The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17

residence in Europe. A couple Of years
later he reappeared in Persia and
Loaded an insurrection against his son,
but was ignominiously defeated and
forced to flee for his life. forfeiting his
allowance. At the outset of the great
war he sought refuge in CONSTANT
nople, and there two years ago became
an intimate friend and fellow conspir-
ator Of the Egyptian ex-khedive Abb
las against the Entente. Last Christ
mas he vanished from Constantinople
and was heard of at various points in
the Caucasus, in Asia Minor and even
at Moscow. before turning up the
other day at the head of an insurgent
force, four days march from Teheran.
1t is now known that he has been re-
ceiving large subsidies from the Boil
shevik treasury at Moscow. and that
he, like ex-Khedive Abbas. who has
been permitted to remain on at SIAM
boul, is hand in glove with Lenine.
Indeed, eX-Khedive Abbas, from his
palace at Chibukli, In the outskirts of
STEAMBOAT. is in constant communica-
ton with Lenine, with the ex-Shah,
with Enver Pasha who is busy in the
Caucasus. with Mustafa Renal Pasha
and Raouf Pasha, the leaders of the
Young Turks army in Asia Minor, and
with the so-called Ottoman party of
Union and Progress. which in spite or
its alleged suppression still continues
In existence.
1t has committees everywhere in
Asia Minor. notably at Erzerum,
Trebizond. Konia, Sivas. and at many
other centres, all intimately linked by
invisible lines with the parent organ
ization at Constantinople. with which
.he infamous Talaat Pasha and Enver
Pasha were and are still so closely
identifled-the threads extending to
the palace of the eX-Khedive, who has
openly expressed an earnest desire to
see Bolshevism secure a hold upon The
entire southeastern corner of Europe
and in Asia.
This declaration, however, Is for the
purpose OF encouraging Lcnine to con-
tinue furnishing him and his fellow
conspirators with the large sums of
gold which they have been drawing for
the last twelve months or more from
the Bolshevik treasury at Moscow.
For Raouf and Mustafa Kemal Pasha,
like the other members of the party of
Union and Progress. the former Young
! Turk party are appealing to their
countrymen not In behalf of Bolshe-
vism but to defend tho Ottoman EN-
pire from ACKNOWLEDGMENT and ennihi-
lation by the Entente.
Germany's Hand I'm the Game.
Needless to add that the hand OF
| 4 NaK sa L. all
| trigues. and in these movements
against the Entente which are being
famed into flame throughout central
Asia to western China. and which
have been responsible for the intensely
provocative attitude assumed by the
new Ameer OF Afghanistan toward
Great Britain. German agents are
heard OF everywhere, the most elusive
active and dangerous OF them all being
a man of the name OF Wassmuss, who
before the war was the Kalser's Con-
sui at Bushire. He organized there a
most extraordinary and extensive sys,
tenn OF Teuton espionage and propa.
ganda, and became such a thorn in the
flesh of the English, and especially OF
their Government in India, that after
the beginning Of the war the British
authorities in India placed upon his
head the price OF $250,000.
II 1t proved unavailing TO brinl
about his betrayal into the hands Of
the English II was because the Per,
SLAMS and central Asians argued tina
no man was worth so much, and tina
therefore the offer was not serious bu
a mere joke. Married to a Persian
woman Of one of the best families o
the country, possessed OF the most ex
traordinary mastery of the languages