Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-27
Deposed by National Assembly
For interfering With Progress
OF Popular Government.
NOT ONE DISSENTING VOICE.
New Sultan is Mehemmed Reshad
Effendi. ex-Ruler's Half
Brother.
lie j. a Prisoner in the Hands of Lhs
Young Turks and Is Carefully
Guarded by His Captors.

Constaminoplo. Aprn a7.--Abdui
Hamid II. sultan OF Turkey. was today
| deposed from the throne OF the Ottoman
empire hy'his subjects ror his interior
ence with the progress OF popular gov
crument under the constitution granted
by him fast July and his brother Me-
hemmed Reshad Enendi. now occupies
the throne.
This change was decided upon By the
national assembly without a dissenting
voice ana it was carried out with The
utmost rapidly The sultan Is now a
prisoner in the hands OF the Young
Turks and carefully guarded by his
captors
The formal decree removing Abdul
Hamid from an power OF the Turkish
empire was issued by the sheik-ul-
islam. the head OF the church. I'm the
regular form prescribed by the tenets
Of the Mohammedsn faith
the city OF Constantinnple IL aiive
with excitement and throngs an the
streets
A number Of arrests have been made
nut the change OF sovereigus wac made
without disorder
salute OF l0i guns announcing the
end of the reign Of Abdul Hamid and
the beginning OF that Of Mehemmed
Reshad Effendi was fired at half rast
2 o'clock this afternoon
Mehemmed Reshad Effendi was pro-
claimed as Mehemmsd "
Among those who have been arrested
under orders Of the military dictat1--
ship are Prince Sabeh Eddme. a nephew
~ the sultan, and an the members cr
his family. The prince has been
leader OF the Young Turk party ANA
hls apprehension b. taken % mean lhlt
he has fallen under suspicion.
SALUTE FIRED.
Constantinople. April 27.-A salute az
l0l guns fred at half past 9 O'Clock an
nounced 20 the waiting popuiace or
Constantinoplc the change In sultaus.
and proclaimed the fact that Mehem-
med Reshad Effendi was the new SOW
ereign OF the Ottoman empire
The written declaration OF the sbelk-
ul-'slam authorizing the dethronement
or Abdul Hamid reached parliament
house at 10 minutes past 10 O'clock.
Five minutes later parliament pro
nounced the deposition OF Abdul Hamid
and at 1850 o'clock 40 minutes after.
the receipt OF the decision OF the head
or the church. tho national assembly
Invited Mehemmed Rashad Effendi 10
succeed b. the throne
OFFICERS ARRESTED
constantinople, April Fifty Turk
ISM Officers have been arrested AZ
Erzeroum by their troops and dispatch-
ed under escort 10 Trcbizond
The exact significance OF this action
Is yet not clear, but Il Is said Il means
the beginning Of a revolt OF the pro-
Vlncial troops against the Young Turk
officers
FIRED SULTAN'S PALACE.
London, April e7--A dispatch received
here by Exchange Telegraph company
from tonstautiuOple saws troops un-
der command OF Young Turk Of
ncers fired the sultan's palace last
night and took his majesty prisoner.
Later closely guarded. he was removed
90 the Cheraghan palace on the Bos-
phorus
ABDUL SAID TO BE DEAD.
London April PA dispatch from
coustantInople by "a news agency savs
lumcrs are current I'M the Turkish caDi-
TAI that Abdul Hamid is dead rho
troops who are said 10 have taken hint
from the palace last night found him
unconscious on the floor n an inn.r
room OF the hauem.