GRAND VIZIERSHIP

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 December 1909, Page 5

GRAND VIZIERSHIP

;■ ; v^-;.;:■■•■" .'.•'".'. .♦".. v:. ;•-'-, — "'"'■{ ::; : HILMI EESIGNS.;, :.J ' By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. : :■',;'•■■ (Eec. 29, 10.15 .'p.'m.j. ... J .'■•.'..'. Constantinople, December 29. ! ; Hilmi Pasha; who has been- Grand ; Vizier (Prime ;'; Minister) of Turkey eince j tho. downfall; of : the . ex-Sultan Abdul I' Haraid' jii'May, ; ;has resigned. -'' i A PEN-PICTgRE OF HILMI/ . '■': When Kiamil Pasha, the : first Grand I Vizier (Prime Minister) under the revived ' Turkish Constitution, -- was ;. defeated, : Hilmi Pasha succeeded him. l The mili- ', tary coup in Constantinople in'Aprillast, ' engineered By tho subsequently deposed : Sultan Abdul Hamtd, caused the downfall of Hilmi, but the Sultan was;in: turn I overthrown by .Chevket Pasha's tfbbpj * from' Salonika, : and .Hilmi ; Pasha again became Grand: yizier early; in May. -It i probably says much;for his diplomacy I that he has.'ruled the peculiar Parlia' mentary and militarist forces in the < New ' Turkey for more than half a year. Mr. 1 John j Foster Praser, when -touring Macedonia, : met Hilmi '(then Governor ;of tho <listurbe'd province of Macedonia), < and re- ■ ports of him -not;.' unfavourably,: • Mr, ■ Eraser writess.'V. ■■.■■'.'. '■ ■ "Hilmi, Pasha, the Inspector-General' oi Macedonia, is Ohe or the most stfikinj ..- and remarkable of men. .Ho stands be- £■ tweoh.Turkey, and the' European Powers ® It is his to conciliate Europe, -bui 1 yield as little : as possible; ;I am :suro he l nas.the truOyinterests of Turkey at heart . .and would be glad .to see the Maeedoniai J' problem settled; but he realises the ab " salute hopelessness of the task 'which, his ~ Imperial -master: has set : him.: : , Hilm: ; Pasha is tall and thin; but'.with a feverish vitality. He would: bo thought hag- :. gard were it not that ..the : eyes—large ■, wercing, innuisitorial—are \ full,, of. '.fire ,''; *iiey attract and they .rivet. . J ;.r. • /.-"Hilmi is a tremendous, worker*; He'ii ■ at his-desk at daybroaki.sees, secretaries' dictates dispatches, .receives- a. constan! ■> stream of callors, smokes endless-ciga , rcttes, drinks innumerable cups of.coffee " never' takes" exorcise, keeps';;on workin; till midnight.,! , Ho. is'a nervous man n All .the: time.";ho is speaking .his | Ion; ,i $ngers .are twitching' almost .convulsively :, lie'speaks.rapidly, -but never dogmatic « ally; always with an-appeal" to your in >, tolligenco, as 'a man,'- that.thi a- viow he - pr£sents is the correct view; I; ij', you; did not se6 him in a fez you woult . lmogino'kim ito) bo a Jpvti .There■;is i Somitio touch- about, his features.' ',H< a ' has the Hebraic nose, but ho is really ai ■•'■■ Arab.";'' ■■:':' '';■' "'■' '■'{! '• ; y:i-;'';' -■