TROUBLE IN TURKEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3160, 12 April 1909, Page 5

TROUBLE IN TURKEY.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.

SULTAN'S TROOPS REMOVED. TO PREVENT INSUBORDINATION. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 9. All the Zouaves and Albanians, who for years have been stationed at Yildiz, near the capital, have been removed to other towns, to avoid renewals of the recent insubordination. The Sultan reluctantly consented to the transfer. CONSIDERABLE UNREST. STEAMERS FIRED ON. TROOPS COMPELLED TO RETIRE, Received April 11, 4.30 p.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 10. There is much local anarchy in the outlying parts of the Turkish Empire. In the Arab provinces the unrest is bad; especially at Mosul (a decayed town of Asiatic Turkey, in Mesopotamia, on the right back of the Tigris, opposite the ruins of Nineveh, 200 miles up the river from Bagdad, having a population of about 55,000), and Basra (a town of Asiatic Turkey, on the west bank of the Euphrates, founded in 636 by the Calif Omar, and once a famous city of the East, with a population of 150,000; the population now is about '50,000). Steamers on the Tigris are frequently fired at, and compelled to stop running. Northern Albanians are restive. A battalion from Monastir (a town of Turkish Macedonia, 90 miles northwest of Salonica, with a population of 65)000), was sent to suppress an outbreak at Dibra, in Central Albania, and were compelled to retire with considerable loss.