PROGRESS PARTY DETERMINED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1913, Page 7

PROGRESS PARTY DETERMINED

WILL NOT ENDURE LOSS OF ADRIANOPLE. SULTAN'S DECISION. GOVERNMENT MUST BE IN EXPERIENCED HANDS. (Received January 25, 8.5 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, 24th Jan. Talaat Bey during the morning urged the Government to resign. Kairail Pasha refused to answer, and continued drafting the reply to the Potters Note until Enver Bey, Kiazim Bey, Halil Bey, and four other officers, accompanied by a cheering crowd, rode into the Square, and demanded to see him. Kiamil Pasha admitted Enver Bey, who informed the Cabinet that the nation would not endure the loss of Adrianople. Kiamil Pasha then wrote out his resignation and handed it to Enver Bey, who drove to the palace with it. The Sultan was incredulous, and sent his Chamberlain and First Secretary to enquire of Kiamil Pasha, who admitted that he had resigned. The Sultan then summoned Shefket Pasha, and told him that it was necfjsary to hand the Government of the country into experienced hands, "and," said the Sultan, "I perceive you possess experienced hands." V Enver Bey has been appointed Commandant of the Palace. YOUNG TURKS TRIUMPH ALLOTMENT OF PORTFOLIOS. OTTOMANS CANNOT ENDURE TRAITORS. CONSTANTINOPLE, 24th January. Shevket Pasha becomes Grand Vizier and Minister for War, Said Halim President of the Council of State, Hadji Adil Minister for the Interior, and Mukhtar BeY Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Committee of Union and Progress's proclamation added that Kiamil Pasha's Cabinet had at»f»iuts£ &• ffifi»tt &«§£-.

able generals and had prosecuted the honest. Instead of making war it had destroyed the warlike spirit of the army and the patriotism of the people, and hail tried to restore the Hamidian regime. Ottomans could not endure traitors. SECURHY OF EMBASSIES. CONSTANTINOPLE, 24th January. Talaat Bey has informed the embassies that the Government has taken measures to assure their security. EXCITEMENT IX THE CAPITAL. MANY "ARRESTS. (Received January 25, 9.35 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, 24th January. There is great excitement here, and some fighting has taken place, a dozen being wounded. Many persons have been arrested. LONDON, 24th January. The Turkish Embassy has received a message from Constantinople stating that all is quiet there. PATRIOTIC PRINCESS, PARIS. 24th January. A Turkish princess residing here has sold her jewellery by auction to replenish the Turkish war chest. The jewels included a necktace which realised £48,200. ONLY TEMPORARY LIFTING OF THE CLOUD GREEKS AND BT/LGARS. (BY TEtEGBAPH— SPECIAL TO THE POST.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Some remarks concerning the position in the Balkans were made yesterday to a Star representative by Mr. John Zavitchanos, of the National Greek Society A "Hellenismos," who is at present on a visit to Auckland. Mr. Zavitchanos thinks that the declaration of peace means only a temporary lifting of the war clouds. Turkey, he says, is crushed, but the real trouble of the future will come from Austria and Germany. Both countries have depended upon Turkey as a splendid financial and commercial market, and an alteration in the map is going to affect them very considerably. Any trouble in the future will come from Austria, backed by Germany. Turkey itself has learnt its lesson. Had the Turks granted Christian subjects reforms and equal rights war would never have occurred. The disastrous outcome of war for Turkey would have the effect of ensuring better treatment for Christians in future, and should the Turks fail to remember the lesson they have been taught further punishment would be meted out by the Allies. Although the Greeks and Bulgarians have fought side by side during the war, Mr. Zavitchanos says that there is no bond of sympathy between them. Even now there was reason to doubt the extent of Bulgaria's friendship, and he quite expected trouble between the two countries later on. If trouble did occur it was safe to say that Servia and Montenegro would be, as they always had been, on the side of Greece. Without the aid of Greece, Mr. Zavitchanos claims that the Allies could never have triumphed over the , Turks. The soldiers .of the Balkan States were fierce and reckless fighters, but their generals threw lives away indiscriminately. At the time of the armistice, the Bulgarian army had been almost wiped out. The Greeks, on the other hand, had gained almost bloodless victories, and had captured Salonika at the' c«st of less than a thousand lives. The greatest service of all rendered by the Greeks, however 4 was the prevention of the importation of Turldsh-Asian troops.