The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-26

American embassy. met detachment
of volunteers In the streets. He was
astonishcd to see among them two of
his old friends, Rauf. PaSha, formerly
commander OF a Turkish warship and
Faud Bey, who served for eight years
in the guard regiment at Potsdam.
The latter was still wearing his mon
ocle.
Enver Bey's work today consisted
in obtaining the submission of the
artillery In the Solomiah barracks In
Soutari The desertion of company
or two from this barracks yesterday
caused the erroneous report that the
whole command had yielded The
commander OF the barracks. when
called on to surrender. sent word to
General Schefkel:
1--WE have 100 guns here and four
Thousand men. If We are attacked
we will lombard the city into a pile
OF dust
Shefkel replied: 1--WE will make
you so busy In taking care of us. that
VOC will have no time TO think .0f the
city. Besides. you have bnly one
hundred rounds apiece for those guns"
ment spread throughout the city,
causing great uneasiness. Traffic
was stopped on the Bosphorns, the fer
rIes being used to transfer infantry
and artillery. Sixty guns were placed
in position and trained on the bar
racks and several batteries OF machine
guns were brought up
When everything was ready another
demand was made for the surrender
of the Selimieh artillerymen, and the
demand was accompanied Iby the In
foration that it was useless for them
to engage against such odds
since the Sultan himself consented
TO the troops of the palace yielding.
The commander of the barracks late
in the afternoon agreed to surrend-
er and the shifting of the garrison
probably will begin tomorrow without
a shot being fired.
There Is still some disquietude
about the city. Long supply trains
are coming In from the country dis
tricts, these consisting of strings of
donkeys, each with two boxes of am
munition slung over its back, OK
carts, rudely built, filled with sup
plies, herds of sheep and cattle and
some splendid artillery horses and
vigorous little ponies.
Dispatches reaching here from Asiatic
Turkey bring the tidings of Armenian
and Turkish conflicts all over the
country. DR. J. NJ. Balph. who Is in
charge of the missions at Latakia,
Syria, telegraphs that refugees are ar
tl,rit, .-te 49, tl.a
district, who report massacreS and
the burning of towns He also re-
ports that there is the gravest appre'
hension concerning conditions at Kes-
sab where Miss Effie Chambers is one
of the missionaries.
The senate and deputies have adopt
ed resolution at San Stefano. EN-,
bodying a request to the government
TO order imperatively the local author
tiles to stop the disorders and punish
the leaders. The need Of the Armen'
ians in the Adana districts is the
greatest Ambassador Leishman has
transmitted through the state depart
ment the following message to Rev.
Jas. L.. Barton, foreign secretary OF
the American board of commissioners
for foreign missions, at Boston from
w. j. Peet, treasurer Of the mission
board here:
Outbreaks at Adana, native Christ
tians suffered much loss of life and
property. Their district is in flames
Fifteen thousand natives destitute.
Thousands OF dollars required daily,
They have bread alone. lack medical
supplies. Four emergency hospitals
are already oyercrowded Two large
CrphanageS are required at once. The
government cannot meet the present
needs. The relief committee has be-
gun work but funds are needed"
Tonight unsympathetic and resolute
soldiers stood guard around the sultan,
He has not been deposed. but his sub
Jects talk openly of whether he shall
even the nominal head Of the
empire.
The constitutional party is supreme
again. but the ZealotS are busy In the
eastern provinces, striving to arouse
Asiatic Mohammedanism against I'm
fidel culture" Small risings are likely
to occur east of the BoSphorus, but
they are also likely to be put down de
by those seeking to uplift the
whole country.
Husni Pasha. the general command
Ing the division of the army of occu-
patton in the pera quarter said to-
night:
Il have lost an army corps (mean-
ing the Constantinople army)-but I
have saved the country the terrors OF
soldiery."
Questioned with regard to his posi-
ton at the YildiZ Kiosk, he said.
All the barracks around the palace
being occupied, have decided for the
present not to furnish a guard for the
interior of the palace. because | wish
TO avoid contact by my men with the
palace fusileers. in order to prevent
their contamination by the traditions !
Of the old guard.
The disarmed troops Of the old gar
rison are being sent to the barracks
In the outskirts of Stamboul. They
will be distributed among
-he different corps, chiefly in Saloniki." |
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