CHAOS IN TURKEY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1504, 29 July 1912, Page 5

CHAOS IN TURKEY.

NEW ORDER IN RUINS* DAYS OF THE COMMITTEE NUMBERED. UNRIPE FOR CONSTITUTIONBy Tclocrapu-Press A6sociation-Coi>yriEhl (Rec. July 28, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 2". "The. Times," in describing the present remarkable situation in Turkey, contrasts the position with the Young Turks' successes in 1908. To-day not only the Bulgarians, Greeks, and Christians, but the Albanians also arc bitterly hostile, to the'organisers of the I'JOS revolution, or rather the coterie which issued from tho revolution. Tho army has also turned against them, and tho days of tho once all-powerful caucus are apparently nuinmen. | Broadly speaking, tho situation is due to the fact that Turkey is unripe for the application of constitutional principles, and also to tho discovery that the realisation of tho programme would be complete reversal of position, placing the Turk at tho mercy of his more numerous and progressive Christian fcllow-cpuntry-irian. A MILITARY LEAGUE, SEEKS TO OUST THE YOUNG TURKS. Constantinople, July 2G. , One thousand two hundred Albanian rebels entered Prishtina, in tho taking of that town from the Turkish forces. Tho Government officials fled. The Military League at Salonica, which Beoks to oust tho Young Turk Party, prompted tho demand for. tho dissolution of tho Chamber. The Government recognises tho necessity of so doing, but seeks constitutional means of dissolving, and will endeavour to dissuade the league from resorting to violent measures. (Rcc. July 28, 5.5 p.m.) Constantinople, July 27. The conflict between : the Young Turk; and tho Slilitary League is assuming a dangerous form. The Committee of Union and Progress will not oppose tho Government if the Committee's programme is respected, but it will determinedly oppos? a dissolution, It is believed that the recent ultimatum to tho Chamber was a tuso to discredit a certain section of the army. \' ■ THE ITALIANS AT THE DOORS. . A "WELCOME" AT RHODES, (Reo. July 28, 5.5 p.m.) Athens, July 27. . General Ameglio, in replying to an ad dross of welcome at tho island oi Rhodes, recently captured by th« Italians, declared that Italy would not restore to Turkey tho Aegean Island: she had taken possession of.