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Show Religious Persecutions iu Turkey. 1 New York, 7. A recent dispatch from London aaya there appears to be a revival of religious -intolerance in Turkey. Not only is the obeervauce of the Maliomedan ritual to be enforced, en-forced, but a letter from Persia states long forgotten ordinances prohibiting the residence of Christians in the Turkish quarter have been revived. The subordinates have carried out their instructions with great brutality, bundling the people and their furniture furni-ture into the streets. Several Germans Ger-mans employed on the Rou mania railway, who were obliged to live near the line, have been thus treated. The decree of 1840 and the treaty of 1856 promised the.t nobody should be molested mo-lested on account of his religious opiiuons. Treaties of commerce permit per-mit foreigners to carry on busineaa in any part of the empire with the exception ex-ception of a single province, and their leases and other contracts have been treated as legal by the authorities, The measures now taken are there, j fore in violation of treaty obligations. |