TURKISH CRISIS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10681, 30 July 1912, Page 5

TURKISH CRISIS

THE ALBANION RUSINb REBELS SEIZE THE COUNTRY. (Received Last Night, 9.25 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE.', July 29. The Porte has (resolved to dissolve Parliament constitutionally when the Chambers exhaust their power to resist certain Bills. 'Meanwhile a manifesto to the ,Albanian© annoumces that tlie employment of armed forests against them will hereafter be forbidden. The manifesto promises annual elections, where results are due to the Committee's undue influence, and emipowers a Cammissian to arrange for Veforme. Prince Hassan's recent entry into Prishtina was not opposed, on the Porte's instractiions, in pursuance of tho policy of conciliation. During the confusion wJiich occurred, (prisoners escaped, seized arms, a,nd fired an the gendarmes. ( Eighteen were killed and seventeen' wounded on both sides.

Finding the Ministry pliant, Prince Hassan prociunwd himself DirectorGenetral.

A rebel movement, with a force of fifty thousand, seized the telegraphs, and the Turkish officials were everywhere expelled. The rebels control the wtholc province, except Ipek, with the,, tacit concent, or covert co-operation of a large portion of the local forces. "They demand a tiissalution of the Chamber. ' -it" transpires that Moslems, Malisssri, and plainsmen attacked two battalions between Tchernoleva arnd Grizr&nd. Some of the troops deserted, and others surrendered. Three- hundred, including many officers foelanginig to the Committee of Progress andl Union, were killed, amid six hundred taken, prison era.'" A .tiroixspnd rifl(?s and twenty-Hve loads of ammuniitiori were captwred. "-'There"are indications, that the whole of Albania has ri»3U against the Com- [ mittee. '"'' '"' "" ""' ' .:' ! The troops afe BUte**; more hostile to the Committee, than to tfie iimirgenits. 1 Ihe Times' Vienna . correspondent states that; the Tnrkiuh oris:© is being closely watched. In some circles there is a fear growing that the chaos w'"' oeverely strain the' pacific irivtentions in regard to some of the Balkan States, or causa the Turks to welcome an enemy less inaccessible than Italy as a- meani's of restoring discipline and unity in the Ottoman army.