Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-08
ENV|R PASRAIS
CALLED TURKEYS
MAN Of DESTINY
Minister of War Is Behind War
Movement-Wants to Get Rid
of Foreign Influence.
BY HENRY WOOD
United Press Correspondent.

United Press correspondent
SALONICA, via London, Dec. 4 Ode
Iayed) "A thirty-two-ye ar-old man,
who think he is Turkeys Man Of
Destiny" forced the Ottoman En-
pire into war.
He is Envir Pasha. AS minister of
war and leader of the Young Turks
he is the originator, executor and
moving genius of a supreme effort to
rid Turkey of all foreign influence
When ! left Constantinople Envir
Pasha had succeeded in arousing the
Turkish people TO fever of appro-
baton for his program. He is now
in Egypt. 1t is his ambition to
bring his meteoric career to a climax
by becoming Turkeys great liberator,
the restorer of her lost African
provinces. Already he is a popular
idol.
To this power of swaying public
opinion, he adds the enormous power
of his domination of the sultan, whose
favorite niece he married. Talaat
Bey, minister of both the interior and
finance, is his closest ally. Envir
Pasha. through Talaat Bey has al
ready taken over all European finan-
cial systems In Turkey. AS l left
Constantinople he was proceeding to
eradicate every vestige of European
educational and political power. It
was he who directed that all foreign
ers in the ports of Smyrna, Beirut,
Jaffa, Nersina and Alexandretta be
held as hostages, under penalty OF
death, il those cities were bombarded.
Anti Foreign Campaign Begun.
Immediately upon the declaration of
fhn alias tho Vn1Inp
Turks at Envir Pasha's direction, eX-
PEELED all foreign ambassadors. Re
lieved of their restraining influence,
the Young Turks began anti-foreign
campaign by directing the mob Decd
pancy of all foreign shops, schools and
institutions. They were drunk with
their own power. Foreigners, who re-
main in Constantinople in constant
fear of their own lives, nevertheless
smile when they remember how one
mob looted a Turksh-oWned store,
because 1t bore the sign anglo
Franco Draperies," and now, when
another mob took possession of a
Franch factory they put in place OF
capable French superintendent q
former inmate of a Turkish lunatiC
asylum.
But the spirit of Graduating in
fiuence was not always ludicrous. II
was only after Ambassador Morgen-
thau's prompt attention that saved q
number of French schools from los
ing everything they possess. Morgen-
than learned in advance of the in
| tention of the Young Turks to seiz'
the funds of the school, They arrived
at the school ahead of the police anC
refused permission for them to ente
until he had communicated with gov
eminent officials. He then obtainet
stay of ten days. In this period tn
nuns of the schools were able to con
! ceal their money and valuables. The.
escaped unhindered.
Until a few years ago Envir Pash;
was merely the military attache o
the Berlin embassy. In 1908 he re
turned from Germany and Joined tn
movement of the committee of tn
union. He donned peasants clothes
grew beard and went from villag
to village making speeches and re
crutting an army. Then he led tn
constitutional revolution which de
posed Abdul Hamid, the supposedly
invincible despot.