New York Times 100 years ago today, October 11, 1912:
Mob of Students Breaks the Windows of the Grand Vizierate.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Tuesday. Oct. 8, (Delayed.)— A violent storm of opposition has been aroused by the Turkish Government's decision to grant reforms in Macedonia.
Some 2,000 students, armed with revolvers, to-day marched to the Porte, clamoring for "War and no surrender!" On the way they met the War Minister, to whom they shouted: "We want war!" The Minister replied: "Nobody wants peace."
Arriving at the Porte, where the Ministers were sitting in Council, the students, whose number had meantime swollen to over 5,000, broke the windows of the Grand Vizierate, of which the gates were closed. They then shouted: "We will not have the Treaty of Berlin!"
The Grand Vizier, who assured them that the application of Article XXIII. of the Treaty of Berlin did not mean autonomy or independence for Macedonia, was received with hisses. He persisted, however, saying that the longer war was delayed the better it was for Turkey, but the cries of "Hurrah for war!" continued unabated.
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