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Title: Old naval days; sketches from the life of Rear Admiral William Radford, U. S. N.
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Meissner, Sophie Radford de
Subjects: Radford, William, 1809-1890 United States -- History, Naval
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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In this number are several Mahometans in the serv-ice of Christians, the rest are Christians and Jews, the majoritybeing women and children. The whole town was soon in an uproar. The police, alwaysinefficient, were quite paralyzed. The assassin passed in front ofthe principal police station in the European quarter, where thereare always some twenty-five armed men, and although theysaw him cutting people down, not one moved to arrest him. A meeting of the consuls was at once called at the Britishconsulate general, and it was decided to depute two of theirnumber to the Bey to request him to come at once into the citywith a sufficient force to restrain the native population, whichfanatical desperadoes were exciting to put all Christians to death.The Charge dAffaires of France and I were requested to fulfillthis mission and we proceeded to the Beys residence in the coun-try. H. H. was in bed but soon received us. He was muchagitated and offered to send all his troops with as many members
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THE EUROPEAN SQUADRON 359 of his government as we required, but declined showing himselfin town, alleging that he feared it would but increase the excite-ment. Leaving the Bey, the French Charge dAffaires returnedto the city while I went to the Prime Ministers country seatto warn him of what was going on and request his immediatepresence. He answered my appeal promptly and soon made hisappearance in the principal square which was filled with a franticcrowd of Italians, Maltese, and Greeks. Orders were immediately given to take the assassin fromprison and to behead him, and in the course of a few hourstranquillity was restored. The town has been put under martial law and patrols will bemaintained for several days until after the approaching festivalof Bairam. All the consulates are guarded with troops. Today the consular corps waited on the Bey by appointmentand an address was read thanking him and his officials for themanner in which our appeal had been responded to, and requestingtha

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