DISPUTATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13737, 27 March 1915, Page 5

DISPUTATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

REVIVAL OF THE MILITARY

LEAGUE.

CABINET DECISION TO CAPITU-

LATE.

BLUDGEONED INTO SUBMISSION

BY YON SANDERS

(Received March 26, 9.55 p.m.) London, March 26. Mr. Martin Bonohoe, the "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent, telegraphing from Constanza, says there was a bitter struggle at Constantinople between the war and peace parties. The

latter demand capitulation, and the feud may culminate in a revolution. j The Military League, consisting of the . sworn foes of the Committee of Union ' and Progress, has been resuscitated. Its aim 1" *o destroy the German and

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Young Turk incubus. Already the army is divided. Fear of a coup d'etat led the Government to contemplate a separate peace. At a stormy Cabinet meeting the majority decided to negotiate with the Allied Commander-in-Chief, and :\sked the American Ambassador to as■artain the conditions for the surren■er of the Dardanelles and Constanti;ople. At xhe last moment General yon Sanders broke into the Cabinet and furiously expostulated. He threatened the instant arrest of the peace majority, and vowed to shoot any member communicating with the Allies. He bludgeoned the Government into submission.