The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-19
TO DEMAND INDICATION
 OF SULTAN
Christians Preparing to De- fend Themselves Serious Disorders at Smyrna Eight Foreign War ships Fastening to
 the Scene.

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 the Scene.
 One of American Mission aries Murdered Was Con-
 gregational Minister, Rev.
 Daniel Miner Rogers,
 Whose Parents Reside in New Britain and Who Was a Graduate of liar yard. H
 Special from United Presso Philipoppolis, Bulgaria, April 19.- | The Young Turks and Macedonian troops will reach Constantinople to- | night when they are expected to de- | mand the Sultan's andication. It is l believed here that the Turkish Minis
 try will promptly resign.
 Alepho, Asiatic Turkey, April 1e.- Twenty Christians were killed at
 Marash eighty miles north of here to- day, in a fresh outbreak of rioting by
 the Mohammedans. Marash is a town of 5000 and numbers in it's population thousands of Armenian Christians. If
 the latest outbreak is not speedily checked it is feared that the butchery in Adana will be eclipsed.
 Teheran, April 19.-Russia is to-day
 taking advantage of Turkeys inability to interfere by rushing large force of troops to Astrabad. the former revo- lutionary stronghold, where 2,000 in habitants are reported to have been
 massacred by Turcoman tribesmen. The Russian advance is being made
 under the guise of restoring order and
 protecting the lives of the people but
 it is believed here that the Russian
 occupation will be permanent. just as
 the English occupation of Bushier will
 prove to be.
 Constantinople. April 19.-Despite the fact that teiegraphic- communication with Mersina has been resumed little news has been received and it is stat ed that nearly all of the telegraph oP- orators have been killed. Massacres are still in progress throughout the entire district. A belated message from the British Vice Consul at Adana states that conditions there have not been exaggerated, that murder and riot prevail and he is significantly adds that ''even worse trouble is feared"
 The next outbreak is expected at AL eHandria. AdviceS received from there to-day state that the entire Christian population has gathered in the Chris tian residences there, that barricades are being erected and that the Chris tians are preparing to defend them selves against the infuriated MuSSel- man invasion.
 Serious disorders are reported at Smyrna. The feeling there has been intense. Eight foreign warships are hastening toward Turkish waters and it is expected there will soon be pro- lection available for the foreign resi- dents. Some of the warships are pro ceeding under such urgent orders that they have not even stopped to replen- Ri mic names of the two missionaries murder ed at Adana are D. M. Rogers and MT. Maurer.
 New York, April 1s.-Danie1 Miner aries murdered in Asia-Minor, was a Congregational minister, ordained to the Ministry in East Dorset, Va. The identity of the other, MT. Maurer, has D. M. Rogers is a son of MT. and Mrs. D. O, Rogers of New Britain, Conn. He was ordained in 1906 after graduat- ing from Harvard and after entering he relieved his father-in-law, Dr. Theo- dore Christi, of St. PauPs Institute there. After going to Harvard's Theo- logical Institute he became mem Der of the class of 1903.
 London, April 19.-After throwing an advance guard into the Pera and Gal ata suburbs of Constantinople to pro- tect the lives of the foreign residents, the nd1n DOOy OI In0 4OunS army will march on the Yildiz Kiosk and demand the surrender and abdica- tion of the Sultan, according to a tel egram to-day from the ConStantinOple correspondent of the Exchange Tele- graph. The telegram says the Young Turks advancing against the capitol have now reached the outskirts of the city and that the advance guard is under orders to occupy Pera and Galata at once.
 The advance of the soldiers was has tened last night and it is said there are now 10000 Young Turks, well armed and officered within striking distance of the city. This force is more than a match for the Sultan'S troops and dis patches say the latest indications are that the city will easily be forced to 
 Sofia, April 1e.-It is rumored here that the Sultan has offered to abdi- cate on condition that the committee of the Young Turks agree to safe guard him and his property The ru- nor states that the offer has been ig- nored by the Young Turks. It is fur ther believed here that the Young Turks have already proclaimed Mohammed Rechad as Sultan. He is the brother of the Sultan and the re- port that he has joined the Young Turks party is not confirmed. It is known as a certainty however, that nople There is, of course, the possi- bility that he has been asSasSinated inasmuch as the Sultan was very jea1- | ous of him and has known that he was | the choice of the Young Turks to head | a new dynasty.
 Washington. April 19.-The situation | at Adana is calmer. according to a dis | patch received at the State department | today from Ambassador Lieshman, but the disturbances are spreading through | the neighboring district. Twenty l thousand troops of the third army | corps, he adds, which are supposed to be marching on Constantinople, are now within twenty miles of the city | arrixr Ian1 The |