ABDUL HAMID ZNOT TO BE TRIED.
SHEVKET PASHA PREVENTS; A MASSACRE, s
' LONDON, April 30. '.It,"is- understood that Abdul Hamid will not be tried. '.•■■.'■
Moslems in India have congratulated the new Sultan, Mahomed V., and expressed the lxope that Abdul Hamid will remain personally unharmed. • , Sir Ed'vard, Grey., British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has congratulated Turkey over the effective way order has been established.
The Constantinople correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" reports that Shevet Pasha made a forced' march of fourteenl • hours, and'occupied^ Constantinople on Saturday, instead of on Sunday. H^ learned from Tewfik Pasha that preparations were being made for a general massacre on Saturday, hence his order- to $ake the reactionaries: unawares; It was also announced to the Pasha that Abdul Hamid would not be dethroned.
Advices from Smyrna state that the recent massacres in Asia Minor were planned at Constantinople, with a view to provoking the intervention of the Powers and ending the Constitutional
regime
i The town of Adana has been burnt, aud.the survivors of the fire-are dying of famine. • • v '■.-at/ ..
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12212, 3 May 1909, Page 5
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