TURKISH REFORMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 190, 1 August 1908, Page 6

TURKISH REFORMS.

HOW TUJi MUITAN WA« I.'OHESTALLED. YOUNG 'iUKKS AJXD -MACKI)U.N'J.\. Constantinople, .lulv 3». Jllii report en Wed yesterday t'liai the V'!'«S Turkish Party han u sltvcl u„. mil agents of tin, |<o„er 3 tu withdrawIrani .Macedonia us foreign gendar""•no was not needed was |„ised on a misconception.

OIIK-crs bvlouging to the Vnuns u, kisli Party had agreed („ s |,„ (lL U|( , Su( . <«" at the ceremony of (|, t . JSeluiiiliU and to proclaim his brother, licsc'liad .SulLitK Wlich the Sultan learned of Ui« conspiracy, lie forestalled it l, v granting the Constitution.

J'or some year* it lias generally been iveopised that German diplomacy was »i this ascendant at Constantinople, but he men ciiU of Said Pas«a ainf K.,imil ti«e of the British in the Empire. Tile smnmury „f Hi.- incident „| l'.pei at the tinipj-Kiiimil I'ash,,-once t-iiuiil \izicr to the Sultan, and a (Wdl efflniulc ot the respectable old** link.*], school, f e jl out of favor „„,i,c ■'lie ago, and was ordered to Aleppo. Vleppo lias an ill-name for Turkish U es so be succeeded in getting himself cut to Aidin, the province in which '"i.vrnii is situated, and of this pronice Ire remained Vaii till the other >iy. He. is now eighty years old, and las liecn called upon to surrender his '"St, lihodes being assigned to him as us place of residence, Modes, howvcr, bears as ill a name as Aleppo, nd, remembering the fate of Midhat, ml iollowuig the example of Said asna, Kiamil has sought sanctuary in he British Embassy at Smyrna 'and ctuses to move till the Sultan has ;ivcu the British Charge d'Aiiaires asuranecs of his safety . The fact that us son, to whose misdeeds he is said o have owed the loss of his Valiship, las been received into high favor at 'ontautinoplc, has naturally made the Id man suspicious, more especially as ic has powerful enemies at court, and as always represented a policy the opositc of x\Ubul Hamid's. The assignees he seeks will no doubt be given, nd, being assurances to Britain, the "Han Jare not go back on liis word; ut the whole incident shows that the Iritish flag is still regarded in the 'urkish Empire as the protection of hose who stand in fear of injustice."