TURKEY'S TROUBLES.
INTERNAL DISSENSION.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. —OopyrißJit Constantinople, Thursday. The Cabinet has resigned. Four battalions of Turks were surrounded near Diakovo by an overwhelming force of Albanians, including a large proportion of Mirdites. Three hundred surrendered and were disarmed. The remainder retreated on Diakovo.
TEWFIK BECOMES PREMIER.
DISCONTENT WITH COMMITTEE.
London, Thursday. Cabinet's resignation waß due to itß inability to accept Mahmud Mukhtar's conditions of acceptance of the portfolio of, War—namely, the withdrawal of troops from Albania and the inauguration of a policy of trust. Additional reasons are the insistence of the demands of mutinous officers, the spread of the Albanian rising, and growing discontent with the Committee of Union and Progress.
Tewfik Pasha, Ambassador to England, has been recalled and given a free hand in the formation of a Cabinet.
Tewfik Pasha becomes Grand Vizier, and Nazim Pasha Minister for War. It is hoped thbt the formation of a neutral Cabinet, with the retirement of the Young Turk leaders, will ensure the co-operation of all parties.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 484, 20 July 1912, Page 5
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168TURKEY'S TROUBLES. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 484, 20 July 1912, Page 5
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