The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-25


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gtns could be heard with the scatter
ing IRE OF heavy artillery.
From the houses near yildiz Kiosk.
the bodies of those wfo met death
during the encounter near Tasch Kisch-
la barracks are plainly visible. The
streets near the firing line have been
cleared and all nom combatants have
been ordered to remain Indoors to pre-
| vent casualties and the possibility OF
mob violence. leaving the streets clear
for the exclusive movements of the
troops. The public has been warned
away from the neighborhood Of Yildfz
Kiosk and the lines are impenetrable.
General Schefket, commanding the
| Constitutional army. began to occupy
Constantinople at dawn. Word came
from the city at midnight saying that
the long expected entry had been made.
but people nevertheless went to bed
skeptical. only to be awakened In the
Pera quarter by the sound of artillery
and the crash of rife fire in the direc-
ton of yildiz Kiosk.
| battalion OF the Sultan's house,
hold guard occupied Tasch Kischla bar
racks. about 500 strong and were re-
sisting the advance of the investing
army, ExpecNis an attack. they were
| deployed outside the barracks. when
an officer from General Schefket de-
| manded that they surrender. but they
| refused Within q minute after the
| representatives from the Constitution
alists returned. the firing began. The
\ investing forces brought into action
one battery of field guns and one hat
from the sound OF the firing early in
| the morning.
/ Only n small part of the Constltu-
/ tfonal troops were engaged in the at
| tack on the barracks. as Pera Is still
strongly occupied with companies of
infantry stationed In nearly every
| street and detailed to guard every en-
/ bassy. The American Embassy Is thus
nrotected and the Young Turks are
| nrotacfinx ali the hotels and banks in
| the Pera quarter where Americans and
| Europeans are gathered In security.
From the head of the Grand Rue de
Para, the main street, one was able to
| get a partial view Of the operations.
The hriiIiant sunlight now and then
! flashed on the field. showing a land
| scape az run rims or a succession Of
/ sra rties as 4 machine gun slowly fred
away AZ segmerts of the thin line Of
! Infantry. which couid be seen with the
| ala of a glass. AT the Tasch Kischla
1 bsrra rk. the suItan,s men were return
| ,nr the rifie Are steadily. Presently
/ the loyal troops occupied the military
| -chool ,.arhx, ana f3red on the advance.
/ while considerable reinforcement
from the Yildiz Kiosk barracks Joined
| the troops at Tasch Kisctla, where the
Saloniki chauseurs. accused of betray-
| ing the Constitutional cause, were de-
| Tending themselves
The Are was concentrated on the bar
racks of the chausseurs. and they were
shown little quarter They put up
splendid fight and many of them were
| killed. BY half past ten in the morn
| ing the Tascha Kischla barracks were
half destroyed by the shell fire. where
upon the fire generally slackened. Yil-
/ dig Kiosk also had been subjected to
/ shell FIRE. 2
Schefket Pasha issued orders to shoot
down any soldiers OF the Constantine
pie garrison seen carrying arms, wnetn-
| err using them or not. He declared
also that all unarmed soldiers Wouio
be treated as non-combatants.
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let's fell In crowd observing the grest
| panorama In the great Gran3e rue ue
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