BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13889, 28 April 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

TUfrKEY." ARREST OF REACTIONARIES. ANOTHER MASSACRE. Pros 3 Association-By Telegraph-Copyrigli. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 2G. Four thousand reactionaries, including a number of Hodjas and Softas, have been arrested. Nadjiri is burning, and it is feared that the Hodjas and Softas, who took refuge in Asia Minor, will further inflame the reactionary outbreaks.

Eighty Softas were killed while assisting in tlie defence, of the guardhouse at Stamboul.

The Ministry transmitted its resignation to the Sultan, and informed Parliament, which has now returned to Constantinople. A massacre is proceeding at Latakia, whither a French battleship is hastening.

After the Yikliz Iviosk (the Sultan's palace), barracks were occupied, several bodies 'of 'Slacedonian volunteers', consisting of yarioiYs races and creeds, attached t'6 tlte' Siilonikan forpesj were acclaimed while marching through Pern, but 'were riot welcomed in the Turkish quarters.'

Tewfilc Pasha and Eilliem l'asiia, at the Sultan's instance, have returned to their homes. They declare that the Sultan was cool and collected throughout the ordeal. .

TRAITORS SHOT. THE SULTAN'S FATE. ' CONSTANTINOPLE, April 26. During the preparations to bombard the Yildiz Kiosk, the cries of the women of the imperial harem were heard for some distance." The traitors at Taxim were summoned from the ranks after the occupation jihd summarily shot. Many Mosques were closed, and the Kurds within tho city were disarmed.

White handkerchiefs and rags are still flying over the surrendered barracks and guardhouses. According; to the Ministry, at the Sultan's' instance, a . Macedonian battalion occupied-the-Yildiz Kiosk. The Sultan takes credit for- preventing further bloodshed by prevailing on the Yildiz Kiosk troops not to resist the Macedonians. Parliament 1 is almost unanimous as to the necessity of deposing the Sultan, but Shevket'Pasha fears the bad effect it wrfuld have on the army and in Stolio, owing to tho latent hostility between the European and Asiatic TiiVks. BURIAL OF TROOPS. SULTAN'S GUARD SURRENDERS. Received 10.25 p.m., April 27th. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 27. Three hundred; of the constitutionalist, troop.? were killed on Saturday, and their bodies were buried in a common grave amid great ceremony. The Sultan's personal guard, consisting of 200 fusiliers, body servants and secretaries, surrendered on Monday afternoonj after Slievkct Pasha had trained numerous guns and massed his troops at all the approaches to the palaces. ' ' '• The arrests now total 10,000, including several high officials. The journal "Ikdani," which supported Iviamil Paslia, has been suppressed, and the editor has fled. THE CONQUEROR'S TERMS. PROPOSED REFORMS. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 27. Four thousand defenders of Scutari have surrendered. The Seriate and Chamber held a joint secret sitting at Stamboul, and asked the Ministry to remain in office sonic days longer. Ministers acceded to the request"; ' ' . The Salonika Committee announced that Shevket Pasha, prior to capitulation, issued ah ultimatum that .the defending soldiers of the first army, corps who had been actively engaged in massacres would bo sent to Yemen; those guilty of complicity would be employed in the 'construction .of v Macedonian roads, and-the'neutrals be incorporated in the third arinv corps. He also demanded that* Constantinople should be garrisoned by sixteen highly disciplined battalions of the third army corps. These would be quartered at the Rami/, and Tsehiftlik barracks outside the walls, to support the police and gendarmerie. The present police would be replaced by gendarmes and police from Macedonia. ; Shevket Pasha announced that the state of sefg'e would last until the Chamber had passed the association law, press law, public meetings act, and suppression of Vagabondage law. Hadi Paslia, acting commander of the third army corps at Salonika, presides at the court-martial at Constantinople. Refugees arc pouring into Athens.