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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · May 13, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 19.

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Edhem Pasha

EDHEM PASHA, the commander of the Turkish army in the present war with Greece, is of Greek origin and of Christian parentage. He was born on the island of Chio, in the Ægean Sea. His parents were killed by the Turks when he was young, and Edhem was sold to a Turkish general named Khosseo Pasha, who took him to Constantinople. He was sent to Paris to be educated, and took a course of four years in the Institute Barbet, and four more in the school of mines. He has been advanced from step to step to his present position. It is stated that he has a hatred of everything Christian.