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

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| Many q commander followed NAH
| moud Chevkct's example and prepared
1 his men as best he could. Not all had
| the energy and capabilities which he
possesses. Many stories are told of
| him while he commanded n regiment
lin Salonica. The greatest difficulty he
| had WAS in making the officers pune
tual, Time is the only thing which
has no value in Turkey is a saying
| with 4 lot Of truth in IT. When he got
| his brigade he determined to make the
officers more punctual One III par
| ticular used to attract his attention. He
would keep his men waiting half an
| hour for him in the morning, but he
| got his lesson at last One day. at "a
very early hour, Chevket Pasha arrived
at a garrison whence the men were to
march into summer quarters. Every
| one was at his post but the colonel. an
officer of the old Turkish school. Chev-
| ket Pasha took up his position near
and ordered the men to await their
colonel. for. used to his way of driV
| ing comfortably after them. they, We're
about to set off. The cOlones carriage
was seen to drive up TO his quarters;
but he himself did not emerge till an
hour after all the other regiments had
| gone. His astonishment on seeing his
men still there. when he WAS about to
get into the carriage. was only cqualled
by his, dismay at the sight of Chevketi
| Pasha, on horseback. calmly watching
the troops He began to burt out
something about being Ill when the
l.pasha CURLY told him to mount one of
the soldiers horses and lead his men
out to camp He himself accompanied
them. without opening his lips for the
whole way When they reached camp
lie turned towards Salonica, without
saying a word to the colonel. who felt
uncomfortable the whole day. In the
evening a messenger arrived at the
camp leading a horse and holding a
racket in his hand. He gave horse and
packet to the colonel. The packet con-
tanned a large American alarm clock
with few lines from the pasha. AS
| hear YOU have no saddle horse send
you one of my OWL The alarm clock.
you will find useful in the mornings.
The colonel took the prcsents--and the
hint To this day there is no more
punctual man in the Macedonian army
than he, and no trmer friend OF the
pasha's
80 STERN MEASURES.
When the revolution broke out last.
autumn Chevket had the Macedonian
army ready to march OH ConstantinopIel
and, if need be, enforce the constitution
with the sword. He is no believer in
bioodlessi revolutions. You cannot have
a revolution without loss Of life" he
said in the course of aninterview, he
cause YOU must make the reactonary
party fear you. and the only way; to do
that is To show them how many more
people you can kill than they OF
course, you ctn act with humanity and
kill a maximum of people," So when he
heard in the autumn that his army was
not wanted he smiled and kept his men
hard at work. When the constitution
was established the Young Turks sent
for him to be commander of the Yildiz
Kiosk garrison. Had he remained there
it is more than likely that the "rnu-
tiny, of this spring would never have
taken place He had 4 way of finding
out spies which struck terror in the
heart of the palace functionaries.
TYPICAL INCIDENT.