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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 15 April 1909, Page 2

Those who have watched the progress o£ events in Turkey, and trouble havo been interested in the | l N rise of the Young Turkish turkey. Party, will read the cables in to-duy's "Mail" with regret. That marvellous organisation, the Committee of Union and Progress, it appears, by the authority of a ''Times" correspondent , has fallen. The world was much startled some months back by what this Committee had accomplished. It brought about a blood, iess revolution in a place where a flight knock always makes the blood run freely, and the world stood amaz- | cd. But — and thero is a but— all ; that this Committee has done more re- 1 cently has not been tending in tho best direction. In tho early weeks of Febru- I ary a political crisis "occurred. It will be' remembered that Kiamil Pasha, the Grand Vizier, a week before his downfall, and five weeks after he had rereived a unanimous expression of confidence from the new Parliament, got lid of his Secretary for War, and his Secretary for Marine. Soon it became known that the Grand Vizier was at the head of a Government which was responsible to Parliament only in form ; and that the Cabinet was under an obligation to refer all secrets to an outside body— and that body of course was the Committee of Union and Progress. A week later Kiamil Pasha himself fell. Althougn it is freely acknowledged that this body has pchieved wonderful results in a perfectly legitimate way, yet tactics such as those" mentioned "cannot but do harm, for, at the least, all acts would be m grave danger of being misunderstood. Since Kiamil Pasha's downfall and Hilmi P.isha's. ascent to power events in Turkey have not given that assurance of solid progress along right lines that r.o happily characterised the early events of this new present-day era. Evidently the pac? has been too great, and the 'fabric has been broken down in the building, although there is more than mere possibility that the sky is not so dark as it appears at present. The Young Turks depended for much ut their success on the support of the army ; but now revolt has broken out it is impossible, nf course, to say where it will end. Parliament surrounded, and mutineers pardoned, are features of to-day's cables, which throw a lurid light on the events in Turkey. Will some one or some body rise to i the occasion and dominate the situation with a firm hand, but a hand which understands fully the peculiar tendencies and prejudices of tho people?