ENTER PASHA KILLED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18173, 19 August 1922, Page 9

ENTER PASHA KILLED.

DEATH IN TURKESTAN. Australian and N.Z. Cabin Association-. (Seed. 6.50 V-m.) LONDON. Aug. 18. The Berlin correspondent o:t the Daily Express says that Envcr Pasha has been killed in action against the Bolsheviks. He had proclaimed himself Amir of Turkestan. Enver Pasha was probably the best known of the Young Turk lenders in prewar days. He flashed into prominence as a leader of the army corps that accomplished the first revolution in Turkey, compelling the ex-Sultan, Abdul Hamid, to enforce the Constitution. Some time later, when the reactionaries tried to regain the upper hand and suspend the Constitution, Enver Pasha figured in the army that advanced on Constantinople, and dethroned Abdul Hamid. Again a crisis arose for Turkey, when Italy.seized Tripoli, and thither Enver at once made his way in disguise, to lead and inspire the Turkish regulars and Arab guerillas. He then returned to Turkey and took part in the first Balkan war. At the close of the war he headed the movement against the cession of Adrianople to the Bulgarians, and was directly implicated in tho assassination of tho Turkish com-mander-in-chief, Nazin Pasha, After tho second Balkan war of 1913, when Bulgaria quarrelled with her former allies. Serbia and Greece, Enver occupied Adrianople at the head of a Turkish army and saved the city for the Empire. In the same year he became Minister for War, with the rank of Pasha.