SHEIK EXECUTED.
CONSTANTINOPLE. .Tune 29 The Sheik Said, who led the rising in April of the Kurdish triliesmen against the Turks, and who with his principa supporters was captured, and court martialled. has with twenty-five ot us companions, been sentenced to death. Tt was stated in evidence, that the Kurd insurrection had cost Turkey two million sterling. CONSTANTINOPLE, dune 29. Sheik Said and forty other rebels were hanged by moonlight at Diarhek.r in the presence of cheering crowds.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1925, Page 3
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78SHEIK EXECUTED. Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1925, Page 3
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