The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-31
.yNe NcuNe Suvks IN Action
THE TURK is A FIGHTING MAN.
BY FREDERICK PALMER.

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THE TURK is A FIGHTING MAN.
A T DAWN, when the streets were empty of all hahc-so ta IN
Il = son-the Young Turks dashed across the undefended rdges into
Pera. Among them yu looked in van for the insignia of any rank. The
officers were dressed as pivates and carried rifles, in intimate watchhl as
sociaton with their men,, undendfable by any fanatic wo would seek
Turkish soldiers. The men o. the Second Corps were in good khaki rather
than matches Anothe thing noticed that was old. The rifles showed the
cleanliness and polish If a tool Of which its n is fond. For the Turk Is a
fighting man. The men in he barracks OF hi hills loyal tot the Sultan, had
killed their officers in the April uprising, and o the brothers OF ne dead
we're advancing TO vengeance These ere fanatics without a plan; Turkish
soldiers used to blind obedience without any m to tell them what to do
They paid a heavy 1.-THE in killed before the surviving ones fec a a child
flies before III storm. eF
ENyER BEY, HI MAN o f THE HOUR IN TURKEY.
r YE WAS nt thinking of dying in a manner worthy of a Padshah who BE-
= neved in himself as the defender of the faith against rebels. He was
- thinking OF saving his W life. Meanwhile h soldiers were singing
constitutional hymns and cheering a youngster of % and men double his years
we're throwing their arms around him in ecstacy most un-Turksh. n
tcuary warm. When asked what a to be done with the Sultan this
youngser, speaking French to the French ad German to the Germans who
came to congratulate him answered I'll according to ne oook n nag r earne
abroad: That is for Parliament to say. The arm was only the instrument
a this from a pyramid head under a fez
The next day the Greek vendors were making u for loss o stocks II
Abdul Hamid's by selling his picture in the streets Therem must alwaysb be
Beg. He is a type of the younger army officers who have been the inspira-
tion of the movement; the Young Turk incarnate
THE PLOT AGAINST THE SULTAN OF TURKEY.
rN JULY lasto occurred the real revol uton. Young Enver Beys vas the
first regiment to raise the banner Fire ran from regiment to regiment
. along the wen-laid fuse. A movement fully organized sprang ut of the
darkness An order of Odd Fellows, which had n o real lodge meets,
sprang into control of The country. The Sultan had to revive the constHu-
Paruame met or the 18th of December. But Parliament did no rule
The Young Turk Committee of Union and Progress-a hierarchy holding
ne omce-ruled.
The Sultan turned to faith as the ally IF his intrigues His is the cum
nnget hand that yer led Oriental diplomacy or tracks new to its own
ing broken. Religion and the distribution of largess from the Yldiz formed a
plot 1t elimination was the murder of their officers by the troops IN
Constantnope.
SENTENCING THE TURKS TO SUMMARY DEATH.
N SUNDAY, the day after the oc cupation, nj military pass was needed.
brought from their fine house-o house search prisoners in crestfanen,
logged march, on the way to tral before a court-marhal grinding out
drunkg and disordernes Somewhere behind the walls firing squads were
telling off the victims-Conier's for May o.