Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-20

BERLIN, April 19.-The correspondent
at Athens of the Lolxal Anzeiger has had
an interview with Mahmoud Mukhtar
Pasha who commanded the first army
corps in Constantinople on the day Of
the uprising, April Is. and who has ar
rived at Athens on board the German
steamer Bayern. The general said:
THE uprising was planned to occur pre-
cisely when 1 was occupied with my du-
ties on the Asiatic side of Bosphorus. II
the minister of war had taken proper
steps Immediately the movement easily
could have been nipped in the bud without
bloodshed I was Informed too late, and
when 1 reached my headquarters 1 found
il surrounded by mob of thousands of
excited people.
''I Immediately collected the troops that
had not yet become disaffected, and with
four battalions and a machine gun divis-
ion, 1 was able. through repeated attacks.
to dispense the people. 1t would have
been child's play to crush this movement
at the city. if authority had been given
me to proclaim a state of SIEGE but the
ministry and parliament were too coward
". I was expressly forbidden to take en-
ergetic measures and hence the move
ment became an avalanche.
Upon the sultans proclamation of am
nesty resigned. The next day I saw the
were surrounded by disorderly soldiers.
The shot was aimed at me, but missed.
I made my escape over a garden wall
and through several neighboring houses
which had hoisted foreign flags Finally,
I reached the harbor. whence I made my
way on board the Bayern"
The Tageblatt today publishes an in
terview with Enver Bey, the former
Turkish military attache at Berlin, trans
II
Enver Bey is now one of the military
pillars OF the Young Turks. He said:
THE counter revolution will every
where be nipped in the bud by the i'm
posing demonstrations in favor of the
constitution. We have received express
sions OF support from Smyrna and Erze-
roum. We are sending, for the present,
thirty battalions with artillery TO ship.
OF this force, the advance guard is now
about 20 miles from the capital. We have
rejected offers OF volunteers, but the de-
mcnstration I'm support of our purpose
frcm all races are magnificent. 1 hardly
expect serious resistance from the Con-
stantinople garrison. The uprising of the
troops in the capital was not a national
movement. IL was not even religious. I
start this evening for the frontier. Proofs
arc lacking for the assertion that the
sultan caused this uprising; he would not
compromise himself. and he fears too
much for the safety Of the throne to have
done So"
The foregoing dispatch TO the Lokal An
zeiger came out Of COnstantinople by way
of Smyrna. The Turkish warships sta
tionad at Smyrna are loyal to the Young
Turks.
The volunteers in the vilayet of Kosovo
number $1,000; Albania has furnished a.
co more and saloniki 5000.
The committee of Union and Progress
has accepted an OFFER from Bulgaria TO
organize a militia for emergency purpose
SULTAN is BUSY.
4 military writer in the Lokal Anzefger
avs it will require two or three weeks
for the Young Turks to transport the
third army corps 10 a position I'm front
OF COnstantinople. but that the defeat OF
the third corps before its concentration
is impossible. The sultan will have time
to make preparations to meet the Saloni-
kins.