CONSPIRACY CHARGE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 7

CONSPIRACY CHARGE

ARREST OF AZIZ BEY SIR E. GREY URGED TO USB INFLUENCE. (By Telegraph,— Press Association.— Copyright.) ', (Received March 6, 8.45 a.m.) ', LONDON, sth March. Tlie newspapers urge Sir Edward Grey (Foreign Secretary) to use diplomatic influence to secure tho release of Azia Bey. Contradictory charges 1 were, in the air, and there wae intrigue. Tho opinion is freely expressed in On* stantinople that tho incident will endi similarly to that in which ICa-Valky; Mustpha was concerned. lAziz Bey, who was recently com« mander of Cyreliaica, in Africa, was arrested for conspiring against the Com- - mittee of Union and Progress (the secret organisation which has practically controlled. Turkey ever since the revolution). Kavalky Musta,pha wa« eeatoftCed to death for participation in the mirrdertof Shevket Pasha, Turkish. Grand Vaaier. His arrest was made on board; a Raasfeiaflj steamer, the Russian Consul being mielod by representations that K&vaJky was an ordinary criminal, M, do Griefs, thß Russian Ambassador at Consfcautinoph?, demanded a written apology, which was given by tho Gtand Vizier and the Prefect of Police,, Azint ' Bey, was degraded.]