ENVER PASHA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1994, 27 February 1914, Page 5

ENVER PASHA.

THE NEW WAP...MINISTER.OF TURKEY. Renter's correspondent at ■ Qanstantinople says the appbintinent of Cofencl Enver -Bey to the post of Minister of War in Turkey is diversely commented U'iTpn. It has caused, some surprise though,-taken in conjunction'with the mission'of General Limau von Sanders, it is regarded as opening up a new era in military'administration, and as tending to tho gradual introduction of younger blood in ' the njore responsible jipsts.' On the other band, the entrance into the Cabinet of Enver-Bey, who will receive the rank of- BrijtadierTGeneral, gives, the Ministry a more pronouncedQommittoe colour.

. It is stated, continues the. correspondent, that one of the reasons for the resignation, of Izzct Pa.sha was that kb strongly objected to the discrimkafory treatment of the officers lield rcspiisible • for■ the disasters of the. Balkan' war. Anothiv cause of hi', resignation is alleged to have been of views in reference to the selection of officers of the reserve.

• -.' No military leader in Turkey has been niore prominent in.the recent 'stormy history of Turkey than .Enver Boy, whose promotion, says "The Times" correspondent, carries with it the title of Pasha.

Enver is only 31 years old. He is broad-shouldered, black-eyed, *nd pale: extremely modest in his manner of lilo" and in no way inclined to trade upon, his reputation as 1 national hero. ■Enver wa,i born in the genuinely Turkish district of Albania, near tho Anatolian coast of the Black Sea. His mother was an Albanian, his grandmother a Circassian, and ho is related more or loss distantly to all the other Jloslem races in the Empire. He is a man.of European culture, bat, despitethis, declared after tha snwess of the Young Turk revolution that Imi was not sufficiently trained to-.r/lay a great role at Constantinople, arm that he would prefer being sent; to Western Enropo to eomolctc his studies.

When, shortly after the revolution, Silver's life was attempted by a soldier, he allowed the would-be assassin to escape, nnd. excused . him with tho plea that there were ethers behind him who worked on his ignorance and fanaticism.

The new War Minister fought valiantly -in Tripoli till the last moment, and then withdrew via Egypt to Turkey, where greater storm-clbads were gathering over his native land. He was one of tho first 'of tho fighting men of Turkey to declare that Ad'i'ianopie, at the end ;of the first Balkan war, would not be allowed to remain in . Ijtilaarian band;. He commanded the infantry during.tho campaign which encM-in the recapture in Julv last year of Adrianople, whi-aii' hsd been in the hands of Bulgaria from March 2C.