REFORM IN TURKEY

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 19

REFORM IN TURKEY

TVRONGDOEKS COMPELLED TO

DISGORGE

CONSTANTINOPLE, August 10.

A selected number of members of the Younjg Turkey party attend all the police stations in this city, and support the police. They guarantee that there shall bo no revival of old abuses.

August 11,

The new Ministry is abolishing all sinecures, suppressing subventions to foreign newspapers, and reducing the pay of the higher officials in those cases where" they are more than those of the Ministers of any other State.

August 12.

The Sultan states : " The whole nation belongs to the Committee of Union and Pro^re&fc, and lam its president. Let us co-op-:iate for the recovery of the country's greatness."'

The Bulgarian Committee i? dissatisfied with the re-establishment of the Turkish Constitution and has recommended acts of violence in Macedonia.

August X

There are no present fears of trouble in Macedonia, but the reactionaries are constantly encouraging striken among cigarette makers and porters.

The Government ie acting energetically, and has arrested the leadeis <jf the cigarette strikers.

Mehemet Riza Pasha, ex-Minister of War, and Zihni Pasha, ex-Minister of Commerce and Public Woiks, h-ive beeni liberated on agreeing to refund the sums of £200.000 and £6000 respectively, wrongly acquired by them during their tenure of office.

There have been some remarkable ecenea at Beyront, where Christians and Moslem^ are jointly celebrating the neiv regime.

There were frequent reiterations of the sentiment of the brotherhood of Moslems and Christians, who henceforward - will live together in peace.

August 15.

The Turkish troop 6in Smyrna hay« released all the criminals, and have warned them that they will be promptly hanged if they commit fresh crime?.

By order of the League of Union and Progress General Tewfik and other prominent officers, accused of treason, have been publicly degraded at Smyrna.

The Young Turkish party is finding great difficulty in restraining the antagonists oi the Giceko and Bulgarians at" Mona.«-tir

The stevedores at Constantinople encToavourcd to compel the workmen to join, in a strike, but the Young Turks' Committee promptly overawed them with infantry

Riza Pasha, having lefuiukd £200,000, ha& been allowed to return horne t