INVADERS ATTACK THE GARRISON.

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

INVADERS ATTACK THE GARRISON.

I^BARRACKS CAPITULATE

./(Received April 25, 4.20 p.m. ■"'•■ : CONSTANTINOPLE, April 24, /ISorf-four days the Salonika troops haEbbeenT drawing closer. On Friday evening they occupied Makrakoi, aKli at.-"daylight on Saturday advances! upoaiihe Yildiz garrison and Pera. At "5: o'clock heavy artillery a-nS mu^try on the heights above Yildiz ■ opened..''•■■fire, and a contest developed against the ' Matchka: and Tashkisla barracks. /■' •

Quietude reigned in the west of the .city. Macedonian troops patrolled I the streets. "Enver, Bey sent detach--ments^f -military cadets, commanded "by Salonika -officers, to .protect the Embassies, /banks and hotels, and -othee. measures were taken to prevent a disturbance; - The Sdloriikans vainly invited the Matchka and rrTashkisla barracks to ■ 'The'latter were nearly demolished iiniless'than two hours' fight- ' ing. All the troops had surrendered j 'before ten-©"clock. . . j Several iisoilatedguard-houses fought : The 'SPaxim barracks, in the Hjentre of Pera, -.resisted for three j -hours, the (defenders' bullets sweeping j i -the main sfcreets. /Finally they were ibeaten by Ibbifcchkiss fire, and surrendered. Another detachment from ;the Tophaneslh Ibarracks barricaded -ffchemselves ivt ,«. mosque, but were j alter a stubborn resists j :anee. A third detachment occupied ithe grounds of the 'Belgian Legation, <ja,U3sing the walk of the Legation to j 3b.e -riddled with btdtlets. 'The inmates wece not injured. A» American correspondent was wounded in the,, stoiialders -.while snap- i .^ho^ing. :' ■ • • (

A ( "few lives were lost outside the iyebugl fighters while the baiiracks were .being'suppressed. k , /The -police at Stamhoul and other districts urged the people Hfeo open, their sloops. . . Sh-e^ket sent conting«nts under Ismicl and Eskisher Pashas to.^seyent Anatolian troops, who ,arß fa'V.o.^a'able to tbe^SUliian, from .approaching CSonstantijoople'. ' • Unrest prevails..-.at '■> Scutari, IMEferovitz, Avjona amd Uskub, due to ,#ie Albanian Cceaeuel , ;