HOSTILITIES COMMENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 76, 26 April 1909, Page 2

HOSTILITIES COMMENCE.

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DEADLY iIOTLHKISS FIRE. UUMPELS DEFENDERS TO SI'RREX- ■! DEK. VERY FEW CIVILIANS KILLED. Received 2">, 4.30p.iu. Constantinople, April 25, fl'he Taxim barracks, in the centre of Pera, resisted for three hours. The de- . > fenders' bullets 'Were sweeping the main" t streets, but they were finally beaten by the JloU'hkiss lire and surrendered. Another detaehmeut at Tophanesh barracks were only overpowered after r a stubborn resistance. 'Another detachment occupied the grounds of the Belgian Legation, callable "• the walls of the Legation to be riddled with bullets. The inmates were uninjured. An American correspondent wai wounded in the shoulders while snapshotting. i Tew liven were lost outside the actual > lighters. While the barracks were being sup- v \ Stressed, the police from Stamboui and a other districts urged the people to open | their shops. ? Shevket sent contingents to lamtd and Eskishcr to prevent tlie Anatolin troops, who were favorable to the Bul- ~ tun, from approaching Constantinople ! Unrest prevails at Scutari, Mitrovitca, . Avilona and Uskuh, due to the Albanian ' League. TREACHEROUS DEFENDERS. FIRING UNDER FLAW OF TRUCE. \ SPEEDY RETRIBUTION. J Received 20, 0.30 a.m. 1 "4 Constantinople, April 25. ;I The artillerymen at Taxim treadier- \ ously hoisted a white flag and enticed J the Salonika infantry over some opell <j ground in order to receive their surren- 'S : tier. They then opened fire, compelling' the Salonikaus to retreat. J Thereupon the Salonikaus shelled the 1 barracks, which the assailants rushed,—"J i and desperate hand-to-hand fighting fol« ; l lowed in the courtyard, and in the cemt« i i terv at the rear. \ YILDIZ KIOSK HOLDING OUT. ! 1 I ULTIMATUM TO HIE SULTAX.

SURRENDER Oil BOMBARDMENT. .j Received 20, 0.33 a.m. J London,. April 2J. '.'J Renter',! Constantinople correspondent « telegraphing at eight o'clock last even- i ing. reported that complete tranquility a reigns in tlie city, but anxious looks arg* turned in the direction of Yildiz Kioik, J where a portion of the garrison refute* "3 to submit. .1 Shevket concentrated large force*, L round the palace. Troops have poured in since noon, and several batteries »re : planted on the heights, s The fleet has relumed and is anchored ' oposit,. \ildiz, ready to co-operate with the S'liloniakns. , « Shevket sent au ultimatum to the Sul* -s tan, to the effect that unless Ylldiz 1 Kiosk was surrendered, it would be l)om- ,j barded from sea and and land. M TIIIC MASSACRES IN ASIA MIXOB. 1!) PROTESTANT .MISSIONARIES 1 KILLED. .| Received 20, 4 p.m. .1 Constantinople. April 24. k% During the massacre in the villajiit' of Adana, nineteen Protestant pas tori 1 were killed. e -Massacres continue at Antiocli and in'i many Armenian villages, " 'i Rioting has broken out at Alexiad- i retta.

PROBABLE IXTERVEXTIOX. ' J Received 2.i, 4 p.m. ; J London, April U. *' The I nited States Government en; quired from Sir Edivard Orey how fMJ J iurkey. in accordance with the Berlin l " Treaty, is taking steps to atop thit ; wholesale slaughter. •\,'i AX IXIIAPPY RULER. J THE OVERTHROW OF THE OLD I REGIME. j When, in July last, Kerid Pasha, (•rand A i/.icf; urged the Comniader of .1 the faithful to sign a decree reviving the Constitution suspended by Abdul & Humid I. over thirty years ago, the lat- $ ter became furious, and vOwt-d never to J deny the true faith by Weit- : l ern idea. 1 There 'tile incident might have eloiod $ had .not the wnerable Sheik-ul-Islam, 4* the niont exalted dignatar.v of the faith in all Turkey, hurried into the study' 3 of his sovereign with news iroui Uslttb that the Albanians lmd taken the BeiUL h or oath, to ic-establish the Constitll-' tion imposed years ago upon Abdul 3 Jlauuds predecessor by his (irami Vizier.' Mid hat Pauha. The effect of this newt' i was like that of a tliunderholt upon the 1 Sultan. Abdul llamid accused fericl j Insha, who is an Albanian himself, of t being in the plot. Again he refused to <■} j have anything to do with the revival of .* the old Constitution. The Sheik-ul- j Islam, the wily .leinal-cd-din, is Hie only 7 man in Turkey who has no dread of hit sovereign's anger, for the Sheik is tho f spiritual ruler of the Ottoman doniinions with power to declare the "edict* § of the Sultan himself, in certain eases, ■ ? null and void. Unable to depend upon a he loyalty of his army, and "gnashing i Ins teeth. «s one neeount says, tlw I Sultan dismissed IVrid Pasha 'in di*- 1 grace and placed 'himself ior the tim« } being i;i the hands of the ,Slicik-ul. J Islnm. ' fl

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