THE DEATH PENALTY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 520, 29 May 1909, Page 5

THE DEATH PENALTY.

TURKEY'S MARTIAL LAW. EXECUTIONS OF REACTIONARIES. : ' PLACE CLIQUE. (DI TlLZGßirn— T&tss ASSOCIATION—CoriKIQHT.) '■' Constantinople, May 27. A court-martial has acquitted sixty-threo officers and thirty-soven civilians ' charged with, complicity in 'the'-Into Sultan's reactionary movement of, April 13. ■ .'■■',' Five hadjis were sentenced to'death, also Djevhor Agha, Abdul Hamid's chief ennueh; Towfik Bey, of the Custome; Lntfio,-editor of the "Volkan Tayar" j State Councillor Mustafa; .Abdul's tobacconist Halif; and a colonel of fusiliers, Nadri Fevzi. The Gunuoh Djevher Agba, and Bis others who had been condemned to death, were exeonted to-day. ' ■ ,'- " The prisoners' detained at Prinkip (one of the Princess Islands, in the Sea of Marmora), comprising ox-Ministers and palace functionaries, have been removed to the War Office, preparatory to their deportation to. a provincial fortress. ' • ' - '■.'"'■■ ' :■' '■ '■ - ADANA MASSACRES. ' A BAD START TOWARDS REFORM; . V London, May 27. "The Times" Btatos that the now Vali (Provincial Governpr)'of Adana is a fanatical Kurd from Sirah. . The distribution of relief to sufferers by the recent, massacres lie entrusted to Bagh-dadi,-a Turkish landowner. It was Baghdadi who led the first band'of murderers into tho bazaar of Adana.