SHEVKET'S CUNNING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 100, 26 April 1909, Page 5

SHEVKET'S CUNNING.

A THREAT FROM JERUSALEM

DISCUSSING THE SUMPAN'S

FUTURE,

LONDON, April] 24.

Advice ,from Vienna- states' that P'Shevket's advance on Pera arid the

•:--ooast has begun. It is suspected in some quarters that ! 'Shevket's assurances are greatly tactie«al.

i The civil population and garrison at J Jerusalem telegraphed to ■Constahti?l3i6ple threatening to proclaim Palesriine an independent State" unless the 1 Constitution were restored. Mbham-

medans and Christians in Jerusalem «^r«u<|agerly offering to; join €fa»n second l-aridthird Army Corps. , '" i The Daily Telegraph, states that an has been reached .at ;San HSt'efano. It restricts the . Sultan's :> authority to the narrowest limits,of Sovereign.

':6ther messages foreshadow that :»aifter the mutineers have been <€fver-

iiSJCTKed and discipline re-established'ihe ."Strongest pressure will be ■ brought 7 to ifeßar^/to force the Sultan to abdicate.