These operations were all planned and carried into execution with a wonderful skill. The discipline, courage, and irreproachable conduct of the Macedonian troops aroused the admiration of all foreign observers. The wild-looking volunteers from the mountains fought as bravely as the regulars, and their behaviour was exemplary. That evening nearly twenty thousand fighting men, flushed with victory, were scattered through the great city, and yet there appear to have been no cases of drunkenness or irregularities of any description. It was the triumph of the right cause—the cause that represents enlightenment, justice, liberty, and true patriotism—as opposed to tyranny, corruption, fanaticism, and ignorance. The capital was in the hands of the Young Turks; the forces of reaction had been crushed; a state of siege was proclaimed; some thousands of arrests were made; the more guilty received the punishment which they deserved, and the others were treated with leniency, for, while justice was administered, anything that savoured of vengeance was disallowed; the First Army Corps was disbanded and the mutinous soldiers were sent to Macedonia, to be employed in constructing roads; Tewfik Pasha and his ministers consented to carry on the government provisionally. In short, the Young Turk _régime_ was firmly reestablished by men who acted with discretion and decision after a crisis that perhaps has cleared the atmosphere and effected a reconciliation between such political foes as have in common the love of country and the determination to uphold the Constitution. Early in the morning of April 27 Reshad Effendi left his residence, the Dolma Baghche Palace, and drove to the War Office, where he was proclaimed Sultan with a salvo of 101 guns. After thirty-three years of luxurious but depressing isolation he now changes places with his elder brother, the former going from captivity to a throne, the latter from a throne to captivity. The new Sultan is an amiable man, beloved by his _entourage_, and he has already produced a favourable impression on such foreigners as have been received by him. INDEX Aali Pasha, 26. Aassim Bey, 248. Abd-ul-Aziz, accession of, 25; deposed, 29. Abdul Hamid, accession of, 30. Abdul Houda, 205. Abd-ul-Mejid, 25. Administration by the Young Turks, 214. Ahmed Riza, 248; and the Central Committee, 102; in London, 76, 78. Albania, revolt in, 66-70. Albanian chiefs, the, 154; horrors, 22. Albanians support the Committee, 169-194. Ali Bey, 69. Ameer Ali, 61. Anatolian troops, 169-184. Anti-Christian feeling, 10. Animals, kindness to, 8. Army, the, 40; a strong, needed, 261, 280; and the Revolution, 113-115; discontent in the, 87-100; and the Committee, 224; mutinous, 300; Young Turks and, 89-100. Astrologer at Court, an, 205. Atrocities, 15-24. Austria’s annexations, 238; trade, boycott of, 218.