SITUATION IN TURKEY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13825, 21 July 1915, Page 5

SITUATION IN TURKEY.

REIGN OF TERROR AT THE

CAPITAL.

PLOT AGAINST ENVER PASHA

PERSECUTION OF FOREIGNERS

Rome, July 19,

The "Giornale d'ltalia" states that refugees bring alarming news of the Ottoman situation. The troops at Adrianople revolted, refusing to go to Constantinople, which they call the Turkish soldiers' tomb.

Enver Pasha was {summoned to re store order.

A plot was discovered against Enver Pasha and the Germans, as a result of which fifty officers and soldiers were shot on Thursday without trial.

Terror reigns at Constantinople. Private houses have been requisitioned for the wounded. The price of bread is inflated, and coal is scarce, hindering navigation. There is a shortage of doctors and medical requisites.

The persecution of Armenians and foreigners continues.

The Committee of Union and Progress, seeing the impending ruin, is wending emissaries to, Egypt, Tunis, and Libya, for the purpose of fomenting crime. .