A MURDER DENIED

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13938, 20 April 1909, Page 2

A MURDER DENIED

(Received April 20, 8.45 a.m.) TiONDON, April 10. The Daily Telegraph denies that Iszet Faud was murdered.

fit was reported on Friday that Izott Faud, Assistant Minister for War, had been murdered, but a cable received yesterday stated that it was not knowrwhether he had been murdered or not.]

SALONIKA AND CONSTANTI-

NOPLE

Salonika has for some tiir.e been the headquarters ot the Young Turks. It was at Salonika that the Young Turk Congress sat from October 19 to November 7. and arrived at a number ol decisions, including the following: —

1 . The Sovereign having sworn fidelity to the Constitution, his prerogatives will be respected so long as he keeps his oath. 2. The political programme of the Party of Union and Progress is approved . 3. Members of the Committee elected Deputies shall form a political party in the Chamber, which shall be known as the "Paity of Union and Progress."' 4. A committee shall be appointed to collect, edit and publish the history of the Committee ot Union and Progress nnd of the Turkish Revolution.

•3. Regulations bhall be drawn up governing the relations ot the Committee to the army.

6. The mandate ot the Secret Central Committee having expired, a new secret committee has been elected and its election confirmed by the Congress. It the Third Army Corps from Salonika ever reaches the point of investing Constantinople, a siege Will be no new experience for that ancient city (says The Dominion). Since the sixth century Conrtaiifinople has undergone ninny sieges by Sassaanians, Persians, Avars. Saracens (six times), Russians (in tho ninth to eleventh century), Lucius, and Turks; and of its twentysix sieges and eight captures, that ot the Latins, under Baldwin and Dandolo in 1204, was by far the most disastrous, barbarous, and spoliating. In comparison, the Turkish sieges were humane and chivalrous. The lirst tool* place in 1422. and Mohammed 11. enr- j ricd the city in 14.33.