Appendix 'A' 452
Extract from 'The Manila Times! of the 13th September 1915,
"TURKISH "BEY' IS IN CUSTODY"
Mahmud Mohammed Ali Hassan, who called himself Niazin Bey, hero of the Young Turks revolution, but who is better described as gentleman adventurer and soldier of fɔrtune, has run afoul of the law, has been robbed of his lordly estate of the minions of constituted authority, and is to be tried on a charge of vagrancy in the municipal court
to-morrow morning.
*From Vanity to Vagranoy" - "From
Sultan's Court to Bilibid" are likely to be two of the titles which will suggest themselves if Mahmud Kchammed Ali Hassan ever cares to write a book of memories on his
Philippine adventure, for if ever a knight of fortune was changed to a high private in the ranks of misfortune it in
Mahmud Mohammed himself.
Mahmud has drifted up and down the islands for the
past three months, declaring that he was no other person than
His Excellency Miazin Bey, the man who led the Young Turks to
victory years ago, and who had lately been delegated by his
people as a collector of funds to be spent on the Turkish
Navy. He became widely known as "the Turkish Colonel".
Handsome and of a soldierly figure, and with a swaggering
personality smacking of the Balkan Courts, Mahmud swept every
thing before him. He paid a flying visit to the Sultan of
Bulu, snared the heart of the Sultan's daughter, and set all
the Courts in Jolo agóg with anticipation of the most
brilliant wedding since the old days. While on the orest of
his popularity he disappeared, leaving behind him a dozen
broken hearts and an indignant Sultan of Bulu, who swore to
shoot on sight if he ever shewed himself there again.
Appearing in Manila, Mahmud was made the guest of
N. T. Hashim, enjoying this local Merchant's hospitality for
more than two weeks.
During the three months that Mahmud has
been
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