Turkish Cabinet Quits.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 18, 1912:
Military League to Overthrow Committee of Progress Grows.
    CONSTANTINOPLE, July 17.— The Cabinet resigned to-day in consequence of the revolt in the army against the methods of the Committee of Union and Progress, (the Young Turks' organization.)
    It was thought that the vote of confidence in the Grand Vizier passed by the Chamber on Monday, after he had announced that the Turkish Government refused all the proposed conditions of peace with Italy as unacceptable, would give the Cabinet a new lease of life. The feeling, however, against the dictatorial Salonika Committee, which, behind the scenes, has been paralyzing the departmental action of the Ministers, could no longer be resisted.
    Mahmud Shefket Pasha's resignation of the War Office was a protest against the action of the Committee of Union and Progress, which peremptorily countermanded his orders to the troops to abstain from interfering in the elections.
    The Military League since formed has rapidly grown and is pledged to obtain the appointment of a new Cabinet, which will enjoy the confidence of the powers. The league is determined to overthrow the Committee of Union and Progress, which is apparently losing the vicelike grip in which it has held the Government and the Turkish Empire since the revolution of four years ago.
    Tewfik Pasha, the Ambassador at London, has been appointed Grand Vizier. He has a reputation for good judgment and moderation, and will, it is expected, form a neutral Cabinet. It is probable that he will include in it Nazim Pasha, commander of the First Army Corps, as Minister of War, which would assist in the coalition of the different parties and possibly prevent a dissolution of the Chamber. It is doubtful, however, whether the Young Turk Party would acquiesce in this solution.
    The news received to-day from Albania is serious. The troops have been rebuffed by the Albanians in many directions. Four battalions of infantry were recently surrounded on the river Kruma, near Diakova, by Albanians and over 300 troops with three of their officers were forced to surrender. They were disarmed and carried off to the rebel fastnesses.
    The remainder of the Turkish troops retreated to the town of Diakova, where they are besieged by the Albanians.