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Show TYRANT RULER " IS 1ST FEARED Turk of Old School Has People of Anatolia Trembling KERHASSi I Nf E. Amitola. Turkey., Aug. 23. (Correspondence of Assocl-sted Assocl-sted Prase.) Osm..n Agha, the newly designated governor of Ksrrassounds, is probably the most fearsd man on tin north coast of Anatblla. When the nationalists selected Os-1 man Agha to Impress Greeks, Arme-' mans. Jews and Turks alike into Mus-tnpha Mus-tnpha Komal's army, they took Into their camp a man who would have been a terrible menace In opposition! ranks and who is merciless in executing execut-ing th orders of the Angora govorn-' mcnt. OMEN'S DRESS i DIl 1 . Osman Agha has been for years the rlf-constltuted boss of Kerrassounde. 1 In office or out of office he Is mas-' tu of tho local sltuution. L'ntll recently re-cently he was only mayor of tho UttlS city. Uut no provincial governor could giv the old bandit chief orders In fact he always managed to unseat all I ro vine ia I officials, lie transceuded vails. metropolitans and bishops. Turks, Greek. Armenians und Jews f.ar him .nikf, but hud to obey his orders. Ho looX over property which he wanted without" 'legal right and threw anyone Into prison who ques-, tloned his authority Osman Agha was even a self-constituted regulator of women's fashions. fash-ions. He hated the high-heeled shoes and short skirts which Moslem women copied from th.-ir French sisters. Consequently Con-sequently ho issued an edict that no Mohammedan woman should tirear a heel more than one inch high and that their dresses should come to tl.elr ankles Then he Immediately sent! word to all the shoemakers and dress- I makers that thcT would be jailed It' they executed ordcra In violation of his edict. LI MM I OP Tl R WNY. He dried up KerTOSeoundS by methods meth-ods as direct ns those of the lute Corns Cor-ns Nation. Without warning he- went lo nil the liquor shops and poured nil the spirits into tho street. It was bo-1 lng sold In violation of Mohammedan teachings. Being a Turk of the old school and a total abstainer himself, he offered no explanation Whatever to the wine merchants, who dared not! question his authority. Immoral women became too conspicuous con-spicuous In Kerrassounde. Consequent-, ly he ordered that the heads of all such women be shaved Many of the women left the town. Thos 1 which1 remained disappeared from time to! t;nu- and many of their bodies were j washed up by the sea. 1 Ionian Agha embodies all the tyrannies tyran-nies which Turkish officials excrcle.l over the Christians In Pontus, the Black Sea coust of Anatolia, where Greeks have predominated In the chief cities for many centuries. The Greeks of Pontus arc buoyed Up by the hope 'hat they may soon be1 protected against Turkish oppression, j but they dare not show their Joy at' the prospect of deliverance. L'ntll many of the Turkish officials respon-Bible respon-Bible for massacres and deportations 1 sh.ill have been punished there will be no peace and security for the. Christians In Pontus. |