THE NEW TURKEY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 291, 2 September 1908, Page 7

THE NEW TURKEY.

CONSTITUTIONALISM AND rTHE jPRESS; ARMY FRAUDS. 'A GENERAL PROSECUTED. • ; • ; (BY TELEGRAPH—rEESS ASSOCIATION—COPTUIG(IT.) Constantinople, August 31. Many newspapers are. being started. ..m Turkey. • - Tlie Turkish War Offico is prosecuting General Ahmed AM Pasha for extensive army frauds. Tho Serbo-Ottoman Democratic League has issued a manifesto revolutionary organisation,, being , convinced that the Turkish Constitution!' Sufficiently: guarantees the development of the Fatherland. '• ■ : ; •'< ■ " THE YOUNG TURKS: AIMS AND LEADERS. When the main left England'newspapers had begun to awake to the real seriousness of the movement in Turkey. One' paper,' irritirigt'oft' July 17, stated:—"Tho revolutionary movement in the Turkish Army has not been suppressed, and the Third Turkish Army Corps, .which is stationed in the Monastir district,"'is in open revolt against the authority of the Sultan. The present movement appears to have been organised by the 'Young Turks,' a revolutionary party headed by Prince Sabah-ed-Din, a'nephew of tho Sultan. They include extremists;.and a more moderate wing, but b'othsections aim it' dethroning the present Sultan and, .securing parliamentary government. They decided some' months ago, at a secret congress held in Paris, to incite the people to armed and unarmed resistance to tho Turkish authorities, and to, gain over the officers of the Turkish Army ' by' pamphlets and revolutionary literature. - It is stated that 90 per cent, of the Turkish officers' are ' Young Turks,' and the party now control all the great stretch of mountainous territory between the Servian and th?; Greek/frontiers:" Ahmed Biza, editor of the "Mechveret;" a weekly Young Turk journal, published;] il'.P.aris, states'the desires of his party. These include:— A Parliament, tho members of' which shall bo chosen by popular delegates. A Senate partly nominated by the Sultan.'' Abolition of racial distinctions. Maintenance of the Sultan if he';6orisentsi' to a Parliament; dethronement, if , does not. "At least one-third," said >Ahmed Rizai<>"of the officers of the whole Turkish Army are Young Turks, as are four-fifths'* of -the edu-' cated population. The entire Third Army Corps is Young Turk, and the Second Army Corps largely so. It is difficult to say ' who is the most prominent leader of the; morementfiThere' are at least 1000 such leaders, all prominent in their own'districts. Bey, ex-chief of the military staff at Smyrna, may be looked upon as one of the most influential'. Our watchword is 'Mechverot, oheriat,' or. 'Constitution and justice.' We mea'n.to obtain both." .