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Show BLUFFED THE SULTAN. Mutinous Turkish Troops Who Threatened to Sack Beirut Will Get Their Wages. Constantinople, Jan. 37. Orders bavo been sent by the Government to thc Governor Gov-ernor of Beirut, Syria, lo pay tho arrears due thc Turkish troops thcro, tho nonpayment non-payment of which has kept thc troops in a mutinous conditions for several day3 past. Mutinous Turklnh troops havo been terrorizing ter-rorizing Beirut for several days. Tho mutineers, mu-tineers, who numbered about ISO) men. were landed January 11th from Yemen. Arabia, and immediately besieged the Governor's palace, demanding tho payment pay-ment of about SSO.GX) In arrears of pay and threatening oihcrwlso to sack tho town. |