THE TAKING OF PERA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 491, 26 April 1909, Page 5

THE TAKING OF PERA.

A PLUCKY STAND BY THE: LpYALIST .;';:■)■-;/';:■':■': ; ' . ! ;\--;...'-'".v ' ■.:'; SATIJKDAY'S M|3iGEMENTS.V ! , ; (Rml.April 25/:i3o p.m.) ;. : . [ . V . Constantinople, April 24.. i ..". For■ fbur'. dayS 'the '. troops i front' .-Salonika \ haV<J bceh drawing closer to Constantinople j i atid o'H. Friday../evottliig they Occupied : liaiiralioi. ~- "... ■: .-• -: -• .: -At. daylight on Saturday they advanced .„ upon.. Yildiz, T*ii6ro is .located .tho Sultan's palacey tin 'a 'Hill "behind BesHiktaslii overtook-; '... ing.tho Bbsphorus arid Pera (tie.portion of Constantinople ! noithrcast. of. the Golden ; Horn); " V.--V"--- ~:h '-''■■ v ' ' Qul/ifciidb rnb'aiiWhilb rblgried In _ the west portion of.' tlib. capital, whbfb Macedbniali troops patrolled thb, streets. ~,,:, Envcr Bey,-the Young Turk loader, sent detachnierita of military cadets, opinmarided by. Salonika officers; to protect. .the,' foreign > /embassies'. (mbflt of Which arp located hi Peraj.i baiikSy.arid koibis,..dhd tither mcaSjrbs ''.were "taken to prevent Uisturliaiic©:.' ,; ' ;'-'. '..'r '.Miisk.Siry 'afid Artllfer.y "r^Jre." ; .THB-prrlsoft at "various pbibtf ih Pcfawero pr'epired to resist; and at 5 o'clock it heavy artillery, arid lnuskotry'flro commenced froth tho '-"-heights above jYildizt ■ The coritest dtivblbjibd agairlsfc •• thb Taskkislit barracks ahd'Matchka (oil tiib' hblglil.Vbf ftishah-Tash, \vherV tho Armoury is located). . v : '_Tho ~-Salonika troops - vainly invited Matobka' and Tashkisla .to surrender. Tho .lattei- War hearty demolished' in less than two"' tdlirs' Bghtilig; ■;;;.. All. ttib . defehdituj had, slirfehdeiod. by Id a.mi, though several, isolated guardhduses :Wcrb gambly defended;, ; : The .trodtji hi tho taiira bttrrfebliaj- iil the oehtWaf Pcraj resisted for thts bullets'of tho defendors IweepiHg. tho/iniiih ' street, ahd beiitlng bfr attack' ,Fkallf' Ike defenders wore- beaten by Hbtchkiss quickfirerß, and surrendered. / kfisifitafico Iri a Another detachmutit 'ifoin tho barracks at Tophanesh (P'iophaneh, in I'ora; oil ; tho Bosphbrus frontage) barricaded thetiißelves in a mosque, and wtlro Overpowered; after a stubborn resistance, . _-. . ■ , ~ Another dbtachment of the defending troops occupied thb grounds of tlio Belgian legatidH, calisinit thb walU of thb legation to bo fiddled, with bullets, .bill tho inmates' .wefo.uninjurod, ~ ,Ah American prci'3 correspondent was WoUhdedl in> tho slibiilders wliilb "shhpslibttiag." '■.-'-. ; : ; ... - Few.lives : woro lost oiitsido tho. actual fighters. Whilb tho barracks wero .being suppressed; \v.Thb ; pdiicb at Slamlxnil (the old bity sblitHWest.of the Golden Horn) arid ih other A'.itricts urgo the peoptb to Open .their shopß.