DEMOCRACY WINS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 72, 21 April 1909, Page 2

DEMOCRACY WINS.

CONSTITUTIONALISM UPHELD THE SULTAN ABDICATES MILITARY DESPOTISM ENDED. I!Y THE All) OK THE ARMY. Keceived 21, 1.3 a.m. O'oimlanthiople, April 211. Widespread rumors of the deposition of the Sultan caused great excitement in Constantinople, and an ultimate feeling of relief in view of its appar-

ent Innvitableness; PRIXCE RESHAD SUCCEEDS TO THE THRONE. THE SI'LTAX PROSTRATED. .Received 21, 1.3 a.m. Constantinople, April 20. The Sultan is prostrated. He -expressed his desire to abdicate, and the .proclamation announcing the change of .the thtonv was drafted in the piestMce of his brother, Prince Meheiuiiied-Reshad, the heir presumptive. THE COMMITTEE 01-' UNION'S PLANS. UPHOLDING THE CONSTITUTION'. PUNISHMENT (IE REACTIONARIES. THE OUTBREAK IX ASIA MINOR. Constantinople, April Hi. The Committee at Salonika is pursuing linn but moderate plans. Jt is anxious to avoid a civil war and prevent foreign intervention. Several thousands ol its' forces, including the Adrianople contingent, also 24 maxims and lield batteries, are at Spavtakeni, and a thousand at Keinikjia under Saiiilansky. The Committee's advance guard of ÜBU has reached Kutcluik.

The .Sultan mid the Ministry are almost in a state of panic. Mustuti Elfeudi, Deputy at Alleppo, has been appointed l'resident of the Chamber. .Many telegrams from the provinces, including one from Anatelia, were read in the Chamber protesting against the anti-constitutional Cabinet. The Macedonian army demands and guarantees the maintenance of the constitution.

The Committee explains that Kiamil's fall was due to his subversion to his sou.

Said Pasha, a Palace favorite under the old regime, emphasises that the outbreaks iu Asia -Minor are the result of the overthrow of the Committee ol Union's authority. The absence of the Uadenikeus' artillerists, who have gone to Constantinople, enabled the Salonika battalions to slip through the fortifications and reach Sparlakeni and Kutchnk, which are IS miles from Constantinople.

Other reports state that the Committee's advance guard of 301)11 has reached San Stefano.

Over a thousand were killed at Adana. including 7<jo Armenians, fire destroyed half the town. The situation is better, though Tarsus is iu a critical position. Twenty were killed at Harass, where there is an important Armenian mission.

llusni Pasha, commander of tha Salonika troops, telegraphed to the foreign embassies that the soldiers are inarching

to Constantinople and desire a ttellnite re-establishment of the constitution and punishment of the authors. He is sanguine that in the midst of the disorders the lives and property of foreigners shall be safeguarded. Kascr Corfu, one of the Committee's leaders, interviewed at Salonika, said hit party won't threaten the military dictatorship until the country is tranquil and Stamboul is swept of its fanatical element at any cost.

AN IXCOXFIRMED REPORT. SULTAN' XKtiOTIATTXO To ABDICATE. Vienna, April 111. The Xciics Wiener Tagblatl publishes an imeonlinm.il report that tlie Sultan is iu negotiation with tlie Committee jn regard to tile question of nbdiciition of the throne. AX IMPROVING SIGN. DISSENSION IX THE REACTIONARIES' RANKS. l<ondon, April 10. Renter slates that the Committee telegraphed to tlie Sultan upbraiding him for violation of his oath to maintain tlie constitution. Enner Hey declares that the Liberal Union must' be courtmartialled. The. Times states that upper and educated JUahoniedan clergy have joined the Liberal Union for tile preservation of order and restoration of peace at Constantinople. The garrison, winch is repentant, and the Liberal Union have separated from the reactionaries owing to the brutality of the latter in killing sixteen officers.

Tlie Daily Telegraph denies thai Tract Fund, Assistant .Minister for War, was murdered.

COXSTAXTIXOPLIC (!ARRISOX (lIVINC, WAV. DIRECTED TO AVOID HOSTILITIES. Received April 21, I.S n.m. Constantinople, April 2ft. J'liiitv thousand troops, with a large contingent of artillery, are concentrated (it llademkeu, and hold the line from Aansto l'anio to Dandpadhe barracks. The outposts are falling back on Constantinople, or surrendering. Mahniud Shevkct Pasha lommonds the Third Army Corps and directs operations.

Xa/.im Vasha ordered the Ivii'st Army Corps to avoid collision with the advancing force, unless attacked. Some Macedonians insist on the Gillian's abdication "s preliminary to negotiations with Xazim Tasha and the llovernmeilt.

Ti'wiik l'nsha, in tlii' Chamber, explained that In- liml assumed office in order tn savi' the country and constilulion, which evenbody believed to be endangered liy recent' events. Thi' Chamber unanimously postponed discus-ion of his programme.

sI'LTAXS AUDICATION KiXKIKJIKI) natuiai. !!Ksri;r iir ' :^vs KAII.l'ltK. ((IMMITTKK Of INION TAKIXC Nil IIISKS. Mi'iii; iiuioDsiiKi) as; ; .. r:i>. Received 21. 1.23 a.m. London. Apr I •"' The Times' Vienna correspondent ••\\.-- eonllnniitlon of the Sultan's abdication in favor of Prince llcshad. it was generally expected Hint it would lie the natural epilogue to the failure of Tuvsday's coup against the Committee, who were not expected to allow Ahd-ul-liaui-id a further opportunity of undermining their position. It now appears there was an element of bitterness in the minik of the Committee, which was absent in duly. Many of the oflicors at the gates of Constantinople will lie vagor to avenge the blood of (heir murdered comrades. UKACTIOXAHY PLOT THAT (■AII.KI). WHOLKSAI.K MI'IiDKUKOF Ytll'Xii TUIIK DI-I'RKHS. Wived 21. 1.25 a.m. London, April 20. Ollicial telegrams mention a report from military sources that 220 Young Turk oflicers, including lt |i t| lo „n,l C ers o? a cavalry regiment, were murdered last week by the men. TIIK XKW SI'LTAX. IXKXPKItIEXCKI). Hi T UuXKyr-. Received 21, 1,25 a.m. „ . _ . . 'loudou, April* 20, & Friliea V-sUCliiiJ

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RUSSIA KAYORK TUB PEOPLE'S CAI.SE. Received 21, 1.25 it.iii. Si. Petersburg, April 20. Opinion in Russia :« entirely favorable to the Consliliin'oiial cause j,", Turkey. lAbdul-rinniiiL 11, Sulinn of Turkey, was born in )SJ>. H,. „-.is p, claimed Sulinn in succession to In* lirothcr, jliirml V, who was deposed in r.insi'i|in>n«' o:' lik mental incapacity "II August 3UI. )S7li. Till" sucees-io'i to llii' thrum-, according to Turkish i-us-torn, vets in tin- senior mall- descendant of tin- house of Olhmaii, sprung from the Imperial Harem. The Sultan does not many, hut from the inmates of the Harem selects ;i certain number who mi- known as Ladies of tile I'a lace, the oth.'is occupying positions subordinate to dieni. The eldest sou of the Sultan only succeeds when there are no uncles or cousins of greater age than liiimolf. The Sultan has several children, the eldest being Seliiu-EfTendi, bom 1870. Mis brothers are the heir-presuinptive Keslied, who was born in 1844, ami Is thus (i.'i veins of agej Suleiman, horn in ISUO, and AValiid-Uddin, born 18U1.]