TURKEY UNDER THE NEW REGIME.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 12, 15 January 1909, Page 7

TURKEY UNDER THE NEW REGIME.

EXISTING DIFFICULTIES. HOPE OF IMMEDIATE SOLUTION. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. CONSTANTINOPLE, 14th Jan. The Grand Vizier, Kaimil Pasha, in a speech in the new Turkish Parliament, informed the Chamber that German instructors had been engaged to reorganise the Turkish Army, and British officers to reorganise the navy. •It would be necessary to revise and reconstruct both army and navy, making them more in conformity with the country's needs. The Government, he added, considered that the new regime had completely changed the aspect of the Macedonian problem. Ha expressed hope of an immediate solution of the difficulty with Austria-Hungary ovar the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also hoped for a favourable issue to the situation with Bulgaria. With regard to Crete, he anticipated a solution of that question, with the cooperation of the protecting Powers, on the basis of maintaining and safeguarding Turkish rights. The Chamber passed a vote of confidence in the Cabinet. The Times correspondent at Athens, writing on 28th November, said :—According to information supplied to me from an official source, King George, acting ir> concert with the Government, with which. he was in constant communication during his visits to the various capitals, made great efforts to obtain the sanction of the Powers to the Cretan proclamation of union. I learn that his Majesty represented to the European statesmen whom he had occasion to see that the decision taken by the Cretan being absolutely irrevocable, the situation it created was extremely precarious both for Ciete and Greece. In the course of a conversation with a statesman of one of the protecting Powers, who pointed out the difficulties in the way of a union, the King is stated to have argued that it was iniquitous tc forbid the annexation of Creto to Greece, while an act of annexation carried out with less right by another country met with no opposition because ! coercion was riot possible "in the case of I that couutry, whereas, o^ing to her geographical position, it could easily be employed against Greece. His Majesty's diplomatic activities have, on the whole, contributed to remove the apprehensions entertained by some of the Powers lest annexation of Crete should disturb the establishment of the new regime in Turk«y. The Aletropolitan, in receiving the King at the station, in company with other authorities, expressed to his Majesty the national gratitude for his patriotic endeavours "From reports received over there, the impression prevails that New Zealand is a kind of heaven — that we never have any unemployed." — Mr. D. AJ'Laren, M.P., on his visit to Australia. Members of the Wellington Trades Council, before whom this remark was made, laughed cynically when "unemployed" was mentioned. Ladies' Tailors. — The oldest and best firm in Australasia. Eton Gowns and Costumes from £5 ss, Skirts from £1 10s. Nodine and Co., 30, Wellington-terrace. — AdvW