Owing to rumours that a secret orga ation is being formed against the Government, the polite to-day. arrested a number of persons, most-belonging to the poorer classes. Several have since been provision ally released, but will be kept und: police observation, while nine have a detained in custody. including two Mohammedam women, sisters: named Kadrieh, who are believed to be plotting against the life of Mustapha Kemal, the President, One of them is stated to be the former wife of an Exyptian doctor.
Thirty-seven persons of the lower classes have been arrested at Rroussa, in north-western Turkey, but it fs officially are not connected wi in Constantinople.—Reuter,
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