TURKISH AFFAIRS.
A COURT MARTIAL. DEATH SENTENCES. Constantinople, May 27. The court martial ac flitted (13 officers and 37 civilians. .ue hodjas were sentenced to death. A eunuch named Dievhor Agha, Tewtik Bey, of the Customs. Lutße, editor of tiie V'olkan Tayar, Councillor Mustafa, Abdul's tobacconist, and a colonel in the Fusiliers at Xadrie Eevzi, are prisoners detained at Prinkipo. Ex-Ministers and the palace functionaries have been removed from the War Office preparatory to deportation to a provincial fortress. Abd-ul Hamid's chief eunuch, Djevher Aga, and six others, have been sentenced to death for participation in a reactionary movement on April 13. The sentence is to be given effect to to-day.
THE ADANA MASSACRES. London, May 27. The Times states that the new vali at Adana is a fanatical Kurd, from Sirah, who was entrusted with the distribution of relief to Baghdad!, n Turkish landowner who led the first band of murderers in to the bazaar at Adana.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 104, 29 May 1909, Page 2
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158TURKISH AFFAIRS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 104, 29 May 1909, Page 2
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