CAPITULITION OF YILDIZ.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 7

CAPITULITION OF YILDIZ.

CONSTITUTIONALISTS' SUCQISS. THE SULTAN ABDUL ACCEPTS "A SALONIKAN GUARD-" ESCAPE OF GARRISON CUT OFF. ' ■! (DT TBLEOEAPn—rEESS ASSOOiiTlON—corxmpnT.) . ' (Hoc. April 27, 0.55 a.m.) • . ' ' . 'London, April 2G. . The Constantinople correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states thai after the : Salonika troops ,had captured the, barracks in Pera, they converged on Yitdiz Palace, - where were the Sultan and his entourago. ' Two large barracks, with seventeen guns, immediately outside Yildiz, surrendered : on Sunday morning 'Negotiations proceeded until noon with the remaining 4000 of the garrison, when the Sultan urged them not-to resist; When the Salonika troops entered Yildiz, they found thousands of tho garrison soldiersrcommandeering boats and ferries to take them across tho Bosphorus to the Selimich barracks, at the Asiatic suburb of Scutari,: where the anti-Constitutional garrison wero threatening to bombard Pera. Patrolling torpedo boats; however, prevented many of the Yildiz garrison; from thus escaping. Many fugitives during the evening were found in cemeteries and houses, and were shot on showing the slightest resistance. . , ( The defenders of Scutari, numbering 4000, precipitately retreated on Sunday oven« ing, after the Salonika troops had ferried tho Yildiz guns across the Bosphorus, When he" was threatened on Saturday with bombardment, the Sultan forced Tew? fik Pasha (Grand Vizier) and Edhem Pasha (Minister for War), also the next Keirs to the'throne,. to remainat Yildiz as hostages. Finally he accepted a guard of Salonika troopsj after'the capitulation of the Yildiz ■ garrison. v.; • v. / • . • .

WHITE FLAG TREACHERY. . THE TRAITORS STOMARILY SHOT. ■ (Rec. April 26/ 11.55 p.m.) Constantinople, April 26. Tho mutineers - .vho were guilty on Saturday of abuse of'the. whit© flag—by- enticing'some Salonika : infantry to advance over open ground to. receive their surrender, and. by ,'tlien opening fire—wore summarily shot. . ..Their, treachery resulted in the death of Muklital Bey and fifteen of the Salonika men.

THE KiLLED AND WOUNDED. ' I —L • TOTAL OF 2000. ' . ; (Roc. April 27, 0:55 a.m.) z London, April 26. The Constantinople corrcspoii(}ont of the "Daily Telegraph" gives the casualty list as, follows: ■< V'■ Killed ... ... ... ... 800 Wounded ' ... ... ... -1200 Total ... ... ... 2000 THE ATTACKERS' LOSS AT TAXIM. PRISONERS INTERNED. (Rec. April 26, 11.55 p.m.) Constantinople, April l 26. •' Tho Young Turk loader, -• Enver Bev, who commanded the attacking forces in the Taxim -district, admits that the attackers lost- seven; officers and 100. men at Taxim. A body of mutineers, avoiding the Salonikans' left -flank, escaped north, towards Therapia (on tho Bosphorus, fifteen, miles north-east of Constantinople). ; - : ; ' Tho rest were .disarmed, and- interned, at tho War Office, Stamboul. They greatly resent their defeat, at. tho hands of follow i Moslems. . , | Constantinople, April 25. In the attack on 'the Taxim 1 barracks,; Pera, the": killed and wounded , numbered one thousand. [ Tho • casualties.: elsowhero .were comparatively few. Mr. Moor, the American press correspondent, who was wounded by a- bullet in the shoulder while ."snapshotting," also., re-' presented! the London '"Daily Chronicle."; The wound is'.slight. The Turks imagined that he was firing' at them. Mr; Booth, representative of the London "Graphic,'' -received a lyonnd in the: head. ; ' Stray bullets killed some bluejackets on board tho Italian guardship. . MARTIAL LAV/. MOSLEM DISLIKES KILLING MOSLEM. (Rec. April 26, 11.55 p.m.) Constantinople, April 26. ; The. National Assembly, ' sitting . at San Stefano, has , agreed to the declaring of a state of , siege in Constantinople, with- the of : facilitating the making: of arrests and to .enable tho holding of trials by couii-maitial. : • ' 'The idea of Moslems, fighting Moslems is producing a deep impression, and is likely to lead.to.further trouble. ■ The defenders of Yildiz Palace stiite that the Sultan has personally advised them not; to resist tbo troops from Salonika. ■ At. midday' on. Sunday the Salonika forceß were in possession of tho Yildiz barracks] SATURDAY'S ENGAGEMENTS.

• SOME INCIDENTS. - , • Constantinople, April 25. The conduct of . Sbevket Pasha's troops is perfect; 1 and / inspires general confidence". - The garrison had planned considerable resistance, strengthening tiie ' guard-hbuses, :and even taking up'points of vantage in private bouses. . Hence street fighting ivas expected. Now it would seeni • that tho prolonged parloyings at. San Stfcfano, near Constan-. tinople, v.'crc intended to avoid fratricidal bloodshed. ' Many officers of the Constan-' tinoplq garrison did their utinosS to. hinder .resistance :by locking up guns and ammunition. ' Shevket Pasha intends to remove the entire old garrison, : the majority going to Salonika. . ' ~ , ; During Saturday morning's bombardment a shell burst on the wall adjoining the Austrian Embassy, and a fragment fell in tho Embassy courtyard. The staff was uninjured;'". ' The garrison of the fort refusing to surrender, a sha.rp fusillade followed and was kept up, which'compelled tho garrison to hoist the white flag. .. A : message sent at midnight on Saturday declares that Constantinople was never known to be so quiet. It is stated that once the military situation as cleared, nn inquiry will, be. instituted 'as to who were the authors of the revolt, and in this connection the question of the retention of At-, dul Hamid on tlic throno will be considered. AHMED RIZA PASHA POSSIBLY CRAND VIZIER. - (Rec. April 27; 0.55 aim.) Constantinople, April 16. It is reported that the veteran Young Turk Ahmed Itcza l'ashq, who was President

of the Chamber tinder the administration of Kiamil Pasha, .will be the next Grand Vizier. [Some account of Ahmed, . Kiza and his Satriotio exile . appeared in • Saturday's OMINIOX.] ' 'OVATIONS. Constdntlnopla, April 25. The population of Pcra warmly cheered' Niazi Pasha, the hero of tho Young Turk revolt at Kesni last, July, on his airival. . Shevket .Pasha, leader; of the Constitutional, troops, received an ovation 'everywhere. . , . (The-, dojngs of .Niazi Bey at Eesna, along with, biographical notes of the other Young Turk leaders, Enver Bev, and Ahmed Kiza Pasha, appeared 'in Saturday's Dominion. Therein- is quoted a remark by Enver Bey, that i he is "not a revolutionary leader, but a soldier - compelled by- circumstances to take, rjjy share tin'politics." This remark is quite in tno spirit ■ of the self-denying ordinance which, according /to a cablegram received on Saturday, the Coini mittee of Union; and-Progress at Salonika has ' passed." The committee,, which' denies having influenced the military leaders, has (it is cabled) instructed all'its members to withdraw ; from the,army. "Whoever-remains in the army ■ must be under ,military orders."]

\ RELICIOUS FIREBRANDS. ; SOME ARRESTED AND SOME BILLED. STAMBOUL REJOICES. : (Rec. April 27, 0.5 a,m.), Constantinople,. April 26., ; During .their entry into Stamboiil the Salonjkans drove many hodjas from the mosques,.; Some were arrfested and some were filled, despito; their sacro-sanctity. The populaco of the city are joyful. There ;are bonfires and : illuminations. Everyone' is .with' th? organisation and discipline of : the victors..

THE MASSACRES CONTINUE. FOREIGN CONTINGENTS. ' ' (lie?. 'April 2G, 10.5 p.m.) : v Constantinople, April 26. ' The landing of foreign bluejackets -Las re-, , stored order at, tho Levantine. seaport of : Alexandre tta, but 'Armenians, in the neighbouring districts,, including Dortigol, are still .being massacred. . : t : The. captains of foreign- warships have sent 400 Turkish troops to tho relief of Dortigol, whero the Christians nro besieged.