TURKEY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13880, 17 April 1909, Page 5

TURKEY.

•' THE PALACE IMPLICATED. Piyss Associution-Bv .Teleerapb-Copyris;lit LOND'ON, April,ls. The "Times" Constantinople correspondent, also they German newspapers, hint that the Palace is associated with the Turkish uprising. NEW MINISTER OF WAR. YOUNG TURKS DESPERATE. Received 10.1.0 p.m., April 16th. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 16. Nazim Pasha has been appointed to the command of the first army corps and assistant Minister of War. : His first action was to release the officers of the committee who were imprisoned on Tuesday, and he has issued orders that they shall not be molested. The Government announces that it will follow the foreign and doiriestio programme of its predecessors;' The-Young Turk Committee tit Salonika refuses to acknowledge the now Government, and is preparing to offer desperate resistance. A,great public'meeting at Salonika approved of the Committee's decision. ST. PETERSBURG, April 10. The Russian cruiser Teritz has sailed from. Sevastopol. It is announced that her destination is Piraeus, thus; necessitating a passage of the Dardanelles. REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS. NAVAL COMMANDER LYNCHED. Received 10.58 n.m., April IGth. VIENNA, April IG. Ilakki Boy ' and Envoi- Boy, tho leaders of the July revolution, htivo left Vienna to. assume control at Salonika. T*he marines lynched Arif Bey, commander the cruiser Assanitenfik,. who ordered the vessel's guns to bo trained On Yildiz with a view of supporting the Committee. The Turkish Chamber unanimously resolved to approve of recent events, and are willing to work in cohforliiity with tho Sheriot and the constitution.