The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-19
TWO AMERICANS
ARE MURDERED
IN ASIA MINOR
Continued from PAGE !

AleXancretta tonight and French
Warship viii arrive in Mersina tomor-
row.
IZzet Pasha, chief of the general STAFF
of the war office, together with several
Ulemas. has gone to the encampment
Of the SalOniki troops to confer with
the officers en- the demands which they
submitted to the chamber of deputies.
The government is hopeful of peace
tui solution, although some doubt Is ex-
pressed in parliamentary circles that
the cabinet can obtain a vote Of conf
dence tomorrow when II makes its
statement concerning the governments
policy.
i circular telegram has been received
at the foreign embassies from General
HUsni Pasha, commanding the Saloniki
army. in which he SAYS
I have the honor to inform you re
specifically that the object Of the army
corps in marching on ConstaRtinOp is
merely for the re-establishment of the
constitution, which is sacred to all true
Ottomans, and the legal punishment Of
the cursed authors Of the sangunary
disorders. by the reaction of which hu-
manity has always suffered. BE Ger
tain, exceileDcy, that the lives and
property of foreigners. the honoTed
guests Of our dear fatherland, will be
safeguarded. and that tranquility and
security viii be assured the entire pop
UlatiOn.
Union and Progress.
The Saloniki branch of the commit
tee Of union and progress has addressed
a strongly wOrded telegram TO the sui
tan, prctically impUting to him "A viola
ton Of his oath TO uphold the constitu-
ton. Many battalious of the garrison
at ConstantiHople. il is stated. are
showing repentance at their recent acts.
They now declare that they were misled
into believing that the Sheri laws and
the constitution were I'm danger. This
is regarded as a hopeful sign.
Ii is also noteworthy that the Ian
guage Of the Volkan. the organ of the
Mohammedan league. since yesterday
has been more moderate. 1t exhorts
the soldiers to obey their officers. 1T is
stated generally that the soldiers in
the capital are well provided with
money which they are spending freely
and this gives rise to suspicion as to its
source.
The Geographic communications be
tween Constantinople and Tchatalje
ana other stations along the railway
line are in the hands OF the invading
army, and as a consequence no further
az sN9 has ltdNlltu mere WITH regard
the arrival Of military trains from Sa-
loniki
Order Is Maintained.
Order and discipline are being main
tanned and all measures have been
taken as though in the time Of war.
Indeed. the army is marching with the
regulation precautions.
The government has issued denial
of the reported establishment Of a CEN
sorship and the temperance Of the
spies Of the old government. as well as
a strong denial that officers Of the com
mittee of union and progress or the
army have been murdered.
Prominent army and naval officers
have already fled into the country.
while others are still in hiding. A large
number of the more timid of the civil
population are leaving the city
Details have been learned of the
lynching Of the commander of the hat
tleship Assar-i-Tewfik, whose name
was Ali kabuli. not Arif Bev. as pre-
viously reported. Wednesday night the
commander assembled the recruits be-
fOre the guns and explained how they
should be fired. He then trained the
guns on the Yildiz kiosk and the ar
senal and instructed the recruits that
they must fire at his order or they
would be annihilated. It would be.
however. he added, while the crew was
asleep
Commander is Lynched.
The quartermaster overheard the con-
versation and informed the crew. They
thereupon seized the commander. call
ing him a traitor. The following day
they took him to the war office. He at
tempted to escape, but was seized and
beaten He was then taken to the pal
ace. where. il is stated. the sultan or