TURKEY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue XXXXI, 15 June 1920, Page 5

TURKEY

PLOT AGAINST GRAND VIZIER.

CONSPIRATORS HANGED,

\ CABLE—PRIM;* -ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGHT (deceived June 15, 9.15 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, June 14.

Four conspirators were court-mar-tialled for plotting against the Grand Vizier, and were hanged in the public square. They spent the last few mome.nt?s in denouncing the Turkish Government and proclaiming their devotion to the Committee of Union Progress. The bodies remained until, the British authorities ordered their removal. The Grand Vizier has sailed for Paris.