MARCH ON CONSTANTINOPLE

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13938, 20 April 1909, Page 2

MARCH ON CONSTANTINOPLE

THE CONSTITUTION

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 19. The Ministry of War, applying for troops f1 cm Erzeioum and Trcbizond. received a reph that the Fourth Army Corps had decided to march on Constantinople and restore the Constitution.

The officer in command at Smyrna sent the •Constitutional" troops to Skutari. Vali and Salonika, where there ai.- ruptured relations with tho new Government.

iho Ottoman Bank ordered its Salonika branch to send all cash to Constantinople. The Commandant of the Third Army Corps thereupon placed an embargo on £6000 deposited with the branch lor administrative requirements of three vila,\ets.

Upward cf 10.000 Salonika and other troops have arrived" at Tchatliaja. They informed a deputation that they would refrain from entering Constantinople only if safe conduct and protection were granted the Salonika deputies, enabling them to resume their duties, and that the ringleaders cf the rising were punished in ore'er to prevent the recurrence of such an ctent. Cabinet pent Izzu Pa&ho, Chief of the General Staff, to parley with them.