, 1909-05-12

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graphed on the 18th -
A catastrophe has overwhelmed the new
regime in Turkey.
The Minister and the Committee of Union
and Progress have fallen, and the Jemiyet-i-
MOh0mmedieh (League Of MahomedG back
ed by the rank and file Of the whole of the
First Army Corps and by a large majority
of the MOslem popuIace, is master of tho sit
uation. Th9 leaders of the Committee are
in hiding.
Our Correspondent attributes the OUT
break largely to the neglect Of military dis
cipline for politics by officers of the Commit
tee. In Il later message of the same date
he said
The Government appears TO have been in
formed Of the movement which was on foot,
but its measures were purely defensive.
Officers informed their men during the past
week that they must be prepared to dispense
meetings by force. On Monday night an
order couched in terms Of more than Prus-
sian rigour was issued by Mahmud Mukhtar
Pasha, Crdering the troops, if necessary, to
fire upon s0ftas and civilians. This decid-
ed the majority of the men to mutinv.
Mesa es were sent from barrack to barrack,
and at dawn. soldiers, led in the first in
stance by an Albanian corporal and by Kurt
Hodia, momber Of the Jemiyeti-3Ioham-
medieh, gathered near Santa Sophia, seiaed
the Parliament House and the telegraph
offices, and then captured the bridges, which
they swung open for an hour, to prevent o
movement from Pera. Then they killed two
officers belonging to the Committee Of Union
and Progress, one of whom was left lying in
his blood till 10 o'clock.
Hilmi Pagha arrived at the Porte ut 10 to
fnd the Ministers assembled. Tho news
was Of the worst. Except ut the Wag Otf1ce,
whore four battalions and some artillery were
A&Eal the regiments of the Guard and First
Division and even the Salouika Rifles were
melting away. All the approaches to Par
lament were barred by bodies of infantry.
and the building itself was IN the hands Of
mutiueers, who cheered the Constitution
and the Sheriat Sacred Law in the same
breath. They demanded the dismissal Of
HiImi Pasha, Ahmed Ria, Mukhtar Pasha,
and the Minister Of War and Marine, but
welcomed such Deputies as arrived with
cheers and blasts from their bugloR and
trumpets.
Sixty-fve Deputies, q few Of whom were
Committee men. arrived and passed the fore
moor in Attempting to calm the troops.
Meanwhile the men of the Pera battaIions
Btreamed over the bridge at short intervals
to join their comrades.
Hilmi, oyerpowered by the emergency,
refused to take the responsibility Of ordering
an instant attack with diminishing forces,
aud ut 2 o'clock proceeded to YIIdiz, where
he offered his resignation. At 3 the Emir
Mahomed Arslan, on entering the House,
was attacked by troops, who mistook him
for Hussein Jahid, the editor Of the Zdnln,
and morally wounded him. Shortly after
wards Mahmud Mukhtar Pasha sent a troop
of lancers to the square. The troops fired
in the air, but wounded one or two bystand-
ers.. Nozim Pnsha, Minister of Justice. was
killed on his way to Pera by soldiers aud
the Minister of Marine. who accompanied
linn, was wounded by q bayonet thrust in
the leg.
ATTITUDE OF THE SULTAN.
AT 4 o'clock Ismail Kemal Bey and five
Deputies preceded to Yildiz, where they
urged the Sultan to call upon Kiamil Pasha
and Nazim Pasha to form q Government as
the only way to save the situation. His
Majesty, it appears. had other views.
Troops continued to arrive at intervals.
battalions from Skutari crossing the Strait,
aud all concentrating on the great square
fronting Santa Sophia and Parliament.
As the afternoon wore on the cries of
HHuriel" tIlbertv) were axchnnoel for