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Show TURKEY PUNISHES TRIVIAL OFFENSES Natives and Aliens Suffer Alike Under Stringent Regulations, Special Cable to Tne Tribune. CONSTANTINOPLE. Sert. 11. It ia well these days in Turkey to heed the law. especially military law. Europeans who have lived In Turkey lory; either fear or respect Turkish law and court procedure. Most of them feared It In the past and fear it today, because the abolition of the capl tula tions has made 'oreignrs amenable to the Turkish law and courts, and neither of them are things to be trifled with. As an example of what Turkish military mili-tary law Is the following should suffice: suf-fice: The Hilal of the 19th Instant contains th is la con I c a ccou nt : Sentence of the commandant of Constantinople. The condemned: Person named Serkiz. censor in the post off ice of Galata. to three years' Imprisonment and removal from office, of-fice, for havlne" abstracted bank notes from letters given him to censor. Mehamed Izzet. tailor at Kara Ghumruck. to one month Imprisonment; Imprison-ment; Terofllc. employee of the Ylldiz hospital, to two months' lmplsonment; and Kangrili Rasiild of Kadlkeuy to thirty lashes for having molested women on a public thorougtifare. Chrlsto. boatman at Prinklpo and Panayi, son of Chrlsto of Marrnaris, to eight months' and twenty days' Imprisonment for having, thrown anchor an-chor in a proscribed zone without a special permit. Hassan, son of Hannein. employee of a factory at Abatl, to three years Imprisonment; Sava, s merchant of leather at Okdjiler-Bachl, to two years' Imprisonment, and Spiro of Yalova, hairdresser at Prinklpo, to six months' Imprisonment, and fifty punds fine for having alarmed public pub-lic opinion with unfounded "news." Ohanes, merchant tailor at Guedtk, to three years' imprisonment and fifty pounds fine for having in his possession posses-sion shoddv and making1 use thereof. Tani Aspanl, baker at Kapali For-noun. For-noun. to six months' imprisonment for having mixed bran into his oread. Kapiopi and Mariano, of the village vil-lage of Tchante in Slllvrl, to six months imprisonment, for having made "difficulties for the police." For the same reason were condemned to three months' Imprisonment Andon and his wife Zafrltche and one Arlte, Hassan, son of Aklf of Tchenguel-keuy, Tchenguel-keuy, to six months' imprisonment for having accosted ladies. Aris. son of Karabet. a restaurant keeper at Cessaree, to eight months' and twenty days' Imprisonment for having entered upon a proscribed zone. Husrev of Bechitaclie. a painter, to six months' Imprisonment; snd NeS-lme. NeS-lme. daughter of "Mehmed All, to three months' imprisonment for having hav-ing outraged public morals. Fines were also Imposed. Xovl. daughter of Klrkor. residing at Ismld. to eight months' and twenty twen-ty davs Imprisonment for having placed a letter Into a package for delivery bv mall service, despite the inhibition.' Onik, a fireman at Kadlkeuy, to two years' imprisonment; Panayot, a shoemaker, to forty-five days' imprisonment impris-onment for having, while drunk. Insulted' In-sulted' the police. Onnlk was fined fifty pounds Turkish besides. While some of the sentences seem unduly un-duly severe, Turk and non-Turk suffer alike. |