Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
BAD TURK NOT BROKE
Has $5,000,000 in Baggage
and Other Prospects.
FORGOT TO DYE HIS BEARD
And Now Gray Stubble Provides
Good Disguise.
DENIES HIMSELF TO FRIEND
Shakes Hands With Exiled Kiamil
Bey, But Tells Him He Is Not
Who He Thinks he Is.

LONDON, August 22-Izzet Pasha
Machiavelli of Turkey, hopes to escape
the vengeance of his enemies as we'll as
to conceal his identity while living in a
comfortable suite in a well-known Lon
don hotel. This, too, despite a startling
experience.
On the first evening of his arrival he
ventured into the hotel restaurant AS
luck would have it, he was placed at a
table adjoining one where Ismail Kiamil
Bey. who fed from Constantinople ten
years ago to save his life and since an
exile in London, was dining.
Kiamil stared in establishment at his
neighbOr Recognition was mutaul. Kia-
mil accosted Izzet They shook hands
But the Sultan's ex-favorite was so de-
moralized by the unexpected encounter
that he denied his identity. And Kiamil
apologized and withdrew.
Forgot to Dye His Beard.
Izzet was able to make h-s denial with
some plausibility because there has been
an important change in his appearance
since he left Constantinople. He is a
small man, with the dark Arab complex
ion and is f1fty-four years old. His
friends were familiar for many years
with his long black hair. Now he wears
a close cropped gray beard.
He explains the change with perfect
ingenuOusneSS saying :
II have always dyed my beard. but
was unable to do so on board the steam
er. So l took it off, thus leaving it its
natural color.
He seems to be a man of plenty of ply
sical courage at least. He processes not
the slightest fear of assassination. a fate
t.,I, H.
wherever he was discovered in any part
of the world.
He admits that his return to Turkey
is impossible according to the present
outlook. He looks forward with pleasure
and with characteristic oriental fatalism
to making his home in England.
Not "Broke" Yet.
He arrived here with only one attend
ant, but he has plenty of this world s
goods. There is reason to believe that
his baggage contained valua bles. money
and securities amounting in value to full
ly $5,GO0OOO. Nor is this all he hopes to
save out of the wreck of his fortune.
His account of events at the culmina-
tion of the revolutionary crisis is unsatis-
factory. although not inconsistent with
the vivid narrative sent to The Star from
Constantinople fortnight ago. Izzet rep
resents the Sultan and himself as sin
ceTely Sympdtnetlc With llDeFdl luedS anu
constitutional government. an averment
too childishly mendacious for serious con-
sideratiOn
One does not converse five minutes
with this dark alert little man without
realizing his intense cleverness not to
say cunning. Moreover. there is nothing
in his manner to indicate that he is one
of the greatest scoundrels of the modern
world. He is an entertaining companion.
full of good spirits and bon hommie of
the accomplished man of the world.
Yet for ten years he was the real ruler
of Turkey. And he ruled solely for what
there was in it for himself No ambassa-
dor could see the sultan. no foreigner
could obtain a concession except through
IZzet