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Mahmud Shevket Pasha, the Turkish Grand Vizier and Minister of

War, was shot dead in the streets of Constanti- nople on Wednesday while driving in his motor to the Porte. The assemble, who also killed his naval aide-de- camp, escaped, but a number of arrests have been made. The murder is generally regarded as an act of vengeance on the part of the friends of Nazim Pasha, the late Minister, who was murdered during the coup d'itat, engineered by Enver Bey and his friends, by which Kiamil was overthrown and Mahmud Shevket elevated to the Grand Vizierate. But, as the well-informed writer of the obituary notice in the Times of Thursday points out, there is no reason to suppose that he approved of Nasim's murder or sympathized with the Committee extremists, three of whom he refused to admit to his Cabinet.

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