THE TURKISH COUP.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 483, 16 April 1909, Page 5

THE TURKISH COUP.

=4:/ POESI QLE REtUHN OP K!AMj L.;: :; : i£ K ■"■■;.■ --. onbEit liestobed;■'■;. ";'/£:V- : - V (lil issbeiATibN-rxaPiKiGli'r.j '}::■< '■■•'.. .:'-■ ■■'■'• •'■■ (sonstAntlno'bio, April 14./ vi In connection with the.'armed intervention of fiho soldiers of the i'irst-Ai'my Corps,,and the consequent fait of the Ministry of Hilmi Pasha, order is now restored. ;l'ho troops, salute the.deputies'of tho Turkish Chamber, showing that tho movement■■'■ Jβ hot turned at.tho Constitution. ; ';,■- : ■■':■■';■ ••■'■;■ - : . .JaverPasha, commandant ■ at Constantinople, lias succeeded Mahinud ftlukhtar; as commander of tho.-.First Army Corps. .:-■.. The majorityof the garrison ; . reinaliied OUtSidb Parliament and theV : .\Vtt''■ Ofcfeo throughout the night, continuous, firing being kept up in honour of the acceptance by tho Sultan of tho military and ■eeelosiastietti demands. • These, included tho Removal from Constantinople' of Djahid, editor of tho "Tanin." / :'. . ■' ■" : ,;' ' ./■ "-.. ■ ■>■■.#' Tho fact that.the majority of the deputies lit Parliament belong to the Committee of tJhion; aad Progress : renderß the future ob*' scure. '; ■.-. ' ] "'\ .■;" . V ■' ./■]'■■' THE NEW MlNlStftY. ? REPO&'IJSD INCLUSION OF A UflßMli, "■■'■■■■• -London,, April 14. Reutor's Agency reports!-that "Ismail Kβ--mal Boy, leader ■ of the Liberal TJhioh, has been appointed, Vice-President "of the CoUrloii. . ;■■• ■■'. -■■■■•:-■■.■■ •■.'.' '■'.--.' [Ismail K«mal Boy, the leading epirit in the Ahrar' Of Liberal Union, is a well-known Albanian deputy, and he is one v or the little squad- of eight deputies—and the onlr butSpoken oue-Vvho voted for Kiamil Pasha's Got. ofhment in the lio-cohfidmice debate. "When Hilmi Pasha made his.first policy speech as Gt-and Vifcier, IsunailKotual Bey was ctmallv outspoken,; He told the: deputies that he was Unablo to wtprfcss cbhfldfeuce in tho Hilmi Ministry, in the flfsf place because he did not regard it as constitutionally, formed J secondly, beoause he could hot regard it tis prudent to entrust the AVar Office.tb ft Minister (Allßwa Pasha), who on several occasions, had declared that the army. Was ib an unsatisfactory Btato and yet llild shown dtsinclin&tiMh to face the responsibility of uildertakin* its tlnprOVeffleflt or to. display' the energy' Whieli : that task ifeQuired.] ■■■ • . ■ ••■. '. .... : YHE ■'eilLt AN "At HJS WINbOWi j : SOOTHIPfG WORbg. : '•■■' ; •■TSIWPIB: i S; CABINET TIIANSITOItY. (Bee/ApnllOi 0.35 a.m,) ■';-'• .Coristant!nopiß, April 16. An infuriated crowd j'estorday completely wrecked -the printing '.•..offices-.---of tho "taUln" and the (tt'hifcli paper had s'own cdnsiderftbla bias against the ox-lirand Vizier Kiatnil Pasha, who was defeated last February. after ; army, officers and mblflboSe of tli6 Couimittte >of Union and l'togres« hid lobbied ih the Chamber).- ; Tltd crowd Ai'ould have stormed tho house.of ,;tlw Committee .of Unioti 'and Pro« gross, but tho troops prevented them. : A' battalion, of troops Jiiarohed to Ylldiz Palaca and chetfred the Sultah, ; who pettfed at a wlndbfr and informed'.the trtops that their demands tiero accepted. Ho vieea them to remain-.quiet: and oo\)fldent. . ■ Tho mutineers have since tensed tho eon* tirvuous discharging sf their musketry, and are returning their barracks. 'The;difficulty of. tho situation is their extreme an* tipttthy towards tlloeslwlledioiflcerß,.Who lately; lieglqctod■th6h',.dUtibS y and engaged ill political wirepulling, ,, : : -.-.. .; ■. .-p ;}{'.';■'■•'■■ ~\ The new Cabinet under Tewfik Pasha mcrly; Miriister fof Foreign Afi&irs) is cbm* t»sed of elements outside the Parliamentary parties, and is.vegarded as d tratisitofy. Adminiatratibil paving the way for .tho return to power of Kianiil Pnahai ■.;■■ ' r .-..■..•' ■.". Bdhoin ,Pasha ; (who ■•! Was ' epokoU : of j*estei-day oi , .; ! Minister'. fbr : ' \Var in the. Tefflik' Cabinet) met the- .mutineers. in interview,.- and porsuadtd ihein to aeespt TeWfik : tempofaHly as ■Preuiier.r . : ! ■ '; ; v \ ■"' ._. : ■.--..■ The Second. Army- ,\C6rpß).statiohed at Adriahople, has declared in favour of tho , re* volutioni':. ! '-.-■-:•'■.'.■;'.-'■ : ~' : ;. '■ ■;'■•.■•-■'■ ■■ -.. Tho Adrianople branch of the. Committee of Union and Progfess has been dissolved. [If, as the oablegriitn anticipated,' the coup oilectbd by.the First Army Corps, and now en-dorsed-by the Second Army Corps, lends to tho return of Kiamil Pasha to the Grand ViiJiership, the result, i£ not the methods of seourliig it, ■ Will cause satisfaction in Britain, where Kmiiiu's downfall in February created considerable disnpnoititmeiit." The prompt disa'pBearanee of Hiliiii'e Government, the hppai'ent tall of the • Committee Of Union and Pt'ogfesa, tho granting of '6. post to Keuittl, aild the attack on "Sliaufa-uumiiiett" and "Tanin" (journalistic critics of Kiamil) would appear to lie faotorA fovourablo tb the result referral .-to. But tuo sitndiloh is obviously full of possibilities and dnngers.]; \ ..' .., . NAZIM PASHA. :,," MMDERiID BY-MISTAKE. ■ .': '-■■■■ : bonstaritlnesie,. April 14, Nazim Pttsha, Siiiiisfe for Jjistioe, was kiiied ih lilistako for tho Minißtei , fof War '(All Biza Phfilm). [The accuracy of the above message is doubtful. In , Kiamil Pasha'e Ministry Hassan Fehmi l'asha was Minister for Justice, and. when Hilmi Pashii's Mihietrjr was formed, Has,san Fehmi (accordiilg to the English papers) retained that portfolio. The statements of the English press alsd show that Nftzim Pasha was never Minister- for Justice. He was not in the ■Ministry as first formed by Kiamil, .but when the Utter dismissed Ah Biza Paslm from the Ministry Of War, Nazim Pasha took th 4 portfolio, relinquishing the command of the Second Army Corps in orddtlo do so. When Kiamil fell, NaKitu Paslift refused to take office under Hilmi, and All Mail Pasha returned to the Ministry ot War. \ Oh February , 16 the Constantinopio ' correspondent . of ■- r, The Times" einplittsised Nafclm Pasha's refusal to aooept any post from the Hilmi Government "on tho ground'that he wlielly condemns tho pai'ticipation of the aflny ih Political affairs, which whs the ditect cause ot the rise to power of tho present Ministry. Had the late commander Of the Second -Army Corps been Willing to add : tho prestiee of Ins ha/me to the hew Mlnintry -Its .position would have been much strengthened. . . His. popularity and high reputation render the <j u «tion ihipottant. The Comitiitt.ee respect him, but there is soino reason to believe-that his acceptance of the War Office excited their dissatisfaction,] MOSLEM D£MAND3. ' AubtJL-HAMID AND THiS CIKUIJN : ; ; . .-, .. TURBAN : . . : ? : - -. k Constantinople, April 15. Tho processionists etl. Tuesday asked the Sultan to go to'Stainboul and wear the greou turban,-as-a token of respect for religion. : Tho Sheik-Ul-Islain, 'who acted as a pacificator, rotains his pest. . THE SHEIK-IJL-isLAM. MOHAMMEDANISM IN RELATION TO THE CONSTITUTION, , The Sheik-Ul-Islain, Jeiiial-ed-Din Etfelidi, has affirmed—what some cfllica a dohlocratic Constitntidll is not lncen'slsteht frith- the principles of Islam. Holtlihg this tiew, the spiritual head of the itelintlirtiedftUs'U tirobnljly beltor fitted'tllnh adyohi else to reconcile liiilttaiit MiiliimimHiinlslli—as fDprcfehtcil by the Hew Loiifjui? of Maliolnet—ivilli the continuance of .a Constitution that is based on religious tolerance and facial freedom. The dan-

ger, is, however, that the Constitution may bb always liable to.tho armed interference oi the limitary"-power. Describing an interview at Constantinople with the Sheibul-Islam, Sir Bttiiipfylde Fullfer wrlttsi "NYb passed : to the histoi'loal marvel of the new Turkish Can* stitution—that the Turks should not have rested coliteht with claiming lights of Farliai mentary,.representation' for thoiiiselves, but should have conceded these rights, on absolu* telv equal terms, to the .Greeks, Armenian*, and Jews who lived amongst them, so that the new Ghambfef—aim conseciuently the GoVeriltiient—would b6 not Moskm, but Ottotonfl, and.would realise tho idea, not of race, Of Or relielbfl, but ot-cbiiiih-T.- ■ • . "Hi* Highness e*plKiiied. that this liberality imported, not a chanSfe in the outlook of IBlMfl, but ft merston; the new Constitution was in confocmit)- with tlib tcaching , of Mam, which assured equality of rights Rinongst dif« ferent nationhiitlcß (ind religions) the Constitution would undoubtedly guarantee the future of Turkey, because it was moulded upon lines that had been adopted by nil civilised..nations! that no such system had .been applied'in Turkey 'hitherto Whs due to various political reasons and special circum»tal>ces! Turkey's hope of salvation lay in the development of a solidarity: of patffatic sentiment t the revolution aimed'at-progress by rncans of unity, and this idea had now overpowered all reactionary ten* denote!) that, Moslems, should, sit in Counoil With other 'people of the book' wne in no way contrary to the spirit of Islam—the Prophet, when approached by somo distinguished Christian, envoys ill his desert camp, having no carpet for. their reception, spread his cloak for them." '. ' : . .' . . BULGARIAN; INDEPENDENOE, ,■• ■■/■.. A HtNT FROM SOFIA. ; --; : ;-.: , . - ...■ '■;■ Sofia, April 14. ..A semi-official a'nnb»incement; has Veen mado 'at Sofia that should tho unsettled condition in Turkey delay the recognition, of Bulgarian: independence, tho Gk>vefument will be forced to aot. \