INTERNECINE STRIFE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1913, Page 7

INTERNECINE STRIFE

SENSATIONAL UPHEAVAL IN TURKEY | MINISTER OF WAR SHOT j DEATH OP NAZIM PASHA. j By Telegraph.— Press Association,— Copyrighi j CONSTANTINOPLE, 24th Jan. i The decision of the Grand Council to accept the Powers' terms has been followed by a sensational upheaval. The Cabinet has resigned owing to a hostile demonstration. During the demonstration one of the aide-de-camps of Nazim Pasha, Minister for War, and Generalissimo of the Army, fired at Enver Bey, the leader of the revolt against submission to the Powers. Enver Bey returned the fire, and shot Nazim Pasha dead. [Hussein Nazim Pasha was War Minister in the Mukhtar Cabinet, and was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish forces in October. He was born in Constantinople 64 years ago, and received his military training at the French Military School at Saint Cyr. During the Russo-Tufkish War his aptitude attracted the attention of Redjeb Pasha, who appointed the young officer his Chief of Staff. After the war (says the Times) he joined the Young Turkish organisation, and was sentenced to five .years' imprisonment in a fortress for openly professing its principles. After a further Subsequent period of exile at Eraerum under Abdul Hatnid he returned at the beginning of the new regime to be commander of the Second Army Corps at Adrianople. A few days before Kiamil Pasha's fall he was appointed War Minister, but when the Grand Vizier fell he too had to go. In 1910 he became Governor of Baghdad, and, upon his return, President of the Army Council. His Liberal principles have from time to time excited the mistrust of the Committee of Union and Progress, and this fact has probably contributed in no»small degree to secure for him the esteem of the army and the confidence of the people.] HOW THE TRAGEDY OCCURRED. (Received January 25, 8.5 a.m.) BERLIN, 24th January. A Constantinople telegram states that Enver Bey had ordered that there should be no bloodshed, but just prior to the Cabinet's resignation Nazim Pasha's aide fired from a window of the Porte at Enver Bey and his companions. The latter returned the fire, and Nazim . Pasha fell. / KIAMIL PASHA'S RESIGNATION 1 CROWDS ACCORD ENVER BEY A GREAT OVATION. j PROCLAMATION*^ UNION OF , PROGRESS COMMITTEE. CONSTANTINOPLE, 24th Jan. Prior to the demonstration, loyal troops were sent to manoeuvre outside the city, while a detachment of a Uchak battalion favouring the Committee was sent to the neighbourhood of the Porte. Meanwhile great crowds demonstrated in the streets, and Enver Bey, the wellknown Young Turk leader, on horseback, led an angry section of the mob to the Grand Vizierate, where he was deputed to inform the Cabinet that it must retire. After going inside, Enver Bey reap* peated "and addressed the crowds, strong- > ly urging the continuance of the war. He announced that he held in his hand Kiamil Pasha's resignation as Grand Vizier, and on taking it to the palace he was given an ovation in the streets. Frenzied cheers were renewed when Enver Bey brought from the Sultan an irade appointing Shefket Pasha Grand Vizier, and conferring on him the title of Marshal. The Young Turk Revolutionary Committee then occupied the Porte. The newspapers not belorigiflg to the Young Turks have been suspended. The Committee of Union and Progress has issued a proclamation strenuctisly denouncing the policy ,of the recent Cabinets. The convocation of the Grand Council is declared unconstitutional, as it violated the sacred rights of the people and aroused national indignation. When the country's existence was in. danger the nation exercised the right of revolution. Talaat Bey, who was a telegraph clerk at Salonika in 1908, declared in an interview, that if Adrianople waft abandoned there would be outbreaks throughout the Empire. As regarded money, the whole nation was prepared to make sacrifices. Shefket Pasha was greeted with enthussiaam in the streets. His Benghazi exploits during the Trr poli War have greatly increased Enver ■Bey's reputation and influence.