Liquor Prohibition Among Turkish Fishermen

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 44.

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Liquor Prohibition Among Turkish Fishermen

THE powers of Europe seem to think that the prohibition of the liquor traffic is a good thing for the Turks, if not for their own people. It is stated that the Sultan has ordered the discontinuance of the sale of intoxicating liquors in Constantinople, and the six powers contiguous to the North Sea—Great Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark—have entered into an agreement whereby the sale of such liquors to Turkish fisherman is prohibited.—The Statesman.