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Show ROAR OF IRON SHUTTERS STIRS HATE OF MOSLEMS CONSTANTINOPLE. July 21 Iron shutters have probably caused more riots, massacres ami pogroms in the ILevent than political agitators. All shops In the Near East are provided with rolling Iron shutters which Work in iron grooves When they are hanged hang-ed down the make as much nols" as a machine gun Every time there ,1s rumor of any sort of trouble some .timid merchant slams down his shutters shut-ters to protect his plate glass. Without With-out Inveatlgatlng the cause, other merchants mer-chants follow Instantly with such a Clatter that the public becomes panicky pan-icky and rushes about trying to discover discov-er the cause of the flurry. At such moments, excited crowds .will credit any rumor which Is put Into circulation. Pickpockets avail jthemselves of such opportunities. Soapbox orators, . r 1 fakirs and magicians ma-gicians gather crowds by this device. In any Turkish city the circulation of I a rumor that a movement la to be started against Christians will cause I all the Armenian and Greek shops 1 to close within a few minutes, and j frequently the noisy closing of the shops fans the religious hatred of the! Moslems Into action |