New-York tribune., 1909-05-16
-. 1909. hy the Brentwood Company

- ,ooa bv the Brentwood Company.l
ovsstence Of the ottoman Empire as
!. rspfdy drawing to a close Is the con-
fso =, all those who have made a study OF
FIcuOH :. ,be southeast of Europe and who'
slA- IL. any extravagant prejudice in favor
DT ~ another OF the divers nationahties
O - are able TO take broad and above
coz = ,-.nartial view Of the present situation
o. =. tolIou one another so quickly at STAN
.z,, AZ present that even the foreign en-
N I'D diplomatic agents accredited TO the
W. porte seem unable TO keep track there-
x-o sooner had Abdul Hamid been con-
,.+ed on his emancipation from the 'hral-
+be Young Turks than the latter, tenn
o'I =, so1vr7ed. recovered their supremacy and
.o-r.,ug his palace removed him from the
Ha his brother Rechad has been invested
,s.d with the attributes Of sovereignty
y is no telling whether he will he filling
bU - Sultan a year. six months or even
LEX - hence In fact, those persons entltleo
"a o1nerience Of the Orient To speak with
F" =. are Of The opinion that his reign VIII
-. Hved and that the hour is near At
= v-bsn the prophecies of the dlsmenoer-
If Turkey and its disappearance as an
empire from liie MAP "
filed ,-.,o = ,ir1inr its
- s-,srfne for the fray which is lAeiE
80 -. IN connection with the partition OF 'he
- -.t F7,-ire and the division Of the sPoHs'
r-.naror Francis Joseph's words were fuil
.o,s,q when in discussing with frah0iS
80, ,ba other day the demand by the ma
- r the Hungarian parliament at 1'h
= the establishment of a national -NaeH q
-..,s hank IN lieu Of the now existing Aus1i'
.. s0'7 s,o,e hank, he declined to sanction
~ nroiect on the ground that the 'liiie
LIZ t.;+;o,,s and that any such move would
;, pikely 70 affect injurioUsiy 'he
-, ~ the Dual Monarchy AT the very moment
when extensive military measures iiiieiit -.
-.o..z.-1- re,uirine effective financial oaChllie'
-. be taken in conjunction with the tact
=. .,.to,,e,, the War Department at vienna
go che reser1ists which il had suTniloiieu
-. colo-s early last February anu
49, Il still maintains along the IuT hisI'
- s-5 Russian borders arTnaments winch
= - ,,roeetrer out OF proportion 10 'lio "
-. nsace footing as TO Indicate oeheI 9"
- :. ,,a ir,rninence of more internatioila'
trouble
prvo1F SETTLING IN WHOLE EMPIRE
Ton, every mart Of Turkey comes news u
- or,e, rebellion against the Sublime
d. r. SYRIA the people who have iohs e"
-o--ed
sie, novrers Of being ruled by a Christian gov
e-nor instead Of by a Moslem, are clafaoFiiis Io'
,,ss,endence. The Arabs. who have always re-
- -. ,-cl,a of the Turk. which has weigheo
,,o .,,e;- reclzs with particular heaVlness' nav
-, .rc,rrarea by the confusion when pre'aiiS
=. ,,one.antinople and by the impotencN oi 'li7
,,,ner5al government 10 break out in more eN-
.a1siv. and farreaching insurrection than ever
t,efora and according TO the reports OF captain
Mark sykes. who has just returned 10 Lohuoi
from the East are busly engaged in destroying
and obljterating the recently opened rallroao
10 -be holy city of Medina The Greeks beiieNe
7ha. the time has arrived for their annexation
Of that portion Of the province Of Eplrus Whlch
still remains in The hands Of the Turks. and also
Of Crete while the Bulgarians are awaiting with
fmpatience the moment TO march into Mace
doria for the purpose Of adding it 10 their newly
proclaimed kingdom. BUlgars figure very large
" among the population Of Macedonia, and
Ferdinand and his government have made
roint OF insisting in marked manner that his
new title should be not Gar OF Bulgaria" but
Car Of the Bulgars." so TO indicate that his
sway extended beyond the present borders ct
his dominions into Macedonia and over the
Bulgarian towns and villages there. The Al
bsnians who were specially favored by Sultan
Abdul Hsmid and who now find themselves
shorn of many OF their former advantages. are
determined upon a restoration of their oldtime
independence, and the Armenians putting
forward analogous pretensions and agitating in
favor Of q revival Of the former kingdom Of
Armenia On the Island of Samos the people
have arisen and killed the Turkish Governor
General, while from Asia Minor come not only
reports Of sangunary massecres Of Christians
by the Moslems but also the announcement that
the latter are dissatisfied with the new order at
Colstantinople, which they regard as a usurpa
ton Of supremacy by the rayahs, or subject
Christian races, and are bent restoring all the
former power OF Islam on the shores Of the
bosporus IL has been impressed upon them
that although Abdul Hamid's deposition had
been effected by means Of fetvah Of the
sheiz-ul-lslam. il was in reality the work Of
me Christian members OF the national legisla
tnre. where the bulk Of the votes for dethrone-
nent were cast by Armenians. Jews. Greeks.