Porte Alleges Treason.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 26, 1912:
Issues a Statement Explaining Its Prosecution of Young Turks.
    CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 25.— A long official communication is published explaining the Government's action against the Committee of Union and Progress (Young Turks.) It asserts that in the demonstration of students and others around the Porte on Oct. 7, demanding war, there were numerous influential Young Turks, who endeavor to inflame the populace by accusing the Government of selling the country.
    Police inquiries, it is added, proved that at the departure of the army for the field of battle delegates were similarly employed in urging the soldiers not to fight for the "traitorous Government." One delegate even undertook the task of an attempt against the lives of the Sultan and his Ministers by bombs.
    The communication, while it declares that indulgence toward such agitators would be a crime against the nation, repudiates the report that the Government is possessed of political animus against the party itself, proof of which, it says, can be found in the decision of the Government to release those against whom there is not sufficient evidence of guilt.