Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-19

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Inc past career of Dervish Pasha "a
niied with incidents which sustain the
Impression Of vlgor By the lines he has
iaio ooVg ~ Cairo. he Is at once the
Eust VIGOROUS and uascrupulous of all
lne generals CT the Ottoman army. Al
though he IL now 20 years old, lis AGE
mas not weakened bis energy or itI.-
paired JUS faculties. his vii. is still as
irou rs Il was of old, and he IL quite as
capaoie OF ordering massacre of :hs
Aameiukes as was MeheJaet Ali himself.
In politics be Is said to be more Turkish
than the Grand Duke himself. He
speak5 nothing bat Turkish, and has
Drought two draQomans with him 70
EUps-one Arab and the other French.
strange indeed has been tie fate which
las made this unoonproinisins old OF
tOman the agent of Chrissiaudom In Bs-
t0um, IN Duicigno. and ia Aiex6ndrls.
bis early military experience was ac-
qu1red fighting tho Monfene9rins, Who
always regarded him az the most dan.
4erous Commander whom they had 10
meet. In one Of the last acute fits of
aostility tabout 1855 between the Porte
nd Montenegro, Dervish penetrated to
Grahovo, the northernmost can:cn of
the Wladikate, as it then was, and the
volvode of tbs district, cut OF from re-
treat 70 the south, took refuge in cave
the habitnai hiding place of the PEG.
pie against sudden raids; il benz 50 sit
uated tha: the usual exprdient of attack,
smoking out by fires kindied at the
mouth, was inappi:cabls. The attempts
Of the Turks To force passage were
easily repuised; and Deryish entered
into negotiations, the result of which
was surrender on condition of the
lives. liberty and property of the be-
sieged beng respected. The Turkish
engagements were KEEP. by the exte.mi
nation OF the entire family of the vol
vooe. 1ne prisoners were marched of
TO Trebinje and thrown INTO the dun
eeon of the fortress, tied back TO hack.
one of each couplet being killed, aud
the survivor not released for moment
from tho burden of his dead cOmrade.
Dervish was the principal lieutenant
OF Omar Pasha III the last great strug-
gle previous to that of ls7t-thst of
lS50-and made the successful thanking
movement which drove the Montens-
grlns out OF the Ejelopawlitji. and in
the war of 1876 be was on the Moutene-
grim frontier until he was sent TO Asia
Minor. An incident of the campaign of
MEDIUM illustrates another characteris-
tic of Dervish, which will not be With.
out interest IN the present emergency.
During tie series of unsuccessful ri.
tacks on the Montenegriu line of d..
fens~. Dervlsh devised and carried ont
successfully surprise of the position Of
Ro2ami, which, If IN aintained, would
have severed the MOntenegrin line and
necessitated the abandonment of the
siege of MEDIUM. kogami, spur of the
Piperi mountains, commanded the ford
of the Zeta, and was held by half bat
talon Of MOntensgrins, who were at.
tackled by five battaiions of Turkish reg
ulars. supported by a battery OF heavy
field guns. The assault of the hill was
delivered by two battaliOns, supported
by tho Other three and the artillery, fir
ing over the heads of the attacking COL
umn. A European officer present at the
attic pointed out to Dervish that his
artillery had become useless in its actual
position, As the fire endangered the as
saiiants more than the defenders, and
indicated a position where it would com
mand Rogami and not to injure the at
tack. Dervisll's only reply was TO order
the artillery OFT the field altogether. The
two battalionS. which had carried the
position and begun to retrench the1I-
selves there, We're furiously att scked by
the Nontenegrin roinfOrcements in 4
yataghan charge, aud driven out of
their works, with great slaughter, back
across the ford, under a terrible fire
from the Mostenegrin rifles and noun
tain guns, and the movement YVES de-
feated IN its moment of success.
Dervish Ia best known 10 Europeans
by the part he played at the surrender
Of BatOum in 1873, and the surrender of
Dulc,gno In 1850. In both these enter
prisxs he was engaged in task not dis
similar to that la which he is engaged in
Cairo. Batoum. although ceded to Rus
STA by the treaty OF Berlin, hid never
been captured by the Russians. and the
Lazis, with the approval il not at the
instigation of the Porte, had formed
themselves into u ps.t .iotic league TO r.-
sist the entry of the MuscOvites. Der
wish, who Was In command of the fort
ress, had twenty battalions of regulars
under hts orders. He Was ordered to
hand over the place to p incs Nirsky,
and he obeyed lis orders to the letter.
The civil Governor Of BatOum, himself
L,zi, set about organizing an euer-
2efic resistance to the execution of the
treaty. Ten Thousand Lazis were con-
centrated round the town, and every
thing ses,ued ripe for iiercs struggle,
especially as the Lazis refused to be-
lieye that Dervish could seriously intend
to hand them over to Russia. he soon
undeceiyed them. He arrested all the
leaders whom he could seize, and had
two of them put in irons and logged.
He then tel. Or ,phed to the Porte de-
nouncinR the civil Governor as rebel.
and asked permission 20 have him shot
or hanged. He received orders to shoot
him, il he were taken III arms, and to
send him to Constantinople, il captured
before fighting BEGAN. Neither alt. rna-
tive WAS necessary. After prolo aged NO.
gotiations the LaZis abandoned their
resistance. and Dervish handed over the
fortress to the Russians without firing
among the Luis, such that his asSass
nation was planned, but be succeeded ia
evading his would be murdorers.
Two years later Dervish was en-
plOyed to effect the transfer of Dulcie-
no. The fleets of the allied powers had
anchored in the Adriati0 for weeks In
vain, when the threat 10 sequestrate the
custom dues of Smyrna reused the Sui
tan to sense of HIS treaty obligations.
Tho Albanian League, like the League
of LaZis, at first had been patrnnized by
the Porte for its own purposes, but it
had escaped the control of Constantine
pie. Dtrvish was sent TO place the
town in possession of the M0ntenegrins.
He was appointed Governor Of Albania.
and placed in command of eighteen bat
taiions of Ottoman troops. After con-
siderable negotiations he attacked the
Aibanians. With some volleys Of mus
kerry he drove them out Of the olive
plantations, where they were in posi-
ton. and made over Dulcigno to the
Monteneorins.
Dervish's modus operandi during the
late Albanian campaign in not generally
understood. He went into Albania -
enforce the CONSUMPTION, in which he
utterly failed, though he had very
slight military opposition. the most of
tho battles he reported being merely
mythical; but he was very successful in
another plan Of operation, which CON-
sisted in quartcring himsslf on the es-
tntcs Of the principal Beys, and extoYt-