THE TURKS.
The Constantinople correspondent of the Times points to a danger which is believed to be threatening that capital. The Russian army is being withdrawan
over sea week by week, and will shortly be gone, and the British fleet is retiring from the feea of Marmora. The populace are therefore relieved from all restraint, except that of the Turkish soldiery, who may sympathise with them, end of the police who arc insufficient. Swoollen as this populace is by thousands of refugees and deserters, and harrassed as it is by want of means, by the price of bread, and by the excessive depreciation of paper-money—now 75 per cent below its nominal value—it will be disposed to commit outrages, and perhaps to favor revolution. Very powerful persons are known to be discontented, the Sultan's authority is shaken, jind it is deemed necessary even now to take the most jealous precautions for his safety. All the. signs, in fact, point to an outbreak in the winter, which, unless the soldiery are str'ctly faithful, may amount to a revolution. Even without one, there are certain to be massacres in the neighbornood of Constantinople, only to be averted by a European force.
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Wananga, Volume 5, Issue 50, 14 December 1878, Page 626
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198THE TURKS. Wananga, Volume 5, Issue 50, 14 December 1878, Page 626
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