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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 256, 22 July 1908, Page 7

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MUTINY OF TROOPS. • ' THE MOVEMENT SPREADING.' "YOUNG TURKEY." ' (by TELEGnAm—riIESS ASSOCIATION —CorrRIGHT.) Constantinople, July 20. Soven thousand, jtroops at Monastir have revolted. Many have joined the "Youag Turkoy" party. A Revolutionary Committeo has assumed the government o£ Monastir. Tho "Young Turkoy" party "controls tho Third Army Corps and part of the second corps. Telegrams report that the Sultan is making untrustworthy' offers to release officers whoso arrest caused one of the grievances. Tho Sultan is sending 32,000 Anatolian troops, including Kurdish cavalry regiments, to the scene of the outbreak. " MASSACRE-BY' CREEK BAND.' > TWENTY-FIVE KILLED. • Constantinople, July 20. A Greek band burned tho village of Kibarsti, noar Monastir, and massacred 25 men, women, and children. MONASTIR. Tho Monastir vilayet of Turkey in Europe, a largo part of which' corresponds with Anciont Macedonia, has an area of 10,511 square miles, and an estimated population of 750,000. Monastir, _ the capital, -is .a-town, of-about 50,000 inhabitants, of whom" perhaps two-fifths are Mohammedans (Sorvians, Albanians, OSmanli), the remainder a mixture of Graecised Zingars, Christian Servians/ Jews; Gipsies, etc. The Turks use the name of Monastir because of a monastery overlooking the neighbouring village of Btikovo; the Servians use the name of Bitolj, which has been Anglicised into Bitolia. Tho town of Monastir is 1 87 miles west-north-west of the Turkish' seaport Salonica, and is connected by rail with the Belgrade-Salonica railway, so tho Sultan • should not iliavo .muchdifficulty in pouring fresh, T troop's" into tho town, jfonastir lias barracks with accommodation for 15,000 men, an arsenal, a cadet school, and a military hospital. Some of the worst ravages of the Greek and -the' Bulgarian bands, have been carried'out'in Monastir vilayet. '