The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-26

Bey expects to return to Berlin as mill
tary attacho of tho Turkish embassy
I Lewis Elnstein, secretary Of the
American embassy. met u detachment
OF volunteers In the streets. He was
astonished 10 see among them two of
his old friends, Rauf Pasha formerly
commander of n Turkish warshlp. and
fuad Bey, who served for eight years
In the guard regiment at Potsdam
Artillery First Defiant.
Enver Bey's work today consisted in
| obtaining the submission of the artil
lery IN the Solomah barracks in Sou
| tari.
The dcscrtion of a company or two
from this barracks yesterday caused thh
erroneous report that tho whole com.
mand had yielded. The commander of
der, sent word to Gen. Schefket:
! We have 100 guns here and 1000
men lf we are attacked we will BON.
bard the city into pile of dust.
Gen. Schefket replied:
We Will mako you so busy in tax
! ing care of MS TINT you will have no
| time to think of the city Besides,
| you have only 100 rounds apiece for
| those guns.
The report of the coming lombard
ment spread throughout the city, caus-
, ing great uneasncss Traffic was
| stopped on the Bosphorus. the ships
being used to transfer infantry and ar
! hllery. Sixty guns were placed in po-
sitlon and trained on the barracks and
| several batteries of machine guns were
brought up.
Finally Forced to Yield.
When everything was ready another
demand was made for the surrender OF
the Solomiah artillerymcn, and the de-
mand was accompanied by the informa-
tion that it was useless for them to en-
gage against such odds. and particularly
since the sultan had himself consented
to the troops of the palace yielding.
The commander Of the barracks late in
the afternoon agreed to the surrender
and the shifting of the garrison proba-
bly, Will begin tomorrow without
shot being fired.
There is still some disquiet about the
city. Long supply trains are coming in
from the country districts, these con
sisting Of strings of donkeys, each with
Two boxes of ammunition slung over
their backs; OK carts, rudely built,
filled with supplies; herds of sheep and
cattle and some splendid artillery
horses and vigorous little ponies.
Dispatches reaching here from Asia.
tic Turkey bring the tdiugs of Arme-
niau and Turkish conflicts all over the
country. DR.. j. NJ Balph who is in
charge of the missions at Latakia, Sy
ria, telegraphs that refugees are mr.
irving there from outlying parts Of the
district, who report massacres and the
burning of towns. He also reports that
there is the gravest apprehension con
ccrning conditions at kessah, where
Miss Eflie Chambers is one of the mis-
sionarlc5.
In Sore Distress.
L I,l
Il resolution at San Stcfano, cmbodyIng
request to the government to order
imperativcly the local authorities TO
stop the disorders and punish the lead
ers. The need of the Arnenians in the
Adana district is the greatest. EN-
hassador Leishman has transmitted
through the state department. the fol-
lowing message TO the Rev. James l..
Barton, foreign secretary of the Amer
lean board Of commissioners for for
cign missions at Boston, from W, j,
Pect, treasurer of the mission board
here:
''Outbrcaks at Adana; native Chris
tians suffered much loss of life and
property Their district is in flames.
Fifteen thousand are destitute, Thou
sands of dollars required daily. They
have bread alone; lack medical sup
plies. Tho four emergency hospitals
are already overcrowded. Two large
orphanages are required at once. The
government cannot meet tho present
needs. The relief committee has be
gun work, but funds arc needed, y
Guarded From Friends.
Tonight unsympathetic and rcsoluto
soldiers stood guard around the sultan
as a precaution against his friends He
has not been deposed, but his subjects
talk openly of whether he shall remain
even the nominal head of the empire.
Tho Constitutional party is supreme
again, but the Zealots are busy IN the
eastern provinces, striving to arouse
Asiatic Mohammedanism against 'lnh-
del culture. -
Small risings are likely to occur cast
of the Bosphorus, but they are also
likely to be put down decislvely by
those seeking 10 uplift the whole coun-
try
Husni Pasha, the general commanding
the division Of the army of occupation
in the Pera quarter, said tonight
''I have lost an army corps (mean-
ing the Constantinople army), but nave
saved the country the terrors or undls-
ciplined soldiers.
Questioned with regard to his posi-
tion at the Yildiz Kiosk, he said:
"All the barracks around the palace
being occupied, | have decided for the
present. not to furnish Il guard for the
interior of the palace, because l wish
to avoid contact by my men with the
palace fusileers, in order TO prevent
their contamination by the traditions
of the old guard.
rison are being sent to the barracks IN
the outskirts of Stamboul They ultl-
mately will be distributed among the
different corps, chiefly in Salonlki.
SULTAN REPORTED TO