The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-24
FIGHT IN CONSTAN-
'TINOPLE.

ilVUT L.
A battalion of the sultans household
guard occupied Tasch Kischla barracks
about 800 strong and was resisting the
advance of the investing army Elk
pecting an attack the guards were de-
ployed outside the barracks when an
officer from General Schefket demand
ed that they surrender but they re-
fused
! Within a minute after the representa-
tives from the constitutionalists re-
turned the firing began. The investing
forces brought into action one battery
of field guns and one battery of ma
chine guns. as was judged from the
sound of the firing early in the morn
ling. Only a small part of the consti-
tutional troops was engaged in the at
tack on the barracks as Pera is still
lstrongly occupied with companies of
infantry stationed in nearly every street
and detailed to guard every embassy.
The American embassy is thus protect
ed and the young Turks are protecting
all hotels AMI banks in the Pera quar-
ter, where Americans and Europeans
are gathering in security.
| Landscape of Gun Rims.
From the head of the Grand Rue de
Pera, the main street. one was able to
get a partial view of the operations.
The brilliant sunlight now and then
flashed on the field, showing a land
sparkles as a machine gun slowly fired
away at segments of a thin line of in
fantry, which could be seen with the
aid of glass. At the Tasch Kischla
| barracks the sultan's men were stand
ing the rifle fire steadily.
| Presently the loyal troops occupied
the military school nearby and fired on
the advance. while considerable re-
racks joined the troops at Tasch
lKischla, where The Saloniki chausseurs
accused of betraying the constitutional
lcause. were defending themselves. The
fire was concentrated on the barracks
of the chausseurs and they were shown
little quarter. They put up a splendid
fight and many. of them We're killed. BY
half past 10 in the morning the Tasch
by the shell fire. whereupon the fire
generally slackened. Yildiz Kiosk also
had been subjected to shell fire.
| Schefket Pasha issued orders to shoot
down any soldiers of the Constantine
pie garrison seen carrying arms wheth-
er using them or not.
He declared also that all unarmed
! soldiers would be treated as noncom-
| batants.
During the encounter rain of bui-
| let's fell in the crowd observing the
great panorama in the Grand Rue De
La Pera. wounding four men, all of
whom, however, were natives. With
| this warning of danger the correspond
|
The Dogs Slept On.
During all this scene a half dozen
vagrant dogs, which are numerous
in Constantinople, slept peacefully on
| q slope in the sun, entirely undisturbed
The crowds in the streets, too. were
s1ngularly quiet in view of the condi-
tons While shops were not open
| morse cars We're running outside the
fire zone. tourist party of so or so
americans was at an early breakfast
| When the first boom of artillery shook
the windows of the Pera Palace hotel
There was a scurry to the windows but
as the tourists were unable to see any
thing from their position they merely
abandoned their coffee and left the city
at o'clock according to their pro-
gramme.
4 Frederick Moore, the American news
paper correspondent who was wounded
\ comes from New Orleans. He was shot
; in the neck. How serious his injuries
may be is not yet known. His wife,
who is an English woman, is here with
him.
4 Among the Americans in Constan-
tlnople are Rear Admiral Colby NJ
Chester, retired, and Mrs. Chester; Ar
thur Chester of New York. the ad-
mirars son. and Mrs. Arthur Chester;
Frank Carpenter and Miss Carpenter,
Miss Mary Lee, daughter of Robert S.
Lee, and Junius Morgan of New York.
1 Two Onlookers Killed.
London, April PA special dis
patch from Constantinople says:
1.-TWO onlookers We're killed during
the struggle, one of whom is believed
to be British subject. The fire
ragged almost in the heart of the
| European quarter. Frederick Moore
correspondent of the New York Sun,
was seriously wounded while taking
snapshots Of the fighting soldiers who,
evidently mistaking his camera for
! weapon, fired upon him.
80.
the distinction of being one of the
correspondents near to the scene of
activity in Turkey. He represented
several English and American papers
and recently published book on
! Morocco. He. was formerly con-
nected with the London bureau of the
| Associated Press. His wife is with
him at ConstantinoDle.
Number of Europeans Wounded.
Berlin. April 24.-The Constantine
pie correspondent of the Lokal An
zeiger telegraphs that a number of
fighting.
1t was reported that the corre-
spondent of the London Times was
killed at the Taxim barracks, where
the sultan's troops put up a strong
resistance. This statement could not
be verified and it was said later that
the man killed was an American sight
! seer. The Dragoman of the Austrian
| SAuDdSSy Was WOunQeu ana IL re-
ported that secretary attached to the
English embassy was killed.
The correspondent says also that the
Yildiz garrison has surrendered to the
Salonikin army.
The City Is Taken
The men in the Aasch Kischla bar
racks surrendered at 1 O'Clock and with
this event the entire capital passed into
the possession of the constitutionalists
1t IS impossible as yet accurately to
set forth the number of killed and
wounded, but the casualties proba bIy
Will exceed 1000.
The Red Cross society is active and
many Armenian women are busily en-