BLACKMAILING CHIEF.
FLOCK FOREST OW'-NEI! INTO GIVIXC. A COMMISSION Constantinople. February 2. "Jliiron Marshall, fjv: OeiMri i Am'i.*sa lor, is .nsisling on the punishment of Echini Pa-ha, the chief of the secret' police, for his recent attempts at blackmail. The Ambassador had an audience 'w'th the SuUan yesterday, in consci]iienee of which his .Majesty ordered a special commission to examine the charges made against the chief. A man who owned a forest near MejAi\ \m tin Black S.-a. t>ok refuse in the (ierman Embassy, and explained that he had been detained an a or in F;ehiin's house for a fortnight, during which lie was frequently beaten by Fehim's henchmen, until he consented to sign a document agreeing to pay Fehim 20 per cent of the profits of his forest industry.
On the strength of this document Febim seized a cargo of timber which ha I been shipped by the man, ami had en tiered into negotiations with the Om jental Railway Company to dispose of it, when the German Embassy interfered. Pending the result of flic commi--*>ion. Fehm promenades about the city more ostentatiously than ever, especially in the European quarter of t'era, where he assumes the air of a sovo reign.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 3 April 1907, Page 4
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202BLACKMAILING CHIEF. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 3 April 1907, Page 4
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