TURKISH AFFAIRS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 500, 6 May 1909, Page 5

TURKISH AFFAIRS.

SULTAN'S ECONOMY, SAVES THE STATE £5000 A MONTH. MINISTERIAL POSITION. (DT TBLEaiUI'H—IEESB XBSOC|,\TIOM—CorTBIOnT.) Constantinople, May 4. Towfik Pasha's Cabinet has resignod. Hilmi Pasha, wlio was Grand Vizier at tho tinio of tho Constantinople garrison's outbreak nn April 13 (which caused his CabiilotV resignation)) \rill probably bo rcappoiutod to the position. • (Roo. May 5, 30.30 p.m.) Constantinople, May 5. ■ Towfik Poßha will remaiii in oflioo until after tho ceremony of investing tho Sultan Mohamined V with the Sword of Osman. London, May 5. Renter reports that Mohammed V rolinquishos £5000, or 20 per cent, of hb .'monthly' civil list. i The Turkish Chamber warmly applauded fho - announcement of tho Sultan's action. THE CHIEF EUNUCH'S DISCLOSURES, IS IT THE KAISER? ;. THE MIGRATION OF A HAREM. Constantinople, May 4. Nadir Aga, who was Chief Eunuch to the deposed Sultan Abdul Hamid, and who was implicated in the reactionary plot, was sentenced to death, and then reprieved. Willi his help considerable sums of money were discovered at Yildiz Palace, and also Abdul Hamid's correspondence with the Sovereign of a Groat Power, The exodus of Abdul Hamid's harem continues. Forty-five oarriagos, each containing two or threo women and children,: left Yildia Kiosk in a single day.