TURKEY'S GARIBALDI

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 761, 9 March 1910, Page 7

TURKEY'S GARIBALDI

- MAJOR ENVER BET.;, '■ \ SOLDIER WHO FIGHTS FOR CIVIC ■ •;' PEACE. ..>■■ Ily ifeletraph-l'ress Astociatibri-CoDyrieM ' • ' (Rec. March 8, 5 p.ih.) .'"-.'■ . J .',' . London, March 7. . The Balkan Conimittee in London gave a luncheon in honour of Major Enver Bey, the young Turkish : officer who figured in the revolution of 1308, ahd ili the overthrowing of the reactionary' plot and the Hamidian rule in 1909. ■ Mr. Herbert SaMueL P6stniast.er-Geh. oral, described Enver Bey as "Turkey's Garibaldi; who drew, tho sword not.ili conquest, but to'win real peace'for the people." | '.

A FIGHTER TURNED POLITICIAN BY CIRCUMSTANCES.

If.the President of the Chamber, Ah> m . e , d . ?. lz a Bey, with his 18 years of patriotic exile in Paris and London, is J??.y. ete , r , an ° f the Young Turk movement, Major Lnver JJey, the friend of Niazi f D A r l. m ?y> e .r ila PB be called as the most brilliant, or its younger exponents-. • The rising of the army. in. July, ii)oßi Was largely the work bf.Envef and Niazi. and Jp., l * " otew orthy that at the entrv of the balbnika .trobbs in' t0... the capital in April, .1909-wlleh' the Third Army Corps H r ffi ed ,t th . 8 ., teSc F onail J- ,P lB ?> dethroned Abdul Haimd, aild re-established the:C6nstltutibh—these two officer's, with this vcterhil Ahmed Hiza,. received ah ovation li, ,2 'ife-jmly.2B,'ycars of age. After the 1908 revolution, in explaining his own position and the policy of the Committee of Union and Progress, he said to an to teryiewer: "You see me at wdrk in'a political bureau, bilt please understand that I am not a .revolutionary leader, but a soldier compelled by circumstances' tb take my share in. politics. I atii here mord by accident than by design: Though 1 have been a. hUmble membbr of the League.df Union and Progress foi' Several years, 1 took no public action till'l. was denounced by the Palace as spies as a conspirator and ordered to. report myself at Constantinople. Instead of. Obeying this order I did as my comrade Niazi did and escaped to the hills. This gave ' nie a prominence .which I was far ffbta 6eekJ»l>'-, Happily, my brother officers know that my only ambition is to work humbly lor iiiy country. .