SHEFKET PASHA’S DEATH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 33, 13 June 1913, Page 5

SHEFKET PASHA’S DEATH.

RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Constantinople, June 12. The outrage has caused a profound impression. Since Nazim Pasha’s death, Shefket Pasha has been virtually under sentence of death. After the first few days ho dispensed with a guard. He frequently drove in an open carriage unattended or with a single aide-de-camp. Sometimes he alighted at the door of the Cafe Stambou'l, where his enemies were reported to congregate. Yesterday ho was going to the Porte with his aides, Echref Bey and Ibrahim Bey. The car stopped near a motor car containing four persons drawn up by the roadside. Two men stood up with revolvers in each hand. Shefket and Ibrahim were struck by the first shots. Shefket’s body-servant and the driver jumped from the box too late to prevent three men boarding the car. smashing the windows and firing ten shots. Shefket was hit five times.

Echref escaped by a miracle. He drew a revolver, but it missed fire. Ho seized Shefket’s revolver from the pocket of bis dolman, but it also was out cf order. Finally the assassins drove off, except the lame innkeeper named Topal Tewfik, who was too late to board the car, and was arrested while throwing the revolvers into a drain. When Shefket’s car reached the Ministry of War, Ibrahim was dead and Shefket dying: ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE ATTACK. Echref Bey states that as they left the square, he heard an explosion, and thought a tyre had burst. The next moment Shefket fell forward. “I took him in my arras,” he said, “and saw that his face was covered with blood. The shots continued. I attempted to arrest the assassins hut failed. As they escaped, one of the assassins in the back of the car repeatedly fired.” Eleven arrests have been made, chiefly those of keepers of gambling Jens.

The news has caused the most in tense excitement in the cafes.

There has been a sharp fall on the Bourse, hut military precautions prevent disorder.

The army in Constantinople and ki Chataldja remained calm. The assassins’ motor car was found in a garage in North Pera. The rela nves of the owner have been arrested on the strength of incriminating admissions. A POLITICAL CRIME. The crime was first attributed tf Circassians, in revenge for Nazim Pasha’s assassination on January 23. It is now apparent that it was a po litical move against the Young Turks The Porto has for three weeks beei aware of a plot to assassinate Shefket Pasha and the principal Young Turks.

The newspapers point out that Slief ket from the beginning of the Italian war anticipated the Balkans attack and kept 15,000 soldiers beyond their term of service. Kairail Pasha was dismissed from the force chiefly for electioneering purposes. Shefket also favored a defensive campaign until the reserves were concentrated at Che. taldja, but Nazim Pasha resolved 01 an offensive one.

SHEEKET’S LAST WORDS. (Received 8.10 a.m.) Constantinople, June 12. Shefket Pasha’s last words were “My country; all my country.” THE LAST RESTING PLACE. BURIED AMID GREAT MILITARY POMP. (Received 10.50 a.m.) Constantinople, June 12. Shefket Pasha was buried on tin Hill of Liberty, where the soldier, were interred who were killed in tin 1909 revolution. . v r l here was great military pomp. The newspapers extol Shefket’s integrity and patriotism. There have been further arrests, including Djerad, the chaffenr of the assailants’ car. ( The city is tranquil*