PLAYING FOR HIGH STAKES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 96, 21 April 1909, Page 4

PLAYING FOR HIGH STAKES.

THE NEW SULTAN.

(Received April 21, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, April 20. The Times's Vienna coiTespondeniti states that confirmation, of ihe report! •regarding the Sultan's abdication in favor of Reshad is generally expectedl,, as a natural epilogue to the failure ofi Tuesday's coup against the Committee! ot Tj.mon, who are not expected to allow Abdul Hamid a further opporn tunity of undermining their position.. There now appears ao element of bitterness in the mind® of the Cam>mittee which wiais absent in July.' Many officers at the gates of ConW stamfcinople will be eager to avenge! the blood of their murdered ooiwades. An official telegram mentions a report from military sources that 220 Young Turk officers, including all the! officers of a cavalry regiment, were murdered last week by the menL Reshad is described as a just, temperate, inexperienced man, but honesti and susceptible to guidance.