TURK AND ALBANIAN.
A DESERTER. HIS SON IN FIRING PARTY. SHOOTS IN THE AIR-ARREST AKD SUICIDE. By Telegraph—Presß Association—ConyrtcM Constantinople, May 23. From Uskub, in northern Macedonia, comes a pathetic story of an incident of the warfare between the Albanians and tho Turkish troops. An Albanian noble serving in the Turkish army joined the rebels, bat was captured and condemned to death for desertion, Tho condemned man's son, who was a member of the garrison, was chosen as one of the firing party to carry out tho death sentence. Naturally, he protested against this, but Mirza Bey, the garrison commander, refused to excuse him. Accordingly, the son, when the order to fire was given, shot in the air. Mirza Bey then had him arrested, but tho young man committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell. Tho Albanians are indignant. Mirza Bey has been, removed to another garrison.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 825, 25 May 1910, Page 7
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148TURK AND ALBANIAN. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 825, 25 May 1910, Page 7
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