The Vienna correspondent of the Times, writing in last Saturday's
issue, brings grave charges against the Committee of Union and Progress in connexion with the recent murders of Greek ecclesiastics. According to the detailed report which reached the (Ecumenical Patriarch on Wednesday week, Mgr• Emiliamo, the Metropolitan of Grevena, in Macedonia, and the deacon who accompanied him were tortured with indescri- bable brutality for two hours before being put to death by six Turkish gendarmes. The Patriarchate has demanded an impartial inquiry from the Porte and, as a preliminary, the removal of the Kaimakam, the commander of the Gendarmerie and the President of the Young Turkish Committee at Grevena. The Times correspondent asserts that the complicity of the Committee of Union and Progress is not seriously questioned. If this can be proved the continuance of the rule of the Cora- mittee is not only a danger to Turkey but a menace to civilization.
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