Life of Ahmad — Page 536
TURKISH CONSIL VISITS QADIAN as 536 In 1898 France, England, Italy and Russia, acting together, forced the Sultan to evacuate Crete. Germany obtained a concession for a railroad to Baghdad in 1899. There were uprising and massacres in Macedonia in 1902 and 1903 and massacres in Armenia followed. In 1905 an international naval demonstration was staged against Turkey. The persons who surrounded the ever more suspicious monarch came to be of the worst kind, until the Macedonian army occupied the capital and deposed Abdul H am i d on April 27, 1909.