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Show Y1LDIZ GARRISON HAS SURRENDERED Sultan Finds That His Men Are Doomed to Defeat and Orders Them to Surrender. Last Semblance of Resistance to the Constitutional Army Disappears and Abdul Hamid is Now a Prisoner of His Rebellious Rebel-lious Subjects. Constantinople. The Yildiz garrl-son garrl-son surrendered on Sunday to the Constitutionalists. The commander.) of these battalions began ending notices no-tices of their submission to Mahmoud Schefket Pasha Saturday night, and the troops protecting the palace gave their formal and unconditional sun-en-der shortly after dawn. Sultan Abdul Hamid has been permitted per-mitted to remain within the walls of the Yildiz Kiosk, where, in company with his minister, he heard the story of the struggle between his loyal troops and the army of investment, each hour bringing word of a fresh disaster. It has been stated, since victory rested with the Constitutionalists, Constitution-alists, that the sultan himself gave orders to his men not to resist. A representative of the commander-in-chief of the Constitutionalists is ai thority for the statement that the sultan will be dealt with by the parliament par-liament and that there will be an adequate ade-quate investigation in the sovereign's alleged complicity in the recent mutiny. mut-iny. Up to the present the ministry has not been dissolved, but Constantinople Constan-tinople and other places have been declared in a state of siege. Martial law prevails and order has been maintained with a strict hand. The last garrison to surrender was the Selimich artillery barracks in Soutari, opposite StambouL |
