TURKEY'S TRIALS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 73, 22 April 1909, Page 2

TURKEY'S TRIALS

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YOUNIi TURKS TAKIXI! NO CHANCES. Constantinople, April 20. Izzet reports thai the Young Turks' forces reiterate their demands and that they intend to send five battalions to assist the authorities at Constantinople for the niaintalnunec of order. BRITISH BLUEJACKETS LANDED AT MKSSIXA. Athens, April 20. Mukhtar l'asha has reached Athens aboard a Herman vessel. He states Hint the Ministry and Parliament were l"o cowardly to proclaim a state of soiee, otherwise the revolt would have been nipped in the hud. »w British warships landed 800 bluejackets at Mersina, 11 seaport on the Levant. SULTAN'S YACHT UNDER STEAM. THE INFESTING' ARMY. HPLKNIMDI.V DISCIPLINED AND EQUIPPED. Received April 21, 10 p.m. Constantinople, April 21. The Sultan's yacht, after getting up steam, took ammunition aboard. Husni Pasha, commander of the Salonika troops, has issued a proclamation addressed to the garrison and inhabitants, assuring them of the safety ot lives and property. Hnsni's troops are spread in a semicircle within calling distance of the walls of Constantinople, and intersecting all round thence. The force is well fed disciplined and confident. Military attaches arc amazed at the excellent equipment, including field telegraphs, hospitals, and supply trains.

PREPARATIONS FOB TAKING THE CITY. \ AS ABLE COMMANDER. PRECAUTIONS Kill PRESERVING ORDER. Received April 21, 10.50 p.m. Constantinople, April 21. All Husni'a requisitions of food and live stock are paid for in cash. One attache counted 30 machine guns, and another learns that the corps has 00 field pieces and is well horsed. iinani considers that besides taking the city they must be able to patrol and control it. The city contains a niillun inhabitants, with many dangerous mob elements. RELIGIOUS REACTIONARIES. Received April 21, 10.50 p.m. Constantinople, April 21. Trainsful of visitors arriving at Saustfranc yesterday included many secret agents seeking to converse with the troops. Fifty were arrested, several of whom were 'disguised ashadjis. Jinny bodjas, hadjis, and softas, whose subversive preachings were responsible for Tuesday' outbreak, lied to Asia Minor. THE FALLEN SULTAN. ACCEPTS THE INEVITABLE Wild EQUANIMITY. AWAITING THE CONSTITUTIONALIST ARMY. ORDERS THAT IT BE NOT OPPOSED. Received April SI, 11.30 p.m. Constantinople, April 21. Tewfik Pasha, the Premier, was the onlv counsellor received in audience at Yildiz. tic spent :«) of the last 4H hours with the Sultan, who is secluded in his favorite pavilion. He professes to await the arrival of the Constitutionalist Army with benevolence and iM|uanimi)y. Tewllk declares that the Sultan usi* nothing to lose, gain, or fear, since he was the supreme guardian of the Constitution. The Sultan lias ordered that not a shot shall lie fired against the Committee's forces. BRITISH BATTLESHIPS ORDERED TO TURKEY. Received April 21, 11.SI0 p.m. London, April 21.

Admiral Cui'son-Howc, aboard (lie battleship Occult, with the battleship CanopiH and the cruiser Minerm, stationed at Malta, has started for Turkey. Other ships have been ordeml to lioid themselves in readiness, CITY SURROUNDED. CAUIXET DtSCUSSINT, BESlla>r,l(S TEIUIS. THE SULTAN'S CHOICE. Received April 21, 11.53 p.m. Constantinople, April 21. iThe city is practically surrounded. Another force, with several heavy guns, from Tchataldja, is also approaching. The Cabinet is discussing Humi's terms. One report states that the Sultan was allowed until to-night to abdicate. THE ASIA MINOR MASSACRES, SUOO DEATHS IN VICINITY OF ADANA. DISTRICT IS A STATE OF ANARCHY. Received April 21, 11.30 p.m. Constantinople, Aprrt 21. Consular telegrams estimate that there have been 2000 deaths at Admin, a'ld 3000 elsewhere in the Vilayet, which is in a state of anarchy. The position at imash is still precarious, owing to renewed attacks on Armenians. A SHAMBLES. ARMENIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN MUTILATED. AUTHORITIES' ACQUIESCENCE. ■ Received April 21, 11.30 p.m. Constantinople, April 21. Advices from Larumiea state that the massacre nt Adana began in tile markets on Wednesday. A Moslem mob, impelled by fanaticism and a desire for ' loot, killed live Armenians. The Armenians withdrew to their own «|uartcr, and resisted the mobs for 4S ' hours. Hordes of Moslem villagers then - : arrived and were supplied with arms I by the authorities, who affected to re- ' jjard them as a military reserve. ! Women and children were horribly ntu- ' tilated, and the town reseinbied a ' shambles. (

similar scenes occurred at Tarsus, where 41)110 took refuge in the American college.

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SULTAN .MAY NOT ABDICATE. YOUXti TUIUCS MOUECONCILIATOtn SUPPOSED AUSTItOOEIiJIAX INFLUENCE. lvceivod April 22, 12 :■ • •• "i Vicn:. 21. Immeiise surprise was .. \'|. 'e:inu by statments made '. astrian official telegraph agency ii;:.i a more conciliatory mood was apparent amonv the Young "fiirks. ami tl '..: !•,.'■ mid was likely lo be mai . ' This is interpreteil as po! nine diplomatic intervention, p.iiwiolv Herman or Ainlro-dornmn.' i London, Apr,l :'!. Tin- Times' Vienna correspondent •. i: , I hat the Herman Ambassador is v.-povt-ed In be using nil bis inlliienre with the Cii.i-taiitiuople memliers of liie late (~m . iniilc'c of I'nion with a view to retaining the Sultan.