THE NEW CABINET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9163, 11 August 1908, Page 5

THE NEW CABINET.

BERLIN AND VIENNA AMAZED. Received August 10, 9.35 p.m. LONDON, August 10. The new Turkish Cabinet is composed largely of the nominees of the Central Committee of the Union of Progress which engineered the Revolution in official circles. Berlin and Vienna are amazed at the Turkish happenings, but express no doubts as to the reformers' discretion. They believe that the appointment of foreign financial and other experts will be mooted by the Cabinet with a view to improving the finances and developing the country's resources. The late Mr W. E. Gladstone spoke of Abdul Hamid 11., the Sultan, of Turkey', as "the great assassin, and oceans of ink have been spilt in reviling him as a tyrant, Adbul goes about in hourly fear of assassination, and it is on this account that he will never sleep in the dark. His constant dread of death has made him a prey to insomnia, and he does not often sleep for more than three or four hou>-s at a time. It is said to cost hinr nearly £2OO a night to have his bedroom guarded, for the attendants entruated with this important mission are all tried retainers who receive princely salaries for their work. Many are the ruses adopted by the Sultan to escape from would-be assassins. In one of the ante-cham-bers leading to his private apartments is placed a life-sized figure of His Majesty, for the purpose of misleading any prowling revolutionary who might happen to penetrate thus far.