CONSTANTINOPLE PLOT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1595, 12 November 1912, Page 5

CONSTANTINOPLE PLOT.

REPUTED SHOOTING OF A GOV</':V '..■' ERNOR, ..;, 'RESTORATION ;OF ABDUL HAMID,, ..■' (Eeo. November 11,11.30 p.ni '.)' •' Constantinople, November 11. , "An unconfirmed report states that' General Mcradouh Bey, tho military Governor of Constantinople,' has been courtmartialled and shot for inciting the'garrison to massacre the Christians and restore the ex-Sultan. Abdul Hamid to the throne. '.-.',■■' . ', • The Porte, on,learning that two -thou-: sand Kurds were on the warpath, invited them.to a. religious service in the Mosque of Saint Sophia, where thoy were surrounded and sent to the-front. HOLY WAR'DISCOUNTENANCED. (Eeo..November 11, 10.35 p.m.) London, November 11. 1 The' "Daily Chronicle's" Constantinople correspondent states that the Government will not countenance a holy war, os 6uch a course is no longer in accordance with enlightened Moslem feeling. Another Teport states that the notices proclaiming a holy war were withdrawn on representations being made by the Ambassadors. 'The Kurds are a wild and lawless race numbering about two and a half millions, the great mass of whom have their home in Kurdistan, on tho western borders of Persia. There are sedentary and nomad tribes, the latter being much the richest. The Kurds, both i'.i Vw'«\ ni"i Turkey, are treated with mistrust, and live in a state of chronic nariaie' nun the powers that be. ' : ■ CHORLU OCCUPIED. '"■ . ■ ;"•. (Rec, November 13, 0.35 a.m.) < . . Constantinople, November H, .. The Bulgarians have ooouoied Chorlu,

and placed a requisition on all classes of transport.