The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-25
Abdul Hamid May Have Suc-
 cessOr At An Early Date
SIX THOUSAND ARE KILLED
Blood Runs Freely In the Streets of Constantinope and SuItan's Power Has Been Taken Away By
 Young Turks.
By FRANCIS M'cuLLAeH.

Constantinople. April 4-(special)-T total number of the killed Is probably some six thousand All the heights sur rounding the Yildiz palace are held by the forces from Macedonia, and their neglect to occupy the palace is probably due to consideration for the women and children of the harem. Though Abdul Hamid re- mains in the palace, there is not even a sentinel at the gate The eunuchs and servants of the palace are stealing all they can. The doors stand wide open
 Meanwhile the people cheer the Iibera- tors Vociferously, offer them food and drinks and embrace them in the streers while Selah Eddin, the son of the late Sultan Murad, is spoken of as the success sor to Abdul Hamid Constantinople breathes freely again. The Yildiz night mare has passed. Abdul. the damned, has fallen. Last night the people thought the Sultan would outwit the Macedonian lead CTS, but thelr army might have q verita- ble Cromwell at their head, for while he was lulling suspicion yesterday by the telegram of the grand vizier. Tewflk Pasha, declaring he had no desire to de- pose the Sultan, he suddenly struck like a thunderbolt. By night his troops cana by train from San stefano and occupied the square of St. Sophie.
 The same soldiers from Saloniki with whom l eamped four days ago unexpect- edly attacked stamboul this morning on three sides at o'clock and were met by firing from the troops Near the off cers club an artillery wagon exploded, smashing every window in the vicinity. The Macedonians cannon tore a hole in the gate and another in the wall, through which you could drive horse and wagon. Trees were smashed and wreck age was strewn everywhere.
 The upshot was that the Macedonian army was master of Stamboul, with the loss of 20 killed. l visited Stamboul at ? o'clock and witnessed the triumphal entry of the Bulgarians and Albanians. dozens of magnificent batteries and horse men, all converging on to the Yildiz. Five batteries remained in St. Sophie square. where the crowd sapplauded frantcally and cried: Death to Abdul Hamid!'
 At , o'clock this morning the envelop- ing movement on the Yildiz kiosk began. Several outlying barracks had first been reduced The principal one was at Taxim, near the German embassy. Here the Sul- tans troops hoisted a whitn flag and then treacherously fired on the Macedonians advancing under the impression that they had surrendered. The tgbting there lasted five hours. The barracks were finally taken at 10 o'clock. There were many aged residents In the vicinity. The Ma cedonian soldiers begged them not to be alarmed and asked for bandases from the women. These bandages the English and Americans freely supplied and all testi- fled to the perfect courtesy of the Mace donian soldiers It was here that Frede- rick Moore. correspondent of New York, was accidentally wounded. sailor from an Italian gunboat was killed by q stray shot. There was no footing or mur- dering but many Mullahs were taken pris oners and treated with scant ceremony.
 Perfect precautions were taken to insure the safety of foreigners. The foreign quarter was occupied by we'll bred, French-speaking volunteers and the em- bassies were strongly guarded
 The palaces along the s'ore of the Straits are now deserted. Only crowds of eunochs and attendants were left.
 When 1 rode to the Yildiz kiosk l found not even q sentinel at the gate. l saw a ruot of soldiers making off, each man for himself, toward the Bosphorous, where they were taking boats and escaping.