GREAT TURKISH CRISIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3588, 30 July 1912, Page 5

GREAT TURKISH CRISIS.

PORTE RESOLVES TO DISSOLVE THE CHAMBER. A MANIFESTO TO THE ALBANIANS. MANY CONCILIATORY PROMISES. ENTRY OF PRiSTITINA MADE BY CONSENT OF PORTE. REBELS CONTROL THE WHOLE PROVINCE. HASSAN BEY MAKING CAPITAL OF PORTE’S INACTION. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] (Received Julv 29. 9.25 n.m.) 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 Albanians announces that the employment of an armed force against them hereafter is forbidden, and promises them annual elections, where the results are due to the Committee’s undue influence and empowers a Commission to arrange reforms. Hassan Bey’s (Leader of the Albanians) recent entry of Pristina was unopposed on the Porte’s instructions in pursuance of the policy of conciliation. During the confusion attendant on the entry the prisoners escaped, seized arms, and fired on the gendarmes. Eighteen men were killed and seventeen wounded on both sides.. Finding tlve Ministry pliant. Hassan Bey proclaimed himself director of the general rebel movement with a force of 50,000. He seized the telegraphs and the Turkish officials everywhere were expelled . , , , . . The rebels took control of the whole province, except at Ipelc, with the tacit consent or the covert co-opera-tion of a large portion of the local forces. . , They demand the dissolution of the Chamber. v

DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH THE MALISSORI.

THE PLAINSMEN VICTORIOUS.

THREE HUNDRED SOLDIERS KILLED. (Received Julv 29, 9.50 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, July 29. . It transpires that Moslem Malissori plainsmen attacked two battalions between Tahernoleva and Priziend. Some troops deserted and others surrendered. Three hundred, including many ofbeers belonging to the committee of the Union and Progress, were killed. Six hundred were taken prisoners, and a thousand rifles and 25 loads of ammunition were captured. There is an indication that the whole Albanian committee is against the Union and Progress. The troops were mostly more hostile to the Committee than to the insurgents.

THE INFLAMMATORY BALKANS.

A CROWING FEAR. PACIFIC RELATIONS MAY BE STRAINED. (Received July 29, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, July 29. The “Times” Vienna correspondent states that the Turkish crisis is being closely watched in some circles, where there is a fear that the growing chaos mav severely strain the pacific intentions of some of the Balkan States or to cause the Turks to welcome an enemy less inaccessible than Italy as a means of restoring the discipline and unitv of the Ottoman army.