REVOLT IN TURKEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3169, 21 April 1909, Page 5

REVOLT IN TURKEY.

Received April 20, 8.30 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. The committee of the Yonng Turkey party at Salonica is pursuing firm and moderate plans. It is anxious to aVoid civil war, and to | prevent foreign intervention. Several thousand of the forces controlled by ;<the party, including the Adrianople contingent, also twsnty-four Maxims, and field batteries from Spartakeni, and a thousand from Kemikjia, are under command of General Sandansky. The committee's advanced guard, numberng 680, has reached Kutehakchekmaje. The Sultan and his Ministry are said to be almost pqnic-stricken. Enner Bey declares that the Liberal Union at Constantinople must be court-martial led. The absence of the Hademkani artillerists, who had gone to Constantinople, enabled - the Salonica battalions to slip througn the fortifications, and reach Spartakeni and Kutchuk, which are eighteen miles from Constantinople. Other reports state that the Committefe's advance guard, numbering three thousand men, had reached San Stefano.

Husni Pasha, commander of the Salonica troops, hfH telegraphed to the Foreign Embassies that his soldiers are marching to Constantinople with the desire to definitely reestablish the Constitution, and to punish the authors of bloodshed and disorder. The lives and property of foreigners will be safeguarded. The Committee's leaders, interviewed at Salu.ica, threaten a military dictatorship until the country is tranquil. Stamboul will be swept of the fanatical element at any cost., Mustafi Effendi, deputy for Aleppo, has been appointed President of the Chamber. Many telegrams from the provinces, including Anatolia, have been read in the Chamber protesting against an anti-constitutional Cabinet. The Macedonian army demands guarantees for the maintenance of the Constitution. It is explained bv the Progress Committee that the fall of Kiamil Pasha in February last was due .to his subservience to his son, Said Pasha, who -was Palace favourite under the old regime. The committee emphasised that the outbreaks in Asia Minor were the result of the overthrow of the Committee of Union's authority.

CLERGY CO-OPERATING WITH LIBERAL UNION. BRUTALITY OF REACTIONARIES. Received April 20, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, April 19. "The Times" states that the upper and educated Mohammedan clergy joined the Liberal Union for the preservation of ordjjr and the restoration of the Constantinople garrison, which was repentant. The Liberal Union separated from the reactionaries owing to the brutality of the ; latter in killing sixteen officers.

THE ADANA OUTBREAK. HALF THE TOWN DESTROYED. OVER 1,000 PERSONS KILLED. AFFAIRS AT TARSUS CRITICAL. Received April 20, 8.45 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. Over a thousand persons were killed at Adana, including seven hundred Armenians. Fire destroyed half the town. The situation is now better. < At Tarsus affairs are critical. Twenty persons were killed at Marass, where there is an important American mission. , A REPORT DENJED. Received April 20, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, April 19. The reported murder of Izzet Fuad Pasha, Minister of War, is denied by the "Daily Telegraph.

ABDICATION. AN UNCONFIRMED REPORT. Received April 20, 8.30 a.m., VIENNA, April 19. The "Neue Wiener, lageblatt" publishes a report that the Sultan is in negotiation with the Liberal Committee in regard to his abdication. The report, however, is unconfirmed. SULTAN UPBRAIDED. Received April 20, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, April 19. Reuter's agent states that the Committee of Progress telegraphed

YOUNG TURKS ACTIVE. STRONG FORCE UNDER ARMS, ADVANCE ON CONSTANTINOPLE. SULTAN AND MINISTRY PANIC-STRICKEN.

to the Sultan upbraiding him "with the violation of his oath to maintain the Constitution. DEPOSITION OF THE SULTAN. WIDESPREAD RUMOURS. EXCITEMENT IN CONSTANTINOPLE. Received April 21, 1.5 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 20, The widespread rumours of the deposition of the Sultan has caused great excitement at Constantinople, and an ultimate feeling of relief in view of the apparent inevitableness. Thirty-six thousand troops and a large contingent of artillery are .concentrated at Hademkeui, and hold the line from Aansto- Famo to Dand-

padcke barracks. The outposts are falling back on Constantinople or surrendering. Mahmud Shevket Pasha commands the Third Army Corps, and directs operations. Some Macedonians insist on the Sultan's abdication as a preliminary to negotiations with tt:e Government. Tecwfik Pasha, speaking in the Chamber, explaibed that he had assumed office in order to save the country and the Constitution, which everybody believed to have been endangered by recent events. , Chamber unanimously postponed discussion of bis programme. The Sultan jjis prostrated, and has expressed a desire to abdicate.

SULTAN ABDICATES IN FAVOUR . OF PRINCE MOHAMED RESHAD. Received April 21, 1.25 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 20. A pioclamation announcing a change in the Throne was drafted in the presence of Prince Mohamed Reshad, heir presumptive. LONDON, April 20. The Vienna correspondent of "The Times" gives confirmation of the Sultan's abdicating in favour of Prance Mohamed Reshad, and says that it was generally expected as a natural epilog-ue to the failure of Tuesday's coup against the Committee, who are not expected to allow Abd-ul-Hamid a further opportunity' of undermining their position. It now appears that an element of bitterness was m the minds of the Committee, which was absent in July last. Many officers at the gates of Constantinople are said to be eager to avenge the blood of their murdered comrades. Official telegrams mention th,at there is a report in military sources that 220 young Turk officers, including all the officers of a cavalry regiment, were murdered last week. Prince Mohamed Reshad is described as a just, temperate, inexperienced, but honest, and is susceptible to the guidance of the authorities at St. Petersburg. The opinion in Russia is entirely favourable to the constitutional cause of Turkey. '