BROOM WORK IN TURKEY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 537, 18 June 1909, Page 7

BROOM WORK IN TURKEY.

, ' DEGRADED REACTION ABIES. (BT TELEQBAril —rIIESG association-corvmam.) Constantinople, June 16. Router's Constantinople correspondent reports that four marshals/including an oxMmiator of Marine and of Public InstructioUj tfro generals, an ex-Oouncilfor of State, and sixty. other higli officials luu'O boon degraded aad imprisoned in provincial fortresses on. acoouat of their connection with the recent Teaotkraary-outbreak.-.,,, .. . ,

,the ablest of the palace group < CAREER OF IZZET PASSA. .Tlie most prominent man of tho old Palace ffroup, Izzot Paslia. seems to have punishment. According to a recent cablegram, he has purchased an. estate in Lower Egypt.'-' Izzet Pasha has-had a remarkable career. Like iriost of tho iormer Palace" favourites at CoDstantmoijUj-'hetTobifroiir- suiali things. Beginning li(e : as the 1 editor of acountry news-, paper,, he qualified for tho law, and was summoned ~to Constantinople to become president of - Iho -ciyi}: courts.'' His .'skill, as a writer-^no. of the surest reooiilmendations to tho favour of tho" cx-Sultan ; Abdul Hamidsecured for him a position- at Court. Izzcfc Pasha is an-. Arab, and made tho most of his opportunities. , . .

Ho Becamo Rich. ' ; v As second secretary and vice-chamborl tin of the palace,lzzet l'nsha .succeeded in sharing with lahsin: t Pasha the! confidence of Aluiul Ilamid and in excluding all extraneous and rival interests, Through him and hinr clone were donduoted all' important iiuterview# 'ind negotiations,'>■ and ni'ter.-itheo maimer r.oii (his people :he. became a- lich man—so irioli liu'.eid that when ho fled as a result of the revoluJuly, ,1908, the -Young Turk party vas esjMHjially. anxious'to have his address. Dospite this failing-oomuion to his countrymen-bust lasha is an able.man, and will leave hia ii'ork Dn history as the energetio promoter of (he Hedjaa railway, which is to conneot Constantinople with Medina—Che birthplace of the Prophet—and theilco with Mtiica, 11l th'a ehtei'prise lizet Pasha 6aw : ndt merely a MM'ce: or private revenue, but the reolisa: turn of far-reaching political ambitions that Would not. only-ensure , to the Sultan; his power as Caliph or Chief of the Mohammedan world, but,, the. military supremacy of Turkey over the rebel tribes of Arabia. The presence in-teypt of one of-the main aroljitcots of this pblitico-religious undertaking will scarcolr Inspire confidence ih those Englishmen who fear the effects of pan-Islamism on the smouldoriug i fifes of Egyptian Nationalism. , i

HIJ Steamer Stopped. i " v K .'WM in .August last thai Izzot Pasha fled from iurkey. He narrowly escaped 'tho young lurk vengeance that has overtaken others of the .ralaoo clique, and he came near .enough to sharing .the late of I'ehim Pasha, the former head of tho Sultans secret police, who about tile-same time met his deatlr by lynching at tuo hands of some of those ho had injured. ■Izzet got on'boatd tho British steamer Maria, _which;was stopped; in: the Dardanelles at the instance of .the \oung Turks, but, after thev had consulted with the British .Embassy, the Maria was ordered to proceed and Izzet. esm. .? Constantinople correspondent of Ihe Times.-. . "The steamer Maria, convoying Izzet Pasha, has been ordered by the British Embassy to proceed, for the excellent reason that, if Izzet, instead of being a political fugitive, were escaping the.application of the, criminal cod*s, the non-existence of any extradition treaty between Great . Britain and Turkey "must prevent his surrender. . Prominent Young Turks with ?Sl : L i? v ® ?, lscu , s^ d , tb » flhestlt.it ur« not in the least incllned.to .be aggrieved at Izzet's escape in a British vessel. Their attitude is rather one of mutual congratulation that the Ltnmre ii, it may be hoped, .'finally rid of an incubus. ;Had.'lzzet been brought to trial ou any one ot the numorous charges that coiild havei beon preferred against him, his punishment would have been poor compensation for the Unpleasant disclosures whioh ho would inevitably have made if. driven to bay.

The Fugitive's Effrontery, "Meanwhile the fugitive has had the' afl ro " eri ; n to tolcgraph to tho press from the Dardanelles, declaring. luiiiself ,to havo been obstructed by espionage throughout his career mentioning his services to the State, notablv ,n . tho . promoting of tho Hcdjaz Railway i d ?f lo , ri " B ! h<! fnct tl,nt tho" tinconstitutional display of -popular.. 'has forced him to withura.v from : political life. , , '» K na of tho. bitterest. opponents of., constitutionalism and unquestionably l tho ablest member of the Palace group. The uie service lie has rendered to tho Empire as 0110 01, tho chief promoters, of. the lU'djaz railway counterbalances a lnultirmle of villainies."