THE GOVERNOR OF BAGDAD
DISMISSED FOR CORRUPTION
Hy Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.
London*, December 5. The Governor of Bagdad, in Asiatic Turkey, has been dismissed for levying illegal taxes and thus causing the Arabs to revolt.
This is & rare case of justice being done by the. Turkish Government upon a corrupt official. in October it was reported that 2000 Persians at Kerbela, in the Bagdad district, had- placed themselves under the protection of the British Vice-Consul, owing to the exactions of the fax-gatherers. Then it was reported that tho Persians at Bagdad had threatened, for the same reason, to take the same course. Thereupon, the Turkish Government ordered the tax-collectors to cea.so work until an inquiry had been held and the levies had been readjusted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13354, 7 December 1906, Page 5
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