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Show TURKEY'S TROUBLES MAY BE SETTLED' WITHOUT AN ENCOUNTER High Hopes Entertained at Constantinople for Peaceful Termination Army, However, Is Ready to Advance Upon City if Necessary Fears of Rioting Still Entertained and Many Peopje Are Leaving the City. telling of violent street fights and imminent im-minent Indignities to the women, and as a result, there has been an epidemic epi-demic of fear. Izzett Pasha, chief of the general staff and member In Constantinople of the committee of union and progress, has handled the situation so skillfully that the first army corps has been won over to the constitutional cause to the point, In auy event, of not offering of-fering any opposition. Izzet Pasha Is making every disposition of the troops within the city to the advantage of Husnl Pasha, the commander of tho constitutionalists, should the committee commit-tee deem it necessary to occupy the city. Contantiuople, April 21. (12:30 p m ) The advance of the constitutional constitu-tional army has arrived at the outskirts out-skirts of the city. The cabinet will meet this afternoon and proclaim martial mar-tial law In the capital. The administering of the oath to the troops, still in garrison, is proceeding pro-ceeding today In accordance with the demands of the constitutionalists. Furthermore, tho authors of the recent upheaval are being arrested. A cabinet meeting was held this morning to consider the proposals raado by the army of investment, lu some quarters, it is believed there is an increasing possibility of arriving at an understanding, which may result In a conciliation between tho Young Turks and the Sultan. It was even declared In official circles this morning that the pour parllers between tho government and the constitutional con-stitutional army promise a settlement It Is alleged that the armv no longer long-er Insists upon the withdrawal of the present ministry and the reinstallation reinstalla-tion of the Hllml cabinet, but it does maintain its demand for the punishment punish-ment of the authors of the recent trouble. trou-ble. Constantinople. April 21. The lines of tho Constitutional army are drawing draw-ing closer and closer around the Turkish Turk-ish troops today, and the Turkish guard of the Macedonians Is practically practi-cally at the gates of the city. The actual ac-tual advance into the city has not yet begun. Negotiations for a peaceful settlement settle-ment are proceeding with high hopes of success, and there aro increasing evidences that there will be no encounter en-counter betwoen tho army of Investment Invest-ment and the first army corps within Constantinople. Fears of possible rltlng, however, hecame manifest toflay, and as a result, re-sult, many people are lealng the capital cap-ital by any means possible. Everything is quiet at the YUdlr. palace. The Sultan is outwardly calm and ls awaiting developments with apparent ap-parent imperturbability. . j The first army corps, which gar- j rlFons Constantinople, has been completely com-pletely won over to the constitution- i allsts. Various units of this corps in accordance with the demand voiced yesterday by Husnl Pasha, the commanding com-manding general of the army of investment, in-vestment, aro today taking oth to obey their superiors, not to mix In politics, and not to interfere with the meas- i ures adopted for tho punishment of I those guilty of starting the revolt of j last week. j Civilians and some of the foreigners foreign-ers today expresa that, at tho last moment, there may be resistance, or that pome of tho soldiery will get out ' of hand, and as a result, a general oxoduB has begun. The immediate neighborhood of Yildlz Kiosk is deserted. de-serted. This apprehension is added to by the fact that the Sultan has made no statement as to his intentions. inten-tions. Exceptional measurec are being taken tak-en to preserve ' order within the enp-ital. enp-ital. but in spite of this, the public ; - is distrustful of the troops. It is realized real-ized that a majority of the garrison is more than favorably disposed towards thaMacodonlans, but nevertheless, there may be a repetition of the excesses ex-cesses of last week on tho part of the individual soldiers. The men guilty of disorders of a week ago. aro deserting, desert-ing, and aro making their way by rail and on foot into Asia Minor. This morning, a number of Turks on the warships anchored in front of Yildlz Kiosk In the Bosphorus. They are the battleships Megsudieh Assar-. Assar-. I-Tewflk. Heinldleh and Nedjin-l-Cbev-ket, and tho torpedo cruiser Pedbol-and. Pedbol-and. The new minister of marine, who tooW office yesterday, Is General Imman, who was transferred from a rocrmand in Asia Minor. .Oue of hi Vint actg wan to change the cona-manderB cona-manderB and parts of the crews of tho vessels now archored off the Sultan'a palace. Tho meaning of these chauges Is not yet clear. As the Turkish fleet ha been a doubtful element in the situation, because the officers and crows have been devoted to the Sultan, Sul-tan, it is presumed these changes aro in the interest of the committee of union un-ion and progress Two cruisers and twelve torpedo boats are still in tho Golden Horn. The Oriental express came in from Paris and Vienna this morning, six-leen six-leen hours late.. It had been delayed Vy trains bearing munitions of war tc the army of Investment. The few passengers on board ald that all bta-Hons bta-Hons within thirty miles of tho capl-i capl-i tal were occupied by detachments of Ihe third army corps. The express will leave this afternoon with every placo 'cken. chiefly by tho wives and families fam-ilies of Europeans. In addition, hundreds and probably thousands of well-to-do Turks aro leaving Constantinople with their families fam-ilies today. Most of them are golnt; to the provinces to be safe against possible fighting in the city. The panic seems to be chiefly among the dwellers In the harems. A physician, physi-cian, whe-ae practlco ls largely in the hands of ihe Moslems, said ' that the prevailing excitement and fear had brought on a number of premature births. In some of the larger harems rumors arc circulated almost hourly |