THE TURKISH REVOLUTION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2482, 22 April 1909, Page 5

THE TURKISH REVOLUTION.

CABLE NEWS.

YOUNG TURK FORCES. REITERATE THEIR DEMANDS. United Press Association— Copyright CONSTANTINOPLE, April 20. Izzct- Fuad reports that the Young Turk forces reiterate their demands, and intend to send five battalions to assist the authorities at Constantinople in the maintenance of order. ATHENS, April 20. Muhktar Pasha has reached Athens abroad a German vessel. He states that tho Ministry and Parliament were i too cowardly to proclaim a state of siege. Otherwise tho revolt would have been nipped in the bud. The British warships have landed 800 bluejackets at Mersina. THE CONSTITUTIONALIST FORCES ADVANCING. FLIGHT OF REACTIONARIES. (Received April 21, 10.50 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, April 21. All requisitions for food and live stock issued by Husni Pasha, commander of the Constitutionalist forces advancing from Salonika, arc paid for in cash. One foreign military attache counted 30 machine guns with the force. Another learns that the corps has 00 fieldpieces, well horsed. Husni Pasha considers that, besides taking, ho must be able to patrol and control the city, which contains a million inhabitants, with many dangerous mob elements. Trains full of visitors wero arriving at San Stefano yesterday. They include many secret -agents, who were seeking to converse with the troops. Fifty were arrested, ..several of whom were disguised as hadjis (pilgrims). Many real bodias, liodjas, and softas, whose subversive preachings were responsible for Tuesday's outbreak, have fled to Asia Minor. A CONSTITUTIONALIST’S PROCLAMATION. SAFETY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY PROMISED. The Sultan’s yacht, after getting up steam, took ammunition aboard. Husni Pasha, commander of the Salonika troops, has issued a proclamation addressed to the garrison and inhabitants, assuring them of safety of lives and property. THE SALONIKA ARMY. EXCELLENTLY EQUIPPED AND DISCIPLINED. Husni Pasha’s troops are, spread in a semi-circle within calling distance of the walls of Constantinople, and intersecting asl the x’oads thence. Tho force is well fed, disciplined and confident. The foreign military attaches are amazed at their excellent equipment, including field telegraphs, hospitals, and supply trains. TEWFIK PASHA’S OPTIMISM. DECLARES THESULTAN HAS NOTHING TO FEAR. (Received April 21, 11.30 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, April 21. Tewfik Pasha, who was appointed Premier after the Sultan’s coup d’etat, and the only-counsellor who received an audience, at Yikliz Kiosk, spent 30 out of the last 48 hours, with the Sultan, who, secluded in his favorite pavilion, professes to await the arrival of the Constitutionalist army with benevolcnce and equanimity. Tewfik Pasha declares that the Sultan has nothing to lose, gain, or fear, since his is the supreme guardian of the Constitution. The Sultan has ordered that not a shot is to be fired against the Committee’s forces. ■UK THE MASSACRES IN ASIA MIMOR. MANY THOUSANDS KILLED. Consular telegrams estimate that 2000 deaths occurred in the massacre at Adana, and 3000 elsewhere in the Vilayet, which is in a state of anarchy. The position at Marash is still precarious owing to renewed attacks on the Armenians. Advices from Laranaca state that the massacre at Adana began in the markets on Wednesday. A Moslem mob, impelled by fanaticism and. desire for loot, .killed five persons. The Armenians withdrew to their own quarter, and resisted the mobs for 48 hours. Hordes of Mosem villagers arrived, anl were supplied with arms by the authorities, who affected to regard them as military reservists. Women and children were horribly mutilated. The town resembles a shambles. , Similar scenes occurred at tarsus, where 4000 people took refuge in the American college. BRITAIN’S ACTION. MORE MEN-OF-WAR GOING TO TURKEY. LONDON, April 21.

Admiral Curzon Howe, aboard the battleship Ocean, with the battleship Canopus and the cruiser Minerva, stationed at Malta, has started for 1 urkey. Other ships harm been ordered to be in readiness.

CONaTANTINOPLE PRACTICALLY SURROUNDED. . CABINET DISCUSSING HUSNI PASHA’S TERMS. (Received April 21, 11.55 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, April 21. Constantinople is practically surrounded. A force, with several heavy guns, is approaching from Tcliataldia. The Cabinet is discussing Husni Pasha’s terms. One report states that the Sultan has been allowed until /to-night to abdicate. AN UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT. GERMAN OR AUSTRO-GERMAN INTERVENTION. (Received April 22, 12.-50 a.m.) VIENNA, April 21. Immense surprise has been caused at Vienna by statements of an Austrian official telegraph agency that a more conciliatory mood is apparent among the Young Turks, and that Abdul Hamid is likely to bo maintained. This is interpreted as pointing to some diplomatic intervention, probably German or Austro-Germau, A GERMAN MOVE. GERMAN -AMBASSADOR INTERVENES TO SAVE THE SULTAN. LONDON, April 21. Tho "Times” Vienna correspondent states that tho German ambassador reported that ho was using all his influence with the Constantinople members of the late Committee of Union and Progress with a view to retaining the Sultan.