Purging the Cabinet

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 152, 22 March 1919, Page 7

Purging the Cabinet

Ueouf lley had had an English education, an'd until the outbreak of tho war was supposed to lie pro-English. He was to linve been sent to England to take charge-of the .two Dreadnoughts that were being-built there for-the Turkish Government. When, wo seized these he took it- as a personal insult, -and lienc'eforwaird took a prominent part in the antj-Ally propaganda. He was placed in charge of the Turkish Mission which worked for two years .in Persia and Afghanistan against, us. 'A bluff sailor, he is reported to have given great satisfaction to the English delegate.' at the Mudros Conference, probably bccauso he speaks fluent English, but. at bottom he. is a fanatical Turk.. Meanwhile the committee was searching for an Englishman ll open negotiations with. Several men were approached, but finally General Townshend.undertook the task. After (he signing of tho annislice llie Sultan sent for Izzet Paslm. and ordered'him to purge-the Cabinet uf the members of the committee. Enver, Tajaat, and Djenial liad already made Ihemselves scarce.

The' trade of the Smltan was considered to be unconstitutional, but after a secret sitting of the Senate .it which' j\chined Ainu Hey mudo his famous f : peech, the Cabinet- resigned en bloc, and two days later tho Tewlik Cabinet eaiue into power and obtained a. vote of confidence from Parliament. A storm of' indignation at (lie .Sullaii's unconstitutional act was worked up by tho committee, with the result that tho Sullan's popularity, which had been vcr.v great,' diminished somewhat.

Describing a visit lo . tho llrewem Country, the special commissioner uf the Auckland "Herald" writes':—'"No one will deny that the bulk of (he eastern Urcwer.% Country i 3 nigged and broken, and wild and beautiful, but I havo no fear whatever but what our young men. who have proved themselves masters of the flerman and the Turk", can subdue it and tame it, and make it habitable and profitable; and. what a <?l roiier. vigorous race of men and women it will produce, There will be no crowding there, houses will not be naeked clo=e together. -farms will not.be a'matter of a few small fields, but 'of miles of ridgo and spur and deep ravine. Work (here will mean long dnvs in the saddle or on foot, after slock: muslerinz will be an' cdvenlure, and shearing "a great event. It will be no place, for the limid, who fear storm and flood, but In (ho strong and the courage-, mis if will be a place lo love and be proud of."