The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-04 00:00:00

No. 22,737.

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THE LIFE OF JOSIAH WEDGWOC )1).
From his Private Correspondence and Family Par ,era
in the possession of Joseph Mayer, Esq F.S.A., Frai
Wedgwood, Esq., C. Darwin, Eeq., M.A., PALS. Miss We ig-
wood, and other original sourc,a ; with an Introduct( pry
Sketch of the Art of Pottery in England. By .11.LIZ.A.
AI ET EYAIt D.

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to the author by the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1865.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-FIRST OPERA CON-
‘..) CERT.—SATURDAY NEXT.—Mdlle. Carlotta Patti,
Mdlle. de Edelsberg, Signor Ronconi, Signor Medial, Signor
Wachtel. Solo pianoforte. Mdlle. Krebs. Chorus of 159
voices. The Concert will take place on the Front of the Great
Handel Orchestra. Ample accommodation for aIL

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THIS DAY (Thursday), LAST DAY but ONE
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he Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET SPRING MEETING.

A very quiet day is the one succeeding the Two
Thousand festival. The Heath resumes the simple and
business-like air peculiar to it, and the only trace of
yesterday's scene of excitement is the brown hue of the
herbage trod by countless feet, and the remains of the
many pic-nits.
Neither is the sport of a very exciting character, and
there is more gossip over the great race of the previous
day than real business on this.
There was an interesting race over the T.Y.C. between
Argonaut, Tomato, Gamma, and Catalogue, or at least it
promised to be one, but Sir Joseph Hawley's grand old
horse won in a canter without being called upon. Nothing
else could live with him. The gentlemen won a good
stake on King Hal in the Two-yr-old Plate, the Marquis of
Hastings backing his horse to a large amount, and his
friends following suit. He justified his owner's confidence
by winning in a walk. The other events will be found
fully detailed below.
Handicap Plate of 50 sovs, for 3-yr-olds and upwards.

Bretby Stakes Course.
Capt. B. Beresford's Lord Douglas, 4 yrs, Est 131 b (car 7st
(Morris 1
Capt. Machell's Jupon, 4 yrs, 7st (Morgan 2
Mr. Savile's Spice, 3 yrs, 6st (car Est 21b)
(J. Grimshaw) 3
The following also ran :—The Giant, Columbia, Bonny
Glen, Birague, Aline, and the Brigand.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Lord Douglas, 4to 1 agst Columbia,
and 5 to 1 each agst Spice and Aline.
The running was taken up shortly after starting by
Spice, who lay in the centre of her horses and came on with
a clear lead, having The Giant and Columbia on her right,
with Jupon and Aline on the lower ground. They ran thits
into the bottom, where Aline appeared in front, but, dying
away as they ascended the hill, she was headed by Lord
Douglas on the extreme right, who won a good race by a
neck, Jupon defeated Aline by a couple of lengths for
second, Bonnie Glen was fourth, Aline fifth, and Columbia
next. The Brigand was last.

Plate of 100 sovs, for 3-yr-old colts, Bst 101 b; and fillies,
Bst 71b. Winners 41b extra. R.M.
Duke of Beaufort's Todleben, 9st (in. 41b extra)
(Pordhami 1
Mr. G. Angell's Attache 9st (in. 41b extra) (Perry 2
Baron Rothschild's Camball, 9st (in. 41b extra) )Wells 3
Mr. Gilby's Arderricca, Bst 71b (Norman) 4
Betting-6 to 4 agst Todleben, 7to 4 agst Attache, and
100 to 30 agst Camball.

yr-olds, Bst 111 b; 5-yr-olds and upwards, 9st 11b.
T.Y.C. 10 subs.
Sir J. Hawley's Argonaut, 6 yrs, 9st llb (Wells) 1
Lord Stamford's Gemma, 6 yrs, 9st lib (T. Aldcroft) 2
Marquis of Basting' Catalogue, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (car. 7st 111 b)
(Fordham) 3
Baron Rothschild's Tomato, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b (J. Daley) 4
Betting-7 to 4on Argonaut, sto 2 agst Gemma, and 5
to 1 agst Catalogue.
After the first 200 yards the faiourite on the upper ground
took a clear lead, which he retained to the end, and won
in the commonest of canters by three parts of a length,
Gemma defeating Catalogue by a length and a half for se-
cond. Tomato beaten off.

The Newmarket Two-year-old Plate of X2OO ; colt; Bst
101 b ; fillies, Bst 81b ; a winner of a plate or sweepstakes
to carry 51b extra. Last five furlongs of R.M. Any
number of horses the property of the same person may
run for this plate. '(97• entries.)
Marquis of Hastings's King Hal, Bst 101 b (Fordham 1
Count F. de Lagrange's Plutus, Bst 101b...(11. Grimshaw 2
Mr. Savile's William Pitt, Bst 10lb (Aldcroft 3
The following also ran :—Mademoiselle Cleopatre, Stoic,
Elevator, Steambiiat; ,Cecrops, Tina, Callipolis, Tottie,
Lady Anne filly, Miss Roland, Janitor, Melinda, and
Ulphus.

Betting—Even on Ring Hal, 4 to 1 agst Miss Boland,
and 100 to 10.agst any other.
The flag was lowered to an excellent start, the lot coming
on nearly in a line for the first quarter of a mile, when the
running was taken up by Janitor, who, with the favourite,
Plutus, Tottie, Cecrops, and Melinda lying up, carried it on
to the "bushes," where the former dropped back, and King
Hal, who had been pulling near his horses, came to the
fronlknd, as they entered the bottom,he was indulied with
his head, when he immediately drew away and came up the
hill with a lead of a couple of lengths, which he retained to
the end, and won in a trot by a length and a half ; Plutus
defeating William Pitt by three lengths for second honours.
—Cecrops was fourth close up, Janitor fifth, Ulphus sixth,
Steamboath seventh, and Mademoiselle Cleopatra. The
last three were Elevator, Tottie, and the Lady Anne filly.
Selling Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sous each, h ft, 3-yr-
olds and upwards. The winner to be sold for 300 sous,
if demanded, &c. D.M. 4 subs,

i
Mr. Hodgman's Hawkshaw, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (Morris 1
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Idle; 4 yrs, Bst 101 b (Fordham 2
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Bromeski, 4 yrs, 7st (Barlow 3
Betting-5 to 2on Idler and 3to 1 agst Hawkshaw.
Immediately after the .flag was lowered Hawkshaw
jumped to.the front, and making all the running had both
his horses beaten on entering the cords, and won very easily
by a length ; a bad third.

Free Handicap Sweepstakes. of 100 .aova each, h ft, for

4-yr-olds; winners extra. T.M.M. 6 subs.

The highest weight accepting being Bst Mb, it was raised
to Bst 101 b, and the others in proportion.

Mr. Payne's Bradamanto, Est 71b (J. Grimshaw) 1
Count F. de Lagrange's Beatrix, Est 51b (Barker) 2
Betting-7 to 4on Bradamante, who waited on the non-
favourite into the cord; when she came out and won easily
by a length.

The Prince of Wales's Stakes of 150 sous each, h ft, and 25
if declared to go to the second horse ; 4-yr-old colts Bst
91b, fillies Bst 41b; winners extra
.; maidens allowed 71b.

Cesarewitch Course. 8 subs.
Mr. Saxon's Idle Girl, Bst 41b ............... Grimshaw 1
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Paris, Bst 91b (Pordham 2
Mr. Naylor's Gazza Ladra, 7st 11Ib (Challoner 3
Mr. Sutton's Skeffington, Bst 21b (Thomas 4
Betting-5 to 4 agst Paris, sto 2 agst Idle Girl, 3to 1
agst Skeffington, and 5 to 1 agst Gazza Ladra.
The latter with a slight lead came on in advance of Skef-
fington, Paris, and Idle Girl to the "bushes," where she
dropped back, and the lead was then taken up by the
favourite, closely attended by Mr. Saxon's• filly into the
Abingdon Mile bottom, where the latter headed him, but
hanging considerably as they came up the hill, she just
won by a neck ; two lengths divided the second and third.
Skeffington beaten off.

The Champion Stakes of 200 goys each, h ft; for four-yr-
olds ; colts, Bst 121 b ; fillies, Bst 71b ; winners extra ;
maidens allowed 101 b. Cesarewitch course. 3 subs.
_ _

Lord Stamford's New York, 7st 121 b (Challoner) w. 0.
Sir J. Hawley's Caryophyllus saved his stake.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for three-yr-olds ; colts,
Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 61b ; those got by stallions or out of
mares that never bred a winner allowed 31b; only one
allowance. D.M. 3 subs.
Lord Stamford's Cassiope (31b), Bst 31b (E. Martin) w. o.

BET TING BEFORE DINNER.
CHESTER CUP.
9to 2 agst Helen (taken freely)
9 to 1 agst Ackworth
11 to 1 agst Lion
100 to 8 agst Victorious
100 to 7 ngst La Toucques
100 to 6 agst Gratitude
20 to 1 ngst Highflyer's dam colt
1,000 to 15 agst Redcap

THE DERBY.
11 to 1 agst Wild Charley

BETTING AT MIDNIGHT.
ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.
4to 1 agst Siberia
4to 1 agst Gardevisure
6to 1 agst White Duck
6to 1 agst Nukuheva
10 to 1 agst Reginella,
20 to 1 agst Peeress

CHESTER CUP.

4to 1 agst Helen
9to 1 agst Ackworth
10 to 1 agst Lion
11 to 1 agst Victorious
12 to 1 agst La Toucques
25 to 1 agst Nuneaton

GENERAL KMETY.

BET TING AT MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY.
ONE THOUSAND GULNEAS STAKES.
4to 1 agst Gardevisure (taken)
sto 1 agst White Duck (taken)
sto 1 agst Siberia (taken)
7to 1 agst Peeress (taken)
THE CHESTER CUP.
sto 1 agst Helen (taken)
Bto 1 agst Ackworh (taken)
10 to 1 agst Highflyer's dam colt (taken freely)
12 to 1 agst Lion (offered)
20 to 1 agst Nuneaton (taken and offered)
THE DERBY.
6to 1 agst Gladiateur (taken)
Bto 1 agst Archimedes (offered)
600 to 20 agst Christmas Carol (taken)
RACING FIXT

RES FOR 1865.

Chester. . ... . ....... 9
Howth and Baldoyle ...... 15
York Spring ............... 16
St. Coluinb; .................. 16
Salisbury .............. ...... 18

On many a fine morning during the last few years,
and for the last time on Tuesday week, the fre-

quenters of the Park might have seen a neatly
dressed old gentleman, with short-cut grey hair and
beard scrupulously trimmed, walking among the
crowd with slow, measured step. Short, but square-
built, with rounded shoulders and the head slightly
inclined on one side, he might have been taken for
a man of peace broken down by age, had not his
pale, handsome face, when brightened up by a spark
from his grey eyes, and the air of lassitude about
his whole frame told a tale of hard work, spent
energy, and illness rather than of age.
Yet no one would have suspected in that appa-
rently indolent valetudinarian a soldier of not 52
years of age, conspicuous for his impetuous valmir
and energy, who not 10 years ago inflicted on the
Russians one of the most sanguinary defeats they
sustained during the whole of the Eastern War, and
who but four years ago was sent to Syria to put
down the fanatical Mussulmans and wild Druses
who were massacring their Christian neighbours.
There seemed to be in that exhausted frame but
little left of the spirit which once had animated
" Old Kmety of Kars" as he was familiarly called
by his friends and acquaintances. It was only in
intimate intercourse, when you saw the eager in-
terest with which his simple, guileless mind seized
hold, of every subject of conversation, and when you
heard him tell stories of the past or touch upon the
hopes of the future, that you perceived some sparks
of the old spirit still remaining.
Now the last spark is extinct. That walk on
Tuesday week, at 3 o'clock,was "Old Kmety's" last
walk; two hours after he was dead. A summer
under the scorching sun and a winter on the snowy
plateaux of Anatolia, spent in hard outpost work
with Asiatic Irregulars, followed by the hardships of
a long siege, were too much even for that iron con-
stitution, tried as it had been 'severely by former
campaigns. He came back a wreck, and has never
been out of the doctors' hands since. Of late to his
other ailments was added a stiff neck, which he
attributed to rheumatism, consoling himself that it
would not prevent his getting on horseback again.
So little did he think of it himself in the beginning
that he often joked and was joked about it by his
friends, who suggested that it was rather an advan-
tage, as he could tell his men, " I can look neither
right nor left nor behind, so on forward."
His medical attendants soon suspected mischief in
the vertebrae of the neck. The stiffness often ex-
tended to the arms, and he was advised to have a
frame made for the support of the head. He long
resisted the suggestion, but when, after his return
from Torquay, about 10 weeks ago, he was confined
to the house for more than a month, and felt often
at night unable to move, the idea of paralysis began
to dawn upon him, and he at last consented to have
a support of gutta-percha tried in the meantime.
Yet he seemed better of late, and had resumed his
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On Tuesday week there seemed no change, only
while walking with a friend in the Park he com-
plained of numbness in his arm, and when he rested
it on the arm of his companion the latter felt it like
a stony weight. He went home,. where another
friend came in just about the same time, as well as
his medical man, who had come on purpose to fit the
gads, percha apparatus to his neck. He seemed as
lively as ever, smoked while reclining on the couch,
and talked hopefully, expecting thorough recovery
from the fine weather, He got up to undress, and
while making the effort he fell, as if struck down by
a shot, exclaiming "I am paralysed." When raised
up he was quite conscious, but talked in a hurried
manner, breathing with difficulty- for about 10 mi-
mites, then gave a sigh; and was dead.
His life, chequered as it was with the vicissitudes
of exile, and full " of moving accidents and of hair-
breadth escapes," might furnish a brilliant harvest to
the biographer, and belongs to him by right ; but
as no mean portion of it was interwoven with some
of the most momentous events of our times history
may claim him as one of her own.

The son of a Protestant clergyman, he was born
in May, 1813, in one of those picturesque valleys on
the southern slopes of the Carpathians which are
rich in mines, and not unlike in character to the
north of Derbyshire. With a decided vocation for a
military life, young George Kmety enlisted as a
private in the Austrian army, in spite of the diffi-
culties which then, more than now, were in the path
of any one not supported by strong interest or
money. Except when favoured by the chances of
war it was well nigh hopeless for any one to rise
above the lowest steps of the military hierarchy. To
rise to the rank of captain, and after 40 years' ser-
vice to retire on a pension of £6O a year, was about
the most brilliant career to which a man without
patronage could aspire. Kmety, who was heart
and soul in his work, struggled on in spite of these
small inducements, and after about seven years'
service found himself First Lieutenant and Adjutant
of his regiment, the 19th Hungarian Infantry, a
post he filled for 14 years, his Colonel being Count
Gyulai, of Italian notoriety. In this thankless po-
sition, where a man has to serve so many masters,
he succeeded in becoming so popular with his regi-
ment that his comrades subscribed and presented
a testimonial to the medical man who restored him
from a severe illness he had while in Lintz.
In spite of his predilection for the army, the yel-
low-black sash, which seems to possess the magic
power of stifling all feelings except those of duty to
the Kaiser and to the service, had no power over
him ; he followed with eager interest the debates of
the Diet of 1843, and when the then head of the
Opposition came to Vienna, where Kmety's regi-
ment was in garrison, the latter, with another of
his Hungarian comrades, unheeding the risk of
losing his position, went in full regimentals to ex-
press his admiration to the eloquent defender of the
rights of his country.
The events of the spring of 1848 made a Minister
of the chief of the Opposition in the Diet of 1843,
and the Minister remembered the obscure adjutant.
Hungary wanted an army, volunteers were flocking
in, but officers who knew their business were few.
A man like Kmety, who had lived himself as it were
into regimental life, was a treasure.

He was sent to Raab, in Western Hungary, to
form some 800 or 900 young volunteers, a great
many of them students from the college, into the
6th battalion of the national army. He went to
work like a practical man, and not like a military
pedant, as might have been expected from his ante-
cedents. Singling out such as had a little know-
ledge and address, those who seemed most intelli-
gent, he took them in hand himself, working them
hard, with the promise of advancing those who
showed most fitness for the posts of officers and
non-commissioned officers. What these learnt in
the morning they imparted to the rest in the after-
noon. It was an adaptation of the Lancastrian
method to soldiers, and was so successful that six
weeks after his arrival the battalion was fit to take
the field, and figured all through the war as one of
the most distinguished.
Advancement was rapid in those times, and after
taking part in the first advance and repulse of the
Hungarian army at Swechat, and the retreat before
Windischgatz, we find limety colonel and in com-
mand of the finest division of Gorgey's army, in
which character he contributed not a little to the
success of the flank movement of Gorgey's army
which made the concentration of all the Hungarian
forces in the spring of 1849 possible.
We are not writing the history of the brilliant
spring campaign which ended in the evacuation of
Hungary by the Austrian troops and brought on
the Russian intervention. Suffice it to say that
during the whole course of it we findeolonel Smety
and his division playing a conspicuous, although
often a thankless part, for he was no favourite with
Gorgey. He was passed over and singled out con-
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attract, his notice, and thus facilitate the operations
of the main body. We find .him and his divi-
sion taking their share in the defeat of General
Schlick at Hatvan, and if the commander of the
corps to which his division belonged had followed
Kmety's advice and followed up the victory the other
Austrian column, under Jellachich, which was en-
gaged with the main body of the Hungarian army
at Isetzegh, would have been not only beaten, but
crushed four days after. Then they were sent to
form part of a corps of observation against the
capital, to which the Austrian army had retired,
and thus to enable the body of the army to reach
the fortress of Comorn, And the line of retreat of
the enemy. Here, after taking part in the siege and
storming of Hada, his division was again on de-
tached service on the left flank of the army on the
little river Raab, where an opportunity offered itself
at last for victory single-handed. At the first ad-
vance of Haynau, towards the middle of June,
Kmety surprised a detached brigade under General
Wyss at Esorna, and almost annihilated it. They
had thrust themselves between him and the rest of
the army. Guided by a man who knew the locality
well he made a forced march, and got into the rear
of the Austrian brigade. This was the last and
. most brilliant deed of Kmety in connexion with the
Upper or Army of the Danube under Gorgey.
One hundred and fifty thousand Russians had
entered Hungary, and with them had advanced the
Austrian army under Haynau, strengthened to
70,000 by arrivals of troops from Italy. The dif-
ferences between Kossuth and GOrgey had doubled
the strength of the enemy, and in the confusion
which followed Kmety's Division was cut off from
the rest of the retreating army. Nevertheless,
Kmety made good his retreat, and joined un-
scathed the Southern army, which, under
the command first of Dembinsky, and then of
Bern, had been pressed back by Haynau to-
wards the fortress of Temesvar. If all the troops
and, above all, the commanders, had behaved there
as Kmety and his division on the left flank did,
the battle on the Bth of July might have been,
in spite of Russian artillery and numbers, a vic-
tory. But if they could not insure victory the Divi-
sion of Kmety protected the retreat, which would
otherwise have been fatal. He repulsed the Aus-
trians, who were pursuing the remnants of the army
at Lugos, and his corps fired the last shot at the
village of Farcet. But the end had come. At the
news of the defeat, which was represented as a
complete rout, Gorgey being surrounded and pressed
on all sides by Russians and Austrians, the remnants
of the Southern Hungarian army made the best of
their way into Turkey, or to their homes.
In the confusion which followed the debandade
Kmety found himself with 10 companions among
the labyrinth of mountains which divide the south-
eastern corner of Hungary from Wallachia. No
one new the road, and the population, of Wallachian
origin and excited by Austrian officers and func-
tionaries, were hostile to all that was Hungarian.
After wandering about for some time they met a
native who had been sergeant in the Austrian army,
and who promised for a good recompense to show
them the way. He led them into a defile, where
they were received by a hot fire of musketry from
all sides and taken prisoners. There was a great de-
bate whether the prisoners should be despatched at
once, or be given up to the nearest Austrian de-
tachment that could be found. The guide, who
hoped for his reward from the Austrians, carried the
point, and the prisoners were shut up in a barn,
while he himself started in search of Austrian sol-
diers. While shut up in the barn the prisoners per-
ceived that some hay stored up behind the barn had
accidentally taken fire, or had been set on fire, and
on the appeal of Kmety they resolved to risk any-
thing rather than he burnt to death. They-broke
open the doors and rushed out just as the sergeant
returned with a body of lancers. They prepared to
sell their lives dear, when the officer of lancers, fol-
lowed by his men, rushed with raised sword through
the crowd and, cutting down the faithless guide,
asked the General for his " orders." The guide
had in the dark mistaken a body of Polish lancers,
belonging to the Hungarian army, for Austrian
lancers, and had thus brought help instead of de-
struction to the prisoners.
It will be recollected by our readers how gene-
rously the Turkish Government, supported by Lord
Stratford, behaved about the Hungarian refugees
collected in Widdin, and how, at the risk of bring-
ing about a collision, not only with Austria, but
Russia, it steadfastly refused to give up those who
had sought an asylum in the Ottoman territory. To
the Hungarians these chances of a collision natu-
rally appeared far more imminent, and so it is not
surprising that several of the moreprominent officers,
among them the late Generals Guyon and Kmety,
entered the Turkish service as " Mussefirs," or un-
attached, literally, " guests."
This has been misinterpreted, as if those who
entered the Turkish service had all embraced
Islamism. No doubt some did this later, but neither
Guyon nor Kmety. The best proof in the latter
case is that after the time for the intervention of the
exiles expired in 1851 Kmety, who had passed the
time in Aleppo, left Turkey at the same time as
those who had been in Kutayah. It .must be re-
membered this was before the time of the Hatti
Humayoun, when recanting from Islamism was
death, and Kmety had no great Elchi to fall back
upon.

Leaving Turkey, Kmety came to England for the
first time. With little or no means at his disposal
he struggled on for a year and a half, trying to find
some means to earn his bread. Being fond of music,
he worked for hours and hours every day to qualify
himself to give lessons ; and it was touching to hear
the man who had led thousands to victory speak
naively of the progress he was making with Beetho-
ven's sonatas.

The outbreak of the Eastern War in the summer
of 1850 interrupted his musical studies and led him
back again to his true vocation. Ever mindful of
the kindness he had received from the Turks he
thought it his duty to offer his services at the time
of need.

In the leisure of his life in Aleppo he had learnt
ITurkish, and made up by reading for any de-
ficiency in the higher branches of his profes-
sion. He arrived there unprotected and unrecom-
mended, and being besides objectionable for ser-
vice in Europe on account of his character as a
Hungarian exile, he was sent with the rank of ma-
jor-general to command the Irregulars of the Army
of Anatolia, where he found his former companion
General Guyon as chief of the staff. He arrived at
his post early in 1854. Outpost duties are under
the best of circumstances the most fatiguing work
in the army, and it was doubly so with Irregulars
partly composed of Khurds of doubtful fidelity,
watering between Sultan and Czar, and in the face
of the most formidable adversaries in outpost work
—the Cossacks. For nine months he worked in
this ungrateful task, exposed to the trying extremes
of climate for which the Turkish frontier is famous,
and without ever having a chance of distinguishing
himself. The summer campaign of that year was
not favourable to the Turks. Although superior in
number to the Russians, they were so ill handled
that they were driven back on all points, ignomini-
ously beaten in the battle of Kurukdere in July,
and
had to think of their own defence instead of attack-
ing the Russians. Fortunately the Russians were
not prepared to follow up their success, for in the
confusion which reigned they might have possessed
themselves of the position before Erzeromn, which
would have opened to them the high road through
Asia Minor. -
The danger was felt at Constantinople, although
it never was clearly understood there that after the
Allies were once engaged in the war the true sphere
of action for the Turks was in Asia. The commanders
of the army of Anatolia were changed ; Gen. Wil-
liams with a staff of British officers was sent to as-
sist the new commander, Tara Pasha, and reinforce- '