The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-30

| Porte was bombarded and the north
wing torn down, Less than an hour
their arms and surrendered, Inside the
| Sublime Porte a crowd OF five hundred
| Knrds wcrc arrested, ALI armed and
| ready to pillage and massacre the in
| habitants.
a Liberal soldier lay dead in the
street, n bullet in his breast. \ Con.
stantinople police officer approached to
carry the body aside, 'Do not touch
him; your heart and your hands arc
not clean said a common fighting sol
der. who revcrently bowed down,
kissed the forehead of his dead com
rade, and carried him aside till the am
bulance came.
AT Pera was the real fight. The
Taksim barracks contained over ten
thousand soldiers. The famous Saloni-
ca chasseurs. who were brought hero
after the July revolution as guardians
Of the Constitution, and who, fifteen
days ago, blinded by the sultan's gold,
ran loose in the streets shooting their
officers and demanding sberiat, were in
Tash -kishla. All these barracks are in
the same ucighborhood.
Storming the Barracks,
Envcr Bcy. the ''hero of the rcvolu.
tion,'' led the fighting operations here.
Twenty cannon Numbered in the
air 10 announce that the thirticth
would be aimed at the barracks Both
sides fought fercely. The Rumelian
soldiers lay on the ground. taking aG-
vantage of every little projection. even
a piece of stone, to shelter their heads.
They fired, vollcy after volley. Soon
white flag was raised over the artil.
lery barracks, apparently n sign Of
peace, but it turned out to mean treach-
cry. No sooner had the Liberal sol.
dlers advanced score OF PAGES toward
the barracks than tremendous rain of
bullets showered over them. All lay
down, Many were killed, many were
wounded. but the others kept up the
fight. Their comrades opened fire. and
they began, little by little, to creep
back. Some stuck where they were for
four hours, till the battle was over.
One, a brave soldier, badly wounded,
was so heroic as to win the admiration
of all who witnessed his agony. He
lay near wall, where he could have
taken refuge, but he didn t. He
crawled further and further forward
toward the enemy's barracks, till he
troop of the sultan's soldiers were
fighting fiercely. He began to fire. and
he didn't stop until he had shot away
200 cartridges. When the fight was
over, I went TO see this brave fellow.
His face bore an expression of per-
feet satisfaction, but his body was
pierced through and through.
men had no cannon. Late in the night
all the officers had taken the keys and
escaped to Join Mahmud Shevket
Pasha's forces. But the Liberals had
Maxim guns and mitrailleuscs placed
at every possible corner; in the Arme-
nian cemetery, at the public garden,
and in the streets. At noon the victory
was complete.
An Austrian military attache who
watched the operations SAID: Europe
will talk no more Of attacking Tur
key it is not the bravery of the
Turkish soldier only which was proven,
but the refined knowledge Of the art of
war, which surpasses even the Japa-
nese y
In the Streets.
/ can find no words of praise to dc.
scribe their chivalry A multitude of
men and some women, encouraged by
the bravado of the Liberal soldiers,
wandered out into the streets TO watch
the progress of the fighting. The sol
diers took the pains in polite words
TO persuade the people TO eon6ne them
selves TO their houses. "Mon Cher
was often heard from the common sol
dicr- "You don't know, mon Cher
Iney sa'9' "hat -hauser pnllct Is,
II will pierce me through and kill you
Taking refuge behind ms is not safe
for you. We are not afraid of death,
but don t wish You killed. Please 60
home.
The people. on the other hand. cspe.
ciallv the Christians, Armcnians, and
Greeks, rendered good service. The
Rumclians complained that their only
difficulty was their lack of acquaint-
ance with the streets of Constantine.
pie, and many gladly put themselves at
the troops disposal Everywhere the
soldiers were guided and cautioned
distributed hot cups of coffee, cigar
cites, and cakes among the fighters.
who looked sleepless and tired. MANY
had just reached the town after A four
days march from Monastir and Adri-
anople.
The casualties were not large. Very
few were killed or wounded accident
ally, There were no ruffians, no Kurds.
no sopsjils in the streets 10 commit
acts of violence. as usual in Constan
tinople. The city was in perfect or
der A. F Moore and Mr. Booth, cor
respondents. were wounded in front Of
tho TaXim barracks, near the French
hospital. while trying TO photograph
the fighting. 4 bullet, piercing the
window Of house in this neighbor-
hood. wounded the first drago of
the United States embassy.
BY Saturday noon Pera was cap
tured and almost all the sultan s sol
diers had surrendered. A few who
tried 10 flee were shot. The wounded
and killed were Immediately moved 10
an Armenian house at Fcridic, and the
Red Cross, turned for while into the
Red Crescent society, began its work.
So fervent was the patriotism OF the
wounded soldiers that ] heard some Of
them begging the attending physicians