TROUBLE IN TURKEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3179, 3 May 1909, Page 5

TROUBLE IN TURKEY.

A PLOT FRUSTRATED. GENERAL MASSACRE BAULKED BY A FORCED MARCH. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright, LONDON, April 30. The Constantinople correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that Shevket Pasha, at the head of the Salonica troops, made a forced march of fourteen hours, and occupied Constantinople on Saturday instead of Sunday. Shevket learned from Tewfik Pasha that preparations were being-made for a- general massacre on Saturday. Hence, in order to take the reactionaries unawares, he announced that Abd-ul-Hamid would not be dethroned. It is understood that Abd-ul-Hamid will not be put on trial. Moslems in India have congratulated the new Sultan on his accession, and expressed the hope that Abd-ul Hamid peronally will not be harmed. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has congratulated Turkey on the effective way in which order has been established.

ADANA BURNT. SURVIVORS DYING OP FAMINE. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 30. The town of Adana, in Asia Mi"or, has been burnt. The survivors are dying of famine. Advices from Smyrna state that the recent massacres in Asia Minor were planned in Constantinople, with a view to provoking the intervention of the Powers and ending tne Constitutional regime. Several active participators in the recent reactionary plot have been tried by court-martial and sentenced to be executed.

THE NEW CABINET. Received May 2, 4.30 p.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 1. The new Cabinet is as follows : Tewfik Pasha, Grand Vizier; Ferid Pasha, Minister of the Interior; Rifaat Bey, Minister of Finance; Riza Pasha, Minister of Marine. Salibi Pasha, Commander of the Second Army Corps, has been appointed to the War Office, and the other portfolios are unchanged. Several members of the Liberal Union, who had been arrested, have been released, and apologies tendered to them.