UNREST IN TURKEY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13674, 17 August 1908, Page 5

UNREST IN TURKEY.

FRAUDULENT* MINISTERS i GORGE,

DIFFERENT RELIGIONS FRATERNISING CONSTANTINOPLE, August 14 Mehempt, Ri/a and Zekki, ex ministers of Turkey, w«-re liberated on agreeing to lefnnd £200,000 and £6OOO respectively, wiongly acquiied dunng their tenure ot office ' Ri/i Tasha, having refunded £200,000, has been allowed to return home. Remarkable scenes have oecmred at Beyroui, Chnstians and' Moslems jointly celebrating the inauguration of tlie new regime amid frequent reiteiations of sen timents Of the brotherhood of Moslems and Christians, who heneeforw ard will live together in peace There - are- no- piesent fears of trouble in Macedonia, but the leaclionists are constantly encouraging stnkes N of cigar ette makers and joiteis Hie Govern ment are acting energetically, and arrested the leaders of the cigarette- stukers RELEASE OF CRIMINALS. HIGH 'OFFICERS DEGRADED CONSTANTINOPLE, August 15 ' Turkish troops at Simina released all the criminals, but warned them that-they would be promptly hanged <f they com mit fresh crimes, by oidcr of the League of Union of Progie-,s i General Tiewfik and cHhiif pfrommettt officers have been publicly degraded" at Smyrna ' , The Young Turkish Paity finding givat difficulty in_ ret>traning the auta gonists of the Greeks and Bulgarians at Monastir The stevedoies at Constantinople endeavoured to compel oil workmen to join, in a strike, but theT Young Turks Committee promptly overawed them with infantry.