Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1909 — YOUNG TURKS TO STORM CAPITAL [ARTICLE]

YOUNG TURKS TO STORM CAPITAL

Report Army Corps Will Attack Constantinople. TEN ARMENIANS KILLED Marines Seize Commander of Battle ship Who Turned His Guns Against the Mutineers at the Height of the Uprising and, Conveying Their Prisoner to the Yildlz Kiosk, They Lynch Him In Spite of Efforts of Guard to Save Him. Berlin, April 16.—A special dispatch from Saloniki says that after a mass meeting to protest against the changes which have been made in the. Turkish cabinet, the Young Turks’ committee decided to march on Constantinople with the third army corps, of which twenty battalions have been mobilized. The railroad company has received orders to prepare all available cars for transportation of the troops to the capital. Jazie Bey is expected there with temthousand volunteers. All business Is at a standstill throughout the city. Constantinople, April 16.—The third day of the revolutionary movement in the capital was marked by some disorders. the most serious of which was a demonstration by marines, who objected to the new Minister of Marine, Vice Admiral Adjiemin Pasha. The marines gathered in force and seized ,a»4 eonveyed to the palace Arif »*y. » mmaader of the battleship As-sar-i Tewflk, a member of the Committee es Unisa and Progress, who Ordered the gums es his ship trained on the Ylldis Kleek. when the rising was at ks height, with the intention of supporting the committee. Arrived at the YUdiz Kleek, the men lynched Arif Bey, notwithstanding the efforts of the palace guard to save him. The ffrst news from Mersina was exaggerated. Early advices stated that a massacre es Armenians was In prograss at that place, which Is a seaport of Asia bltnar on the Mediterranean. The disturbance in reality eccurred nt Adana, which is about thlrty-elx miles from Mercina. Ten Anaeaalas woo killed. Martial law has bean proclaimed there, and relnfercemeats es troops are being dispatched from Beirut. The belief is freely expressed that the sultan U at tha Pattern es the disturbaace.