ENVER PASHA CONDEMNED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13730, 19 March 1915, Page 2

ENVER PASHA CONDEMNED.

Perhaps too much importance should not be attached to statements of captive Turkish officers, but it is/at any rate, significant that they should ascribe the disaster which has overwhelmed them in the Caucasus exclusively to the Germans and their assiduous disciple, Enver Pasha.

! One of these prisoners, in conversation with the Alexandropol correspondent of the "Bourse Gazette," said: "Enver has a very volatile and unstable character. Moderation is foreign to him. His device is all or nothing. This disgraceful defeat, which has cost us so dearly, we owe solely to him and to his unprincipled teacher, Liman yon Sanders, who imagines himself to be a second Napoleon. His whole grandiose plan has collapsed, and it is we who must pay the price. He forgot to take one factor into his calculations, and that was the endurance and traditional bravery of the Russian soldier. It is a painful situation for

one

"I feel for my unfortunate country, which could have been living so peacefully if it had not been for Enver Pasha. I am almost ashamed to belong to a nation which has thus, with its own hands, through one of its own sons, sold itself to foreigners, and is falling into the pit of everlasting oblivion. You little know how cruel and ruthless Enver can be. At the last battle he was at Olti. He came from Constantinople to direct the operations. When he saw that his plan had failed he returned to Constantinople, after giving orders to the General Staff to

fight to the last,

"That was done by the man who knew that the army was doomed to certain destruction. The gist of his words was: 'Die to the last man. It does not concern me what becomes of you' But wo were not so foolish as he thought, and chose to surrender rather than perish in that way.— "Daily Telegraph."