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Among the institutions which: thai tion in Turkey has swept into oblivio chah of the Pretoriane or Janissarion, the royal gaard that defended the Sultan and constituted ons of the great sources of bia

MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA. It is adnounced that in fatura the

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Sultans of Turkey will not be permitted to havo's permanent bodyguant, mar it should becomes monaco to the constitution, and so liberty itself. A permanent bodyguard of Turks would be objectionable, but one composed of Allaha, would be intolerable. Yet for 2,000 years hundreds of emperors 2d sultans, sad kings bave depended for the protection of their person upon rec canary alles, and have rafused to allow thoin, own countryman in their body.

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Augusta FRETORIASEL

~ 20 strong and crafty limperor Augustua is credited with having instituted the Pretorianontorts-(literally, "tan' guards (13) of Over gauzerala fent)," Trisse saliliars ware

picked

were distinct from the mian but; regular army and owned no law, but the authority of the Emperor. They bo

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empererswore at first their tools 'and eventually their victims. The original plan of choosing the Pretorians from among; the hardiest and most valiant of Roman soldier, was succeeded by the system of. recruiting the bodyguard from among the sonquered provincas of Rome. The exter ive military operations of the Caesars made this a feasible plan, and by the time the Byzantine Empire was established itsg emperors formed their corps of Pretorians

Saxons, and called them Varangians,

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ENTER THE JANIKSAILIES.

With the capture of Constantinople by the Tarks the Varangians were displaced by the Janissarios, an exactly similar organization maintained by Mahomet IL No. 2, PYDDER STREET,The Janissaries wore neither Turks, ner

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about

but Christians. Sared from the

Hongkong, January 9, 199,--

816 death they had, orory reason to expect by the far sosing mercy of the Sultan. they ware supposed to be bound to him “ÎN lasting ties of gratitude. Once sword to his service they were loaded with special favours that were the envy of the Tarkish

PANAMA CONSULATE." HE CONSUL GENERAL for PANAM QUEEN'S ROAD, Aaron Forse, Poom

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Hongkong, June 7, 1909,

PROF. F. GONZALES,

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should have failed so signally to justify the hopes of their indulgent masters, für i of the thirty Sultans that ruled. from 748 Mahomet II. to Mahmoud, twenty- saron/ire recorded as having lost their fires at the hands of their scissaries. Sometimes the regicide was the result of a plat et succession in which the Janisaries were bribed agents. Samotimes they killed Sultan out of hand because he had boon incutious enough to offend them.

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