The Monroe journal., 1922-10-13
PEN P0RTROII OF The
NOTED TURK COMMANDER
kemil Pasha Has a Wonderful
Grasp on the Affairs
of Europe

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Piercing blue eyes. fair hair. a
i d.mnu;iye close cropped muStache
these are the salient features of
hemal PaSha, The force behind the
Turkish push, that impressed me
when | met him face To face az
kouia only a month ago.
He is a man of middle height and
he wore al the time of our meeting
plan clothes-the kNickerbocker
breecheS were wei cut and rather IN
the English style-sporting stock
insS, and on his head the universal
"kalnaE" Of astrakhan. in a larger
SIZE than usual. The distinctive and
useful feature of this "Kaluak" is
that il may be worn with either un.-
form or PLAN clothes. In appear
arye L closely resembles the fur caps
of the Russians and the Persians.
kemal. as far as | have been able
% judge, is adorned by the army and
tie porulaee, and it is in vain that
the propaganda agents strive to rep
resent that there are divisions in the
hemaliSt ranks. In ConStantinople
actually 80 per cent are for Kemal,
ana the Turks in Anatolia support
him 20 man. His orders are obeyed
implicitly. his rule is an iron one
beneath the velvet glove, and under
him the government Of national
Turkey works smoothly and well.
His will is law.
Renal PaSha speaks little unless
it is on a subject which vitally inter-
eSts him; then he is eloquent. For eX-
ample, one night when dining with
ma We discussed for long time
Napo.,an's campaign Of Austerlitz in
l>t5. This campaign provides one
ot the very few examples where
Napoleon attacked the enemy cen
,el; ns usual method was TO hold
his adyersary in front with mini
mum part Of his force, whilst he de-
liYered his principal effort against
uHe Of the enemy'S flanks.
IN Admircr of Napolean
When went in to dinner 1 GER
ta!ny had no idea that was going
20 have a discussion on Napolean's
strategy and higher tactics. We both
agreed that Napolean's doctrine is
as valuable today as it was 100 years
ago, and | discovered that kemal is
an enthusiastic admirer of Napolean's
campaign in Italy in 1899. | mention
this in order to show that kema is
a close student of military history
as every soldier who aspires to mill
tary warfare must be.
laborious and indefatigable to the
~ ~ Of excess, kemal is always at
work, and possesses a wonderful
gras0 Of European politics and af-
fajrs. This is all the more remark
Jbe as his education was purely
riii.ary one received at the Ecole de
Guerre in Constantnople. He was
N the Tr.poli campaign and later
served in several theatres Of the war:
his best service was in the defense of
Gallir ol., and it was for this service
that Limaa Won Sanders had him
romotcd to the command of an
army. ie was afteward on the TOT
t,ras front of Palist ne, whore the
Tu Ks in he final stages were hope
less y outEgmbered.
kemal was Inspector general Of the
Turkish army in Asia Minor after
the armiStice in 1918, and his pa
triotlsm came into prominence after
the occupation Of ConStantinople by
the allies when the nationaliSts ran
to arms.
kemal is a patriot; he is out for
Liberty and independence Turkey
for the TurkS-and he desires peace.
but an honorable peace. His terms
are the immediate evacuation of
Asia Minor by the Greeks. He says:
' How can | trust assurances that the
Greeks will evacuate after four
as was said in the Paris con
ference last March, when. in the mid
lie of the London conference last
year, dur ng an armistice. the Greeks
suddenly launched their offensive.
VIII YOU try to persuade US that
he British government did not
lnCw Of that offensive being prepar-
'ared?' he remarked TO me. "Is you
an convince me of that, then can
'ou pursuade me that the Br tish
government could not have stopped
hat offensive by raising finger"
The Turkish Offensive.
Discussing the Turkish offensive,
ioy, Townshend says:
"Aflum karahissay, the abandoned
is very important, as it is ,
oughly the center of the Greek lines |
# defense. That line runs from Es- {
.ishehr to Ahum Karahissar, and |
hence westward at least as far as i
Alsshehr, the whole forming a convex {
urve. The front is at least 10 |
niles long.
Now, given this enormous extent
{ front, and the extremely mountain
us nature of the theatre of battle
is so mountainous as to make all {
and particularly the trans :
ort of guns, extremely difficult t
is so obvious that Kemal has cho- e
en- the strategical penetration form a
attack. Such attack, if successful, d
lust be followed by tactical envel- =
pment. This is a maneuver identi-
al with that employed by linden
urg and Ludendorf in March, 1918,
nd was copied from the maneuver
Moltke in 1870. Worth and GRAY
otte.)
THUS it will be seen that Aflur
arahissar was of vital importance.
eing the objective Of the rla.se,
urkish attack.
This offensive was of course, to 1,
, expected after the recent speech [