HANGED BY THE LEGS.
| EXECUTIONS IN TURKEY. | I>7 Telegraph Pres:; \ social ion Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, April 1. ‘ The ‘ Daily Telegraph's" Constant!* ! noplc correspondent wsvs:- “Osman A fa- for years organised the mmsac-e of Christians and the robberies of Greek ! churches, from . hicli lie is reported J to have amassed 1 fortune of half a i million. His body is 10 be hanged by I the legs from a gibbet in front, jof the .National Assembly. . So i tor the equal of which one must go back to the dark ages. Osman had rej cent!y been increasing his political • power, and might soon have rivalled j .Shukri Bey as a critic of the GovernI ment. Thus two awkward men have been removed as the result of a purely personal quarrel.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17008, 5 April 1923, Page 4
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