The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-04-23
MARCHING ON
CONSTANT|NOPLE
YOUNG TURKS HAVE THE ARMY
AND NAVY WITH THEM
TO DO THINGS.
SULTAN UP AGAINST IT
Said the Despotic Ruler Will Quit to
Save Himself and There Seems
Prospect Of II.
Marching on constantInopIe.

The abdication, if not the death OF
the sultan, has been decreed by the
committee on Union and Progress, the
Young Turks. These latter are mass
ing great bodies of troops loyal to
them in Saloniki and the march on
Constantinop.e has been begun by the
main body.
The sultan is believed to have insti
gated the outbreak against the Young
Turks, who had forced him to do their
bidding.
II is reported that the sultan, seeing
the hopelessness of the situation, has
sent his chamberlain and his secretary
to the grand viZier with orders that the
government make peace with the
Young Turks on any terms in order to
prevent general bloodshed. The sultan
is described as ready to sacrifice him
self in order to save the fatherland
from catastrophe.
The Young Turks are determined to
regain the power temporarily lost in
the mutiny of last week, and appar-
emily have the force to easily accom-
plish this, even to the reinforcement of
Abdul Hamid.
The navy has declared for the Young
Turks and the mutinous soldiers are
evincing willingness to return to the
fold. They are not expected to oppose
the entrance of Young Turks.
The advance guards precede the
main body of the soldiers. One Is COM
posed of 300 men, half of whom are
officers. These two columns are ex-
pected to occupy Pera and Galata, the
foreign and official quarters of Con-
stantipole, as soon as possible in or
der to protect foreigners in the event
of rioting. The leaders have issued
orders that foreign property must not
be molested.
These troops have come mostly from
Saloniki. the headquarters of the Third
army corps, which always has support
ed the Young Turks in their demands
for constitutional reform.
Priests sent out to parley with the
Young Turks in Tchatalja were whip
ped and driven away.
The Young Turks. knowing that
bloodshed will mean the Intervention
of the powers, hope to restore the old
order of things without it, They be-
lieve the force they have at their back
will be as convincing as that which
brought the sultan to his knees in
day last August. That was one of the
most carefully prepared and successful
revolutions in history.
Mukhtar Bey is in command of the
advance guard of the Salonikins.
When a deputation of pacification
from Constantinople greeted him he
asked gruffly:
Have you brought the head of the
old man? We cannot negotiate so
long as you come without that head"
This deputation, consisting of 80
men. wanted to proceed to Saloniki,
but it was compelled to return. Mullh-
tar Bey threatened to give orders to
have them shot Immediately If they
attempted to get in touch with the sol
diers.
The troops which arrived in Spar
takule Saturday afternoon under the
command of Mast Pasha proceeded to
Katchuk and Tchekmedje. where il is
believed they will await the coming
of reinforcements. They will then en-
bark on vessels and, avoiding Con-
stantinople, march direct to Yildiz
Kiosk, the palace of the sultan.
Many officers have deserted their
anu JOlhCu IiC OdlOHlhllio.
Izzet Pasha, chief of the general
staff, went with 10 officers to Kutchuk
and Tchekmedje, ostensibly to pacify
the soldiers, but persons well informed
say that his real purpose was to trans
fer the entire general staff to the
Salonikins.
The volunteers in the viliyet of Kos
sovo number $4,000; Albania has fur
nished $4,000 more and Saloniki 5000
The committee of Union and Progress
has accepted an offer from Bulgaria
to organize a militia for emergency
purposes.
A military writer says it will require
two or three weeks for the Young
Turks to transport the third army
corps to position in front of Constan-
tinople. but that the defeat of the third
corps before its concentration is i'm.
possible. The sultan will have time
to make preparations to meet the Sa-
lonikins.
Mene's Tart Comment.
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