THE TURKISH OUTBREAK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3165, 16 April 1909, Page 5

THE TURKISH OUTBREAK.

CABIE NEWS.

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, » MUTINEERS JUBILANT. Received April 15, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, April 14. Keuter's Agency reports that Iquil Keiril Bey, leader of the Liberal Union, has been appointed VicePresident of the Council. The majority of the garrison remained outside Parliament an} the War Office throughout the night, continuous firing being kept up in honour of the acceptance of the military and ecclesiastic!;! demands. These ineluJed the removal from Constantinople of Djahid, editor of the "Tanim." The fact that the majority oi the deputies in Parliament belong to the Committee of Union renders the future obscure. The Sheik-ul-lslam, who acted as a pacificator; retains his post. BULGARIA RESTIVE. Received April 15, 8.5 a.m. SOFIA, April 14. A semi-official announcement has been made at Sofia that should the unsettled condition in Turkey delay the recognition of Bulgarian independence, the Government will be forced to act.

ORDER RESTORED. TROOPS SALUTE THE DEPUTIES. Received April 15, 8,26 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 14. Javer Pasha, commandant at Constantinople, has succeeded Mahmud Mukhtar, as commander of the First Army Corps. Order is now restored. The troops salute tbe deputies, ■howing that the movement is not aimed at the Constitution. The processioniats on Tuesday asked the Sultan to go to Stamboul, and wear the green turban, as a t)ken of respect for religion.

The Adrianople branch of the Committee of the Uni'jn has been dissolved. AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE. Received April 15, 8.5 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 14. Nazim Pasha, Minister ©f Justice, was killed in mistake for the Minister of War (Riza Pasha). AH the Zouaves and Albanians who have been stationed at the Yilcliz Kiosk ior years were last week removed to other towns to avoid a repetition of the recent insubordination. The Sultan reluctantly consented to the removal, but apparently the trouble was deeper seated than the Committee of Union and Progress estimated. Every day since 24th July last has (says the London "Times" correspondent) seen the Sultan's authority mora shadowy and that of the Committee stronger. There can be no doubt that the Sultan is ior the time being completely "collared"; he has no hope of being rescued from his position by the reactionaries; the troops of the Committee surround and watch him, and the searchlights of the Committee's ships haunt his dreams. He remains alive only by grace of the committee. Having always believed tbe Sultan to be a very clever man, we think he is clever enough now to play well the part given to him by the committee. The danger to the constitution does not come immediately from the Sultan, but from the Committee itself, which may by blundering give the reactionaries an opporuoity too easy and tempting to be misled. The Committee controls all the Ministers as well as the Sultan; it appoints officers to the army; and it dominates the free press which.has sprung into existence in the last five months. More than this, it has "made" the elections quite as effectually as they were ever "made" by a French prefect, and probably much more effectually.

PRINTING HOUSES WRECKED, SECOND ARMY CORPS FAVOURS A REVOLUTION. Received April 16, 12.35 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 15. An infuriated crowd yesterday completely wrecked the printing offices of the "Shuraiurnmet" and "Tanim." __ Troops prevented the storming of the club house of the Union and Progress Committee. A battalion of troops marched to Yildiz Kiosk, and cheered the Sultan, who appeared nt a window and informed them that their demands had been accepted. He advised them to remain quiet and confident. The mutineers have since stopped their continuous discharge of musketry and returned to the barracks. The difficulty of the situation is the extreme antipathy shown towards expelled officers, who lately neglected their duties and engaged in political wire-pulling. Edhem Pasha had a courageous interview with the mutineers, and persuaded them to accept Tewfik Pasha temporarily as Premier. The second army corps at Adrianople has declared in favour of a revolution.