REVOLUTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 67, 15 April 1909, Page 3

REVOLUTION.

DRAMATIC RISING IX TURKEY. TROOPS DICTATE TO PARLIAMENT. Constantinople, April 13. ■ A revolt has occurred at Constantinople. Two battalions of troops surrounded the Parliament Buildings and demanded the dismissal of the Grand Vizier, President of the Chamber, and the Minister of War. The situation is grave. The insurgent troops, who were quartered at the Ministry for War, inarched at dawn to the Mosque Saint Sophia, thence to the Parliament Buildings. Serious disturbances and panic prevail. The shops are closed. The immediate cause of the trouble is not disclosed. A private message received in Loudon states that there are, no oilicers •with the insurgents. TRIUMPH Of THE ARMY. RESIGNATION OF CABINET. CAUSE 01" THE REVOLUTION, Received April 14, 10.5 p.m. Constantinople, April 14. The immediate cause of the revolution was an order given to fire on co-religion-ists under ah circumstances, and the officers attempting to abolish the inclusion of the Sultan's name in the daily prayer. . . The soldiery murdered Deputy-Emir Arslan, who closely resembled Hussein Djahid, editor of a Young Turkish newspaper, The Grand Vizier, the Cabinet President, and Deputies have resigned, and the Sultan has accepted the resignations.

MOSLEMS IN CONTROL. OVERTHROW OF THE YOUNG TURKS. SOME CABINET; MINISTERS KILLED. IS THE SULTAN~AN ACCOMPLICE? Received April 14, 10.5 p.m. London, April 14. The Times' Constantinople correspondent, telegraphing at a late hour, stated that the Committee of Union and Progress had fallen, and that the Jeuueti Mahomedich, or League oi Maliomed, backed by the rank and file of •the First Army Corps is in a large majority. The Moslems are masters of the eituation. The soldiery wounded tne Minister oi Marine and killed the Minister of Justice. The leaders of the Committee are in hiding. It is rumoured that the soldiery are around Parliament and have acclaimed Tewlik Pasha (the present Mhister of Foreign Affairs) Premier, and Edhein Bey Minister of War, the appointments representing the wish of the Sultan. A COUP. V TROOPS DEMANDS GRANTED. > MUTINEERS PARDONED BY THE SULTAN. '*■ I,'ectived 14, 11.58 p.m. Constantinople, April 14. Mutineers invaded Stamboul at midnight, and by morning the greater part of the garrison of Constantinople and the Haloiha Rifles (hitherto the mainstay of the Committee of Union) and many civilians armed with revolvers •were surrounding Parliament'. The mutineers' officers were gagged and imprisoned in barracks, and the mutineers commanded by a aon-commissioned officer. They' cheered the Sultan and demanded that the State should respect the Sheriat, or sacred law. A few artillery and cavalry remained faithful, and massed before the Ministry for War, using ouickfirers to intimidate the crowd. Seventy were killed and 20 wounded. The latest Teports state that the exMinister for War is a prisoner, and the mutineers are barricading the approaches to Parliament. Edham Pasha, accompanied by cheering troops and baads, proceeded to Stamboul. , After the resignations, the Sultans Irade was read in the Chamber, pardoning the mutineers avid announcing that the Sheriat would be observed in future. The Chamber cheered the, massage. • The unrest of the troops is not confirmed in the capital. A conspiracy against the Committee of Union in Albania in the interests of (Albanian autonomy is being fostered.