Show HEMMED IS MADE SULTAN Of TURKEY p ur JJ Hamid's Throne Declared Vacant cut ty liy Parliament Par Par- and lief Dignitary of at dell an Religion and Salute of Hundred and andOne One Guns Cons Tells Capital New Sovereign Reigns LONDON April 27 A A dispatch from Constantinople ja fa a news pews agency says r rumors ors are current in the Turkish l that Abdul Hamid is dead The troops who are areto Said id to have taken him from the palace last night found him him unconscious on the floor in an inner room of the t t- S April 27 Abdul Abdul iid II IL of or Turkey was as today dep deposed from the throne of i 1 the Ottoman empire by 1 his subjects for fot his interference rith the progress of popular government under the eon eon- granted by 1 him him last July T uly and his brother Ic I Effendi now occupies the thc throne i This change was decided upon by the national assembly assem assem- n- n bly without t a dissenting i voi Yoi voice e r a and and d it was s carried out ont with ith I utmost rapidity The sultan is s a prisoner in in the thc hands of f the he Young Turks and aud carefully guarded b- b his captors I ThC formal decree removing Abdul nid from all aU power of the Turkish Spire pire was issued by the tho Sheik Ul S 'S the ulio head of tho the church in the regu- regu form fonn prescribed by the tenets of the Mohammedan n faith Ie The city of Constantinople Constantinopla is alive auve ti excitement and throngs fill flU the reet ree A number of arrests following the dirge go of sovereigns were made without I order border A 1 salute of guns announcing th the I Sot ot of the reign of Abdul Harold Hamid and nd I b beginning g of wa was wu fired at o'clock this IY i declaration ion of the thc Sheik I 11 authorizing t the tho 10 dethronement et nt lf l Hannd Hami r reached parliament at t 10 10 o'clock O 1 minutes i I parliament pronounced the thC I of Abdul and at it 1050 forty after the receipt f tho c ion of tho head of or the the nat national jInaI assembly invited Effendi to succeed f 0 the throne N p Fifty Turkish officers have havo been eu ar- ar tM td at l lIy by v their troops troop and at under escort to g hI exact significance i of this action i is is not vet nt clear elear but hut it i is said sairi it menthe men means the beginning heinning of a l revolt rc of the provincial provin pro I cial troops against the Youn Young Turk of I |