate luncheon in the Mayflower Hotel. Prizes and certificates will then be awarded. Ernest N. Smith, executive vice president of the local A. A. A, will act as toastmaster. WRECK PROVES TRAGEDY. Flotsam Convinces Searchers That Crew of Four Drowned. LONDON, December 14 (#).—Wreck- age bearing the name Tormentor washed ashore at Pembrokeshire yes- terday convinced searchers that four seamen of the Sheerness had lost their lives in the wreck of the obsolete de- stroyer of that name. The destroyer was being towed to a shipyard for breaking up when it was lost by the towing tug. An admiralty spokesman last night confirmed the loss of the ship, but said he was not aware that any one vas on board. THE SUNDAY Santa Promises Girl New Nose in Answer to Lelter‘ By the Associated Press. SPARTA, Wis, December 14— Eight-year-old Doris Graw, whose mother is dead and father missing, wants Santa Claus to bring her a new nose. She wrote a letter to Santa which appeared in the Sparta Herald and which asked for only one gift—a nose. Doris lost her nose several months ago when a cupboard tipped over on her. County Judge H. A. Richards is playing Santa before Christmas Eve. He has arranged for Doris to go to the Wisconsin General Hospital at Madison fer treatment. IAPANESE DENAND NEWS FROM RUSS Government Not Satisfied by Assurance Given on Coun- try’s Subjects. By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, December 14.—The Japanese government today informed the Russian foreign office that Japan is not satisfied with scanty news concerning Japanese nationals in Northwestern Manchuria, where Russian troops have occupled a wide zone of the Khingan Mountains. While an international train carrying consular officers of several nations rolled from Harbin toward the occupled zone where the officers hope to con- duct a first-hand investigation, Japan, through its embassy at Moscow, in- formed the Russian government that it considers general assurances of the safety of all Japanese as “inadequate.” The Soviet government was further in- formed that details would be Hisisted upon in the future. Occupied by Troops. ‘The Japanese embassy also called the attention of Moscow to the recent state- ment of the Russian Ambassador at Tokio to the effect that Soviet troops have been withdrawn from Chinese ter- ritory. This, it was intimated, was plainly at variance with the facts, since now & considerable portion of the Chi- nese Eastern Railway zone is occupied by Russian troops. Reports from many sources received at authoritative quarters at Tokio indi- cate the Soviet government is looking askance at the international train, which is considered likely to encounter difficulties on entering Russian con- trolled territory. Consular officers of the United States, Japan, Great Britain, France and Germany are aboard the train, hoping to determine the condition of their nationals in the area. Possibility of an unpleasant Sino- Japanese incident has arisen in connec- tion with Tokio's intention to appoint Torikichi Obata, former Ambassador to Turkey, as Minister to China. The Japanese government asked Chinese ap- proval of the appointment last week and not having received a satisfactory response has instructed the Japanese consul at Nanking to press for an early reply. Reports Discounted. Dispatches from China report consid- erable opposition to Obata, who was charge d’affaires at Peking in 1915 and was prominently concerned in Japan's famous 21 demands on the Chinese gov- ernment at that time. Unofficial ad- vices from Nanking said President Chiang_Kai-Shek was too preoccupied with Chinese internal dissension to grant assent to the appointment. This was discounted at Tokio. Although official Japanese comment has been confined to admission that the situation is “delicate.” there is consid- erable anxiety lest difficult complications develop. 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