TROUBLE IN TURKEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3175, 28 April 1909, Page 5

TROUBLE IN TURKEY.

THE SULTAN YIELDS. TRAITORS SHOT. MINISTRY RESIGNS. United Press I Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright, Received April 27, 8.35 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 26. During the preparations made by the Salonican troops to bombard Yildiz Kiosk, the cries of the women in the Imperial harem were heard at a distance. Traitors at Taxim were summoned from the ranks after the occupation, and were summarily shot. Many mosques have been closed. Kurds within the city have been disarmed. White handkerchiefs and rags are still flying over the surrendered barracks and guard houses. According to the Ministry, it was at the Sultan's instance that a Macedonian battalion occupied Yildiz. The Sultan takes credit for preventing further bloodshed, as he prevailed on the Yilaiz troops not to resist the Macedonians. Parliament is almost unanimous as to the necessity of deposing the Sultan. Shevket Pasha fears that the latent hostility between the European and Asiatic Turks will have a bad effect on the army in Anatolia. Four thousand reactionaries, including a number of hadjis and sof tas, have been arrested. The Ministry has transmitted its resignation to the Sultan and informed Parliament —which has now returned to Constantinople—of the fact.

Eighty softas (students or attendants in the mosques) were killed while assisting in the defence of a guardhouse at Stamboul. After the Yiidiz barracks had been occupied," several bodies of Macedonian volunteers, consisting of various races and creeds, attached to the Salonican forces, were acclaimed when marching through Pera, but they were not welcomed in the Turkish quarters. Tewfik and Edhem Pashas, at the Sultan's instance, have returned to their homes. They declare that the Sutlan was cool and collected throughout the ordeal. SITUATION IN SYRIA. MASSACRES STILL PROCEEDING. Received April 27, 8.15 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 26. A massacre is proceeding at Latakia, in Syria, whither a French battleship is hastening. Nadjiu is burning. It is feared that the hadjis and softas who took refuge in Asia Minor will further inflame reactionary outbreaks.