TURKEY’S NEW ERA
CRIMINALS RELEASED AND WARNED. THE YOUNG TUBES ACTIVE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 15. The Turkish troops in Smyrna released all the criminals, but warned them that they will be promptly hanged if they commit fresh crimes. By order of the League of Union and Progress, General Tewfik and other prominent officers, accused of treason,-were publicly degraded at Smyrna. The Young Turkish party are finding great difficulty in restraining the antagonists of the Greeks and Bulgarians in the Monastir district.
The stevedores at Constantinople endeavored to compel the workmen to join in a strike, but the Young Turks’ Committee promptly overawed them with infantary. Riza Pasha, having refunded £200,000 of hk plunder, was allowed to return to his home.
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Evening Star, Issue 13032, 17 August 1908, Page 6
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122TURKEY’S NEW ERA Evening Star, Issue 13032, 17 August 1908, Page 6
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