TROUBLE IN TURKEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3168, 20 April 1909, Page 5

TROUBLE IN TURKEY.

; ARTILLERIST'S MUTINY, EXCURSION TO SEE THE SULTAN. Unified Press Association—By Electric Telegraph' Copyright. Received' April 19, a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 18. Twelve hundred artillerists at Hademkanii mutinied, seized their officers, ana fchsn proceeded by train to Constantinople to assure themselves that the Constitution was maintained, and to see if th-j Sultan was alive. On arrival 1 at the capital they marched to the War Office, where they partook uf refreshments. Thence they marched to Parliametn Square, where the ActingPresident made a reassuring speech. Afterwards the troops cheered the Sultan, and then returned by train to Hademkam. Stray bullets on Tuesday and Wednesday wounded 574 persons in Constantinople, and killed 17. A number of officers were intentionally killed. It is yet unknown whether General Izzet Fuad, assistant Minister for War, was murdered on Friday evening..

ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE LIBERAL. UNION. THE • PORTE'S INTENTIONS. Received April 19, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, April 18. It is reported that Emmir Bey and Hakki Bey, who were leaders of the revolution that led to the establishment of the Constitution in July last,, have arrived at Salonica from Vienna. They accuse the Liberal Union of siding with the reactionaries in the revolution, and advocating the ptot for the restoration of Kiamil Pasha, in which the Sultan is also concerned^

They claim that the whole of the cavalry' is siding with the reconstructed committee, and state that the Albanians have abandoned their local struggles, and are ready to march on Constantinople. in the course of a speech at Glasgow, the Prime Minister (Mr Asqiiith) said the Turkish Government hail assured the British Government that it intended to adhere strictly to the Constitution. ■>'*'£"** If Turkey turned aside from the policy of reform and just administration, British smypathy,«said the Premier, would be entirely withdrawn.

BRITISH VICE-CONSUL WOUNDED. Received April 19, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, April 18. Major Doughty Wylie, British at Adana.was wounded. It is rumoured that several hundred persons were killed, inluding two American missionaries.. TROOPS MARCHING ON CONSTANTINOPLE. Received April 19, 10 p.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, Apri) 19. The Ministry df War, applying to the troops from Erzeroum (a town in Turkish Armenia, not far from KaraSu or western , source of the Euphrates) and Trebizond (the capital of a province of north-east Asia Minor, and a flourishing Black Sea port), received a reply that the Fourth Army Corps had decided to march to Constantinople and restore the Constitution. The Ottoman Bank ordered the Salonica branch to send .all cash to Constantinople. - The commandant of the Third Army Corps thereupon placed an embargo on £6,000. deposited in the branch for the administrative reqirements of three vilayets. Upward of 10,000 Salonica and other troops have arrived at Tchatliaja and have informed a deputation that they would refrain from entering Constantinople only if protection was granted to the Salonica deputies, enabling v them to resume their duties and the ringleaders of the uprising punished to prevent a recurrence of such an event. sent Izau Pasha, Chief of the general staff, to parley with the troops.

TWO THOUSAND PERSONS MASSACRED. Received April 19, 11.30 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, April 19. . The newspaper "Russ" learns that the Turcomans massacred 2,000 persons at Astfabad, including women and children, after a fight with the revolutionaries. The newspaper adds that Russia is sending a detachment of troops to Astrabad.

THE ADANA OUTBREAK. ARMENANS MAKE A DESPERATE RESISTANCE. WARSHIPS CONCENTRATING AT MESSINA. CHRISTIANS MASSACRED. Received April 19, 11.30 p.m. 'CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. The two American missionaries killed in the anti-Armenian outbreak Adana were named Maurer and Rogers. The Armenians made a desperate resistance,, and ' iriflicted- h'efavy losses

, o© their assailants before they were I overpowered. Eight British, French and German warships are concentrating at Messiina (in the province of Adana)„ where the foreigners and Christians '■ are engagad. It is feared that the Governor's troops are insufficient to withstand the onslaught of the Moslems from the North. British and French warships have been ordered to Alexandretta, which the Moslems are threatening. The Christians at Tarsus (SL Paul's birth place',' the capital anciently of Ciiicia, and a chief city of Asia Minor, on the Cydnus with a population of 12,000) were attacked, and some massacred. A portion of the town is burning. The Swiftsure and Triumph, which. are at Malta, have started for Turkish waters, and the Diana has been. ordered to Bernt.