MUTINOUS TURKISH TROOPS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13874, 11 April 1907, Page 7

MUTINOUS TURKISH TROOPS.

Press Association—By Tolegtap'a— Copyright. ' SUEZ, April 9. A Turkish transport has arrived at Suez with troops. Tho men were mutinous, refused lo land at Akabah, and forced the captain to proceed. It was announced recently that Turkish, soldiers who had completed thoir period of active service in .Yemen have landed nt Alexnndretta.in Asiatic Turkey, in a ragged and starving condition. They' surrounded tho Governor's house and threatened!' to loot the (mvn if they woro not given food and clothing. Similar scenes have been enacted at Beirut, on 1200 reservists landing there. 'J.'ho Yemen robollion has been in progress since February, 1905, and from time to time reports liavo conio to hand of eta;'.vinr; Turkish soldiers passing through tho Suez Canal.' It is known that, in the summer of last year, battalions of Turkish troops wcro reduced to,mere groups through starvation and diaeasc/ Home, of iho battalions had only about 40 men loft. It was reported in January that 1000 wero all that had retnrnod' of an army of 4000 men that had been engaged at Ncjirl, tho highlands of Central Arabia, Two thousand had died of starvation and disease, ami 1000 liad deserted. As a Turicieh transport wae returning to Turkey recently 300 starving soldiers sprang overboard in the Bitter Lakes, and, except 10 who were shot from the steamer, swam ashore and escaped.