Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-04-17
TOday's Telegraphic News
The Turkish Crisis.

ConslantinoPle, via Phlippopolls,
April 1.-THE dissolution OF psrlis-
ment, the first slep in the sultan's bold
plan to regain his despOtic powers Ia
believed to be imminent today. 1t has
leaked out that the sultan would already
have taken this step had 1t not been
that be WAS urged by the priests aud
his new ministers to wait until condi-
lioas became more settled.
The Only thing that ran check the
ultimate dissolution Of parliament, In
the opinion of a msjOrity Of The diplo-
mats here, both Turkish and foreign, Is
the success of the movement the Young
Turks are now directing against the
sultan.
1t the sultan's emissaIies, now called
reactiouaries, are able to convert the
troops that are standing by the Young
Turks, the old regime Of sbsolutism, II
Is feared, will be firmly re-established.
Whatever the outcome Of this attempt
to convert the troops may be, dark
day seems inevitably ahead OF Turkey.
II the Young Turks sre successful. they
may save the constitution but 1t will
undoubtedly be at the expense OF q
civil war and the probable breaking up
Of the empire.
1t developed today the sultan, sutici-
psting just such q condition ss has
arisen, recently distributed $3.50, 600
among the priests and several million
dollars among The hitherto unpaid SOL
diers, in the Oonstsutinople garrison,
which produced q tremendous wave OF
popularity toward the sultan. The
sultan's brother, Mehemmed Rechad,
will be- proclaimed sultan If the Young
Turks succeed In o7ertbrOwing the pres
ent regime.
Business In Oonstsntinople continues
at dead standstill. Hundreds OF
prominent citizsus have fed TO the coun'
try. Soldiers OF the sultan are murder
log Young Turks wherever the latter are
found. In many cases the homes OF
Young Turks have been broken into and
the men of the household slain without
q chance for their lives II is impOssi-
BILE to state the number OF such murders
as no report is made Of them.
The latest reports say that $500
people have been slain 10 AdaDa and
Mersina, and thst the massacre of Chris
tians is spreading TO other towns and 10
likely to sweep over all Asia Minor. A
large part of Adana has been burned aud
the Mobammedsn fanatics are applying
the torch In other towns.
Several English, German, and Amer
lean residents in A9sna are among the
killed aud wounded, 1t is reported.
The slaughter of the last two days
really began at Tsrsus, and has been con-
fined almos! exclusively to the Christian
Armenisns.
oonstantinople April 17.-General
Izzet Fuad, assistant minister OF war,
| under the new bureau chief, Edhem
Pasha, was murdered last evening, the
news of the crime not being made public
until today. No particulars have been
learned. 1t is supposed that Fusd was
slain by soldiers, who are violently OPP
posed to Edhem Pashs as head OF the
war ministry. The soldiers asked fol
the appointment Of Nsz'm Pssha at the
time Edhem was named.
Vienns, April 1.-THE Yonng Turks
forces, principally members OF the
Second Army Corps, are today reported
as conyerging at Tchataldje, Is miles
north of Oonstsutlnople.
l. Is rumOred here that Bulgarian
troops have already crossed the frontier
6nd are in readiness 10 seize Mscedonia
OonslantiDople, April 1.-THE Brit
ISL consul at Adepa, and John Doughty
Wylie, the British vice consul, at Mes
sins, have been wounded 10 the riotine
that has ragged in this section OF Asia
Minor for the last 4S hours, according
to a report that bias just reached here