THE REVOLUTION IN TURKEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3037, 6 November 1908, Page 4

THE REVOLUTION IN TURKEY.

An interesting article giving the Turkish view of the Turkish revolution appears in the "Nineteenth Century." The writer is A. Rustem Bey de Bilinski, who was formerly Turkish Charge d'Af"aires in Washington. The Young Turkey Party had expected some three or more years would be necessary to bring the army to the point of general revolt. But, the writer says, "What hastened the event is gthat the indescribably wretched condition which has been the lot of the Turkish soldier under the autocracy of Yildiz, and which none but men of his admirably patient and disciplined race would have endured so long, became at last intolerable to him when he was brought into contact with his fellow-subjects of the Macedonian Gendarmerie whose treatment, . under European supervision, formed such a contrast to his own." So, it appears, it was European intervention which indirectly set the ball of revolution rolling. The movement spread from Macedonia to the other troops. The Young Turkish Party promptly adjusted movement to its own purposes and transformed it into a political rising; The equally sudden acceptance of the revolution by the Sultan was equally unexpected. He adapted himself to the new situation, and, shedding the despot, entered into the skin of a constitutional sovereign with a facility and good grace which came as a revelation even to those most intimately acquainted With him.