FORM IN TURKEY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 17 August 1908, Page 8

FORM IN TURKEY.

rE CONSTITUTIONALISTS ACTIVE. frafias A'sflMAA'ioN.] CONSrA'NTINOFLE, August 15. The Turkish troops at Smyrna released all criminals, at the same time warning them that they would be promptly hanged if they committed fresh crimes. ! By order of the League of the Union of Progress, General- Tewfik and other prominent officers were accused fof treason and publicly degraded at Smyjrna. The Young Turkish Party is finding great difficulty in restraining antagonists of Greeks and Bulgarians at Monastir. Stevedores at Constantinople endeavored to compel workmen to join the strike, but the Young Turks' committee promptly over-awed them with infantry. Riza Pasha, having refunded- £200,000, has been allowed to return home.