25 NOVEMBER 1922, Page 2

On the morning of Friday, November 17th, the Sultan secretly

fled from Constantinople. We have written elsewhere on the implications of his flight, but must here record the bare facts. As the special correspondent of the Times tells us, the Sultan's followers had gradually been falling away from him, and though he is a man of courage, the signs that his life would. be required of him by the Kemalists became too plain to be ignored. He therefore took the initiative and applied to General Harington for British protection. The necessary plans were made and at the appointed time the Sultan emerged from a side-door of his palace accompanied by his young son, his first chamberlain, his bandmaster, and two servants.