ENVER PASHA AGAIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16713, 20 April 1922, Page 7

ENVER PASHA AGAIN.

ADVENTURES IN BOKHARA, THE BOLSHEVIK YOKE, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 20, 12.5 p.m.) DELHI, April 19. Afghan is ton reports indicate that Enver Pasha lias gained considerable support aganst the Bolsheviks. The tribes in Eastern Bokhara and the in habitants of Ferghana are rallying to him. It is reported that Enver captured Dohambo, the Russian headquarters Hi Eastern Bokhara. The Bolsheviks declare that they recaptured several important strategic points and repaired the railway between Samarkand and Bokhara. The authorities state that tho indications now aro that the tribesmen aro determined to throw off the Bolshevik yoke, which has caused great animosity and provided Enver Pasha with an opportunity for another adventure, but it is doubted if the movement is backed by sufficient material force to accomplished a permanent re sail t. Da mad Enver Pasha, husband of tho Sultan’s niece, has. since the downfall of his party and the collapse of Turkey in 1918, been flitting from one place of exile to another. Under an assumed name, he left Berlin in March. 1920, | and. after interviews with Trotsky and j Lenin in Smolensk, appears to have i been appointed to the command v>f a S Red Army in Central Asia in Septem- [ her, 1920. In November and Decemj her of 1921 he was in Transcaucasia, | when bis activities in establishing hii i authority in Ajaristan were distasteful both to Moscow and Angora, and Jeoently news was received that a. conspiracy of liia supporters hail been do tected in the Nationalist capital. On January 17 last it was reported that, at the request of the Angora Government. he had been arrested by the .Soviet authorities to be tried at Angora for high treason.