The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-10

Marshal Liman Won Sanders Pasha,
 Colonel Bronsard Won Schellendorf,
 Weber Pasha. Winners Bey and the
 many others who served with the Otto-
 man colors
 At no time has a German officer in
 the service of the Sultan dared to exc.
 cute an order from Berlin--Berlin, in
 fact, has never issued such orders.
 When the operations on Gallipoli did
 not suit certain men in Berlin it was
 suggested that Liman Won Sanders
 Pasha, who was in charge of them, was
 to be recalled as head of the German
 military mission. The German had the
 right to make this suggestion, because
 Sanders Pasha had merely been
 "loaned' to the Turkish government
 and could be removed from his position
 in Turkey by a summons to join the
 German army. This is the only instance
 in which the German war office tried
 to influence military affairs in Turk key.
 Enver Pasha, who, perhaps, more than
 any other man in Turkey. realized what
 the situation on Gallipoli was, ex-
 pressed himself as highly satisfied with
 the services of Sanders Pasha and San
 ders Pasha stayed.
 In the adjustment of this incident Cap
 tain Humann played an important role.
 It is understood that he himself was on
 the side of Sanders Pasha, being possibly
 the only man at the German embassy
 who did not take the view of the Won
 der Goltz faction, which was as power
 ful among the Turkish officers as 1t was in German circles.
 A BLUNT STATESMAN The fact is that Sanders Pasha is q man with very much of mind. He is direct, somewhat blunt, and tolerates no interference. Now and then a German officer in the service of the Sultan would 1<Ir @lx... xr,,%t b. -I.r without bringing it first to his immediate
 Turkish superior. Sanders Pasha ala ways took the view that it made no dif- ference to him whether an officer was of German or Turkish origin and that no favors need be expected by an officer, merely for the reason that he was a Ger man. This attitude did not make friends in certain German circles for the 'Aleman
 Pasha" as Sanders is known to the com-
 mon soldiers of the Turkish army, who have come to love him for his extreme im- | partiality. Enver Pasha knew this and
 stood by the commander of the Gallipoli forces through thick and thin.
 It cannot be said that the Germans have had an easy row to hoe with the Turks. The Ottoman government officials and army officers are extremely jealous of their rights and prerogatives and many a difficulty arising from a nonregard of this had to be strengthened out by Cap tain Humann. There were times when he was the busiest man in all Constantinople. and when Captain Won Haas, another of ficer of the German naval base had to come to his assistance
 Captain Won Haas, born in Constanti- nople of an American mother, has been in the banking business there for many years, and is especially valuable to the German embassy and the Turkish gov ernmsnt in matters of a nonmilitary na- ture. He and Captain Humann have no
 reason to say that the Germans had sub jugated the Turks, because they had to ask too many favors of the latter. Those doubting the absolute autonomy of Turkey and it's government after a talk with Captains Humann and Won ! Haas should attend a war council in Stamboul, occasions which have made Enver Pasha famous for his position that he will take advice but no commands.