The Turkish Trouble

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4404, 29 April 1909, Page 3

The Turkish Trouble

DETHRONEMENT OF THE SULTAN THE BEGINNING OF THE END London, April 27. Abklkrs Constantinople Agency that the dethronement of the NiPtan of Turkey,Abdul Hamid 11, has been decided upon by both the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. He will be succeeded by his brother, heir presumptive,Mehemmed Reshad Offendi, who is now sixty-five years of age.

Other reports received by London newspapers from correspondents ‘at Constantinople was hastened by the discovery of many prisoners taken, and when Yieldiz Gavir surrendered they were in possession of sums ranging from £ 5 to £2O. The Sultan is accused of distributmg £ 300,000 among the Palace garrison to encourage them to resist the advance of the Army of the Committee of Union and progress when the Sultan’s personally entourage realised that the situation was serious, that the palace guards had been dispersed, the whole court fled, leaving the Sultan alone. Many of the servants escaped to Asia Minor, while those remaining pillaged the Palace.

The Sultan has a fortune of fifty million sterling, which he has invested abroad. It is expected this has been utilised for placing the Turkish finances on a Sound basis. The Sultan stated the authors of the revolt against the Constitution were liberals whose adherents ot the decentralisation movement were helped by the league of Mahmeed. It is suspected that the chief promoters of the plot were the Sultan’s favourite son Burhan-Ed-Ren, and the eunuch Nader Aga.

London, April 27. A report received in London to day dated from Constantinople 2.3 o’clock this afternoon, stated that the firing of artillery was then proceeding, announcing to the population a change in the Sultanate guns and intimating that Abdul Hamid had been dethroned and Reshad Effendi raised to the throne instead.

Haamil Pasha’s re-actionary son, Said Pasha is a fugitive. The Sultan’s personal guards, whose surrender was cabled yesterday, were to-day conducted roped together to headquarters of the Committee of Inquiry, where they will be examined to their knowledge of the ° r ?fc DJßerß to overthrow tfeiroonatitution.

The soldiers at Erzeroum, in Turkish Armenia, arrested 50 of their leaders.