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Show Iturk shoots woman ! who leaves off veil LONDON. May 27. One of the re-suits re-suits of the introduction of western European ideas into tho Near East is 1 I the growing habit of abandoning thn il I veil, hitherto an Indispensable article il jof attire for Turkish women. Many jH I women now appear in the streets witl. j no veil or else with one so thin that H their faces are clearly visible. ! A message from Prizrend. near jf Mouastir, says a Turkish woman of H good family, despite opposition to H malo members of the family, decided that she would discard her veil. f One of her male relatives thereupon followed her, firing revolver shots to H frighten her and. when these had no fl effect he firsed in earnest, wounding -ll j her seriously and leaving her for dead fl in the streols. f |