A very significant murder was committed in Constantinople on Monday
night. Zeki Bey, a chief secretary in the Public Debt Administration, who is also well known as a journalist vehemently opposed to the Salonika Committee, was shot dead in the street. So far three arrests have been made, and all the Constantinople newspapers, except the Benin, describe the murder plainly as a political assassina- tion. It is said to have been planned by those, whether members of the Salonika Committee or not, who feared Zeki Bey's powerful support of the insurgents in the Committee. The murder has caused great excitement, and the Times cor- respondent says that the fear of further murders and reprisals is widespread. We trust that it may still be proved that the Committee itself was not responsible. When a secret body resorts to assassination its end is certain, even though that end may be delayed.
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