Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-19

at the foreign embassies from Gen.
Hushi Pasha, commanding the SALON.
ilSa army, in which he says: 81 have
the honor to inform you that the OBJ
ieet of the army corps in marching on
Constantinople is merely for the re-
establishment of the constitution,
which is sacred to all true Ottomans,
and the legal punishment of the cursed
authors of the sanguinary disorders,
by the reaction of which humanity has
always suffered. Be certain, excel
lency, that the lives and property of
foreigners, the honored guests of our
dear fatherland, will be safeguarded
and that tranquility and security win
be assured the entire population"
Charges Oath Violation
The Salonika branch of the commit
tee of union and progress has addressed
a strongly worded telegram to the sui
tan. practically imputing to him vio-
lation of his oath to uphold the con-
stitution.
Many battalions of the garrison at
Constantinople, it is said, are showing
repentance at their recent acts. They
now declare they were misled to be-
lieve the Sheri laws and the oonstitu-
ton were in danger. This is regarded
as a hopeful sign.
1t is also noteworthy that the Ian
guage of the Volkan, the organ of the
Mohammedan league, since yesterday
has been more moderate. 1t eXhorts
the soldiers to obey their officers.
1t is stated generally that the sol
diers in the capital are well provlded
with money, which they are spending
freely, and this gives rise to suspicion
as to its source.
Telegraphic communications between
Spartakueh and Constantinople. Tsa-
chatlje and other stations along the
railroad line are in the hands of the
invading army, and as a consequence
no further news has reached here re-
garding the movement of military
trains from Salonika.
Order and discipline are being MAIN
tanned and all measures have been
taken as though in time of war In
deed, the army is marching with the
regulation precautions.
Censorship Denied
The government has issued denial
of the reported establishment of CEN
sorship and the temperance of the
spies of the old government as Well as
a strong denial that officers of the COM
mittee of union and progress or the
army have been murdered.
Prominent army and naval officers
have already fled INTO the country,
large number of the more timid of the
civil population are leaving the city
Details have been learned of the
lynching of the commander of the
battleship Assar-I-Tewfik, whose name
was Ali Kabuli, not Arif Bey, as pre-
Viously reported.
Wednesday night the commander as
sembled the recruits before the guns
and explained how they should be fired.
He then trained the guns on the Yildlz
Kiosk and the arsenal and instructed
the recruits that they must fire at his
orders or they would be annihlated. 1t
would he, however, he added, while the
crew was asleep.
The quartermaster overheard the
conversation and informed the crew.
They thereupon seized the commander,
calling him q traitor. The following
day they took him to the war office.
He attempted to escape, but was seized
and beaten. He was then taken 20
the palace, where, it is said, the sui
tan ordered him to the guard house
for trial 1t was while proceeding
thither that he was lynched and hOr-
ribly mutilated.
More than 1000 persons were killed
at Tarsus and AleXandretta. The mas
sacre and incendiarism continue.
The Salonika army has six batteries
of machine guns and one battery of
quick firers. They expect by morning
to number 10000 men at Spartakuleh.