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THE TURKISH CRISIS.

THE COMMITTEE DETERMINED. DO NOT WANT CIVIL WAR. GATHERING OF TROOPS. THE SULTAN FRIGHTENED. Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. (Received April 20, at 8.50 a.m.) The Committee at Salonica are pursuing firm but moderate plans. They are ambC tious to avoid civil war, and" to prevent foreign iptervention. Several thousand of their forces, including the Adrianople contingent, twenty-four Maxims and field batteries at Spartakeui. and 1,000 men at Kemikjia, are under Sandansky. The Committee’s advanced guard of 680 men has reached KutcTiuk Madje. The Sultan and the Ministry are almost panicked. A CONSTITUTIONAL ARMY. DO NOT OBKyThE MINISTER. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. Ihe Minister of War, on applying for troops from Erzeroum and Trebizond, received the reply that the Fourth ArmyCorps had decided to march to Constantinople to restore the Constitution. The officer in command at Smyrna has sent- constitutional troops to Scutari, Yali, and Salonica. THE MARCH ON CONSTANTINOPLE. CABINET WANT A PARLEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. Upwards of 10.000 Salonica and other troops arrived at Tchatliaja, and informed a deputation that they would refrain from i entering Constantinople only if safe conduct and protection were granted to the Salonica deputies, enabling them to resume their duties, and have the ringleaders in the uprising punished. In order to prevent the recurrence of such an event, the Cabinet has sent Izzet Pasha, Chief of the General Stall', to parley. COMMANDEER THE CASH. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. There are ruptured relations now between the Government and the Ottoman Bank. The Salonica branch of the hank was ordered to send all its cash to Constantinople. The commandant of the Third Army Corps thereupon placed an embargo upon £6,000 which was deposited with the brunch for administrative requirements in three vilayets. ADVANCING TROOPS. NEARING THE CITY. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. (Received April 20, at 8.45, a.m.) The absence of the Hadamkaui artillerists, who had gone to Constantinople, enabled .the Salonica battalions to slip through the fortifications and reach Spartakeni and Kutchuk, which is about eighteen miles from Constantinople. Other reports state that the Committee’s advance guard of 0.000 men has reached San Stefano, WH Y THE 'MARCH IS .MADE. ORIGINATORS MUST BE PUNISHED. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. (Received April 20, at 8.45 a.m.) Husni Pasha, commander of the Salonica. troops, telegraphs to the foreign embassies that the soldiers are marchine on Constantinople because they desire the" definite re-establi.diment of the constitution and the punishment of the authors of the recent sanguinary disorders. The lives and property of foreigners, he adds, shall be safeguarded. MILITARY RULE THREATENED. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19, (Received April 20, at 8.45 a.m.) The Kaser and Corfu Committees’ leaders, when interviewed at Salonica. threatener a military dictatorship until the country is tranquil, and Stambou) .swept of its present fanatical element at any cost. UPBRAIDING THE SULTAN. THE COMMITTEE DETERMINED. LONDON, April 19. (Received April 20, at 8.30 a.m.) Reuter states that the Committee of Union have telegraphed the Sultan’ upbraiding him for violation of his oath to maintain the Constitution. Enver Bey. of the Committee, declares that the Liberal Union must be courtmartialled. ANXIOUS TO RETIRE. VIENNA, April 19. (Received April 20. at 8.30 a.m.) The ‘ Ncue Wiener Tagbla-tt ’ publishes an unconfirmed report that the Sultan : s in negotiation with the Committee in regard to his abdication. WHY KIAMIL FELL. THE ASIA (MINOR OUTBREAKS. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. (Received April 20, at 8.45 a.m.) The Committee explain that the Grand Vizier Kiamil’s fall was due to his subservience to his son, Said Pasha, a palace favorite, under the old regime. They emphasise the outbreaks in Asia Minor, as being the result of the overthrow of the Committee of Union’s authority. THE CONSTITUTION MUST BE .MAINTAINED. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. (Received April 20, at 8.45 a.m.) Mustafi Effendi, deputy from Alleppo, has been appointed President of the Chamber. Many telegrams from the provinces, including Anatolia, were read in the Chamber protesting against the present anticonstitution Cabinet. The Macedonian Army demands that guarantees be given for the maintenance of the Constitution. THE LIBERAL UNION. WHY IT WAS SUPPORTED. LONDON, April 19. (Received April 20, at 8.30 a.m.) ‘The Times’ states that the upper and educated ALahoniedan clergy joined the Liberal Union for the preservation of order and the restoration of the Constantinople garrison, which is now repentant. The Liberal Union have separated from the reactionaries owing to the brutality of the latter in killing sixteen officers. A DENIAL. LONDON, April 19. (Received April 20, at B.4s'ami.) The ‘Daily Telegraph’ denies that Izzet Fuad (Assistant Minister of War) has been murdered. .

BRITISH SHIPS READY. i LONDON, April 19. The Swiftsuxe and Triumph, from Malta have started for Turkish waters, and the Diana has been ordered., to Beirut (Asia Minor).

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Evening Star, Issue 14038, 20 April 1909, Page 6

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THE TURKISH CRISIS. Evening Star, Issue 14038, 20 April 1909, Page 6

THE TURKISH CRISIS. Evening Star, Issue 14038, 20 April 1909, Page 6