SHEVKET'S STRATEGY.

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

SHEVKET'S STRATEGY.

OF FRATICIDE

A GARRISON SURRENDERS

(Received April 26, 8.35 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, April 25

The conduct of Shevket 7 s troops is perfect, and inspires general confidence. , The garrison had planned considerable resistance, strengthening } the ; guard-houses, and even taking up points of .vantage in private houses.: Hence street fighting was -expected. It is now seen that the prolonged parleyings at San Stefano -were intended to avoid fratricide and bloodshed. Many officers of the garrison: did their utmost to hinder -resistance by locking up guns and ammunition.: Shevket intends ■to ' remove the entire old garrison, the" majority going to Salonika. ;

During yesterday morning's bombardment a shell burst against a wall adjoining the Austrian Embassy, arid; a fragment fell into the TEmbass^ courtyard. The staff were uninjured. On the garrison at, the fort refusing to surrender a sharp fusillade followed, which compelled the garrison to hoist the white flag. Mr Moor, the wounded snap-shot-ter^ also represented the ' Daily; Chronicle. He received a slight bill-, let-wound. It was imagined that he was firing. Mr Booth, the representative of "the Graphic, received a wound in the head. . >

Stray ' bullets killed some bluejackets aboard an Italian guardship.