TURKISH SENSATION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 January 1913, Page 5

TURKISH SENSATION

I CAB NET RESIGNS - NEW MINISTRY APPOINTED. NAZIM PASHA SHOT DEAD. (Received Last Night, 9.55 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, January 24. Tho decision of the Grand Council to assent to the proposals of the Powers i e.s lilted in a hostile demonstration, during which the aide-de-camp of Naziin Pasha. Minister of War amd Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, fired at Enver Bey.

The fire was returned, and Nazi in Pasha was killed. The Cabinet has resigned. Mali mud Shevket Pasha lias been appointed Grand Vizier, Talaat Bey Minister of the Interior, and Tzzet Pasha, Minister for War. Talaat Bey, interviewed, declared: "'The movement means that we are going- to save the national honour or perish. We do not want a continuance of tho war, but are determined to keep Adrianoplo. POSSESSION OF SKUTART. (Received January 2-1, Ba.m.) LONDON. January 23. The Montenegrin delegates reiterate that the possession of Skutari is a matter of life and death to their country, which is ready to fight for it.

TVEMOBTLTNO R ES FR VFS IN HUNGARY. (Received Jamiarv *24, 8 a.m.) BUDAPEST. JaTitian- 23. A portion of the reserves militia have bee® ordered to demobilise. A STATE OF REVOLUTION. ENVER BEY LEADS THE MOB. (Received Last Night. 10.45 o'clock.) CONSTANTINOPLE, January 24. Prior to the demonstration, loyali troops were sent to .manoeuvre outside the city, while a detachment of the Uchak Battalion favouring the •Ttfung* TiH*ks--<>mmit-te<y was: sent, to the neighbourhood of the Porte. Meanwhile great crowds demonstrated in the street'?... . _ . • • ■ ••••Enver.. Bey,-; oni^isdijaelr.T-k an angry of 'the mob to- the residence .of the Grand Vizier, where a debate ensued in. winch Enver Bey informed the Grand Vizier that the Cabinet must retire.

After going inside, Enver Bey real.peared and addressed the crowd, strongly urging the continuance of i<he war. He jjfnnounced that he held in bis - ''in.jnil Pasha's resignation, and wasi taking "it to the Palace of the Sultan.

Enver Bey received an ovation, and frenzied cheers wore renewed when he brought out an irade. annointine Siievket Pasha ai Grp.'id Vizier, and conferring the titf--> ~-f Marshall on members of the You n<s Turk«. Th° Revolutionary Commit!:e?"'thrn occupied the Porte. Ne.fl-s-nn.pers not belongim' t-> tho Young Turks have suspended publication. The Conimitee of Union in a proclamation, strenuouslv denounced the policy of recent Cabinets anrl the convocation the Grand Council as unconstitutional. The proclamation .■ilTeeed that the Grand Council had violated the ■sacred rights of the people. and aroused national indignation, and. whci the country's existence was in danger, the nation exerc-ised its right of revolution.

Talaat Bey, the now Minister for the Interior, who was a. telegraph clerk in Salonika in 1908. in. the course of an interview, stated tha.t if Adrianople was abandoned. there would bo outbreaks throughout the Empire. Regarding money, be said the whole .nation was prepared to make a -sacrifice. •Shevket Pasha, the new Grand Vizier, was greeted with chthnsiasm in th'o streets. .WJc Benghazi exploits have greatly increased Enver Bey's reputation and influence.-