TURKEY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 278, 17 August 1908, Page 7

TURKEY.

CORRUPT MINISTERS MUST REFUND. STATE OF MACEDONIA. ! MOSLEM-CHRISTIAN FRATERNITY. I BY. TELEGRAM—PRESS ASSOCIATION—CoriItIGUT.) Constantinople, August 14. ; Remarkable scenes. liavo occurred at Beyrout, an important seaport in Syria, Christians and Moslems jointly celebrating tho new regime. . Thore are frequent reiterations of , the sentiment of brotherhood between Moslems arid Christians who say they .will • henceforward live together in peace. Thcro are no present fears .of trouble in Macedonia, but reactionists are constantly encouraging strikes of cigarette-makers and porters. Tho Government is acting energetically, and is arresting tho leaders of the cigarette strikers. iMohemet Riza Pasha and Zekki Pasha, ex-ministers of Turkey, havo been liberated on agreeing to refund £200,000 and £6000 respectively, wrongly acquired during their tenure of office. CREEK AND BULCAR. 'DIFFICULTY IN KEEPING THEM AT i PEACE. STRIKERS OVER-AWED, (ur TEr.EGitArn—l'Ress association—corvaiynr.) (Rec. August 16, 4.15 p.m.) Constantinople, August 15. Turkish troops at Smyrna, in Turkey-in-Asia, released all the criminals in the gaols, and warned them that they would be promptly hanged if they committed fresh crimes. By order of the League of Union and of Progress, General Towfik and other prominent officers, who are accused of treason, have been publicly degraded, in Smyrna. ; Tho Young Turkish Party is finding great difficulty in restraining the antagonisms of Greeks and Bulgarians at Monastir, Macedonia. \ ! Stevedores at Constantinople endeavoured to compel workmen to join them in a strike. Tho Young Turkish Committee promptly over-awed them with infantry. . Riza Pasha, having refunded'the £200,000 which lib misappropriated while in office, has been allowod to return to his home.