TURKISH CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 61, 30 July 1912, Page 5

TURKISH CRISIS.

ALBANIA IN REVOLT. REBEL SUCCESSES. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Received 29, 9.25 p.m. Constantinople, July 29. The Porte has resolved to dissolve Parliament constitutionally when the Chambers exhaust their power to resist certain Bills. Meanwhile a manifesto to the Albanians announces that the employment of armed force agai»st them will hereafter be forbidden, promises annual elections, and empowers a oommission to arrange reforms. Hassan's recent entry of Prishtina was unopposed on the Porte's instructions, in pursuance of a policy of conciliation.

During the confusion consequent on the entry, a number of prisoners escaped, seized arms and fired on the gehdarmeg. Eighteen were killed and seventeeh wounded.

Both sides finding the Ministry pliant, Hassan proclaimed himself DirectorGeneral.

A rebel movement with a force of fifty thousand seizpd the telegraphs, and the Turkish official were everywhere expelled. The rebels control the whole province except Ipek. with the tacit consent or overt co-operation of a large.portion of the local forces. They demand the dissolution of the Chamber.

It transpires that the Malissori plainsmen attacked two battalions between Tchernoleva and Grizrend. Some troops deserted, and others surrendered. Three hundred, including many officers belonging to the Committee of Progress and Union, were killed, and six hundred taken prisoners. A thousand rifles and twenty-five loads of ammunition were captured. There are indications that the whole of Albania has risen against the Committee. The troops are mostly more hostile to the Committee than to the insurgents.

The Times' Vienna correspondent says that the Turkish crisis is being closely watched in some circles, for fear that the growing chaos will severely strain pacific intentions in some of the Balkan States, or cause the Turks to welcome an enemy less inaccessible than Italy as a means of restoring discipline and unity in the Ottoman armv.