"The wheel has come full circle." Abd-ul-Hamid has been deposed,
and his half-brother Reshad. Effendi has been made Sultan in his stead. The events must be described in chrono- logical order. Last Saturday the Salonika army tightened its grasp on the capital, and occupied all the strategic positions. Soon after dawn on Sunday morning the troops began to enter the city. The resistance offered by the mutinous troops, chiefly at their barracks, was from a military point of view of the most puerile kind, no proper dispositions being made for resist- ance. Much individual bravery was, however, shown, and a good deal of confused street-fighting took place before the mutineere were overcome. In many instances artillery was used, and though the defending troops usually sur- rendered after an hour or two's fighting, there were one or two cases in which detached groups refused to raise the white flag. These positions had to be carried by assault, and the garrison as a rule received no quarter. The estimates as to the number of killed and wounded vary very greatly ; but in all probability the actual deaths do not amount to more than four or five hundred, by far the greater number of killed being, of course, on the side of the mutineers. It is said that altogether some ten thousand arrests have been made of soldiers and of disaffected civilians, including the Sultan's vast army of spies. On the whole, the Salonika troops seem to have behaved with very great restraint, and there is no record of looting or of injury done to the civil population. As soon as the victorious army, under the very able leadership of Mahmud Shevket Pasha, were in possession of the town, the Cabinet resigned and Parliament assembled.
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