Plans ot the Young Turkish Party

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12748, 20 April 1909, Page 5

Plans ot the Young Turkish Party

Anxious to 'void Civil War.

And Send Further Troops to

Consta ntinople.

Sultan and Ministry in a State of

Panic

Received April 20, 8.30 aim. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19. The Committee at Salonika are pursui/ig firm and moderate plans. They are anxious to avoid a civil war and to prevent foreign intervention. Several thousands of their forced, including the Adrianople contingent and also 24 Maxims and field batteries from Spartakeui, and 1000 from Kemikjia, under the Sandansky Committee's advanced guard of 680, reached Kutchukchemadje. The Sultan and the Ministry almost panicked.

VIENNA, April 19. The Neve Wienier Tageblatt publishes an unconfirmed report to the effect that the Sultan is in negotiation with the Committee in regard to abdication. LONDON, April 19. Renter states that the Committee telegraphed to the Sultan upbraiding the violation of his oath to maintain the Constition. Enner Bey declares that the Liberal Union must be court-martialled. The Times states that the upper and educated Mahomedan clergy joined the Liberal Union for the preservation of order and the restoration of the Constantinople garrison, which is repentant. The Liberal Union has separated from the reactionaries owing to the brutality of the latter in killing 16 officers.