BAKER PASHA.

Kumara Times, Issue 939, 3 October 1879, Page 3

BAKER PASHA.

We. : .have reasdn to believe (says the Times, of August 6) that Lieut-General Valentine Baker Pasha is likely to be nominated by the Ottoman Government to an important civil and military post -.in Kurdistan. The continued excesses of the Kurds in Western Armenia, and the slight check imposed on them by the presence of their kinsman, Ismail Pasha) as Vali at Erzerbiihj, has led to repeated representations -on tlie part of our Ambassador at Constantino]ile. Major Henry TrotU.K., the energetic Consul at ErSteronra, :has during the last few inottths been travelling through the 'neighboring country with a new of leariiing. the actual condition of the Antienkns. ih the valleys of the Aras and the-Eupharates. His report bears out the complaints we have from tirrie to time published froth influential Armenians. Baker Pasha shewed himself an able ebmrii'ander during the lute war; he is popular with the Turkish army) and there is every n-ason to hope that he will succeed in repressing the ■■ the viojence that now prevails) and in giving the country the advantages of peace and, settled government;