AFFAIRS IN TURKEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3197, 25 May 1909, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN TURKEY.

I RE-ORGANISATION OF DEPARTMENTS. TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND EMPLOYEES DISMISSED. United Press Association—By[Electric Telegraph Copyright, Received May 24, 9 a.m. LONDON, May 23. The Constantinople correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the reorganisation of the Government departments in Turkey involves the dismissal of twenty-seven thousand shady and inefficient employees, both military and civil. Thanks to martial law, this change, the correspondent says, is possible without disturbances.

THE ADANA MASSACRES. A HIDEOUS ACCOUNT. Received May 24, 10.20 p.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 24. Mrs Doughty Wylie, wife of the British Vice-Consul at Adana, writing in connection with the massacres at Adana give 3 a hideous account of the atrocities.TheArmenian quarters were fired with kerosene from a hose'. Turks murdered children in the presence of their mothers and violated wives while their husbands were dying. The authorities contented themselves with torturing unoffending Armenians into confession. Measles and dysentry were rife among children, who were without milk. The only relief possible were handfuls of rice and fragments of bread.