The New York herald., 1922-08-18
Enver PaSha Dies
On Battlefield
of St0bS in Back
Turk EX-Minister of War One
of Notorious Trio; All Were
Assassinated.

Moscow. Aug. IT ASSOCIATED Press)
-Enver PaSha. former Turkish Minister
of War and recently chief antagonist to
Bolshevist rule in the Transcaucasus,
was found dead on the battlefield in
Eastern Bokhara. according to advices
received by the, Government here to-day.
Enver Pasha was attired in a British
uniform when found. He was stabbed
five times on August IN fighting
against the Bolshevlki
Enver Pasha, Taalat Bey, and Djemal
Pasha, leaders of the Young Turks. who
were instrumental in putting Turkey
into the war on the side of the Central
Powers. formed a trio noted for shrewd
diplomacy, general rascality and daring
exploits. Each of the three met a
violent death-Taalat Bey was assassi-
mated In Berlin on March Is, 1921, by
an Armenian whose family had been
exterminated in the Turkish massacres.
Djemal Pasha was assassnated In Tifiis
last month. and the indications are that
Enver also fell a victim to assassns.
OF the three Enver was the shrewdest
He was called by the Germans the
Turkish Napoleon when Turkey en-
tered the war on the side of the Central
Powers. and it is said that Enver. who
was then $Var Minister, had frequent
consultations with the Kaiser himself.
At that time Taalat Bey was Grand
Nzier and Minister of the Interior and
Djemal was Minister of Marine. After
the war the three fed from Turkey and
were tried by court martial in Constan-
tinop,e and condemned TO death The
court martial was instituted to under
take prosecutions under the new regime
for the purpose of clearing Turkey from
blame for joining in the war and for the
Armenian, Greek and Syrian massacres
and deportatons.
Since then Enve- had been constantly
n owing through the Near East and Rus
sia, and his life was constantly menaced
by Armenians for the part he had taken
in the Armenian massacres. He was
friendly with the Bolsheviki and was Il
welcome guest in Moscow for months.
Last winter it was reported that he had
crowned himself King of the Kurds, hat.
undertaken to turn Islam over 10 the
Bosheviki and had planned to aid in a
Bolshevist invasion of Egypt, India and
Efghanistan.
At the beginning of this year he WIS
accused by the Soviets of betrayinG
t1em A ike charge was made against
him by the Turks and both sought his
arrest. but he always managed to eludc
! his pursuegs.
For moIiths nothing direct had been
heard from him rntil on last July IS
9 special cablegram from Moscow -
THE NEW YORK HERALD announced that
he had risen to great power in Central
Asia as a leader CT Islam, had gathered
together an army of Moslems and had
started movement to drive the Boil
sheviki back into Russia and was even
menacing Russia itself According to
this report Enver had levied an army
FOR the Bolsheviki. which was equipped
by Moscow, and then had turned the
army against the Reds. He Joined the
Fmir of Bokhara and rebels in the Fer
| ehana district ana started a double Of
| fensive northeast from Bokhara, cap.
| turing large extent OF territory ano
| numerous towns. IL was reported tina
a number of Russian ex-Czarist othcer'
rad Joined Enver's army and that NJ
| had lined up all Turkestan and Afghan
/ istan against the Bolsheviki
Before the world war Enver had lee
| the Turkish troops against the Italians
| In Tripoli and later was one II the
leaders of the Young Turk movement
which dethroned Abdul Hamid as Sui
| tan. He was about 40 years old.