TURBULENT TURKEY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 79, 20 August 1912, Page 5

TURBULENT TURKEY

ATTEMPT TO LIBERATE ABDUL HA.MID. ALBANIAN DEMANDS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 19, 10.55 p.m. London, August 19. The Daily Telegraph's Constantinople correspondent- reports that 12,000 Ghats, who released criminals at Uskub. sent 3000 men, who seized Kuprillo. Another band has gone to Salonika with, it is believed, the intention of liberating Abdul Hamid. Other telegrams state that the Albanians demand restitution of arms and the impeachment of Said Hakki's Cabinet. The more responsible Albanian leaders iisavow the Uskub releases. The Government has sent fifteen trustworthy battalions to Kuprili and Salonika. The Malishnni tribes are threatening Scutari. Several Christian villages in Berani have been set afire by Turkish ■hells. MOHAMMEDAN MASSACRES. CHRISTIANS TAKE A HAND. Cettinje, August 18. Mohammedan Arnauts massacred a Christian woman and her children at Berana, and carried off the maidens as captives. The Christians retaliated by seizing two villages and razing three Turkish blockhouses to the ground. Fighting is going on day and night. The Turks have threatened to exterminate the whole Servian Christian population in the Berama district. DEFIANT ALBANIANS. Constantinople. August 18. Contrary to promises the Albanians, defying their chiefs, entered Uskub. pillaged the town and released the prisoners. OTTOMAN EMPIRE'S PERIL. GRAVE AND VIOLENT CHANGES PENDING. London, August 14. A pre® correspondent reports that the revolt in Turkey against absolute government in secret bv the Committee of Union and Progress is not merely a purely military affair, but a general outbreak among the upper classes against the domination' of the mixed international inner ring, which has bossed things up to the present. Peace with Italy, for which the Committee was negotiating quietly, is declared to be out of the question, as the military party cannot make peace. Grave and violent changes are inevitable, and Turkey may itself he face to face with the fact that the maintenance of Turkish government in Europe is no longer possible, and that the hour for the inevitable trek back to Asia Minor has come.

The Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that if civil war breaks out, no doubt Bulgaria will seize the opportunity for which it has Jong been waiting.

It was only the action of Great Britain in summoning the Congress of Berlin that prevented Bulgaria's acquisition, by the Treaty of San Stefano, of European Turkey. Bulgaria never acquiesced in the treaty, and nothing will restrain her if her traditional enemy tears herself to pieces.

It was the Treaty of San Stefano, which was concluded on March 1878, that put an end to the Russo-Turkish War. Russia was to receive the Dobrudja, Kars. Batum and other possessions, as well as a war indemnity of 300.00ft.000 rouble-. A principality of Bulgaria was to be created, extending from the Danube to the Aegean. Ronmania, Servia and Montenegro were recognised as independent. The provisions of this treaty were, however, greatly altered by the Congress of Berlin, .Tune-Julv, 1878.