THE TURKISH REVOLUTION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2491, 3 May 1909, Page 5

THE TURKISH REVOLUTION.

THE TOWN OF ADANA -BURNT. . SURVIVORS STARVING. ■ United Press Association—Copyright. 'LONDON, May 30. Iho “Telegraph's” Constantinople correspondent reports that Slievket ma-de a forced inarch of 14 hours, and occupied Constantinople on Saturday, instead of Sunday. He learned from Tewfik Pasha of preparations being made for a general-massacre on Saturday, hence the order to take the reactionaries unawares. Advices from Smyrna state that the recent massacres :in Asia Minor were ,^'p;anned from Constantinople, in view ' vrf provoking the intervention of the Powers and ending the Constitutional regime. The town of Adana has been burnt, and the survivors are dying from famine. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 30. It is understood that the late Sultan, Abdul Hamid, will not be tried. The Moslems of India congratulate •bn new tSultan *nd expressed the hope that Abdul Hamid would be .personally tinharmed. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, congratulated Turkey on the effective way in which order was established. TEWFAK PASHA’S CABINET, THE NEW SULTAN’S FIRST PUBLIC FUNCTION. (Received May 2, 4.30 pan.) CONSTANTINOPLE, May 1. fj n the new Cabinet Tewfik'Pasha is 'Grand Vizier. Fend Pasha Minister of iho Interior. Rifaat Bey Minister of Finance, and Rfiza Pasha Minister of Marine. Salibi Paslia, commander of • Second Army Corps, has been appointed to the War Office. The other portfolios are unchanged. Mohammed the Fifth attended the ceremony of the Selamlik at Saint .Sophia. Six sheep were sacrificed before the mosque in celebration of th ' Mohammed wore khaki, in compliment to the Salonikan troops Several arrested members of the Liberal Union have been released with apologies.