TURKS EXECUTED.
FOUR FURTHER VICTIMS. CONDEMNED MAN'S PROPHECY. (Received 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-R. CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 28 The four men 'who were sentenced to death in connection with the recent plot against the President, Kemal Pasha, were executed at midnight. Djavid Bey, prior to his execution, said : "This is the end. 'After me the deluge." Nail Bey asked the executioner to give his 'compliments to the President of the 'tribunal which had condemned him, whom h&"h&"d known well. He said he felt like a victim of a motoring accident.
** While Hilmi Bey was being hanged the pulley jammed,necessitating ...a second attempt. : ' Five other members of.the Committee of Union and Progress, including Reouf Bey and Rahmi Bey have been sentenced to perpetual banishment. All the rest of those who were arrested have been acquitted. ;■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19419, 30 August 1926, Page 9
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