UNREST IN TURKEY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13657, 28 July 1908, Page 5

UNREST IN TURKEY.

AMNESTY. FOR.- PRISONERS. TIIK NEW CONSTITUTION. Pi-ess Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright CONSTANINOPLE, Ju-y '26. An irade has been issued at Constantinople granting an amnesty to political prisoners and abolishing the censorship and the secret police. The promulgation of th« constitutionhas relieved the tension, but. the people' are apathetic and there are no maiiii;l'estat ions- of public Gatisfaction. 'i he changfii at Coi:i:tantiiiople have left the I'.rit-sh intiiiPiicis in the asiendant. Said and lviauiil Paishas, tha latter of whom liar, been appointed Minister without. portfolio, were only enabled to remain in 1 urkey a few yeans ago after-Britain had extracted from the Sultan a-guaran-tee for their safety.

THE EMPIRIC SAVED. GREAT*POPULAR REJOICING.; Received 10.5 p.m., July 27f.1i. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 27. The public of Staniboul are awakening to the fact of what the constitution seriously meant and are realising that its establishment. has saved the empire from disruption. The people flocked fo the Yildiz Kiosk and cheered the Sultan. One. proceesion numbered 10,000. Every section of the population participated in the' rejoicings. The Sultan's rescript declares that the wrong condition of things previously prevailing was the lesulfc of the constitution not being, enforced, but the Sultan rejoices now to be able to apply it. Ha hopcts the .people will co-operate with Parliament, in assisting the. Government and Sovereign. Reuter reports that a striking characteristic of the processions was that, it was the decree of the people which made Ministers swear fidelity to the constitution. Mussulmans and Christians were fraternising in rejoicings over the new Constitution at Moriastir, Uskub ,and Salonika. CAIRO, July 27. The Egyptian nationalist -organs express the hope that Turkey's constitution will help in tho establishment of a, constitution for Egypt.