REFORMS IN TURKEY.
I GERMAN INFLUENCE. DESTRUCTION COMPLETE. Received August 26, 9 a.m. LONDON, August 25. Professor Arminius Vambery, the well-known traveller and Oriental scholar, considers the destruction of German influence in Turkey is complete. It is, he says, one of the most important results of the revolution. The Turkish ex-Minister for Marine (Hasean Rami Pasha) refunds £94,000 fraudulently acquired. Received August 26, 10.20 p.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 26. The resignation of Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish High Commissioner in Egypt, has not yet been accepted, but it is understood that he will not return to Cairo, where the Ottoman High Commissionership is to be suppressed. PATRIOTISM OF YOUNG TURKEY PARTY.
Received August 26, 11.45 p.m. LONDON, August 26. Zis Bey, the Sultan of Turkey's late Chief of Secret Police, interviewed in London, paid a tribute to the honesty and patii.itism of the Young Tutkey Party. He added that Izzet Pasha was reputed to have saved in perquisites a million and a-half, which had been invested abroad. The Sultan had three millions similarly invested, which had been derived from heavy percentages on bribes received from contractors on the European Continent.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9176, 27 August 1908, Page 5
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188REFORMS IN TURKEY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9176, 27 August 1908, Page 5
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