The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-07
THE REVOLUTION WHICH
OVERTHREW THE SULTAN
How Constantinople Was Occupied and the
Imperial Palace Surrendered Deposition
and Imprisonment of the Ruler

la Pera, wounding four men, all of
whom, however, were natives With
this warning of danger the correspond
ents and others hastily withdrew. Dur
ing all this scene half dozen vagrant
dogs, which are numerous in Gonstan-
tinople, slept peacefully on slope in
the sun, entirely undisturbed
The crowds in the streets, too, were
singularly quiet in view of conditions
1 While shops were not open, horse cars
were running outside the fire zone A
tourist party Of fifty or sixty Amer
leans was at an early breakfast when
the boom of artillery shook the win
dows of the Pera Palace Hotel. There
was seurry to the windows. but as
the tourists were unable to see any
thing at their position, they merely
abandoned their coffee ana left the city
at o. clock, according to their pro-
gram.
American Among Wounded.
= EIeueTlch moore, the american news
paper correspondent who was wounded,
is from New Orleans. He was shot in
the neck. How serious his injuries may
be is not yet known. Among the Amer
j leans in Constantinople are Rear-Ad-
miral G. M. Chester, retired, and Mrs.
Chester; Arthur Chester of New York,
the Admiral IS son, and Mrs. Arthur
Chester; Frank Carpenter and Miss Car
penter, Miss Mary Lee, daughter of
Robert S. Lee, and Junius Morgan of
New York.
i In spite of the surrender of the Yil-
diz garrison, where the white flag had
/, been hoisted, another detachment of the
Sultan S bodyguard quartered in the
Tophanch barracks continued a stub
born resistance for some time longer,
barricading themselves in a mosque,
but finally were overpowered. The
grounds of the Bulgarian legation were
occupied by a detachment of the garri-
son, who took up position here to
oppose the advance of the constitutions
alists. In the subsequent skirnlish the
legation was riddled with bullets. None
|, of the inmates, however, were hurt.
The constitutionalists finally cleared the
grounds.
AS soon as it was definitely known
, that the fighting was at an end the
streets of the city became thronged
with people eager to get the latest
news. Pickets from the corps under
the revolt at Resna last July, entered
Pera at 1890 o'clock and were loudly
cheered by the people.
Police patrols at IL o'clock visited
the shops, assuring the occupants that
they had nothing to fear and inviting
them to open.
1 Americans Leave the City.
ambassador Leishman sent a party
of sixty American tourists to a steam
er about to leave Constantinople
y under the protection of guard OF
soldiers supplied him by the local COM
mander. The ambassador then visit
ed the leading hotels where Americans
were stopping to reassure them that
their part of the city was secure and
that they were in no danger. Admiral
. Chester expressed the opinion that
: Schefket Pasha had handled his forces
in an admirable manner.
AS soon as the resistance at the
! Matehka and the Tasch Kischla bar
racks had been overcome the attack
ing forces occupied the heights sur
rounding the Yildiz Kiosk.
At 2:20 o'clock there was 8, snort
engagement near the German Enbas-
sy between the constitutionalists and
the soldiers who had escaped from a
. neighboring barracks.
Occasional shells fell in the city, ap,
parently from the investing forces ad-
: vancing from the north in Yild1z
5 Kiosk Men from the invading army
, have occupied the military guardhouse
of the city.
With the exception of the line via
Sarajevo, all Geographic communlca-
5 ton with Europe is interrupted.
| In the height of the excitement pick
cts went through the streets of the
city searching the natives and conf1s-
eating all revolvers found on them.
The Turkish officer commanding the
: guard on duty at the British EN-
t bassy announced that his troops were
under the orders of the ambassador
and that they can be relied upon 10
do their duty as we'll as if they were
l British soldiers.
Treachery of Garrison.
The artilleryists at Taxim barracks
were guilty of gross treachery. They
hoisted the white flag and thereby en-
ticed the Salonika infantry to close
range As the Salonika men were ap-
preaching the barracks across an open
: piece of ground to receive the surren-
t der, the force within opened upon
, them with a heavy shell fire and COM
PEELED them TO retreat. The Salonika
artillery was then brought up and
shelled the barracks, infiicting heavy
damage. The barracks twenty min
utes later was rushed by the invading
troops and there was hand-to-hand
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