NEW REGIME IN TURKEY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 453, 11 March 1909, Page 5

NEW REGIME IN TURKEY.

DISORDER QUELLED, (ni TKMGiura—rtir.s» AS.viri»vios-ciiPT!icont.i Constantinople, March 9. Somo of the troops at the Yildiz Palace responsible for the outbreak, mention of which was cabled on November I,' being dissatisfied over the elimination of officers and men who had identified themselves with the old regime, -again proved mutinous, but the trouble was promptly quelled.

THE NEW AND THE OLD CONTRASTED. Tho outbreak referred to tcok place on Wednesday October 28. A-number ;ef' r.on-cortmis-sioned officers of the 7th Guard Regiment, quartered near the Palace in» Constantinople,; - displayed a mutinous spirit on being ordered to prepare to embark for .icddnh. They continued mutinous on Thursday, but on Friday some Macedonian troops were marched against them, and when tho mutineers opened fire they replied, killing three and wounding three others of the insurgents. The other mutineers fled, but wero pursued and taken prisoners. The Constantinople correspondent of "The Times" says of the troops concerned:—The division is composed of regiments quartered at or in the neighbourhood of the Palace. The officers were, till recently, almost all drawn from the ranks of men who formed tho Sultan's Prctorian Guard. It was their practice, when ncariiig the end of their period of service, to blackmail the Palace by threats of mutiny and violence. Whether they refused to parade or closed Galata Bridge to all traffic at the point of tho revolver, they were invariably pardoned and promoted and dismissed, with a gratuity from the privy purse in addition to their pay.