FIRE IN STAMBOUL.
PALACE BURNED. PARLIAMENT SEEKS A NEW HOME, v By Telegraph—Press ;' (Rcc. January 21, 1.5 a.m.) • • Constantinople,:: January 20. . A fire which. originated jn b: room bo- : vtwoen 7 the ~ Sultan: Mahomed's;/ privat» apartments, .arid'.'the Chariiber of Deputies' destroyed tho Tcheragan Palace, which was orectod at a cost of .£4,000,000. The fire is nttribatcd to a . defoctive • • heating- apparatus,' though.suggestions"aro' : afloat ascribing it to; reactionaries.. ■i'-'-Sailors' of the Hussion-' and, . American v. gunboats were' among the . first oh -. the scene,;; and.. rendered . splendid' assistance,'; ' but:all the archives of the Chamber, con.;-' taming Bills in Committee 7 and... the Bud- - get Estimate,. were burned. / : :V. •"Parliament''wflr resume' its sittings is'V s tho Tash-kisla Barracks. ;.
' [The Tcheragan 'Palace is; the wintei: • . residence of the', Sultari;: .*'J';v Barracks were'defended, by the forces of . the reactionaries ■ when Mahrnud Chevket ■::f i Piisha inraded. the capitalwith the, Third ; ? Army Corps-last year. A hot engagement took, place * at . Tash-kisla, i-the; Constitutionalist troops winning.] . .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 721, 21 January 1910, Page 5
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159FIRE IN STAMBOUL. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 721, 21 January 1910, Page 5
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