THE TURKISH UPHEAVAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11842, 4 May 1909, Page 5

THE TURKISH UPHEAVAL.

NAVAL ARSENAL SURRENDERS

PROCLAMATION FOR NEW

SULTAN

(Press Assn. — By Telegraph.— Copyright)

CONSTANTINOPLE, May 3

Mohammed the Fifth, attended only by a mounted orderly, drove to the various hospitals m Constantinople ancl visited the Avounded.

The C^ar has telegraphed to the new Sultan, expressing his eorcfial wishe/3 for a prosperous reign and for the AA-clfare of Turkey.

Shevket's forces at daybreak yester* daA' surrounded the ravval arsenal, the reactionaries' last stronghold. The' garrison immediately surrendered. .It consisted of one thousand sailors and marines, krioAvn as Tersanch lis, turbulent levies from the Black. Sea coast, responsible for the murder of the commander of a cruiser (cabled on, April 16th), and selected to .., participate'- m the projected massacre on -April: 24 th. • ; An Imperial hatti, or order, has been issued enjoining the .Ministry to Avork m the interests of the coitritiy, and to respect the shcriat, .the. laws, and the; Constitution. It declares that Sultan Mohammed's accession sis due, to- the unanimous expression of they national will, and that 'the' Sulta'n'&^blfe desires' ir that all his subjects, distilictiotf,. sliall enjoy liberty , equality, -and jus-i tiee. It refers -Avith .Jkeen regret- to the painful conflicts m Apia Minor }. aridorders the adoption, ;of measures of eradication b^tlie to prevent tlieir' recurrence. "It addft that international, treaties will be. conscientiously observed, .and good relatione Avith ail countries- maintained. -

Mahmud Mukhtar Pasha,-" late commander of the First >Army Corps, has beeh appointed to the command of the Adrianople corps. '.'•:,-. < (ReceiA'ed May 4. ; 10.40 a. m. ) CONSTANTINOPLE,^ May 3. Thirteen: mutineers* were' hanged . vtqday at Constantinople, five- before Parliament House and five-betore • the Wi.a'r Office.^ They Avere' ghostly young "non'-'. commissioned officers. '„