THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9521, 20 April 1909, Page 2

THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.

'» c A NEW PRESIDENT. PROVINCIAL PROTESTS AGAINSi ' THE CABINET. - * -i ", MAINTENANCE OF THE CON- v jSTITUTION. DEMANDS BT THE ARMY, (Received April 20, 8.45 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. Mustafi. Effendi, '' the Deputy fronti Aleppo, lias been appointed Presidenii i of tie Chamber'of Deputies. Many : :": telegrams from the province?" jjncjpd^ : ing Anatolia, were read in . the Chain-' , = ber protesting against the anti-CbnfffcK tution Cabinet. ( i The Macedonian army demands gnii»: . antees for the maintenance of the Con* 1 etitution. The Committee' explains -that Earni! Pasha's fall watrdue to/his subserviencei : to his son, Said Pasha, a palace favour* . ite under the old regime, and empbaeisee its belief that ?the outbreaks in Asia Minor will result in th© overthrow of the Committee of TJwon'a \ authority. , The absence of the Hademkeus artiiU lerists, who have gone to Consfcaftti< nople, has enabled the Salonika bat* tahons to slip through tie fortifications and to reach Spartakeui and Kutchuk, ; which are eighteen miles from Con-* stantinople. Other reports state that v the Committee's advance guard of 3GOa 'men has. reached San Stefano. ;...-.i: Over a thousand perrons were killed &t Adana, including 700 Apaeniaiisi Fire destroyed half the town. ,;.'.. The situation is better at Tarsus* though critical. -..',. \ Twenty persons 1 were killed at Marass, where there was an important American mission. . ■ . ■''■■ '■ Husni Pasha, commander of the/Salonika troops, telegraphs to the foreign; embassies that the soldiers -who are. marching on , Constantinople desire * definite re-eerta^lishment cf the Constitution, and the punishment of thst authors of sanguinary disorder. ; Tfc« lives and property of foreigners will be safeguarded. ; ; The Committee's leaders, interviewed at Salonika, threaten a military dictatorship until the country is again tranquil, and say that Stamboul must be swept of the fanatical element at any cost. •