DJEMAL PASHA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 23, 28 January 1916, Page 3

DJEMAL PASHA.

AN ANTI-GERMAN TURKISH LEADER.

Djemal Pasha, who headed a revolt in Palestine against Enver Pasha and his associates, has been on bad terms with the Government at Constantinople for a long time—so bad that a few months ago they we’re rumoured to have assassinated him. Ho is a remarkable man, bitterly opposed to the German influence (-having himself, like so many of the Young Turk loaders, lived long in France). lie is reported to have made life quite insufferable for tiro German officers on his staff at Jerusalem. But he has sho.vn since his return to his native land a marked antiforeign tendency in his policy gonerally, When lie was Governor of Bagdad in .1911 he delivered a singular speech in which, after landing Mesopotamia as the land “ where the watch was invented and where the fact that the wo rid was round was confirmed)” he spoke of the country as ' ; an iron I door of the Islamite Khalifate against the North,” and called on all Osmanlis to "prevent attention being turn- } ed towards the Islamite Khalifate j and to prevent any hand extended to- | wards the Ottoman kingdom passing j through that iron door.” i It is only fair to Djemal to add that j lie did all in his power to oppose the I policy which is leading to the forcing j of the iron door by the British.