SIR EDWIN PEARS
RELEASED FROM CUSTODY ""■•" Sofia, December 16. Sir Edwin' Pears has been released by the 'Turkish authorities. " Sir Edwin Pears was arrested earlier in the month, and his offices searched. Talaat Bey (Alinister of the Interior)' threatened that unices two persons, presumably Turkish emissaries, who were arrested at Port.Said, were released forthwith ho would seize Britishers as •hostages. Sir Edwin, settled in Constantinople in. 1873, practising in the Consular Courts. He became President of the European Bar in that city in .1881. As correspondent of the London "Daily News" he sent .letters in May .and June, 1876, on the Moslem atrocities in Bulgaria, two 'of which wefe published in Blue Books, and awakened widespread interest, which was followedby popular demonstrations led by Mr. W. E, Gladstone. . .
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2336, 18 December 1914, Page 6
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128SIR EDWIN PEARS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2336, 18 December 1914, Page 6
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