The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-04-17
PARADE BEFORE PARLIAMENT
8UiLDiNG-OEMA DISMISS
Al OF HIGH OFFICIALS.
CABINET HAS RESIGNED
suLTAN's ANNOUNCEMENT THAT
NEW CABINET Is BEING
FORMED APPLAUDED.

Constantinople.- troops OF the
garrison made a violent demonstration
Tuesday before the Parliament build
ing against the committee of union ana
progress and the government. IheE
demanded the dismissal OF the grand
vizier, Hilmi Pasha, the minister OIL
war. and the president of the Chamber.
The outbreak was caused by an Or
der that the troops must obey their
officers under al circumstances, even
il called upon to shoot down their CO.
religionists.
The multitude, as the first move,
seized all the officers of the committee
Of union and progress and held them
prisoners. Only few OF the troops
kept out of the demonstration.
The latter, which were chiefly art1l-
lerymen and cavalry. are massed at
the war ministry They have orders to
fire on any one approaching the build
ing and during the course of the day
number of persons were killed and
wounded.
Deputies were escorted to the Cham
ber in order that they might vote on
the question Of forming new cabinet
and appointing new president, but
owing to the Easter holidays it was i'm
possible to form quorum.
Deputy Emir Arslan was killed on
his way to the house in mistake for
Hussein Jahid.
Reports of the killed place the num-
ber as high as seventeen and the
wounded at thirty or fOrty
There is a report current also that
the minister of justice, Refik Pasha,
has been murdered, that the minister
of marine has been wounded and the
minister of war captured by the mu-
tineers.
The cabinet met at the porte and
after long consultation the ministers
sent in their designations to the pal
ace A new ministry was being
formed Tuesday night.
Tewfik Pasha, who was recently ap-
pointed ambassador to Great Britain
will be the new grand vizier, with Ed
him Pasha minister of war. Edhim
Pasha was the Turkish commander in
the Greek war and as he proceeded
from the Yildiz to Stamboul he was
greeted with cheers from the troops.
The Sultan's principal secretary read
to the Chamber an trade announcing
that the Sultan had accepted the cabi-
nets resignation and that new min
istry was being formed. Measures had
been taken, the trade continued, to
preserve order throughout the country.
1t announced that the mutinous troops
had been pardoned and that they could
return to their barracks and the peo-
pie to their occupations.
The trade was received with enthus-
iastic cheers for the Sultan.
The government knew of the in
tended movement and adopted defen-
sive measures. Officers were notified
to be prepared forcibly to disperse
meetings Monday night, and Mahmoud
Mukhein Pasha, commander of the
first army corps, issued rigorous Or
der to fire upon the attaches Of the
mosques and civilians, il necessary.
This led to the mutiny.
When Hilmi Pasha, the grand vizier,
arrived at tine porte he found his min
listers assembled and learned that
nearly the whole garrison, with the ex-
ception OF four battalions and some ar
tillery had mutinied. The Parliament
was now in the hands of the mutt
neers, who had surrounded the build
ings and were demanding the dismissal
OF the government.
1t was not long before the mutineers
were joined by other battalions. Hilmi
PaSha, fearing to undertake the re-
sponsibility Of ordering an attack on
the revolutionists, went to the Yildiz
kiock and resigned.