ABDUL HAMID.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 542, 24 June 1909, Page 7

ABDUL HAMID.

DEFENDANT IN THE CIVIL COURTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Oopjrielit) . v Constantinople, Juno 22. A warrant has been issued for tho appearance- of. tho, ox-Sulton Abdul Ham id before tho Court at Saloniki as defendant in an action for damages. : Tho plaintiffs are former court jewellers, who .wore, exiled because .they had business relations with Mohammed -llechad, Abdul's bi other,'who is now Sultan, • •: ARMY RULE. RELATIONS WITH PARLIAMENT. : Under, dato May 9 tho Constantinople : corre. v spondent of the ''Daily Mail" writes:—'"Hayonota, it has been said, ,'aro uncomfortable things to sit on.'. Parliament is realising this .truth. borne deputies are for abandoning their seats until the bayonets aro removed, but Chef, set Pasha,: the military commander, will not name.the day; He has a mind to stay until tno. danger of an imperilling in imperio no : longer threatens the: Constitution; r _ In a word, the. Committee -of' Union and-i , progress lias,, found in. the army ,of ; liberty an antagonist, who desires, to bo a helper. -'The government,must govern without the interferenoe of an; irresponsible committee, Vis :the dictum of,tlie:Army, . Ahmed: Eiza,'. whose resignation from the Presidency of the Chamber 15 expected, is said to sharo the opinion of the military,, though report ascribes nis attiihim ■ ■ a , determination to depose . "The rift between' Parliament and tho Arm* is,becoming, obrions.lt was.fijst diedosed in tho .choice of a,J 3rand '.Vizier. The. Snltaa' wanted , Muktar Pasha; late . Ottoman. Hi'gh ; SSrp'T l ' '"fOTtv Tho deputies desired M •f?? ha 1 >'•••*. former Grand • Vizier.. But thofkot Pasha on Hilini Pasha. • Tho snuation is_ by no means satisfactory.' . . Oertain foreign officials assert, that the late Sultan was innocent of connivanoo in the mili.tary revolt. This is contrary to. the conviction of the, court-martial,-, a member of which assurcs mo, that, the Court has evidence,. documentary ns' woll: as personal, that leaves' no doubt of the - complicity of Abdul HSniid and ot lus intention to provoke a massacre in Constantinople. .... y • , l ," 1 am als .° antKorised 'to. report that ■ among ■tho papers.in, Yildia'are letters from the German to'which has since been added pnvato imperial correspondence with Abdul ;Hamid. during the visit of the' Kaiser , (in. '"Anions other sroreU of tho place aro papers' * TO/* wnnted exiles' were choseii agents of Abdul Hamid. The: editor of tho ..'lkdam,' a journal ostensibly devoted to' reform, was an almost .daily, correspondent, of-Yildiz " : ... -