The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-04

had to do the same thing while many
more were captured and killed
Amongst the more liberal minded
women, four of them were supposed
to be doomed, and they also have
had to get away. Think OF it! Try
ing to do good to your own people
and have men of the most ignorant
| sort try to excite a mob to kill you
When we returned in the evening
we saw these same soldiers whom we
had seen marching across the fields
their arms stacked and a real army
night scene before us. Tents were
being put up, horses cared for, every
one in a busy manner. We came
| back at dark. His Imperial Majesty
| the Sultan had been to Selamlik in
the morning as if nothing had hap
pened and we all thought that some
decision had been reached.
You all know what it means for
him to go to Selamlik; all the troops
are called out and q great affair it
| is. Many of them come from a bar
racks outside Of the city, called
Daoud Pasha and when they were
attending the Selamlik the Macedo-
mans walked into their barracks and
captured them SO that when they re-
turned they found their Macedonian
| friends the bosses, and they were
given rather warm reception, but
surrendered before much loss of life.
Few foreigners attended the Selam-
| lik, but those that did said that it
went off with the exact precision of
usual Friday. The sultan appear
| ed in his gray coat which he has
worn for years and is said to have
| been lined with steel, and looked as
he always looks-too we'll for the
| lookers-on.
We had all feared this day, think
| ing that some thing might happen,
but our fears were more or less paci-
| fed the night before by a proclama-
ton from the approaching army,
saying that foreigners and their
property would be respected and
that they wished to have as little
blood spilled as possible, that they
had come not to have war, but to
see that the constitution was carried
out. 1t was certainly well written
proclamation and raised the opin-
ions of all OF us.
Saturday morning I was awaken
ed very early by the reports of guns
and some cannonading, in fact a
terrific fusillade. l dressed and went
out to the Bible House and there
found all the people up, but it was
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where I could get view of Pera
| and the Palace. We could not cross
| the bridge as it was being held by
the Macedonians, but we could get
to the waters edge, near the rail-
road station, and stood there some
| time, but could not see any thing
only could hear what proved to be
the taking of the Tashkishla and
Taxim barracks. They had refused
to surrender and a general attack
was made. The terrific noise of the
mausers and machine guns was con-
tinued till eight when the Tashkish-
la was partly destroyed and the Tax
i'm barracks hoisted the white flag
1t is estimated that about 500
lost their lives and 1000 were
wounded. Large numbers of pris-
| oners were taken. | started to
come home to breakfast and had
| only gone short way when right
| over my head ugns commenced to be
| fired. A kind gentleman tried to
push me into coffee house but |
preferred to stay out and see the fun
| rather than being behind a lot of
these natives and window glass. 1t
rather subsidized and we crossed the
street and started to go to the Sub
| lime Porte by back way which led
us through rather narrow lanes and
| they were quite safe. / thought that
| one ought to see what they had done
| to the Sublime Porte and to the
public debt buildings, but when we
got next to the high wall that sur
| rounds the public debt, cannon COM
menced to go off right near and glass
commenced to fall. | turned to Mr..
| Fowle and said: Look at that man
| covering up his ears" and he said:
| you no doubt were doing the same
| thing few moments ago." | do
| not remember, but prehaps I did.
| Any way we thought that the safe
| place for us was to go home and
feed ourselves.
| These shots were the taking of the
| Sublime Porte. The garrison here
| had run up the white flag, and had
| got the men in and then commenced
to fire on them. A rather sharp bat
| tie ensued, but of short duration.
| The building fell into the hands
of the Macedonians and the others
were taken prisoners.
In the afternoon, when we passed
| by we saw the condition of some of
the buildings in this district. Some
of them had no glass left in the
windows, and large Gloles had been
| shot into the sides. A large cannon
carriage had exploded there and that
| too had done some little damage.
| After breakfast, we again started
out This time we met with
| great deal of difficulty, as all the
main thoroughfares had been taken
and were well in the hands of the
| Macedonians. There were four Of
us American gentlemen. and we