ENVER DIED FIGHTING

Evening Star, Issue 18051, 19 August 1922, Page 3

ENVER DIED FIGHTING

COUP IN TURKESTAN. Pres® Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 17. The ‘ Daily Express’s ’ Berlin correspondent reports that Enver Pasha was killed in Turkestan in action against the Bolsheviks. Ho had proclaimed himself Amir of Turkestan.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [The late Enver Pasha, Turkish soldier and politician, was born in 1879, of humble parentage, and entered the Turkish army in 1896. He first came into notice in connection with the Young Turk movement in 1905 at Saltanioa, and three years later joined the revolutionaries, who, in July, 1908, captured Mon-astir, where a Constitution, accepted by the Sultan Abdul Hamid was proclaimed. Enver soon after, wards was appointed Military Attache at Berlin, but on the outbreak of the Turkish counter-revolution in March, 1909, he returned to Salonica and assisted in the deposition of Abdul Hamid. Enver then went back to Berlin, and in 1910 paid a visit to London. In 1911 he organised the Arabs in Tripoli against the Italians in the Tripoli War. In the second Balkan War he recaptured Adrianoplo from the Bulgarians in July, 1913. Shortly before he had become Minister of War, with the rank of pasha, and married one of the Imperial Princesses. One of the leading spirits of the of Union and Progress, the central organisation of the Young Turks, lie was personally pro-Ger-man,, his influence being ope of the ‘actors that brought Turkey into the Great War against the Entente. After the submission of Turkey in 1918 Enver lied to the Caucasus. Ho encouraged the Turks in their active resistance to the terras of the Peace Treaty in 1920, and engaged in obscure plots and turmoils.]