TURKEY’S INTERNAL CRISIS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3641, 30 September 1912, Page 5

TURKEY’S INTERNAL CRISIS

AN ARMY CONCENTRATED AT ADR I ANOI’LE. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT] CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 27. An army of 200,000 is concentrated at Adrianople. Nazim Bey is directing the manoeuvres. After the revolution Nazim Bey reorganised the Adrianople army corps so completely that he declared fee would assume the responsibility of defeating the Bulgarians. Rechid Pasha, Minister of Agriculture, has gone to Switzerland. His new proposals should result he peace. It is likely that Turkey will then welcome an opportunity to regain her prestige. Bomb outrages occurred on a. Salonica train, and in Monastir . military club. Sharp skirmishes were fought at Samos. The insurgents retired to tho hills. British and French cruiserslanded parties to protect the consulates.

[ln view of the fearful turmoil and cruelty in the Balkan Peninsula Count Berchtold. Foreign Minister in Austria-Hungary, _ has put forward for the consideration of the Powers a proposal for the development of Turkey should be governed in ['ethnical autonomies,” each race inhabiting the Empire to have its own self-governing powers, with a central government at Constantinople for each of the different peoples. This _ proposition has been received with favor in Bulgaria and Servia. and opinion in the respective capitals of those States —Soha. and Belgrade—welcomes the scheme a?* a possible means of protecting Christian subjects of the Turkish Empire from the antagonisms r£ present engendered by a governnfent in which each district has its own territorial autonomy, and Turk and Christian in each region are constantly at strife.)