Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-26
Especial correspondcnce.o

~ tIIN'S Inn Il.NoIDlfE,s u uIle IL.
4 No nan--not even the new. sui X
tan---is of greater Importance,
in Turkey today than Cheyket
Pasha, the generalssimo of the Young
Turks forces. the governor of Mace
donia, who, banishcel twice by the late
sultan from the capital, entered it at.
the head OF the best army Turkey has
seen in our day, to punish those who
dared plot for the renewal of the
old regime. 1t was he who sent the
iultimatum to Abdul Hamld, who, when
Constantinople was panic stricken by
the mutinous soldiers, surrounded Yil-
sdiz Kiosk. so silently and swiftly that.
the sultan, who was always afraid of
being left alone, found himself with
out u single sservant--a quakng tyrant
in the midst of a harem. 1t was Chez
ket Pasha who, took him prisoner and
sent him. to Salonica / was by his
orders that those who plotted with the
Etyrant We're hanged on the Galata$
bridge. a warning to all who, hence
forth shall dare to work against the
constitution
And this man is still on the right
side of 40. His thin, spare figure
speaks of unbounded energy He has !,
dark face, bright eyes, and an in
scrutable smile, which is nearly al
ways on his lips. His eyes see every
thing and lie is everywhere. The Of
fcers on his staff are often tired to-
death: but Chevket Pasha, with his
calm. dry face. walks about and gives
orders at 3 o'clock in the morning with
ali the alacrity of "a man who has just
risen after u good nights rest.
"Chevket Pasha has time for every
thing and never sleeps said a. prom
4inent Turk the other day. He must
have some magic spell. l would like to
find it out.
EDUCATED IN GERMANY.
Chevket Paslla received his military
education in Germany. AS he rsturn-
ed well-trained soldier the ex-sultan.
Abdul Hamid. was afraid of llmiand
determined he should have no position
Of trust Abdul Ha1nd was always
afraid of new ideas and foreign edu-
cation. because they caused people 10
criticize his proceedings. so Mahmoud
Chevket was sent into the province
of Macedonia with nothing important
10 do, While men who had risen from
the ranks and had had no more mill
tai.y education than a private, We're
mt over his head But, though Vir-
Chevket did not let the grass grow
under his feet Not only We're his
troops well trained; but he instillsd in
them much of the discipline which he
had learned in Germany. True, he
could not rake the government pay
his men often lie was not paid him
self. Neither could he supply the whole
of the Macedonian army with rifles.
But, living with soldier-likc simplicity
himself, he devoted the proceeds CT
cutie a large fortune 10 the better
mel,t of the troops he had under him.
The result was that, in few years.
the men of the Salonica regiment were
as different from the other Turkish
troops as day from night. Everybody
knows what good stuff there is in the
Turkish soldiers. But, thanks to Abdul
Hands way of snubbing all the cap
able officers and sending them where
they could do nothing; these good
qualities have lain latent in most regi-
ments. Commanders who had energy
5hided their time and did ther4best
with what they had. 1t was amongst
such men that the Young Turks found
their best listeners. during the years of
preparation preceding 1908. AS Mace
donia was full of capa bic, senii-exiled