Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-08-28
The Turkish Revolution.

Recent a0V1CeS ITOIn
give vivid picture of how the change
from an autocracy to constitutional
monarchy was carried out, and of the
sweeping changes now daily taking place
in that stronghold of conservatism. The
movement of the Young Turkey party
was directed from Paris, partly by CORE
spondence, partly by secret emissaries,
and its most powerful phase took the
| form of propaganda in the Turkish
army i'm Macedonia. For several months
there had been mutterlngs of seditlon
and unrest among the troops stationed Id
and near Monastir and Salonica, sup
posed to be due to the customary non
payment of wages. 1t has been the
custom of the Sultan for many years to
pay his soldiers only a few months wages
each year, and this has caused repeated
mutnies in past years, especially IN Syria
and Arabia. But in the present instance
it was soon evident that the Macedonian
troops (mostly recruits from ANATOMY
were after bigger game than wages.
The Sultan strained every nerve to get
them replaced by fresh uncontaminated
troops from ASIA Minor: but the leading
spirits among the officers, Enver Bey
and Mai Bey. managed to keep control
of the soldiers, and Undue each new in
stalment with the same revolutionary
spirit till there were some zoe, 900 troops
ready to march on the capital and com
| pei the Sultan to yield. Officers deemed
too loyal to the old regime were put out
of the way, and at length day was set
for the march to begin.
Some extracts from letter from Con-
stantinople give a good idea of what
took place there.
"July gath. Hassan has had to give
I'D going to the United States again for
another year at least. He was very
hopeful of getting his passport up till a
r week ago; but just now, as you probably
. see by the papers, things are ten times
worse than ever in Macedonia, with an
officer or big bug Of some kind shot at
l almost every day, and 50 it is unusually
hard to get passports or any other kind
= of business done.
!, We are all of us gasping at the sudden
i ness OF the change of grand vizier which
: has come to us this week. Not even the
diplomats had the slightest inkling of il
the morning it happened. And now
> Kutchuk Said again, after thirty years
s off and on, has the reins in his hand
e Rather change of fortune for him from
five or six years ago when he fled to the
English Embassy for protection. But {
rather short tenure of Office is predicted
for him. believe. They say IZzet Pashf
too is down and out. May he stay on
q for keeps! l am leaving Constantinopl'
at very interesting period OF its history
& and am rather lOath to leave all thu
y excitement behind, for according to al
a the signs of the times things are going t
y happen, and that pretty quick too. MIR
Barclay FIRST secretary OF the British
;. Embassy has just been removed from
n here and sent to a still more troublou
|; place-Teheran.
d Later-Hooray for the Constitution
n That is the one word heard on everyone
% lips this afternoon. Or is 1t slmpl.
"bosh laff," as Hassan said when h
If heard of it this afternoon? 1t will Civ
Il us something to talk and speculate abou
r for a while. OF course his majest,
a simply means it for sop to try to quie
le things down by, and he probably intend
10 to put it out of existence again as soon a
s. it has accomplished that purpose. Blu
D. will the people be put off by a mer
< name this time? They seem to be stirre,
up thoroughly all over the interior an
J" may mean business this time.
or July 25 l have just been having
k. long talk with Hassan this morning. H
he no longer says "bosh laff," but seem
thoroughly stirred up and looking TO
k great things. He says he could now &c
tie his passport without any great trouble
s. but he would not leave for anything
he There are things to be done here. An
r | do not blame him. Some of the el
Establishments in town yesterday had OF
+ their flags and refused to take ther
IN down at the commands of the police
m One or two of the newspapers also n
ed fused to allow the censor to look owe
a. fbnf md
OF constitution there was to be no censO
ship. Hassan tells me they have alread
n made all their plans and arrangement
ok to start a new Turkish paper in the city
OF and have offered the editorship to Shuk
iit Bey. He has not yet accepted, but
he going to wait till things are little mo-
'e: certain. Some of his unpublished poem
III were being sung by the populace dow
er In Salonica, where the Constitution Wi
announced a day earlier than her
They tell me the leader of the Your
Turkey" party in Macedonia carries
his negotiations direct with the palac
co and is refusing to be put off with Il
mere word constitution. He says the
-, agitation will cease only when the Pa
y" lament is in session and their party
ce control of the Parliament. But perha
lal the old fox up i'll the palace will be t.
- much Tor them a1teI all, ana VIII pt
w things around entirely to his liking
De- the end If he does, though, it will
,ss the cleverest of his many clever acts.
SUNDAY. 1t is impossible to Ike
he away from the all-absorbing topics
m. the day. l could scarcely be more e
on cited were / a subject of the Porte m
ga self, and can never be too thankful tn
" | did not leave here at the beginning
IN the summer. These last two weeks
Ill my stay here are ones to he always
os- membered. 1t was evident last mig
be that there was considerable excitement
NV town, as there was shouting and che
= a ing on every steamer that passed up t
- Bosphorus; and even here in Hissar
l"i crowd of young men went around fro
W. house to house gathering up their frien
and singing the Hamidieh and celebr
oc- ing till midnight Charlie and l we
The up for a walk on the College terrace, a